Aé with a feral growl torn through two servitors with her fangs, one of the cultists hit her with the holder part of hid gun at her head and then at her face making her nearly drop on the ground not before she took the cultists' mask off as her fangs scratched the vizor revealing his face, the cultists angered by this tried to then attack her again only for her then spat deadly venom at his face making him cry in pain and blinded an opportunity which she used by jumping at her and bite his neck off.
Unfortunately, before the cultist died he plunged a knife at her stomach as she realized she had the object on her stomach. She tried to touch it; however, it hurt badly making her grunt in agony and then feeling lightweight she dropped on the dead cultits.
"AÉ!" someone shouted, it was Candy who cried out while Grenda rushed in and started helping her to get up and move as Aé held the injury with the knife still stuck in it as she huffed in pain.
"Not ... safe…" the Swamp Woman objected, which they did not heed.
"We're gal friends! Like hell, we leave you!" Grenda grunted in protest.
An Eliminator dropped in, it looked with its soulless eyes at them and then held a rifle it carried from its back ready to shoot.
Before that could happen, a ball of light hit its face blinding it enough to misfire and for Lasjaris to jump in, the Eliminator tried to slash her with her claw but before its claw could taste her flesh she shot a round from her shot gun at its head sending it flying away whereas the headless body dropped backwards.
"Don't wait ladies! Keep moving!" She ordered the trio to move, which they followed while she kept shooting at the enemies.
The war was now at a standstill with the survivors fortifying against the invaders using junks, walls and anything that could be used for fortification.
Unicorn hair was used to power up a thaumaturgical shield, but unfortunately, it only works on those thaumaturgical enhanced like the raging plant monster that keeps punching and shooting at the shield so the other enemy types could still enter.
Due to the overwhelming forces from the enemy, Tancaras and Dohan ordered all three Demon Spawns to leave whatever post they had and help in repelling the invaders as the howling spawns of the Demon of War tore through the enemies with claws and teeth.
The Patchwork bear worked tirelessly in healing the injured with each patient that was dragged in thanks to the Gnomes organized by Jeff who thanks to their small size managed to pass mostly undetected and bring the injured but also at the same time try to disrupt the enemy by breaking their equipment or plant magically enhanced mushroom bombs enchanted by nome magic that are blue looking and then blow up into a blue explosion evidence by some blue fogs caused by explosions from the enemy lines one of the explosions took three Clawhunters and Servitors.
"Aha! Take that rusted scrap metal! I wished Shmebulock was here to see it." Jeff cheered at the victory
Unfortunately, the enemy had the Cyber-nomes which used similar tactics as they managed to crawl undetected or use the turrets's distraction to shoot the enemies to get near enough to then begin wrecking their circuitry or any other equipment and managed to cause malfunctions even though the survivors also tried taking them.
One of the Demon Spawns died being ripped apart by Lord Goran when it tried to aid Alexei in his fight against him and he did that with his own bare hands from left shoulder to its spin.
One particularly large Beastman black and both eyes red one optic and the other being still organic roared, as it moved it crushed a few of the defenders and then activated his cannon bursting with red light till it shot a red concentrated beam of energy
"Look out!" The self-improvement Automatron jumped, snatched the Mcguckets and fell inside an abandoned bazaar with its wall destroyed with a few rubbles nearly fatally hitting them with one hitting Fiddleford on his head fortunately only causing a fresh wound as he groaned. Still better than being vaporized.
Tate went to check on his father when the Automatron jumped up activating a missile that appeared on the wrist and then targeted and shot at the enormous black Beastman in the head.
The oversized Beastman in a shocking display of agility caught the missile at his non-cannon hand, it growled and then shot it away at the nearest house causing it to blow away.
The SCP Automatron whined.
"I knew I should have upgraded my missile self-destructive protocol…."
Growl
"Uh oh."
The Beastman, enraged, then tried to bolt like an angry bull toward them, making them yelp until Chutzpar tilted toward it and pushed it away with a hit. The hit did stop the cyborg minotaur bolting toward the mechanic trio, but it was quickly back on its feet and Chutzpar with a group of his kin recognized who this particularly large Beastman was.
"LEADERAUR!? Is that you!?"
He exclaimed as he recognized the Beastman, all non-processed Manotaurs did in their shock and appalled.
It is or was Leaderaur, augmented with Factory's cybernetics, one red optic eye replaced his left eye, his right arm was replaced by a big cannon and there were wires or tubes in some parts of its body and both of his legs replaced by digitigrade mechanical legs.
"What those machine-worshiping milksops did to you!?"
The unexpected happened, Leaderaur was not a mindless cyborg as they gawked.
"They made me better, I'm no slave, you all forsaken me because I became weak." His cannon began to cool itself down by spewing steam But now I'm strong and I will lead you once again, by force or by choice." the hissing stopped.
Chutzpar angered by what he heard then uttered.
"You're no longer our leader because you're a terrible leader! And frankly, a ginormous jerk as that human boy proved!"
The traitorous half-bull man snarled.
"What that miscreant infant would know of what makes the measure of a man?"
"APPARENTLY MORE THAN YOU …you BULL-HEADED MAGGOT INFESTED FURRY COW!"
Of all the curse words implying he was female was the one that made him seether with his optic eye glowing redder, his snout exhaled like a motor and his teeths grinded.
Before the furious Beastman could do anything, out of the blue, a bunch of blue explosive mushrooms hit him exploding, recoiling his body causing him to growl and glare at who dared to do so seeing Multi-Bear holding many explosive mushrooms in his many hands and snarking and taking pleasure at throwing explosives at someone who once warranted his death.
"I never liked you!"
