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“Megan, where’s the epicenter of this quake?”
“Sensors indicate a large amount of energy emanating from the Bermuda triangle. It’s way off the charts, sir.”

It was now obvious to the team where the location of Tartarus was located, but it was too late for them to stop it from being opened.

The massive quake emanating inside the Bermuda Triangle, was the large machine that was hidden below sea level slowly rising from the depths, which was bringing the portal itself along with it. As the large ring that hovered over the entrance to Tartarus rises, a beam of white light shines through it. It passes through the clouds that were generating massive storms in the surrounding area. The light generates enough heat and energy that causes the clouds to part. As a result, the sea became calm and still and the quakes come to a complete stop.

Lucren and HK stand proudly atop the massive machine, looking out over the horizon as their plan to wipe out the human race unfolds; Olen Pearson stood on bended knees by their side with HK’s hand gripping his shoulder tightly. Olen has just witness these two murder the others like they were nothing but cattle taken out to pasture.

“You monsters…!”

“Monsters, eh doctor…?” Lucren replied with a chuckle, “Mankind’s reign has come to an end, thanks to Dr. Pearson. Tell me, who’s the real monster here?” Lucren said after turning his attention to him. “You have singlehandedly aided us in your people’s downfall. I have no further use for you.” He looks to HK once more, brings his right hand to his throat and gestures to HK with the sliding of his hand across his throat.

Olen stood there on his knees, “I know what I have done, If I only had my free will…”

“But you didn’t; we controlled your every move… with this.” Lucren held up the same dagger that Adoiarte held in his possession recently, “A magnificent device really; recently liberated from the resting place of the gods themselves by our late, great leader. It had been used in the early days of man. The gods have soon stopped using it when they decided to give you all ‘free will’. If you ask me, that’s where they went wrong; you see, them giving you the freedom to make your own choices is what led you down the path to self-destruction.” Lucren chuckled, “Look at me, I’m starting to sound like Adoiarte. He was always the longwinded one out of all of us.” Lucren nods his head at HK, signaling him to commence.

As HK held his sword close to Olen’s neck, a soft whisper escaped his mouth, “It will be quick.”

“They’ll reserve a special place in the afterlife for you in our name…” Lucren went on to say.

What happened next was purely out of luck; a ball of yellow light drops down on HK from behind and produces a sudden jolt of light which separated the doctor from HK. With him down, Zierian now focuses his attention on Lucren.
“You’re that guy; Guardian of the Karma Lunari. Zierian, right? I must say, you’ve done a fantastic job,” Lucren said sarcastically. “You’ve let them fall into the wrong hands twice. Twice it’s been used to bring about the destruction of the earth. It failed once because your brothers were weak. I’m different than them. I am not weak. I will not fail like them.”

“I’ll only say this once. After that, I will waste no more words on you. Shut down this machine or I will destroy it.”

“And stop all the fun…? I don’t think so.”

After a few more words, “If that’s the way you want it then,” he stuck by his word to no longer speak and just jumped straight into action. However, while he, HK, and Lucren fought, Samuel and the others raced to his location.
After getting ¾ of the way there, the portal started spewing out balls of fire. In midair, those fireballs transformed. They took the form of grayish humanoids carrying swords and sitting atop large, black birds with a skeleton like figure like the creatures of God of War. There must’ve been at least a million of them according to Samuel, Max, and Joanna.
Samuel was the first to break formation as he ascended towards this new enemy with intent to kill. Samuel pulled some death-defying maneuvers as he flew straight into the horde and switched from his left and right repuslor. He took down a couple dozen of them before the strain of it all became too much for him and his friends join in on the action.
The horde then floated past them like a herd of wildebeest evading a dangerous predator in the Savannah. Most of them were heading northwest back towards Florida while the rest shifted south in the direction of the Bahamas. They spread themselves around like ants over a crumb-infested floor in a kitchen.

Samuel got on the communicator and shot a direct line to Creed back at the Helicarrier, “Creed, they’re heading right for you. Prepare yourself.”

“Who’s heading straight for us?”

“You’ll know’em when ya see’em,” he answered vaguely.
The Helicarrier was soon rocked by a sudden wave of fire from the enemy from another world. It was almost as if an earthquake was happening in the air.

