[IC] Operation Hell's Fury (War of the Scales saga #4)

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Archer waited for Amber to come into her lab, which wasn't really long. Archer was testing something inside of a jar that looked like dust or ash, it was on a clean bright white table under a large laser cannon, she had a small syringe and inserted a drop of unknown fluid into the jar, soon the ash caught fire for a second, but the flame quickly went out, next to the jar was a clip board with a blank sheet of white paper on it, she quickly wrote down something onto the clip board and watched Amber arrive into her lab.

[MonsieurShade]

Having finally found the med bay within the hovercraft, Jacque wasted no time setting up shop, completely ignoring the doctor as he entered and began rummaging through a cabinet. "Uh...sir, i'm afraid I can allow you to-" "Manō.". The doctor blinked in confusion, "Ex...cuse me?", the doctor stammered, contemplating whether or not he should ask Jacque precisely what he'd meant. This contemplation was only temporary however, as water poured from Jacque's bag and enveloped Jacque's sword, pulling the blade free from the scabbard before falling onto the ground and taking the shape of a manō's humanoid form, albeit only two feet in height. "What on ea-", The doctor began to ask, only to be cut off as Manō leapt up and latched itself to the doctor's head, leaving a small hole for the poor bastard to breathe, but otherwise going to town on the man via viciously yanking his hair and kicking him in the jaw. As both the doctor and Manō tumbled out of the room, Jacque yanked out a pair of tweezers, a bottle of alcohol, and some gauze before sitting down just in time to witness Manō steering the doctor down the hall like a jockey "Poor bastard...". Jacque shrugged and began to carefully pull the glass shards from his arm.

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While Mano was riding the Doctor's head like a special zombie from a videogame, Nao shot Mano in the head like a Jocky from the old zombie videogame, the impact from the shot knocked the doctor onto the floor and Nao ripped Mano from the Doctor's head and put it into a vice grip so it wouldn't try to run away from her or try to attack her, " Ride denied little buddy, go back home to your childish friend." Nao said before she threw the poor thing away from herself and the doctor," Where is he ? " she asked the doctor.

The doctor pointed to the med bay and Nao walked towards the med bay, while she walked she pulled out a green lollipop and tore the wrapping paper off of it before placing it into her mouth, " Your childish shit isn't really needed Jacque, Time for you to learn today that you can't just fuck around like a child." Nao said to herself, When she made her way to the med bay she stood in the doorway and witnessed Jacque take glass from his arm." Jacque, I won't allow you to terroize the crew, don't let your pet attack staff of this hovercraft, this is the only warning you shall get period, if someone complains about being attacked by something strange, I'll come to you first and beat you till your nothing but pure water, drink you and piss you out like real water." she threatened him.

[MonsieurShade]

Jacque, having taken a seat at the doctor's desk, sighed with annoyance and set down the tweezers as Nao came and threatened him, "Alright, i'll give you this much, that was actually a pretty unique threat. Never quite heard that one before , so ya' get points, however, since i'm assuming you're here because of that doctor, i'd just like to point out that I wanted Manō to distract the man, nothing more, nothing less. How it decided to do it was on it alone.". As if on cue, Manō tottered into the room and ran up to Jacque before snapping a salute, then waved to Nao looking and acting as though it had never been shot by her before. Jacque turned to the little creature and raised his eyebrow a bit, "I'll admit that his methods are...a tad unrefined, however unless the situation requires it, Manō never acts with lethal intent. Now then-" Jacque said before spinning back to the desk and picking the tweezers back up, "-If thats all you needed to say, then excuse me while I get back to removing these damned glass shards that our new visitor imbedded in me when she entered the ship.".

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Nao crossed her arms and stared at Jacque with an angered look on her face, she didn't like how Jacque acted and how Mano was acting." Mano is your responsibility he's like your pet, and or weapon and if he terrorizes another, well you already heard my threat already, don't let it happen again, if you need something ask for it like a the normals do, don't sic what ever the hell Mano is on them like some attack dog." she told them.

