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Chapter 7: Battle for the Mountain
Eight months have passed since the mass exodus of the ISIS Empire (5 months between this and the last chapter). It was four in the morning, Ryder sat up in his bed. He turned towards his calendar that he bought and x'ed through the date, September 4th. It had been a year and five months since he had seen his dad, friends, his house, and so much more. He missed a lot of it and wondered what all his friends were doing right then. He pushed those thoughts away as he rolled out of bed and put on just his training pants and shinobi sandals.
Ryder walked to the training room and sat Indian style on the ground. Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes to meditate. R2 rolled in and made a series of clicks and whistles quietly so that he did not wake up Master Korvin. "Sure, that would be great, R2. Make sure you put pepper in the eggs." Ryder closed his eyes again and relaxed.
Ryder had gone on many missions within the past eight months, and his improvement with his skills showed. Master Korvin made sure that Ryder had mastered one skill before he moved onto another.
Since the two of them weren't affiliated with any planet, many of the missions Ryder was sent on were assassination missions on the ISIS Empire and other tyrannical governments. That was a condition that Ryder set up when they first started missions.
One mission Ryder was hired for was on Earth. This was the only mission that he regretted doing. The contract said that there was a small academy in Oregon, United States that was disguised as an academy for a faction of ISIS. Ryder was to go there and whittle their numbers down to a minimal. He was told that there were jedi, ninjas, and other powerful people there, so he had to be careful.
Ryder took a smaller ship down to the surface and crept up to the academy. The academy was a large hall with smaller buildings behind it. It was deeply submerged into the depths of a densely populated forest.
Wearing a white face shield, black pants, shirt, and shinobi sandals, the gray flak jacket, and gray forearm protectors. He called this his 'battle uniform'. He clipped his lightsaber to his belt and studied the building for any entrances. Ryder noticed a window on the wall of the main hall that was about thirty feet off the ground.
Using the Force, Ryder jumped up and grabbed the window ledge and pulled himself up very quietly. Perched on the ledge, Ryder saw about twenty students around the age of twenty and two others that looked like teachers.
"Initiating mission," whispered Ryder into his communicator.
As he said that, a student from down below heard him, most likely because of her powers, and warned everyone of an intruder. "Intruder up above," she yelled!
'Shit,' thought Ryder. He blew his cover.
Ryder grabbed, activated his red lightsaber, then jumped down to where the students were preparing to attack. Some had swords, some had kunai, and others were prepared to use their fists or whatever power they had.
Glancing around to gauge his opponents, Ryder sized them up from potentially the most dangerous to the weaklings. Ryder dashed at this one girl who was smaller in stature. She swung at him with her sword, but he slid on the ground to dodge it. Getting up smoothly, Ryder quickly sliced her back and kicked her against a nearby wall.
Ryder looked up to see a giant fireball heading towards him. He leaped to his side and saw who was attacking him. Using the Force, Ryder levitated the girl he just attacked and flung her at the man breathing fire.
A group of six people rushed Ryder with their swords ready to attack. They swung coordinately with one another, but Ryder blocked each attack fluidly. However, Ryder noticed that their swords weren't being cut by his lightsaber. 'They must be Shinigami,' he thought.
After blocking a multitude of combos, Ryder coated his lightsaber in lightning and swung his lightsaber around in a circle knocking the six back onto the ground at least fifteen yards away.
Jumping in from nearby stairs, a male around the age of twenty, swung at Ryder with a sword larger than a normal katana. Ryder dodged the attack easily, but when the sword hit the ground, it created a crater with a small explosion.
The man then dashed Ryder and engaged in a sword fight. Lightsaber versus sword. Just like a few previous swords, Ryder's lightsaber didn't slice through his sword. After blocking a few combos from his opponents, Ryder locked blades with him. Staring down on his opponents, in one fell swoop, Ryder flipped his lightsaber around to the other side of the opponent's sword and sliced down. His enemy's hands were now cut off, he was on his knees.