Creed saw exactly who his assailants were as he looked out the observation deck window. The horde wasn’t exact firing upon Creed and his crew; it was like they were being hit by Kamikaze pilots. Some of the demons that were on a collision course with the carrier burst into flames upon impact while the rest of fly right past. “Return fire now!” he barked.

Every turret on the outer hull of the ship locks onto target and fires a green laser beam which takes down every incoming enemy down in one shot. For every one they shot down, two more appeared.

The portal they were coming out of just kept spitting out more and more. It was an endless wave of unknown hostiles; Samuel and his team did the best they could to keep them at bay, but there was just too many of them.

They pass right by our heroes and keep going towards the shores.

“Sir, there’s just too many. Our weapons aren’t able to keep up with them.”
“We’re taking heavy damage.”

“Sir, we’re showing signs of hull breach. They’re doing more damage than the other enemy did.”

“Stats are showing complete failure in all engines, sir. What do we do?”

“Prepare for descent.”

“Aye aye, sir…”

“And alert the National Guard that we have a crisis situation.”

Midway through the fight, Lucren came to a conclusion as he lifted the dagger he had shown Olen from his holster. Thinking to himself, he says, “Why should I waste time fighting you when your friends can do the same thing?” He brought it to Zierian’s chest and was ready to attack with it, but as quickly as he drew it, Zierian reached for it and held it away.

Olen looked closely as they squabble over it and noticed HK sneaking up behind Zierian. He rushed to him and tackled him to the ground. Olen grunted as dealt one punch after another to HK’s face. Green blood spewed from HK’s still concealed face as he titled left and right in response to each punch.

Finally, HK threw him off and quickly stood up, “No more hesitation. You die now.”

“Dr. Pearson!” Zierian gasped.

Lucren draws back his left arm for a punch and as he drives it forward, that’s when Zierian quickly blocked. He placed one arm on Lucren’s joint while he firmly grasped his wrist with the other. He bends his opponent’s arm forward, twists, rotates 45 degrees to his right and throws Lucren over the edge into the water. Turning to HK who was now towering over a cowering Olen Pearson, Zierian summons his sword, the Ultimatum blade, and quickly charges. Once he got in close, all it took was one strike to the abdomen. HK fell to his knees the same time Zierian swept Olen off his feet and got him safely away. Then HK fell over completely, giving off a violent explosion and releasing all his energy into the air.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes I’m fine. What about the dagger?”

“What dagger?”

“The dagger the other guy was holding. It’s the key to all of… this…” he paused as he saw Lucren standing behind him with the dagger in his hand. “I built a failsafe just in case I changed my mind and wanted to stop all this,” he whispered to Zierian, hoping Lucren couldn’t hear.

“Looking for this, doctor…”

“Hand it over, Lucren…”

“If you insist…” Lucren said with a grin. He looks up at the horde of demons pouring from the portal and devises a plan. He threw the dagger up into the air and into the hands of a single monster that joined with the rest of the horde on their rampage. “You really should to choose your words carefully. You never said ‘who’ I should hand it over to.” He winked. “Enjoy your front row seat to the end of the world!”

“Lucren, wait…”

Meanwhile, the army finally reaches the major cities. Somewhere in Miami, Florida, as the enemy flies over the streets, people look up in shock and awe as the enemy commences firing. Red beams of light rain down like a heavy storm, tearing through cars, buildings, and freeway overpasses. The people soon start running for cover; any place they could find like diners, bookstores, apartments.

Before long, Bayard was the first to realize fighting the enemy as they emerge was exhausting. He may have been immortal, but even he could take only so much of a pounding before he starts to get tired, “Samuel, all this isn’t gonna mean a damn thing if that portal isn’t sealed,” he replied.
Realizing this truth, Samuel sends a direct line to Zierian over the communicator, “Zierian, what’s the weather like at the portal?”

“What?”

“I mean what’s the situation?”

“Oh. Well the doctor says you can’t destroy the portal without disabling the generator first; otherwise it’ll stay open and you will have doomed your whole race. To close it for good, you need the dagger. It is the key.”

“Does he still have it with him?”

“That’s a bit difficult to explain, but here’s the short version: Lucren tossed it, it’s with the army now.”

Samuel looked straight ahead of him, which was in the direction of Miami, “Oh boy…”

“What is it, Samuel?” Joanna asked.

