Chapter 34

"Attack!" Vesper ordered his apocalypses to take out Emilio. The apocalypses rushed towards the smiling gunslinger, he didn't even intend to make any move. As one of the apocalypse was about to punch him, something hard knocked the robot down to the floor.

"What is that!?" Vesper said to himself as more apocalypses knocked down to the floor. Another apocalypse tried to attack the gunslinger from behind, but knocked down the second he almost hit him.

"OK, if you're that curious. Let me introduce you to Sasha, The Silver Sniper" Emilio started his explanation to Vesper, who tried his best to notice the so called Silver Sniper.

"You won't find her here. She's not in this room, she hides somewhere far from here. Her specialty is a long range sniping, very long range sniping. With her Gate Keeper-DD she is nearly unreachable. She doesn't even need a telescopic sight. Wonderful isn't it?" Emilio explained as more apocalypses were knocked down.

Seeing the apocalypses were busy, Emilio didn't waste any minutes as he dashed towards Vesper. Emilio pulled his Black Rose with his left hand and start bombarding the robots' leader with it. Vesper who had the hardest body of all robots couldn't be knocked down just by several bullets from shotgun.

Vesper ran towards the gunslinger and attacked him with his iron punches.

Emilios made a defending efforts using the destroyer on his right hand and the black rose on his left. Emilio shot an ice sphere to slow Vesper's steps down, and shot him right in the face with the choke using the black rose. "Gakh!" Vesper steps backwards receiving the attack. Emilio, not wanting to waste another chance, gave him a shotgun frenzy resulting in a crack on Vesper's torso.

But Vesper was smart enough to summon an apocalypse to attack Emilio from behind. Emilio was quick to anticipate this move and shot the apocalypse with shotgun frenzy, destroying the robot. But, Vesper got the best of the tricks as he gave a hard punch right in Emilio's back when the gunslinger wasn't noticing and sent him flying several steps forward.

"Aakh!", Emilio screamed as he landed in the floor. His drop his shotgun when Vesper smashed him. "Damn, my back's hurt as hell!!" The gunslinger muttered when he rose. Vesper gave another quick blow, but Emilio quickly rolled to his back and shot him with the ice round, rendering him for a while. Emilio quickly load his destroyer with the flame spheres as Vesper started to regain his ability to move.

"Your ass is mine, Vesper!!" Emilio shot a fire sphere using his destroyer, but before the sphere reached the robot leader, Vesper pulled out something from his back and blocked the sphere. It turns out to be a giant chainsaw, with three large chained blade on its channel.

"One touch and I'm doomed. Now, that's more like it" The gunslinger grinned as Vesper came for him. Vesper swung the gigantic cutting machine as Emilio tried his best not to be touched by the merciless weapon. "Die, gunslinger!!" Vesper rushed his attacks as the mentioned gunslinger keep on avoiding the attacks.

Emilio tried to find a chance for himself to counter the one hit-KO attacks from the chainsaw. He changed his Destroyer with double western outlaw. When Vesper swung the giant chainsaw, Emilio slided to the robot's back and hit him several times using the revolvers. Vesper chased him back, but Emilio wonderfully slided again to hit another shoots.

The maneuver was repeated over and over again, rendering the giant chainsaw totally useless. Not to mention frustrated Vesper even more. Although the bullets didn't really hurt him, but Emilio making him looked like a joke made the robots leader angry. "I had enough!!" Vesper roared as he pulled the giant chainsaw and cut the tool into two parts. He grab one blade channel on each hands and forcefully combined it with his hands, making his hands look like a chainsaw. Emilio looked the robot combining himself in awe, "This guy is one crazy bastard!".

Vesper bite the third blade channel and combined it his body, making his entire body covered with the blade channel. "OK. Now, I'm scared" Emilio muttered seeing the new form of Vesper. "Now, take this!" Vesper gave a double swung which Emilio managed to avoid, but the impact of the swing was more than enough to cut the whole room into two and killing some of the apocalypses in the process.

"What the hell!? How did he do that!?" Emilio tried to run as Vesper gave another swing. Emilio tried his best to avoid the swing as the swing eventually cut the room completely, forcing Emilio to get out of the room and ran across the hallway. Vesper gave another swing which cut the hallway in half, even Emilio was barely able to dodge that one.

"Damn! If this keeps on going, I'll die and I'll lose my bet with father! What should I do?! What should I do!?" Emilio though as hard as he could when he finally remembered he still have an ace on his hand.

He headed towards the point where he first arrived on Juperos, and waited for Vesper there. The leader of the robots finally showed himself after several minutes of waiting.

"Prepare to meet your maker!!" Vesper dashed towards the silent gunslinger, as suddenly emilio pulled out a grenade from his pocket and pulled off the safety handler and suddenly, a rainbow like dust spread everywhere, completely surrounded Vesper. "No use!" Vesper confidently shouted when suddenly he felt his chainsaws stop moving. Followed by his leg and his arms.

"What? What is happening? I can't move my body?! What is happening? What did you do?!" Vesper roared as he slowly down to his knees. Emilio grinned and approached him confidently, "You want know? Fine, let me tell you a bedtime story before you sleep forever". Vesper carefully listened in pain.

