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They keep moving; watching all around them. Wulf, and Angel take the lead; leaving the others behind. just then, a great force knocks over a huge tree as wide as three elephants' backsides put together and as tall as, which was aiming for Angel. Wulf leapt in and tackled her out of the way.
"What the hell was that?"
"Told you it was an earthquake."
"Shut up, ninja."
"Yeh. Something pushed that tree over."
"Can't we go around it? Instead of standing here?"
"Yes. But it might take too long, seeing as the tree-line is too thick for us to get through.
On the other side, Wulf carries Angel in his arms as he moves further down the path.
She starts to wake up. The first thing she sees is Wulf's head hovering over her as he carried her. "What's going on? What happened?"
"I saved you from almost being crushed."
"Think maybe you can put me down now? I can walk from here."
"Sure. Sorry." He tilts down to his right; lowering her feet to the ground.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
"It's almost dark, maybe we should rest up."
"My thoughts exactly."
As nightfall came, Wulf and Angel sat around a warm fire; gazing at what stars they could see through the bushel of trees.
"I was telling Kaira the other day about how beautiful the stars are away from the city lights. You can see a lot more of them because the sky's darker. No neon signs, fluorescents, and street lamps."
"It's also quiet. I can't tell you how much I like being away from rushing cars, buses, and the sounds of horns."
"You're not like him are you?"
"Like who? Jodan? No. and I don't want to be. Just wish there was something I could've done to stop his slaughter. He killed 500 people, you know. I was there."
"If you're as innocent as you say, why not try to make someone believe you?"
"Jones won't believe me, who will?"
"You got me on your side."
"That's comforting to hear. But one person is not enough." Wulf answers as he lays down to rest."
"You're just gonna give up and keep running?"
"Nope. I'm gonna get some rest, which what you should do, then… I'mma keep running."
The next morning
Wulf and Angel continue their journey down the path, not knowing what's up ahead.
"So where you from?"
"Originally from Planet Gaia, But born in a whole different start system than where Gaia is. In 2004, I was just visiting to see if I wanna live there, then I made it official sometime after. What about you?"
"Don't know. I have no memory of my birth. Not even where I lived after…"
"No memory at all? You're not trying to fool me are you? Cuz it's not working.
"It's the truth. I keep having these dreams.
"What dreams?"
"I'm in a tube surrounded by green liquid; breathing through a tube when I'm asleep, I see this mirror in front of me, except in the reflection, it isn't me. Yet he… moves like me. When it my reflection catches me off guard, it pulls out a shiv (a blade of sorts) and stabs me through the heart. I wake up to see myself inside the tube, looking out at a lab or something. Scientists walking about; running tests, scanning bio-signs, etc. after that, that's all I know."
"You remember nothing else?"
"Nothing, except… the lab exploding, myself lying on a floor and rescued by some ninja. Her face was covered completely, but I was certain it was a girl. She let it slip what color hair she had, because she never concealed it."
"What color hair did she have?"
"Pink. And it was in a braided ponytail."
When'd this happen?"
"Sometime in 2004.
"Could just be a coincidence, but I think it may have been around the time of the Gambino mansion explosion."
"What? So you're saying it's not all a dream? But reality?"
"Might be."
"But what's all that got to do with Jodan? He wasn't there, was he?" "Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"Sounds like footsteps; marching towards us."
Wulf cautiously turns around only to see long, white radish looking things with white feet and hooves like a horse, rushing towards in a pattern like a stampede.
"What could they be running from?" he asks as he watches them run in the direction they're heading.
"Maybe that might have something to do with it," Angel points to a giant cheeseburger with large, bread crust colored rhino-like legs, angry eyes, and a large horn on what is assumed its nose stamping behind the horseradishes.
"Well… you know what they about 'when in Rome'…" Wulf said as he grabs onto one of the horseradishes and rides off.
"WULF!!! WAIT!" Angel exclaims as she jumps up on one of them and follows Wulf ninja. She rides up alongside him.
"Nice of you to join me. Thought you would've stay back there and became a permanent part of the soil."
"Oh shut up, Wulf! Let's just try to outrun this thing first."
They ride down the pathway; Cheeseburger rhino still behind them, stomping mudholes in the ground as it desperately tried catching up with them. Angel looks back to see it gobble up some of the straggling horseradishes. "In all my life, never have I seen a cheeseburger that eats you instead of the other way around."
"It seems to mimic the rampaging rhino, but aren't they vegetarians?" Wulf asked.
"Aren't the things we're riding vegetables of some kind?"
"I guess so."
They move through trees, and over rocks as they outrun the rampaging rhino as it gained on the herd of horseradishes and the two, smashing through trees as he stamped down the path. They then eventually reach a rock wall. Wulf notices an opening to the left and rushes through with Angel close behind him.
The herd spews through like water from a leaky pipe. The rhino runs around on the right, up a ramp and jumps over to the other side where he marches down a ramp and back behind them.
"Persistent, isn't it?" answered Angel petal.
With the herd and the rhino close behind them, they approach a cliff and come to a halt. "A little too close don't you think."
The herd bumps up against their rear and send them sliding down the slope. Sparks came from the hooves of the horses as they slid down. A few feet down, they trip over a rock poking out and go tumbling down the slope and into a puddle of mud.
"What a way to start off the morning," Wulf shouted. "Chased by a rhino down a cliff and land in a puddle of chocolate." He scoops up some in his hand, tastes it and spits it out as soon as it hits his taste buds, "Yuck. IT'S MUD!!!!"
Angel petal busts out laughing hard at his misfortune.
"Think that funny?" he said with a grin as he takes the mud still in his hand, walks over to her while she was too busy laughing and slaps it in her face like the classic scene in an old movie where someone shoves a pie in a person's face.
"Hey…. What was that for?"
"Haha. See how you like the taste of mud."
She retaliates be scooping up some mud, slapping into his face and rubbing it in. Wulf picks up more mud, pulls open the top of her blouse and dumps the mud on her chest.
They both laugh at each other, and slowly stop as they looked into each other's eyes like two love-struck teens meeting for the first time; moving in closer, their lips touch and in the background of their mind, fireworks began bursting in the air. They grab onto each other and wrestle down to the ground; not caring that they're in the puddle of mud.
5 hours later, Jodan and the others made it around the tree, walking along until Jodan picks up Wulf and Angel's trail. "They came through here not too long ago. Judging by the fact that some of these footprints are hooves, they were riding horses, probably like a hundred of them or more. These larger prints dictate that they were pursued by a much larger entity." Jodan looks up further at some sort of yellow substance spilled on the ground and moves up to it. Picking up a bit of it with his fingers, he brings it up to his nose and sniffs it. "It's mustard. Just as I suspected."
"What was like you suspected?"
"It's the dreaded cheeseburger rhino. Only it can leave a mustard trail his big. It has large, round body that consists of a bun with sesame seed, all-beef patty, mustard, pickle, ketchup, and a horn made of mayonnaise."
"How do you know that?"
"I hunted on when I was out here once. I was hungry. Anyway, their trail continues."
Back to Wulf and Angel, who went out in search of a stream to bathe in.
"That was like so much fun. Think maybe we can do that again sometime?" Angel asked.
"Yeh, if you can find a spa that is cheap."
"That's everyone's problem in life. Not wanting to spend."
"And everyone else's problem: wanting to spend so much until they run out, become poor and end up on the streets."
"I agree. But you gotta spend once in a while. Else the money's gonna do nothing but sit there. (will, that's unless you put it in a saving's account or something) but NONETHELESS, your money'll be of no use just sitting there in your deposit box."
"Whoa, Check it out. You see what I see?"
"I dunno, are looking at a stream of water?!" Angel replied as she jumps with glee then runs towards it."
"Finally, something normal about this planet. A plain lake; no chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla."
"Uhm. Wulf. Just one problem here: it's soda."
"What?" Wulf answered, sounding confused.
"Taste some for yourself."
"Does this planet have a sugary core or something? How does this stuff just pop up in rivers, and stuff?"
"Must you always question something's existence? You sound like my dull-witted sister," Angel said with a disappointed stare.
While they were bathing, Jodan was still tracking their scent. A couple of hours later, the trail leads them to a slope.
"They went down here. "
"You're kidding, right?" Reaper asked.
"Nice Joke, Jodan."
"I'm serious. They came to a halt, but were pushed over by the herd following them. The rhino didn't follow. He went the other way. It didn't want them, it only wanted the herd. My guess is, it's a vegetarian and whatever our friends were riding on were made of a vegetable."
"What makes you so sure?"
"Before you make a fool of yourself be asking idiot questions, look to your left."
Ninja guardian looks over at a dead horseradish with bite marks in its side.
"Quite remarkable. A common Horseradish of earth with horse legs. I'm still bothered by how this planet came into existence? Because all we've seen are unheard of."
"Hate to ruin your discovery channel moment, but one way or the other, we gotta make it down this hill."
"Will these help?" the Russian guy asked as he pulled out several large skateboards with mini-monster truck-like wheels on the bottom.
"Yev. You never cease to amaze."
Everyone except Jira gets on the skateboards.
"You think I'm getting on this thing, you gotta be out your…" she was cut off as someone extended their arm out and dragged her along.
Back to Angel and Wulf, who were completely naked in the Lake of soda.
"What? Why are you staring at me?"
"Just think you look beautiful."
"You're saying that just cuz I'm naked in a pool of carbonated water and high fructose corn syrup and other ingredients."
"That may be, but I still think you're good looking."
"Easy there, don't you think we're going too fast here?"
"No way. Besides you kissed me first, girly."
"Mind if I ask… why do you wear glasses? Do you have bad eyesight?"
"They're just as a fashion statement. Or do you not know about that stuff?"
"I know about fashion, it's just… those are wh at Gaia considers emo glasses," She giggled.
He stares, then says, "I don't care what other's think. They all can be judgmental, but I don't give a ******** lean in towards each other; eyes half open while staring at each other; Lips about to touch, but Angel pauses, "Wait. What are we doing?"
"Yeh, what ARE you two doing?" Jones interrupted.
"We were dirty; fell into some mud and needed to get clean."
"Looks more to me like you're getting even 'more' dirtier, huh Wulf?" Jodan asked.
"Not like that," Wulf calmly said with no trace of emotion. We just… got lost in the moment. I mean we ARE bathing in a lake of soda after all," Wulf explain; looking in Angel petal's direction.
"Nice to see you guys, how'd you know where to find us?"
"Thank Jodan. He's the one, who picked up your scent. Glad to see you escaped that weird rhino."
"Well, maybe it was mad about something. Maybe someone close to it was getting revenge and thought I was someone else…" Wulf looks up at Jodan, angrily.
Jodan stares back even harder.
"This planet's both a dream AND a nightmare."
"Yeh. I'd love to stay and examine more of its most intensive aspects, but there's the problem of these mysterious beasts that attacked Jira. We stay, no one is safe," the Wise Man said.
"They don't seem to fond sunlight, I assume from how they stick to the dark caves."
"Maybe they're waiting for something," replied the wise man.
"Really? Then what, huh? What are they waiting on? Cuz if they love sunlight, then why don't they just attack right now; turn us all into chow?"
"Like a lion in the savannah jungle. They toy with their prey before eating them. Same principle could apply to these monsters. They could be waiting until we are more vulnerable. They know something we don't…" the wise man's voice trails off.
In the course of 2 and a half hours, the group continue wandering the forest when they came across an abandoned campsite in the middle of an area heavily populated with trees, rocks with moss facing the north side, green grass, and more weird creatures.
"First good thing that happened while we're out here. We're not the only ones, who crashed here."
"Maybe it's such a good sign after all," Jira responded as she looked around; picking stuff up and examining it. "This equipment seems many years old."
"What the hell happened here?" Ninja guardian asked.
"Something scared them off. Don't know what, there's footprints scattered all over. Human footprints, human-animal hybrids, and animal footprints. My gut feeling says those creatures from the cave. No blood, no bodies. Which means they dragged them off and ate'em elsewhere."
"Hold on, Wulf. One over here almost got away. He shot one in its shoulder on its right front leg, they got away, but were attacked by two more when running in that direction," Jodan explained as he pointed west.
"What I wouldn't give to be able to track like these guys."
"Comes with the territory. It's like we were born with it," Jodan answered.
the wise man speaks to his sons in their native language as they were looking at weird looking tracks in dirt. His children answer back and the wise man translates, "Seems like they found something." He rushes over to them and the others, including Wulf and Jodan, follow.
"Sonofabitch. I forgot about my truck. Back at that port on the planet. I left it when I was running from the scene. I might have to collect it from the impound."
"Focus, Wulf."
"Some of them took off in a Cargo-carrying truck thing. They didn't get far before they start losing control and crashed. Dealing with whatever those things are, they probably didn't know how to kill them."
"One other possibility being that they didn't have enough ammo to kill them all."
"Ok, spread out. See if you can find something that can explain what happened."
The wise man's three sons look around near a big blue tent with an antenna coming out of the top.
Jodan looks around near another tent, and noticed an odd motion drawn in the dirt; a trail of someone being dragged out and the person seemed as though they were reaching for something. He walks up in and saw a weird looking video monitor lying on the ground, picked it up and dusted it off. As he turned it on, a voice said, "Playing last transmission."
"If anyone can still hear us, the Limestone tiger things have followed us to the ship. At this time, it will be far too risky to make another pass to come get you. I am regret to say… we are leaving you." The guy looks back at the pilot, as she's trying to fix the problem with the Ship's system. "Why isn't it taking off?"
"It says we need more power, maybe we should've brought the remaining cells."
"s**t. I guess we gotta go back. Listen. You guys got lucky, we're heading back your way." The man was then mauled by one of the tigers as dark clouds, which appeared to be smoke clouds, appeared in the east; making their way closer to their position.
The camera on the transmission device was still displaying an image. The blue sky turned an orangish-red, the clouds moved in closer practically covering the sky as fireballs rained down from above; one of them collided with the monitor and all that could be seen and heard was static. After the transmission ended, Jodan puts the device in his pocket and steps outside into the fresh air up to Jira.
"Find anything?" she asked.
"Nope. Not a damn thing.
"Well, it's not a total loss. I found a bunker with fuel cells. Those similar to what most common aircrafts use. Which means they must be an escape ship somewhere nearby."
"Where? I don't see one."
"It must be further ahead, usually when a ship is about to crash, they relieve some pressure, lighten their load and all that s**t. They had to have dropped such a heavy ship as their emergency escape vessel somewhere around here as they entered the atmosphere."
"I know the procedure. Are you even sure that it could still be there?"
"The sooner we find out, the better the opportunity that we suffer the fate of the bastards who were here before us."
"It's got to be a few miles out, how do we get there?"
"We walk. Like we've been doing all along."
Jira stands there with no response, no emotion; just staring at Jones as if her were out of his mind.
"Look, it's our only option. Plus, It's best only a few of us go. The more we have in the group, the more we'll slow down and it's getting dark soon."
"Fine. I'll go with you."
"No."
"I'm the captain now, I have the best navigational experience, so I'm going. No argument."
"You're gonna need protection, I'll go," Wulf responded.
"No, Wulf. Allow me," Jodan intervened.
"Ok, Jodan," Wulf replied, who saw Jodan as being suspicious. "I'll stay behind and protect them."
"Take these with you," Kaira replied as she tossed a couple of walkie-talkies toward Jones and Jira. "So we can stay in contact."
15 minutes later.
A feeling of hunger came over Kaira, the wise man and the others as Ninja guardian, Reaper, and Kaira searched the grounds for anything they could salvage. Reaper, who was struggling with a heavy piece of machinery no bigger than she was, heard a huge rumbling noise, like footsteps of a massive army, heading towards her and the others.
"Yev, tell me that was your stomach?"
Yev didn't answer.
Kaira called out his name again, this time even louder. Still no answer.
As the rumbling got closer and closer, the wise Indian ushers his sons to safety.
"Good idea," Kaira responded as she took cover behind the huge machine Reaper was trying to turn upright.
The sound gets louder, Some of the tree were knocked over as a colossal Cheeseburger Rhino stomped into the campsite with Yevkovich on top, riding it like a bucking bronco. He grips the reign he put on it tightly; tight enough to choke it, and it crashes to the ground, face-first. "How's 'THAT' for service," he said with a toothy grin of excitement.
"Yev?! You NEARLY SCARED US HALF TO DEATH! I thought we were under attack."
"Well that horrific incident is over, let's eat!"
another 5 minutes later.
"Anyone else feel like fries and a soda?"
All the others laughed softly as they ate a piece of the huge Cheeseburger Rhino.
"Well, to remedy that," Angel petal answered as she reached into her bag, "I bottled up some of the soda from when Wulf and I were a the lake."
"The one you two bathed in?"
"Yes, but it was a big lake, so I got some where it was clean and mud-free."
"Speaking of Wulf, where is he?"
It was getting close to nightfall and the tip of a giant glass-like figure appeared in the direction the sun was going to set and was slowly beginning to rise.
"Well, Jones. You got lucky."
"And still intact, too. So what's the status?"
"The two cells give off just enough power to run a check on all the system components, but it needs three more to make it work."
"Think we can get back the camp and haul them back here in time?"
"Like you said, Jones. Sooner the better."
"Well, I'm gonna locate Jodan. Make sure he don't get in no trouble."
"Good luck with that," Jira answered as Jones steps outside; unaware of Wulf's presence. She heard footsteps stepping back onto the craft, "Lose something, J…" she paused as she turned around and saw Wulf standing in the doorway.
"Surprised to see me?"
"I thought you were back with the others?"
"I was, but… I figured Jodan couldn't be trusted. I feel as though since stopping at the campsite, he's been hiding something."
"What's makes you think that?"
While Wulf and Jira had their little chat, Jones walks towards the huge armored truck where he found Jodan.
"Well?" Jodan asked.
"We need three more cells to operate the ship, there was only enough for a system check."
"Now, do we still have a deal about what to do with Wulf?"
"I'd keep your voice down if I were you, Wulf is here as well, and we don't want him getting wind of our assassination plan."
"I know he's here. Talking with Jira no doubt. He must know about the device I found."
"What device?"
Jodan pulls the video-com device from his front pocket and hands it to Jones. "Shows the previous group that were here before us, being attacked by some tiger things made of stone, Also a weird firestorm of some sort. Happened around this time long time ago according to the date."
"Shouldn't we show this to Jira?"
"No. She's so chummy with Wulf, let the storm come and watch her skinny a** burn."
"I like your thinking, but who's gonna pilot the craft?"
"Are you forgetting how I got away during our last encounter?"
"Oh right, killed the pilot, read the manual and took off."
"You handle Wulf, and I'll take care of the woman."
Half an hour later, Wulf, Jira, Jones, and Jodan reunite as they board the truck.
"Wait. Wait. When'd he get here?" Jones asked. Sounding surprised.
"He followed us here, I guess. I'm just as surprised as you are. Now let's go," Jira said as she got in the driver seat. She pulls down the overhead visor and finds the keys, she puts them in the ignition, shifts into high gear, and off they went.
In the sky, the glass-like figure was still rising in the afternoon sky; slowly making its way in front of the sun as Jira and the others drive through a path of trees, and bushes, making their way back to the camp where everyone else is.