“Looks like we got a treasure hunt on our hands…”

“What, now? We’re in the middle of a crisis,” Max replied.

“That’s what I’m referring to; according to Zierian, the dagger is the key to closing the portal, but it’s now in the hands of the army.”

“Oh s**t.”

“But which group has it, these things are scattered all over the damn place?” Willis asked.

“We’re gonna need to split up if we are to find it,” Samuel explained. “I’ll check the islands.”

“You’re not going alone,” Joanna said.

“If she’s going, I am too,” Max replied.

“Another spike in energy levels emanating from the portal has been detected,” Megan blurts out.

When the light began to flicker, it got Willis’ attention. He flew in for a closer look. He and the others had only seen a small sample of what dwells within the ancient prison of the underworld. What was about to come out now was considered the main event.

From the portal, a ball of flames then emerged and as it sailed through the air, the flames turned from orange to a bluish-green. As it touched down in the water, several large shapes poke out of the top that looked like the heads of dragons. They had blue, beady, demonic eyes; three of them, and a blue, glowing mouth with a toothy grin. Once the beast’s body fully developed, it stood on four talon-like feet, had two of its spiky heads rest on top of what appeared to be its shoulders while the third was embedded into its chest like the carving of a face into a mountain of a tree, and a long, spiny tail stretch from its backside about several yards.

“Things just got ugly.”

“Guys, we got our game plan; the clock is ticking.”

“Max is right.”

“Starla, you, Max, Joanna and I will tend to Cuba and the Bahamas; Willis and the rest of you, deal with Miami. That key has to be somewhere. If we don’t close this portal, then they’ll just keep coming.”

Word had finally reached the National Guard from General Creed about the imminent threat, but it would take them hours to scramble their men. In the time it took them to reach the site, Miami’s finest decided to take matters into their own hands. Most of them led any and all stragglers off the streets and got them to safety while others grabbed their guns and fired back. The army was flying too fast through the air for the cops to see if their bullets had any effect on them.

Willis, Alex, Bayard, Caitlin, and Zierian round the corner as they zigzag through the horde, trying to get their attention. At the next intersection, they break formation; Willis and Zierian go right, Bayard and Caitlin go right, Alex continue straight through the intersection, each of them taking a small amount of enemies with them.

The enemy went down easy as they had difficult time banking left and right through the tight corners as they follow our heroes from a close distance.

Meanwhile, in Cuba, Joanna quickly turns a corner and spots a handful of civilians being chased. The enemy had now taken to the ground level, wielding swords as well as high-tech laser weapons almost as advanced as anything Samuel could come up with. Apparently, the enemy has been planning on taking over the human world for quite some time while they spent most of their days down there. Without hesitation, she springs into action with a ton of aerial combatants chasing after her as well. She alternated her fire; switching back and forth between her pursuers and the assailants below in front of her. Once she gets in close, she allows her pursuers to collide into the enemy below while she touches down between the people and the demon soldiers who were unable to avoid a head-on collision. Using the Nanobot shield, Joanna creates a transparent wall and contains the explosions on the opposite side of her. She waits for the fire to settle and the smoke to clear before she disassembles the shield, “Are you all okay?” she asked.

Most of the people nodded; others spoke either Spanish or English.

“It’s too dangerous, I need you to get to safety until this matter is contained, comprende?” she instructed as she made gestures with her hands in order to shoo them away.

Samuel and Max stood on the rooftops in another part of the city, providing cover for the Cuban police below; it wasn’t until ten minutes later that one of the three creatures hits dry land. Samuel was the first to notice since he was up high and had a clear view of the ocean.

“Joanna, Starla… our tall friend is here; the three-headed, tall, spiny dragon-like thing.”

“Man, he’s quick!” Max added.

“I got this one, boys…”

“Be careful, Starla.”

“Starla? Starla no, HOLD ON A SECOND!!”

Starla’s plan, as she attacked it head-on, was to go for its heads. She starts with the first head from the left. She swoops in on its right and circled around it. As the head followed her, she zigzagged around the other two, which then paid attention to her as they started to chase as well. As an end result, Starla manages to get the beast’s heads tied in a knot, which caused them to focus their attention on each other rather than her. She flies away, summons her staff, and whooshes in once again. With her staff separated into two parts, she doesn’t hesitate to drive the tips of the weapon into their necks. Instead of falling over immediately after being beheaded, the beast just stood there.

