Chapter 125: The feudal showdown part 3
Note: Readers please listen to Samurai Warriors 2 Annihilation while reading this:
I am concerned that this is getting ever so predictable, as I like before and in each of the last several chapters, am in the forest fighting so hard to stop this enemy army of grunts led by several characters of the Samurai Warriors series from attacking Lastation, which will lead to complete and utter destruction of the free world, and yet despite our best efforts and having reduced a significant number of them, our forces have suffered a lot, in fact it's just me left right now and what's worse still is that I am at extremely low health, such that one shot is enough to fall me. Not only this but I ache to such an extent that moving quickly is extremely difficult to say the very least, not to mention not yelling in agonising pain from all this.
Not only this but while I am alone, there is 5 people left who oppose me, but these are not soldiers which can be killed with one shot, oh no, they are samurai warriors who have the same strength as I would normally have, and yet right now they have much more health than me, the only comfort being is that 2 of the 5 are quite close to death, with one of them more so. It's 1 on 5 with the potential of 1 on 3 if I can defeat these 2 weakened enemies who happened to be the closest to me, but I know even that won't be easy, not at all.
Still, I do have a feeling that if I can defeat these 2, then I'll have a much better chance, and I like to think that the strategy that I'm coming up with, will allow me to defeat the remaining 3 even with our health at opposite ends of the spectrum, and with this it'll comfort me. With this said though, I can't stop thinking about the 1 on 5 odds, and that I was ever so hopeful that it wouldn't come to this, but it's very annoying that it has happened, and it concerns me that unless I can defeat these two and quick, I worry that the odds will overwhelm me, but I cannot be down about this because we have done our best in getting to this point.
Yes, I appreciate that our hard work has gotten to this point, and while this point may have 5 bosses, as I've said they have varying health, and I realise as well that it's how well we've fought that brought us those circumstances, and if that hard work can get me there, this hard work will get me to victory, but I need to be careful because just like what happened before led it to now, what will happen now and what me and the enemies do in this fight, will decide what the outcome will be. Will I win and our nation lives to fight another day, increasing our chances of winning, or will we lose and it will all be over before in my case I've just begun this fight, and we've just begun our campaign in Lowee which would be the first step to freeing the world, and making it just and prosperous?
A lot is riding on this, as I find myself getting closer to the end, but its closer to both outcomes as I'm nearly dead, while they're getting fewer and weaker. Well, I need to get to work; I need to use my skills to defeat them, and my skills to defeat their own skills in their attempts to defeat me which will definitely be easier said than done.
As I aim at the arrogant strategist Mitsunari and try and hit his head which will allow me to kill him the quickest, I find that his aching legs with which they make him grunt a little bit as he tries to conceal his pain so hard, is affecting his head moving around making it hard for me to hit, but it is then that I realise that even if his head is moving around, it could be moving in a pattern, and if I can quickly work out the pattern, then I know where his head will be at what time, and I can shoot him at the appropriate moment, and hopefully do it quickly because it won't be long despite the arrogant strategist's wound significantly wounding him before he can shoot me, I just hope I can make him flinch and that will hinder him enough to prevent him from being able to kill me.
"Hmph, do you really think you can defeat one so bright and clever such as I?" The strategist speaks with arrogance.
Hah I don't think I can defeat you, I don't think I can defeat you at all, however I do know for certain that I can defeat you, and it's as inevitable as the sun setting, just as I will defeat the lot of you, or I die trying to do so.
Annoyingly though, I realise that there is the matter of ensuring Ginchiyo doesn't take advantage of me being distracted and kill me, in fact I just in time notice her with her hand on a stone. The fact I've seen her like that, is all I need to know that she intends to throw the rock at me which I fear because of my health being so low will kill me, but I won't let that hit me and so as she tries to throw the rock, I quickly fall to the side so that the rock misses, before shooting her in the head causing her to yell in excruciating pain, being as how she's the biggest threat now, and from this the warrioress will be able to get up and kill me for sure unless I can respond to this, and all the while he is inching closer to me, it's a good thing him running is an impossibility thanks to my ally White who has fallen to the enemy.
