DreamWorld
Elsewhere-Battlefield
Braxton and Wes are talking to one another as Zyanya has her arms folded as Caleb walks back and forth.
Zyanya: Fuck that bitch.
Caleb: Zyanya…
Zyanya: No, I'm not sugar coating this shit anymore. You need to wake the fuck up. And stop being a cuck.
Caleb looks at her as Zyanya doesn't back down.
Zyanya: She's bad news...maybe not always but she certainly is now. And look at the mess she's left us with. .
Zyanya nods at Braxton and Wes who finish speaking before they turn to them, Caleb and Zyanya getting ready as Braxton rubs the back of his neck as he swings his war axe about.
Braxton: Look you're not really who we're here to be fighting. And she kind fucked you over. So how about this. A little truce. You guys go your ways...and we go ours.
Zyanya raises an eyebrow and looks at Caleb who seemed like he was going to definitely say no.
Zyanya: Deal.
Caleb: What!?
Zyanya: He's right...she fucked us. And this isn't your fight, Caleb. It sure as shit isn't mine or Xerxes.
Caleb: But…
Zyanya: Truce.
Zyanya holds her hand out and Wes suddenly appears and shakes it before he teleports back to Braxton and turns and heads towards the confusion that was about the battlefield as Braxton snorted and followed suit.
Zyanya: Xerxes...baby...can you hear me…
Xerxes:(over com link) Busy baby...what's up?!
Zyanya: We're done here…
Xerxes: You sure about that?!
Zyanya: This battle is over. We know what's at stake and we need to be ready to help those who'll need it.
Xerxes:(Over com) Damn... seems fatalistic…
Zyanya: Just being honest…
Xerxes: (over com) Caleb get through?
Zyanya looks at Caleb who looks away as he shakes his head.
Zyanya: No. No he couldn't. She's made her choice. Pick us up please. We need to go.
Zyanya turns and heads off as Caleb slumps his shoulders as he looks at the Tower as he shakes his head and follows behind her.
Elsewhere-Skies
Xerxes sighs as he types into a holographic keyboard and stops firing at the pursuing Leon who seems confused as he sees a small screen blip up into his line of vision as Xerxes looks at him.
Xerxes: I don't know who you are, but you're a persistent dude I gotta say.
Leon: Throwing in the towel?
Xerxes: Haha if only, I am pretty sure I could've gotten you, but when the wife tells me we're done, then we're done, so, I'm gonna head on out.
Leon: Why take the time to tell me?
Xerxes: I've seen your face, and now you've seen mine. I wanted you to know who the guy is who's gonna take you out. Till then, ciao.
Xerxes flips him off before the feed does and the Wraith jets off down towards the battlefield below as Leon stops and types in a sequence as he calls off the drones and surveys the battlefield as he pushes a link in.
Leon: Cosette...what's happened?
Cosette:(over com) I had to do some self repairs and get a particularly difficult person out of the fight. You're gonna have to take over the scrum.
Leon: With pleasure.
Leon begins typing as all of the drones that weren't engaged and that were still being created out of the two massive WarShips begins to pivot and jet down into the battlefield, slamming into the ground before the drones quickly change into Automated Droids, which begin attacking the surviving D.R.C Agents, catching a few off guard before the Agents begin to trade back fire and resume the fighting as Leon watches with a gleeful smirk.
Elsewhere-Battlefield
Caleb turned as he saw the drones turning to Droids as the fighting renewed as The Wraith appeared through the clouds and jetted towards them as Zyanya looked at Caleb who seemed torn.
Zyanya: There's no point…
Caleb: This is a fighting worth fighting. Regardless of Tegan's place in it.
Zyanya: Not saying it isn't. But there are other ways to help.
Xerxes gets out as he goes to his wife and looks her over as she smirks and kisses him as she could see his grin.
Zyanya: Have fun?
Xerxes: Oh I had a fucking blast. It was great. I met him. I met my equal.
Zyanya: That's uh...great.
Xerxes: Oh come on, babe. Didn't mean it that way.
Zyanya: Uh huh.
She rolls her eyes as Xerxes creates a second seat in the cockpit as Xerxes looks at Caleb.
Xerxes: Buddy...come on. We're going to need you.
Caleb: Xerxes…I can't.
Xerxes sighs as he goes to his friend, Zyanya going and getting herself strapped into the Wraith as Xerxes pays him on the shoulder as Caleb can see the devastation spreading along the battlefield.
Xerxes: Me and Zyanya have known for a while something like this could happen. We had a fallback plan just in case and I think this calls for it. Caleb with what you can do...you can help a lot of people who are going to need you. Everyone down there... they're complicit in some way. There are gonna be a lot more innocent people soon who aren't. And they're gonna need what we can provide. I can't stop you from going back and wanting to do what you can but I'm telling you man. You're gonna be needed elsewhere.
Xerxes heads back towards the Wraith and creates a third seat as Caleb takes a final glance at the battlefield before he turns and heads off, following Xerxes as he stoically watches the Battle happening knowing that there wasn't anything more he could do.
Elsewhere-Tower Ledge
Mario paces about as Alex was panting as Mario cocks his head and grind as Alex rushes him and the two traded blocked attacks before Alex gets a lucky slash but in doing so the blade simple glanced off of Mario's arm as Mario's counter stab pierces through Alex's shoulder ad Alex screams and pulls himself off as Mario whisks the blood off of the tip.
Mario: You know what's funny. While your power had a limit...mine fortunately does not. As long as we're engaged I can use your immunity...but you can't use yours nearly as long. Such a shame.
Mario gets ready for another series of attacks as Charles reaches up at Hazel and smiles.
Charles: You have to fight him…
Hazel: No we can't…
Charles: Let me die...I'm only slowing you down…
Kelsey: We don't devalue life…
Charles: I'll be fine...I'm not really here...I'm in the middle of this tower surrounded by the rest of you...go…
Kelsey groans as she nods and gets up as she pulls her Katar's up and joins Alex as Hazel looks on sadly as Charles smiles at her.
Charles: Kick his ass…
Hazel nods as she watches as he suddenly goes rigid in her arms and she wipes her eyes as she gets up and turns with an angry scowl as she comes and joins Alex and Kelsey as the three look at each other before he looks between them and just smiles.
Mario: There's no way you can beat me. Hazel: Get him to the ledge.
Alex and Kelsey flank out and attack from his side, Mario carefully blocking and keeping his eyes moving as Hazel just slowly and carefully notches an arrow as Alex takes a charge and is slashed across his back as Kelsey hits Mario in the shoulder from behind but it bounced off as Mario turns and swipes at her head, Kelsey fucking it as she backflips and throws a few punches that he moved from as she had gotten him turned around, Hazel moving herself about as she takes aim and stays afar Alex swings his Crusader Sword about wildly before Mario blocks and backhands him away as Kelsey throws a kick that Mario counters as he stabs his blade through Kelsey's chest but she intangibles and let's it pass through as she screams at Hazel.
Kelsey: Now!
Mario looks up and sees Hazel let the arrow fly as He watched the Arrow strike him in the chest as his eyes left Kelsey and focused on Hazel which allowed the arrow to struck, Mario groaning as he watched as Alex and Kelsey both look at each other and rush as they both jump and kick Mario in the chest watching as Mario staggers backwards before falling over the tower ledge, screaming as he travelled the thousands of feet down before he landed in a splattering display of digital gore as there wasn't anything for him to mimic that would save his life. Kelsey and Alex look at one another as the two look at Hazel as she didn't say anything and simply turned and headed inside as Alex and Kelsey joined her as they knew where they needed to go next.
End of chapter.