Starla realized something was wrong as a slight sizzling sound came from her opponent; extra scales began to form. They build up higher and higher. This time, instead of the beast having three heads, it now had six.
“What the hell?”

“I just figured out what that is. I read up on it in the book of Greek Mythology. It’s a Hydra.”

“You mean it’s that…”

“Yes, Max, it’s that dragon creature that grows back two heads for every one that’s been cut off.”

“How do we defeat it?” Starla asked.

“The book didn’t say. I assume you’d have to destroy its whole body.”

“Uh-oh, here comes the other one.”

The next one to appear on the shores was the rock giant, which meant Samuel, Joanna, Max, and Starla were going to have their hands full. As the beast walked, it carried a big boulder in its right hand like a basketball. After it picked a random location, it chucked the rock like an all-star player going for a three-point shot. Joanna passed right by as the rock slowly descended upon one of the buildings to the side of her. The rock tears through the top floors of the building, sending glass shards and chunks of concrete down to Joanna’s level. She swerved in and out to avoid the falling debris while her pursuers desperately tried to keep up. Most of them weren’t so lucky.

“You have multiple enemies coming in on your left, miss Joanna…”

A new squadron of enemies came in so quickly that Megan’s warning was too late a time. Joanna gets sideswiped by several of them before she makes it past them. She stops after passing a parking garage and as she catches her breath, she looks back from the other side of the intersection as her previous pursuers collide with her new ones in a violent explosion as they turn the corner sharply; unaware of the enemy presence approaching from her right. She turned her attention to them after the first shot hit her in the side of the abdomen, but as she turns completely, she is pelted with several shots to the chest, stomach and face. The continued assault knocks her out of the air and she bounces across the asphalt and onto the sidewalk. From on her back, she fires back with her repuslor cannons, getting off a few good hits before she is picked by one of them and thrown backwards with a single push. Her legs hit the roof of a car while she flew backwards in midair, but she flips once and stops right-side up. Holding out her left hand once again, a compartment opens up on the wrist of her suit. Inside was a mini-gun, which circled her entire wrist like a bracelet. She clenched her fist in order to fire the gun. As the bullets hit their targets, molten lava leaks from their wounds like blood and cools off once it hits the ground at their feet.
Joanna soon hears the faint cry of someone in need. The voice was emanating from the top floors of the parking garage. It seems that the mythical army has several people trapped. Joanna quickly springs into action.

Back to Starla who was still struggling with the Hydra situation. She was out of ideas on how to destroy it since she has never heard of this kind of creature in all of her time on earth back in 2009. The only thing in Greek myth she has heard was the god of war, Ares, and that was under different circumstances.

“If you have any ideas, now would be the time to share,” she says to Samuel as the six-headed beast chases her all the way down the street and further away from him and Max.

“Look, all I know about this thing is based on assumption. Unless you have a way of turning it to stone, like Medusa’s head for example, then I don’t see any way.”

“Maybe we can test out that theory of yours, dad; destroying its whole body.”

“Go on…” Samuel said to Max as they both fought off wave after wave of the smaller enemies.

“In that one movie, in order for Hercules to defeat it was to crush it with a ton of rock. Maybe if we brought a whole building down on it.”

“So, you’re suggesting we blow up a building? Our suits don’t have that kind of firepower.”

“We don’t, but I know someone who does…” Max points to the stone giant with his eyes as it’s marching towards a more heavily populated area.

“That might work… but how will you manage to get him to direct his fire where you want it to go?”

“I’ll just get his attention.” Max flies off to put his plan into action, leaving his father to fight alone.

Back in Miami, things really start to heat up. Just like all their past adventures, the team rises to the challenge once more.
Zierian swoops in after he dons his ranger form, instead of his usual knight’s armor. It took him awhile to learn the controls, but it soon felt like it was a part of him somehow. He swoops in low and joins Alex who, at the time, was fending off monsters with his Scorpion Saber.

Alex swung his weapon at his opponent’s open arm. The blade met the skin and cut right through like butter.
The demon blocked out the pain and continued its wrath.
Alex easily blocked its curve to his head and kicked his stomach.
He fell to the ground and Alex switched modes on his weapon. He then latched his Scorpion Saber to the enemy’s foot and swung him around into the surrounding monsters.