Ryder looked up to a man than was at the top of the stairs dressed in a military uniform. Without breaking eye contact, Ryder lifted the man he just fought into the air with one hand using the Force to choke him as well. With his other hand, Ryder threw his lightsaber through his opponent's chest with the Force.
In fear and anger, the older man began to yell as his power began building up. A white aura suddenly surrounded him as a gust of wind shot from his body in every direction.
This didn't faze Ryder. He had seen this a few times before. "Time to bring this whole place down," he muttered to himself.
Widening his stance and reaching his arms out to his side, Ryder began to pull on the stone columns with the Force. Slowly, rocks chipped away from the columns and remained suspended in the air.
The man at the top of the stairs felt a heavy pressure begin to build up in that room. He knew that no matter what, those columns were coming down. 'Incredible,' he thought. 'Who the hell is this guy?!'
He turned around and ran to gather all his other students. He had to save them all and make sure that no one was in the building when it collapsed.
A few moments after the man left, Ryder smiled and swung his arms across his chest causing all but two columns to crumble. All the debris flew to the opposite side of the room that they were on. Rocks from the ceiling began to fall, so Ryder ran and jumped onto the ledge that he entered through.
He looked back at the two remaining pillars. Gathering the Force in one hand, he sent a pulse of Force push at the two and completely leveled them. As those two fell, the whole ceiling and subsequently the base began to fall as well.
Companies, governments, and rebels on many of the planets hired them to help their armies or to assassinate a specific person. Ryder had told Korvin that he got to choose if they were to take the contract or not, so that he knew he wasn't killing an innocent person.
A few hours passed and Ryder was wet with sweat from image training, so he walked to his room and took a shower. After getting out of the shower, Ryder threw on khaki shorts, a blue shirt that had a small, extended collar, and tennis shoes.
He walked into the main where R2 had put his plate of food on the table. R2 was working on the mach-speed engine in the back making a lot of noise, and you could hear his sarcastic whistles showing his displeasure and annoyance occasionally.
Ryder finished eating and walked to the cockpit to fly the ship. He had gotten very good at it too. There were missions where he had to evade enemy fighters and navigate throughout an asteroid belt, and he has never badly damaged the ship.
R2 strolled up and sat next to Ryder. "Today is the day of our biggest mission yet, R2. We are teaming up with a special team sent from America to help us out. They have different kinds of powers too. Master says they don't have much experience though."
Their mission is to land on the planet Xeno and help an American task force eliminate everyone in an ISIS hideout there. They were only a few hours out, when they received a call.
"Come in 501-Ghost. Repeat. Come in 501-Ghost."
Ryder grabbed the com and replied with, "Who's asking?" A few moments passed until the com answered.
"This is 1138-Orion."
Ryder looked at R2 and said, "Well here we go." He grabbed the com and said, "You've got the Ghost. This is X. What are your coordinates?"
A static came through followed with a, "Longitude 45.21 and Latitude of 56.98."
Ryder said back, "I shall be there in about an hour."
The conversation ended with, "10-4 Roger. Orion out."
Ryder put the Ghost on full throttle and flew towards the coordinates. An hour passed, and he was pulling up to the rendezvous. He landed then went to his room to change clothes. Ryder put on khaki, Jedi, battle pants. A dark brown long sleeve shirt with a tan sleeve that covered his left arm. He wore a white tabard that did not connect at the waist. Instead, it was tied to his waist with a brown leather belt that wrapped around him.
He walked out into the main hold to get R2. Master Korvin was standing there waiting for him. "Here, put this in your ear. It's our com link for each other. And don't forget this." Master Korvin reached out his hand and gave him his mask. "Make sure it doesn't break out there. And look, may the Force be with you." Ryder gave him a nod and put the mask on his face. Raised his head then put a light brown hood over his black mask with a red line.
The exit ramp lowered, and Ryder and R2 walked out and towards a tree. He sat down with his back against the truck and watched as the Ghost flew into space.