Following that, the Manotaurs with roars jumped at the Black Beastman as the latter tried to get him off by tossing some away, he powered his cannon and tried to shoot the one near his gun who dodged fast and the blast only led to burning lines of molten earth and destruction of another building. Multi-Bear soon joined in.
Tate and the robot SCP helped Fiddleford to get up.
"Dad, you okay?" his son asked, worried.
His head was ringing, he looked around and saw his son and his robotic friend saw the war around them.
The plant behemoth kept trying to penetrate the shield with its powerful shots while the other forces entered the shield and it was only a matter of time before they disrupted the force field and it was protected by them.
Goran and Alexei were ducking it out sword and guns traded; however, it was clear despite the upgrades Alexei's biomechanical suit had thanks to carnomancy he could only by himself keep Goran busy.
The Black Beastman was bigger than the non-processed brethren as they had to attack him in groups to hold on to him with the help of Multi-bear.
When the ringing stopped it was clear to him that they needed to change tactics.
"I reckon, we're gonna need a wild card." He uttered, his companions would soon understand what he meant as they were confused by what he was saying currently.
He had stopped thrashing sometime ago, whatever rage he had subsided. The amber of his fire has been burnt out.
Abel looked at the frozen monster near him appreciating the irony that he who is seen by a monster is roommates with one.
Was this his destiny? To be locked away like all other monsters to be seen not as a warrior but as a mere beast slaved by his instincts to kill? Never to be more? How is it that his brother who is known as the first murderer is loved and respected while he is caged like a rabid animal?
He looked at his chains hueing from its wards with purple, Nightwalker magic keeping him contained. Damn, his brother and damn him to Hell for how truthful what he said was as much as he wants to deny it and go on a murder massacre, but that just proves that bastard's point, wouldn't it?
Boom
Oh, looks like the followers of the spiteful god Khnith-hgor have found this place if the explosives, the shouts and the bangs were any indication so as the lack of Demon of War's spawns that he guessed were told to join the fight.
With no warning, a rocket coming from a bazooka passed through glass by breaking it and was coming toward between Abel and the frozen demon, in a fit of almost-superhuman reflex moved and put himself down feeling the wave and heat of explosion causing a good chunk of the demon's frozen crystalized prison to crack and drop like shards of glasses. Miraculously, the explosion wasn't enough to awaken the Demon of War.
Abel felt the back of his skin burning from how close the approximately was, doesn't matter, he had worse. He sees one of the shards and then registered that since it has thaumaturgical properties which was evident by wards on it still glowing purple he could use it to free himself of his shackle, he was a warrior, not a sorcerer but he learned a few tricks during his millennials of existence traveling across the Earth.
He took a big pointy shard and whispered ancient words that were long extinct leading to the shard to glow fully purple and the red tattoos around his body to glow red. Consequently, he used the sharp to cut through the chains by causing a thaumaturgical reaction between the two as the shard with a few sparks of resistance managed to cut through one of his chains.
This was his ticket out, but first, he had some business to attend to.
"Are you sure?" Tate unsurely asked his father.
"I'm sure."
The Self-Improving Automatrons shared the son's concerns "How do we know our shapeshifting friend wouldn't just join a team with the invaders?"
They were now in the Shapeshifter's place where his container cell was. Fidds didn't have to answer his robotic friends' questions when he turned on the cell's audio and made its mirror two-sided.
"Howdy."
There Shifty upon seeing the assistance of his original jailer all dusted up like his companions and had a red wound on his head, got up and snarled with all mandibles opened in a threatening way " You. came to gloat?" he screeched with words and a bit of insectoid screech.
Fiddleford with a regretful look said.
"Nah." Then he did something that made the alien surprised and confused. The elder McGucket opened the cell's door.
Shifty, hesitant and suspiciously looked at the open door and then at the old man while Tate looked uneasy and the SCP robot was ready to point his weapon if the situation demanded.
"You want forgiveness?? You imprisoned me! You and Sixer left me to rot!"
"Yes…we did, and it was wrong." he sight "I don't expect ya to forgive me or to fight with us, but I'm givin' ya now the chance to be free once and for all. Ya know those bad men would jail you too and with glee by the way and do far worse than me and Fordsy did." He began gesturing with a hand to his left "You can run and be free or join us, but We all reckon there ain't much place to hid."
Shifty thought as he considered Fiddleford's pragmatism and plea with an expressionless face, what happened next would tell what he would do.
The anomalous doctors and the Faller kids ran as the battle range around them, a few cultists tried to shoot them down only for the Plague Doctor to duck the kids down away from the shooting whereas Sarah grew a fleshy tendril with a sharp blade at its end that she used to cut the throat of 5 cultists hence they died choking on their blood and the avian SCP then pushed the kids away when a Beastman fired his cannon making a molten explosive line between them which they in time ducked or else would be killed. The Sarkic then grew more tendrils using them like the legs of a spider to run fast toward the bull cyborg who then tried to turn her into mush by jumping with both feet at her which he failed as she moved away from the collision just enough for its shockwave to temporarily send her up in the air a momentum she used to then attach her tendrils at the processed Manotaur and then with their endpoints bladed continually penetrates at it causing it to howl in pain and tries to get her off.
A servitor came with a buzz saw to rip the Doctor in half who dodged and quickly with one touch caused all its organic sides to die and fall. That was when he felt a tight rope around his neck suffocating him.
"Chokes on you!" it was the Possessive Mask trying to suffocate him. "Get it? Because it rhymes with Jokes!" since the body he possessed was already his touch did nothing.
The Sarkic caught that when she was still stabbing the Manotaur which the Mask caught her glance and taunted her.
