User blog:Vertroyer/The Dark War - Chapter 6

Playful: ...No I'm not ok.... it hurts.....

Eclipsa: She's bleeding, search the facility for some medications.

Mann: I'm on it.

Playful was severely hurt on her waist. She could barely move without feeling a dozen surges of pain traversing through her body. Mann had already left for the stronghold's clinic to search for medications for Playful. Eclipsa and Desert were caressing Playful's misery. Haw and Rubik were at the Command center of the stronghold, nitpicking at every file possible for any pieces of information that could help their investigation of The Iron Shield's history.

Eclipsa: It's alright dear, Mann'll get some patching rolls for you, we'll have you up and going in no time. Just hold on a little longer.

Playful: ...

Desert: No! Don't close your eyes! Don't pass away on us now! Playful!

Eclipsa: Hold on Desert, she's not dead. She's passing out into a coma due to the blood loss. She'll be fine if Mann can find at least a first-aid kit.

Desert: Oh thank god....

Meanwhile at the command center...

Haw: No.....not here..... gosh.... this whole half of the documents is just about their military crap that doesn't even does it's job right.

Rubik: The file entries here are all about how their operations failed too.... nothing related to what we're doing.

Both: Typical trashbags....

Haw looked into the other half of the documents, still not giving up on finding any intel that could help his cause. He found few grams of dirt spread over a few of the papers and had to wipe them off before reading them. He thought it was very peculiar and weird to find such unlikely material in such a stronghold. Before he was able to MatPat the living crap out of why the dirt was here, he made an interesting discovery.

Haw: Yo, come take a look at this.

Rubik: Is that the 7th issue of the TF2 comics?

Haw: No, it's-

Rubik: Fuck you anyway Haw.

Haw: ...

Rubik: So what is it?

Haw: It's a mission archive, one of the files here say "Operation Mayor Slayer".

Rubik: Lamest name I ever heard...

Haw: Ikr.... but the description says that the assassin would proceed to kill the Mayor after gaining...."their needs"?

Rubik: Wait, the mayor of which town?

Haw read out the name with a dread of shock as he came to the realization that he was holding the biggest twist to his investigations yet.

Haw: .... Salem.....

Rubik: Impossible! The one The Iron Shield broke up in?!

Haw: Yes...... this changes a lot of things now.....

Rubik: And the mayor's dead?!

Haw: I dunno, it says the operation has been executed but there's no recording of whether it was a failure or a success...

Rubik: Well then....we know where we're going next.

Haw: Yeah, but only after Playful has recovered. We shouldn't be careless about the health of our teammates.

Rubik: Alright then, let's go check on her.

Haw: Aight.

YIS: ... And then you're banging each other in the end... how dumb is that? And you Spicy! You're a goddamn whore, fucking with every single girl in almost every other story! Friggin pervert!

Spicy: (Thinking to himself) End my life with a spoon please..... I'll never get in any erotic stuff with a girl again but please get this bastard away from me.... please!

Addfire: (Reading Spicy's mind, also thinking to herself) Maybe I should've done Spicy a favor and let him die right where he was, cuz this asshole is just.... ugh.

Thankfully, by mercy and generosity from LordGaben, FINALLY! They made it the town..... it almost felt like a thousand years walking to this place.... mainly because YIS existed.

When they arrived, they were met with a series of surprising events. A fight was already stirring in the Town. Corpses of mafia members were lying all around, seemingly as if they were completely wiped out. The Serial Killers and the Arsonists were fighting each other to death, and the last of the Vampires in Drakkonbane were burning to ashes in the background. In the middle of the firefight, Ghosty and Unreal were back-to-back attempting to survive in this 3-sided fight.

Ghosty: Bloody hell! Incendiary grenade incoming!

Unreal: Darn it... why did all the SKs and Arsos of Drakkonbane have to be here? One alone is powerful, but a whole squadron?! From both sides?! Battle pressure's too much!

Ghosty: We're not in the worst situation here man! Those 2 sides are fighting each other as well! It's just that we're not in the best position right now! We don't have the firepower to wipe out either of them! Keep surviving!

Unreal: How many of those darn bastards are left.

Ghosty: I can see ... like.... about 7 Serial Killers left, and 4 Arsonists. They're still causing a lotta destructi- FIRE BOMB!!!

They had to both get out of the way because of the massive Arsonists' arsenal. They attempted regrouping and relocating just so an unexpected shot doesn't dig their graves.

GhostyGuy, short-called Ghosty. A floating wisp hovering over in the air with ninja gear on. No one understands why he has ninja gear on since he's not even human and is floating in the air, but no one questions him either. He has the ability to summon kirbies whenever he needs to. They can be used as meatshields, minions or even throwing ammunition. Sometimes, he summons goats.... no one knows why he can do that but ok.