"Can you hear me?"
Ryder could hear his Master's voice loud and clear. "Loud and clear, Bossman," replied Ryder.
"Don't… Ever… Call me that again," said Korvin with a little chuckle. "Just wait there for the Americans to come."
Ryder said, "Alright, Master." He sat up and used this time to meditate, and R2 just sat and waited. He closed his eyes and began image battle training.
About fifteen minutes passed until he could feel three people wander close by. They walked into the clearing in the woods and stood in the middle. One had black pants identical to his own with a white long-sleeve shirt. He had a pouch clipped around his thigh and one on his belt behind his back. Another had on a military uniform. He was in the middle, so he was the important one, he deduced. The one on the far side wore sandals and short khaki pants that barely went past his knees. He wore a blue shirt with a vest over it with pouches all over. He was black and had a katana on the back of his waist.
"You're late."
The three turned towards Ryder, and the one in the middle said, "We apologize. We had a few things that needed to be taken care of before we came. I am General Price." He pointed to the one in the long white sleeves and says, "This is one of our finest men, Ridley." He looked up at Ryder and gives him a nod. Ryder thought, 'Ah, friendly,' as Ridley lowered his head.
"And this right here is our top Jounin, Zakee."
He raised his hand, gave a wave and said, "Hey." Then he lowered his hand.
Ryder was shocked and couldn't say anything and was just staring at Zakee. He couldn't believe that Zakee, his best friend, was one of their best men and that he was in the army! Ryder just gave him an awkward wave back.
"Alright," said the General. "Let's go to the campsite."
Ryder and R2 followed the three throughout the forest for about thirty minutes until they came upon a clearing with tents set up and a fire in the middle.
General Price led the three into a large tent that had a map in the middle with figures on top. About ten people surrounded the table. Ryder assumed that the ones here were the leaders and the generals.
"Here is where the ISIS hideout is located. X, do you have the schematics?" Ryder walked to an open area and R2 followed. R2 activated a hologram that he had stored within and it gave the layout of the hideout.
"From analyzing the schematics, I think the best entry point is from this side of the mountain. Someone will have to blow a hole in the side of the mountain so we can go in. The forest will provide us with cover and a place to hide our escape. I was told that y'all have someone that can get through the mountain?"
A few chuckles went around the table. A man about 5'10" and two hundred pounds raised his hand and said, "I can get us through it."
General Price turned towards Ryder and said, "He's a Saiyan, they're quite powerful."
Ryder stared at the General and said coldly, "I've heard." He turned back to the schematics and continued. "However, we must wait for the optimal time, and according to my intel, the majority of the men, here," Ryder pointed to the opening of the cave where there were dots to symbolize ISIS troops. "They go out on their scouting checks at the same time. That time is at seventeen-hundred. If we do it then, we will be able to plant the bombs here in the back and leave out the same hole. Any questions?" No one raised their hand, and everyone nodded in agreement.
The General looked at everyone and said, "Okay, I want squads one and two going in with X, and squads three and four outside ready for back up. Now, go get your supplies and be ready."
As everyone was getting their gear, Ryder walked over to R2 who was near the fire. "You got everything, buddy?" R2 gave a few beeps in agreement with Ryder. He sat next to the fire and saw a few people walk up to him.
Zakee led the way and said, "We wanted to introduce ourselves because, well we're the ones you'll be fighting with. I'm Zakee, and I'm a ninja that uses water and wind jutsu." Everyone began to say their names and powers. Luckily for Ryder, he had a good memory. In the order of people who introduced themselves, first, he met: Zakee the ninja, Clayton another ninja, Ridley a devil fruit eater, Jackson a saiyan, Taylor a ghoul, Pierce an alchemist, and Chad a Shinigami.
"It's good to meet all you." Ryder said back. "I'm X, a Jedi, and this here, is R2." He pointed to his friendly astromech droid that made a beep and whistle. "I'll let you get back to what you were doing."
