The group made it to the top of the mountain, they hadn't seen a single soldier, and the jets aren't close enough to see them, though the bombs from the rainbow have come close.
"Maybe we can lay low, the snow is annoying, but maybe we can stay behind one of the pine trees." pepper said, looking around. Suddenly, soldiers appeared, surrounding the group, and jets landed to pour more in.
"Fire!" One soldier shouted, as another proceeded to shoot at pepper. Kumo was next to pepper, so pepper's instinct was to hold Kumo and cover her with his body. His back was covered in bullet holes, and he coughed up blood.
"Did I say stop? Keep firing, damn it!" The same soldier shouted, as the other soldier continued shooting pepper.
"Daddy...?" Kumo said, as she felt pepper's body shake with every bullet. pepper eventually fell and took Kumo down with him, he layed on Kumo as she looked into his eyes, she saw tears. "Daddy... what's happening?" Kumo said, beginning to feel extremely cold.
"Ku...mo..." pepper said, as he continued to shield her.
"That's enough." The soldier said, as the other quit shooting. "Bring em' in." The soldier continued, as the soldiers surrounding the group grabbed each of the girls, holding them down, Peki tried to fly, but the soldiers armor was too heavy for her.
'What's this armor made of?' Peki thought, as she's designed to be able to carry full cargo containers. The soldiers put cuffs on each of the girls, Kure tried to summon her knife, to stab through the soldier as it flew from her boot, but it wouldn't come to her.
"What?" Kure mumbled to herself.
"Get off of me! I'll burn you to a crisp!" Kujo said, as she tried to create her fire. "What the?" Kujo said, as she noticed she couldn't use her fire.
"Stupid kid, these cuffs are made with Zeus' lighting, they're specifically made to nullify the curses he's made." A soldier said to Kujo.
'Curses... Zeus made?' Kujo thought, not understanding what the soldier means.
"Get the one from under the boy!" A soldier shouted, as a few rushed to pepper and Kumo.
"N-No... I don't wanna leave him!" Kumo shouted, as they dragged her out from under pepper, she began to kick and cry, as she noticed all the bullet holes in his back.
"Hey, stop resisting!" One of the soldiers that were dragging her shouted. pepper's spider leg slammed into the rock of the mountain, he used it to lift himself.
pepper looked at the soldier dragging Kumo with pure anger and hate. "Put my Kumo down." pepper said, as he proceeded to launch himself at the soldier, stabbing straight through his head. pepper stood on his feet, and looked at his girls all cuffed, he saw Utsu's eyes wide and he could see her tremble, pepper grew even angier, but before he could do anything, he dropped to his knees, and soon his chest met the cold mountain rock. 'My ear... is cold...' pepper thought, as his left ear was pressed against the cold rock, pepper's eyes were given the sight of the city they had just fleed, he could see it clearly as he was forced to look down the mountain.
"PEPPER!!!" Niku shouted, her voice cracked and immediately became horse from how loud she yelled. All the girls looked at pepper in fear as they saw his blood pour from the back of his head, and they could see a bullet hole too, not one of them questioned the fact that there was no sound of a bullet being shot.
Kumo looked at pepper's body, her face became horrified. "pe...pper... pepper... pepper? PEPPER?! Kumo shouted, in disbelief, and then her eyes looked blank, just as they did the day pepper had met Kumo, and snow began to swirl around Kumo. Kumo got to her feet and began to walk aimlessly, as tears fell from her face.
"Kumo...?" Niku said, as Kumo walked past. Niku noticed that Kumo's foot prints left ice ontop the snow and rock.
"Get her!" A soldier shouted, as two soldiers held Kumo down and put the cuffs on her, causing her icy foot prints to melt, and the snow swirling around her to calm.
The girls, except for Kumo, all looked at pepper's body and screamed, begging for him to get up.
"Let's move." A soldier said, walking to a jet on the mountain.
"Roger." Another soldier said, bringing Utsu as he followed. The other soldiers followed as well, bringing the rest of the girls.
"No! pepper!" Niku shouted, as she tried to get away from the soldier.
Kure fell as she tried to get away too, she used everything she had to try and crawl to pepper's body, Kure's face was filled with disbelief, but the soldier picked her back up and continued dragging her. "Let go of me!" Kure shouted, as she tried to flail. "Aaahhhhh!!!" Kure screamed, as she kicked and flailed.
Utsu gave no trouble to the soldiers, she did exactly as they wanted, she felt as if reppep had returned somehow and she's back to being under his control.
Kutsuyo fell asleep and Kutsuyon came out. "What the fuck is going on here?!" Kutsuyon yelled, as she saw pepper's body, barely breathing. 'That man protects this girl, which makes him protect me too, if he's on the ground then he must have failed.' Kutsuyon thought, disappointed in pepper.
Both Polly and Mae watched in despair as they slowly grew farther from pepper.
Leia could only cry as they took her away.
