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Chapter Thirty-Five: Tribulation of Humanity
“Who the hell are you?!” Fenrir screamed in English. Blitzangriff’ right arm swung downwards with the energy trident but White Horse narrowly avoided the searing energy weapon. As Blitzangriff lunged forward White Horse equipped the Excalibur and with both metallic hands swung the massive elongated weapon. Fenrir’s eyes widened as the blade tore through the lower half of his MF. Flames raged, rupturing the armor of his MF. The boosters began to slowly power down and within seconds Blitzangriff began to spiral down towards the Pacific Ocean. He began to struggle with the throttles praying that some miracle would occur saving his life and his city. “It’s no use. Your time is up. All of humanity’s time is up!” Pestilence screamed. “What? What the hell are you saying?!” Fenrir’s eyes widened as White Horse swung the massive glistening sword. There was a brief moment of silence followed by a raging thunderous explosion that engulfed the remaining torso of Blitzangriff. The flames began to oscillate towards the ocean as burned pieces of debris pounded into the violent waves of water. Pestilence began to burst into a fit of laughter as he hovered over the sea of flames that overran Tokyo. “That’s one down….hehehehehahahaha!!!!!” His devilish laughter echoed in the skies as thousands of people ran in fear of their lives. Rebel glared at the Shades that continued to fall like insects buzzing to a lamp. Shadow floated with little effort over the inferior MFs. “Is this all you have to offer me? Hahaha, you’re making this much too easy!” Rebel exclaimed. Shadow zoomed down towards the main Revelations’ tower but was cut off by 6 green colored beams that fired into the sky from 3 more Shades. “Oh good, I was hoping that this wasn’t the end!” Rebel screamed. “Rebel…this is Pestilence, Tokyo has been dealt with….” Rebel’s eyes peaked with satisfaction “Good, stay there and make sure to clean up what ever little insects managed to survive.” Rebel replied. “Understood.” “Rebel, this is Famine, London has been subdued.” “Excellent Famine, things are progressing a lot quicker than I had planned….hold on….there’s something else here…” Rebel quickly turned his head around to notice a flashing ray of crimson energy in the distance flying over the Atlantic. Streams of water flushed outwards erupting into the sky from the thrust of the MF. Rebel smirked as he vaguely recognized the demonic looking figure. “Haha…this is an unexpected pleasure I have to say. The clone of Nicholas Novus managed to escape from Genesis and found his way to the Chimera…hahaha…what a turn of events. Maybe I’ll be able to enjoy myself!” Rebel screamed. Chimera flew over the water approaching Shadow who was not too far away. Will you provide me with an adequate challenge? “Nicholas Novus…haha, isn’t this a laugh. The clone has managed to follow in the original’s footsteps!” Rebel screamed. The obsidian left arm swung just as Chimera swayed to the left avoiding the attack. In the midst of the lunge the six wings fired simultaneously. Rebel shrugged his shoulders as Shadow managed to escape harm once again. Who are you and how do you know me?! “My name doesn’t matter…I am a product of sin just like you! But I have a purpose, I have a destiny. You, you’re nothing more than a soulless creature bound to a computer chip and cause nothing but pointless destruction!” Rebel screamed. Who are you to judge me?! Both Shadow and Chimera continued to exchange blows briefly. Vincent Avidus paced around his office while the two demonic MFs continued to engage one another miles away. “Get in touch with Ontario, London someone!” Vincent screamed. The young communications officer turned around expression a face of depression and fear. Her radiant red hair was tied in a pony tail and flapped in the air with each trivial motion that she made. “It’s no good sir; both Ontario and London appear to be offline….what does this mean?” “I don’t know….honest to God I have no idea what is happening….” Vincent mumbled softly. His knees began to buckle causing his weight to drop to the ground. For the first time ever in his life he was clueless and completely stricken with fear. His silver hair which was usually booming with vibrancy was now dull and dismal. A bright crimson explosion shook the foundation of Washington as tidal waves raised high into the air only to crash down on the shore of Maryland. The intensity of the battle between Shadow and Chimera raged onwards over the Atlantic with no sign of halt. “I will not lose to a creation lower than any human plaguing this planet!” Rebel screamed. Shadow’s energy saber burned towards Chimera but was deflected by the energy lance. Shadow spun away from Chimera while Chimera burst in an attacking lunge. The crimson MF began to unleash torrents of crimson energy beams all of which were deflected back by quick swordplay by Rebel and Shadow. “You can not defeat me. You’re nothing more than a second rate human in a second rate MF!” Rebel shouted. It may be true that I am nothing more than an image of a person who once walked this Earth….but I am not about to be shut down by a mere human who dwells in delusions of grandeur. Chimera’s energy lance suddenly swept through a small patch of ground below, the searing beam of positron energy scotched the earth. As the beam flung up from out of the dirt ridden ground it flung past the side of Shadow narrowly grazing the charcoal armor. Rebel instantly began to laugh at the close encounter. “As amusing as this unexpected encounter with you is Nick….errr, no that’s not right. You’re