Half an hour's passed and the figure, which appeared to be a giant magnifying glass was less than 3 feet away from the sun.
Back at the camp, the others continue finishing the remains of what they don't know may be their last meal on the planet.
A family of potato roaches make their way into their midst. As they nibble on a piece of the Cheeseburger Rhino, they shook like they shivering from the cold, and broke off into little French fries; crispy and fresh to the taste.
"So cool. Did you see that?"
"Yeh, I did. They just broke off into French fries. Quite remarkable."
"If only it were that way on earth."
Back to Jira, Wulf, Jones, and Jodan, who were still racing along when the giant magnifying glass moves in front of the sun; blinding them for a brief moment with a brilliant flash of light before dimming.
"What was that about?!"
"I dunno!"
"Look out!" Jodan exclaimed as he pointed out in front of them as a fireball dropped like a asteroid fragment from the sky followed by more balls of fire.
Jones whispered to Jodan, "Well, Jodan. When you're right, your right."
"What are you two whispering about?"
"Uhh…. Nothing." They both replied in unison.
"This thing's solar powered, we gotta get back before the sun is blocked out by the clouds."
The fireballs continued raining down like it were Satan's revenge. Tree began catching fire, withering from the flames' intense heat, smoke rising into the atmosphere, which could be seen by the others back at the camp.
"What the hell is that?"
At the same time, something was racing towards them like a stampede of wild animals.
"Whatever it is, it's not our only concern," Kaira said as she turned to the sound of the stampede. She armed herself with a large piece of metal lying next to her and from one direction, a bunch of limestone tigers; jumping out at their prey. In the other direction, a huge armored truck came crashing in; left front tire running over a boulder and tipping over on its side.
Wulf jumps in hits one of the beasts with a slash to the neck, blood gushed out as it hit the ground. Another one leapt in from the right, Wulf spun around and gave it a kick the side of the face, spins around towards Kaira, leans over with one foot in the air behind him as he reaches for her gun and shoots the tiger in between the eyes.
Jodan leapt in front of the wise man in his sons as a tiger pounces on them and stabs his blade through its mouth and out the back of its head then pulls it out. Another pounces from the left; almost catching Jodan off-guard. Jodan caught its paws with his paws; desperately holding it back.
The man and his boys ran to safety as Jodan held off the beast. His arms began getting weak as it fought against his hold while snapping and snarling at Jodan, who pushes him back, stabs his sword in his chest, reaches for a knife, grabbed the tiger by the neck, places his blade above his arm as he held on with a tight grip and glides his blade along the beast's stony exterior and tosses him aside; pulling his sword out of it.
While Wulf fought of the ones in front of him, one grabbed Kaira by the leg from behind and dragged her off into the tree.
"KAIRA!!!!!" Wulf yelled out.
Loud crunching sounds could be heard from beyond the trees along with a loud, ear-splitting scream, which was cut off after two seconds.
"Nothing much we can do. We gotta watch our own backs," Jodan replied.
"And how would you feel if it were you getting eaten? HUH, JODAN?!"
Jira lays a hand on Wulf's shoulder, "He's right. You did all you could. Now we have to move on. Get the cells to the ship and take off."
"And how we do that, captain?" Jones exclaims. "That truck is solar, and the clouds are blocking out the sun, meaning it won't work."
"It's got to have battery supply," Yevkovich answered.
"You're right, Yev. But the guys who used it before never bothered to recharge it."
"So we juice it up."
"I've checked, there's no charging station anywhere here."
"No charging station? That's bullshit, Jodan." Wulf said.
"Check yourself, if you don't believe."
"We don't have time! The limestone tigers will be back. We need to carry the cells, or whatever it takes."
Those things have gotta be a ********' ton. And you want us to carry them?"
"There's an old fashion sled used in sled dog races in the back of the crashed truck. Maybe we can use that."
"Look. We can stand here arguing, or we can make this work. Who's with me?"
"You're certain we can do this?"
"We have these two lead, we'll do fine," Jira explained, pointing to Wulf ninja and Jodan."
An hour of gathering the fuel cells, grabbing the sled off the truck, and setting the cells on it, they mush on towards the emergency aircraft; flames burning all around, tree being reduced to nothing but firewood and ash, skies ridded of their blue color and replaced with the dark gray of the clouds.
All the forms of wildlife either running from the flames or being chased down by the limestone tigers in the far off distances as the group traversed the dying forest.
Jira, Yev, Ninja guardian, Reaper, and the wise man and his sons left to carry the sled.
"You've been awfully chummy with Jones for someone, who is his payday. Whatever deal you have with him, how sure are you he'll deliver on his promise," Wulf whispered to Jodan.
"What business is it of yours whether I can trust him or not?"
"It's not any of my business. But you'll end up either dead, or back in the slammer. Don't mean me no never mind."
Meanwhile, at the back of the group, the other cautiously looked around them to make sure nothing snuck up on them.
Sounds could be heard from all around; sounds of animals being eaten by the ravenous beasts as the trees and other foliage burned around them.
Darkness slowly crept upon the woods as they moved on and on; heading across a bridge hovering a huge canyon
Out of nowhere, a fireball falls on the bridge; rapidly burning through it and makes it collapse into the depths below; cutting Jira, the wise man and his sons, Reaper, Ninja guardian, Wulf and angel petal off from Jodan and Jones.
"Not this again," Jira shouted.
"Yelling at it won't do anything. We need to go around and quickly! Before we are too far behind them."
They continue moving left trying to find another way across, while Jodan, Jones, and continue on without them.
"Quite the body count we're stacking up here. First half the passengers from the ship, now Jamie, and Kaira."
"Not much of a body count if you ask me."
"Oh, right. It's nothing compared to how many you and Wulf killed. How many was it? 300?"
"More like 500 and I'm think of adding one more," Jodan looks up as Jones looks into his eyes with distrust, and beads of sweat dripping down the side of his face.
They each exchange stares like two cowboys in an old western, Jones draws his shotgun as Jodan drew his sword and pushed the barrel into the air as it fired off a shot that could be heard by the others from far away.
"Sounds like they're in trouble. Let's move!" the wise man pointed out as he lead the others towards them.
Jodan lands a left jab under Jones' chin, and back flips; kicking the gun out of his hand three feet in the air.
Jones hits with a right cross beside Jodan's eyes.
Jodan kicks him in the right leg, kicks with his right leg into his waist, plants his left foot on his chest and lifts up as he spins his right leg around and dealt a devastating blow to Jones' Jaw; knocking him into a tree face-first. "Wulf's right. You can't be trusted. Consider our deal terminated. I'll deal with him myself.
Jones wipes the blood from his lip, reaches to his right and pulls out a handgun. When fires off another shot, time slows to half speed as Jodan, moves his blade in the path of the bullet and deflects it, pivots around and throws his sword like a dart at Jones, who dives out of the way.
Jones runs up to Jodan the same time he does. Jodan draws back his left arm, open palm, as he moves in closer then thrusts it forward, Jones blocked, Jodan hits with a palm thrust to the face from his other hand, Jones ducks under it, rises back up and delivers a kick to Jodan's waist, but he blocks by grabbing his foot. He smiles at him as he still held his foot up at a 90-degree angle, and flips him backwards.
He spins backwards, Jodan waits until he is facing him in mid-air before belting a kick into his stomach; knocking him flat onto his back.
"Get up!" he exclaimed, "It ain't over yet." He marches over and pulls back up onto his feet and dealt a hard punch to the left side of his jaw, steps back a few feet, runs back up, plants his right foot into his chest; walking up his body and standing on his shoulders where he twists his pelvis around and snaps Jones' neck bone resulting in instant death. "You're next, Wulf…" he mumbles to himself as he walks off; leaving Jones' body for the beasts.
Hour and a half later, Jira and the group reunite with Jodan; wondering about the gunshots and where Jones was, and Jodan said, "Wulf was right about him not being trusted. He tried killing me, but I got him first," He lied.
"And how can we trust you? How do we not it was you who tried to kill him and succeeded?"
"It's your choice whether to believe me or not. We can stay out here; arguing and wait to die, or we can mush on. Isn't that far to the ship as long's we keep moving and not rest."
The others take the lead while Jodan stood there waitng for Wulf to pass. As he passes close by, Jodan whispers, "He died fast, and if I have my way again, that's how you'll go out. For now, let's put our differences behind and get off this rock before we're both dead."
Another hour of wandering through the burning forest, the flames began dying down; making it darker and forcing them to pull out their flashlights and signal flares.
Only eleven of them left: Jira, Wulf, Jodan, the wise Native American man and his three sons, Reaper, Ninja guardian, Angelpetal, and the Russian Art dealer, Yevkovich.
With the limestone tigers all around them like hungry lions looking a pile of raw meat sitting in the middle of their den, while the others are grouped together in a circling as they keep a lookout from all sides as they move forward.
The clouds above in the pitch-dark sky began moving in the wind in the direction they all came from.
They arrive at a canyon, which dry like the Mohave desert. "It's our only other choice. The path we came from will be filled with those things. Jira, you know this," Wulf explained.
"I'll carry the cells, You Protect them. I'll take the lead."
"Fine then, Jodan. Give'em the cells," Wulf demanded from Yev and the others, who then took the straps from around their shoulders and presented them to Jodan with the fuel cells attached.
Jodan throw the straps over his neck and rests them on his shoulder. "Now move," he whispered.
"Sure you wanna do this," Reaper asked.
"Just MOVE!" he exclaimed at the top of his lungs as he pushed off on his left foot, then his right and kept going like a sled dog down the canyon while the others kept up. All around them, the limestone tigers started fighting with each other as they ran on by. After running a few yards, one of them fell off the canyon wall above them, landing in front of Jodan; lying their dead and lifeless as he stepped over him.
"What the ********?" Ninja guardian asked.
"Why the hell they killing themselves?"
"Like lions in the zoo, killing each other over food," the Native American man explained.
"C'mon, don't slow down, we gotta keep moving!" Jira shouted.
They ran and ran as the tigers killed each other out of greed and hunger when two fighting tigers fell over the cliff, taking the huge skeletal remains of their previous meal over with them and landed on top of reaper, who screamed out loud as it rapidly descended on her and pinned her down and separated the others from Jodan, who kept moving down the path.
"Jodan, wait!" Wulf exclaimed while Jira was fighting the tigers off to protect Reaper. As this happened, Jodan didn't stop, he kept moving.
Wulf jumped in one of the two beasts Leapt at Jira. He decked it in the jaw, it just turned it head; reacting to the blow and struck back with one swipe from its mighty paw, which Wulf blocked.
The tiger leapt at Wulf, who bent backwards; falling on his hand with his feet in the air and flips the oversized cat over his head.
Three more tigers intervened; surrounding Wulf like a tribe of Indians cornering a cowboy in the desert.
Meanwhile, Jodan only got a couple yards before he decided to turn back.
As Jira, Ninja, and Yevkovich attempted lifting the skeleton off of Reaper, Jodan leaps over them towards Wulf, who was still surrounded by the tigers as he looked around him. Jodan jumps inside the circle with him and they stood back-to-back like the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin.
"Glad to see you still care."
"Hey. I don't. I just want the privilege of killing you to be mine alone."
"What'd you do with the cells?"
"They're safe."
Two tigers leapt at both Jodan and Wulf, who stick their hands out and caught their paws and slammed them into each other and threw them aside as three more jumped in. Wulf and Jodan unsheathe their swords and duck under them, rise up again and cut into their ribcages. A sixth one rushed towards Wulf as he leaps over him; landing on his back where he places his blade under his neck and slides across, slitting its throat; jumps off and into the air where he points his blade downward as he lands on top of another tiger and stabs him in the back of the head.
Another one runs up to Jodan, who spins around; kicking it in the side of the face, quickly spins around in mid-air and drops his other foot on top of its head like a sledgehammer, causing all four of its legs to collapse from under it.
"And that's a wrap," Wulf chuckled.
"Damn right," responded Jodan as he extends his hand.
"We do make a good team, don't we?" Wulf asked as he extends his hand celebrating with Jodan through a handshake.
"Just don't think this changes things, we're still enemies."
They let go of each other's hand, "Now if you'll excuse me, I've got cells to carry." As he walks off, a loud roaring could be heard in the night sky, followed by a light shower, which increased into a light storm, which began dousing the flames that were still burning in the forest around them along with any bit of light that could help light their path.
"Little rain never hurt anyone. Help her up and let's move."
After 10 to 20 minutes, Jodan stops when reaching a small cave at the end of the canyon.
"Jodan what is it?" Jira asked.
He didn't answer.
"Jodan!" she called out.
"We're close, we just need to go through this cave and we're home-free."
Jodan goes through first followed by Wulf, then Jira, Angel petal Reaper, Ninja guardian, the wise Indian, his sons, and Yev in that exact order.
The sounds of the rain falling onto the stony canyon floor and walls began to deafen as they went further inside the narrow tunnel.
"Was places like this that gave me the creeps when I was little," Jira whispered out to Wulf.
"I wouldn't know," Wulf replied. "I wasn't around when you were a child. Not sure I was around to even have a childhood. From what I believe, I was created in the G-corp lab before the explosion in '04."
"Really? Wasn't aware of that."
As they moved through the cave into a huge cave den of some sort, Jodan trips and the force of his fall caused a cave-in, which blocked the entrance; crushing the the wise man's sons, and Stranded Yev.
Jodan jumps to his feet acting like nothing happened and kept going as everyone else tried to pull the rocks off of the three.
"Jodan…" Wulf mumbled to himself as he took off after him.
"Wulf, where you going?" Angel asked.
He didn't answer, and she followed after him. Through the rain and thunder, the three traversed as their scenery transitioned from a grassy wood to wet, sandy desert. Angel arrived just after Jodan loads the cells into the ship's engine.
"Are you that heartless that you'll leave them all here to die?"
"Every man for himself. A basic survival trait of all the human species. It's either eat… or be eaten. Kill… or be killed."
"I know the world is cold and selfish, Jodan. But that doesn't mean you need to be."
"Don't dare to lecture me," he said as he pulled out .44 magnum revolver and aimed it at Wulf's forehead. "Either come with me or stay here and die. But if you utter one more sentence or try anything stupid, I'll kill you right here. You can take your girlfriend with you if you please, now just get the ******** in here."
Wulf didn't make a response; he stood there thinking to himself. Then he blurts out, "So you're gonna walk away? Why not just kill me now? Cuz I'm not getting on the ship… at least not without the others."
Jodan stares into Wulf's eyes with anger, Wulf stares back even harder. Inside their eyes, a intense flame burned. "Fine…" sighed Jodan with a frown on his face. "It'll be a cold, wet death for you, Wulf." He moves in closer; gun still aimed at Wulf's forehead as he marched up. At 2 feet away, he spins the gun until he is holding it by the barrel, then at 3 inches away, he slaps it across Wulf's cheek, tosses it aside and delivers a blow at to his cheek again, but this time, Wulf grabs him by the wrist. He twists it around behind his back and puts him in a headlock and slams his head into the sand, pulls it out, turns him around and strikes with a punch to the forehead.
Jodan steps back a few feet like a drunk person losing his balance as Wulf delivers a kick to his ribs, and a kick to the side of the face so fast that he didn't see it coming. He lands another kick to the face, which Jodan ducks under by falling onto his side as broke his fall with his right arm, and pivots clockwise; kicking Wulf in the back of the knee, making him kneel down, and finishes with a kick to the chin. "over that quick?" he asked as he sticks the magnum revolver in Wulf's face yet again.
"Got one more trick," he answers as he rapidly plants his arms above his head in the sand, and kicks his feet into the air, knocking the gun out of Jodan's hand as he sprung to his feet and pivots around clockwise; hitting with a devastating spinning kick to the stomach, runs up and throws a jab towards Jodan's Adam's Apple, Jodan latches his hand onto Wulf's wrist, Wulf unclenches his fist and pokes his nails into the Adam's Apple, making him gag for a short moment and loosen his grip on his wrist and reaches around with a sucker punch to his jaw, knocking him onto his back. "All things must come to an end, Jodan."
"You'd honestly die for them, Wulf? Even for your girlfriend?"
"I would fight for them."
"That's not answering my question, Wulf ninja!" he said as he coughed.
"If you're looking for a straightforward answer, Jodan. Then yes. I would die for them."
"Very interesting. But I won't let you just yet."
An hour later, Jira and the other were still removing the rocks when they heard a noise coming from the other way and turned in the direction to see Wulf, Jodan, and Angel walking down the tunnel towards them.
"Just had to make some last minute system checks. We're all good to go," Explained Jodan.
"Anyone ready for this?"
"What about my sons?"
"If you haven't heard their voices by now, then they're long gone."
"The more e stay here, the more we're susceptible to the limestone tigers coming back for us," Wulf replied.
Ten minutes later, they emerge from the cave; rain still fell down with no sign of it ending any time soon. They traverse through the wet grass, and half burnt trees in the soaking rain towards the emergency ship with the limestone tigers hot on their trail. After another ten minutes, they arrived at the ship. The doors opened upon approaching the rear of the craft to let them in.
They all climb aboard and shut the door.
"Sure this'll work? Jira questioned.
"100% positive."
"Sooner the better right, Jodan?" Reaper asked.
He flips the switches, activating the thrusters, kick-starting the engine, and turning on the lights. Then shuts them all off again as the limestone tigers piled on the top of the hull.
"What the hell are you doing?" Ninja asked.
"It'd be rude for us to leave without a proper goodbye…" he said as he flips them all on again, and begins takeoff.
From yesterday by 30 seconds to mars fades in
He engages afterburners, turning the tigers behind the ship into semi-molten rock as the ships glides along the sand before lifting into the air.
They fly through the stormy weather, exiting the planet's atmosphere where the clouds began thinning out and showing the sun rising over the horizon with a sky full of stars all around them.
Like I said, not a day goes by that don't remember my adventures, including the epic survival of the harsh conditions of that strange planet. Lot of questions that needed to be answered if I were to run into ship owned by bounty hunters. But as I told the others, "Tell'em Wulf and Jodan are dead. Died on the planet somewhere. A merciless slaughter of giant proportions. Only thing I'm worried about was…. Where will I go?"

The end

"Deploy anchors," Jim shouted over the roaring sound of metal scraping against rock.
As the stern opens and drops two heavy gray cube-like bricks, which latched onto a couple of hooks outside the cave. The ship gets a few feet before they're jerked backwards by the hooked anchors.
"You two. Unhitch the anchors and park it inside while we call the warden down."
15 minutes later, Jim and two other mercenaries untied us, & walked Wulf like a dogs on leashes to the warden's office to turn him in & receive their reward.
we got onto this mine cart & made our way there.
While Wulf were tied down to the floor of the cart, he's all like "when this ride's over, you're glasses belong to me." he said putting some of his saliva on the tips of his index & middle finger, using them to wipe some of the fog from glasses. Wulf lifted him into the air with our feet & he hit a stalactite. he fell off the cart & got left behind.
Captain looked at Wulf, he gave the 'I don't know' gesture with his shoulders.
"FIVE WAY SPLIT!! HAHA!" the captain exclaimed.
We finally arrive at the warden's underground bunker.
Few minutes later in the warden's office, Jim slams his fist on his desk. "70k?! the deal was 100k for bringing him in alive?"