He turned and walked away and said "See ya!" as he threw a wave over his shoulder. It was like meeting his best friend again and all he could do was smile.
"I need squads one through four along with squad gold and X to the battle tent," echoed out of the speaker systems.
Ryder remembered that General Price had given him the name Gold Leader. He grabbed his lightsaber and walked to the tent with R2. It was a lot more crowed than earlier. He made it to the front when he heard, "Okay, the plan is that Jackson and his squad blow a hole in through the side of the mountain. At that moment Gold Leader will lead squads one and two through the hole and plant the explosives. Squads three and four will provide support from the outside in case the enemy tries to attack. Are there any questions?" No one said a word.
"Alright men! To your stations and get ready for battle! I need Gold Team to come up to the front!" Four men dressed in a white uniform with a gold sleeve came to the front. "This is your squad X. This is Radak. He has a parasite. This is Clayton, and he is a ninja with shadow, fire, and earth abilities. He is also a top tier strategist. This one is Pierce, and he is an alchemist. Lastly, this is Guy Lightfoot, a master swordsman."
All of them had on masks that resembled an animal. Ryder liked how they looked and said, "Okay, let's go boys!"
Ryder led the group of five in-front of the other squads and began the march through the forest towards the mountain.
It was an hour march, so Clayton tried to make small talk with Ryder on the way there. "So, where are you from, X?" Ryder did not respond and just kept walking.
"Hmmm, why are you called X?"
Ryder took a deep sigh and said, "You realize that I'm a mercenary, and usually when someone founds out the kind of information that you're asking, I kill them, right?" Ryder turned his head back to the front and kept walking. The thing that Ryder did not know was that Clayton had a very high IQ and was testing his reactions and responses.
'Hmmmm,' thought Clayton. 'What an interesting guy.'
They kept walking towards the base of the mountain when Ryder threw a fist in the sky. Everyone behind him stopped. He did three fist pumps to initiate the first stage of the attack. Suddenly, a girl named, Sarah, turned into the Pokémon, Pidgey and flew to the front of the base. She looked around and saw that it was barren, so she returned to Ryder. She landed and morphed back into herself. "No one is there right now. Now would be the optimal time to attack."
Ryder paused. "Feel the Force, does it seem right to strike right now. Search for the answer." It was his master in his com piece, and Ryder did as he was instructed.
"Let's begin," he finally said. Jackson had a smile on his face as he flew into the air.
He looked at the targeted spot on the mountain, put his palms together by his head. Threw his hands in front of himself and yelled, "Gatlick Gun!" A purple beam shot from his hands and collided with the side of the mountain busting a large hole in the side.
"Let's go!" shouted Ryder as he ran up to the whole in the side of the mountain. Once he got in, Ryder began searching for places to place the bombs.
"Try and put the explosives on the columns that support this cave!" Squads one, two, and gold filled the cave and began to plant the bombs.
'This doesn't feel right,' Ryder thought. 'There should at least be a few of them in here, but its barren.' Ryder looked around and the answer donned on him.
"It's a trap," he yelled! "They knew we were coming!"
Suddenly, ISIS members started coming into the front of their base shooting their laser guns. In the back of the cave, one of the walls exploded towards them, and another group of ISIS soldiers flooded into the back of the cave.
"We're surrounded," muttered Ryder. He ignited his red lightsaber that produced a red aura that illuminated his surroundings. To his left and right, lasers were flying past him. He deflected every laser that came his way as they found their way back to the original shooter. Behind the soldiers with guns, a large number of unarmed soldiers swarmed in from the front of the base.
Fighting off the soldiers that came in through the back of the cave, Ryder swung and sliced his lightsaber into the enemies that got close to him. As he ran towards the hole, he heard a voice, "Ice Style: Snow Storm Swallows!"
Ice in the shape of birds began flying in his direction. One after another flew by him grazing off pieces of his robe. Each sliced caused a chill of frost to coat the surrounding fabric that eventually thawed out.