"Curse you, enemy of the Tachibana." The arrogant female warrior says to me with frustration.
"Because I won't die by you, and by a paltry dirty trick, heh I'm too good to die which is more than can be said for you, you lapdog, you're a disgrace to your clan." I say to her in response which enrages her more.
As I shoot this joke, I try and get up while she does, hoping that I can at least be standing before she does, and I can then send her back down again and then finish her off. The thing is though, that although I manage to get up and shoot an entire clip into her head, the problem is so does she and with what feels like a long time it's taken for us to get up, I worry that this could make a difference to me defeating the bosses, and me being defeated by them, in fact what's worse is that I know it won't be practical to reload and finish her off because even with the perk a colas, her being close to me will just mean that she can take her weapon off me, and defeat me afterwards.
"Are you sure that I will die by you? Why don't you see if you can beat me in the art of martial arts, you'll never defeat me because I'm the lord and lady of the Tachibana." She warns me even though her threats mean nothing to me.
"A bad lord and lady of your clan more like it, and sure but I will end your cockiness, your arrogance and well as your disgraceful ways fighting for Team Rocket." I reply to her with disgust.
I guess this is to be hand to hand combat but with only our fists and our feet which I've really been dreading, as I'm concerned that it will take far too long, because although her health is critical it's still higher than mine, and it deeply concerns me that it will take a good number of hits before I can knock her down and kill her, and I worry that even a mere punch could kill me due to how low my health is, and there's also the fact that the Tachibana is a good fighter, but I cannot be concerned and I must focus on using a strategy to take her down.
The thing is I find that the Tachibana is on the attack, despite the pain she's in, and is repeatedly trying to punch me in different places and rather quickly, and is doing her best to be unpredictable, but I find myself blocking a lot of the time, and this gets to me because I'm on the defensive as I block painful punch after painful punch, and yet it's a real struggle for me to get on the offensive, but Ginchiyo is so relentless trying to hit me with her left fist, her right fist, in my stomach, in my chest and in my head, and it's really taking a toll on my arms with which I try hard to block her with.
All I have now is hope that I can tire her out, but there's not enough time for me to be able to do that because of Mitsunari, I need to find an opening but it won't be easy due to her quick speed even if she's in pain, and I realise that if I don't find one soon, I could end up being tired and she could take me out with ease, but where would be the best place to get her, and to take the fight to her? Hmmm.
Fortunately I quickly realise that while she's doing a lot of punching as I try and block my chest, then my head, then my stomach, she's not moving her legs at all, this is my opening, I could kick her or even better knock her to the ground and then she'll no longer be a threat to me, and I can finish her off, and then deal with the next boss which is the arrogant strategist who I would love to defeat.
The tragic thing is though, is that as I try so hard and kick Ginchiyo in the leg despite the pain I have, she notices and moves away, and rather than just punching me like before, she tries to kick me as well, nuts rather than being able to defeat her, instead she's made it more difficult, or has she? As while there may be more places to watch out for, my enemy will be more tired, then again so will I, but there is also how she'll equally have to keep an eye on all of her limbs just as I do. I need to try and catch one of her arms while she tries to hit me, and put her in an arm lock, hopefully I can then subdue her and then deal with Mitsunari. Yeah I hope, it's all I've got left as my foe is coming closer and closer towards me.
"It looks like I am the better warrior after all, why wouldn't I be as I'm the leader of the Tachibana." She says to me oozing with confidence, after seeing through my plan, even though I have another one.
"We'll see who's the better warrior." I reply to her in the same tone as her.
While Ginchiyo tries to kick as I dodge, and then punch in all sorts of different combinations, I manage to grab her hand with which she tries to punch me, but before she can do anything else, I then turn the Tachibana around so that her back is to me, but it is then that she tries to kick backwards at me with her right leg. I try to dodge while at the same time get out my Barrett 50cal to use as a makeshift stick which should cause serious damage, but tragically as I do so, my opponent just barely hits the right part of my right knee, nuts and it hurts a lot and I find myself slowly but surely falling to the ground though the thing is just as I fall, with the Barrett in my other hand I whack her leg really hard, and with that whack the shock causes her to lose balance, and for her to fall on to the ground as I do, and close to me with her back to me.
