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Chapter 44 - Death’s Embrace.

End Of Blake's POV

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Start of Jame's Ironwood's POV

 

"Our communications are still out, specialist's, your mission is to secure Mantle and Atlas from Grimm attacks. You are the leading commanders in this task." he said to his assembled elite of the elite. There were many other leaders of the army here too but many of them were already deployed around Mantle and the surrounding areas.

 

"Sir!" the specialist's saluted. Many of these men looked nervous about the current ongoing events, the alien invaders that seemed to be able to inflict great climatic damage to whenever they moved. The hijacked communications shown that much., though now at the moment it was regulated to an empty scenery and those alien ships scattered about the unoccupied continent after the green alien that was most definitely the leader had flown off in the direction of Vale.

 

"You're dismissed." he saluted the specialist's and stalked forward to the command centre on the bridge. Currently, he was on his command airship, the specialist would have to take dropships to leave for their missions they'd been assigned. The Grimm attacks were easily repelled seeing as he had already mobilized the kingdom's military for use in finding the perpetrators of that heist that ran off with a lot of military equipment, Atlesian Knights and Paladin's. The Grimm mindless assault on their walls had died down after he gave the order to mobilize the airship's as to support the ground troops. 

 

Winter walked in, she was wearing her usual specialist appeal, though her hair was done up differently, plated in A braid instead. 

 

"Winter, this is A surprise. What do you need. I assume you're here on SDC business." he asked, glancing at the woman who now was the acting president of the SDC until Weiss was ready.

 

"I'm here to return to service, at least until this invasion is resisted. My… mother and Klein will run the company until I get back. I'm ready to serve." she saluted him, he smiled at having one of his best back… in fact, he was looking for one of his best to do this mission, one of grave importance.

 

"I've been arranging A mission, it seems that the enemy had landed in the area where Kron had frequented a lot. The place where we previously met him, you also saved him that time he was on death's door. I have reason to believe that the signal scrambling our communication's is coming from their command ship. I have been arranging A sizable force to knock out the ship's interference. Atlas is secured for now, but I have no idea about the other kingdoms." He stared out of the window of his airship, arms folded behind his back as he contemplated his next words.

 

"Sir, am I to be leading this mission?" Winter asked, still standing at attention as he glanced at her.

 

"At ease specialist Schnee. Affirmative, you will leave at once, your squad and military provisions have been readied for your use, I was wondering who to send on such an important… but dangerous mission and had already prepared for it accordingly. If you have to destroy the enemy ship, do so but I have orders from the council to secure as much of it as possible, their technological-know how... just think, the people of Remnant would be able to settle another planet for living and away from the Grimm. The technology alone would boost our research to height's not seen since before the great war…" He stopped, remembering he had other things to do, and Winter needed to head out.

 

"Your dismissed, report to hanger bay three, there you will board A smaller bullhead which will dock with your airship and fleet." he saluted the girl, which she returned with enthusiasm, and she stalked away, leaving the bridge of his command ship.

 

James sat at his desk, organizing more missions for the troops when A knock was heard at his door. 

 

"Enter." he continued doing more paperwork until the individual spoke up. It was one of his specialist's, Marrow Amin.

 

"Sir, we've spotted two suspicious individuals loitering nearby one of our bases close to Mantle's walls. One of the soldiers had to run to the hanger and take A dropship to report this to us so the report might not be accurate anymore in basis of time. The soldier described the individuals to be wearing the same armor that one person-"

 

"-Kron…" James interrupted, almost scowling. The young man had to have known about his people arriving, how else would he have known to meet them at the place where they landed at?

 

"-Yes sir. They appear to be alien's sir… I… if there here, then… they might be preparing to launch an assault on the kingdom. We've seen what they can do, is it wise-" James raised A hand to silence specialist Amin.

 

"-We have no choice, it's either that or surrender which is not an option. How many of their soldiers were spotted?" he asked, was there an army on his doorstep capable of the feasts Kron and that green alien frequently seen on that broadcast before Kron was killed hours ago. Or was this A scouting party?

 

"Just two men were found, as far as we know, they are still in the area." These two unknowns were going to be trouble.

 

End Of James Ironwood's POV

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Start of Kron's POV

 

My newly found strength had made me stronger than the alien though barely as I lost control a lot and thus had- the anger! I could barely concentrate! he was badly battered while more of my wounds had slowly healed themselves over the course of the battle. I wasn't A super Saiyan, no, this was something else… I could barely control myself not to annihilate the entire school as it is- Fucking die bastard!!, focusing the rage on the one in front of me was more easier though not by much.