"Hurry, we're losing him Doc!" and then he laughed only for an empty can grabbed by Gideon to hit him. "Eh?!" He was surprised, which was answered by Pacifica cantaloupe, a rock hard enough at his head that made the Mask recoil and very annoyed "Why you little- !" That was enough opportunity for the Avian Doctor to act by hitting him by the back of his head and then turning back when he got freed and giving a punch and a kick at him enough for him to back away, whereas the Sarkic finally killed the cybernetic hybrid by impaling his head by two-bladed tendrils which were followed by her to jump from it before it fell dead and raced toward the Mask with her tendrils acting like legs to double her speed.
However, she saw an Eliminator with a shotgun sneaking behind the kids so she jumped at it and eviscerated it with her sharp tendrils and got shot by the shotgun at her making her fall bleeding with a gurgle.
The Shotgun wasn't very close but it did leave a lot of bullets spread all over her body making holes around that were bleeding as she was on the ground gurgling blood as her tendrils began to retract back. Sure she had faster regenerative than normal humans thanks to her flesh crafting; nevertheless, her healing had a limit with so many wounds with some bullets scratching at her vital organs. The kids came to her aid while Plague Doctor glared at the Mask who walked funny.
"Looks like we reached a conundrum doc!" He sneered as the Avian Doctor was conflicted between saving Sarah or stopping him.
"You're Pestilence incarnated." He spat.
"Why, you flatter me!" the haughty Mask gushed.
The Plague Doctor decided to do the former and come knee before Sarah as the Mask ran and disappeared with a nonexistent smug expression.
"Hold her wounds from bleeding." He told the kids to do as he said.
Gideon protested.
"Which one? There's so many she's leaking all over!"
"You hold the round at her chest, you hold at her abdomen." He commanded Gideon and Pacifica respectively and they did as he told, though Gideon was very nervous at touching a woman's chest even if it is to stop the bleeding from her lungs and blood gushed a bit at the Northwest's blonde hair in red.
"Ew! My hair!" She whined.
The Avian SCP brought two syringe tools both connected by tubes.
"Her regenerative healing would spit out the bullets and heal her, but not before dying from blood loss."
He then connected one end of the syringe at his left elbow, flinching slightly at the pain. He was going to connect the other syringe to Sarah for a blood transfusion before the Gleeful stopped him.
"Wait! What if your blood type is non-compatible?"
"Hopefully, her healing factor would convert it to a compatible type." He said and then connected the syringe to Sarkic Doctor's right arm hoping her adaptive ability wouldn't reject his blood if it gets proven as incompatible.
"You fight like a cow!" Multi-Bear taunted as he used his many paws to punch and slash on Leaderaur's face who gave a bull's growl. He snatched Multi-Bear with a push of his hand but the Manotaurs began to overwhelm him so in a fit he roared and sent all of them flying away. Subsequently, he tried to use his cannon to blow the multi-headed filth and his rebellious brethren away only for Multi-Bear to look at him with his many heads smugly when he looked back at his cannon he saw many blue mushrooms stocked inside it, he tried to stop the process; nevertheless, the cannon was charged so in a brilliant explosion the cannon and his robotic arm blow up causing him to shake and growl in pain.
"Grrr, I don't need both hands to take you all!" He tore his broken cybernetic arm and then used it as a sledgehammer, swatting nearby Manotaurs away.
"ARGH!" Leaderaur with a roar then began running toward Multi-Bear who with a yelp ducked and sprinted as the broken cybernetic arm used like a sledgehammer broke buildings and stores into pieces until managed to hit Multi-Bear causing him to be tossed at the stony wall of the subterranean market making him gruff in pain, next the mad Beastman throw his tool away and then raced in planning to crush the unusual bear by his weight and horns.
Only for Chutzpar to growl interrupted him again by catching a rock and throwing it with precision at him leading to the rock crippling in many smaller stones upon impact at Leaderaur and making him growl in pain of feeling his head. While Chutzpar went and helped Multi-Bear to get up not before killing an Eliminator with two Servitors that tried to take advantage of Multi-Bear's disoriented state to either capture or kill him by his bare hands into necrotic tissue and circuitry, Leaderaur got his footnoting and got up part of his metallic cranium opened revealing sparky lights thanks to the wires inside pulsating like blood in the vein and Manotarusr began surrounding him all glaring in hate.
"You would risk your hides to save the mutant filth and the weaklings!?" he, outraged at this kin's actions, bristled.
One of the random Manotaurs one brownish red snorted.
"You're one to talk, trading your flesh for quick and easy upgrades!"
"You could have become stronger, to be a part of something glorious!"
Chutzpar spit on the ground and spat.
"And be your and their slaves? No thanks, we prefer our flesh to ourselves."
The Black Beastman was gonna retort furiously when his jaw opened again only for it to stop as it was half opened, he just froze and then his head began to shake like he was struggling to move, it looked like he was suffering a seizure.
"What…!" he tried to speak only to then fall on his knees as he felt his control over his body slipping.
"No! You- !" his cybernetics began to act radically with his glowing optic eye turning on and off.
"We had a…deal…I thought- !" the group was confused like he was trying to plead to someone else not knowing inside his head, the Factory decided to have a little visit.
"The Scarlet King suffers no weakness, Flesh is Weak and yours proved even weaker than average."
Then in a quick contortion, his head snapped up looking to the sky with his mouth open and his still organic arm pointing up like he was suffocating inside a depthless sea, then his body went full limp still with his knees on the ground half standard as the disturbed group looked.