This new pain is not easy to ignore, not with my other aches, though I sense frustration and pain in Ginchiyo as well.
"Hmph you think you have got me with that pathetic trick of yours, I'll defeat you yet." The Tachibana joke says to me with a huff.
"I'm just getting started." I reply to her, concealing my concerns and frustrations and trying to do so, so hard despite it being difficult to say the least.
Hmmm this is not ideal, this is stalemate when it should be a victory, honestly I'm pleasantly surprised that Mitsunari hasn't come over and finished me off, and worse still is that she's trying to turn around to finish me off, although because of her aching leg, her wounds and her low health, the warrioress can only move slowly as her aches really get to her, at least it will give me a chance even though I ache a lot, and I feel that I don't think I can take a single punch from them, due to my body aching that much.
I feel as though this is a race to see who can give the final blow, though the frustrating thing is that while for her if I'm dead after one more hit it's over and we've lost, I don't believe she has a silver of health just yet, and even if she did and she died on the other hand, there is the matter of defeating the other 4 bosses, which I am certain will be very, very tough. I cannot give in though, even if my body repeatedly cries for it, certainly not at this stage of the fight, and besides which I do have a response in mind to what she's trying to do, and I know how to do it.
Annoyingly though, while I try my best in bashing her head with the butt of the sniper rifle, she then manages to block the incoming rifle with her hands and her body language clearly indicates a large struggle, as I try and push the rifle towards her head, but this is no good because it won't hurt her at all, and I need to think of a new tactic and think fast, especially considering how he's on his way, and will wipe me out soon enough.
I therefore decide to strangle her squeezing her neck as hard as I can with my right hand, hoping that I can either choke her to death or force her to deal with her neck and be able to finish her off for good. I like to think I have her now, and Ginchiyo's body language does indicate her defeat is inevitable, and I can finally defeat her and move on to the next group of enemy bosses, who while I hope won't be as difficult, I am concerned that perhaps they are more so, and I worry about my body not being able to take any more.
Just as I hoped as I squeeze as hard as possible causing her to gag for air and choke, she then responds by squeezing my hand and while it hurts badly, at least I can still continue to go, though I worry that it won't be long before the pain will prove to be too much and that I will die as my body is struggling to continue to take ache after ache, and shot after shot and even kicks and punches of this. I was hoping that she'll use both her hands to get me to let go but even with one hand blocking my Barrett she's still able to keep it at bay. This is most frustrating, considering how she's really refusing to fall, then again I am as well, but I will win, and I have prepared myself for this scenario.
Rather than continue in trying to get the rifle to hit her in the head, I then swing it as hard as I can, and I hit the Tachibana's arm, and then do it repeatedly, as each whack causes her to yell in pain loudly, until she doesn't feel able to use her arm because it hurts that much, and is forced to drop it to her side, it's interesting that by this point despite doing her best to squeeze my wrist, as hard as she can and the pain is getting more and more unbearable, to the point where I feel I could collapse at any moment, the fact that I'm squeezing the neck of my current opponent really hard, is causing her to lose breath and to feel drowsy, and less able to coordinate and to move her body, and in fact loosens her grip on my wrist, and with this I am able to bash her forehead with the butt of my rifle, and from this I sense that her health is critical just like mine.
I would like to finish her off while I still can, but Mitsunari is too close, and I worry about him being a threat, and so despite it being difficult to retain consciousness due to the immense pain that I'm in myself, I continue to fight even though my body is no doubt continuously begging me to surrender, but I can't surrender because far too much is at stake for me to fail, and so with my left arm holding the sniper rifle, I coil it around her neck, pressing hard to make her choke, while I then reload with my right hand, and fire shot after shot until I can no longer fire, before reloading.
I worry that this will be very tight, then again I felt it before with Ginchiyo, as with this time I wonder whether I will be able to kill Mitsunari before he can get within range and be able to shoot me, even if I'm lying on my back. I'll just have to do my best and hope that I can slow him down enough that I'll be able to finish him off before he can even fire his weapon at me, because I'll surely fall.