"Damn, this one's smokin'." A soldier said, as he grabbed one of Muma's breasts. Muma's face screamed of anger, and tears drained from her eyes. "A tail? Oh, she's a succubus!" The soldier said, becoming excited.
"Don't get any ideas, I'd never do a thing with the likes of you! I'm loyal to that man!" Muma shouted, as she began to cry.
'I thought she had no feelings other than lust... I guess I should, like, apologize.' Niku thought, as she looked at Muma, trying to keep herself from crying any more.
'If only I'd just killed him... I wouldn't be in this stupid mess... I shouldn't be in this situation...' Kujo thought, as she began to blame pepper, though she still cried for him.
Peki had tears, but her face was as blank as ever.
'I can't die...' pepper thought, as he tried his best to stay alive. 'I can't die. I can't die. I can't die.' pepper thought, repeating to himself over and over, all he could hear was the cries of everyone he loves.
Kumo looked at pepper's body one more time, as she looked, she would swear she saw what looked like pepper's soul leaving his body, and flying up, but it was grabbed by a dark, red, transparent hand, that pulled him down.
'Where... am I...' pepper thought, as he felt extremely warm. 'I'm standing?' pepper continued thinking, as he realized what his body was doing. "A crater?!" pepper yelled, as he fell backwards, trying to not be near the massive hole.
"Actually, it's called The Abyss." A girl's voice said, behind pepper. "And you shouldn't be here." The voice continued. pepper looked behind him to see a girl with blue hair, and red hair coming from infront of her ears, her eyes were both red and her skin was gray, like Niku and Kujo's.
"Hey, you're a Demon, aren't you?" pepper asked, as he got up and looked at her.
"I'm impressed you know of my species. Indeed, I am." The girl said, her face emotionless, but it wasn't forced like Peki, it seemed more natural. "My name is Peni." Peni said, introducing herself.
"I'm pepper, nice to meet you." pepper said, brushing himself off. Peni nodded her head. "So... where am I?" pepper asked, as he looked around, not exactly sure what he's seeing.
"This is the Underworld, or Hell as I've heard some of you call it." Peni said, bluntly. "Don't you remember dieing?" Peni asked.
"Hmmm..." pepper mumbled, taking a moment to think. "Let's see... I was climbing a mountain... and out of no where... and it felt cold..." pepper said, saying his thoughts out loud.
'I can't die. I can't die. I can't die.' pepper thought, repeating to himself over and over, all he could hear were the cries of everyone he loves. 'Something... grabbed me...' pepper thought, as he felt an icy touch surrounding him. 'I feel like I'm being pulled... but I'm still here... I can still see and hear...' pepper thought, as he heard the jets start and begin to take flight, leaving his corps behind, and taking his girls. 'They're getting further away... Don't leave me... please...' pepper thought, as he began to cry a little. pepper's eyes followed something that dropped onto the city, it was bigger than the bombs that were dropped before, and the ones from the rainbow. As it disappeared behind buildings, a could that could only be described as a nuclear cloud could be seen. pepper's vision became blurry, but he felt like he could make out the cloud, it seemed to split the sky, and he felt like he could see people flying up as he couldn't hear anything, but at the same time he felt like he could hear those people, and their beautiful song of nothing but silence.
"Kumo!" pepper shouted, as he came back to reality.
"Kumo?" Peni asked, not sure what pepper's talking about.
"How do I get back to the mortal realm or whatever?" pepper asked, sounding desperate.
"You interest me... So I guess I'll help you." Peni said, closing her eyes.
"Awesome, what do I do?" pepper said, getting closer to Peni.
"You need to get to The Gate." Peni said, pointing down at a castle.
"The gate right there? Got it." pepper said, as he begun to make his way down the cobblestone path.
"Not that exact gate." Peni said, as pepper tirned around to listen. "There's a gate inside that castle called The Gate, it connects the Underworld to to mortal realm." Peni continued.
"Alright, I see..." pepper said, thinking about how he'll get inside.
"You can easily get in through the sewer, there's a vent that connects to it from someone who tried to escape." Peni said, trying to help pepper. "Also, where in the mortal realm is your body? If it's destroyed then you're stuck here." Peni continued, bringing up the most important part.
"My body? It's on Earth." pepper said, hoping that's enough information.
"Which Earth, there's two." Peni said, bringing news to pepper.
'Two? ...I guess that explains the odd maps with places I've never seen...' pepper thought, as he finally understood the unknown map. "Umm... The one that has a lot of water...?" pepper said, hoping that'd be enough.
"This one? Or this one?" Peni said, holding out two maps.
"That one." pepper said, pointing to a map that has only one land mass.
"Okay, get to The Gate, I'll see what I can do." Peni said, as she walked the opposite direction to the castle.
'I'll do what I can to see you all again. I have to make sure no one hurts you.' pepper thought as he began to walk towards the castle.