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Chapter 70 - Chapter 68: Deepground

At the cave where Vincent, Ifalna, and Lucrecia were investigating. A group of people surrounded them and they were quite young except a large man that was holding a giant firearm.

"Tsviets? Never heard of em." Vincent glared at them and was prepared to fire Cerberus. A white haired man brandished 2 gunblades and smirked at him. "I am Weiss, the leader of the tsviets. And we need what's the object in your chest." Weiss pointed his weapon at his chest.

"We're at a major disadvantage Vincent. Lucrecia is with us and she might have Jenova cells, but she's no combatant." Ifalna held her staff tightly and thought they couldn't underestimate the teens that were in front of them.

"It was quite difficult to find a chance in meeting you without your daughter or son. Vincent Valentine, but you couldn't hide behind them forever and here we are." A girl with red hair licked her lips and pointed her weapon at him. Two blades that were conjoined together with a gun mechanism in the middle. Smiling maliciously at Vincent.

"Like a cornered rat, it's time for you to die!" The huge man fired his gun at them and chaos started immediately. Ifalna carried Lucrecia like a sack of potatoes and jumped away at the gunfire. Vincent maneuvered himself using the walls to fire at the enemies.

A black themed teen with mechanical arms on his back that were mounted with handguns shot Mako infused bullets at Vincent while the large man created a shield that blocked Vincent's bullets, making him frown heavily as he saw Ifalna being targeted by Weiss.

"Ifalna! Leave with Lucrecia immediately! I'll hold them here!" He blocked the girl's blades with Cerberus. "Don't be stupid Vincent! If they defeat you, they'll just hunt us down!" Ifalna casted buffs for Vincent and silenced the enemies at the same time.

They were too far away from Midgar and giving the protomateria to the enemies wasn't an option. Even giving a chance to them to defeat Vincent and get it was unacceptable. "Lucrecia, call Ramiel immediately. He'll arrive here quickly!" Ifalna gave her phone to Lucrecia who was harnessed behind her by ropes of energy. Her barrier getting pelted with bullets and magic.

"We can't have that scary guy arrive here!" Weiss' gunblades vibrated with Mako and their edge lengthened with energy. Ifalna went wide eyed as his attack slashed through her barrier. "Ifalna!" Vincent gave cover fire, but he got stabbed by the female teen because of his intervention.

"Good job, Rosso!" The large man smirked and fired his gun at Vincent, thinking he was pinned by her blade. But Vincent kicked her away, with a squelch. Her blade exited his body while Vincent dodged the dangerous bullets from the large firearm.

Lucrecia was able to dial the phone and it sent her to voice mail as they were fighting as well. Weiss shot the phone out of her hand and smirked viciously. "Kekeke~ aren't we having fun right here? I'm offended that you aren't focusing on me!"

Weiss launched himself at Ifalna as the barrels of his gunblades glowed. But he was surprised as Ifalna used her staff as a polearm and whacked him on the face with it. Feeling his jaw crunch from the solid orichalum pole.

He flew away and crashed on the cave. With Ifalna glaring at them. "You think I am unprotected!? You insult my training with Ramiel and Alexandra!" Ifalna glowed with Mako as her veins bulged. Her muscles contracting violently.

"Azul! Watch out!" Rosso saw Ifalna glare at the large man and he was too late, Ifalna charged right through his barrier with her staff that already casted silence. Causing his barrier to fizzle out suddenly. "You think you could do anyth-" Azul arrogantly started monologuing.

But Ifalna roared as she kicked him right on the chest, caving in his sternum. Like a ragdoll, he flew to the walls of the cave as it shook from the force. Vincent transformed to his Galian wolf form and overpowered Rosso as his claws grinded against her blade. But bullets started hitting him on the back, the black themed teen firing his all on him.

Vincent growled and backhanded the girl away. He locked on to the offender and wanted to skewer him with his claws. But Weiss slashed at him with his weapons and Vincent was surprised by his strength.

"Nero! Keep the Cetra busy! I'll deal with him!" Weiss called out to his brother and the teen with many guns changed his weapons on his mechanical arms. Blades adorning them as he entered combat with Ifalna.

Ifalna was forced to dodge and weave as she wasn't quite agile. Preferring brute force. "Vincent, we need to get out of here! I can't cast all my magic here!" Ifalna froze the ground and Nero slipped, she tried stomping on his chest, but he rolled away with the help of his mech arms and fired his guns at her.

Vincent understood the assignment and tried overpowering Weiss. But they were even in strength as he powered himself up with Mako. Being more compatible with it due to their unique birth in Deepground.

Hojo tried remaking his experiment of the Jenova project that gave birth to Ramiel and Alexandra. But with Minerva cells, along with obscene amounts of Mako infused to the fetuses.

Vincent decided to transform into his Chaos form, charging up Cerberus with his tainted Mako and fired a black beam from it. Weiss blocked with his gunblades, but he got buried in the wall.

Ifalna then casted quake and the cave rumbled. Starting to collapse on itself, she then erected a wall of ice behind them as they made their escape. Vincent's Chaos form started to get unstable as he still haven't accepted it quite yet. Fighting the tainted Mako for supremacy.