"So you think you're tough because you've defeated Ginchiyo, you won't be after I've done with you!" The arrogant strategist yells.
"You'll eventually find that you've suffered the same fate as she." I reply to him with determination.
Annoyingly though the fact that he's moving his head a lot really does not help me in the slightest, but despite this I still manage to mostly get his head, though just as I was about to reload, I found myself being within range as he then takes aim and does his best to fire at me, and I can only hope that with him being in so much pain, I'll be able to make him flinch enough from being shot that he won't be able to accurately shoot at me, and I can survive against him.
It is far too close, in fact he was able to fire a shot that would have killed me, and it's only because I ducked in which the rifle took Ginchiyo to the ground with me, and then fired at him which made him flinch as he then tries to aim at me and shoot me down, and with that I was able to repeatedly fire shot after shot, but then I had to reload but fortunately by that time his health is running ever so low, and it was far too much of a struggle for him to aim and fire quickly enough, as before he was able to, I then quickly moved which caused her to move with me I and was shooting at him once again, and I shot at him again and again until he was dead, as him flinching and the relentless shots, not to mention him being significantly wounded, meant that even if he tried to aim and take fire, he would not be able to wipe me out.
Interestingly enough though, me aiming and shooting at him hasn't been easy and was quite painful to say the least, and perhaps it's because I've been able to aim in time while he was at a distance, not to mention the fact that I was sitting down which has helped, then again I wonder if him being shot in the arms by White has hindered his aiming, compared to me not being shot in the arms that much, though I do ache all over, and I ache a lot.
In any case, this relieves me and also from the headlock I've put her in as with my arm I've squeezed her neck ever so tightly, the lack of air, the immense pain, and the amount of times she's been shot by me has resulted in her dying, though I decide to shoot her in the head to be on the safe side. Alrighty I didn't just get two enemy bosses, but I got two at the same time, now it's just 3 left though tragically they are rather close together, and they have much more health than these two right now. Well I suppose with me being able to defeat these 2 bosses, and it's just those 3 now, it does feel like a bonus in a game such that if I can defeat an enemy in a special way, I'll have more of an easy ride later on, and I guess it's the case here, but it isn't much of an easier ride if I'm honest.
I say this because I know what I will be up against, Ina with her bow and arrow which can reach me along with her AUG whose range isn't far off my own, Okuni who has a shield and shotgun and Tadakatsu who's armour and machine gun and rocket launcher will be ever so deadly. If I was to face one of them it would be such a difficult challenge, but to have to face all 3 of them at once? It will not be easy, I guess all I can do is to try and separate them and to then take them all down one by one, but who should I take first? Hmmm, I guess I'll have to see how it goes, at least they're not at full health but still, they're more than half health and I'm certain that they do not have enough pain to hinder their movement whatsoever, which is certainly the case for me.
The tragic thing is that Uni has informed me that they are pretty close from where I am, with Ina in front, followed by Tadakatsu and then Okuni. I will need to hide though I worry about whether they are able to find me, and even if not there is the matter of dealing with them one by one, while they're close together, as well as hunting them down and killing them should they decide to make a break for it, which isn't ideal considering how they'll be no doubt be much quicker than me thanks to their health, or at least Ina will be.
I try and think of different strategies of taking each one of them down, as I then find somewhere to hide, though pulling them off will be tremendously difficult to say the least, but then again getting to this point has been difficult, and I should think that at least it's just these 3 rather than all 5 of them, because that would have been even more tricky.
It's just that I feel that it's worse as I'm struggling to stay awake and to keep going, due to the fact that I'm ever so exhausted from all of the times I've been shot and the pains that I've suffered as a result, oh, if only I had more health to help me defeat them because then I would be probably be able to defeat them with ease, but I know that I need to make the most of what health I have, which is almost zero, and to keep fighting and avoid getting shot, I will defeat them, I will find their weaknesses and I will exploit them, and I know this now, as after seeing Ina in the distance, I realise that her weapon while it can penetrate through wood, is not powerful enough to knock a tree down.