Zierian then drops him; he stood up to close to Alex, their backs facing each other as they channeled their medallions’ energy through them into a giant ball of gold and black. As the energy intensifies, the ball grows, eliminating anyone and anything in its path.

The enemy that once stood before them was completely vaporized. As soon as Alex flies upward, parallel with a large, rectangular building made mostly of glass, he changes his sword back to its original form and slashes wildly as the monsters climbing the side. On the rooftop of that very building was Willis. As Alex flew up, Willis pointed his weapon, the Elephant Axe, straight down. his weapon was in its secondary mode as he aimed at the sides of Alex, where most of the enemy still stood with their hands and feed clutching the walls.

Willis slowly focuses his attention on the airborne enemies. With one shot from his Elephant axe, he took down dozens of them. He aims southeast in the direction of Caitlin and Bayard as enemies fly towards their location. He shoots one of them down over the area where Caitlin and Bayard were fighting atop a giant, metal Gryphon while it was in motion; its wings hardly touching the sides of the buildings in this sort of narrow street.
Caitlin with her Peacock fan blades, Bayard with his Hawk crossbow; the two work in tandem with each other as wave upon wave of enemies drop in from the rooftops.

Zierian was not too far away. He and Caitlin and Bayard moved towards each other in a 90 degree angle.

Caitlin stood gracefully like a crane. The demons circled her, swords ready and eyes watching, waiting for her to make a move. Her hands circle in a windmill like motion

Her opponents said nothing, confused at Caitlin’s stance. In a split second, Caitlin struck out with her right hand and opened the monster’s throat. It fell backwards as orange colored blood sprayed from its neck, eyes rolling back into his head. Before hitting the ground, Caitlin struck out as the next enemy to attack on her left.

The beast raised its rifle defensively. Caitlin swatted the barrel, directing its shot at an enemy that Bayard was fighting. As it dropped to its knees, Bayard delivered a swift kick to the chin with his knee and then looked over at Caitlin to thank her for the assist.

Just then, another enemy charged at Caitlin from behind, and Bayard fires a shot from his Hawk Crossbow. Caitlin thought that shot was meant for her and ducked. She looked at Bayard with widened eyes, but was soon relieved as Bayard pointed behind her at the fallen enemy.

Bayard switches modes on his weapon. With it now transformed into a sword, he quickly defended as another enemy leapt at him and swung for his waist. Bayard shoved him forward with one quick punch to the jaw and rushed towards; sword clutched in both hands, Bayard struck from the left with a diagonally slash.

Caitlin spun and met the enemy’s blow. She closed her fan and clutched the tip of it against his sword. She struck back with her other fan, but the enemy blocked it easily.

At the three-way intersection up ahead, the ground shook violently as the gargantuan feet of Zierian’s pursuer hit the ground one at a time. Zierian was being chased by the magma beast with the bear-like head and a club for a hand while on an unintentional collision course with his fellow teammates.
Caitlin and Bayard were unaware of this as they were too busy with their own problems to care about anyone else’s. Soon their paths meet. Zierian and his pursuer plow straight through the Gryphon Bayard and Caitlin were riding on, literally tearing it to pieces like a wrecking ball going through the side of a building. The front half of part lion part eagle-like beast clings to the other beast while its back half with Caitlin and Bayard atop it, plows straight through the building at the end of the intersection.

As the glass shatters and the wall crumbles, sealing part of the hole they had just made, Caitlin and Bayard tumble further in. their suits literally taking so much of a beating that they changed back into their human form as soon as they fell on their faces amidst the array of display cases and rare artifacts which lined the floors and the opposite wall.

At the same time, Zierian was also knocked out of the sky, but he landed in a separate location where he met with an unfriendly Minotaur. The Minotaur charged angrily and shoved Zierian into a car. It wasn’t until Zierian got up and shook away his blurred vision that he saw what was around the Minotaur’s neck. It was the same green dagger that Lucren threw away.

“C’mon guys, time is running out; anyone got eyes on that dagger yet?”

“We’re working on it, Samuel.”

“Yeah, I’ve fought my way through dozens of enemies and none of them have it.”

“I’ve found it right here, but it’s a little hard to reach,” Zierian announced.

“Okay, Zierian, do whatever you can; no pressure here, but… according to Megan, another large beast just emerged from the portal and it’s heading straight for you.”

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