[MonsieurShade]

Jacque extracted and examined a bit of glass from his arms then poked at it a bit, "You seem to be over simplifying things AND blowing them out of proportion at the same time, if thats even possible." Jacque said before dropping the tweezers and turning to Nao. Jacque interwove his fingers and propped his arms up on his knees like a man awaiting his opponent's move in a game of chess, "Since you're probably the only one on this god forsaken vessel that I have even a sliver of respect for, i'm going to humor you and try to explain how Manō works. Manō is my partner,yes, but we were originally one being. I don't particularly feel like going into detail as to why we're split apart now, but the long short of it is that my spirit and powers are divided, and Manō is the half that carries everything 'good' about me; compassion, innocence, all of those little things that humans cling to as if it makes them better than any other creature that lives on this planet. Here's the kicker though, although Manō is the 'good' half, it's extremely child like in nature, which makes it hard for Manō to understand what is appropriate and what isn't, which meaning my orders usually have to be extremely specific if I want something thing in done in a particular way. When I asked Manō to provide a distraction, I didn't say anything specific, meaning anything could've happened, Manō could've started wrecking the place, it could've simply started splashing the doctor over and over, hell, it could've even danced around the room if it thought the desired effect would be achieved. Did I know Manō would do that in particular? No. However seeing as this was a one time thing and no one was injured, I see no reason for you to be angry.". Jacque let a silence hang in the air for a few moments, then picked up his tweezers again, "I'm assuming my explanation will fall on deaf ears, so will it appease you if I simply say i'll be more specific next time? I'd really like to get rid of the last few shards that are lodged in my forceps.".

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Nao walked over to Jacque and started to forcibly, tear the glass out out of his arm while she tore out the glass with her bare hands quickly she spoke to the water elemental," Whatever, control yourself and the other side of yourself, there's no need to for that thing to be hurting our guys like that, consider common courtesy of other people, imagine if someone threw something similar on your face and you couldn't tear it off your face and Mano or anyone of us isn't around or just don't give a fuck about saving your life since what you've let Mano do to others." Nao said to him as she got finished tearing the rest of the glass out of his arm.

[Lexzah]

"Well someone seems to be in a bit of a hissy fit" Rachel snickered as she leant on the doorway to the infirmary where Jacque and Nao were, it was rather amusing watching as Nao tore the last of the glass out of the elemental's arm, she did love watching a fight from time to time especially after Archer tried to molest her like she did before...crazy bitch Archer.
Entering the room Rachel then went about searching it for something and paying little mind to Jacque and Nao who were still in there, she didn't care much for them at the moment since she was still pissed at Jacque and she didn't even know who the second was, and hoped that they would leave her alone to do her own thing.
Rachel was trying to figure out more about the mark on the back of her neck, wanting no help except maybe from Spartan who knew about it already, and was wondering if the good, poor doctor who had just been roughed up by Manō had anything in his stash to help her how she needed, she doubted it but it was still worth just checking encase there was something.

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Suddenly the entire hovership shut down and every light went out, it was complete darkness on the ship, suddenly a blindingly blue light emanated from outside, anyone near a window could see the light, Taeko was outside and could witness what the light was coming from, the light was coming from a portal that started to pour soldiers onto the ship. The soldiers had basic rifles, and wore gas mask with long black trench coats and helmets covering their heads, when they Saw Taeko, they instantly shot at her not trying to be diplomatic with anymore. Taeko fired back at the soldiers hitting two of them, when they were shot, steam rose from the holes that they were shot at. Taeko retreated to some cover while some of the Marines started engaged in a firefight with the steam soldiers.

Nao noticed the light and gun fire, she felt that something was going awry," Rachel the Marines will need help, give them some support, Jacque can you fight ? If not stay out of it and send Mano in to fight against them instead. You may be immortal like me, but being shot hurts like a bitch." Nao ordered Rachel and asked Jacque, something inside of her made her just take command of the moment and have her order the two, but something made her feel that Rachel probably wouldn't jump at the opportunity to help the marines, but she felt Rachel would probably want some action after what happened to her .

[Lexzah]

"Don't you order me around, I do what I want. and I know that I have to fight I'm not blind or deaf" Rachel retorted as she started to make her way to the door, though she knew that she wouldn't be able to do to much fighting especially not without her wings, not with that angelic mark on the back of her neck though it won't stop her from cutting someone in half.
"Come on Shadow, time to give you the taste of unknown blood" The hybrid grinned as she left the room, not even running as she summoned her scythe to her hand, she was walking at a leaserlly pace almost like she was trying to spite Nao, cause she didn't like to take orders from people whom she didn't know or trust. Walking down the hall to where the action had started she couldn't help but grin a little, wanting some of the action for herself.