a clone of him, you don’t have a name; you don’t deserve an identity.” I can live without one… “That’s where you’re wrong…you won’t live through this tribulation.” Rebel replied calmly. Just as Chimera began to turn around Shadow fired off dozens of plasma rounds all of which collided with Chimera’s core exploding in a massive display of fireworks. The caliginous clouds of distilled smoke floated in the sky as Chimera burned falling into the small patch of ground beneath. “….where the hell is he? He should have been here by now….damn looks like I’m going to have to keep fooling around then…hehehehe….” Blue Dragon, Alpha, Anima, Blue Angel, Hades and Sigma all prepared for their drop into space. Adam glared out of his cockpit still mentally preparing for the seemingly impossible task ahead of him. He was filled with doubts surrounding this up coming confrontation with Rebel; the man who beat him twice. “You ready?” Stephen’s voice smoothly flowed through the communications link as his face appeared on the right hand display screen. “Yeah, I’m fine…” “No you’re not. Why do you lie, you should have realized that you can’t lie for the life of you.” “Ugh…is it that obvious?” “Of course. You don’t think we can stop this do you?” “I’m having my doubts that’s true. I mean, I lost to Rebel twice now. How can I expect to beat him this time around?” “Well this time, we fight as a team. We’ll beat him together.” “Yeah….” Adam mumbled. The left display screen abruptly turned on and to Adam’s surprised Luscious’ face greeted him. “It’s been a while Adam Novus…” Luscious muttered. “Luscious….what do you want?” “Is it so much to offer my assistance?” “You’re asking to help? I apologize if I find that a little hard to believe. And forgive me, but I don’t have any time to play you’re games. I know about the clones Luscious, which Genesis has been hiding from the public. I know that you’re working with Rebel.” Adam replied. Luscious grinned. “The clones…yes I am aware of that atrocity. You see Caleb and Severen’s parents were the ones who started the program, and they left me with one big mess to clean up. And you’re preparing to clean up another mess, so I would feel much better if I assisted.” “Heh…that’s a touching story. But I’m fine handling this on my own.” “I see, well then at least allow me to tell you where Rebel is….” “He’s at Washington D.C., we know already. We’ve got it covered. Thanks, now if you’ll excuse us…” Adam flipped the communications switch off. “That was interesting…” Stephen mumbled. “Yeah, but he doesn’t matter. We’ll deal with Luscious and Genesis once we finish with Rebel. So the plan remains as discussed?” Adam questioned. “Yeah, Heather will head to London, Reine will head to Ontario, Zach to Paris, and Mario to Tokyo while you and me will head straight for D.C. and deal with Rebel. Hopefully the two of us combined will be able to topple him.” “Hopefully?” “Yeah, can’t be definite.” “I see…well then, let’s crash this party shall we?” Adam asked. Stephen nodded, Mario nodded, Heather winked her eyes, and both Zach and Reine saluted. The doors to the hanger slowly began to slide open; each drop pod suddenly dislodged from the clamps and were sent into the void of space. As each pod launched small thrusters began to ignite in order to get each pod into position so that they would not miss their window of opportunity. Famine laughed at the petty attempt to make a defense. Pale Horse floated over the fallen crumbled buildings that covered the cracked streets of London. Women and children like screams perpetually bounced off the remaining walls staining the serene sky above. The orange flames were still flickering keeping the gray MF in the air. “Where the hell is the back up from D.C.?!” General Copiare screamed. His eyes were glazed over from the lack of sleep he had been getting as of late. “General it’s no use; we’re not receiving any signals from Ontario, or D.C….for all we know they could be destroyed!” The Ensign soldier screamed. “Damn it! We can’t just give up and hand London over to this bastard!” Copiare continued to scream forcing his body to the verge of a heart attack. His veins were pulsating becoming visible through his pale toned skin. “Sir….we’ve got something on radar….it’s another object coming in extremely fast!” “What? More? They’ve already have the upper hand, what else do they need to do!?” “Wait sir….5 more objects detected all breaking through the Earth’s atmosphere. 6 in total!” “Where are they heading? Can we get a trajectory?” “One second sir…….2 are heading for D.C., the other 3 are heading to Ontario, Paris and Tokyo…the location of the other MFs…” “Just what the hell is going on here?!” Famine glanced above as his radar began to beep as well. “Hehe what is this? More troops for me to play with?” The boosters on Pale Horse suddenly ignited as he quickly began to ascend hoping to intercept with the oncoming object. The drop pod made its way through the slowly moving clouds as the bolts keeping the pod closed suddenly began to fling off. The pod then split in two revealing the light blue and pink MF, Blue Angel. Heather smirked pushing his light brown strands of hair to side as to not get in the way. Pale Horse was continuing its ascent rather quickly in a straight path showing no signs of taking a different route. “Heh, you’re making this way too easy…” Heather mumbled under her breath. Her sniper scope descended, she leaned her body forward as the rail cannon flipped over her MF’s shoulder gathering energy. “What the hell?!” Famine’s eyes widened, it was too late; by the time he realized the rail cannon was charging it had already fired. He