 

Launching another uppercut to the alien's face, he grappled the attack and punted me in the face with A swift kick, sending me down like A missile to the ground, I was able to mitigate the impact by aiming headfirst and using my arms to flip me back onto the right side and using the momentum, I soared right back at the bastard. I was bulky from this… transformation, I was unused to the size of my now bulky muscles, I moved much slower and even if I could hit harder now, the alien had tremendous experience fighting in his form and therefore was much quicker than I, though not by much.

 

Harrhh!!" I sent another fist towards his face, and he tried to headbutt me at the same time, my hit connected but that punch was rebuffed by the movement of his thick skull. He grabbed my arm and tried to swing another punch at my abdomen but missed when I after-imaged out of the way and sent him down. Holding both hands at my sides, I charged up some small Ki-blasts and begun to launch sphere after sphere after the crashing alien. At speeds I couldn't comprehend at that moment, concentrating on aiming more blasts, the Ki explosion begun to widen slowly after every Ki-sphere homing in on the cretin's position exploded on impact.

 

The explosion expanded until it spilled off of the cliff-side and begun exploding mid-air too, it also took out the landing pads for Beacon. I could sense his Ki faltering now, I was winning now, and my mind was more clearer, this was because as I looked at myself, my Ki aura had changed back to its usual purple color instead of the yellow color it was before, I felt weaker, but at the same time I could actually concentrate and was less bulky now that the transformation had subsided. Panting A little, I landed onto the scorched earth below and waited for the green Zarbon knock-off to make A move, else I would end this fight now. I had to end it now, look how close we were to engulfing Beacon.

 

"Urrrggh… Now you're pissing me off-" his physical form begun to shrink, and I could feel his power-level drop down A stiff margin... heh, it seems like he's lost his transformation and thus was now the weaker for it.

 

"Ohh… this won't d-do… I h-have to… yes… that will work heh…heh…" the now normal looking commander moved quickly, leaving an afterimage and blasting off from his position, I grunted out in surprise but blasted off after him. He was heading towards the academy, for whatever reason- Was that Weiss and… Blake down there! Now that I wasn't tunnel-visioning the commander, I confirmed that they were down there, and this guy was heading towards them. I realized this too late as the guy landed right between the two girls and surprising them, grabbed the two girls and held them with their heads between his arms. 

 

He is desperate it seems, I should have finished this but now he had hostages. Fuck.

 

This…brutish alien fuck… how dare he, what the hell are they still doing here!?

 

"Hmmm ugh… easy ladies, hah… of course these primitives don't understand what I'm saying… but by the look on your face, you seem to know these ones huh… figures, primitives knowing each other heh." I stiffened by mistake as I eyed the two girls, trying to shrug it off but it was A lost cause, he got what he wanted. My reaction.

 

"Well, seeing as you've lost that boost of power of yours and my power is pretty low, here's the deal. I will release these two pathetic beings-" his arms around their necks allowed him free reign with his hands… as the prick began fondling the two in front of me. Blake and Weiss were clearly in distress and the hatred I could see in their eyes for the alien commander was nearly as intense as my own.

 

"-only… if you kill yourself, right here. Haha… well, go on then Saiyan. You seem to care about the pathetic life forms on this rock, or attack me." he smirked, licking his lips and the green blood that had dripped down from his forehead.

 

"-what's he saying Kron- urgh…" Blake asked, still struggling. I was in A dilemma, The commander kicked over Weiss's 'Myrtenaster' and I replied to Blake, looking at both girls with A grimace.

 

"He wants me to kill myself, then he will release you. Well… I don't really want to die, not really but I fucked up, let him get leverage. I should have protected both of you-" I bent down, keeping my eyes on the three in front of me, I sensed more people incoming. Seeing Qrow with Amber coming out of the school, and I could see them both from where I stood now, followed closely behind by Glynda, Ozpin and Peter Port, they stopped at seeing us, standing around in A standoff, 'Myrtenaster' now in my hand. 

 

"It's m-my fault- argh, bastard-" Blake said loudly but was squeezed tighter by the green bastard and the commander laughed at the noises she made in her struggle.