I am hoping that I can snipe her, or at least do a significant amount of damage to her before she gets close, but I know it won't be easy, especially since like Ginchiyo she wears a good amount of armour, hmmmm, I wondered about whether I should just attack her from up close, but there's no certainty that I can defeat her that way, not with her martial art skills, her gun and her bow and arrow, not to mention her quicker speed. I just have the range and I'll need to bleed her with that, at least if she attacks I can try and hide until she runs out of ammunition, but the thing is I know that if I'm within range of her of her bow and arrow, I'll be done for, because these are special homing arrows and I know that they will kill me, since my health is too low for them, and my aches will mean I can't out run them, not that it would make much difference anyway.
I can't think about that though, because if anything that could lead to it, as opposed to being calm and keeping my wits about me will lead me to victory, I then attack and fire as many bullets as I can and reload, and do some more, only to find that I'm having to hide while she returns fire as loads of bullets come flying above my position, as while hidden I try and find a new hiding place as best as I can considering the circumstances to take her down. After which I then attack again and fire more bullets at her, but the tragic thing is that I find that she's moving closer and closer to where I am, no doubt intending to have a better chance of shooting me down.
In fact she gets too close, and she then switches to a bow and arrow no doubt intending to fire it at me, and I worry that it might even be able to track me while I'm hidden. This does not look good, but it is then that I switch to my shotgun and I knock her to the ground with it. I would like to have taken that bow and arrow off her, but she'll just fire it at me, and so instead as quickly as I can, hoping that my body can provide me with enough energy to rush and the perk a colas will help, even though my aches and pains will hinder and could even stop me in my tracks, do I then run away to find somewhere to hide, hoping to make enough distance so that I can use my sniper rifle and bleed her some more.
The thing is that although Ina just stands there and switches to her rifle before firing it away, what concerns me is how far are the other two enemy bosses, I worry that it'll only be a matter of time before they get too close, in fact I worry that I won't have enough bullets from my sniper rifle to take them all down, which is frustrating because with its range I could harass them, but I'm sure I can find another way of taking them down.
"I am Ina, know me and you shall know pain as none shall escape my bow, and my arrows will fly true." The female archer Ina taunts to me, as if I'm intimidated by her which I'm not.
What an annoying and arrogant so and so, I remember how unpleasant she was to Guo Jia when he only desired female companionship and was dying, poor guy and yet whatever man Okuni wants Okuni gets which I find to be complete hypocrisy, but even so she stands in the way of hope and I must defeat her, and this I will do.
I'd like to respond to the archer, and say that her bow is no match for me and my weapons but it's not practical because then I'll give my position away, it isn't long before I'm out of her range but it is at quite a cost, as the pain of my legs has increased to a point unimaginable, and it's become difficult not to yell in agonising pain, as my body is no doubt mad at me for not letting it rest, though while I can understand it, I'll have time to rest when I've defeated the remaining 3, but if I rest before then, then I'll lose and this will mean us all losing, which will be rather devastating to say the least.
I then do my best to fire shot after shot at her, as she moves towards me again firing her gun, forcing me to hide and to look for a new spot, but she's able to catch up. The thing is that Ina then switches to firing a bow and arrow, though interestingly enough as opposed to aiming it at me, she instead fires it at trees, and she does it with one after another, with the intention of knocking them down so that I will be crushed by them, no doubt making it easier for her to shoot me down, as I'll no longer have the cover to move as quickly.
"Let's see you handle my skills as an archer." Ina taunts at me, which I ignore.
This concerns me deeply, as I find myself having to rush through the trees as she fires arrow after arrow, knocking tree after tree down and it causing a domino effect, even though it's getting more and more difficult to do so because of the pain that I'm in, my only hope being is that she'll run out of arrows, but I know archers to carry lots and lots of arrows, so there's little hope of it ending soon, as well as surviving the onslaught of arrow after arrow being shot in my direction, but despite this she then stops firing, and switches to her rifle, though she doesn't fire it, and instead she just moves closer and closer towards where I am, intending to ambush me.