Consequently, his body began to move, yet something was clearly wrong and his face was devoid of any emotion, 4 robotic spider legs got out from his body causing everyone around to stand back, wired like tendrils began to get out of his half-opened metallic cranium connecting to his one optic, the place where the cybernetic hand used to be had a big machine gun turret come out of it and then on his back, two multi-missile launchers got out while sharp plates of iron grow from the back.
"Automated unite activated," it said in a voice utterly devoid of emotion and got up standing on his new 4 spider legs the group was mortified and looked as the weapons began clinking, Leaderaur had died learning the harsh truth of what is like to be dominated, processed into a mere machine of destruction.
Multi-Bear groaned at this development
"This is going to be so fun." as the weapons began to shoot.
Lord Goran and Alexei were ducking at each other with the Russian having the advantage of flight, diving away from getting sliced by his sword while at the same time shooting from his borrowing Yeren Heat Blaster with surgical precision to make him recoil. Even still, Goran was getting tired of this.
"Enough."
He decides to end it by conjuring little power he still has after his exile to create a pulse of red thaumaturgical energy with his free hand palmed open directed at the flying supersoldier who fell to the ground a moment of weakness the Exiled General exploited as he then seized the struggling biomechanical soldier from both of his wings, broke his Yeren weapon in half before he had the chance of triggering it and next ripping his thrusters at his back away so as his left wing making him cry in pain as synthetic fluids spilled out.
"You live like a bug, you die like a bug!"
The armored giant then by a circling fast turned back and threw Blitrov away hitting inside an abandoned building not before taking a few servitors on his way, being splattered on his way of collision.
There were loud clapping sounds coming from someone.
"Bravo Lord Goran."
He looked around and saw a human with a certain mask on his face expressed in a smile, knowing who the mask was.
"Only a servant of the Scarlet King would make an art out of carnage! Is it any wonder why our respective kings find a common cause? Seeing the slaughter around makes me delighted in giving away Crawl Space's location- "
Lord Goran was not fooled by his flattery and snatched him on his head from continuing his venomous flowery speaking with his hand harshly, the grip was so strong the SCP Mask that he could feel the walls of his possessed body's skull screaming from how hard it was as he could tell the intent the armored giant had as he tried to plead for his case.
The Mask struggled and uttered in befuddlement "But…I told everything, what more does the Scarlet King want?"
"Your silence," Goran stated in finality as his glowing pupil-less eyes stared at him.
With that, the grip got harder and harder until the head of the possessed body squashed into redfish black gore, the beheaded body fell motionless and the mask lay on the ground in the expression of tragedy.
Suddenly a being equal to his size tried to slice him before he moved away from the sword attack and saw something that made him outraged.
"What trickery is this?"
It was a duplicate copy of himself who mocked with a mocking tone.
"Buddy! It's your long-lost twin! Sham-on-frack-yourself!"
Needless to say, Goran did not appreciate seeing himself being mocked by this audacious Shapeshifter and attacked it with his sword morphing into an ax.
Back at the side, the Fallers, their protectors, were grouped as they fought the Crimson Army.
Cain shouted orders.
"- Tell them to grab whatever that is transportable from the basement!"
Daniel who was shooting with his hunting gun behind an upside counter grunted.
"We are being teared up in the West!"
The French Medic who was dragging an injured Yeren Dohan asked from her microphone with struggle considering how hard it is to drag someone bigger with one arm.
"What's the new glorious leader? We're getting wrecked here and it's hard to do anything with only one hand!" she grumbled while Dohan used his Heat Blaster to blast a swarm of coming Cyber-nomes.
Laskaris shooting a few times in the East was announced.
"You should see here! Medic we don't-know-your-name."
"It's Céline! It's not like I've been here since the mess started to remember my name!" She pouted.
Thompson interrupted their nagging in the comms.
"Will you two dimwits stop arguing while we are being invaded!?"
Someone with no warning came behind her holding her from her back.
"AB- MFHM!" Thompson muffled loudly in outrage and shock as Abel's hand shut her mouth because that person wasn't some Scarlet King worshiper but Abel himself with one hand holding her and the other holding a thaumaturgical shard he got from broken shards of Demon of War's frozen prison which he thrust it at a rocky naturally formed wall and circled it making purple neon lines which when the circle was made produced a purple portal next he with the struggling Iris jumped back into it.
"Iris?"
"IRIS!"
The portal opened on the down of a hill's lower level and sent them outside back to the surface of Gravity Falls on top of a hill of wither grass greeted by the view of polluted clouds, red sky, sickly Pine Tree jungles and black smokes coming from distance on a newly mountain shaped place where the Factory had their base of operation.
Thompson kept struggling, shouting, and even tried to bite Abel's hand on her mouth to no effect as he got her here until his hand was no longer on her mouth.
"MURDERER, LET ME GO!"
The immortal responded.
"You can't fight Lord Goran."
The blonde Anahuman wasn't deterred.
"Then YOU do it! You're the powerful immortal warrior!"
"Not powerful enough I'm afraid." It was so uncharacteristic of the boastful and proud immortal that it left Iris perplexed before retorting back in urgency.
"He will kill them!"
"If you go, he'll kill you."
She with a growl got herself free from Abel's arms and looked back as she then screamed at him with every anger and hate she had suppressed for years let out like a volcano "WHY DO YOU CARE!? I'M JUST A SACK OF MEAT FOR YOUR BLOODLUST AS EVERYONE ELSE TO YOU BUTCHER! WHY DO YOU CARE!"
Abel said nothing, there was no response, and both looked at each other as the wind passed by, the only thing coming from he was a dejected look, a blank expression to hide shame.
The Anahuman woman looked at him in a look of pure disbelief, understanding why, the reason why she was spared during Abel's slaughter on Pandora's Box: because he genuinely cared for her.