"Since Valdomir started using their mechanical technologies to fight us here, Schwaltzvalt Republic developed a counter for any mechanical weapons existed. It's the TO grenade", Emilio showed another grenade like he pulled in his hand to Vesper. "The TO grenade is modeled after a chaff grenade. A grenade which we use to turn off mechanical engine for a short amount of time. But TO grenade is fifty five times stronger and longer on it's effect. In short, once we pull the safety handle, there goes the neighborhood of machines and robots".

Vesper stared in disbelieve. "We, robots, can be defeated by just one pull!! One little grenade!? No, No! Noooooooooo!!!", Vesper roared as his system is down and completely shut itself off. Literally, he's dead. Emilio admired his work when a girl, bob style brown haired gunslinger, approached him from behind with a calm face."Good job, Captain. As always", The girl praised the gunslinger.

"Same goes for you, Sasha. The Silver Sniper bested her opponents as always" Emilio pat her shoulder slowly. "Captain, we're done with aircraft engine!" Martina shouted as she, Clyde, and giant apocalypse appeared from inside the Juperos. "Great, now let's get the hell out of here. Who's that you bring with you? An apocalypse?" Emilio narrowed his eyes seeing the giant robot.

"Well, he helped us with the aircraft engine after we subdued him. And since he didn't mean any harm anymore, we decided to bring him with us. It's pity if we have to kill him, Captain" Clyde explained as Emilio nod his head several times.

"OK. You can come with us for now. Here, take this butterfly wing with you. We'll escape using this. There's still a lot of robots soldiers inside, right?" Emilio handed a butterfly wing to the apocalypse.

"Yes, sir. Approximately one thousand and four hundred six apocalypses", Apocalypse replied. "Well, guys. Prepare the butterfly wings with you, you heard the big guy right?" Emilio and Ropera Squad used their butterfly wings and escaped themselves as Juperos slowly float out to the city, making it became an easy prey for the rest of Ropera Squad who were surrounding the city. Once Juperos is on their sight, they bombarded it with their heavy arms.

GLEDUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRR!!!

Juperos exploded and fell into the steel mill, completely destroyed half of the city. Emilio and his squad looked from the hills not far from the city as the smoke of Juperos' explosion started to fill the sky. "Well, I win the bet again, father!" Emilio grinned as Martina slowly approached him from his behind.

"So, please treat us after this, OK?" Martina giggled as Emilio sweat dropped. But the male gunslinger suddenly remembered something, "Clyde! Sasha! I need to talk you!". The two mentioned siblings approached their captain. "I noticed maybe Valdomir Kingdom will start using their new developed technologies down there on Midgard. So, I hereby appoint both of you, to assist Ropera Squad very own vice-captain Elraven Sinclair down there, starting from tomorrow".

The two siblings looked at each other in joy and disbelieve. "Yes! Midgard!! We'll see vice-captain, again!!" Clyde hugged his younger sister as he suddenly realized Sasha has fainted. "Oh, no! Not again! Why do you always faint every time you think about him!?" Clyde protested as he hold her sister's body.

"Wait, captain! If you appoint them at Midgard, who will assist us here? And why prioritize Midgard over Schwaltzvalt?!" Martina was a bit disagreed with her captain's decision.

"Simply because Elraven asked me for some reinforcements yesterday. And, we all know what's going on down there. Sagramore will face an unfamiliar technologies from now on. Not to mention, we defeated almost every single soldiers Valdomir sent here. Didn't you know they retreated back to Midgard this morning? We should prioritize what we can do not only for our country, but also for our comrades. Elraven is our comrade. Besides, we have a new member, right?" Emilio finished his explanation with pointing his finger towards apocalypse.

"What's your name, big guy?" Emilio friendly asked the robot. "I have no official name, sir. It's just apocalypse", The reply made Emilio think deeply for a while. "Well, let's give you an official name, then. How about...Hugo? It suits your gigantic size" Emilio's suggestion was replied with a nod by the robot, "Hugo. Sounds good". Martina smiled seeing Ropera Squad having a new member, a robot, Hugo.

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I made this Polka chapters as a dedication for Ropera Squad, so the readers would be able to know them closer.

For Kogane1089, thank you for your characters advice, I greatly appreciate it as it helped me to further develop the story. Clyde and Sasha are the reinforcements I promised. A revolver user and a long range sniper user. But, I'm afraid I can't give another reinforcements after this, cause it will make this story flooded with protagonists. But, an antagonists characters advice will be ok. Thank you for your suggestions!

My brother asked me about the new character ages. So, here goes : Kirigi and Wendy are 22 years old. Martina is 20 years old. Clyde is 17 years old and Sasha is 16. Frea is....over 25 years old (her actual age can't be said here, it will be a spoiler. A big spoiler if I must say). My brother asked me why I made Frea as a couple with Elraven who is only 20, but I replied to him that love known no boundaries......

I don't know whether I can come up with a battle ideas within the next four chapters, maybe I'll try to develop the story first, OK? Not to mention in the last 21 chapters I wrote 12 battle chapters, LOL!!

I hope u enjoy, see u next chap. Please review if u don't mind. I'm a beginner so I'm open for any advice, but try not too hard on me, OK? ^^