I'm so pleased not to have been crushed myself by the trees, as they fall in different directions, considering how difficult it was to run if not being almost impossible, but I feel as though it's more down to luck, considering how I had more than a few near misses from the trees, is this part of their fighting style from their clan destroying trees, since first Tokugawa did it and then Ina? Well at least she's stopped it for now and she intends to rush to me with a weapon in hand right now, thinking that I'm trapped, but while I can easily ambush her, I doubt I'll be able to take the weapon off of her, this concerns me because if I can get it off her, then I'll stand a much better chance in defeating her.
In fact just as I suspected, when she was about to shoot me after trying to flank me, I shot her with a shotgun knocking her down before quickly finding more cover nearby even if the pain is constantly reminding me of my state, and to make as much distance between myself and Ina as possible which tragically will not be much, all the while being concerned that it won't take long at all before she's able to fire again, and no doubt even kill me, not only this but I am getting more and more concerned about the other two finding me here, but I must not let that stop me from continuing the fight, I am bleeding her, and I can most certainly do this.
It is then that she fires again, at different tree stumps, her intention being that she can shoot me down while I'm hidden in the trees stumps, this isn't good because if I move to try and hide, she can just shoot me down, though the trouble is because of me not being able to buy much time due to my deteriorating condition, I wasn't able to get very far, in fact I'm having to crawl through the tree stumps as she shoots closer and closer to me, while working out where I could have possible gone.
Once again it looks as though she starts through the opposite end where I was, which is lucky, and it concerns me that I feel that it's luck as opposed to superior skills that is saving me, but even if I am fortunate enough that she has to reload, it won't take long before she reloads her gun, but what do I do, do I make a break for it, take her out, what?
"You cannot hide from me, because I always like a good archer, hits the target." The female archer says to me, boasting as she thinks my death by her hand is inevitable, even though it really isn't and though I'd like to respond to her stupidity, I just ignore it.
I realise that I'll be much better off trying to get back into the trees that aren't chopped down by Ina's handiwork, which I like to think isn't too far away, if I can just reach it after knocking the female enemy down again then I like to think that I have a good chance, while it'll mean that she may switch to her explosive arrows, I have no choice but to get her to run out of them. With this in mind, I shoot her knocking her down before running as fast as I can do I head for the trees, though I worry that I won't make it in time as my body painfully reminds me repeatedly, and so instead after running in a direction towards the trees and to the side for a very short while, I just simply dive to a place which is nearby to the trees, but a place where I hope that she won't be able to find me, really hope.
Again it's hoping that she doesn't manage to hit me with her weapon as I hide, moving amongst the stumps, and keep my shotgun in hand, but at least this time it's a short run before hiding amongst the trees, but while I know that my plan involves Ina wasting her arrows in destroying the forest, forcing my enemy to switch to her rifle where I can attack her while she has to reload, what concerns me is that how useful would the bow and arrow be against the remaining 2 enemies: Tadakatsu and Okuni, probably very useful, but I'll just have to see if there is another way of defeating the remaining enemies after dealing with this female archer.
Oh I'm just so tired and I'm in so much agonising pain, I'm just so grateful for the fact that I've been able to carry on for so long, but I need to carry on for longer yet, it's just so frustrating that I can do nothing but hope that Ina once again does not shoot me while she tries to look for me, I wish I was able to run quicker but she would have known where I was, and if she didn't have to reload her gun when she did, then I would have been done for, for sure, but at least this time she doesn't know exactly where I am and so I have a bit of a chance while I do my best to crawl through using the fallen trees for cover, trying to get closer to the trees while avoiding enemy fire.
This is real nail biting stuff, doing my utmost best to avoid getting shot. Amazingly although rather lucky again, she was ever so close to shooting me, as bullets have whizzed passed me, she needs to reload, and with this window of opportunity, I decide to make a break for it, to just run as fast as I can even if I'm in an unimaginable amount pain, and even though I've done this more than enough times in this condition already. The problem is I worry that my body will no longer be able to run and at that point, I'll be done for and I can't keep this up of running away and if I feel able to fire a few shots, which do not do much damage against Ina.
"You think you can beat me just you got a little lucky." Ina taunts me again, which again I ignore.