Using the force, Ryder jumped, twisted, and proceeded to dodge the incoming attacks with slight ease; however, the ice birds continued to attack him. Out of the corner of his eye, Ryder saw a ninja jump in-front of him taking the attack coming his way. A giant bird that was made of ice followed Ryder as he backtracked his steps. He jumped in the air to dodge the sweeping attacking of the swallows, but a bigger ice bird clipped Ryder as he twisted and turned in the air.
A ninja slowly walked towards Ryder performing a series of hand seals and said, "Chidori." Suddenly, lightning appeared around his hand and a sound of a thousand birds chirping could be heard by those close to him. The enemy rushed towards Ryder with his hand extended in front of him. Out of nowhere, a pillar of earth flew past Ryder and knocked the enemy unconscious and on his back.
"Come on, X! We've got to get the explosives placed," yelled Pierce! He was riding past Ryder as he was using his alchemy to control the earth beneath him.
"Damnit, I can't let my guard down around these guys," said Ryder as he stood up and brushed the dirt off his shoulder. He continued running towards the enemy with his red lightsaber in hand deflecting incoming jutsu and lasers.
Gold Squad was holding their own while the other squads were struggling. Enemy and ally bodies hit the floor as a battle of superpowers encompassed the cave.
On the right of Ryder was the main opening of the hideout, and on the left, was the back of the hideout that had a large control panel.
Out of the corner of his eye, Ryder saw a green blade come out of both sides of a hilt. The wielder began to slowly walk out spinning his double-bladed lightsaber from the back of the hideout. About ten other figures walked out from behind her. They were flanked.
"I need some help over here!" yelled Ryder. He clipped his lightsaber and began walking towards the mass of enemies. He stopped and began to build up a large amount of the Force then pushed it towards his opponent. A few flew backwards, but many stood their ground as they braced for the Force push. Noticing that he had to go bigger, Ryder summoned lightning to his fingers and shot out a storm of lightning that got a few more of the enemy soldiers to fall.
"We may be in trouble, Master," Ryder whispered to his Master through his communicator. He ignited his red lightsaber and jumped towards the enemy with the double green lightsaber.
On the other side of the fight, Jake Anderson, another one of Ryder's friend, was with a squad fighting off the ISIS factions at the front of the hideout. Jake is proficient in Nen and is quite skilled in a multitude of other skills. He is intelligent, strong, perceptive, fast, and is a great hand-to-hand combatant. His special nen ability is the Bungee Gum technique that allows him to create an invisible gum that he can stick to objects.
"Taylor! Are you okay over there?" yelled Jake in the direction of the opening.
Taylor was fighting off an enemy that had invisible arms that could reach out up to nine feet. Taylor used one of his kagune and slapped his opponent into the wall.
"I'm doing fine over here! Just focus on yourself!" replied Taylor.
Jake engaged a martial artist in hand-to-hand combat. He first attacked with a barrage of punches, but the other fighter was blocking them all.
"Is that all you've got?" yelled his opponent. "You can't beat me! I am Nate Bailey, and I am going to be stronger than any other ninja before!" Nate threw his right fist towards Jake's face but stopped and kicked Jake in the side with tremendous force. Jake flew twenty yards back and fell to a knee.
"That's enough, Nate." A shadowy figure that had his arms crossed walked up in front of Nate. He opened his eyes and red eyes with black pinwheels appeared. The pressure of the presence of this opponent was incredible.
"Who are you?" asked Jake. The figure scoffed as he flexed his eyes towards Jake.
The Jedi with the green, double lightsaber swung his lightsaber towards Ryder's head, but Ryder blocked it as they locked in. Ryder was aggressively attacking making use of his form five training. The other Jedi's blocking and speed was phenomenal.
As the fight drew longer, Ryder relied more on his form two footwork and counters. The other Jedi could not find a single weakness in Ryder's techniques.
