This is Rated R for blood, violance and similar themes. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Do Angels Fear the Reaper? CHAPTER 5 “Yuri!” Kei shouted. If she were dead it wouldn’t matter anymore. She decided to not even bother looking at the bodies. The bodies, they were everywhere. Limbs were blown to all areas of the dome. On the wall of the dome, blood dripped in incredible amounts. She had never seen so much carnage in her life. She never saw what a horrendous death really was. To think she used to cause such things along with Yuri. “Yuri, where are you?” she shouted again. From behind her she heard the sound of a constant rate of fire power. It sounded as if it would never end. She couldn’t imagine how the Reaper could survive such an assault, but it kept going and going. The noise drowned everything out, even her thoughts. She headed over to what used to be a housing district. Where once was dozens of pricey hotels now rested craters and death. The gattling stopped. This made Kei edgy, but she kept to her mission. Kei ignored the thought and shoved a wall of a building aside. A rocket smacked her in the back and exploded sending her through the building’s walls which soon collapsed what was left of the building upon her. “I’m not dead yet, Techtonica!” Centurion stood up again and wiped the blood from his face. His armor was ripped up and his sword was chipped otherwise he was still in great fighting condition. He ran forward and struck his sword through Techtonica’s back and out the other side. “Pay attention, bitch!” he growled. “Hehe,” she altered her form so she faced him now. Her metal body moved with the ease of blood. “Foolish, mortal,” she smacked him aside, the sword ripped from her abdomen without any injury. “Show me what you can do!” Centurion adjusted his footing and charged forward. The blade shot through her body cutting her in half. Liquid metal blood poured from the enormous wound and healed the damage near instantly. He growled and struck again and again. “Pathetic, mortal weapons don’t effect me!” she hissed and batted the sword aside with her arm to have it cut off from her body. It hit the ground soon returning to her body. She grew another arm. “Pathetic, like I said.” “You were created by human hatred, you don’t deserve to exist, die!” Centurion charged forward again and struck the blade down from her head to the ground below. She healed the wound like before. “Human hatred? Guess what else I know!? Humans created your species! Not a god, not your Aurora!” she hissed again. “Aurora?” Kei shoved rubble aside and watched them from afar. “Damn that blast hurt,” she checked her abdomen for any further injury. She would live. “Die already!” Centurion struck her again and again. Nerves upon nerves were struck and his fury now knew no calm. She formed armor which busted, guns which were destroyed. Everything she did to block or attack him and his blade failed as he struck again and again with incredible speed and strength. Her limbs bled and repaired again and again. “This is better, hate me, and rage against me, may your soul burn in hellfire!” she screamed and formed limb like extensions from her back. They arched up and formed new weapons. “Wait, those are rocket launchers, what?” Kei was cut off. A huge blast shot upwards into the sky. The dome shattered sending glass shards raining down upon them. Huge chunks sliced through buildings, through the bodies on the ground and deep into the ground. Kei rocketed and started shooting at them. They shattered and spread like waves of water. Techtonica continued to block the assault with her arms and laughed in a vicious tone that was no longer human. She was enjoying the battle greatly. “Yuri, please don’t be in this dome,” Kei prayed. Rockets spread, glass fell, the grid holding the glass started to melt and collapsed. Some broke off and fell. Enormous grid iron stuck out of the ground. Kei watched in horror. The planet really wouldn’t stand up to this much destruction. She rocketed forward and pulled the rod out of the ground. She shot and dodged glass as she headed for Techtonica once again. Huge shards stuck in the ground to her right and left, she plowed through one that landed in front of her. The domes aided the climate controls given off by the weather satellites. This was a very expensive resort laid to waste. She grabbed one of the rods sticking out of the ground and in a fierce