The battle in the stadium rages on as all three groups fight each other with every drop of courage that they have to fulfill what they need to do.
A battle to determine the course of the war.
On the upper stadium seats, Diamond and House are running as fast as they can while they notice the incoming reinforcements on their side.
"So, it took us long enough for this?" House asks.
"You should expect more of this you know," Diamond replies.
"But this is a stadium in the open, not a freaking cave!"
"What's the difference?"
House only groans from what she says, which in turn, makes her giggle for a bit as they continue their pace.
But just as they continue to run, a bullet grazes near Diamond's feet, causing to step back and stumble upon H's from the sudden impact of it.
They turn around to see the direction of the shooter. And it's none other than Valy herself, having entered one of the floors alongside Celina.
"So they turn up just now, eh? Better be ready, my fellow," Diamond says as she holsters one of her guns from the holster.
"Come on, really?!" House asks in frustration.
"Chicken?"
"No! I'm a man!" he replies at the top of his lungs as he unsheathes his knife and rushes alongside the chuckling girl, D, to battle the G.o.D girls while running between the seats around them.
Meanwhile, Celina and Valentina do the same as they take out their weapons for their "melee" mode to face them head-on, all on equal ground for a battle like this.
"You sure brought the A-game for this, darling?" Celina asks.
"How bout if we find out now?"
"You got it."
They get near for the attack, as Diamond jumps in the air to give some lead to Celina, only for her to swiftly block the bullets away with her sais. She also grins from what she just did in front, perhaps to give them more of a challenge to give from any taunt.
"You may reject bullets, but can you reject this?!" House says as he tosses three small balls towards the running duo. Said balls protrude spikes from many holes. But before they can explode, Valentina swiftly rushes beside Celina to use her dual Katanas to slice them to pieces.
"Can't take any more rejections then?" Valentina quips.
"OK, maybe just this once," House replies as he draws two knives from his belt, while Diamond clenches her fist for the battle, her gloves suddenly taking a metallic appearance.
Valentina leaps forward to strike against House, using the double-katana stance to slash him in some parts of the body. House quickly puts his arms near the chest where Valentina would strike, using his two long knives to block them. In spite of this, Valentina smirks from his move, perhaps at seeing an action matching her level of courage.
Celina tries to stab Diamond's arms but the latter quickly moves her hands near the direction of the sais that is pointed towards her. Looks like a bold and risky move, but with her hands looking metallic, it means something from her strategy. Just as the sais try to impale her hands, they just impact to it while Diamond punches them away. Nonetheless, Celina managed to get their grip on them in time, all while she raised her eyes to show the whites while still keeping a battle stance.
"Metallic hands...this is gonna be fun," Celina says as she prepares another flurry of strikes against Diamond. Yet Diamond still stands firm as she readies to block with her hands.
Valentina and House notice this as they have their blades locked between each other, all enticed in what each of their opponents is doing. Valentina pushes her blade against House again, enough to break the lock between each of them.
***
Back outside, Walter and Agent Widow are still having a fierce sword-fight, both look tired but it appeared that Walter was strong enough to keep going.
"Do you really believe that you're gonna snatch away our key to victory in this war? And you treat this as a great prize? Never thought there would be some greedy bitches in this world as of now." Walter says while slashing upwards.
"They are also beneficial for our war cause!" Widow retorts as she continues to clash with her sword against Walter.
"I don't care."
They continued clashing and parrying their weapons, with Walter keeping with the defensive while Widow continues her waves of strikes against him
Just as she manages to pierce a part of Walter's armor, Walter grabs her arm harshly, holding it in a rough manner as she tries to break free. She tries to reach for a knife in her belt for her chance, but Walter's no fool, as he raises his knee upward into Widow's abdomen, which then proceeds to the tip of the axe near her chest. The force of it when it impacts causes Widow to fall down to the floor and coughing up drops of blood that can be seen through her mask while the wound from the chest starts dripping the liquid as well.
Walter then picks up his axe while turning away from her to the direction of the stadium, but before advancing, he sneers at her.
