User blog:Vertroyer/The Dark War - Chapter 5

Haw:  ... and draw a map of the area along with the count, then bring them back to me.

Playful: Alrighty then.

Mann: Well then, off we go now.

Playful and Mann set off using Playful's shadow manipulation to get to their destination quicker, Desert was having a nap at this time, and Haw was still in the meeting room.

Haw: Still doesn't add up.... what if? No no, that's not what happened. Hmmm, hindsight doesn't really benefit me when the sources of information are pretty scarce. Damn this...

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They both made it to the stronghold, the darkness of the night shadowed over their figures as they sneaked up the outer wall of the location and sat there.

Mann: Whoa, biggie place over here.

Playful: It seems so, they got some legit defenses here.

Mann: What do you see?

Playful: 6 grunt mafia, assault rifles with them, same dummies we killed just a while ago. There's 2 artillery set ups! Wow! They got some real defense here huh? There's a tri-legged mecha with 2 cannon arms, with a ton of armor. He's kinda bigger than Desert himself! There's a sniper over there.....and over here.....

Mann: Holy hell, since when did they get vehicles and mecha? That's ridculous firepower for a bunch of mobs.

Playful: I know, I need to draw the layout of this area.

Playful took out her drawing book and a pencil. She started artistically drawing a map of the stronghold.

Mann: Here's a joke, why did the spy cross the street?

Playful: Why?

Mann: Because he never really was on your side =D

Playful: I'm this close to pushing you off the edge and letting you die at the bottom.

Mann: I have a dead ringer.

Playful: No you don't.

Mann: Yes I do.

Playful: No you don't.

Mann: Yeah I do.

Playful: Nu-uh.

Mann: Uh-huh.

Playful: nerp.

Manp: yerp.

Playful eventually got sick of the small talk and continued drawing the place. When she was done, she shadow manipulated with Mann back to their HQ.

They were both asleep... with her head lying on his chest. Spicy finally woke up, and felt better than ever. He started stretching a bit, Addfire consequently woke up too.

Addfire: Are you alright? How does your wound feel?

Spicy: It's better, hold on, lemme try and stand.

Addfire got off Spicy and helped him to his feet once more. Spicy was walking fine, but couldn't do any sudden moves, or else he'd start bleeding again. They slowly started walking outside the Gloomwoods and had a little chat under the stars of the night.

Spicy: Who're we after next?

Addfire: I honestly don't know, I have no idea where any of the others are.

Spicy: Maybe-

Before they could finish, a bush to their right shook. Addfire already had her hands behind her back, holding the handles of her scimitars while Spicy had his hand hovering over his revolver. A figure emerged out of the bush as both of the lov- *cough* sorry, the heroes had their teeth clenched.

YIS: Waddup smoochers.

They both let out a sigh of relief and annoyance at the same time knowing who it was, and sadly removed their hands away from their weapons.

It was Yes I'm Single, a name worse than Mann's, so they call him YIS instead. He was just a chill dude wearing birthday armor. He had a wooden stick in his hand. YIS was the type of people who was just 100% douche. He just liked to dick people over, trigger them and be the most annoying asshole possible. Unfortunately for him, his battle skills (awful, mind you) don't support that big mouth and long tongue of his one bit.Thank god he doesn't talk that much and is just absolutely boring in large groups of people. He approached his two haters with a smug look on his face.

YIS: What's with the dumb ship? And what're you two doing here all alone?

Spicy: I'm looking for the others, our Iron Shield buds. I have no time for your dickitry.

Addfire: What're you doing here anyway?

YIS: I was just walking around and saw that you two hot stuff were talkin', so I wanted to come along. I was an ex-member of the Iron Shield too y'know?

Spicy: Your contributions were?

YIS: Distraction material? Who other than me would you assholes send whenever the enemy is too good for your poor excuses for "battle skills"?

Addfire: You have a point, but still doesn't mean you gotta be obnoxious about it.

YIS: I don't care, but hey! I know where Unreal is!

Spicy: Really?

YIS: Awwww yiiissss, he's in some type of ruins in the town where we used to be.... y'know.....when we all split up.

Spicy: Damn, he's still there? Well....we gotta go to him!