move she slammed it down upon Techtonica. “Where is Yuri, you bitch!?” she cried out in pain and anger. Techtonica’s body deformed and wrapped around the rod. She soon returned to normal and pulled the rod with enormous strength. She then spun it around and launched Kei into the far wall and through it along with the rod. Kei managed to toss it aside before hitting the ground. “Yuri, I’m sorry,” she cried from within her helmet and hit the ground. She slid on her heels for much of the distance. She then hit the ground hard. Her body tumbled end over end like a rag doll until finally coming to a stop a half mile away from the dome. The entire dome was aflame, no one screamed, no one to cry. The dome was shattered and crumbling. Entire buildings were completely destroyed. The ground was filled with the glass from above and cratered from the rocket blasts and other arsenal. The Reaper fought on, his body broken and bruised. He slashed and busted weapon after weapon. Techtonica grew two more arms and tried to form more weapons only to have them taken out as well. She rocketed away from him a few feet. He stopped attacking and tried to catch his breath. “What are you doing?” he asked. “You are a worthy warrior despite your lack of technology,” she scoffed. Her body bled forth and built up. Her body grew taller and limbs became bulkier and stronger. She had lost no strength from the battle and now only gained strength. She stood twice as tall after a minute or two. She laughed. Her technology was truly amazing. Nanites could be grown from within reservoirs made of nanites themselves. She could theoretically become any height or size. With much planning, she could be the exact replica of any living or non living being or thing. Her body blasted steam into the air through vents all over her body from the growth. “So we fight anew?” he asked. Techtonica could only laugh, she was in control. Nothing could stop her. A lightning blast shot down from the sky and struck her with an incredible amount of energy. Her body made of pure nanites stood there as still as a statue. “What the fuck?” Centurion shouted in anger. He wanted to fight to the death. How the hell could a lightning blast destroy his opportunity? Lightning was computer controlled, someone else was here now, someone with incredible stupid bravery. A ship landed outside the dome, two women ran from it and entered. They stopped upon seeing how bad it really was. The damage was incredible. They fought to ignore it and the smell of rotting, burning bodies. “Who dares interrupt my battle!?” Centurion shouted. He was as furious as ever. “Lovely Angels, we’re from the 3WA. Stop this fight at once! Too many have died already!” a woman shouted. “I don’t give a shit, what are your names!?” he shouted even louder. “I’m Riza, this is my partner, Jade,” Riza said as they drew closer. “Now stop before we are forced to kill you as well.” “Go ahead and try bitch!” “Bitch? Bitch!?” Riza screamed. She couldn’t believe someone spoke to her like that. She aimed her rocket launcher on him. She adjusted her night vision goggles. “Wait, don’t be hasty, Riza,” Jade pleaded. “Shudap, Jaded,” Riza fired the blast right at him. It was a perfect shot. “Ha!” he struck his sword against the side of the rocket knocking it off course, it exploded off to the side knocking him over and the statue down upon the ground. The shell cracked and bled soon reforming a new body. The lightning had only stunned it. “Shit,” Riza muttered to herself. “I told you not to be so hasty, Rizzo!” Jade ran forward with her EMP gun handy. “Damn you, Jade!” Riza ran forward as well, she loaded up another round and fired off a few blasts this time. Centurion ducked and dodged them. One was sent right back at them blasting them away from each other. -- “Yuri,” Kei pleaded to the ripped up concrete below her. Her arms and legs were broken. She was bleeding from within the armor and in herself. “Suit, damage report. Great, still works as good as ever. I hate the idea, but heal me if you can.” The suit gave off nanites into her wounds and into her body, soon fixing up her wounds piece by piece. She lay there deeply ashamed of herself. She led a demon to this planet with no hopes of finding or saving anyone let alone Yuri and her husband. “Where are you!?” she asked the air. She got no reply. “Damn it, grav wings, lift off,” she flew in the air, her body still healing. “I will kill