[NacNak]

Spartan was one of the first to see this light as he watched a portal open over the hovercraft through the bridge window
"what is?..." he managed to say before the bridge went dark
"what happened, all the systems have gone dark" he said with grit teeth, then he seen soldiers start coming from the portal
"this cant be good..." he said as he watched the soldiers open fire on the marines, he narrowed his eye's slightly as he turned to leave the bridge as his armored activated covering his whole body
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on the deck where the portal open lied Magnus, he was awoken by the sound of gunfire, he raised his head to see a firefight, he let out a growl as he got up on all fours, he let out an ear piecing roar as he let loose a powerful torrent of flames on the hostile soldiers
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Amber was about to take a seat on the table in Archer's lab when the power went out
"....is that suppose to happen?" she asked in a slight sarcastic tone as she made a fire ball in her hand, lighting up the room
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Eve, who had followed Rachel to see what was bothering her when she flew away from Archer, had found herself following Rachel into combat, Eve activated her armor and laser blades as she followed Rachel
"I wonder what we're going up against..." she said as she looked out a window they passed by that had bright blue light shining in from it
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The Drone heard the sounds of gunfire and made a concerned sound as it made if way towards it

[MonsieurShade]

Jacque glared down at his bleeding arm, then up to Nao, "Yes, i'm more than capable of fighting. Granted i'd probably do better if SOMEONE hadn't just sliced up some of the muscles in my forearm." he growled. Truth be told, Jacque's arm would heal just fine in a few hours or so, but it was still a pain in the ass. "Manō, we're on the move." Jacque said to his partner, who upon hearing those words sprung upwards. Jacque snatched the blade from the water, then willed the water that Manō had used as a body over his injured arm to protect it in combat. The water elemental got up and sprinted around Nao before blazing down the hallway towards the gun fire.

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The Soldiers weren't affected by Magnus' roar nor his fire, the fire that he spewed at them actually backfired and lit the hovercraft on fire and hit some of the Marines. The Marines were losing the battle and Magnus made it worse for them, the last of them that were alive and wounded started to retreat from the soldiers but were gunned down. While those troops were fighting a mass of wires fired from the portal and wrapped around Magnus, they started to pull the dragon towards the portal.

When Ivory witnessed the portal she was already gone from the bridge and was outside, another large group of soldiers dropped in and were instantly ambushed Ivory, she dropped down in the middle of them and used the same room clearing move it used when she arrived on the hover craft, the explosives blew the soldiers apart but some of them were still alive and tried to shoot the machine, but Ivory just dodged their attacks and counted by firing back at them with her shotgun within her arm. The other Soldiers already made their way inside and started to kill non-combative crew members.

[MonsieurShade]

As the soldiers attempted to pull Magnus into the portal, Jacque swooped in from the side and cut him free. The elemental then landed on his feet and glared at the scenery before him, "You certainly are a destructive bunch of assholes. Honestly, did you have to make such mess just to kill a few fuckin' HUMANS? I don't see the purpose." he said with disdain. The elemental looked up at the sprinklers built into the ceiling and willed out the water that should have already began pouring out to extinguish the flames. "And you..." Jacque said to Magnus as he used the additional water to enlarge the size of the liquid fist he sported, "Try to handle yourself without being trapped like a rabbit again.".

[Lexzah]

As Rachel entered the battle she found that she had the element of surprise to one of the attacking solders, grinning as her fingernails grew to claws as she draw back her arm, then plunging her hand deep into the back of the one solder and gripping his heart then tearing it out in a bloody mess "Hm I've missed these, why did I stop hunting for them?" She questioned herself as she munched down on the heart.
As she started to eat Rcahel noticed that the rest were making their way into the ship and killing the weak, that wasn't very sportsmanship like and it kind of pissed her off a little, so instead of joining the others in battle she tailed these stray solders, planning to slaughter them all, and of course save the innocent here

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Nao was right behind of Rachel when Jacque said he could fight, she suspected Rachel may need help if something crazy was too happen, and with this crew something crazy was bound to happen, when Rachel questioned why she stopped eating hearts Nao grew a sly smirk on her face ready to break the fourth wall," Well it's only because the person that created you forgot that you munched on those, also remind me to get you some Colegate or Crest later." Nao joked with her while completely obliteration the fourth wall.