Consequently, her expression of disbelief morphed into anger as she gritted her teeth and responded with every ounce of spite and her hands clenched into fists.
"You…are an animal who lost his soul a long time ago." If hate could be manifested, hers would have choked Abel to death.
"Cain is a fool to believe you can be redeemed, and I am a bigger fool for ever believing that."
She then sprints away back to others using the open portal.
There was no rage, no bravado, no threat of slaughter, no snarl from Abel in this instance, nothing. The immortal killer wasn't angry, for the first time in a long while, Abel was feeling hollow just starting to nowhere only listening to the wind and the scarlet sky.
This time, he had no excuses, no antique honor to justify, no wrongdoing on him to pardon his actions. He did it because he could.
All that was being repeated in his head was two images, one the look of horror and betrayal from a younger Iris as he killed members' of Pandora Box, their friends, their comrades, slaughtered like animals as the helpless Iris looked the only person of the group who didn't saw him as a rabid hound, who extended a hand to him the first time they met, cracked jokes with him, tried to introduce him to the modern world's bizarre inventions like pizza one of the few things he actually enjoyed. It felt…nice to not be feared and hated and yet he repaided her compassion with betrayal.
And then there was the second picture, the last one he saw of Iris, no longer a naive girl but a woman defiant refusing to bend, looking with hate and spite with a depthless loathing all too familiar, the same hatred he had for Cain for betraying him all those eons ago, the irony that he was Cain and she was Abel wasn't lost to him.
Abel did not believe in his brother's words of a way for redemption as he felt hollow, but he was tired of being himself, was this all he was gonna be? Just a selfish monster who kills with no cause? Just a destroyer with a disgusting heart? Forever doomed to walk the Earth alone and no one to care for him?
He looked at the portal knowing it would not hold much longer.
Abel doesn't want Iris's forgiveness, because he knows he deserves it, he has become numb to the cries of others. Even still, he was tired of just being himself.
Shaky breath
"It worked, doc!" Gideon exclaimed as Sarkic breathed shakily and her body accepted the blood transfusion, by then the bullets began to spit out of her wounds and heal and even still she felt weak. "Not fun…being in bed death…" Sarah couldn't help but comment. The Plague Doctor saw a new force of the enemy arriving in stern anticipation.
"Come on, this place is not safe anymore." he helped the Sarkic Doctor to get up as the kids.
Then without a warning, a missile came in and the Sarkic Doctor, seeing this, pushed herself and everyone away from direct impact.
BOOM!
And to make matters worse a new army force came in like a tide forcing everyone to hide. Pacifica got the worst of it as she felt her mind dizzy and a ringing sound in her head as was on the ground standing on her upper body with both hands to look around as her eyes tried to adjust.
She spoke but her ears were so ringing loud she couldn't even hear her own voice. No one was there, and to her fear, she had become alone again. The first thing she heard when her listening became clear was the alarmed chirping sounds of her anomalous pet telling her to get up fast.
Chirp-Chirp!
So she ran and hid, alone once again.
Manotaur and Chutzpar were currently running away from the flood of missiles coming from the mindless cybernetic creature that used to be Leaderaur. The other Manotaurs couldn't help much with the weapon systems making it improbable to get close to their previous leader, maybe they should have accepted to carry long-range weapons instead of just melee just because the former is not as glorious as the latter.
"CRAP! CRAP! CRAP!" Multi-Bear cursed as he nearly lost one of his heads by one of the missiles and they jumped inside a naturally formed pool. The Black Beastman then switched from missiles to its auto gun and shot constant bullets around the pool, down under the pool as they held breath a thought came to Multi-Bear as he gestured to Chutzpar in sign language, the latter couldn't understand and expressed his confusion by scratching his head thus the former rolled one of the eyes of one of his many heads simply pointed him at the Upgraded Beastman's direction and hen himself up with two fingers moving and gesturing on going up on something which his half-bull friend understood with an approval thumb.
When the mindless Beastman stopped shooting, Chutzpar immediately got up from the pool and mocked the Beastman "HEY COW MAGGOT! One big juicy target to take!" The Beastman took the bait and began shooting missiles again as the Manotaur ran inside an abandoned building the bullets put holes around and the missiles took good chunks of it while he ran fast.
While the Black Beastman was distracted, Multi-Bear came with a surprise.
Moo!
The many-headed bear riding Big Charlie ran over it and then began to kick at it constantly with all four feet. "HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT BEING KICKED BY A GIRL!" Multi-Bear barbed, the mindless cyborg tried to shoot a few missiles but the constant kicking redirected them somewhere else so decided to go for his machine gun and was gonna shoot the hideous cow only for the many-headed bear to launch himself at him and redirected his turret away with many arms and then with a growl turn it at the cyborg's head which it resisted and was succeeded in resisting as the desperate Multi-Bear was losing in this match of prowess with the gun coming dangerously close to one of his heads until Chutzpar came in and helped him to point the constantly firing gun at its head thus the cyborg killed itself with wires and grey matter splatting skull causing the shooting to stop and lay dead, even still Big Charlie continued to kick it as the duo lay on the ground tired and gruffed, then chuckles began to be made as they then began to laugh.
"Where did you even get that abomination?" Chutzpar uttered between the laughs which Multi-Bear answered.
"Found the miserable cow got out of its field and ran around scared by the attack, so I made an 'understanding' with it from one freak nature to another." They continued to laugh as the abominable cow continued to brutalize the corpse, next Chutzpar and Multi-Bear high-fived at each other's hand.