Addfire: Come on then, let's go there, you coming with us?

YIS: Sure, who's gonna screw your smooching other than me? So from where do I start describing your stupid shit? eh?

Both Addfire and Spicy let out a long sigh and a tired face. It was almost as if YIS drained all the energy from them. They walked to the dreaded town, listening to the dreaded speech of YIS for hours....

Haw: This really how it looks like? A lot tougher than I expected.

Playful: I know right.... they actually have a mech.

Desert: That thing's larger than me, I dunno about that boss.

Haw: It's not a big deal, we dealt with much larger monsters in much worse situations back when The Iron Shield was still a thing, this mecha shouldn't be that big of a deal.

Mann: .... we have rusted over time tho.....

Everyone fell silent, even Haw. Mann's painful but honest and true statement landed a fact bomb upon the group.

Haw: ..... well... uh... so?! We're not old men yet! We can still get back to our former glory!!

Playful: Let's just get over there and power through them already! No need to be negative.

Mann: What a disaster. Oh well, we'll break through their dysfunctional faces anyway.

Desert: Let's move it team!

They set off towards the stronghold, arriving there at morning. All were exhausted except Haw, who was adapted to such war-like conditions. They sat in front of a group of trees, took out a few sandwiches and drinks. After a few minutes of resting, they walked a bit further, reaching the exterior of the stronghold.

Desert: So what's the plan?

Haw: Artillery, first and foremost, we gotta take them out. So one of them is supposedly right behind this wall?

Playful: Yup, and the other is way off at the other side.

Haw: Aight, Desert, you're gonna break the wall and make a hole for everyone to get through. Then you're gonna jump boost Playful to the top of the wall so she can provide cover fire. Mann, I need you to go hide in the background undetected, try to sabotage what you can.

Desert: Alrighty then....

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On the other side of the stronghold,sitting on the wall, two people, having a small chat before their so called "attack". An elf and a lady.

Rubik: ...

Eclipsa: Are you sure about this? This is a bloody stronghold, we're just 2 ex-members of a group that really doesn't exist anymore.

Rubik: And? Skill doesn't fade away, it's still there.

Eclipsa: Yeah....but I heard they had a friggin mech hidden somewhere over there! Do we really have the firepower to handle it?

Rubik: We're gonna try.

Eclipsa: *sigh* Ok, from where are we gonna start?

Rubik: The artillery close to our location, these vehicles are dangerous, top priority.

Eclipsa: What 'bout the other one way over there?

Rubik: I got this handled, just focus.

Eclipsa: Okee then....

RubikJohn, that one annoying ass Hanzo main who constantly headshots you and causes you to ragequit while playing on a platinum ranked match in Overwatch. Goddamn aimbot. Wearing a chainmail chestplate, leather pants and boots, and a scarred eye... this guy meant serious business. Playful wasn't the only super accurate ranged shooter of the Iron Shield. He held a bladed bow and had a variety of arrows in his quiver: explosive arrows, electric arrows, split arrows, titanium arrows... and a few more.

He was flexible in a lot of situations, and very useful too. But no matter how concentrated he can be, supernatural or overpowered enemies easily take Rubik out. And his arrows are frankly useless against their titanic powers, even the strongest ones.

EclipsaButterfly was a much more lineant type of girl. She was pretty open, very sweet to her teammates, but also very careful. She's the top spear user of the Iron Shield.... mainly because she was the ONLY spear user in the Iron Shield. She doesn't only stab and skewer with it. The tip of the spear was designed to slightly be like a blade. So she could kinda long-range slash at the enemy without them being able to deal damage to her. She can change physical properties of herself to disguise as a different person.

She is also the most adapted person to survivng in the cold, and also has a bit of experience in using guns or swords. She's not very durable though. Heat and fire can easily deteriorate her state. The unwieldiness of her spear and it's unflexible structure can allow enemies to easily grab that and just mess her around. She had to take care while fighting, or else she'd be in serious trouble.

Both attacks from both sides started simultaneously. Rubik jumping out above in the sky, shooting a few explosive arrows at the artillery below him. Desert hulk-smashed the artillery, ripping off it's long cannon, then smacking two of the guards nearby with it. Playful had already taken out one of the snipers and Mann was already hidden and nowhere to be seen. Eclipsa was in a fight with the other sniper. Both sides noticed whatever the hell was happening in the other side.