As they all argued, the guards lowered Wulf into the holding cell below, which was a dim red color with dark brown rock and steam seeping through cracks in the ground.
the warden asks for the bounty hunters to stay one more day, & he re-calculates the numbers again.
Wulf struggles to get himself free, and after a few tries, he falls to the ground; landing on his feet. He is then greeted by an unfriendly face, rushing up at him from behind with a crowbar, he gets close enough and takes a swing at Wulf, who ducks and delivers a backhand punch to his chin, pivots around and grasps his hand on his throat like an eagle; lifting him in the air and slamming him to the ground. A second guy runs up, left arm drawn back. Wulf blocks his punch his free hand, flips his arm down and delivers a hard punch to his private area. As he's kneeled over in pain, Wulf kicks him in the face; knocking him on his back.
A third guy rushes up, Wulf draws his sword, holds the blade sideways and sweeps his opponent's feet from under him, sending him flipping forward and landing on his face right near Wulf's feet.
Another person steps up as Wulf spirals in mid-air, extending his right foot and landing a kick to his Adam's apple.
A woman began approaching him with a huge knife, Wulf turns; preparing to attack, but was interrupted by an arrow flying past him and hitting the woman in the stomach.
He turns around to see, off in a distance, this girl in an OMFG hat, dark halo, were tail, black musketeer pants, demonic anklets, were feet, nitemare claws, sharp fish teeth, SKA wristband, & a shadow spirit.
They made eye contact for a short while before she disappeared into the shadows.
"It's awfully hot in here, how do you manage to maintain normal body temperature with all that attire on, eh."
"I was born with no sweat glands," Wulf said, making zero eye contact with the person to the side of him as he passed on by.
"Haha. Amusing joke. Guess I'll… catch ya later, huh?"
He walks on through the steam riddled corridor as the man and all the others look on in confusion. He wanders without knowing where he's going, and then… from out of nowhere, the woman he saw pops out of a crevice with a knife to Wulf's back and says, "And here, I thought you were supposed to have a good sense of when danger lurks."
"Well… what if wanted to let you catch me?"
"Is that so?"
"Yeh. Watch your feet," he said.
The woman looked down, Wulf plants one foot on the wall, then the other and walks the wall; jumping out of the way of her knife, then back around at her with the tip of his blade her neck. "Next time, try guns. Knives are more for close encounters in which your opponent has no way out. Unfortunately for me, there's no situation I can't get out of…"
"If that's true, why are you here?"
"I heard you ended up in this hell, getting his here was part of my plan to get you out, Reaper."
"Name's Siara. Never liked my old name. paid 10k for a change. It's impossible you. I tried escaping. So if you're here for me, you may as well just join all of us."
Meanwhile, out in space. One of the Mythrill army ships follows the energy trail of the two ships.
"Why'd you come along, Faire? What service do you provide?"
"There is… much you do not know about it, my dear." She answered, sounding mysterious. "Things you… never took the chance to ask me about."
"Like what?" a bald-headed knight with a mythrill helmet on answered.
"Like… Did you know I was trained in the art of a bo staff, twin swords. Practically as lethal as the Genetic experiment, Jodan."
"You will 'prove' yourself before slinging exaggerations around. You've seen Jodan in action. The way he mercilessly slaughtered one of our own. And I'm willing to bet his twin is just as good."
"Hmm, I'll know when I see'em."
Back on Glacia
"Mr. Jim, was it?"
"Yeh."
"Why do I have the feeling that you're hiding something from us?"
"Why would we have anything to hide."
"I dunno, Sensors picked up two ships that passed through the shipping lanes on the way here. One smaller one; about your ship's size. The first one wasn't what worried me. What worried me was… this one," He turns the screen so Jim could see it as it revealed a large ship resembling the Mythrill flagships. "Look familiar?"
Jim looks up at the warden with a blank stare as the warden stared back. "I know what this is…" Jim said as he slowly pulls his gun from out the back of his pants. "it's a reason to not pay us for our work, is that it?!" he exclaimed as he aims the at the warden, whose men aimed guns at both Jim and his crew.
"No. this is a ploy to get our asses roasted by a bunch of Mythrills. Yes, I know who these are."
"Listen here, WE DIDN'T BRING THEM HERE, if that's what your insinuating. We made sure we weren't followed."
"We dusted our tracks, got the hell out off the planet. There's no way they could've followed us here."
"Well, you lead them here. On purpose or accident it doesn't matter. We're all dead anyways. But I'll kill you first before they even touch the surface."
"Not if we kill you first.
Down below, Wulf, Siara and a bunch of others all see some explosion, hear gunshots, & stuff like that coming from the bunker above us.
Wulf, Shana, & a couple of prisoners, make it up to bunker after the battle.
What the hell happened up here?" one of the convicts asked.
"As far as i can tell, the blood-bath started because the warden & his men r spooked by the arrival of the Mythrills'. Which means they're coming for us."
what r you, Sherlock Holmes? How the hell do you know that & you weren't up here." Jim asks.
"Animal instincts." i reply.
"So wat do we do now?" asked Siara.
"We get the heck outta here. that's wat."
"But how? We follow them through the underground route, they'll kill us, surely."
"There's another way, Siara." I say pointing to the hatch where the vent is.
"With all the land mines up there, no way? I WANNA KEEP MYSELF IN ONE PIECE!" Siara exclaimed.
"I agree with her."
"Our best bet, and you're too chicken to take a risk."
"With how big the war was long ago, some of those mine will probably already detonated…"
"What if they're not?"
"If you're scared, you're scared. Just stay here and die. Cuz once the Mythrills break down the doors, they're gonna be a body count. No survivors."
quarter of an hour later, Wulf and the others gathered up our weapons & move out onto the snowy terrain. The others lost sight of me.
"wulf? WULF?! WHERE R YOU?" shouted Shana.
i signal to them from the top of the end of the trench. i pulled them up to my level one at a time, then they continue running. after an hour of running Wulf, Siara, and the other convicts reach a slope on the mountain they trekked.
"no time to waste, mount your boards & let's shred."
they lay down the boards jump on, & kick start our way downward.
(take it all - by trust company fades into play as they shred the slope)
it had turned into a race to see who will reach the bottom first, they swerve left & right dodging trees, boulders, & jumping piles of snow like on a ski jump. One of them ran across a landmine on their board; the explosion crumbled sheet of snow blanketing the mountain and then Wulf and the others came face to face with an avalanche.
they speed up as fast as they can go.
they boarded across a snowboard jump & half of us pulled a 360, one pulled a 180 flip, & the others performed a reverse 180 flip twice.
halfway to the bottom, four of them made it across; Wulf and Siara and two other convicts; a black guy and a white guy.
The avalanche rolled swiftly down the hill and into the trench and kept emptying into it.
As we all continued further, a roaring of a ship's engine could be heard, not of one leaving the atmosphere, but of one entering it...
Wulf signals everyone to hide behind the rocks as he and Siara looked out to see the Mythrill army descend. The hatch doors opened and they poured out like lava from a volcano.
"That's the army, you're talking bout?" Siara whispered to Wulf.
"Yeh. They got forces destroying Zelos prime. I fear they'll attack the rest of the Zelos star system. All for trying to get Lanzer's full attention."
Meanwhile, down below.
As the warden and his guards prepped the ship for takeoff, they open the door to the hangar to be unexpectedly greeted by the Mythrill army. They look them in the eyes with a surprised expression as the army held their guns pointed at them. without hesitation, they open fire as the warden and the others slowly react to the attack.
Jodan sits atop a wall, watching on high as the Mythrills fan out to find their target.
We need that ship. We're gonna have to fight our way to that hangar."
"You're just full of crazy ideas today, aren't you?" Siara whispered.
"I've trained for this. And you… you'd have to be hardcore if you end up in a place like this."
"Yeh."
Wulf place one hand in front of him and leaps over the edge, sliding down right behind the Mythrill soldiers being cautious not to alert them of his presence. He safely positions himself behind one of them as he signals the others to come down.
Siara leapt into the air high above one knight; knife in hand, landing on his back and stabs the blade into his shoulder.
Wulf rushes up, putting his sword to the knight's neck and slits his throat. The others immediately turn around. The black convict, guy #1 shoots one of the knights in the back with his shotgun as he pulls out his side arm and aims for another one's head.
Guy #2 kicks one in the lower leg, making him kneel down, and kicks in the chin. Another one snuck up from behind and stabs him in the back just above abdominal area, slowly pulling the blade out to watch him fall to his knees and on his stomach.
Guy #1 looks over at his fallen friend, taking his eyes off his opponents, who blindsided him with gunfire from his left and right.
Only Wulf and Siara remained.
Onboard the ship
When this is done, Beldes. Bring me the girl," she ordered as she watched the monitor, watching Wulf and Siara fight.
"Yes, Mistress."
Back outside
One of the knights lunges forward at Wulf, who grabs him by the arm, kicks his right knee forward, hitting him in the stomach. Squeezes his arm, making him drop the blade, which catches before it hits the ground, slits the guy's arm, and sticks the blade in his stomach. As a second guy appears behind him, he plants his right foot in the guy's chest, climbing two inches up him, spinning around 180 degrees and kicks with his right foot to the face. Pulling out his sword, he holds at position 7 o'clock and slashes upward diagonally across the knight's abdomen and chest, pivots around, holding the sword at 9 o'clock and slashes from his left across the other guy.
Siara blocks the oncoming knight's punch as she knees him in the stomach and kicks him in the side under the arm, and in the side of his jaw; unaware of the guy behind her.
Jodan hops across the heads of the soldiers, leaps in the air and latches onto the knight; slitting his throat, pulls the gun off of him and aims behind him at the other oncoming opponents.
Wulf passes by Jodan, moving towards the soldiers, who he tossed in the air as he passed between them. One bears down on him with a swing of his mighty axe, Wulf blocks with his sword, pushes upward, spinning around with his sword stuck out like a fan blade as he cuts through the armor of the soldiers around them. one more jumps in as Wulf back flips; kicking him in the chin, and sent him tumbling backward onto a landmine. He then turns in the other direction as the soldiers are taken out by the blast.
Beldes leapt towards Jodan, who turns in his direction. He slings at Jodan with his mighty staff, Jodan ducks. Beldes attacks again, Jodan ducks. He attacks a third time, Jodan leans to the right; grabbing the staff; swinging from it, and kicks Beldes's feet from under him. As Jodan drops his foot down on him like an axe, he rolls over out of the way.
Wulf then begins to jump in and help, but is stopped by an elite Mythrill knight, who slings his blade at him. Wulf leans back and as his opponent strikes again, he leans to the left, unsheathing his sword and placing in the path of his enemy's blade.
Beldes rises to his feet. Jodan stands there waiting for him to make the first move. Beldes draws his laser gun; firing at Jodan, who drew his sword and moves it rapidly to block the laser fire. Beldes rushes forward, throwing down the gun, he throws the first punch, which Jodan dodged by tilting his head left, then countered by slinging at him. Beldes ducked, removing his sword from the holster and slices upward; diagonally right.
Jodan blocks, slashes horizontal from the left, Beldes blocked.
Over to Wulf, who leaps in the air doing a helicopter kick; landing a blow to the jaw of his opponent, who spiraled clockwise before hitting the ground. He rises to his feet only to get knocked down again by Wulf fan-kick.
Jodan plants his left foot on Beldes' chest, climbing up to his head, as he's over top of him, he took his left foot off his chest as he plants his right foot on top of his head and kicks him forward onto his face with his left foot.
"At least you're a challenge for me. Don't want your death to be easy," Beldes says as he pushes up out of the dirt, rising to his feet.
Wulf jumps over Jodan's head, doing a front flip; sword in hand as he moves closer towards Beldes, who stands there waiting.
As Siara fights another elite, she is then captured. She calls out to Jodan and Wulf, who turn in her direction; letting their guard down as Beldes strikes the ground where a landmine was. Both Wulf, Jodan, and himself went flying in separate directions.
"Was hoping to have it end another way." The elite said to Siara as he dragged her off to the ship.
"Wulf! Jodan!" She exclaimed.
"You idiots grab Beldes."
Wulf vaguely overheard the conversation before he blacked out. During when he and Jodan dream, they are awakened by water splashed in his face.
"I have a message for you, beldes to me to deliver it, because it's straight from the admin himself."
Wulf unsheathes his sword.
"Put those away. I'm not here to harm you," Captain Balque said. "You would've been death long after the fight, if we were supposed to kill you."
"Bullshit. Why let us live? Kill us now."
"Because Beldes has explained to us that you two are exceptional fighters. We have a proposition. If you want to see your friend, Siara, alive. You'll stay away from Zelos.
"Where are they going to take her?" Jodan asked as he approached him and held him up by his collar."
"They'll… take her to the junk planet, Xen5; a planet with no sun. only lights it has are street lights. Until they know it's safe to bring her to the Admin himself. If you value her life, you won't follow them. but seeing as how you risked your neck to save her, that you don't follow this message to the letter."
"It is now time we step up our game, our first step: rescue the girl, 2nd, go back to Zelos and kick the Admin's metamorphic a**. He thinks I'm just gonna run? Not a ******** chance. I know Wulf might run. That's in his nature. Seeing as he went in hiding all those years after the Zelfor incident. For a crime… that he got blamed for on account of my actions. It's in his nature to kill as it is in mine, but deep down… he's a softy."
Meanwhile, on Xen5, which was covered inch-by-inch with miscellaneous junk from other planets: (mostly old furniture, garbage, recycled material of various proportions.
Inside a cage near a pile of random garbage bags and discarded toys was Siara, who was guarded by Lady faire.
"What's a girl gotta do to get food here?"
"There isn't any. Besides, you'll be lucky if you get to eat again."
"Wulf and Jodan will come for me. And when they do, You'll be the one, who's lucky if you get to eat again."
"Don't waste your breath. They're probably already dead."
Meanwhile, far from where Siara was being held, millions of soldier stood all around in various locations, keeping watch for anyone not authorized to be there. While Wulf and Jodan snuck around behind them; being cautious not to give themselves away. Wulf gives the signal to Jodan to stay put as a guard walked by them without noticing.
They move quietly behind him, heading in the direction that he came from. Jodan steps on a beer can, the guard turns around and sees nothing but piles of garbage and his fellow soldiers marching around. He turns back and continues patrolling the area as Wulf and Jodan continued onward.
Wulf and Jodan separate when they hear soldiers coming back towards them from behind.
The soldiers march closer and closer with their feet pounding the ground and making it shake.
Wulf looks at Jodan, nodding his head. Jodan nods back at him.
Wulf peeks out from a pile of garbage only to see two soldiers moving towards them.
Both of them get closer, turn to their right to see Wulf crouched down, looking back at them, laughing nervously.
Jodan slowly creeps up, grabbing one by the neck as he sticks the knife into the back of his head and out of his forehead between his eyes. The second soldier looked behind him, Wulf jumps up and sticks the blade of his knife on top of his head, rapidly jamming it into his brain.
30 minutes later, Wulf and Jodan killed 20 more soldiers on their way towards Lady Faire and Siara.
"Bobby, what's your status?" Lady Faire asked as she talked into the radio.
No answer from bobby.
"John? Simmons?"
No answer from them either
"My money's on that they're already here. Cuz none of my men are responding."
She hears the sound of someone cocking a handgun behind her head then the sound of a voice saying, "You're right about that."
"Wulf…" She said mysteriously, "SO finally, we meet."
"Let the girl go."
"My. My. So quick with the demands. Huh, Wulf?"
Wulf looks down at the remote in her hands.
"Oh, you're wondering about this? Well, drop the gun, before I give you a full demonstration."
Wulf doesn't answer, he keeps the gun pointed at the back of her head. She pushes the button, and a crane hovers over Siara's cage; lifting it in the air, rotates until it's over one of those giant-sized trash compactors for crushing cars and other scrap metal together.
"You'll have sort through the block of metal and other fabricated parts to find what's left of her when I press this button again and the green one. Now, DROP! THE GUN!"
Wulf drops the gun, "Now what is it you want? Why take the girl?"
"She's a bargaining chip in case you lived through your little fight. So that you don't interfere with the Admin's affairs."
"Why would he want his position as Admin back?" Jodan asked. "I know it's get its perks, but you're having to answer over a million letters from different Gaians Worldwide."
"He is willing to look past that… as long as he's making executive decisions. We've gotten twice more spammers, trolls, bots, and scammers once the new girl was put in charge."
"But still, this is not the way to go about. Blowing up planets to get Lanzer's attention. Is the same as leaving him dozens of messages and comments. Won't work."
"How would you know?"
"I just know."
"Well, I know one thing. You and your twin won't be around to see whether it works or not." She looks over his shoulder, and sees Jodan is nowhere to be found. "Where'd your twin go?"
From a distance, Jodan throws his sword at the rope holding crane's magnet thing up, which sends the cage downward towards the crusher thing.
Lady Faire turns to see what was going on as Wulf did a back flip kick and knocks the remote out of her hand.
She turns back, "Gimme that!" she exclaimed as she desperately tried to snatch it from him. Wulf moves his hand up out of her reach. She strikes with a right cross and misses, a left swing and misses. She reaches behind her back, pulls out a short stick, which extended out into a spear with an arrowhead on the tip. She jabs at Wulf, who tilts to the right. She jabs at him again, he tilts backwards, "Jodan, catch!" he shouted as he through the remote towards him. He pulls out his sword, blocking her attacks as she continued to strike. She spins around with her staff drawn out, and slices into his shirt and his chest.
Wulf steps back as he feels his chest. He rushes forward as Faire lunges her spear towards his stomach. Wulf arches forward, holding the tip of his sword closely to her neck.
She tilts her head to the right to avoid the blade, jumps back, spinning herself counter-clockwise with her spear extended. Wulf hits It with a fan kick, knocks it out of her hands, rushes up and stabs her in the stomach, pulls out his other sword and slashes across her neck.
Three minutes after, Jodan lowers the crane next to the compactor, throws the remote aside, drawing his sword as he tossed it, and cuts the lock on the cage and opens the door. "I have no idea what His reason is for rescuing you like that. Maybe he has a thing for you."
"Do not!" Wulf replied.
Siara giggled, "He's already got a girl. That skinny girl, who's always in pink, Angel petal." She makes kissing sounds at Wulf.
"C'mon, guys. We haven't made it official yet."
"Sure…" Jodan said, sarcastically as he began to chuckle.
"Shouldn't we be going back to Zelos prime? The Admin's still gonna destroy the planet."
"Let's not forget the Zelos star system as well."
As they walk off towards the ship, Wulf answers, "You know, I was just about to say that."
"Uh-huh," Jodan agreed sarcastically."
"You always do that to me."
"Do what?"
"Oh, you know what!"
Meanwhile, back on Zelos prime.
The ships on the ground level begin their ascent as they plant nuclear bomb in the center of the city.
"Magnificent, isn't it? Seemingly just an ordinary Nuclear explosive on the outside, but contains enough power to decimate a planet. There's plenty of more where that came from. Those will ensure the destruction of the rest of this star system. And with the two Puppy brothers, Wulf and Jodan taken care of, there's no one standing in our way. Prep the remote detonation sequence."
"What of the people on the ground? One of them might know how to disarm the device."