Suddenly, Ryder noticed a stray fire blasts headed towards Zakee. He dropped to the ground and swiped out his opponent's legs from beneath him. Quickly, he turned towards Zakee and used the Force to move the incoming fireballs, saving him from the blaze.
Zakee heard the explosion behind him and turned to see Ryder using the force to deflect a lot of fire balls that would be hitting Zakee. He jumped out of the range of the fire balls, so that Ryder could stop and get back to fighting.
Ryder kicked the Jedi into a nearby wall then turned to the ninja that was firing off fire balls. "You shouldn't have done that," said Ryder as his lightsaber crackled.
He kept walking towards the ninja that was throwing fireballs after fireballs. All Ryder did when walking straight towards the fireballs was move his right hand from his bottom left across his body and up. This motion sliced through the fireballs allowing Ryder to walk right through them. He reached the ISIS ninja and pointed his crimson lightsaber at him. Within a second the head of Ryder's victim was rolling on the ground.
He turned around to fight the other Jedi, but he was in a lock with Zakee and his chakra covered katana. The ISIS Jedi knew Ryder was rushing towards them, so he did a quick combo and sliced Zakee's chest then used the Force to throw him against the wall nearly killing him.
Angered, the bar on Ryder's mask lit up a bright orangish red. Ryder used the force to pick up fallen steel beam and sent lightning into the beam making it conduct electricity. He threw it at the Jedi, but the enemy Jedi was able to slice and dodge the incoming beam. However, as he finished slicing the last beam, he felt a presence beneath him. It was Ryder, crouched and looking into his targets eyes with his ignited lightsaber in the ISIS Jedi's stomach.
The last thing that soldier saw was a masked man, armored and cloaked in black, with burning red light coming from his mask. The presence of that Jedi was great enough to make him fall to his knees, but his red blade was in my stomach before my body could react to him.
Ryder looked around and saw that enemies were backing away pointing to his mask. He raised his arms and put all the Force he had into a storm of Force lightning that fried multiple enemy targets around him.
Ryder stood up straight and looked at the ongoing battle. The ISIS soldiers outnumbered the five squads, and they had fallen into their trap.
From outside the cave, a US soldier yelled, "ISIS ships have arrived and are dow deploying reinforcements!"
"Fall back!" yelled Ryder. A lot of the squad leaders looked back with a sigh of relief. There were heavy casualties and the battle was not looking good. "Squad One! Make sure you get your leader back to safety. He is over against the wall!"
Jackson flew up to Ryder and asked, "How are we going to stop them from coming after us?"
Ryder looked at him and said, "Leave that to me. Just make sure everyone gets out." Jackson nodded then led everyone else out of the cave as lasers and other attacks flew towards them. Ryder was at the back with Clayton and Taylor defending the rear troops. There were at least six hundred ISIS troop trying to get into the base to kill off the squads. There was nowhere for them to go.
Ryder ran to the control panel in the back deflecting any attack that came his way. "Damnit," he said. "This panel has been sending videos of the fight, intel on the continents of Earth, and weapon plans out to some satellite."
Taking his ignited lightsaber, Ryder thrusted it through the screens and the main console. A bright light filled the back of the room as the transmitter exploded sending scrap metal everywhere killing many of the ISIS soldiers in the process. Ryder was able to use the Force to stop any of the metal from hitting him.
Ryder dropped the metal and turned to the front of the cave. Bodies covered the ground. Too many US soldiers died. He was too careless. Ryder could feel the Force boiling within him. Hatred was the only thing in his mind.
"We're ready X! We need to get out of here!" Ryder turned towards Jackson who had noticed that the red bar on X's mask was glowing brighter now, but it was a deeper crimson. He didn't say anything because he felt as if it wasn't the time or place to do so.
Ryder said, "Ok, you go ahead and lead everyone out of here and I'll hold them off."
Jackson was tired of Ryder sounding a little cocky and said, "Look there's more than a half thousand of them. You can't stop all of them. Let us help you out."