Since he's merely a wisp, he is fully immune to any form of physical damage. In addition, friction, air resistance and any other law of physics have absolutely no effect against him at all. This allows him to move swiftly and without delay. However, elemental and non-physical damage can really do a number on him. And since his ninja gear is practically useless against such attacks, plus the fact that he has no other defenses against them... makes him very vulnerable.

Unrealname, usually called Unreal, was an ex-military positioned member of The Iron Shield. He was wearing a high-ranking military cap and had a heavy beard + mustache. He was wearing a vest with a chain of bullets wrapped around his torso and steel pauldrons attached to his shoulders. He was wearing gloves and had his trusty desert eagle out and firing at his enemies. He also had a dagger sheathed to the right of his waist, and a bag of oranges on the other side of his waist.

He was well-trained, and had a standard CC kevlar under his vest too, just for extra measures. But he wasn't invincible by any means. Unreal is always in bad situations when it comes to fighting supernatural beings. His weaponry aren't that impressive either, which only makes his case worse.

YIS: Crap! I gotta go check on something!

Addfire: Wait, where are you going?

YIS: It's urgent! I need to go see it!

YIS left without a trace and was soon lost out of sight because of all the fuss the firefight was making. Addfire unsheathed her scimitars and Spicy's left eye blazed with crimson red as they prepared to help their friends in danger.

Hunter: You're gonna get us killed.

Secretive: No I won't.... trust me.... I'm an expert in what I do....

Hunter: Yeah....totally....like the one time you tried teleporting us somewhere but we ended up falling in the pit of a volcano? And I had to fire a grapple arrow to get us outta here?

Secretive: That was waaaaaaaay back when The Iron Shield was still a thing. It's fiiiiiiiiine! I'm a much better mage now, I can teleport properly, I tested it out a lotta times!

Hunter: Sure....whatever ye say pal....

Standing at the top of a hill near Secretive's house were the two last and final ex-Iron Shield members that haven't quite shown until now.

Secretive Gurl was a sorceress who was very interested in magic. She wore a peach long sleeves shirt with a dark blue mantle. She also had a dark green long skirt and glasses on her eyes. Her majestic white hair flew behind her as she looked into her book, preparing for teleportation with her doubtful partner. She had a small dagger sheathed next to her waist and was reading a magical book which she learned her magical spells from. Her strongest spell was probably mimicing other people's movements and abilities.

Secretive wasn't the best at magic however. The Witch was better than her by miles. Secretive once tried dueling the Witch and got completely dominated by the evil being. If it wasn't for Hunter who rescued her using his cloaking abilties, she would've seen a much worse ending for her life. Her inexperience in combat is a major weakness that she's still working on.

Huntingbrujaswithmyputas, the worst name to ever exist in this entire story.... probably the wiki as well (why....just why). Called Hunter for short, this half-lizard half-human was a professional archer just like Rubik. He does not have the acute precision of Rubik, but what he lacks in accuracy, he makes up with his massive arsenal of arrows. He has about 30 different types of arrows in his quiver compared to Rubik's  7 or 8. He can also cloak similar to the TF2 Spy for a limited period of time in order to remain stealthy.

He can also summon non-living objects to fight for him although usually, the inanimate objects are useless against overpowered opponents. Hunter is a ton more flexible for as much situations as possible than Rubik, but has a different weakness. Since he's not the best at aiming,  enemies with rapid movement, unexpected fighting styles or even advanced locomotion skills make up for a tough challenge to Hunter.

Hunter: Where are we going off to again?

Secretive: Why the town of course!

Hunter: Oh no... I don't want to remember what happened back then.... it wasn't good at all...

Secretive: Well, sorry to interrupt your fear of Vietnam flashbacks mister, but I need to look for that contract, it's the only sliver of information I can get to if we want to know about The Iron Shield's break up.

Hunter: Ugh......fine.....just.... don't teleport us in the middle of a firefight....please....

Secretive: Yes, yes, Sure!

She motioned her hand slowly above her magic book as a blue glimmer emerged around her hand. Her eyes twinkled with aqua blue as she snapped her fingers to initiate the spell.

They teleported succesfully to the town.......in the middle of the firefight that was happening. Hunter ducked to evade random flamethrower trails but Secretive had already placed a mana shield around them so they can remain safe.

Hunter: Let's teleport she said...... it'll be safe she said.....

Secretive: Uhhhh..... whoopsies! *giggles*

The Serial Killers, even with all their advanced machetes, knives and other melee weaponry, didn't stand a single chance against the ranged capabilities of the 4 team members fighting them, hence getting fully wiped out. Now they were facing difficulty killing the arsonists who had ridiculously powerful infernal equipment. Flamethrowers, grenades, fuel canisters, now this was just too chaotic of a loadout.

Hunter and Secretive joined in on the fight....