"Not to worry. The only way to detonate and disarm is by the console. And as an extra safety measure, I got a remote in my hands. For in case the console fails to work."
The Admin steps out and heads towards the War room. Within 10 minutes, he's there. "What's the status on the ascension protocol?"
"We've still got a few ground ships on the surface."
"Get them off the ground. We're ready to go through with the detonation!"
Meanwhile, onboard one of the ships heading for the master battleship a whole bunch of soldiers and Mythrill knights stood in rows of ten, awaiting their arrival. Two of them in particular with puffy-looking gray sleeves and bulge in the back of their pants that looks like a tail, and a scrunched up Wolf snout inside of the helmets. They stood side-by-side, looking at each other and nodding once.
5 minutes later, they're onboard the main battleship, hiding amongst the many other Mythrill knights and soldiers as they wander around, looking for the Leader.
Meanwhile, in the war room.
"Execute the detonation on my order," he commanded, holding his right hand up towards the guy at the console behind him, who puts his hand over the button awaiting his orders.
The Admin holds up two fingers close together and shakes them up and down one time. The soldier takes that as the order to start the countdown and pushes the button.
Down on the planet below, the time on the warhead starts at 2 hours and counts down.
The soldier at the console hears a noise in the hallway, and looks back at the commander.
"Don't look at me. Go check it out!"
He rushed out into the dark hallway. The sound of someone's neck cracking could be heard as he stepped into the shadows. The commander walks out side to check it out and is kicked all down the hall with the force of someone's foot until he lands in the center of the first floor. Only thing he notices is Wulf jumping over the railing towards him, sword in hand.
The Admin rolls out of the way as Wulf lands with his sword planted in the floor. The Admin kicks it from under him, turns into a gray, shadowy anaconda as he snaked around Wulf, attempting to squeeze the life out of him. As he prepares to bite down on Wulf, a shot was fire, which made his head explode and made his body release its captive.
The gray mass, which was assumed to be the Admin's head, turns into a puddle of gray goo, slithers towards the rest of the gray mass and rejoins as it turned into a dragon. Breathing in a lung full of air, it aims for Wulf, exhaling flames from its mouth. Jodan leaps in, shoving Wulf out of the way along with himself.
The dragon continued following them around the room exhaling fire from its mighty mouth. Wulf turns around in front of Jodan, who ducks as he jumps over him. With the swing of Wulf's mighty sword, he cuts through the foul beast's chest, which made him turn back into his original form.
"How can this be?"
Wulf stares at him.
"I'm master of shape-shift and illusion and I'm being beaten by two Laboratory rejects." Just then, he was stabbed in the back with a huge metallic spear-like object. He limps forward as the metal point digs into his nerves, he pulls the blade out, turning to see his attack, Siara. He struck her with a back kick, sending her flying into a large metal spear that a statue was holding. Jodan lunges forward, rolling sideways in a clockwise motion, landing a devastating blow to the head.
Wulf, who was standing to his right, hits him with a side kick to the back, knocking him forward. He attacks with a jab from his left hand, which Jodan pushed into the air; pulling out his sword and jams it into his heart. A light shines through where the blade was. He lets out a long, bellowing "NO!!!!" as his human form slowly turn into stone. Jodan lands a spinning back kick and knocks him to the floor where he crumbled into tiny pieces before his soldiers.
"Really something, eh Jodan. Took all we got, but we kicked his a**!!!"
Jodan stays silent, walks towards the rubble that used to be the Admin and says, "In this army, Wulf. You keep all your fallen opponent owned."
"What, Jodan?"
"I appreciate your help, though this won't change a thing between us. We'll still be enemies. I am giving you a chance to get out of my sight while you still can. We will meet again another time, and trust me… I wont be merciful."
"Jodan, you don't have to do this."
"Oh, but I do. Knights. Escorts Wulf out. And deactivate the explosive. I'll spare this planet."
"What about Siara?"
"Ah yes, the one you saved from that prison planet. Take her with you. Give her a proper burial. She deserves one."
Down on the planet's surface, the bomb continued ticking down to destruction, but after 40 minutes, it came to a stop, and disintegrated.
Outside of the ship in orbit around Zelos prime, a ship exits one of the launch bay tubes, heading for the surface.
(shutdown by Pitchshifter fades into play)
Yes, it's been five years since the Zelfor incident. Lots happened in that time, including Jodan's and my tale told here. I still have no idea as why he spared my life on the ship, and what he meant by meeting another time, but wherever you go, I'll find you eventually. And I will be stronger than our last encounter…

what did you expect me to do? he had control of the army. plus, he spared my life. it's part of some code stare

Awhile later, Wulf reconvenes with Samuel and Zero near a marketplace.
"Do you have it?" Zero asked.
Wulf held up his key for Samuel and Zero to see, "How about you…?"
Samuel did the same; holding up his key in Wulf's face.
"Your friend awaits you; let's go," Zero replied.
After entering the white room with lots of doors one more time, they head towards the only red door in the room; Samuel and Wulf place their keys in the holes; Wulf gives them a turn counter-clockwise; Samuel grips the knobs, turns it and opens the door.
What was on the other side left Wulf and Samuel with confused looks on their faces, "Is this where we're supposed to be?" what they were looking is an underground parking lot
Zero steps through and Samuel and Wulf follow.
"The elevator on the other side will take it where Guy is held, but the path there won't be easy; spread out and wait on my signal." Zero walks towards the elevator.
"Okay, but… what's the signal?" Samuel asked before looking at Wulf, who then went right. "Guys… someone tell me what the signal is…"
Zero approaches the two guards in front of the elevator slowly but surely.
"Your name on the list?" he asked.
"No, but I was hoping to buy my way in…" Zero said before bowing.
Wulf whispered to himself off in the distance, "That there is my cue…"
"This club's exclusive; you're not on the list: access is denied." The first guard said to Zero.
Wulf rushes up and places his sword to the guy's neck," Deny this…"
The second guard pulls his gun and takes aim, but before he could fire, Samuel approaches from behind and grabs him in a choke hold, ready to break his neck.
Wulf removes his sword as Zero swings around with a spinning heel kick to the jaw; just seconds after, Samuel initiates his neck break move and instantly kills the second guard.
"Nice work, Sammy, but your timing could be improved."
"Timing? How the hell was I to know that was the ********' signal?"
"Can we talk about this later?" Zero asked.
"Next time, someone tell me what the signal is, so we won't be having this conversation."
Getting in the elevator, Samuel, Wulf, and Zero ride it all the way to the bottom floor; after getting off, they head down a small hallway and into a crowd of people dancing to a variety of music the DJ was providing from high on this platform where he could a bird's eye view of the dance floor.
"Let's spread out; cover more ground."
"I think we should stick together to avoid getting lost."
"Stick together, in a place this big?" Wulf asked. "You do what you want; I'm gonna have a look around."
"Wulf, wait!"
"Let him go, I know which way to go."
"Well, why not tell Wulf that?"
"We're going to need a big enough distraction to keep Pétale Rose's men from interfering and Wulf doing what he does best will provide that distraction."
Techno music starts playing while Wulf is walking to the center of the floor; Wulf then stops and takes a look around at all the others dancing in their own unique way, "C'mon, Wulf, show these nobodies a thing or two," he thought to himself.
Before he started dancing, he heard a commotion coming from over near the bar and heads in that direction. What he saw when he got there was a girl in her 20's wearing booty shorts and a pink top, which showed her midriff, being bothered by a muscle-bound pretty boy a several inches taller than her, trying to get her to dance with him.
Wulf grabs the man by the right shoulder, turns him and decks him with a left hook, which landed him face first into someone else's glass, "How about a lil barroom etiquette, monkey man…"
The man grabs a bottle of wine from under the counter and swings it at Wulf, who ducks and serves back a frontal kick to the stomach.
Two more men jump into the fight from behind; Wulf quickly turns to them. "Friends of yours, huh?" Wulf said, "Yo, DJ! Play me some murder music."
The DJ plays one of the best songs in musical collection; at the start of the song, the first punch was thrown by the guy on the left; Wulf blocks and swats his fist so it hits the guy on the right in the face. The next move Wulf threw was a shin kick to the right leg of the on the left, which he followed up with a kick to the Adam's apple.
The guy on the right swings at Wulf, who then grabs the guy by the arm, gives it a twist, and twirls the guy around until he ran right into the guy coming at Wulf from the bar counter.
The third guy came at Wulf, who turned and threw several punches to the chest and stomach at the speed of sound before delivering a kick to the crotch and a back flip kick to the chin.
Both of the thugs behind Wulf gave a swift kick to the back and knocked him on his stomach.
Wulf quickly turned on his back as one of them ran up to him; as he got close enough, Wulf kicks both of his legs out and sends the guy falling face first; Wulf rolls out of the way just in time, gets to his feet and kicks the guy away.
The thug behind Wulf grabs him from behind with a bear hug as one of his buddies jumps in; Wulf lifts his legs up, places his feet on the guy's shoulders and knocks him to the ground before hitting the guy that was restraining him with a back fist to the face. As he let go, Wulf rotates around behind him, performs a frontal kick and pushes the guy into the counter so hard that he flips over it after his stomach hit the top of it.
With two thugs remaining, one of them approaches Wulf while blindly swinging a bottle of whiskey at him; Wulf ducks and dodges until he gets the chance to disarm the guy. Wulf then turns him around, takes the bottle now in his possession and hits him in the side of the head, sending face first to the ground without a sound.
The last thug, Wulf stops him in his tracks by quickly drawing his sword and holding the tip just a couple inches from his Adam's apple. He moved it to the right of the guy's neck as he got closer. Once he got right up in his face, he rotates his sword until the handle is pointing at his opponent and then he decks him with a hard punch to the jaw to knock him out.
Wulf looks over to the girl before stooping down and going through the man's back pocket for some cash, "Drinks are on him…" he said throwing the money at her.
"Thanks…"
"Not necessary, miss; I just love a good brawl." After Wulf finishes his sentence, one of the guards touches a Taser to back of Wulf's neck and out he goes like a light.
Moments later, he wakes in a dimly lit laboratory with Samuel and Zero standing over him.
"What happened…?"
"A bunch of guys brought you in here…"
"But we kicked their asses; you should've seen it…"
"None of that is important; we must get Guy and get out of here before…"
"Well well, isn't this a pleasant surprise…"
"Pétale Rose shows up…"
"I knew that if he was here, you two wouldn't be too far behind; I was right."
"We just want Guy, and we'll leave in peace."
"It is only by mere coincidence that we both have something the other wants; if you're willing to trade for him, so am I. All ask for is Zero in exchange for you so-call 'chosen one' and I'll consider throwing in this leftover scrap as a bonus," she said, nearly spitting in Wulf's direction.
"Seeing as there's four of us and only three of you, why don't we just kill you and take him ourselves?"
"Yes, you can do that, but your precious Guy will be useless to you if he remains trapped in the infinity zone. You see… I'm the only one who knows the key to his freedom; without me, you won't know the passcode to set him free. So why not put your archaic devices and negotiate a trade? It's the only way you'll be able to save your world."
"If I hand myself over to you, how do we know you'll honor your word?"
She gestures to her men to move towards the box holding Guy as she recites the passcode, "Passcode: Quantum." The box makes a hissing sound like an airlock door to a clean room just before it opens.
Guy is then ejected from the box and into the clutches of Pétale Rose's men, who cocked their guns and took aim, awaiting her orders.
"You submit to me now, Zero, and he goes free; you trick me in any way and…" she signals to one of her men to fire a warning shot into the ceiling.
Samuel takes aim at one of the men nearest Guy.
"Samuel, wait. I have completed my mission; it's now all up to you, you know what you must do; I accept your deal." Zero casually steps closer to Pétale Rose, who gestures for Guy to move. Once the trade was complete, Samuel kept his guns pointed Pétale Rose and her men as they got back on the elevator and rode it up.
Sometime later, back in the real world, Samuel, Guy, and Wulf awaken in the chairs to the sight of the captain and crew just in time to see them rescue Harris and Jan from their downed ship.
Back inside the Omni-Gaia…
"It was almost too easy getting you; it used to be like chasing ghosts when chasing after you."
"As I told them, I only allow myself to be found when I want to be…"
"What do you mean…?"
Before Zero could answer, he flinched as if he were stabbed in the back by something sharp. As he stood there still a statue, eyes wide open, whatever stuck him in the back sent a trail of flames across his body, which left ashes where it had been; as the ashes completely enveloped his body, they soon crumbled and Zero's appearance on the outside took on the form of Shakuro.
"What sort of sorcery is this?" Pétale Rose asked with wide eyes.
"Succumb to my dark side," Shakuro said, speaking slowly as he stuck his hand through her stomach and sent a trail of flames across her whole body. "Let it consume you…"
Before Pétale's men could react, Shakuro got to them as well.
"Sir… sir?! There's something weird going on in there."
"Right now, that is not of our concern; what we need to focus on is getting back."
"But…"
"No but's, Samuel; I don't give a damn about what you believe needs to be done, but we're not heading enemy territory without a clear cut plan of attack."
"What if he's right? What if we go back and our assistance is all for nothing; if we're gonna die anyway, let it be after we've explored every option and not just the most logical one; once our ship is fully charged and ready; it's at your disposal, Samuel," Harris explained.
"Thank you…"
"This is insanity..."
"That may be, Alan, but the fact still remains that that ship belongs to me, which I can do whatever I feel like."
"We have 12 hours until they breach and we're here discussing prophecies."
Back within the walls of the city, the resistance gets in position where they know the enemy will breach and surround it from all sides with battle tanks and infantry carry all sorts of strange weapons unlike those seen before.
"How long?" Arbiter asked.
"Less than 12 hours, sir."
"The council is taking refuge inside the temple at the far end of the city; as long as we make sure to stay a safe distance from ground zero in case things get a bit hectic, we should be fine; to win this thing, we'll need everyone we've got out there, can't afford any mistakes."
"Yes, Commander Arbiter…"
"And if by some chance something goes wrong, we seal off this part of the city and try making a last ditch effort to hold the line at the entrance to temple."
Back outside the city walls, Samuel, Guy, and Wulf say their goodbyes as they board Harris' ship and prepare for takeoff.
"Are you sure about this?"
"The city is due north, all we need to do to get to the Magma skin kingdom is head due south"
"Alan is right about this being suicide."
"Would you rather go back, face the magma skin drones and die that way?"
"I'm with you all the way, but… are you 100% sure this is what we must do?"
Samuel was hesitant with his response, "I handle the king; you stay back and guard the ship."
"Why?" Wulf asked.
"Because I have to jack back in."
"Jack back in for what…?"
"Shakuro. I can sense him; his presence is spreading through the other world and soon he'll make his way here."
"Great, you play hero and I'm stuck with the babysitting job."
Meanwhile en route to the magma skin empire.
"So basically, you're saying that if we defeat the king, the rest of the army will fall? Doesn't that remind you of a certain movie?" Wulf asked.
"His power lies in his crown; take that and we control his army…"
"Once we have control of it, we can use it however we want, which could also mean we disable the army for good once it's in our hands."
"Okay, now this DEFINITELY reminds me of a movie I once saw; some big green guy with a weird hand."
"No, I'm pretty sure he was red."
"Are you sure?" Samuel asked.
"Most definitely."
"Uh-oh, we got incoming."
"Man the turrets and cut us a clear path into the heart of the city; I'll worry about steering," Samuel responded.
"Gunfire is not really my specialty; I mostly deal with swords."
"Are you ******** kidding me…?" Samuel replied sarcastically.
"Anything made of metal to be precise."
"Alright, fine. But at least tell me you know how to drive; walking would take you forever when getting to a destination."
"That I can also do…" Wulf said.
"Then you get your a** up here and act like you're playing Grand theft auto or something."
"You do know where we're going, right?"
"We assassins don't exactly the worst sense of direction; what do you take me for?" Wulf replied rather smugly as he took a seat.
"With the amount of ammo we have, I doubt we'll be able to mount a suitable defense against the onslaught."
"You got any better ideas, Guy, I'd like to hear'em…" Samuel replied calmly.
Guy took a while before answer, "Keep up the fire." With saying that, he then headed for the bow of the ship.
"Where you going?"
"Let's just say I have a feeling about this."
"A feeling?" Samuel said to himself, scratching his head for a moment before focusing on the oncoming enemy drones.
"What are you doing?"
"Just trust me, Wulf…" Guy holds out his palm like he does inside the Omni-Gaia when he's ready to use his telekinesis to stop the bullets and to his luck, his power actually work in taking down the drones coming at them like giant bullets out of a cannon.
"I don't know you're able to do that, but keep going; it's working."
Wulf maneuvers his way through the patches of smoke left from the explosions with ease while Guy holds his hand out and uses telekinesis to stop the oncoming wave of drones throwing themselves at the ship like cannonballs.
"Can't you go any faster? I don't think I can hold them for much longer."
"This isn't exactly a Toyota pickup truck; the controls are a bit more complicated."
"Just do your best of they'll be picking us apart like vultures to a decaying corpse; I'm losing'em…"
"Just a lil while longer…"
Guy starts feel weak, his arm starts getting heavy.
"Try to stay with me, Guy!"
"I… can't…" Guy falls to his knees as more of the drones latch on to the hull and start peeling away, "If you got any ideas, feel free to contribute."
"Can't you just try that thing again?"
"I felt like I was dying; I attempt another go, and I might kill myself."
"Well what do we do now?"
"Might I make a suggestion?"
"Samuel? How long have you been listening?"
"Do you wanna hear it or not?!"
"Okay, shoot…"
"The planet still has atmosphere, right? Maybe if we go up high enough, we could freeze them."
"Yeh and freeze ourselves along with them."
"You got another plan, Wulf? If not, this is all we got!"
"Oh alright… hold onto your lunch, Sammy." Wulf pulls back on the throttle and rapidly ascends; the oncoming fire shifted along with him, but Wulf managed to evade as he went along with Samuel's absurd plan. The higher he got, the cooler it got; the drones began to solidify and flake off one at a time the higher up Wulf went.
After making up as high as he could go, the ship's hull began to ice over.
Luckily for Wulf that they made high enough to float right over the defenses and straight into the city walls.
"Okay, Samuel, we went through with your plan and iced over like I said, now how the hell are we supposed to get out of this?"
"No idea…" Samuel responded hesitantly.
"SAM, YOU'RE THE GENIUS HERE! THINK!"
"Divert all power to heating system; raise the temperature and melt the ice," Guy responds.
Wulf does as Guy instructs, "Will it work in time for us to safely land this thing?"
Guy didn't have the answer to that question, so he remained silent.
"Guy…!"
Knowing Wulf wouldn't like what his answer was, Guy kept silent as they rapidly descended and tore off most of their hull in the landing.
Getting to where they're supposed to be, Guy, Wulf, and Samuel regained consciousness.
"Everyone okay?" Wulf asked.
Guy coughs as he gets up on his feet.
"Samuel…?" Wulf asked.
"Good thing I was wearing my seatbelt; what's the news on Guy?"
"I bet he could survive a nuclear explosion if given the chance."
"C'mon, Wulf, I'm not superhuman."
"Well what you did those drones back there, no ordinary man could do."
"So what do we do now?"
"We find this king, defeat him, and maybe save the resistance."