The Soldier that got his heart ripped out by Rachel died instantly, the hole where his heart was blew out a torrent of steam towards Rachel and made an freakish scream as it collasped onto the floor and it's body started to flatten out, Suddenly several small U.A.Vs came out of the portal, they all had small claws about the size of an average person, one of them fired a claw towards Jacque trying to grab him, soon some of the soldiers came back outside from a slaughter fest killing most of the engineers and other personal that could reactivate the ship, they began firing at Magnus, Rachel, Nao, and Eve.

[MonsieurShade]

Jacque grinned and shielded himself with a wall of water, barring the claws from coming anywhere near him, "How pathetic. Manō Kaika, show no mercy.". Jacque threw his weapon, which upon being freed from its wielder took on a strange form, looking like a bizarre liquid hybrid of a man and shark, with jagged bits of metal from the battle zone as it's teeth and claws. Manō lunged forward and began shredding its opponents in a gruesome display of tearing, biting, and ripping the U.A.V.s apart, giving no indication that at one point it had been an impish little spirit at one point. 'And Nao thought she knew the harm Manō is capable of? Poor woman has no idea.' Jacque thought as he enveloped the soldiers that entered the room in a sphere of water and began to exert enough pressure on the machines inside to surpass even the deepest ocean depths. Jacque watched with a strange, somewhat detached expression as the sphere of water continued to shrink until it was the size of a soft ball, "Lament in hell your decision of attacking a vessel that held Jacque Baila, metal men." he said cruelly before moving on to continue the fight.

[NacNak]

Magnus let out a growl at Jacque when he cut the cables that were pulling him towards the portal, but before he could do anything about it more soldiers came from the portal with claw like weapon, they fired these things at Magnus, he narrowed his eye's as they closed in. At the last possible second Magnus opened his massive wings and shielded himself from the claws, when he folded his wings he glared at the steam soldiers as they continued they're attack, Magnus let out another roar as he reeled his head back, before he lunged forward and clamped his razor sharp maw down on one of the soldiers before he violently shook it back and fourth literally tearing it apart before he sent it flying into the air with a blast of flames, he looked down to the deck and seen more soldiers closing on him, he brought his tail around and used it to impale the soldiers through their chests before throwing them overboard
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Eve ran to cover behind a crate and peeked over it, she watched as the soldiers killed the crew members, Eve's eye's widened in horror, then she narrowed her eye's in anger at the enemy soldiers, slowly as her right arm transformed into a cannon as she placed it over her cover, she took aim at the soldiers, then she fired, a powerful pink beam of light sped across the hovercraft, piercing through three soldiers in one shot, right through they're chests, Eve continued to pick of the soldiers from her cover one by one
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Spartan walked by a weapons locker and grabbed an