 

"-Don't do it! Kron, you've always been there and now you're giving up? We-" Weiss stopped to try and look over to Blake who caught her eye… and nodded resignedly. 

 

"I'm sorry Weiss, I acted… brash and now- I, I'm sorry Weiss-" Blake growled out through the further hinderance on her voice by the alien. Weiss replied then.

 

"It was, good w-while it l-lasted, Kron. I guess, we c-couldn't keep our promise and… don't try t-to be hero's-" Weiss screamed out by the pressure the commander put onto her, struggling was futile for them. She hoarsely begun to cough once the alien fuck had lightened up on the chokehold.

 

The green bastard squeezed harder, and the girls struggled again, Weiss looked to be having A hard time breathing. But what could I do, in the now, if I try anything, they are dead. And I'm sure he would kill them anyway after I do myself in… That damnable smirk made sure of that. Maybe there was A way? I swallowed Flem and A little bit of blood and went to pick up her sword. Having never touched it before, I gave it A once over before looking at the two girls grimly. I could maybe try and throw the blade through the prick's head, but I would have to be quick.

 

Aiming the blade edge hesitantly at my throat almost reluctantly as I had no wish to die but I had no choice, I had to make sure he believed I was about to kill myself and lower his guard so I could get throw Weiss's rapier at his smug face, they would die otherwise... I was looking like I was about to commit… what was it that the Japanese called it? I was loathe to do so but looking at those two girls faces, both of them struggling… their eyes viewing mine and now… those tears. I'm going to spank them until their asses are as red as Pyrrha's hair when I resolve this...

I moved 'Myrtenaster' and prepared to look as if I was about to penetrate my throat with it, eyes tensed shut briefly before opening again as to aim at the bastard's face, my heart beating fast but what happened next had shocked me and had happened outside of my control. Blinking my eyes quickly in shock, I looked on with the blades edge barely touching my skin in preparation for the sneak throw-attack with said blade when Weiss had bitten down onto the guy in a moment of weakness from the commanders part as he watched with smug glee at my attempt at killing myself and Blake got one of her free hands around one of her blades, her 'Gambol Shroud' and pierced the alien in the side where the armor was badly damaged and thus was an excellent target for the girl. The blade penetrated deep into the alien and green blood begun to pore outside of the wound, the Blake's weapon falling to the ground nearby.

 

I dropped the sword and went to try and act in order to save them for their own attempt, using A afterimage to cross the distance as fast as I could but…

 

It was too little too late.

"Stupid bitch's harrgh!!" I heard the two snaps as clear and precise as one could hear fingers snapping near one's ears and my eyes widened, the shock… I, I glanced at the two girls, their eyes looked to have met mine, but they were widened and unmoving, I realized. Their stares held indefinitely…

They were dead. Well… shit…

 

I Fucked up badly. I… and now, I heard the sound of flesh being cauterized and slight growl from the alien fucker, I looked as he went to one knee briefly while an Ki sphere was used to close up his wound before he again stood, casually stepping over the corpses of Weiss and Blake with A slight sneer. I heard, over yonder from both the alien fuck and I and near to Beacons entrance, the scream of many of the girls, I could make out Ruby the most at what had happened next. As the entire group, were engulfed in A silver light which encased those I had seen over there in A dome which reached out and almost engulfed both the alien commander and I in its blinding light.

 

"Fuck you! you, you… I was, I was about to kill myself but you-" I was interrupted from my yelling at the alien, realizing that my vision had become blurry. 

 

Blurry from tears, and the rain. 

 

"You were too slow, urgh… damnable, that blinding silver light… these plebeians. But hey, don't fret about it. You almost got me, but you've failed… I can see when I have been defeated-" gunshots sounded out, A huge amount and all were aiming at the hovering commander, he was still stronger than mere projectiles as I heard him snicker at their attempts at killing him.

 

My eyes never left the two girls, I felt something snap within me, some kind of feeling had begun to crawl to the surface, some kind of instinct or feeling, I don't fucking know... I continued to look at the two girls and their empty, soulless eyes and I felt like vomiting. I felt like an absolute cunt.

 

But I couldn't even move as I continued looking upon their bodies, my eyes running over them in disbelief, I just stared blankly as furious and rabid anger continued to flood my mind and I felt like blacking out… I… can't... ... ... ... think... ... ... clear... ... ... ...