"That's a goal, not a plan; a plan involves a surefire way for us to win."
"Wulf, it's all I got; I don't exactly have all the answers."
"Well… feel free to continue leading the way, oh clueless leader."
"Guys… we got incoming."
"Well… feel free to continue leading the way, oh clueless leader."
"Alright then, there's a truck up ahead; grab all the weapons you can carry and let's hope the son of b***h still runs."
"That's your big plan?"
"We're gonna need get in back and provide cover while you drive."
"Samuel, you are gonna get us killed."
"Better than us staying here and dying, let's move…"
Wulf hops in the front seat while Samuel and Guy get in the back; Guy faces forward and Samuel faces the opposite direction to prove cover from all directions.
Guy taps the roof of the truck and Wulf takes off.
"Okay, you got us out here, where the hell do we go?"
Wulf comes up on a fork in the road.
"Go left!" Guy commanded.
Samuel braces himself as Wulf drifts around the corner and then resumes firing.
A couple miles up ahead, most of the drones came in from the front, giving Guy some target practice.
"Go right!" Guy instructed.
Wulf does as Guy says, being fully aware that to his right was an onramp for a freeway; as Wulf got on the freeway, the drones in back formed a huge SUV with heavy armor like a tank and a spiky front bumper.
"We got trouble!"
"Yeh, I see it!" Wulf answered back to Samuel.
Every chance the drone got, it would slam itself into the back of the pickup truck, causing Samuel and Guy to lose their balance temporarily.
"Wulf, pick up the pace; we're getting hammered!"
"This ain't a Ferrari, I'm giving her all she's got!" Wulf shouted as he swerved from left to right to avoid the bashing being given by their pursuer.
About several miles ahead, there was a gap in the road.
"Wulf…" Guy said, sounding worried.
"I see it," Wulf answered in a reassuring tone.
"Wulf." Guy said again with more stress in his voice.
"I see it," Wulf repeated.
As Wulf approached the gap, stress laid even heavier in Guy's voice, "Wulf!!!!"
Just seconds before Wulf went over the ledge, Guy held his hand out; using his telekinesis, he was able to keep the truck afloat until it reached the other side safely.
Their pursuers attempted to try the same thing, but failed. Just minutes before reaching the ground floor, the vehicle divided into smaller drones and maintained pursuit.
"Why won't these ******** DIE!" Samuel shouted while he squeezed the trigger hard as could, laying down an even heavier wave of gunfire like a maniac.
"Roadblock ahead!" Wulf stated.
Guy faces forward again, uses his telekinesis to lift the cars up out of Wulf's way before using them as projectiles to take down the oncoming horde behind them; each of the explosions from the flying cars took out somewhere around 10 to 15 drones at one time.
Within moments, they reached the front entrance to the palace.
"Uhm… Guy? You got any more of that kinetic stuff left?"
"It's not exactly on short supply," Guy answered smugly before holding out his hand and lowering the drawbridge with his mind, allowing Wulf access to the inside.
Up ahead, some of the guards went and addressed the king, telling him about the intruders.
"Let them pass; I'll deal with them myself."
"But sire…"
"Don't challenge my order. Tell the drones to fall back."
"Hey, they're backing down," Samuel pointed out.
"Maybe they recognize who they messing with…" Wulf said.
"Don't get cocky; it might be a trick."
Guy, Samuel, and Wulf continue until they make it to the king's throne room, where a dozen brutish, egg-shaped beasts and one smaller being made out of magma awaited them.
"This… marks the end of the line… heroes." He said, ordering the taller soldiers to attack."
"Sammy, old buddy, if we make it out of this… we've got to work on your planning skills." Wulf goes for the swords attached to one of the statues and adds them to his arsenal before quickly jumping into battle without thinking.
As Wulf fought off the horde, Guy takes off, leaving Samuel to aid Wulf.
Wulf throws the first blow, literally taking off one of the monster's legs just moments before leaping into the air and stabbing it in the forehead.
Samuel intervenes with his weapon as he shoots the enemy full of ice pellets and reducing to a pile of cooled off lava rocks.
Wulf takes off once again and tackles another enemy while Samuel continued to keep the rest of them from jumping him.
Soon enough, some of the enemies focused their attention on Samuel, who quickly evaded every attack thrown at him while firing back.
"Samuel, watch out!" Wulf ducks in front of him, flailing his swords back and forth at the speed of sound to block the wave of fireballs being launched at Samuel.
"Good looking out, Wulf." Samuel turns 35 degrees to his right and fires his weapon at an oncoming enemy heading towards Wulf. As the beast falls face first and continues to slide towards him, Wulf leaps onto the top of its head; timing his jump carefully, he leaps onto the palm of the beast behind the one in the dirt. Wulf advances towards the beast's shoulder, performs a front flip and cuts its arm off with a quick slice. Wulf then proceeds to the top of its head and down its back as he digs his sword deeper into its armor. As Wulf stopped midway, he looks behind him at the oncoming enemy and quickly dislodges himself from the monster's back; the oncoming beast then unintentionally stabs its own in the back, finishing him off indefinitely.
Wulf turns to see the enemy with its blade still in his teammate's back. Wulf then quickly ducks as the monster swings at him with its free hand.
On the second swing, the beast launches Wulf back towards Samuel, who was under attack from all sides.
Wulf lands on the back of the beast in front of Samuel and finishes him off before leaping onto the one on Samuel's right and taking him down; after taking on the two enemies Wulf left for him, Samuel turns his attention to the beast Wulf was still fighting with.
"This one just won't give up!" Wulf shouted as he held on for his life.
Samuel fires several shots into its stomach and the beast hardens and turns to ash.
Several minutes of fighting later, Wulf and Samuel find themselves nowhere near done with the king's army.
"Samuel, this is getting us nowhere fast; you got another plan?"
"I do…" Samuel takes a few steps forward, raises his hand and shouts, "I challenge the king for right to command! Does his majesty accept?"
The army ceases their assault and turns to the king.
"That's your big plan?" Wulf whispered.
"Just trust me on this…"
"Let me challenge him; I'm the better swordsman."
"Wulf, hand me one of your sword; this is not up for discussion."
"Fine…" Wulf says in a low, sulky voice as he hands over a sword.
Guy quickly snatches it.
The king tilts his head a bit as he looks at Samuel and thinks, "Is this flesh walker really ready to die graciously by my hand?" when he reaches a verdict, he jumps down from his throne, removes his sword from his back-mounted holster and flashes it like a cocky swordsman by spinning it around in his right hand before taking his fighting stance.
Samuel stood poised and ready to fight before making the first move. He rushed at the king with fire in his eyes and throws the first strike, which the king blocks before striking back; Samuel ducks and throws back another slash, which the king also blocked quickly.
They both moved back and forth, each move performed with such elegance like a master swordsman.
Samuel throws back a right hook; the king grabs him by the wrist; Samuel fights against the king's awesome grip as he tries to twist his arm.
Samuel attacks the king's arm with his sword and breaks free of his grip.
The king slashes from the left, aiming for Samuel's neck, but Samuel leans back just in time. The king tries again from the opposite direction and Samuel bends forward. The king slashes upward diagonally from the left; Samuel sidesteps and throws a straight punch, which the king blocks with is palm as he struck back with his sword.
Samuel was able to block just in time, but as he blocked, the king applied pressure, which caused Samuel to kneel as he continued to block.
Once he was down on his knees, the king delivers a swift kick, which makes Samuel flip onto his face.
Samuel rolls out of the way just seconds before the king was able to bury his blade in the back of his head and then jumps to his feet.
"Samuel, why not just let me handle this…?"
Samuel ignored Wulf's words, knowing it was too late to switch places with Wulf as he jumped back into the fight.
"Alright, just keep running up and getting immobilized; see if I care."
Samuel struck from all directions while the king blocked with elegance and grace like a true swordsman.
Not knowing the next move he was about to perform would be his biggest mistake, Samuel strikes only to have the king quickly kick the blade from his hand.
With the sword out of his reach, Samuel resorts to hand to hand combat; he bob and weaves left and right as his opponent pokes and prods his sword at him and then strikes back with a strong punch to the stomach.
The king spins and knocks Samuel to the ground with a strong kick to the jaw.
Samuel looks to Wulf, who sighs before handing him another sword. Samuel blindly rushes into battle again looking unprepared in king's eyes, but as we well know with Samuel, appearances can be deceiving; Samuel approaches the king and at a safe distance, he throws his sword into the air while sliding under the king's legs. He stops behind him, rotates and trips him up with a sweep. As his sword lands, Samuel quickly catches it and holds it to the king's neck before he could get a chance to get on his feet.
The king pushes the blade away, jumps onto his feet, turns to Samuel and strikes back with several kicks, which Samuel easily blocked. The king then strikes with a side kick from the left, which Samuel dodges by leaning back. As Samuel stood upright, the king attacks low with his sword, but Samuel leaps over, rolls along the ground, turns and slices through his back, causing the king to flinch.
Reacting quickly, the king strikes from his right; Samuel blocks; the king switches hands and strikes from above on his left side.
Samuel blocks, but the king put pressure on his sword, which made Samuel kneel; thinking quickly, Samuel pulls out his pistol and fires a couple shots into the stomach of the king's armor. The king takes a couple steps back as the holes in his armor started leaking hot magma, which cooled as it hit the ground.
With anger in his eyes, the king looks up at Samuel, "So that's how you want it…" he answered vaguely before he held up his left hand and fired several embers from his palm.
As the embers approached, Samuel held out his sword and stopped every last one in its tracks.
"You didn't establish any rules… your majesty." Samuel said, mocking him as he bowed with disrespect.
One of the giant egg-like monsters tried to intervene, but Wulf stopped him, "Don't even think about it, egghead…" he said, holding his sword as its leg.
The king brings his left hand to his face and shoots it straight out, firing jolts of orange sparks, which Samuel immediately rolls under. As he rolls towards the king, the king rushed up.
After getting close enough, Samuel slashes through him along the waistline and causes him to stop in his tracks; Samuel stood in his same pose for a couple seconds before he spirals his sword and sticking it into the king's back initiating the final move, which took him down permanently; in the ashes of his remains was his crown, the crown that controlled the army. After picking it up and placing it on his head, Samuel had full control of the army and could order them to cease the attack.
Back within the walls of the city, the magma drones all dropped like flies hitting a bug zapper; the resistant couldn't believe what they were seeing.
"They did it…" Alan whispered.
"Who did?" Arbiter asked.
"Samuel and his team; they did it."
"The war is over…"
All around them, the sky slowly turned from a orange-red to blue with the fall of the magma drones.
Back inside the Omni-Gaia
Zero sits on a park bench enjoying the scenery as Lanzer walks by.
"What you did was nothing short of reckless…"
"Really? Well it still worked, didn't it? Plus, it was better than your plan to offer them asylum in another world while their friends suffer."
"You have much to learn, brother…"
"And so do you…brother," Zero answered back before offering Lanzer a seat.
Back outside in the real world, Guy rejoins Wulf and Samuel, who start to head back to the city.
Hours later after arriving back at the city, Samuel and Guy get praise from all the inhabitants, council members included; councilor Aurora, who had her eye on Wulf, walked off with him some time later, talking to him about something that she didn't want anyone else to hear.
"Hey… what do suppose that's all about?" Guy asked Samuel as he pointed towards Wulf and Aurora.
"I'm not going to waste your time. We've got this organization set up for people with your sort of skill and you seem the type we need to employ."
"What exactly do you mean?"
"You're a killing machine, Mr. Wulf, and I would like to put you back to work; the pay grade would be substantial."
"Throw a number at me and I'll let you know if I like it."
"700 large."
"700k… I'll think about it." Wulf pauses for a second to consider the offer in front of him, "I'm your man; when do I start?"
The end?

God damn.That is one hell of a story.Must have more.

this i based off resident evil 5 *hence the part of the title after the colon*

Adventures in another world 4: Evil has a new residence

"For so long, humans have come out on top above all other species both animal and plant-like," said a voice in language, which could only be interpreted as Japanese. "But not anymore; through the miracles of science brought on Gaia's intergalactic intelligence, I've discover the answer. I shall turn Man into the very thing they continue to destroy: the forest around them; I will show them the true fury… of mother earth herself, and to do that, I shall use this pitiful planet as a demonstration."
Off in the corner of the dark room, a faint scream could be heard from a man with a bag over his head.
The other man comes out of the shadows and over to the man, "What's that? You wish for me to stop?"
More muffled screaming could be heard.
"I'm sorry, but I cannot." He removes the bag and brings the flask to the man's mouth.
The man begs for his life, but the man in red didn't answer.
As he forces the strange looking liquid down the guy's throat, he muttered in his own language, "Evolution is never complete…" then he cuts the ropes around the man's hands, turns and walks out of the room, leaving the man to suffer.


Adventures in another world 4: Dead Rising
24 hours later
"This day and age, possession means nothing; everything is open-source from software to living, breathing viruses." Aurora Stone explained, while showing a detailed map of a potential hot-zone on some distant planet in the neighboring galaxy.
"I couldn't agree with you any more if I tried," Wulf answered. "Who do I get to capture this time?"
"Not capture, kill."
"What a surprise…" Wulf said sarcastically.
"He is a rogue agent and we've been having a problem with him for quite some time. We've been able to contain him until just yesterday, when it was confirmed that the Bio-weapon he has been working on… was proved successful."
"So you'll pay me to kill this guy… is that it?"
"If we proceed to send units in to capture him or firebomb the infected zone, Ronin could just flee the area and start his work all over again from a secret location and after that, we may not know when and where he'll turn up next. With your skills, we'll have a chance at stopping this from spreading anywhere else; are you up for it?"
"Just send me the coordinates on my GPS and tell your men I'm on the way…"
"Just one other thing, Wulf, I'm giving you a partner on this one; someone, who knows the terrain."
"I don't need anyone to show me the terrain, remember?"
"Well, you do need a babysitter. You remember all the others time when you had to do an assignment alone?"
"Aw c'mon…"
"She'll be following you around to see to it you're not getting yourself into trouble."
"She?"
"Your contact will be Alejandra Velasquez."
A few more hours later, Wulf was at the entrance to the city awaiting granted access by the soldiers in charge. Once access was granted, Wulf proceeded pass the walls where met his contact.
"My name is…"
"Alejandra Velasquez, I know…" Wulf interrupted.
"That's right…"
"Let's skip the pleasantries and get down to business; your people told my people that you have Intel on Ronin."
"We have reason to believe he'll be attending a black market arms deal in the town square, that's where we'll catch him, but the market won't be easy to get into; we'll need to meet up with our contact, he knows a way in past the guards."
The further they moved, the quieter the city got; Wulf looked around the once thriving city, which had now turned into a ghost town.
Off in the distance, a faint distress call could be heard; only Alejandra was the one, who would understand it.
"Hey." Wulf called out while placing his hand on her shoulder, "You alright?"
"Yeah, I just… thought I heard something; our rendezvous is this way."
Once they approach the structure, the first thing they notice is the 'closed' sign on the front door.
"He said he'd leave the back door open, c'mon."
"Took you guys long enough, c'mon in," the guy answered, inviting them in. "Who is this?"
"This is…" Alejandra was cut off.
"Wulf ninja warrior…" Wulf finished.
"The top assassin of the universe? When I read about you, you used to be hunted by every other bounty hunter the universe over."
"That was then… this is now."
"What landed you this job? The job of killing just one man, who seems to be causing more damage than imagined, you're down to your last pay check and need another assignment?"
Before Wulf could finish, "Whatever the reason, just do it quick and go home."
"Quickly is not one of my areas of expertise. I'll finish him off as fast as I can."
"Here are your weapons…"
After showing him the box, Wulf opens it, "Every kill I've ever made was up close and personal, so that the last thing they see are my eyes; I've never made any long distance shots."
"Well isn't the objective to kill him and not let him escape?
"Then you take it. I'll show you which method of killing is the most effective."
"You must hurry; the town square is up ahead."
"And where are you going?"
"Getting some fresh air; you guys go ahead, you have a mission."
On the way to their destination
"You any good with that?" Wulf asked.
"Yes."
"Typical. Humans always go for a much easier approach. These here… it don't get much difficult with these, plus they're quiet, never run out of bullets, never require a reload."
"With most guns, you can add a silencer to them if you desire them to be quiet."
"But there's still the thing with reloading. You think a bad guy's going to wait for you to reload?"
"Well, would a bad guy wait for you to approach them with a sword?" Alejandra asked.
"Not exactly, but I possess a unique skill when it comes to wielding a bladed weapon."
From off in the distance, a faint scream could be heard.
"Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"Someone's in trouble it seems. Follow me."
Wulf takes the lead. Once up the stairs and through the door, the sound of someone screaming slowly turned into the sound of a choking victim as they see a white man crawling along the floor, trying to cough up whatever is lodged in his throat. Long after, he stopped breathing and turned over on his back; his eyes turning black and lifeless and then quickly turning green.
"What happened to him?"
"That's what I intend to find out" Wulf stoops down and puts his palm to the guy's neck, "No pulse."
Alejandra was too busy looking at what appears to be movement from the man's limbs.
Just seconds after he warned Wulf, the guy sprung back to life.
Wulf pulls away and the guy starts dragging his feet towards him. The closer he got, the more Wulf moved back. The man opens his mouth and out pops a plant-like pod thing with a green needle sticking out. Before he got a chance to fire, Alejandra shot at it.
The man then picked up speed as he took his focus off of Wulf and rushed at Alejandra.
Wulf spiraled and sliced off the man's head, making him go down permanently this time.
"You said he had no pulse."
"It seemed that when I checked; what the hell happened?"
"I dunno, but any others like him in the area would have heard those shots. We need to get out of here."
"See, that's precisely why I say swords are better."
"I'll be sure to add a silencer next time, but now's not the place or time for this discussion."
Wulf leads Alejandra out of a window, which seemed 2-stories high.
After jumping out, Alejandra gets to her feet after landing in Wulf's arms and takes the lead, "Hurry up, Wulf."
But it was too late for them to hurry; almost the entire city was now on their tail.
They ran a few yards and took cover inside a 2-story building, barricaded the doors and proceeded to fight them off one at a time. After taking care of a couple dozen, Wulf notifies Alejandra of another exit and leads her to it.
"What the hell's going on up ahead?"
"Sounds like a rally."
"Maybe we're close to the arms deal…"
They enter the town square to the sight of their informant nailed to a cross, screaming at the top of his lung. Though the roar of the crowd and the man on the stage beside him shouting through a megaphone drowned out his screams, he still continued.
"Isn't that the…"
Wulf cuts her off as they watch what is about to unfold.
A big, pale, muscular guy in an executioner costume marches in with a flamethrower, lights it, aims at the guy on the cross and slowly roasts him like a turkey on a thanksgiving afternoon while Alejandra and Wulf continued to watch.
While everyone cheered, the guy on the stage looks over to our heroes and shouts something through the megaphone.
"Guess our secret's out…" as if on cue, the horde that was following them earlier started busting through the door on the last word of Wulf's sentence.
With the enemy at both their front and back, and there only being 2 ways out, Alejandra and Wulf decided to move forward; they both jump out of the window on the far side and end up back outside with the second wave of angry people coming from their right.