"Whoever you are or where you belong to, if you and the others could have known better of the situation, then this would have not happened. Now I must get back to my pals and finish the job, you will stay here for your stupidity, that is, if you could ever call that for your group."
Walter then runs away so he can reunite with his comrades. Agent Widow slowly raises up still holding the wound inflicted by Walter in both her abdomen and arm, using every ounce of strength that she has. Even with her weakened state, she still has the will worthy of any agent of the group, as she looks on to Walter with a wide, intense stare and breathing heavily.
"My spirit of determination was a burden ever since I was born, all the days of suffering and rejection are gone ever since I joined them. Every action, every relationship, anything that can make me satisfied, it's all to achieve total balance in global power, and yet you dare to interfere with us in this war." She slightly stands up while keeping her wounds in check, yet her stare remains.
"War holds no principles to follow, survival is only what matters. And now your ideals of fighting for others is corrupting that view of all war, for whatever step and action you take, you risk further the balance of war. You may have won this fight against me young man, but that doesn't mean we'll back down forever from you, this fight is only the beginning of our quarrel, a quarrel of a deserved fate for daring to defy us..." She picks up her sword while still clutching to her wounds. Even in such a state, the blade and her spirit are what makes her lift it with a composed yet troubled state.
"The 12th Group...will drag you to the deepest judgments ever known to all of Humankind!"
"So you brought some backup? What a way to ruin the fun!"Ji-ae says.
"It's kind of a stretch you know..." Berat replies as he readies his stance.
"Hmph! Whatever, you'll be dead before you even lay a finger on them," Mehdi says as he takes out his halberd.
The agents just stand silently as they unsheathe their weapons from their belts. For their mission is what matters to them, with or without words.
"Cat got your tongues? You're more sore-eyes than we thought!" Ji-Ae says as she rushes towards the group with her chakrams in her hand and yelling loudly. Just as she starts to swing both of her weapons around Sequence, he flogs one of his whips at her which is filled with spikes, clashing with it.
As for Open, she blocks most of Berat's strikes from his sword with her large kunais. Even with all his moves filled with grace, striking with precision at every second, she can't help but feel a bit nervous about what could happen if she makes just one mistake.
Mehdi rushes towards Ace with his halberd, ready to plunge it towards Ace's chest. Just as they strike, they're parried from the sudden appearance of Ace's wired axes attached to his wrists. The wires, however, have a rubbery look on them, almost like a miniature hose.
Mehdi, however, is not to be deterred, as he swings back at him in other directions to hit. The results are still the same, nothing more but elaborate strikes from the strapped axes that fly around the space between the two.
Mehdi smirks from the kind of weapon he's seeing, clearly something to take notice of.
On the other side, Berat continues in his strikes against Open herself, still on the defensive from every swing he does with the kilij in his hand, jumping and dodging at every second that she counts. And to make it possible for her survival.
"Come on sweetie, it's not that bad," Berat asks Open, still striking at ease at her.
"Just...I just don't want to disappoint them..."
"I too don't want that from my teammates...but be considerate of who it may benefit best."
"But they..."
"Plan for domination? Or is it fake research?" He swings a bit more, almost catching Open off guard, but she regains her composure most of the time, now standing in one of the chairs.
"No..."
"Not even a single hint? Must've had a tight lip to force it out." He then jabs in front of her, making her jump vertically while landing to two line of seats behind her. Such action makes a fellow like Berat chuckle, perhaps the best fun he ever had in years.
"Perhaps you'll make a fine job in entertaining the masses with their kids with all kinds of tricks from weirdos and such. I seriously recommend it."
Open looks away for a moment, abashed at the comment aimed at her. Maybe for a girl like her, a nicer description may be more commendable to accept.
However, the heat of battle is what currently matters and she knows it.
Ji-Ae continues with her flurry of attacks, pounces and slashes towards Sequence, who continuously blocks them by flogging his spiked whip in each direction from her long chakrams. Every strike from her just incites her fury more and more, as she continues to strike in every weak spot she can find. Legs, arms, chest, neck, everything. Yet Sequence managed to dodge them all.