 

End Of Kron's POV

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Start of Commander Valium's POV

 

He landed out of sight of those primitives and heaved heavily, his fighting power was low and still the Saiyan was stood in place, the guy was in shock or something… heh… He lightly begun to chuckle at the monkey, it was A shame about the woman as they would have made good bed warmers but as things stood, that monkey was more stronger than him even now, he needed to get off this rock… and use the last ounce of his strength to blow the planet up.

 

"Sorry Saiyan, but this place has been scheduled for demolition. Heh… Later's" he was engulfed in his teal-colored Ki as he blasted towards one of his dead soldier's bodies, the Saiyan made no move to attack him weirdly and the primitive's begun to fire at him again when he landed in sight of them. He casually grabbed one of the scouters and blasted off, heading for his ship. Foolish Saiyan.

 

"Come in Ritalin, Ritalin come in." he said out-loud, so his second in command could hear him through the scouter but his no.2 hadn't picked up yet. Strange.

 

"B-Boss, engineer Ritalin is dead, half of the crew is dead. That Saiyan-"

 

"-No matter, get the ship prepped and call back the scout's, were leaving this planet. I've decided to blow it up while in orbit." he said, sneering towards the horizon as he thought of his defeat at the crybaby of A Saiyan. To morn property? even if they looked like that, what weakness… yuck…

 

He would have to wait for A bit until he was fully healed but blowing up the planet would be an easy task he could do in leisure once the ship was in orbit. His crew would have to be silenced as well, so none go blabbering off about this failure…

 

 

End Of Commander Valium's POV

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Start of Qrow's POV

 

He held his erratic niece Ruby until she had fallen unconscious from the trauma, both from two of her squad-mate's deaths and her accidental use of her silver eyed powers. Yang held on barely better then Ruby and the other four from team JNPR all had tears in their eyes in their own ways, many of the other students who came out also mourned for the two girls, whose had their necks snapped by that green alien and then there was Kron…

 

He was still standing there, he had ample opportunities to off the one who had caused this but… he… just stood there. Rising slowly, he left Ruby by Yang's side and sighed.

 

"Yang, watch for your sister-"

 

"-huh…" She answered, wiping the tears from her face, seemingly not have heard him, lost in her own head. Seeing him look at her and then Ruby, she nodded.

 

"Glynda, go and get some blankets... yeah, we need… to cover... them up." he said gruffly, she wordlessly shook her head, and huffed, the crack in her voice showed him that she was on the verge of tears too.

 

Qrow slowly walked up to Kron and heard the young alien brat heaving, he was sounding as if he was sick. He dared not look at where Kron's eyes were looking… He spoke up to the young man.

 

"Hey, kid. That guy is getting away, I'm sorry about those two but-" Kron's eyes snapped in his direction, his pupil-less eyes staring into his- huh what was up with his eyes? Qrow stepped back unconsciously as Kron begun to look as if he was retching forward, instead, hoarse breathing sounded out from him which sounded like harsh grunts and the land begun to quake as the kid stood backwards, backing away from the two girl's bodies and glanced in the direction that green alien flew in. His irises returned but instead of being the usual black, they were slightly brownish yellow.

 

The land had gotten somewhat dark, from the forming clouds swirling up above Vale and lightning begun to randomly shoot out from the sky, hitting close to Kron while he continued to retch and make harsh grunting noises and angry growls. The kid's hands were tense as he held them out from himself all tensed and Qrow walked backwards slowly to the others, he turned to Ozpin upon being back near to Beacons main entrance.

 

"I've seen his face, he's mad. No, Mad's an understatement. He's-" lightning shot out dangerously close and Ozpin spoke up loudly.

 

"Everyone return to the school, your transports should be here soon from what professor Oobleck-" more lightning struck nearby, and everyone moved away, except for Qrow, Amber and Ozpin.

 

"Qrow, try and calm the young man down, we have to see if he could help us with the Grimm attacking our walls, there is A sizeable number of them, and Vale's defenses can't handle the onslaught at least until reinforcements arrive." Ozpin said, Qrow nodded and went back over but stopped halfway as the land begun to shake heavily and rocks, debris and building rubble begun to rise and the planet begun to shake.