"And I thought things weren't gonna get exciting…" Wulf unsheathes his swords.
Alejandra drew her handgun and joined Wulf as he stood his ground, waiting for them to come to him.
The first enemy to rush up came in at 45 degrees to Wulf and Alejandra's right with a machete in his hand; Alejandra takes him down with a well-placed shot to the head.
More of them begin to swarm in; Wulf and Alejandra face away from each other as they took them all down one-by-one.
Wulf takes his left sword and quickly slices through the enemy's neck as he moves forward and then takes his right sword and cuts through the other enemy's leg, then spins and stabs the tip into the back of the head while he's down.
"Hey, Alejandra? You okay over there?"
"Killing dozens and… possibly running out of ammo; where do these guys keep coming from?"
"We gotta get out of here, there's a path over here."
Wulf then runs a few feet and turns to see Alejandra taking her sweet time, "C'mon, Alex, move that a**!"
"I'm… trying…!" she said between each gun shot.
Wulf rushes back to help her just as something big arose from the shadows behind the horde; the same executioner with the flamethrower from earlier, he lights the torch on the end and starts spewing fire like an angry dragon, roasting all of the bad guys.
Just before the flames got to them, Wulf and Alejandra took cover. When it was over, they looked up and all who remained was the executioner poised and ready for another human BBQ.
"I'll draw him out, you get of here." Wulf said.
"I'm not leaving you."
"It's okay, I'll catch up."
Alejandra pops out from behind the barrels first and takes off running; Wulf jumps out immediately after and gets the monster's attention.
The beast focuses its flame on him as Wulf ran about the place, trying to get closer. Once close enough, Wulf hits him with a flying punch to the jaw before latching onto the flamethrower, which the executioner swings around violently.
Wulf swings towards a wall and proceeds to climb up.
With the executioner following his movement, leaving behind a trail of flames, which followed closely behind, Wulf goes up as high as he can go and jumps off; landing on the creature's head and jumping down behind him.
The creature swings and knocks Wulf into table sitting next to the corner of a house.
As Wulf tries to get up, the creature marches closer and closer. He charges to fire and just before he could spray, a single bullet grazes his tank and causes the liquid to spill. He takes his attention off of Wulf and points it at Alejandra.
Wulf gets up, sneaks past the executioner and over to her, "I thought you were leaving…"
"I couldn't leave you behind, plus it's a dead end down that way."
"Well it's our only option; we can use it to fend off these things, forces them into a bottleneck, so we can focus our strength in one direction."
They head down the way Alejandra had just come back from and stop at the huge fence.
"How much ammo you got?"
"Not much."
"We'll have to make it last; does that radio work?"
"Yeh, why?"
"Cuz you're going to call for help on that thing. I'll give you more time." Wulf gets back into the fight.
30 minutes later, help arrives in the form of a gunship; the pilot flies in low, taking out the mob. After taking down the whole lot, he fires at the huge guy with the flamethrower; the sparks from the impact catch hold of the gas and start a fire, which spread all over its body.
"I'm gonna blow the gate, take cover!" the pilot's voice bellowed over the radio.
He lines up directly with the gate then turns as he co-pilot stands next to the turret with a rocket launcher in hand. Just before firing, the flames, which covered the executioner's body caught hold of an exploding barrel and caused a huge enough explosion to take out the gate.
Wulf hands Alejandra a sword, "Here, take this…"
"Thanks; Where to now?"
"The mission still stands. We need to find Ronin."
"Well, the deal is going down just up ahead, I'll meet you there."
"Roger that, over and out," Alejandra answered.
They follow their path until coming out two directions; the left side was fenced off, leaving their only option to go right.
Wulf passes by an open door, Alejandra following not too far behind; a pair of zombie hands reaches out and latches onto her.
Wulf hears her cry for help and goes back to save her.
"Thanks."
They move on until getting a call from the pilot of the chopper.
"What happened?"
"Something's wrong, I can't hail Bravo team on the airwaves; something must've happened."
As they turn the corner and find a stack of cardboard boxes in their way, another angry villager pops out, knocking over the boxes and Alejandra as well.
Wulf grabs his right arm and twists it before throwing a punch to the face, a sweep kick and a stab to the heart.
Soon after, a cry for help could be heard coming from somewhere in their area.
"Sounds like someone's in danger, but I can't see where."
"Lemme try." Wulf closes his eyes and summons his sonar ability. The rest of the world turned black, showing buildings in a dim yellow, all the dead bodies in white, his partner Alejandra in light blue; his powers expand, covering all the other buildings in his surroundings until locating the individual and marking her and her attacker in red.
Wulf gives Alejandra the coordinates and she follows.
"How do know?"
"Sonar vision; it's complicated, keep moving."
1 ½ blocks over, a woman dressing a white shirt and jeans rushes out of a room on the 2nd floor, "Help me!" she cried over and over before being dragged back in.
Wulf kicks down the front door and then he and Alejandra race up the stairs; once finding the right door, Wulf and Alejandra kick it in and Alejandra pulls out her gun, even though she didn't have enough ammo left, "Whatever that thing is, just put it down…" she said calmly with her gun pointed at the dark skin guy's forehead.
Just seconds after, the woman gets up off the floor like a corpse rising from the dead; her eyes a bloodshot red and her movement kind of slow.
"Not this again."
"Wait wait wait! Alejandra, save your ammo. There seems to be something different about this one."
Out of every pore in the woman's skin, came a green, slimy ooze, which began to take on the form of vines and tentacles, which in turn covered her whole body from head to toe like an avalanche covering a building.
Its tentacles reach out towards Wulf and Alejandra, Wulf pushes Alejandra out of the way, and the vines focus their attention on him.
After swinging him around for several seconds, Wulf managed to break free. He drew his sword and starts slicing into the beast, but each strike caused sparks to fly. Wulf stops, "Hm. Tough plant." Then he starts tearing into it with his bare hands all the while the monster violently shakes in all directions trying to shake him off.
Several seconds later, Alejandra wakes up. A couple seconds after that, she takes her gun, aims, and gets the plant monster with a well-placed shot to the pod on top of its head.
"A few more seconds and I woulda had'em…"
"Yeh, right."
"I would have…"
Hours later, they make it to the location of the arms deal.
Once inside, the first thing they heard is a bloodcurdling scream.
"What the hell?"
"Let's go check it out."
They head down the narrow corridor and up the ladder at the end and through the door armed and ready for whatever pops out at them.
"Looks like we're too late."
Wulf uses his sonar vision to check for any survivors and finds one at the far end of the room, "Got a live one…" he rushes over to him, "Hey. Can you tell me what happened here?"
The guy coughs, "Something attacked us; Carl got away."
"Who's Carl?"
"Carl Douglas."
"Where's Ronin?"
"How the ******** should I know…"
Seconds later after contacting Aurora, Wulf gained some new information, which could prove useful in his hunt.
"Carl Douglas: age 34, Black African American. He specializes in Pirated movies and music; his Alias is CD, like a compact music disc."
"Must be working with Ronin…"
"I don't care what you do about him, all I care is that Ronin is eliminated before he unleashes his virus."
"A lil late for that, Aurora, My partner and I had a little run in with them just before calling you."
"Well then be careful out there; wouldn't want anything to happen to my favorite assassin."
"Didn't even know you cared…" Wulf hangs up and examines body of the guy, who he was just talking with and finds a floppy disk.
Alejandra approaches, "I saw something, but they got away before I could recognize them."
Wulf stands up and turns to her, "Is there any place we can go to see what's on this?"
"We could try the storage facility."
"I'll follow you…" Wulf answered.
She leads him through the door on the opposite side and down the hall towards an elevator.
Once at the bottom floor, Wulf got a strange feeling after stepping out of the elevator.
"Something big is down here…"
"Something big?"
"Look, I can't explain what it is, but I know it ain't human; might even be the thing that attacked our team."
Alejandra ventures across the room and tries to open the door, but it wouldn't budge. She turns to see Wulf heading through another door and decides to follow.
"I thought you were following me? What are we doing in here?"
Wulf didn't answer; he was still busy tracking whatever killed the soldiers from earlier.
"How many bullets you got?"
"After picking ammo and weapons off the men back there, I have plenty, why?"
"Cuz you're gonna need'em…" Wulf looks up and so does Alejandra.
"What the ******** is that thing?"
"Do you really wanna wait and find out?"
The green, plant-like monster drops from the ceiling and faces our heroes. It lashes it vines out at them.
Alejandra rolls out of the way and starts firing shots into it without end while Wulf chopped down every vine coming towards him with precision. The last vine bypasses his sword, picks him up by the waist and flails him around into the walls and ceiling.
Alejandra shoots the vine and sets Wulf free.
The vines then focus their attention on her while Wulf takes over where she left off.
Wulf cuts off one of the vines before they got a chance to reach her; Alejandra shoots the other vine and cuts it off; Wulf takes the vine he had cut, swings it towards a canister of flammable substance, hooks it, and swings it around into the monster, which then took a few steps back.
Wulf looks towards Alejandra and gives her a nod.
Alejandra aims for the canister, while Wulf leapt out of the way.
The canister explodes after a single shot and the beast violently thrashes in all directions.
Wulf looks towards the furnace and an idea pops into his head, "I got an idea," he shouted towards Alejandra just before he ran towards the furnace.
"What are you doing?" she shouted back.
"Just trust me on this!" he throws a bunch of stuff to get the beast's attention and leads him inside like a mouse into a mousetrap. Once inside, Wulf throws random punches and kick to disorient it, but the monster proved to be a rather formidable opponent as it latches onto him with several vines and bashes him into the floor and ceiling over and over before letting him go.
Alejandra, who was standing by the controls waiting for Wulf, watched like an innocent bystander.
The beast threw him through the window and over to where Alejandra was.
"Press it." He ordered.
Alejandra pressed the red button, but it wouldn't work.
"Press it now!" Wulf barked.
"I'm trying!" after the 7th press, she finally got it.
The doors were closing, closing slowly, but still closing.
Wulf and Alejandra race to the door on the left and shoot the beast as it tries to escape. They managed to hold it back long enough for the doors to close all the way and the flames to start burning hotter.
Bit by bit, the flames roasted the plant monster like a hot summer drought; its tentacles started to bubble, every other part of it began wilting, and the monster was now nothing but a smear all over the furnace floor.
"What… the… HELL was that thing?"
"Give ya one guess," Wulf said vaguely.
"Well, need to report this to HQ.
After making to the storage facility, they look around while unaware of someone watching them from the security camera.
Outside in a dark blue Jeep, an African American in a weird style of clothing you'd see on artists in a rap video sits in the passenger seat alongside Ronin.
"Hey yo, man, let's bounce." The black guy said to Ronin.
"Say what?" he answered back in Japanese.
"I mean let's get outta here…"
With that, they drove off without Wulf and Alejandra hearing them.
"Wulf to HQ, is there anyone there, over?"
"This is HQ, what's going on, Wulf?" Aurora answered.
"We identified the thing that attacked the team back there; it nearly killed us."
"But you're okay, right?"
"Aside from a bruised ego from being tossed around like a rag doll… I'd say all my limbs are pretty much intact."
"Then continue with your current mission, but this time, I want you to bring in C.D.; find out exactly what he knows…"
"And… what of Ronin?"
"The order still stands, Wulf, I want you to eliminate him. We have reason to believe they may have fled to the mines on the far side."
"What if he has more of those… things… you want us to launch an assault with just the two of us?"
"We're dispatching Alpha team, they'll meet you there. Meanwhile, we'll analyze the data you sent, over and out."
"Ever get the feeling there's something she's not telling us?"
"We have to locate Ronin."
Both of them decided on stocking up on weapons and ammo before heading out. They step out and onto a dock overlooking the ocean.
"Great view…"
"Who are you, my travel agent?" "Let's get moving."
After they move on, they begin to notice there are no more hostiles around.
"Looks like the coast is clear…"
"Oh they're around; you're just not looking hard enough."
"If only I could see what you're seeing…"
"Just let me handle the complicating stuff."
They approach a tripwire. Wulf was the first to notice and stops Alejandra in her tracks.
They crouch and move under it.
They wander around aimlessly through the maze of trailer-type things you'd usually see being hauled by a semi-truck until they were spotted by more hostile villagers. They gun down the first wave in front of them, but more approach from behind; one of them grabs Alejandra and Wulf turns to her and knocks the villager off her with one punch to the jaw.
"Thanks."
Before Wulf could even answer, one of the hostiles grabs him in a choke hold. Wulf gets a good grip and flips the man over his head and stomps on his chest.
Alejandra fires a shot past Wulf's face and gets one of the bad guys in the head.
After being overrun, Alejandra and Wulf flee. They end up at a broken bridge. Wulf takes Alejandra in his arms, spins and launches her to the other side before leaping across. From there, he and Alejandra turned to eliminate the threat creeping up from behind and then continue moving forward.
They keep moving until reaching a tunnel, where they thought they could lose them, but they were wrong. The horde chased them all through the tunnel until coming out the other side.
They pass by an old shack and come up on an abandoned market. Once they turned to fire, a huge pair of hands pulled Wulf through a window and inside of the building, leaving Alejandra to fend for herself.
"Wulf!!!" Alejandra cried out before turning her attention back to the horde.
Meanwhile inside, Wulf gets to his feet in front of a half-naked, big boned Black man standing at about 6 ft. 4 in. after looking up, Wulf throws a strong punch to the stomach.
The guy didn't even flinch.
Wulf throws a kick, and the guy grabs his foot and slams him into the wall behind him. After Wulf peeled off the wall, the big man throws a punch, which Wulf ducks under while at the same time, punching him in the knee and working his way around behind him.
The guy attacks with a spinning back kick, but Wulf sidesteps, grabs his foot and sweeps his other foot from under him, sending him falling onto his face.
While on the ground, Wulf starts kicking him in the sides repeatedly.
The guy spirals and trips Wulf with his feet before getting up, grabbing him by the back of his clothes, and spinning him around before launching him through the front door.
Wulf lands at Alejandra's feet and continues rolling down the steps and into the center of the horde, Alejandra was trying desperately to fend off.
Wulf rolls onto his back to see a bunch of hostile locals towering over him like hungry vultures circling their next victim in the harsh desert sun. Thinking quickly, Wulf unsheathes his sword and attacks their legs, bringing to their knees, where he began throwing punches to their private areas.
Minutes later, the big dude Wulf was fighting rushed out and leapt at him; Wulf evaded and quickly got to his feet. He throws a quick kick to the shin to bring him to his knees before decking him with a left hook to the cheek.
The big man throws a right hook, but Wulf rolls under it and hits him in the armpit with a back fist.
The big man swings at Wulf with a back fist, which Wulf dodged by falling on his back.
The big man gets to his feet and kicks Wulf like a soccer ball into a fruit stand.
After knocking over the table, Wulf gets up and starts pelting his opponent with fruit.
A hostile villager grabs him from behind while the big guy runs up.
Wulf jumps up and lands a double leg drop kick to the stomach, lands and flips the hostile over him. He then turns left and strikes with an uppercut. He turns 45 degrees to his right and lands a side kick to the stomach.
Another hostile villager approaches and knocks Wulf on his back with a sweep, and proceeds to curb stomp him into the dirt.
Wulf rolls over and jumps to his feet; another hostile grabs him from behind while two more approach from his left and right. Wulf leaps up and kicks them both to the ground, then elbows his captor in the gut repeatedly. When that didn't work, Wulf looked up at the big man marching his way rapidly and then turns and allows his captor to take the punch in the back.
The hostile immediately lets go, Wulf turns, and the big man throws low frontal kick, which Wulf blocks.
The man lowers his foot and throws a punch, which Wulf also blocked both hands. His opponent alternates between his left and right fist before Wulf throws a punch to the private area and finishes off with a punch to the ear. While he was stunned, Wulf approaches the fruit stand, picks up a watermelon, twirls, and chucks it at the big man, who stumbled backwards and impaled a broken table leg.
"Wulf, behind you!" Alejandra shouted.
Wulf turns and a hostile village swings at him with a machete. Thinking quickly, Wulf pulls out his sword and fights. He blocks the next attack and slashes him in the neck. Once he was down, Wulf looked up to see more of them converging on his location and returns to Alejandra's side.
"What now?" Alejandra asked.
"When the big man attacked me, this fell from the ceiling. Maybe it opens something around here."
"It looks like an old gate key," she answered while occasionally looking up and taking out one enemy at a time.
Wulf closes his eyes and using his sonar vision. Once finding out where the key fits, he instructed his partner to follow him. They stick close to each other as they fight their way through the horde.
Halfway to their destination, Wulf's radio beeps. He picks it up and answer, "It's about time."
"Had to refuel, but the important thing is I'm here to provide air support, so watch yourselves."
"Roger that," Alejandra answered.
The pilot arms the mini-guns and takes out every hostile he sees while Wulf and Alejandra stand their ground and help him out.
Once they were all gone, Wulf continued to lead the way.
Several seconds later, half a dozen more hostiles jump out of a set of double doors at them; Wulf holds up his handgun and shoots the center left one in the head while Alejandra takes care of the rest.
They make it through the gate and into a quiet area filled with two-story houses; Alejandra barricades the door.
With the helicopter still hovering over them, our heroes move on, not knowing which way to go.
They approach a pathway leading towards a huge building and Wulf stops dead in his tracks.
"What is it?"
"Enemy hostiles on the roof…" He picks up his radio, "Evasive maneuvers, you've got RPG's 12 o'clock!"
But it was too late; one of the rockets took out his propeller and sent him spiraling out of control.
Alejandra takes aim and takes out the RPG's "We have to get to the crash site."
They head around to the side, enter the building and head to the top floor where the rocket launchers were and raced across the rooftops. They reach a huge gap between buildings and jump down to the balcony. From there, they head inside, downstairs and back onto the streets, where they encounter a well-known enemy; the executioner. This time, the executioner was wielding a giant axe with a saw tooth blade.
"Didn't we kill his guy once already?" Wulf asked. "I guess not…"
After they take care of him, they move onto the crash site where all seemed a bit too quiet. They cautiously looked around while moving towards the rising smoke in the distance.
Several seconds later, the sound of motorcycles could be heard approaching the site.
Wulf was the first to notice. As he turned around and noticed a motorcycle approaching he shoves Alejandra out of the way. The biker knocks him down on the first pass and he gets back up, but in doing so, he causes the chain dragging behind the biker to wrap around his foot. While being dragged around, Wulf shoots at his target to cause him to swerve. He shoots one of the explosive barrels up ahead, the biker swerves, taking the chain along with him.
As Wulf flew in the opposite direction, he takes aim and blows the enemy's head off. As Wulf rises, another one approaches; Alejandra shoots him down and Wulf rejoins her side.
More bikers swarm in like angry bees and circle them both, making it difficult for them to get a lock on.
Suddenly, without warning, they start dropping like flies and Wulf and Alejandra couldn't figure out why.
Wulf then noticed several snipers on the rooftops picking them off one by one until only 2 remained.
Wulf asks for Alejandra's arm, she grabs onto his hand and he spins her around, kicking one of the two bikers down, before he spirals and slices through the remaining enemy's neck.