assault rifle

from it as he walked out of the bridge, when he got to the outside deck he seen a battle going on, he had a serous look under his helmet as he began to walk into battle, he then began to run, until he broke into a sprint, as he charge forward, he raised his assault rifle and fired at the steam soldiers, all his shots aimed at their middle, as he closed on one of then he jumped into the air and landed behind it, he quickly turned around and fired a beam of energy that went right through the steam soldiers heart, Spartan then turned and continued to press forward
"marines, aim for the heart!, push them back!" he yelled as he fired his assault rifle at the approaching soldiers, bringing them down one by one, marines began to follow Spartans lead and press the assault, slowly pushing back the steam soldiers to the portal
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the drone that had drove aimlessly around the hovercraft had finally found it's way outside, it then seen the battle going on, it then noticed a female figure in armor firing at the enemy, that's when it noticed one of the steam soldiers sneaking up on the girl from behind, the drone let out a concerned cry as it drove forward, it opened fire with its machinegun making the steam soldier stumbled, as the soldier turned to face the drone and fire it was to late, the drone had fired a missile and it hit the steam soldier, exploding into a cloud of flames that sent the soldier overboard with a trail of smoke behind it, the drone then drove up to the armored girl and chirped to see it she was alright
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Eve had turned around to see a drone that she had seen in the castle before they left, it must have got onboard before they left, Eve looked to the smoke trail that led over the deck, she then looked to the drone with a smile under her helmet
"thanks" she said before she went back to firing at the soldiers from behind her cover
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the drone made a happy bleep as it took a position beside the armored girl out of cover, it then began to open fire with it's machine gun and missile launcher, making sure ever shot counted
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Amber was waiting for a response from Archer but then she heard the cry of a crew member followed by gunfire, Amber then left Archers room and went to find it, what she found was a dead crew member riddled with bullet holes
"the hell?..." she asked herself before she heard more gunfire, she ran towards it and found a dead crewmember at the feat of a steam soldier, it turned to look at her and aimed its weapon, Amber raised her right hand in defense, the steam soldier opened fired but the bullets seemed to disintegrate when they hit a heat barrier Amber had put up, she glared at the steam soldier before she charged at it and put her right fist through it's chest, the soldier grabbed at her hand wit both of it's own, but when it touched Amber's skin it's hands began to melt
"what's wrong, cant handle a little heart burn?" Amber said with a grin before she fired a torrent of flames that filled the steam soldiers body until it burst into flames
"guess not..." Amber said before she set out to find more soldiers, hoping to save a few crew members if possible

[Death]

In the air above the battle hovered a figure with it's arms at is sides, in it's hands, it wielded two sickles, it slowly flapped it's fog like wings as it continued to watch the battle below, as the marines died, their souls went towards the being, only to be absorbed by it.

"...No one can stop death..."

The being said to itself as it watched the battle

"...but those who take ones life before their time, shall not be forgiven..."

The being said as it vanished into a cloud of fog, mere seconds later and the being appeared on the deck of the hovercraft behind two of the mechanical soldiers, before the soldiers even knew it was there the two soldiers felt the tip of a blade piercing through their chests, the blades were then ripped out of the mechanical soldiers body and they fell to the floor as steam vented from them

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( U.A.Vs and Steam soldiers, no mechical soldiers guys)

As the marines started to finish off the soldiers the portal started to shake as if it was disagreeing or refusing to lose, when the last of the soldiers fell four heavily armored men dropped in from the portal one by one just as the last soldier was slain, the four men all had different weaponry, the first had a heavy machine gun, the second had a special flame thrower with different modes, the third had a large shotgun, and the last one didn't have any weapons on him.

The heavy rifleman gunned down the marines by Spartan with pure ease and looked to Spartan with a come at me look on his face, he was enticing Spartan into a fight one on one and wanted to see what the war machine could do. and he was willing to give the war machine a good fight so neither of them would be totally disappointed with one another.

The Flamethrower guy instantly went for Jacque and began shooting flames at the Water elemental, when he noticed that this method wasn't working, he turned a nob on his flamethrower and changed it over to nitrogen and began freezing the water elemental's ice shield, but he soon stopped to notice a large heat source, he turned his attention to the higher heat source and began to walking towards Archer's lab, when he got there he heard Amber's line of Heart burn and let out a inhumanly laugh before he began to shoot nitrogen at Amber.

The Shotgunner hit Death in the back with his shot gun and kicked him across the deck, but the shogunner turned to Eve, he went for her deliberately feeling that she was one of the weakest members of team since the crew was already dead and she looked the weakest, the Shotgunner shot the ASD so it wouldn't fire on him while he started to move closer, he started to shoot at Eve.

The last guy took a knee and started to fiddle with a pad that was connected to his wrist, soon a shield generated around him and horde of missiles erupted from the portal and flew into the sky, they were aimed at Magnus, the missiles were smart missiles controlled by the last guy and would hit the hover ship if Magnus dodged them, soon black ASDs dropped from the portal and began firing heat seeking rockets at Magnus as insurance.

Nao rushed towards the last guy but was blocked by the shield she tried to stab it then shoot it with her Famas, but met no change in the shields condition, soon one of the ASDs began firing on Nao hitting her in her shoulder before she could dive behind some cover and began to fire shots at the ASDs and the shielded guy. Ivory moved in to help Eve by providing covering fire so Eve could move away from Shotgunner. But the shotgunner shot her in the chest and knocked her over the guard rail, but one of her hands grabbed the guard rail and held onto it.