"Come on! Let me give you a drop of your blood for this!" she yells at him as she strikes.
"That'll be useless," he replies as he continues to flog around her, hitting her on her chest, causing her to stagger back from the impact.
Quickly regaining her composure, she notices small red drops coming out of her chest as a result of Sequence's whip.
It's at this moment that she will really let it all out against him. She charges once more with her flurry of strikes, this time with rougher force than usual. Perhaps with the full intent to kill stronger now.
"Is this what the government robbers really have? A rabid animal?" he says as he strikes on the floor near to scare her away, but it only serves to get closer at him and trounces him even more.
"Shut up..." she growls under her breath, her fury only getting bigger.
"You believe that you can really beat me with such uncivil tactics? As a proper soldier even?"
"Shut up!"
"Then it's official, you're not worthy of speaking even a proper word to me with such incivility."
"Shut up!" As she yells like never before, she spreads her arms wide enough to swing her chakrams around Sequence's upper arms, quickly slashing hard enough to cause many red drops from his body to be splattered across the nearby seats.
Sequence flinches from the strike yet at the same time manages to hang on to his whip with both arms intact. Even from such a hard strike, the force of determination in accomplishing the mission is enough to keep on going. Sequence is no exception to that.
"You did well this time...but not good enough to be a true soldier," he says while standing still like nothing.
"Then you...are not good enough...for enjoying true fun!" she yells as she rushes towards him again.
Back with Mehdi and Ace, they continue their play of force as he continues to hammer down towards Ace with his halberd, with still no success as he keeps on dodging by leaping around to different seats away from the halberd. Unlike Ji-ae, Mehdi's motions keep on being the same on his strategy to strike Ace. Even so, Ace has other plans in mind.
"You're so steady like this, it can make even the Ghurkas proud from their hearts," Medhi quips as he moves towards Ace, still with his wired axes around his wrists.
"True compliments lies in oneself instead of the comparison of others."
"Are you sure? Care to find out now?" Mehdi then starts hammering towards Ace again, but he quickly leaps to the other seat next to him and swings his wired axes at Mehdi. The latter quickly parries them with his halberd, knocking them back towards him.
"Not bad...but I guess you should learn more from-" he pauses as starts noticing something strange on the long blade and spike of the halberd. Namely, burn marks around them, almost like a nearby object covered in fire has stricken without warning towards him. Perhaps a new intruder is entering the battle as well.
Or is it?
Mehdi looks around Ace's hands again and notices something so interesting that his eye widens.
The cutting edges of the two axes now have a glowy orange light around them.
"I hope that my cutting edge-pyrotechnics are entertaining you for today," Ace quips as he hits the ground with his axes many times, all leaving with the same burning marks like the ones in Mehdi's halberd.
Nonetheless, Mehdi keeps his stance firm, his weapon ready for battle and all, all with a smirk on his face.
"Whatever you have, it will only serve to prolong the test of might for true soldiers!" He rushes towards him again as he hammers down vertically at Ace. Ace dodges it by leaping sideways between the seats as he swings his axes at him again. Mehdi parries them away as he leaps at him to deal a blow to him. Ace, however, jumps out again by landing on the ground between the seats once more, all while Mehdi's force trashes most of the seats apart.
Mehdi continues to hammer down at Ace to land a blow, all with little effect.
Just as Ace tries to swing his axes once more, he picks a loud noise that makes him stop his attack and looks for the source of it, in which Mehdi does the same. And the others as well.
The men widen their eyes like no other, some like Open even shaking up from the sight of it.
What they're seeing is nothing equal to even the most extreme Human violence. Even in war.
***
The arriving sentinels, part of the main infantry group from the 12th Group, the ones sent to pick up the Navigators, are mostly lying dead in a large cesspit of blood, with their dismembered arms, legs, even the heads of some scattered around the field on the ground as well. Their rifles either still in their arms, dropped on the ground or even broken apart from the attacker.
Near the center of the macabre presentation stands two figures, all with their bodies covered in gushes of blood. The marines and other Inquisitors overlooking behind them.