Haw: Wait....what? How did that artillery get destroyed? Who's fighting that sniper?

Rubik: The other artillery? We're not alone it seems.....

Haw dashed towards the other side with an absurd velocity, approaching Rubik who was also running with a similar speed. When they were about 10 meters away from each other, they recognized each other's faces, and tried their best to stop before crashing into each other. When they did, they were both astonished.

Rubik and Haw : You?

Their totally warm meeting was cut short with an explosion in the middle that threw them both off. It was the so-called mech, already armed and going in big.

Playful had already taken out 3 of the other guards. Mann had backstabbed the last one. Eclipsa amputated the sniper's head. Desert threw the cannon away, because he was bored. They all ran to the center to face the mech.

They didn't bother getting surprised by each other and left that for later, since they had a big threat at hand. The mech had a lot more arsenal than the team expected.

The cannons Playful mentioned were actually attached to mechanical arms below that were heavily armored. There were rocket salvos equipped on the shoulders. There were also a few more pieces of equipment attached with an intention that was a bit unclear.

Desert charged forth screaming a battle cry and gave a dynamic punch straight into the robot's hull. The armor, surprisingly, only got a dent, but wasn't broken open. Desert raised his hands up as the mech payed a punch back in order to defend himself. Desert actually felt pain and got pushed back. He started taking the fight more seriously.

While Desert and the mech were in a fist fight, Haw jumped over the robot and tried slicing him from above with max katana sharpness. Not even a scratch, and when he landed, a defense system got triggered and started electrocuting him. He had to jump off and take a breather. This was not some normal type of steel. This was modified titanium.

Playful tried sniping the robot in what she thought was a weak spot, but it did nothing other than alarming the robot that there were ranged enemies. The robot, in response, fired 8 rockets total from the salvos equipped above it's shoulders.

2 of them went straight for Playful. She tried running away, but the blast radius caught her and blasted her off all the way to ground. She dropped hard and cracked the floor, she was in deep injury. Few rockets went for Rubik, but he had already fired a split arrow that destroyed them all mid-air. One went for Haw, but he clean sliced it and even took care of the one that was going for Desert. Eclipsa ducked, slighty hitting the rocket going towards her with her spear and changing its route to a random building.

Desert glanced back to see his friend Playful in pain, and he was thus enraged by the mech's doing. Mann appeared from behind and landed a well-placed revolver shot on one of the batteries equipped on the left arm. An explosion occured where the cannon was fully damaged and the robot was crippled. But he rotated and fired his other cannon close to Mann's location. Mann jumped away from the explosion, safely evading it.

The robot tried rotating to face the others, but it was a dark day for it. In front of it directly was Desert fuelled with volcanic rage. Desert impressively lifted the 200-ton robot and started bashing it down to the ground with his full strength, lifting it again, bashing it down and constantly repeating. The mech was actually getting damaged and was having it's armor broken apart.

Eclipsa and Mann hurried over to Playful while the robot was distracted, trying to help her up from the damage she received.

Haw: Throw him up! Rubik! Electro arrow! Desert! Follow up with a mid-air smash.

Desert, obeying Haw's commands, threw the heavy robot 500 meters high. Rubik shot an electric arrow at the robot, disabling his weapons and defense systems. Desert then jumped just as high as the robot was mid-air. He lifted both his closed fists together and dropped them down upon the robot with a force that completely shattered his structure. The robot fell rapidly towards the ground.

He crashed into the floor with his explosive parts and ammunition getting crushed. This caused a massive explosion and destruction of the metal behemoth. When Desert landed.... he ran as fast as he can to help Playful as well. Haw and Rubik stood there close to each other looking at the burning remnants of what was a challenge to them.

Thye turned to face each other and looked at each other with dead eyes. They were each staring through the other's soul. After a few minutes, Rubik put his open hand out for a handshake. Haw complied. Slowly, smiles were being drawn on their faces.

Haw: Great aim.

Rubik: Great leading.

End.

P.S I have work to do after this for days,school and stuff, so story won't be updated for a few days =(

You can show your depression in the comments below tho =P