Ryder looked into at him and said, "Get out of here before you can't."
Jackson scoffed and turned towards the whole and began to fly to it, but he stopped. "At least tell us your name so we know what to really call you."
Ryder fully turned towards Jackson and confidently said, "Revan," as he Force pushed Jackson out into the forest. Ryder looked at the all the enemies rushing him, so he jumped into the air and balled up, bringing the Force to him.
Jackson landed right next to Zakee, who had just woken up on a stretcher. They were both looking at the hole in the mountain because all they could see was a man balled up floating in the air.
Suddenly, Ryder threw out his arms and legs and yelled, "Suspend!" Everything inside the base lifted off the ground and floated. From the outside, all anyone could see were the rubble and enemy fighters floating in mid-air.
"Repulse!" he finally yelled closing his body into a ball again. A shock wave came from Ryder that set off the explosives and destroyed the inside of the hideout. Everything inside the mountain came crashing towards him and slammed into the ground. Zakee and Jackson could see the entire mountain collapse on top of Ryder, causing a giant explosion the shook the ground for miles around.
The two could not believe what they were seeing. One man just caused an entire mountain to collapse, let alone on himself.
"Wow," said Zakee. That was the only thing he could find to say. "Did he say anything to you before he told you to leave?" asked Zakee.
"He told me that his name is, Revan." Zakee looked at Jackson surprised because he knew all the legends about a man named Revan that was powerful enough level armies without a single weapon.
"I know. I know," said Jackson. "It's crazy, but I do actually think that he might be connected to the Revan we're thinking of."
Zakee looked at the collapsed mountain in astonishment. How could there be someone with such raw power in the world, he thought.
"We have bogies coming in from the right side of the mountain," yelled Sarah! "They're the soldiers that couldn't get inside the base during the fight!"
Jackson stood up and yelled to the troops, "Retreat! We can't let X's sacrifice be for nothing!" Upon hearing the orders, all the soldiers turned and ran to the base. Zakee attempted to stand up, but his lack of strength made him fall back to the ground.
"Zakee, let me handle it from here," said Jackson. Zakee nodded as he laid back down on his make-shift stretcher. Two soldiers with a red cross on their sleeve symbolizing that they were medics took Zakee away with some sort of teleportation ability.
"Squads gold and one! Stay at the back of the group to fend off attacks, but don't get too caught up where you're left behind! Let's go!"
The remaining US soldiers sprinted through the woods trying to make it back to their ships. The soldiers at the back were casting defensive jutsu, magic, and of abilities to keep the US casualties to a low. However, they weren't perfect. Fireballs, magical spells, and boulders got past the line of defense and ended up killing soldiers in retreat.
Jackson was engaged with a Z-Fighter that was well versed with hand-to-hand combat. "Do it now," yelled the enemy! Behind him, a soldier stomped the ground and made a giant rock fly up at least four feet from the ground. He kicked it sending if soaring past Jackson.
Damnit, he thought. I can't get to that.
Lesley Johnson, a long-distance communicator posted up behind a thick oak tree and began sending distress calls to their assault ship. "We need immediate pick up. I repeat, we need immediate pick up. The base and entire mountain has collapsed, but we are still outnumbered in our retreat." Static was the only thing he heard in response.
Finally, a voice came through the transmitter that said, "Roger that. We are preparing for y'all's immediate pick up. What are your coordinates?"
Praising God for a response, he said, "We're all in the woods behind the –"
The large boulder that got past Jackson destroyed the oak tree along with Lesley and anyone else behind it.
Pissed off, Jackson quickly disengaged and flew back forty yards and prepared his attack. "Use your best attack squad gold and one!" Jackson opened his arms to his side and began building up his chi for an ultimate attack. Next to him ninjas, Shinigami, wizards, devil fruit users, and many others prepared their ultimate attack.
"Now," he yelled! He placed his wrists together with his hands opened in front of him.
"Final Flash!"
