Ch7 Overcoming Armageddon
When Daniel awoke he found himself in the warehouse he used to live in. He looked around for a while wondering how he got here and why Undead Steve would just leave him here. He walked over to the part of the warehouse that he and his mother mainly lived in. When he walked in, he saw his mother sitting in a chair with an empty stare. He ran over to her asking what had happened since he got captured. His mother moved her head just enough to turn her blank stare towards Daniel as he ran towards her. As he grew closer to her, people started to come out of the back of the room and surround her. Daniel stopped running toward them once he got about five feet away. What are you all doing here? What is going-He was cut off by the groups shouting and yelling. One of them shouted Theres that freak! Get him, get him now! as they started to run toward him. He ran from the crowd and shouted back to his lifeless mother Mom! What have they done to you? Im sorry, Im so sorry, this is all my fault. He reached the door and as he opened it he found that the place was surrounded with barricades and barbed wire. He looked behind him at the door he just walked out of and saw warning posters, wanted signs, and Keep Out signs posted everywhere. He then heard someone yell Fire! behind him. He turned around and saw a huge group of people all with guns pointed at him. No, No this isnt right. Daniel said to himself as the group started shooting at him. He ran through their line and ripped through the barricade. Both mobs of people, from both inside and outside, continued to chase him for hours. They ran after him without falter or any signs of fatigue. As Daniel ran he came to a part of the city that was covered in destruction. He continued running not paying much attention to the condition of the area as he saw a familiar figure in the distance. He ran up to Stephen who was lying on the ground with a glum look like he hadnt slept in days. When Daniel reached him they looked at each other without saying a word, observing the others horrible condition. Before either of them could say anything to one another their attention was drawn away by gunfire and the sound of moaning. Daniel looked in the direction he had come from and saw that the groups chasing him had caught up with his mother standing lifelessly behind them. Stephen stood up and looked back at the house he had awoken in. A single decayed hand started crawling out. It was followed by the body of one of his family members, which was also followed by the bodies of the rest of his family. Somehow their torn and deceased bodies where moving, moving toward Stephen. As they drew closer they let out several painful moans. It would be impossible for anyone to know what they meant but to Stephens ears they were blaming him for their condition. As they were being surrounded from all sides Daniel and Stephen looked at each other again then took on serious looks. They turned to the ones they once loved and lived to protect and readied themselves for battle. They then attacked. Every attack they threw felt like part of their soul being ripped apart. They continued to battle through their own pain and suffering until every one of their enemies had been struck down. Both heroes turned to look at each other again but at that moment everything went black, again.
Ch 8 Maybe More Then Evil
They both woke back up, chained to the wall, unsurprisingly staring Undead Steve in the face. In the room also was hero known as Mysterious Illusion. Agh! I cant believe they escaped. The hero said as he started to stand up and grabbed his head in pain. Hahaha, I told you, Ive plotted out this ones life for the last 16 years. Undead Steve said as he looked toward Stephen. W-what did you say? Stephen asked. Hahaha Oh I know, youve gone your whole life thinking youre the boy with the mysterious powers that came out of nowhere said Undead Steve. Heh, you dont get powers like those out of nowhere thats for sure Mysterious Illusion said as he walked towards Daniel and Stephen. Undead Steve started to talk again but neither Stephen nor Dan were paying any attention. They were too amazed at the fact that Mysterious Illusion was unshackling their chains to listen at all. Steve continued to speak but as soon as their chains were off they both charged at him. Steve stopped talking and turned his head slowly towards them. He grabbed Dans arm and swung him into Stephen, throwing both of them into the wall beside them. An aura of darkness shot of Steve in anger and he screamed We can fight each other now and I can just get Illusion here to send you on another trip, or we can fight to save the world you once lived to protect! Both of them stood up and calmed down. Steve started again We work through an organization known as The Darkness Realm. I am in charge of all Realm members in this area and recruiting members for my own division of our army. Mysterious Illusion is my creation-He was cut off by Stephen saying with a grim look Like you created me? Steve took on a grin and chuckled as he saidYes, maybe not in the same way, but yes. But as I was saying I created him to monitor Realm members that are considered heroes, since many call me villain it is hard for me to do so personally. Even with a rank as high as my own I do not completely comprehend most aspects of the Realm myself. What I can tell you is that we come from the place called the Netherworld. .the Darkness Realm departed from this place because they were the one group that was not made from chaos and knowing that there was no hope for that world, came to this one. Those very hierarchs have contacted me directly, which is a very rare and honorable thing, to assign me a great task. That task is what I have brought you here for. Stephen and Daniel took a moment to try to understand what they had just heard. Daniel then said Darkness Realm? Netherworld? Hierarchs? I think youve raised more questions then youve answered. And what is this task that youve put us through all this just to test us for? Steve looked at him and said You must help us face a foreign enemy.