What worries me is that with me being in the forest going from tree to tree to hide, is that she'll switch to her bow and arrow and mow down the trees again, and yet she still has plenty of arrows to use, and even if I am able to survive the falling of the trees, I'll still have to go through hoping that she doesn't hit me with her rifle and that was far too close for comfort, and I fear that this time she'll succeed. I was thinking about using my rifle and hitting her while she's reloading but she can fire her bow quickly, and that would lead to me getting hit and ultimately dying, I sigh quietly at the situation, wishing that there was an effective counter measure to her strategy apart from running away, and getting her to run out of ammunition.
Despite not feeling able to do anymore, because of how tired and in pain my body is, I continue to run, as just as I suspected, she resorts to firing arrow after arrow into the trees, in which it will only be a few seconds before they explode and then cause the trees to come crashing down, and I find myself having to be careful where I go, but then I find that she stops firing her arrows and instead she rushes while having her bow and arrow in hand, hmmm.
While there is the chance of shooting her and getting the bow off of her, she could still pose a threat with her arrows which even without the bow could be deadly, and then there is also the AUG of hers, which is just as deadly. It all depends on if I can shoot her and then pin her afterwards, it's my only chance I have if I am to defeat her and therefore have any chance of fighting, and I'm really hoping defeating them. This is it, all or nothing and whether I can succeed in shooting and then pinning her will depend on where she is, or even if she'll continue to come to me and fire at me, I just hope this can work, I don't want to die at this point for it will be extremely frustrating.
I guess that while thinking that it won't be long before she shows up, and before I respond and do it in a way which will quite literally determine what will happen in the next few days whether Lastation will fall, or will we continue to lead the resistance in liberating Lowee, and then take the fight to Planeptune? In fact it is now that I see her coming towards me, in fact she sees me and was about to pull the arrow, though just as she was about to, I shoot her with the shotgun knocking her over, and as a result she fires the arrow but it's fired into the air above me, and is completely harmless, after which I then rush despite severe fatigue towards her, and attempt to dive on her, while shooting her in the arms to hinder her in her attempt to either switch to her rifle, or to get out another arrow for her bow.
I repeatedly fire shot after shot while I dive on her, and it's a real struggle for the female archer to respond to me shooting at her, in fact even when she has managed to get an arrow I manage to shoot it in half such that the head of the arrow is gone, she does this a few times and the same thing happens, and then just as I was so desperate for me to succeed in pinning her down, I am so pleased to know that I am on top of her and the landing causes her to yell in such pain, as well as shooting her with the shotgun, but I cannot celebrate because there's still a lot to do and this is merely to disarm her, but I know what I'm doing, and so the first thing I do is while shooting yet another arrow that she tried to get out, is to grab the arrows behind her back and then throw them behind me, so that she can't get them and stab me, in which I'm sure that even with that they'd explode and I'd most certainly die, though even a simple stab would kill me with the low health I have.
"Hmph you think you can beat me with this trick. That's hardly how a warrior would fight." Ina says while grunting in pain.
"A true warrior would fight for a noble cause, and fighting for Team Rocket is most certainly not a noble cause." I respond to her, hoping to get under her skin so that I can defeat her easier.
Even though so far with regards my plan of disarming her I am succeeding, I know I cannot relax for there is the matter of getting rid of her other weapon, not to mention there being the other two who could approach me at any moment, the trouble is that unless I can disarm her completely, I'm unsure if I'll be able to defeat her. It's been such a struggle to be honest, it's a real fight to survive, and with such low health and in such pain which appears limitless, and difficulty in moving quickly without it hurting, and it being hard not to yell in pain, argh it's such a struggle to take it but I have no choice, and I have to continue going.
She tries to grab the weapon on her back, just as I expected her to but then I grab it with the other hand and shoot the arm forcing her to let go and yell in pain some more before holstering the shotgun, I notice her trying to punch me in the head which would have knocked me out, but I then block it with my arm, and continue to do so, at the same time with her other hand no longer on the gun because she's in far too much agony, I am able to grab the AUG and then shoot her head with it, all the while getting up as quickly as I can and then rushing to pick up the arrows, while I'm certain that she'll get up and perhaps try and take me down.