Raven and Yamja.
Their weapons, claws and curved swords respectively, splattered in blood as well, some parts even still dripping drops of it one at the time.
All with an unflinching stance while looking away from each other, all while Yamja chuckles softly.
Even in the furthest part of the stadium, Diamond and House and Celina and Valentina gasp from what they've just witnessed.
And none have listened to any of the cries from the soldiers.
Not even the loudest ones.
And just as things couldn't get any more complicated, someone makes an entrance from the stadium, a figure carrying an axe and a huge green armor with a red maple on the center of it.
It's Walter Carter himself, all ready for battle, only noticing Raven and Yamja at the center.
But just right behind, there lies a rushing figure behind him, screaming wildly at Walter himself. The figure's holding a sword while covering a deep wound on the chest as well.
Agent Widow is coming as well.
Diamond and House see the figure of one of her companions, noticing the trail of blood she's leaving behind. Now their objective has shifted to someone else.
"Looks like we need to regroup, this is not good at all!" House says as he pulls out a gun from his holster and starts firing in front of Celina and Valentina. But instead of bullets, only smoke comes out from it, surrounding the area between them and the two girls.
"The warriors...they're escaping!" Celina says.
"Let them go for now, let's focus on helping dear Walty!" Valentina says as she heads down towards the field where Walter is rushing towards the two inquisitors, with Celina following suit.
"Those...Those...Sons of bitches!" Ace shouts as he leaps down from seat to seat to head to the field where the massacre happened, Mehdi, Berat, and Open follow suit as well.
"Wait! No need to rush just no-" Before Sequence could do something, he gets cut in the chest from a strike from Ji-Ae's chakrams. Even with such an event, she wants to focus on the one who angered her the most after all.
"I am not...finished...with you...yet!" She starts kicking Sequence to the ground, then kneels and with her hands moving fast in a jerky manner towards Sequence's square, impacting with great force to cause some red droplets to spill. She does it many times so she can give him what's to come.
***
On the field, Yamja is staring at the incoming warriors with a large smirk on her face while holding her long blades in each hand. Raven steps in front of her while he notices the warriors that are getting near.
While this happens, she notices the beatdown Ji-ae is giving to S. Inside of her, an urge to bring more conflict into the zone starts to immerse her, a sensation to fulfill even more suffering in the heart of battle.
"You take care of these pieces of scum. I'll handle something much more...delicate from my habits," she says.
"Take your time," Raven replies.
"Don't mind if it gets too long...!" Yamja then flies away from the ground as the warriors jump in time to face Raven himself.
O and A rush together with their weapons at hand, but just as they come close, Raven ignites some rocket igniters on his boots, causing him to rush towards the duo while opening his hands. He grabs their heads and slams them to a wall.
Berat tries to swing his sword against him, but Raven parries them with quick succession with his claws, almost with exact precision on where the strikes come from.
He then grabs Berat's arm and slams him to the ground, proceeding to stomp him to the ground many times.
Just as he's about to stomp him again, both Walter and Mehdi leap with their giant weapons and hammer down as hard as they can towards Raven. He blocks both weapons with his claws at lock, having both sides pushing their strength against the other for their weapon.
"Fools."
"You bloodsucking monster!" Walter yells as keeps on pressing his axe to break Raven's lock.
However, Raven keeps on with the same strength as he does before.
***
Yamja then lands near Ji-Ae's position, where she's beating Sequence to a bloody pulp, her hands stenched in blood as well.
But before she delivers another blow, she notices the sound of the landing and turns around to see where it comes from.
Right behind her, slightly turning her head to see Yamja herself.
Her smirk turns into a large smile.
Ji-Ae starts to move away from Sequence to shift her attention towards Yamja, rushing while picking her chakrams and screaming loudly. But as she gets near, Yamja side steps away from her before she can strike.
Ji-ae notices where she dodged and swings her chakrams again at her, only for her to dodge by bending backward from the slash.