"Whoa, the little guy can really handle his own…"
"Stay sharp up there, we got more incoming…"
More enemies rode in on motorcycles and the troops on the ground gunned them down quickly before meeting up with Alejandra and Wulf.
5 minutes later, they reconvene in an abandoned warehouse, which served as a temporary base.
"Am I ever glad you showed up when you did…"
"Delta team Captain Gonzalez. You must be Wulf ninja warrior."
"Correct. This is my partner, Alejandra."
"We've already met."
"I've studied under Pedro's teachings; he's been like a big brother to me."
"With all that being put aside, you must continue pursuing the target."
"We have reason to believe he's heading to the mines, we're on our way now."
"Good. We'll catch up with you once we're finished here. Keep your radios on, so we can stay in touch."
"Will do. You guys be careful."
"We will."
"By the way, did HQ get the data we sent?"
"Yes, but anything of importance was corrupted; the rest of it was info we already are aware of…"
"They must've planted an extermination virus."
"Though, they were able to get to one file before its deletion." Pedro gives Wulf the Hard drive, which contained a picture. "We assume it may have been Ronin's next target."
Alejandra plugs the data drive into her phone.
"That looks like Planet Gaia," Wulf thought to himself.
"We must stop him."
"Just exactly where are the mines?"
"They're on the other side of the rail-yard; I know where that is…"
Once they reached the rail yard, they find themselves being chased by wild dogs, though these weren't your average wild dogs; there was something different about them, which Alejandra and Wulf could not figure out. The dogs chased them towards the train cars without stopping.
"You just had to bother them, didn't you…?"
"Hey, I thought they were harmless. Besides, I was going to see if they can tell us anything; I am part dog, you know…"
"We're being hunted by a bunch of hostile locals ever since we entered the hot zone and you didn't even begin to wonder if the animals are hostile as well?"
Wulf and Alejandra maneuver through the cars while at the same time watching their steps carefully. They reach a dead end and Wulf takes Alejandra by the hand and tosses her up onto the top of the train before joining her.
"Very agile, aren't we?"
"Comes with the territory…" Wulf looks up and notices an archer on the car across from them, "Watch out!" he yells before jumping in front of her and blocking the archer's arrows with his sword.
"This way!" she yells just before grabbing Wulf by the arm and leading the way.
They run along the train until reaching the end and jump off on the right side, heading towards the mining cart.
"You get in, I'll push."
They approach the cart, Alejandra gets in, and Wulf pushes against it as hard as he can into the cave entrance.
"This place has been abandoned for years, so I doubt the power even works…"
"Well see if you can find some source of light; I'm blind here."
"You have your 'sonar' vision."
"But it takes energy to use, which means I can't stay in that mode the whole time we're in here."
"Hey, I think I found something," she said, picking a rather large object and turning it on.
"That's better. I'll take the lead; you keep the light pointing forward."
"Got it."
After about ¾ of a mile, they reach a fork in the road.
"I pick right, how about you?"
"I… got a feeling it leads to a dead end," Wulf replied.
So they go left. As they walked, things were pretty quiet, but Wulf kept his gun facing forward as he took each step into the darkness.
"These seem to go on forever…"
Seconds later, they reach a gate. Wulf approaches the crank and turns it to raise the gate and allow them safe passage. Following the tunnel a bit further, they enter a well-lit round room.
More hostiles poured into the room from the hole in the wall at the very top…
They fight their way through the room and up the ladder on the other side. From there, their next move was to make it across the log bridge. About halfway across, the horde surrounded them from both sides.
Wulf kicks the one in front him down, orders Alejandra to duck, spirals and decapitates the enemy behind her trying to restrain her.
She raises her head and looks behind her before thanking him.
Wulf strikes down every enemy in front of him while Alejandra deals with the ones behind them on the way across. Once on the other side, they proceed to the ladder on their right and go up. Alejandra goes first and provides covering fire while Wulf climbs up and reaches for one of her grenades, "Lemme borrow one of these…" he said, dropping it past his feet after pulling the pin. The blast shoots him into the air and lands him on the ledge. They head through the tunnel and come to another fork in the road.
"We head left!" Wulf exclaimed, dragging Alejandra by the arm.
Once they reach the end, they get in the elevator and go up. At the top level, they come to a light at the end of the tunnel, which led them outside. They then head towards the two-story house and through the door. Inside as they navigated the first floor, they hear the distinct murmuring of two people coming from inside the walls.
"Just exactly who was that guy at the bunker?"
"Probably someone that b***h, Aurora, sent once she figured out she can't control me. He's nothing I cannot handle," Ronin answered in Japanese.
"Yeh, nothing you can't handle. Listen, Mr. Green thumb, I ain't planning on getting shot, so deal with him." C.D. answered back in English.
Seconds after, Wulf and Alejandra came busting through the door yelling, "Freeze."
"Freeze? Yo, do I look like a Fudgesicle to you?" Carl answered, pulling out his gun and pointing it at them.
"It's over, Ronin… for you and your lil puppet."
"Hold up, Home boi, if I was a puppet, you'd see strings coming from my limbs or a hand up my a**…"
Ronin cut him off, "I'm afraid you're mistaken, Mr. Wulf, it's not over. Not yet. You can storm in here all you want, and firebomb this patch of dirt back to the dark ages, but progress will never stop for the likes of you."
"Well will it stop if we put a bullet through that pretty little skull of yours?"
"Alejandra…"
"Why don't you let me handle this one; you take Carl."
"Here, lemme give you and easy target…" he jumps up onto the railing and attempts to maintain his balance while waiting for Wulf to throw the first move.
Wulf fires a single shot, but Ronin stops it in its tracks with one swing of his blade.
Carl aims for Wulf, who immediately looks up and blocks with his sword.
Alejandra hits Carl with one shot to the left leg and he takes cover behind the desk. Alejandra then fires at Ronin, who blocks rapidly as he spirals to the first floor, turns and runs out the door behind him.
Wulf jumps over the edge and pursues him. He catches up with him and pins his scarf to the ground with a Kunai to keep him from moving before approaching.
Ronin turns with an overhead slash, but Wulf ducks, strikes with a low punch to the stomach.
Ronin then stabs at Wulf, who sidesteps and blocks with his sword before throwing another left punch, which Ronin blocks with his back of his hand before striking back with his sword.
Wulf leans back, then forward, and then spirals with a slash to the chest, but Ronin slides back and the tip of the blade slices through his clothing instead of his flesh.
They both leap at each other and move back and forth, exchanging attacks while dodging at the same time; Ronin leaps into the air as Wulf spirals and lands on top of his sword, bringing it to the ground as he hits Wulf in the jaw with a back fist, a kick to the stomach, which landed Wulf on his face.
Wulf rolled to his left as Ronin attempted to curb stomp him into the dirt and gets to his feet.
Ronin doesn't hesitate; he rushes at Wulf with a bombardment of attacks, which he dodged like a pro before coming at him with a spiraling uppercut. After Ronin lands on his back, Wulf rushes up, and Ronin kicks him away before springing to his feet.
Wulf fires a shot, Ronin blocks that shot and spirals towards him and knocks the gun out of his hands.
Wulf pulls out a fancy arm grab technique into an arm twist, disarming Ronin, who kicks Wulf in the back of the knee and makes him release his grip.
Ronin trips him and continues to run away; Wulf gets up and takes chase.
Meanwhile, back in the house, Alejandra has Carl successfully detained as she starts asking questions.
"Alright, out with it, what's Ronin up to, C.D.? what's the endgame?"
"Yeh right, like he'd tell me anything of that importance. He knew the dynamic duo would bust in here gun blazin'; he didn't want anyone like me compromising the mission…"
"Quit bullshitting me, he must've told you something; like where you're supposed to meet him."
"Yeh, but what makes you think I'd tell 5-0 something like that? I ain't a snitch."
"I tell ya what, if you cooperative… I'll wipe your whole record clean, how about that?"
"Ronin can do all that without demanding something in return, so kiss my a**, Puta."
"That's it! If you don't start yapping, I'm gonna put you in a hole so dark, that it'll make every federal penitentiary you've stayed in feel like a beach resort. NOW TELL ME WHERE WE CAN FIND HIM!!!"
While she interrogated Carl, Wulf was having problems of his own. He chased Ronin towards a canyon where he lost him due to a truck blocking the way.
The truck, which was gray and had an octagonal trailer, opens the backdoor and out pops this huge wasp-like creature with the length of your average 1-story home towering over Wulf at about at about 8ft.
Alejandra leaves Carl tied to the chair to go catch up with Wulf, who was struggling with the insect like a cowboy trying to rope a bull. As the bug bounces up and down, he continues to hold on until the bug flings him forward; Wulf grabs onto its head and repeatedly throws punches into the top of it.
The bug continues to thrash over and over until flinging Wulf to its left.
Wulf pulls his gun and fires shot after shot as his back slowly moves towards the canyon wall.
The bug swings it large abdomen and flings a huge metal crate, which Wulf dodged.
Alejandra finally caught up with Wulf and draws the bug's attention away from him by firing a round into its midsection.
"Pick on someone a lil more your speed…"
The bug leaves him alone and chases her now, while Wulf gets up and notices what was inside the crate that almost hit him; a few dozen white, circular items, which looked like explosive devices due to the time on one side. Wulf examines the back, "Grant Industry Landmines"
Wulf sneers and says, "figures…" and then sets one before throwing it.
They stick to the bug's abdomen and set off a small explosion, which cracked part of its exoskeleton like an egg. With this, Wulf thought if he could cause more damage, he can reveal a way to defeat the creature for good.
"Hiding something…?" Wulf asked the bug monster.
Alejandra joins his side, "Wulf? What are those?"
"Gift from a friend, apparently. Now help me place these; I may have found its weak spot," he explained, pointing to the cracked area in the bug's exoskeleton.

Just then, a tentacle reached up and hit the deck, but Wulf leaps out of the way just in time.
After a second tentacle reaches up, the beast grabs onto the boat as its head emerges from the water.
Wulf and Alejandra man the turrets and try to take it down.
After taking a certain amount of hits, it releases its hold on the boat and dives under only to surface and swim alongside the boat with the weak spot on its back sticking out like a sore thumb.
Wulf and Alejandra try their best to aim for it, but the creature moving up and down in the water made it difficult. Finally, they hit it a number of 4 times and the beast dives under, moving closer and closer until it rams the side and knocks Alejandra and Wulf off balance. They get to their feet and get back on the turrets.
The monster pops out once again and Alejandra hits it with a rocket for the final kill.
Checking in on Ronin, who runs aground and gets out of the boat in some weird jungle setting. He pulls out his cellphone.
"Yes…?" a disguised voice answered.
"C.D. has been eliminated; I'm heading to the HQ right now."
"Good, those two won't stop until they've either caught you or killed you; we'll lure them and take care of them here before launching our master plan; don't fail me."
"I won't."
Checking back in with Wulf and Alejandra.
"Great, C.D.'s dead and we have no leads as to where Ronin might be."
"He couldn't have gotten far." Wulf heads towards the bridge and steers the boat in the direction he wants to go. They arrive at the same area Ronin did and Wulf spots his boat easily, "He's here."
"How are you so sure? That could be anyone's boat."
"It's the same one he escaped in…"
They stay on constant alert as they enter the jungle, unaware of what's in their surroundings. Though being low on ammo meant they had to exercise caution to preserve what little they had.
Quarter mile up ahead, they enter a campsite with multiple tents; Wulf enters of them filled with weapons and ammo, Alejandra follows and they both stock up.
Once loading up, the rest of the way seemed pretty quiet; no hostiles or enemy soldiers in sight, but they still kept their guard up. They approach a cave big enough for a dinosaur to live in and Wulf proceeds to enter, while Alejandra hesitated for a bit.
The further they move into the cave, the brighter it got and the wider the path got until they were literally looking over the edge at how far down it was. Crossing the gap, they proceeded to climb the ladder in front of them and continued on until reaching a stone door with a slot in it. Wulf places his sword in it and gives it a turn. After removing it, the door rises.
"Wow. Talk about your lost civilizations." Wulf said, marveling in the beauty of the ruined buildings, which were illuminated by what little light was coming through the ceiling of the caves.
"Seems like someone's been here recently…"
"And not just Ronin, either; take a look…"
Alejandra takes her sniper rifle and scopes out the area, "Patrols, everywhere."
"Leave'em to me; you stand behind me and be my backup. If you have to actually fire your weapon, then prepare for a firefight.
They proceed along the wall until coming to the end of the walkway and jumping down the lower level.
From there, they hug tight to the walls while cautiously traversing the rough terrain. As usual, Wulf took the lead, being as silent as possible. He stops once the wall in front of them turns into a line of pillars. Wulf uses his sonar vision and times his jumps just right so not to be spotted by guards; Alejandra waited for Wulf to give her to signal when to move and rejoins his side. They reach a gap in the path, Wulf grabs Alejandra, spirals and hurls her to the other side and through the window of a ruined building.
She lets out a scream, which could be heard by roaming guards, who were close by.
Wulf gets a running start and jumps through the window, rolling as he landed.
"Can you at least me tell me when you're gonna do something like that?" Alejandra whispered.
Wulf tries to quiet her down.
"You could've killed me."
Wulf tells her to shush and points to the shadow, which was approaching at a moderate pace. They both take cover on opposite side of the doorway; the guard shines the light on the end of his rifle into the room, sees nothing but the walls and decides to move on. Once he was gone, they moved out of the building and headed the opposite direction only to come across a bridge. As they traversed, the ground beneath them began to give away. Wulf jumped across while Alejandra jumped back.
"Can you jump it?" Wulf asked.
Not being as agile as Wulf, Alejandra tried to get a running start, but as soon as she reached the ledge, she stopped as she noticed how far down it was, "I can't."
Wulf decided to jump back across and give her a hand, but before he could do, some of the guards posted on the rocks above them and open fired. Wulf fires back, hitting nothing but rocks as the mercenaries took cover. "Find another way around, I'll provide covering fire!"
Alejandra jumps down to the ledge below her and continues onward until running into more mercenaries. She took care of most of them, while Wulf took out the rest from his current position. She continues down the path and goes up a flight of stairs with a sniper up above and out of sight; Wulf spots him and takes him out with one shot and Alejandra continues through another doorway, fires a shot at the mercenary in front of her and misses. Just as she was reloading, the enemy quickly aims, but before he could take the shot, Wulf hits him with a headshot from a distance with his handgun and reunites with Alejandra, "You really should switch to another weapon instead of reload; didn't they teach you that in the field?"
They move on and eventually fall through a trapdoor and into octagonal room with multiple doors. Alejandra takes out her radar and points the way.
Further up ahead, they enter a square room with another stone door and two switches on the ground. Right away, Wulf and Alejandra knew what to do. They each stood on a switch at the same time and the door opens. Once through, they walked a few yards and a boulder dropped from the ceiling in front of the door and started rolling towards them.
"What's that sound?"
Wulf looks back, notices the boulder, grabs Alejandra's arm and pulls her as they both ran to avoid being crushed. At the end of the hall, Wulf hurls Alejandra to the other side and uses to the wall to help him get across. He barely makes it as he grabs onto the ledge, but Alejandra helps him up while the boulder falls down the hole and slowly disappears.
"This is not exactly my idea of fun, Wulf."
"Hey, you were the one Loco enough to stick by me after all that's transpired; you didn't have to follow me, you know."
"I'd rather help keep you from getting yourself killed than just run away."
After brushing themselves off, they move on. Half an hour later, they arrive in a small nursery for plants with an artificial light shining through the ceiling.
"Someone's sure got a green thumb…"
"How can these even survive down here?"
Wulf gets a closer look, "Roses…"
"Wulf, come take a look at this…"
Wulf rushes over.
"Seems as though these flowers are meant to be consumed, for they give the eater unexplained abilities."
"Maybe that's what was given to the people up above to make'em act so weird."
"How could Ronin get funding to experiment with this?"
"More importantly, how does he plan to attack an entire planet with this stuff?" he picks up a picture with what looks to be a huge spaceship of some sort.
Moments later, they kick down the door, which led into a kennel of sorts. As they wandered throughout the room, they find the cages were all empty; whatever was inside them had either escaped or was disposed of.
They heard a sound off in the corner like a vent falling from an air duct and they point their guns in that direction, but whatever was there had already took off.
"What the hell was that?"
"Let's not stick around to find out, c'mon…"
Heading around the corner and through the door at the end, they come up on a hallway with a glass wall to their right; just like the cages in the last room, the room behind the glass was also empty; nothing but blood on the walls.
"Can't go back, can't move forward either…"
"Looks like there's a way out on the other side of this glass." Wulf kicks the glass and steps through; heading down the passageway, a green, scaly beast with sharp claws jumps down from the ceiling.
Alejandra fires and it starts jumping all over the place.
Wulf finally puts it down with a precise shot to the head as it climbed along the wall. He gets close to examine it after it stops twitching, "No eyeballs…"
In place of its eyes was a huge, red bar running across the top of the head like a sonar, "Looks like they go off body heat."
"That's great. can we get out of here before more of them show up?"
Going through the next door, Alejandra's worst fear comes true when they find more hunter type beasts patrolling the room.
"If we sneak across the room, maybe they won't notice us."
They go from pillar to pillar, watching their steps carefully as the monster fight with each other while unaware of their presence.
Alejandra presses against the pillar, making a thud sounds and a couple of them look up at where the sound came from with a snarling sound.
After getting out of the next room, the door slams behind them and alerts the hunters, who then thrash and bash trying to get it open.
Wulf and Alejandra run and make it to the end of the hall and into the elevator. Moments later, they exit the elevator and navigate the halls until coming up on a huge temple like room with torches on the sides of the doorways. They venture into the center of the room and Ronin comes up from behind, sweep Alejandra off her feet and kicks her swiftly in the side, draws his sword and swings at Wulf, who quickly ducks.
Wulf pulls out his sword and strikes back. Ronin blocks and aims for the gut. Wulf pushes jumps back. Ronin slashes upward. Wulf sidesteps and pushes Ronin's sword away with his foot as he comes in from the left. Ronin spirals and comes back with a slash, which Wulf blocks.
Alejandra approaches and places a gun to Ronin's head. He pauses then elbows her and sweeps Wulf off his feet. Alejandra gets up and hits Ronin with a right hook to the jaw.
Wulf gets up and fires his gun.
Ronin turns and blocks all the bullets before grabbing Alejandra and using her as a shield.
Wulf then stops, but starts up as soon Alejandra breaks free of his grip.
Ronin spirals into a sideways roll in midair and lands on his feet after Wulf stops firing.
"Stop wasting our time; where's your employer? I know she's here."
"Not enjoying the fun, Wulf?" Aurora's voice answered from the shadows of the room before coming out and showing herself, "Typical mercenary you are, Wulf, always quick and to the point; never willing to take the time to do things."
"Why?"
"Someone's gotta do it; no one else would fund his research, because they saw it as insane. But me… I saw it as a way to propel mankind into the future; a world where we learn to respect nature or be ruled by it."
"You got public service announcements to make people aware of the harm they're doing to Mother Nature; this isn't the way to solve anything." Alejandra replied.
"You sound just like all the others, 'This isn't the way to go about sending a message to mankind; by destroying it.' I'm not destroying mankind, I'm saving it."
"If this was your plan all along, why invite me down here…?"