Ch9 Foreign Enemy
The group exited the dark building they were in and started darting forward as Stephen and Daniel followed closely behind. As he ran Daniel looked up at the clouds and the sun shining down on him. He felt the warm air brushing through his fur. He thought to himself about how good it felt to be back outside in the fresh, open air. He then looked back down to see the rest of the team jumping into a cave. He sighed and followed then in. They traveled deep into the cave until they came to the familiar opening of the underground rikti base. They could see a large number of rikti soldiers guarding the base in the distance so Daniel and Stephen prepared for battle. Undead Steve mumbled to Mysterious Illusion Ugh, we dont have time for this. Mysterious Illusion nodded and waved his hands over them. Their bodies turned invisible starting from their heads seeking down to their feet. Well thats one way of doing it Stephen said as they started making their way through the riktis numbers unseen. They continued to delve deeper and deeper into the riktis territory, having to fight every now and then because someone would bump into one of the rikti soldiers. Finally, after about an hour of making their way through the riktis base they reached the room directly under the riktis crashed mother ship, the portal room. But they couldnt see the portal. Their vision was being blocked by a massive piece of machinery that was took up so much space only about six people could fit in the room with it. It was shaped like a beetle with six legs, three on each side, and colored dark grey with different parts across it having an eerie light blue glow. It seemed inactive so Stephen extracted his dark spines and started forwards toward the opening in its back. Once he reached it though, a panel expanded upwards closing the opening in front of him. His first reaction was to see if he could just break the panel down but before he could try the machine started moving upwards. The sudden force pushed Stephen down on his back and as he looked up he could see the machine hitting the bottom of the rikti mother ship. At first it seemed as if it paused there but that deception was put to rest when the mother ship started to budge upward. Once it had budged enough, some devices came out of the top of the beetle and attached to the bottom of the mother ship. Once they were all locked in, the beetle, with the mother ship attached rose up from out of the ground into the war zone. The mother ship then configured itself to reveal an ominous weapons system. It fired briefly at a section of buildings in the war zone and, within seconds, turned everything in range of the weapons to dust. Undead Steve yelled Dang, were late. As they started climbing out of the cave he continued, Ok, well we have to work with what we have; heres the plan: Mysterious Illusion will distract it from the outside, while we three will attack and enter it from the doorway that you tried to walk in. How will one man distract that thing? Daniel asked. Illusion gazed toward him then turned back toward the beetle and, with a smirk, started to thrust his hands. As he did men who looked exactly like him appeared one after another. He stopped only after he had created a small army of them. Stephen walked up to them and tried to touch one of their faces. As his hand reached its head his fingers went straight through it. Well, thats one way Stephen said. Undead Steve repliedOk thats enough of this, lets hurry and with that they charged off at the beetle, with the army of illusions charging in towards its front, drawing its attention, and the three others heading in toward the back. Once their entrance was in sight Stephen pointed his arm at it and grew a single spine that reached all the way to it and pierced it pinpoint through the middle. Daniel then ran up the giant spike and drove his claws into the doorway then with them drew a circle just big enough for them to enter. The three jumped in and killed a small group of the rikti guards in that area. After they were finished with them Undead Steve explained the plan to the two heroes. The plan was this: There were two main rooms that contributed to the beetle, one was the control room which had, of course, was in control of the beetles actions and had the most complicated tech in it, and the second was the engine room, which if destroyed would shut down the beetle, but only temporarily and could be repaired quickly and easily then, if both room were destroyed it would rupture the beetles systems, completely destroying all parts of it beyond repair. So the team would split up, Undead Steve would get to the engine quickly and destroy it, then stay to fight the hundreds of rikti that would come to try and repair it, while Daniel and Stephen attacked the control room, destroying it and killing the rikti general in charge of the beetle, known as RhoTzohd. So they set off to do just that. The team fought together for a while until they came to a three way hall and split up to go to their appointed missions.