Back on the fronts, as the survivors fortified and fought against the enemy. There Thompson joined the fight looking disgruntled and conflicted because of that anticlimactic reunion,
Tancaras is worried about seeing her quizzes.
"Thompson! Are you alright? What happened? You disappeared."
The latter simply just didn't have the energy for the explanation and because it just wasn't the right time stated.
"I will explain later."
BOOM
The sound of a big boom was heard causing one of the fences to be destroyed and the defenders fighting harder to keep the invaders at bay.
"What's the plan?"
"I told Jeff to gather the Gnomes and plant bombs on the weakest structural parts of the Crawl Space-"
Not everyone was thrilled with that idea, including Kevin as he with his brothers was pointing their hunting rifles and interrupted her.
"Woah woah! You gonna blow and bury us under the dirt!?"
The Grey Yeren objected.
"Of course not! It is after we evacuate so that they can't follow us.'' Another big bang was heard interrupting the speaking, she then pointed at Cain who was beyond the frontlines helping with the evacuation.
"Cain is helping with the evacuation."
Thanks to Cain's anomalous ability to deflect attacks any attack on him would be deflected back to the attackers so he used himself as a human meat shield like getting between the McGuckets and the SCP Automatron against a group of shooting Cultits resulting in in in them dying from being shot at by their own inflicted damages, that said Cain was no slop in fighting and millennials of experience made him an expert fighter as he single-handedly went toe to toe with an Eliminator dodging its attacks with ease while giving a few powerful bunches with his metallic hand the last one tearing it's head off showering oil from its beheaded body.
As the McGuckets and the Self-Improving Automatron with the rest of the refugees came in, it turns out the SCP Robot was also carrying another SCP Robot though one less pleasant.
" -Unhand me of this indignation you an organic loving traitor to all mechanicals!- "
"Remind me again, why are we bringing Pesterbot with us?" Laskaris who saw that asked rhetorically in annoyance.
Some of the refugees the Blonde Anahuman noticed like Alexei who was being helped to move by Chef and Old Castaway, Muti-Bear with a couple of Manotaurs riding the Big Charlie coming in and the Gleeful parents who desperately asked if anyone had seen their son. Gideon was not the only one missing as Grenda, Candy and Aé were also asking around about Pacifica and as much as Iris wanted to help in finding them and the other missing people she knew the amount of forces concentrating on breaking the defenses breach and coming back would be improbable.
Dohan, who had a small patchwork on his left foot courtesy of the tirelessly working Patchwork Bear, informed.
"There's a subterranean system under Gravity Falls leading to many underground pockets, we would be safe there."
BOOM!
"THE BREACH!" Manly Dan shouted, sure there was now a breach with the enemy swarming like the tide, Dan himself with the rest of the defenders had to fight face to face with Dan with his ax plunging at a Cultist's head before then kicked the dead body to push a group of Cyber-Nomes and using his kick and punches or destroy swats of them.
Even still' the Cyber-Nomes succeed in their objective of destroying the ward cousin the shields shut off which led to the plant behemoth to pass in as it like a war elephant crushed anyone who dared to fight it and went through fortifications like it was made of paper.
"BOYS! GO DOWN!" Daniel jumped at his sons and ducked them away from being crushed by the plant creature, it howled, crushed and shot from its barrels each one as powerful as a tank's shot making the survivors disperse, it seemed bleaked for them with the behemoth now rampaging.
Then With no warning, a few black knives were shot by someone killing 5 Servitors in an instance, someone with an incredible speed that was almost inhuman passed the enemies killing them instantly then launched himself from the top of a made-up fortification with a ridiculously giant sword ripping off limbs and body parts of surprised cultists in brutality. Thompson who seemed to notice grabbed a binocular and to her surprise, it was Abel who was now slaughtering the enemies at one point cutting both legs of a screaming Beastman before jumping up and plunging his sword at its chest.
Afterwards, Abel looked at the plant Behemoth with a bloodthirsty grin and began to follow it with it seem to notice him too so shot a couple of barrels to them all which he moved away from being exploded while at the same time killing a few Abominators, when he got close enough the Plant Creature tried to squash him by falling it;s right foot at hi which grow a bladed spike which he responded by blocking it with his sword, he held with both hands one at his weapon's handler the other on his blade as he resisted the weight of the plant creature with an astounding fit of strength, the earth under Abel's feet cracked and he as he struggled he roared "WAAAGH!" as he did all his red tattoos began to glow so as the red irises of his eyes tapping at his own power to keep the very heavy plant monstrosity at bay until he in a fit pushed its feet up taking it by surprised as it howled not being experienced in dealing with an enemy small but also surprisingly strong a moment which Abel exploited as he then rushed in an almost inhuman fast run passing under the creature at the same time using his sword to cut through its belly.
HOWL!
The plant creature howled as it felt its liquids falling and plant organs that looked like intestines falling, it tried desperately to keep its organs from falling with its' right front limb while Abel climbed up from the howling creature and then jumped and as he fell and put the creature out of its misery by cutting through its neck leading to its beheading as the giant's head fell in a fountain of plant liquids with Abel landing on both feet on the ground followed by the beheaded plant giant's body to drop from it's left side with a loud thud leaving the survivors awestruck by this display as they for a moment cheered at the vanquishing of the behemoth.
Cain who was near this witnessed it and made eye contact with Abel so did he, there were a lot of emotional turmoils going on and by God, he hated the proud smile Cain was giving him, but before anyone could react they heard the loud exclamation of something big just not as big as the dead plant behemoth to fall. It looked like a chimeric creature with the head of a bull, the body of a crab and two snake tails looking battered up with green blood coming from its injury including from the lost left limb on the front, the chimera then began to Shapeshift to none other than the Shapeshifter himself groaning in the pain. "He hits harder than the blonde bastard…." He groaned.