both of those demons if it’s the last thing I do!” she flew at full force across the plain and through the broken wall and to the battling warriors. She grew plasma gattling guns around both of her arms and huge vents at her back to circulate the heat given off by them. “Plasma gattling guns? Hehe, almost forgot I had those,” Techtonica mused. An EMP blast struck her in the back as Centurion struck her in the head with his sword. She bulged and convulsed horrendously as the EMP short circuited most of her nanites. They soon recalibrated and healed each other. She batted Centurion aside just as the plasma streams shot down from the sky. “Holy Sh!!!,” Riza was cut off by Jade ramming her body into hers. They hit the ground. Glass ripped up their bare arms and legs, but the plasma streams would be worse. Beams of blue struck the ground completely incinerating it. Concrete burned and melted before its impacts. Kei was thrown backwards by the blasts. She combined the steam given off and her grav wings to compensate. The energy charge was dropping. “This is how it’s done!” Techtonica stood in the middle of the blast. Her entire body was melting and blown apart only to heal and reform in a liquid blood state. She blasted the plasma beams of her own back at her. Kei stopped firing and sped away. The blasts ripped up what was left of the dome. She fired a rocket back at Techtonica to have it blown away like a gnat. Techtonica reformed once again. She was hit with another EMP blast only infuriating her. She fired a rocket at Jade. Riza shoved her aside and blasted the rocket with her own, the blast sent them tumbling. They landed against dead bodies. Blood covered them along with dirt and shrapnel. They almost wanted to quit their new jobs. “Jade, c’mon, we haven’t lost yet! All we are doing is biding time. The UG are rescuing everyone they can.” “I know, I know,” she helped Riza off the ground. “We should have declined this mission like everyone else did.” “I know, but we have the greatest agents ever to shadow us. We can’t back out now!” “I know,” Jade commented. Riza grabbed another clip and loaded it into the chamber. Jade charged her EMP gun. Kei landed on the ground amidst the rubble. She tossed some aside. She was delirious now. “Yuri!” she screamed. “Yuri?” Jade turned to the form far off in the distance. “You think that’s Kei over there?” Riza asked. “Let’s go,” Jade opened up her grav wings and flew over. Riza supplied cover fire. “Hey, are you Kei?” she asked. Kei didn’t respond right away. When Jade landed by her she took notice, “Who’re you?” “I’m Jade, this is Riza, we’re the lovely Angels now,” she smiled. “She doesn’t look like Kei,” Riza commented. Kei removed her face mask leaving only goggles much like what the 3WA use. “Have you seen Yuri anywhere?” she asked. “No, sorry, she was on her honeymoon right?” Jade replied. Riza turned to them and tried not to laugh, “That sucks!” Rocket blasts filled the air. They soared at incredible speeds towards the three. “Behind you!” Kei screamed and returned her helmet of sorts. She fired off a machine gun trying to take them out. There were too many though. Jade and Riza sped backwards while firing off rockets and EMP blasts. Half were destroyed leaving the remaining ones to explode and send the three flailing backwards into another building which collapsed down upon them. “Damn it,” Riza fumed, Kei threw part of the wall aside. “We are out gunned, out matched and anything we use on her means nothing!” “If we had her technology, we could probably hack her,” Jade thought aloud. “My suit uses her technology, but I doubt it’d work. I’d have to get up close. Centurion there won’t let me get close either.” “Centurion? You mean the Reaper?” Riza asked. “Cent, uh yeh Reaper, sorry, never mind,” Kei fumbled. “You know him?” Jade asked. “Uh, for short while, yeah, we uh, met at a bar, I don’t want to talk about it. Please help me find Yuri, she’s here somewhere. I hope,” she threw more rubble aside and stood up. Her body had mostly healed by now. “Kei?” a voice called from in the rubble behind her. “Yuri? Damn girl where are you?” Kei cried. “Over here,” Yuri spoke weakly. Kei shoved the rubble aside and found her wrapped in Robert’s arms. They had stayed in their room the entire time. They had no intention of joining the rest. Yuri knew what fear was and she did not give into it. She stayed with her husband. Kei hugged her tight