Ch 10 Declining an Invitation
Together Daniel and Stephen ripped through the riktis most elite numbers like they were nothing. They were fighting the last group of rikti guarding the control room when, suddenly, they and the rikti they were fighting were thrust into the ceiling for a few seconds then fell back onto the floor. Undead Steve had done his part; it was now up to them. They finished off the rikti who were still dazed from the beetle falling and nodded toward each other signifying that they were ready for the fight of their life. They entered the room and looked up to a throne like chair in the center of the room surrounded by rikti leaders. As they came closer the chair spun around to show RhoTzohd sitting in it. He stood and said in the barely understandable rikti tongue, Your teamwork/strength: Best Ive ever seen. Too bad: Dies on this day! The heroes then charged in. Stephen distracted RhoTzohd and most of the others by attacking different ones ever second and mainly only attacking in ways to stop enemy attacks while Daniel aimed on one at a time pouring everything he had into them. Daniel took out three of them when Stephen started to feel the heat of fighting a rikti general and his guards alone. Daniel could notice right away so he stabbed the rikti he was currently battling in the gut then sped over toward RhoTzohd at extremely high speed. Once he was within a yards range of RhoTzohd he jumped into the air and came straight down with his claws onto the rikti general leaving three deep scars. The general backed away and yelled to his remaining guards, Guards! Draw: Melee weapons. The rikti then all equipped themselves with their alien sword and charged at the heroes. Daniel and Stephen knew exactly what to do. They stood back to back and let the rikti come to them. Both had about 4 rikti on the side of the room they were facing. One stepped forward and took a swing at Stephen. Stephen extracted a single spine out of the back of both hands, with one, he blocked the sword and twisted his arm around, throwing the sword away then stabbed the other arms spine straight through the riktis head. Next, one charged at Daniel. The rikti lifted up his sword and swung it downwards. Daniel blocked it with both of his sets of claws but before he could strike the rikti, it swung at him again. Daniel continued to block his swing until one swing nicked the sword on Daniels claws. The rikti looked down at it in fright and Daniel swung his claws directly at the sword, chopping it into pieces, and then continued to kill the rikti. The battle went on like this only for a few moments until only one guard remained. Stephen shot off a set of spines at him while Daniel charged in. The guard blocked the spines with his sword, blocking his vision in front of him. When he lowered his sword, Daniel was already in the air, descending down upon him. Now all that stood before them was the rikti general, RhoTzohd. He drew an advanced rikti gun from the side of the ship and saidIf ship goes down: You at least go with it. He fired the gun at the heroes and they both leaped to the side but when they looked at the spot they were previously standing, the few floors of thick rikti metal were completely decimated. He fired a few more shots at them with the same effect until Stephen shouted to Daniel I think I have a plan. And Daniel responded And I think I know it. Daniel then started running at the general dodging several shots until he got close enough to swing at him, but when he did, the general just grabbed him and threw him against the far wall. Then while laughing, shot a hole, straight through Daniels chest. Daniels body fell to the ground as RhoTzohd continued to laugh. He started to say that no human could ever beat rikti technology but before he could finish he was interrupted by Stephen shouting behind him. Before he could turn around Stephen unleashed hundreds of spines into his back. The general fell to his knees, and then was face-planted dead on the floor. Stephen walked towards Daniels body and on the way, shot spines in every direction to ensure the destruction of the room. As he drew near his friends body he could see that the hole RhoTzohd shot in his body had healed, and Daniel was only unconscious. Stephen picked him up and propped him over his shoulder and escaped as the beetle was blown to pieces and the mother ship fell back into its previous spot. They spent the next few hours getting medical treatment, relaxing, and calling friends and relatives to explain their absence for the last few days. They were telling Scottie, their other team member, about what had happened when Undead Steve and his created hero, Mysterious Illusion approached them. You did great work out there you two. You will make one of the strongest tag teams in all of the Darkness Realm. Undead Steve said to them. Stephen replied saying Were glad we could help with this, but we are real heroes, and would never join your shady alliance. Hearing this, the two walked away without saying a word but even Daniel and Stephen know that they are always being watched and that the Darkness Realm wont rest until they have another group under their control.
The End
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