The anahuman brothers looked back and saw Lord Goran coming in undeterred like an unstoppable force killing a few Foundation soldiers on its way, the last two Demon Spawns attacked and managed to hold him for a long before he tactically changed his weapon into a mace-crushing one's part of it's skull then changed it back to a sword ripping the other's right arms and legs after which he then raised it and sent his sword right though it's chest, the other with half of his face showing his skull roared and came back only to then get shredded by continuous attacks Goran.
"I think I'm gonna leave this one for you two." Shifty not having the energy to fight again to get another set of brutal fights with the Exiled General changes into Pterodactyl and runs leaving the parahuman brothers who then readied themselves with Abel still glowing red and Cain having his blue tattoos glowing as well as his blue irises ready to fight him.
"I will still try to kill you after this," Abel reassured his brother.
Cain rolled his eyes.
"Love you too brother."
Then the duo charged at Lord Goran as he did at them.
Pacifica was lost, hiding behind the rumbles of destruction from a few Cultists and Servitors until they passed by giving her the time to come out, the worst part was she couldn't call out for anyone one help in fear of gaining one of the attacker's attention. She walked at a fast pace as she hurriedly looked around until she felt like her right foot hit something wet seeing what it was nearly jumped out of her skin as it was a beheaded body with gray matter and mush only remaining from the head when she looked she also saw a familiar Mask in an expression of tragedy a meter away.
"Oh, it's you." Why did she have to be alone with that damnable Mask again?
The Mask's expression of tragedy turned to comedy, making her uneasy.
"Why hello! Seems like you have been abandoned by your supposed friends like me, ironic isn't it?"
"They didn't abandon me, Opera Freak! I got separated from others."
"Oh come on, we both know by this point keep having people leaving you is becoming a trend like he did."
Paz scoffed.
"Are you really trying to get a raise at me by bringing my sorry excuse of a father?"
"Who said it's about your daddy issues? We both know he prefers redheads over blondes doesn't he?"
Those words reached Pacifica's core, making her stop as her thoughts derailed.
"I don't know what you're talking about." she tried to deny feeling a sinking feeling inside that the Mask somehow knew of her crush on Dipper.
"Poor chain in the world, doesn't matter how hard to try breaking from your blue blood parents, to his eyes a refined princess will never hold a candle to a lumberjack peasant of all things."
"Shut up." that only encouraged the Possessive Mask further as he then went for the throat.
"And here's the sugar on the cream, the wild low class the Pines consider as honorary despite never truly amounting to something whereas you're just the damsel in distress princess only good to be saved from your 'fallings' and your crappy family,"
"I said SHUT UP!" She felt like she was losing her voice as every word attacked him like a rain of daggers now exploiting her jealousy of the Pines family.
"Not even one of the main characters of the story, just a random poor misunderstood Bee Queen whose only good to be pitied forever and despite all the wealth and influence in the need of a Prince Charming, just another in the long line of privileged little brats whining in self-pity." every word he said with acidic haughty satisfaction. "But, you still can make him even start liking girls of refined taste. To be a part of a family that truly values you. All you need to do is put me on your face, and you'll never be alone."
His words were like if poison tastes sweet, it was like he knew exactly what he should say and what buttons he should push. She gradually touched the Mask and when she did so she felt even more reassured to wear it and yet the reassurance felt like whispers of the damned telling her to wear the Mask, she turned it around and slowly brought the Mask nearer and nearer each time the distance between her face and it got shorted she felt even more sure that she had to wear it, the only way to make sure she won't be alone ever again.
Out of nowhere, a tendril slapped her hand making her drop the mask.
"Wha- !?" Her exclamation was answered as she saw the tendril retracted back to Sarah accompanied by the Plague Doctor.
"DO NOT TOUCH IT!" She demanded it, which she did by standing still.
The dropped Mask then tried to test his luck by seeing Gideon "Well little Giddy! How about- " his words were cut short by being repeatedly kicked on the ground by him with prejudice.
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! I. SAID. SHUT. UP!" Gideon raged and mercilessly kicked the Mask who reverted to his tragic expression.
"I'M SICK OF YA MANIPULATIVE LYING PARANATURAL' DEMONS!" he with one final kick dug him a bit on the ground.
Pacifica held both of her shoulders. "I…I-I do-don't kn-know what came over me…" she whimpered, she did not know what came over her thinking it was a good idea to wear the SCP Mask despite seeing the result from the graphic details of that rotting basement.
Plague Doctor put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her which the Sarkic Doctor nearly winced at, knowing his mere touch could be deadly when he wanted to, which the Northwest thought so as she shivered a bit by the touch.
"Do not feel bad for being tricked by him Child, words are 35's weapon. He has fooled kings and geniuses and had his tongue sharpen for centuries."
The Gleeful huffed at hearing that description about the Possessive Mask.
"Sounds like a certain one-eye nacho."
"If this Bill Cipher character is as much a deceiver as him, then no wonder people of this town are so reluctant in even mentioning him."
Paz remarked sadly "B-but what about the things he said- "
"All lies." The avian SCP harshly uttered and cut her speech which was followed by him kneeling near her and putting both hands on her shoulder making intensive eye contact with her.
"All the damnable Mask ever utters is lies and deceit, people are just puppets to exploit, do not let even a word he utters get to you or he will hold on to you even beyond his reach, understand?"
Pacifica wants to believe what he says, and yet: a part of her is shaken to the core by the words and could not help but feel there were some truths about them. Was this what the Pines felt like dealing with Bill? No surprise Stanford that handsome-looking twin of Stanley nearly went insane or in the case of Fiddleford gone insane.