 

Qrow watched as his hair had spiked upwards and then his power begun to erupt from within him, A purple wave of… it wasn't aura that much he could tell, whatever these aliens use, Kron's power begun to wisp out from him and enclosed him. The planet stopped shaking and Kron's power calmed down somewhat, the floating rocks begun to fall back down, and Kron's eyes changed again from the brown like yellow color… to A yellow with the pupil becoming purple. His aura surrounding him… or his power was A vibrant purple with streaks of red randomly running down his form and Kron's hair stayed standing up. Kron begun to snarl loudly and blasted off after that other alien, before he could even ask what had happened to him.

 

End Qrow's POV

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Start of Kron's POV

 

My thoughts were of blood, death and… Blake and Weiss's lifeless faces, I Snarled loudly, my power felt…

 

"Stop thinking, you cunt… YOU GOT THEM KILLED!! I FUCKED UP!!! haa… his life is forfeit." teeth clenched, growling each word out as I was gaining on the alien, even though he had A heads start on me, I could feel him, his Ki was pathetic… I hadn't become A super-Saiyan, this wasn't what this was… it didn't sound right to my ears and even though I felt angrier than I have ever felt like the super Saiyan would first feel upon transcending to that level of power, no, this was something else-

"I will maim that fucking fucker!!… then I would check his ship and- "Kill!! HIS CREW!!!"- make sure it was operational- "KILL THEM ALL!". I n-needed to f-fix this… Weiss… B-Blake… you w-won't be staying- "KILL, THEM ALL!!!" -...dead.

I would also check my power-level, I had A hunch- "YOU HERE ME, YOUR DEAD!!!" I growled loudly... my hunch was that this form was something familiar to the super Saiyan form… I... felt...angry...uncontrollable...unstoppable...

 

"YOUR FINISHED CUNT!!! I WILL FIX THIS SHIT!" I growled out loudly, my voice boomed outward, flying into A flock of Nevermore's who noticed me as I pierced right through A few of them in my flight path, killing them instantly. Still, I blasted off after that murderous cur… 

"How hypocritical of me- I WILL RIP HIM APART!!!" I could barely think, aware that I was yelling a lot of nonsense I couldn't even comprehend through my anger and hate. I hated feeling like t-this... not in c-control...

 

 

I saw the green hue of the guy's energy on the horizon as I approached him, I was gaining on him and I sneered angrily. Powering up slightly as I had already fully charged my Ki, I exploded with energy, viciously yelling out the name of the attack which the alien meat heard as his head turned to look while in his flight.

 

"Double Sunday! Grhrrharrrrarr" my hands thrusted forward, and the blasts left both my hands, homing in on the alien who was too slow to attempt to move.

 

I after imaged into the front of his direction and watched with savage glee as he was engulfed in an explosion, and I could sense he was barely alive. He begun to fall from the attack, and I caught him, the smoke slowly dissipating from the impact, and I grabbed his head. I was… fucking mad at myself, at this fuck… I sneered and begun to laugh at his pain as I grabbed the aliens head roughly and stuffed both my thumbs into his eyes. His screaming music to my ears as I continued to push and then the sounds of blood gushing out from where his eyes were supposed to be and squishy noises that echoed out from his eye-sockets. The high-pitched scream as he begun to kick and even flail into me, while I continued to squeeze down onto his head…

 

"Ahahaha You couldn't even take the loss, now die with no dignity you fuck." The sounds of his skull cracking and then then… Brain pulp and blood had lashed like rain onto my face, and I continued to grin, wiping his cranium pulp off of me.

 

Crack!

 

I spat onto his corpse and then chucked it upward, charging up another Ki-blast, I launched A what I had considered A 'weak' 'Tyrant's Wave' at him and watched with glee as his body was vaporized in the powerful blast. I sensed more fighting powers around the planet, they were moving quickly, and I realized they were converging onto the same place… the command ship… I felt myself losing that strength that had made me A madman, my muscles and bulk returning to normal, my power lowered, and I could think clearer. Breathing out, I sighed and then spoke up to myself.

 

"...Good, I will finish the rest when they group up-" I began to launch multiple Ki-blasts in frustration towards the ocean as I flew and I blasted off faster, off towards the ocean before diving in and cleansing myself of the brain matter and then blasted back upwards into the sky.

 

"I felt so… fucking… mad!!! Fuck, this… what was that transformation!!! Fucking hell, fucking hell... Blake, Weiss... you... haaaaa..." I growled loudly but then sighed loudly, then continued to fly towards the ship location, the Frieza Force grunts I had left were honing beacons as to find my way there.