tried to avoid the blast, Pale Horse shifted to the right but the entire left side of the gray MF was eradicated in a single shot. The humming sound softly faded. Heather began to chuckle as Pale Horse suddenly stopped its movement, smoke smoldering off the left side of the torso. His teeth began to grind against one another, he was infuriated and Heather just continued to laugh. “So you’re one of the four horsemen huh? Not too intimidating if you ask me…” “You….BITCH!” Paris too was left in ruins; the streets were decimated as War treaded through the once gorgeous city. Black Horse left nothing untouched. War was satisfied with the massacre that he created. He indulged himself in the screams of suffering and torment that he heard throughout the city as people, women, men and even children were killed or severely injured praying for death to come; but unfortunately for them, it was War that was present. “No more people….eh, how will I....oooohhh, and what is this?” He mentioned as his radar detected the descent pod that was shooting towards his position. “Looks like I found something to do….hehe…poor soul doesn’t know what he’s getting himself into.” “Paris….it’s completely gone…that bastard…he’ll pay. I swear he’ll pay!” Zach screamed. His anxiety was growing; he couldn’t wait for the pod to open automatically anymore. His untainted anger was growing within his stomach; he could feel his berserker instincts slowly taking over his soul. And for once he didn’t mind. “You….you….you KILLED ALL THESE PEOPLE!” He screamed. The sound of his voice pierced Black Horse suddenly burying it inside the deepest regions of his soul; War quickly looked above him in confusion. His eyes widened as a massive beam of crimson energy engulfed Black Horse followed by dozens more. With each hit tons of diluted smoke filtered into the sky. Pestilence remained looking into the sky waiting for his next opponent to show up. His radar was beeping for at least a minute by now and he could hardly contain his excitement. “Where the hell are you? I’ve been waiting far too long!” He screamed. White Horse then was thrown to the side abruptly, as the sleek MF fell towards the ocean below it was quickly caught. Two long metallic coils wrapped around the leg units of the machine preventing it from crashing into the ocean. Anima slowly descended, Mario smirked as he glared at White Horse below him. “How you doing sunshine? Heehehe..” “So you’re my opponent….good, I want a work out.” Pestilence replied. “I’m happy I can oblige….” Mario replied. A strong current of electricity flowed through both coils engulfing White Horse. The MF began to sizzle from the attack; Mario smiled and quickly began to spin in a circle while still remaining connected to White Horse. After about 4 rotations Anima’ released the coils and White Horse was flung uncontrollably towards Tokyo. “This has got to be a joke…” Mario muttered. Death yawned from the apparent boredom in Ontario. In his opinion the city wasn’t worth his time, they barely put up a worthy battle. His tank like MF, Reaper Horse continued to slug around the ruins and debris of the city. He was intrigued by the blinking dot that had been blinking on his radar screen for a few minutes; his weapons were already staring into the sky waiting for his opponent to fall. “There you are…hahahaha!” Death screamed instantly pulling the trigger. The two massive plasma cannons flew backwards while sending a thick beam of energy into the sky. “Couldn’t wait for me to get down there huh? Fine, I’ll play by your rules. It’s been too long since I’ve seen battle! I’ll show everyone that I’m one of the best!” Reine shouted. His eyes slowly transferred to a glossy crimson gradient, his sextuple energy cannon jerked over the shoulder and a single lock on box solidified around Reaper Horse. Reine’s thumb slightly pushed on the side crimson button firing all six cannons. Six cerulean beams rushed towards Reaper Horse slicing through the two beams Death fired. Death stared taking a deep breath as the six beams fully collided with his MF. “I will make you pay for every death you caused!” Reine screamed. Rebel endlessly tapped his fingers onto his forearms while they crossed over his chest. Shadow stood on the ground just in front of the Revelations building patiently waiting. His eye lids slowly opened as a smile gleamed on his face. He heard the radar blaring in the background but he didn’t care. It only meant that he was done waiting. “Finally….” Rebel mumbled. Shadow’s boosters slowly lit up sending the MF into the air, that much closer to his next opponent. Adam glanced over to Stephen who was still shown on the display screen. “You ready?” “Yeah…” Both drop pods blew up revealing both Blue Dragon and Alpha. Rebel smirked; he didn’t expect both of the brothers. “Well isn’t this a treat. I get to deal with both of you…hehe..” “I wouldn’t get too excited!” Adam screamed. Both Blue Dragon and Alpha zoomed towards Shadow with their dual energy sabers ignited. Rebel smirked igniting his energy saber. At the same instance all three MFs swung their sabers. A booming explosion lit up the sky causing the water to rush violently along the coast line as the three MF’s collided. As the blaring light slowly dissipated, Shadow appeared holding off both Blue Dragon and Alpha, the left arm energy saber clashing with Blue Dragon’s energy saber and its obsidian metallic right hand grabbing Alpha’s right wrist. Nick’s eyes shot open, his vision somewhat blurred but he still managed to make out Blue Dragon and Alpha. Adam….and Stephen….you can’t beat him alone….
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