"Yes."
"Good." he then got up and started walking toward the Mask as he coldly glared at him.
The Mask almost stuttered nervously as he then tried to convince him to not do whatever he was going to do with him.
"Heeey, buddy! Good to see you not blown in pieces!" The Plague Doctor said nothing, just taking him with his right hand and staring intently at him as he then walked near a cliff leading to a bottom so low that only darkness was visible.
"Now hold on a moment, don't try anything rash before you regret it." The Mask, feeling the cold realization of what he was going to do to him, nearly shouted.
"The only one that will regret it will be you." he put the distance between his bird skull face to the Mask as he icy replied causing him to change from comedy to tragedy as the avian SCP uttered in French "Adieu mon vieil ami, puisse-tu ne jamais être retrouvé."
(Farewell my old friend, may you never be found again)"
With a swing the avian doctor throws the shouting mask into the abyss, his screams can be heard for moments until the depth finally suffocates his screams into the unknown. For a moment everyone gazed at the endless depth until the Sarkic Doctor asked him something that caught him off guard.
"Do you regret it?"
"Regret what?"
"Do you regret curing Doctor Hamm?" Sarkic Doctor made sure to use the word 'cure' specifically knowing he would react very negatively if he said killed and even then she questioned herself why she was even asking it.
There was a pause, no one dared to say anything in case they mistakenly provoked him, Paz and Gideon almost thought the Avian Doctor was gonna react badly even though it was hard to read the expression of an expressionless bird skull.
"I did what I had to do." Even though the avian maintained his stoicism as he then walked away back to where everyone was going he could tell from the distance, that the rest of the group could see there was an underline of regret from the tone and his brilliant eyes, eyes windows to the soul after all.
Black Swords were traded or in the case of Cain's metallic arms, Goran knew he couldn't hurt or kill Cain so he decided to focus more on killing Abel while Cain was mostly being attempted to be pushed away even though Abel would simply respawn back to his sarcophagus, the said rocky sarcophagus was back at a Foundation Site and no way the Foundation would let him get out each collision between blades was powerful enough to warp the air not to mention both Abel and Cain's alliance proven to be deadly. One time when Abel was distracted Goran tried to cut him in half which failed as Cain used both metallic arms to block it by making an x shape which followed by Abel changing weapons to two blades connected by chains to him which he dashed at him holding him in chains around him which he struggled as Cain then grabbed the blade of a broken Eliminator and tried to use to to plunge it at his head only for him to reach by moving away, breaking the chains and then throw Cain at Abel by grabbing him mid air after that the brothers quickly got up with Abel switching with Macuahuitl as he and Cain run toward Goran again both sides giving attacks and dodging each other attacks with Abel jumping to get at Goran with his aztec weapon only for him to block hos attack and a few sparks flow by the clash of their weapons while Cain with both metallic arms grabbed Goran around his neck which he answer by hitting him by hitting his back just enough to push him away not enough for the deflected attack to harm him as he the change his weapon to a mace and tried to crush Abel who in an almost inhuman speed moved away from being crushed only the ground getting crush by the hurl of the spiked bludgeon and at the same time his current melee dispappeared and knives coming between his fingers which he continously threw them at the Exiled General which bounced off. Frustrated by this, Abel dashed in and pushed Goran toward a broken generator still sparking with electricity as the electricity coursed through him making wail feeling the electricity making Abel grin sadistically, then Goran got off in a rage and launched himself toward Abel with his mace ready only instead of crushing Abel came Cain thus the damage deflected and Goran felt like an weight on him that throw him off by the deflected force of his own bludgeon. Subsequently, Goran got up and even more pissed with his eyes glowing brighter, Abel grinned seeing as he finally met a worthy match, only for his grin to turn to a frown, remembering that Cain just basically saved him from dying and then respawning back in the Foundation site.
While the fight raged on, the people both anomalous and non-anomalous were evacuating to a tunnel leading to a subterranean system.
Laskaris rushed toward Thompson and told her.
"Sarah with SCP-49 and the kids have come so as everyone else, we have to go now!"
"Not without a Cain!" Thompson rebuffed.
Cain was pushed back as his feet screeched on the ground, realizing even if they managed to take Goran the others still had to deal with an overwhelming enemy force he decided to take a trigger control from his pocket ready to push its button.
"Ready to get stuck with me under Kilometers under the Earth with me?" He glanced at his brother.
"Won't like it…but I suppose it is better than waking up in my sarcophagus." He retorted with a shrug while Cain gave a smile which made Abel nearly roll his eyes, but before that, he decided to give Iris a promise from his earpiece.
"Iris, listen, this isn't goodbye, I will find you."
"Cain? CAIN!- !" he took his earpiece away, Goran who saw the trigger tried to launch toward him but got blocked by Abel thus it was too late as his thumb pushed the trigger.
Bombs around the weakest structural integrity of the Crawl Space mixing explosive mushrooms with traditional C4 blow up all around in a series of fireworks taking a few of the enemy forces with them, afterwards, the structural integrity destabilized and the whole place began to collapse crushing the enemies while the survivors evacuated to the tunnel with the way back shut. The Battle has been won, but not the war.
Across the now collapsing underground pocket that used to be Crawl Space the icy and crystalized cocooned that kept the Demon of War intact, yet during all this chaos a bug fallen rock caused a crack to happen at it. The creature inside was still frozen, but then his eyes moved glaring at the world around him.
Growl
The Demon of War gave a hissing a low pitch.
—--END—--
Notes:Told you it would be VERY SOON! and guess what? I just finished the next chapter today! I'm on a roll.