But they were able to go out of the cave and Vincent turned back to his normal form. Though they were greeted with many mutated soldiers outside. "Damn, is this the end of the line?" Vincent looked at Ifalna and Lucrecia.

Ifalna prepared a barrier and her staff glowed with magic. 'I can't give up here.' He prepared to rampage with Chaos, but what made him go through was a warm feeling from Ifalna's hands. "I believe in you Vincent, don't worry. I'll bring you back if you lose control." She smiled with confidence.

He snorted and smiled back. "I guess you will." Vincent jumped in the air and unleashed his wings. Feeling more comfortable in his Chaos form as he trusted Ifalna to bring him back. Black spheres of magic were conjured at the tip of his wings and they bombarded the enemies.

Ifalna nailed her staff on the ground and used a lot of magic to create a sanctuary. Nigh impenetrable shields appeared all around them and she started firing spells from the inside.

The mutants died in groups, but they were much too many. With their increased vitality and endurance, coupled with their numbers. They started to advance on Ifalna's sanctuary, battering on the shields with their strong bodies and chaotic magic spells.

They were sieged by the monstrous soldiers, Vincent trying to cull down their numbers. And after the onslaught of bodies and magic, Ifalna's barrier started cracking. A ton of magic hitting it from behind. The tsviets arriving as they laid siege on her shield.

Vincent changed targets to them, but Azul used all of his magic to make a barrier. Nero provided cover fire and locked on to Vincent who was in the air. Forcing him to dodge and decrease his barrage of Mako infused bullets and spells.

Weiss imbued his blades with magic once again and hit Ifalna's barrier with Rosso. "Vincent! I can't hold on much longer!" Ifalna sweated as her magic drained rapidly. Trying to repair it in real time while they tried breaking it.

Before they could though, they received a message that made their blood run cold. "Multiple signals of Mako that are simply monstrous are rapidly coming to your location, abandon the mission ASAP."

The tsviets felt it from thousands of miles away, raging Mako that were approaching. "Tch, let's retreat. We can't deal with those monsters without the weapons." Weiss ordered and they immediately ran away as fast as possible.

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At Ramiel and Alexandra's position, after they have fought. He checked his phone as Ifalna called him. Receiving voice mail. Hearing gunfire and sounds of fighting. He quickly remembered the location they were going to check out and craned his neck at Alexandra.

"Carry them quickly! Ifalna and Vincent needs reinforcement, they have Lucrecia with them." Ramiel flew to the skies and Alexandra quickly followed, carrying the others with her.

"Where are they located?" Alex squinted her eyes, she might not be at 100%, but she could definitely deal with almost anything even in her current state.

"They're at the cave where the tainted Mako was found with the protomateria. I guess they've been waiting for Vincent to separate from us for a long time." Ramiel forgot about Lucrecia being with them.

"Hah, they could've escaped there easily without Lucrecia. I guess this is just an unlucky event." Alex sighed and they sped up even more, pulses of Mako exploding in the air with their acceleration.

"Is mom and Vin-chama gonna be alright?" Aerith was worried, remembering their escape from Shinra. Alex smirked at her and patted her head. "Who do you think we are, squirt. Of course she'll be fine. And we're gonna kill every single one of them!" Alexandra shouted with a vicious smile on her face.

They arrived after a few minutes at the scene, seeing Ifalna and Vincent cleaning up the monstrosities that the tsviets came with. "Vincent, you guys fine?" Ramiel observed their status and they were quite fine. Except for a bit of exhaustion from overusing their abilities and magic.

"We're good, sorry for being here. They could've escaped from here without me in the way." Lucrecia apologized, seeing her son in the flesh for the first time since he was born.

"Hah, their inability to escape might be your fault. But make no mistake, they were going to attack Vincent in due time. This seems to be planned really well." Ramiel looked at the many corpses on the ground and frowned.

The juniors went green at the sight of decaying flesh and guts that were on the ground aplenty. But Zack was much worse off as this was the first time he saw that much gore. "At least we can capitalize on this for them. Finish all of the stragglers off." Ramiel ordered them and they nodded.

They were a bit apprehensive, seeing mutated humans and killing them. But it was a mercy for the beings that were once human.

"Anything about the attackers that could be useful?" Angeal asked Ifalna who was better off than Vincent. "They were young." Ifalna frowned heavily. "But they were strong, they could use Mako almost at the same level as me."

Genesis raised a brow at that as Ifalna was the best magic user among them in terms of control, except Ramiel. "For real? Then Hojo must have done something to them."

"I can't find them, they really have great control over their Mako. I've been sending out pulses of magic for kilometers on end. But I can't get a hold of them, I should be able to feel them." Alex squinted her eyes.

"I guess those are their elites. And they're most likely wanting to use Omega as a counter to us." Ramiel looked at Alexandra and everybody agreed.

"Vincent, you need to be careful. The protomateria is the one thing they're trying to get most. We might have holy for Meteor, but fighting against Omega is disadvantageous. We don't even know how we can stop it." Ramiel sighed and massaged his temples from the headache they were giving him.

Vincent nodded and thought that he needed to control the protomateria more. It was the only thing they knew that could control Omega. And they don't know when they'll try to use it.

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