This just infuriates Ji-Ae more, as she starts breathing heavily from the sight of Yamja herself, who compared to Sequence, taunts her just by merely dodging.
"Stay put, you bitch!" She rushes at her again, using her flurry of strikes from her chakrams to cut her to no avail, as she rapidly dodges every single strike she aims at her.
And right after dodging one of her attacks, Yamja raises her left leg and aims at Ji-Ae's head. She manages to hit her, the impact of the kick strong enough to send Ji-Ae flying to the field, where she impacts on the ground and heads up.
Just as Yamja starts walking in the direction she landed, she starts dodging again, this time from an ambush from Celina and Valentina who were behind her.
Yamja then thrusts her hands forward to both girls, soon enveloped by purple energy which paralyzes them. They levitate in the air as Yamja raises her hands in the air, hurling them to the field where Ji-ae is nearby. They both impact on the ground, landing face-down from the impact.
Mehdi, who's locking with Raven turns around and notices the three bodies of the female soldiers, raising a high chin with protruding eyes over what he's seeing.
Yamja lands on the field again, likely to toy with the girls some more, but notices Mehdi's stance against her, one which he holds his halberd tightly while giving her a look worthy of transmitting fear.
Yamja's unfazed, still smiling highly as she pulls her two blades from her holster. Mehdi rushes towards her while swinging his halberd at her, clashing both weapons with each of their own strength. They keep on clashing regardless of their weapons' size, Mehdi keeps on hammering down towards Yamja who still dodges and blocks rapidly from his attacks while yelling loudly at him.
Mehdi then leaps in the air towards her, ready to raise his halberd to decapitate her. Just as the blade reaches near Yamja, she rapidly sidesteps from it and swings her blade towards Mehdi's right arm. The surprise paralyzes Mehdi, and just before he could even blink, it slices right through his arm, separating it from the rest of the body.
Mehdi screams from the wound as he uses his left arm to cover the bleeding from it, which is dropping highly.
"Medhi!" Walter yells as he swings towards Raven, leaving a distraction that gives Raven his chance. He slices Walter's chest two times as he's looking at Mehdi, then knees Walter abdomen, strong enough to cause him to puke blood out of his mouth and drop to the floor as he drops his ax as well. And before he can react, Raven stomps on him as he groans in pain.
Now Yamja's cackling even more, her smile widening to unimaginable levels of sadism, as she slowly approaches the injured Mehdi for god-knows many other things he can't resist, trembling as she gets closer at him.
She thrusts her sword to his right eye, piercing the inside of it, which causes Mehdi to scream even more. She detaches from it, leaving another huge hole in his right eye, his sight now deprived of him.
Yamja starts kicking on his left leg, causing him to kneel down while kicking him down once more as he groans in pain. And even in his weakened state, she keeps on stomping him on his chest.
Such action causes Jeanette to step forward near the line of the Marines who are blocking it, all while the eyes are widened and her mouth wide open from the horror.
"Yamja, stop it! That's enough suffering for him!" Jeanette implores.
"I decide when it's enough!" Yamja yells back as she crosses her arms and opens her hands near Mehdi's head, with the purple aura now surrounding his neck, which starts choking him apart while lying on a pool of blood.
Yamja swiftly moves her arms away, with the force of the aura tightening hard enough that makes Mehdi scream even more, and right after that, his neck comes off from the body, now levitating in the air.
This makes the Marines, Jason, and Dakrin cheer in response while clapping as well, Vladimir's smirk is also one to demonstrate his willingness in all this. Jeanette, however, can only step back silently while the others continue cheering, something that the Navigators do as well.
"I guess it's time to say goodbye to hope, people," Jason says while smirking towards the Navigators, still looking silently over what happened.
Yamja then moves the head towards the area where the Navigators are held hostage as she walks towards it as well.
Mehdi's head gets close enough to one of the cameras, his motionless face is now what any potential TV-goer is looking at right while Yamja approaches behind it.
"If you try to defy us...then consider this as a reminder to know your role," Yamja says as she's holding the decapitated head and throws it to the ground.
And now, who can save them?
Is it truly the end?