"You're my best assassin, I was creating the illusion that I'm doing everything I can to put a stop to this; keep my organization from suspecting my involvement."
"I'd have to be the best in order to figure out it was you behind this. Who else has the power to release a high value criminal like C.D. from military custody and back into the hands of terrorists, who else would have such a fascination with Mythology to a point where they use a name like Loki as their code name; the shapeshifting god of Mischief?"
"Very clever, but that's not going to help you out now."
"It's over, Wulf… you and your lil… girlfriend… have lost."
"I never lose…" Wulf holds up his gun and fires off.
Aurora holds out her hand and a mysterious force field drew the bullets in closer, causing them to melt together into a big metal ball, "My dear, Wulf, did you not see the flowers in our nursery? Did you not read the file? Anyone, who consumes the petals, will gain extraordinary abilities. We've experimenting with it for months and have finally perfected it."
"Well how about you perfect my fist in your face next." Wulf draws his sword and goes for a more direct approach. As he approaches and swings from the right, Aurora cartwheels over his blade, swing her around like a windmill and shots the big metal at his back, knocking him on his face. He pounds his fist on the ground and then gets to his feet. For his next move, he attacks with a back fist, but Aurora ducks hits with a wing chun punch to the heart and Wulf takes a couple steps back.
Alejandra steps in with a couple shots to Aurora's back, but she still stood there unflinching before turning to face her.
Ronin approaches and elbows her in the back of the head.
Wulf grabs Aurora by the shoulders and flips over her as he moves towards Ronin. As he is about to stab his sword into her back, Wulf stops him and makes him spiral with a fan kick to the face.
Ronin turns back towards him and throws his cape in his face before knocking him back with a frontal kick.
Thinking he was unaware of having a gun pointed at his back, Alejandra shoots him, but Ronin spirals and swats the bullet to the ground.
Aurora approaches Alejandra at light speed and decks her with a punch to the jaw. Alejandra aims her gun and Aurora blocks as she strikes with a kick to the shin, causing Alejandra to kneel.
Alejandra attempts to aim again and Aurora kicks the gun from her hand, drop kicks on the top of the head and brings her crashing face first to the ground.
Over to Wulf; Ronin attacks with a side kick from the right, but Wulf grabs his leg, spins him, and flips him onto his stomach with a sweep of the other leg. While on the ground, Wulf positions his foot over top of him to initiate a curb stomp, but Ronin rolls out of the way just in time and gets on his feet again.
Wulf proceeds with a right hook and Ronin counters with an arm-grab as he repeatedly punches Wulf in the side a couple inches about the hip. As Wulf throws a right kick, Ronin releases his arm and grabs his leg before spiraling and tossing him into a pillar. Once he hits the ground, Ronin approaches and deals several punches to the stomach; Wulf then spirals around the pillar and hits with a back elbow, which Ronin blocks, so Wulf spirals around the pillar in the opposite direction and kicks Ronin, so he hits his head on the pillar.
Ronin then knocks Wulf to the ground with a back fist, moves over to him, grabs his leg, spirals and launches him into the air before doing a wall-kick off the pillar and attacking Wulf in mid-air.
Back to Alejandra; Aurora counters her attack with an arm and several kicks to the back before Alejandra broke free, throws a punch to the stomach, causing her to kneel as she throws a punch to the jaw; Aurora rotates 45 degrees then rotates back the other way with a double palm strike to the stomach, lifting Alejandra off her feet as she flew a couple feet and landed on her stomach. She gets to her feet as Aurora rapidly approaches like a blur. Aurora throws a straight punch and Alejandra sidesteps. Aurora swings at Alejandra with her right arm and Alejandra leans back. Aurora strikes with a spinning kick and Alejandra back flips. Aurora kicks again, but Alejandra grabs her leg and sweeps her other leg from under her. As she hit the ground, Alejandra throws a swift punch to the left breast.
Aurora kicks her in the v****a, pushes her off her, leaps onto her feet and kicks Alejandra in the stomach, pushing her several feet. Aurora then pulls off her belt, whips it as Alejandra as she gets up and wraps it around her waist, "I'll smash you into a thousand pieces, you b***h!" she barked before slamming Alejandra in all directions.
While being flung around, Alejandra manages to pick up her gun and use it, but every shot she fired, missed, so she aimed for the belt and cuts herself loose. She reloads and fires again, but Aurora does the same thing from earlier, which is rearrange all the bullets into a huge metal ball and flinging it back at her like a package being returned to sender.
Alejandra rolls under the ball, puts her gun away, reaches for her knife and approaches Aurora, who disarms her, takes her by the arm and throws her to the ground behind her like a discarded rag doll.
Wulf turns as Aurora was about to kill Alejandra with her own knife and tosses his sword over to Alejandra, so she could having something defend herself with.
Alejandra grabs the handle and holds it up like a shield.
Wulf ducks and dodges Ronin's every attack before moving around behind him, unsheathing one of his swords and using it against him as he slashes him in the back.
Ronin flinches before turns to face Wulf, "Rule 1: always… have a plan B…" he pulls out a remote with a big red button and presses it, releasing an army of green hunter type beasts as he makes his exit.
Aurora, who had just noticed, then began to follow after Ronin up the stairs and into the elevator, "What's the deal, are you trying to get me killed?"
Ronin mumbles under his breath, "That's kinda the idea…"
"What?"
"I said, 'honestly I had no idea'."
Meanwhile, Wulf and Alejandra had to contend with the hunters while being almost low on ammo.
They stand back to back, the creatures jump at them one at a time and they gun them down with a single shot to the head. While Wulf was reloading, one of them leaps at him and Wulf cuts off its head before reloading and taking it down.
Alejandra fires until she has to reload and Wulf spirals around in front of her, sticks his sword out and the creature impales its head on the tip.
Another hunter jumps from the right and Wulf hits him with a kick to the top of the head. one attacks from behind and Wulf back flips over it before shooting it in the head.
Alejandra continues firing, keeping as many of them off of Wulf as she can.
Two approach from the side as Wulf crouches down and sticks his swords out at both sides.
The second to last one confronts Wulf and sticks it tongue out at him. Wulf grabs the tongue and swings the beast around by it, and slams him into the other.
"How do we expect to stop him now?"
"They've gotta have some way they're spreading this. If we find out what, maybe we can stop it."
They get in the elevator and ride it up and outside to balcony overlooking the sunrise. Off in the distance, they spot a huge spaceship floating on the water.
"They're getting ready for takeoff, we gotta get down there."
Once on the ship, they exit the planet's atmosphere, heading for Gaia's solar system.
Wulf whispers, "We have to get to the bridge and shut this ship down before it's too late."
"Easier said than done…"
They head down the ladder and into the lower level, where they took cover behind some crates as soon as they heard footsteps. Alejandra creeps up on the guard, and takes him out with a neck break, while Wulf takes the other guard and slits his throat.
They then hide the bodies before moving on as quietly as possible. Wulf takes the lead, using the shadows for cover as he takes the soldiers down one at a time.
Meanwhile, at the bridge, Ronin was minding his business, watching the stars until the power suddenly went out. He soon realized who could be behind this. He presses a button and speaks into the microphone, "Bridge to engine room, what's your status?"
There was no answer.
"Engine room, this is the command bridge, is anyone there?"
Still no answer. He bangs his fist on the console, "Damn it! Those two lil rodents. Lock this place down! Bring the bastards to me. I'll deal with them myself…"
Back to the action, our heroes must now fight their way out of the engine room.
Alejandra takes the first shot, shoots the guy in the left leg and delivers a round into his head after kneels. She immediately rotates left and hits the fire extinguisher, taking out several at a time.
Wulf jumps out from behind cover and moves from pillar to pillar; he approaches a handful of soldiers, takes out the one 45 degrees to his right with a slash to the gut rotates in the opposite direction and cuts off the arm of another soldier before kicking him down.
One soldiers fires at him from behind from close range and Wulf pushes the barrel off to the side, causing it to hit one of the other soldiers before he elbows him in the guts, tosses him over his head and kicks him into another soldier.
One of them attacks from behind with a blunt object and Alejandra guns him down.
Wulf looks back and thanks her with a thumbs up and gets back to the fight. He bounces off one enemy and lands on the other one's head and performs a back flip throw. After taking the final enemy down, he moves over to the door and disables the security lock, so he and Alejandra can get out. Wulf forward rolls out of the doorway while Alejandra steps out and opens fires at the oncoming enemies. Wulf finishes rolling, gets in a crouched position and throws his sword into the neck of the biggest guy in the room.
Meanwhile in the bridge, Aurora enters the room, unaware of what's happening and Ronin explains.
"Your employee, that's what happened. Son of a b***h doesn't how to roll over and play dead."
"It's funny how you said that, with him being part wolf and all."
"You know, this encounter has got me thinking… if you wanted to throw suspicion off of you, why send your best assassin? But then I figured it out. He's part of your plan to kill me off, yeh that's it."
"It's not like that at all," Aurora answered, somewhat nervously.
"You figure you can't control me, so you hire your best guy to do away with me."
"His involvement in this is affecting your mind; why would I want to kill you when we're both for the same cause, THINK!"
"Same… cause? See that's your problem right there. You think I'm all about teaching mankind a lesson about respecting nature, when my true intention is to wipe them from the face of Gaia."
"That's not what we agreed to."
"We NEVER agreed to anything; you did. You saw the magnificence of my creation and thought it was for the betterment of mankind, when it was really to plant the literal seeds of its destruction and to make them pay for ridiculing me."
"You're still on that? It was high school, Ronin, get over it!"
"I CANNOT! I am haunted by it every night."
"Then let me offer you quick relief from your nightmares…" after saying that horrible comeback line, she quickly pulls her pistol from its holster, but before she could fire, Ronin rips it from her hand with a spear that was holstered on his right side, which he had not used until now.
Aurora runs away, but Ronin pulls back with that same spear and drives her into his blade where she met a slow death, "Since you seem fit to protect the very same humans that also despise…" Ronin said in Japanese, "Then you can die along with them…" he pushes her off his sword and to the ground.
As she hit the floor, blood gushed out of her wound like water from a busted water bed and laid in circular puddle all around her.
Ronin turns around goes about his business, while Aurora continued to die.
Wulf and Alejandra burst through the door.
"Your precious mercenaries are nothing but monkeys wielding very dangerous weapon that they know nothing about, Ronin." He looks down at the now dead Aurora lying in a pool of her blood and looks back at Ronin.
"She was a tree-hugger; she lacked vision. All she cared about was giving nature a chance to fight back against their oppressors: us. But thanks to her generous donation, she's no longer required. Once we approach Gaia's atmosphere, I will unleash my bioweapon in the form of a meteorite fragment small enough to leave the planet intact. After impact, the virus will spread and infect everyone, until engulfing the entire world; changing people into plant-like creatures. Once it's all over, I'll place myself as leader of the new world of Gaia and there's nothing you can do."
"You sure about that?" Alejandra pulls out her gun and Ronin readies his sword as he blocks all her bullets like tennis balls while approaching rapidly.
Wulf spirals in front of her and blocks Ronin's attack, Wulf signals Alejandra to go for the console; Ronin figures it out and turns his attention towards her, doing whatever he can to stop her. Just as he was about to strike her down for good, Wulf intervenes; he stops Ronin's attack with his sword and answers, "Ronin. This isn't the answer…"
"Oh, that's priceless coming from a hitman, who's gone from planet to planet hunting down criminals with the sole intention of doing away with them; I thought someone like you would understand…"
"I kill those, who are threats to society; you're planning to wipe all human life in existence. And that's genocide!"
Ronin pulls back and slashes Wulf across the chest a couple times; Wulf then falls to the ground and Ronin answers with, "Call it what you want; I'm doing the world a favor…"
Alejandra fires and Ronin blocks, spirals, and throws his spear at her, and reels her in like a fish as he slaps her across the cheeks and knocks her to the floor. Ronin turns with a spinning back-fist, Wulf ducks and rises up with a left punch to the jaw. Ronin performs a frontal kick and Wulf grabs his leg and sweeps his other leg from under him before quickly delivering a punch to the face of his grounded opponent.
"Get to the console!"
Alejandra does as she's instructed.
Ronin sweeps Wulf off his feet and gets up. Just as he was about to launch his spear, Wulf gets up and grabs him by the wrist.
Ronin hits him with a back elbow to the forehead and races toward Alejandra, grabbing her by the legs.
Alejandra trips and hits a lever on the console and the ship starts spiraling out of control until entering the gravitational pull of a planet's moon. Everything went black for the trio. Moments later, Wulf wakes up on the surface of the planet outside of the ship, wondering how he got here. He searches around for Alejandra, but had no luck.
In another location not far from Wulf's, Ronin was lying unconscious while a dream danced through his head like a couple doing the tango.
"I can give you the money to continue your work."
"Why are you doing this…?"
"Because I believe in you when no one else seems to; I believe you can change the world, Ronin."
"You know, no one has ever said that to me. They think I'm just a nutjob bent on destruction, but they don't see what I'm really getting at."
"So does this mean you'll accept my generous donation and take me as your partner?"
He takes his time to think of something to say, but in the end, he forgets it and just shakes her hand.
Outside of his dream, he wakes up and starts to wander around until finding Alejandra doing the exact same thing as she looked for Wulf.
Off in a distance, Wulf hears a scream, which he deduced to be that of Alejandra's and heads off in the direction in came from.
Alejandra manages to break free of Ronin's grip, turn and reach for her gun, but as she aims and fires, Ronin blocks her wrist with his wrist and gives a swift kick to the stomach.
Alejandra pulls out her knife and strikes from the left, but Ronin glides under it, places his hand on her neck and hoists her up. He pulls his sword from its holster and prepares to strike.
A shot was fired from the distance and hits the blade with a tiny spark, which knocks the sword from his hand. Ronin drops Alejandra, picks up a rock, spirals, and throws it. The rock hits the ledge a couple feet below Wulf and brings it crumbling down.
While Ronin was distracted, Alejandra jumps on his back, giving Wulf enough time to get to his feet; Ronin pries her hands off him, knocks her off, and swiftly lands a back kick to the stomach.
Wulf approaches, lunges his sword and misses as Ronin sidesteps and deals a devastating punch to the jaw. Wulf spirals and comes in low. Ronin leaps in the air to avoid Wulf's sword and Wulf spirals again. Ronin sticks his right foot out and stops Wulf's sword before flipping over him and landing behind him.
Wulf then attacks with a back elbow, but Ronin wraps his arm around Wulf's arm, spirals and throws him towards a stalagmite. Ronin attacks and Wulf ducks, causing him to slice through the stalagmite while Wulf retaliates with a punch to the throat, kick to the left shin, and a spinning back kick to the jaw.
Ronin blocks and delivers a punch to the crotch before getting to his feet.
Wulf recovers and comes up behind Ronin with a choke hold, "Take the shot!" he instructed to Alejandra.
Ronin breaks free before she could fire and blocks her bullets.
Wulf slashes, but Ronin cartwheels over Wulf's blade, spirals around behind him and puts him into a choke hold, "You two make worthy opponents, but I'm afraid this is where our rivalry ends." He lets got of Wulf, and pulls a syringe from his pocket. After bringing to his neck, he started convulsing violently; his eyes turned red as the sky on Mars, vines shot out of every inch of his body and picked up a bunch of rocks as they drew them in.
"We're gonna need to shoot those rocks before we can get to his weak spot." She and Wulf fire; most of their bullets bounced off while the rest were able to make dents in the rocks.
"We're gonna need something stronger."
"I'll check out the ship; you keep'em busy." Alejandra volunteered.
"Why's it always me…?" Wulf mumbled as he dodged oncoming projectiles and rushed up to the beast formerly known as Ronin, who burrows under Wulf and up behind him with a backhand to the face, which launches towards a rock face. Ronin throws a right punch and hits the wall as Wulf rolls under his fist and behind him where he throws repeated punches and kicks.
Ronin swings and Wulf ducks, unsheathes his sword and slashes into him; sparks fly, but Wulf wasn't able to make a scratch.
Ronin turns to face him strikes downward with his left fist.
Wulf back flips, lands on his feet, pulls his gun and fires at Ronin's face.
Ronin flinches, giving Wulf enough time to rush up and deal more attacks.
Ronin brings his hands together and strikes, but Wulf beats him to the punch with a double leg drop kick to the stomach; Ronin stumbles back, but is able to keep his balance while Wulf landed on his back.
Ronin conjures a giant pair of hands made of rock and drops them down over Wulf, who quickly rolls out of the way.
As Wulf gets to his feet, the rock hands levitate in front of him; the left hand swipes at him and he ducks, but as he gets up the right one smacks him into a small crater.
"The time has come for the Human race to face judgment…
"Wulf," Alejandra's voice said over his radio, "Try and get him in my line of sight and I'll take the shot when you're ready."
"In their destruction, I will claim myself as ruler…"
Wulf climbs out of the crater and towards Ronin. The pair of rock hands came in closer for their next attack and Wulf takes them down with a single strike to each one.
Alejandra takes her place at the console, locks onto to target and awaits Wulf's command.
After getting him in her line of sight, he shouts, "Take the shot!" just before he rolls out of the way.
A blue beam shoots from the ship's main gun; the blast disintegrates Ronin's rock form, giving Wulf a chance for a more direct attack.
Wulf approaches at light speed and stabs him in the heart.
"You'll… have to do better… than that, Wulf." He grips Wulf's sword and slowly pulls out and then strikes with a palm thrust to the chest. As Wulf falls to the ground, Ronin reverts to his rock monster form and turns his right arm into a sword and races after him, slicing everything in his path, while Wulf dodges, ducks, and jumps backwards.
Ronin swipes at him, and Wulf blocks, hits with his elbow to Ronin's stomach and slashes left across his chest, while Alejandra waits for the gun to charge up for another shot. Ronin attacks again from the right and Wulf back flips over his blade, lands doing the splits and attacks his legs. Ronin strikes downward and Wulf holds his sword up above his head.
Seconds later, Ronin retreats to the launch bay after being beaten by Wulf.
Wulf takes after him and they continue their fight there.
After a certain amount of struggling, Wulf manages to stick Ronin onto his own weapon, "Tome for you to face judgment…" he launches the meteor away from Planet Gaia and Alejandra fires the main gun and shatters the rock into pieces.
An hour later, Wulf joins Alejandra on the bridge.
"Is he…?"
"Yep…" "Talk about going out with a bang."
"Wulf, Alejandra." A voice said over their radios…
Alejandra picks up, "Gonzalez? Is that you?"
"Yes, it's me; you two alright? What about Ronin?"
"Ronin's… gone to pieces."
"Gonzalez, we need a ride."
"I'm on the way…"
"But… we haven't told you where we are yet."
"I've got you on locator; I'll be there in a flash."
After waiting, Alejandra and Wulf see a ship land right in front of the window and go out to meet it; Gonzalez steps out with half a dozen soldiers, who then set up a perimeter as Wulf and Alejandra approach.
"This has been one hell of an assignment. I could go for a vacation."
"Me too," Alejandra replied.
Another terrorist gone another chapter of my life written.
Sometimes I wonder if it'll ever end; if what I'm doing is truly making a change for the world we live in. perhaps it's too early to tell…

The end?