"Curse you, for taking my weapons off me, you have not beaten me yet, you are still postponing the inevitable, the inevitable painful death by me." The female archer speaks with much aggression, and grunts a lot as well.
"On the contrary what's inevitable is you and your friends defeat by me." I respond to her in a similar tone.
I think it's getting clear that Ina is beginning to show signs of immense pain, considering her grunts, and she is full of bullet wounds all over her body, but unfortunately she's still in a much better shape than I am, and although during the time I expected her to retake her weapon off me, she must have figured that I would just shoot her down with the shotgun as instead she heads to where Okuni and Tadakatsu are who aren't too far away though at least they're not within range, yet.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, this was just what I was dreading having to face all 3 of them at once, and I wonder about what will Ina do since she is unarmed, though I fear that it might be for the sake of themselves and no doubt Neptune that the female warrior will perhaps get a machine pistol from Okuni, and despite not being at high health and probably dying within a few moments of stepping foot in Lastation and attacking, that's all that's needed for war to be declared against Team Rocket, and we'll lose for sure because of the overwhelming odds.
I have to stop the female archer, I just know she'll go to my family's homeland, since she's no longer a match for me and no doubt knows that her allies will be much better off at dealing with me. It won't be easy though since the other two will no doubt try and protect her, and so as best as I can, I then fire shot after shot of my rifle at Ina, doing my best to ensure that she doesn't leave alive as she yells while being shot and her body flinches a bit with each shot.
But tragically I have to reload my weapon, and this could make the difference, between me stopping her and her getting away since she's already close to them and already I feel that the window of opportunity to get her is declining rapidly, due to me being unable to pursue her even if these two were to stand aside, and the fact that already Tadakatsu is aiming his machinegun and is ready to fire just as soon as I'm in range.
I therefore fire some bullets before quickly rushing despite my extreme exhaustion to hide, I only do my best to ensure that it hits her because I am that focused in rushing and finding a place to hide, as I worry about getting shot by them as I see my male opponent trying to fire bullets in my direction but is just too little too far away for it to have any effect, and even when it does, I have already moved and despite my pain I'm continuing to find cover after cover.
While I'm pleased that their slow speed due to heavy armour for Tadakatsu, and a large shield for Okuni, will hopefully be as slow as me with my ever so severe aches and pains, I cannot be sure and they're probably quicker than me, and not only this but there's two and while I know Okuni isn't as strong as Tadakatsu, Okuni's shield is bullet proof, and so the only way to defeat her is to flank her, but will I be able to do it with her armoured ally protecting her flank? Hmmm it won't be easy.
I know all too well that like before, I need to stay on my toes, as they could easily get me especially with me being extremely exhausted, from all the damage I have taken, and having to run numerous times with these aches and pains. Annoyingly though with all this concern about dealing with these two, I realise that all of that won't make a single difference if Ina survived my last bullets, and from that will be able to attack Lastation, which even without weapons and health, she will do so because I'm certain that is what Neptune has ordered to do. It's madness but that's Neptune for us, even if she doesn't harm a single person in Lastation, she'll still be responsible for our defeat, unless I have happened to have got her first.
If only I have an idea, then at least I know for sure, as for all I know she could have got away, making this fight meaningless, but I know I cannot give up, not with how there's just two left, but it is rather tragic how they are together and they're both very tough, and what's worse is that I remember that I don't have enough bullets, not from the sniper rifle, or the newly acquired AUG, and while there's the bow and arrow which despite Ina's repeated firing, is still such that there's loads of them, it's a short range weapon and using this would risk exposure. I have to separate the pair of them, but how?
It is then that Uni informs me about the fate of Ina which I am eager to know as that will help me to determine what I need to do, and whether we won, it's quite interesting how whether she's dead or alive will lead to the opposing outcome for us, as if she's dead our nation will still be alive, but if she's alive, our nation will be dead, and with it the hope of the world and any chance of there being any justice, and of the world knowing prosperity, but at least Uni will inform me now as to whether I'm still in the fight or whether all is lost, unless somehow I can defeat Ina, which will be very difficult with those 2.
"Just to let you know Black that Ina is…