ignoring Robert whom just moved aside. Rockets and plasma filled the air once again. Light flickered from the blasts allowing them to see just a bit. Yuri winced in pain but hugged back. “We need to find a way out of here,” Jade remarked. She and Riza were surveying the damage. Looks like they could leave just about anywhere except for in the air. “Yeah, no time for pleasantries,” Kei nodded and let go. She patted Robert on the shoulder and took to the sky with her grav wings. “I’ll distract them. You two get them out of here!” “Fine,” Riza bit her lip and grabbed Yuri. Jade grabbed Robert and shot into the air. They fled through the dome wall closest to them. Kei shot down rockets and plasma blasts thrown at her. “Damn, he is still alive after all this? How can a mere sword put up with a demon like that?” she fired off some rockets trying to provide cover fire. She looked behind her and saw that they got away safely. “Good, now for me to get out. Damn this is all screwed up!” she turned and fled. Minutes later that Lovely Angel took to the sky only to be fired upon. Kei flew up with it and grew a missile launcher. She fired off some shots. “Kei, we’re not leaving without you!” Yuri shouted through the com link. “I know, but if I don’t end this, it won’t end!” Kei shouted back. “What is she doing?” Jade asked. “What do you think? She’s going to kick some butt! I’m going to help!” Riza flew the ship higher and charged the main gun. “Riza, wait!” Jade and Yuri shouted with concern “If the main gun can’t take them out, nothing can!” Riza shouted back. Although she may have been right, Jade knew she only wanted to fire it. “Now to finish this,” Kei flew forward at full speed, she dodged projectile after projectile. She fired off a round of rockets from her sides and prepped her arms for sound weapons. “You dare interrupt our war?” Techtonica shouted. “You let us go and I’ll leave you alone!” Kei shouted back. “Alright, I admit it, I find you fun to play with,” Techtonica mused. “Get the hell out of here, meat!” Centurion growled. He was holding his left shoulder, but still stood as defiant to die as ever. “You’ve done enough already, what meaning has this war?” Kei was interrupted by a huge charged particle blast which struck Techtonica directly. It was the Lovely Angel’s cannon. The blast sent her and Centurion backwards into the rubble on the ground. Upon knocking the rubble aside, all they could see was a crater a puddle of blood. The whole area was covered in the blood of those unfortunate to be here at this time. She looked on hoping that was all it took to defeat her. Then again if a lightning blast couldn’t take out a machine, what could? The puddle that was Techtonica glowed and reformed slowly. Kei growled and formed a rocket launcher. She fired a blast ripping a section of her away. She grew more and more and rocket blasts only delayed the inevitable. Kei reformed other weapons and fired them at the globular form. It shielded itself from the blasts as it grew from the opposing side. Soon the body was whole and a smirk would appear on her face if she had one, “Not enough!” she remolded her right arm into a long range pulse cannon. “No!” Kei fired off her plasma gattling gun once again ripping the long range weapon apart. Techtonica remolded her other arm into a cannon and aimed again this time at Kei. Centurion grabbed his sword and charged Kei, “I said, if you don’t leave, I’ll kill you myself!” he shouted. “Jade, Riza come in, get the hell out of here, you are being targeted!” Kei spoke through a com link she created. “How’d you get our frequency?” Jade asked. “This was our ship,” Yuri sighed. “They changed the frequency though,” Jade added. “I don’t care, we’re leaving!” Riza grabbed the controls and pulled away. Two huge blasts barreled next to the hull inflicting no damage. The blast shot up into the air and blew apart one of the weather satellites. It soon broke orbit and fell to the atmosphere. The sky became engulfed in red as it entered the atmosphere. “What happened?” “Well, great, Rizzo. The satellite’s going to hit the dome now,” Jade responded. “What dome? It’s gone!” Riza tried to defend her actions. She pulled the ship out of range and turned it around for another shot. “You firing again!?” Jade went to grab the controls. “They are firing again?” Kei half closed her eyes at the idea. The particle blast fired hitting Techtonica directly once again. She grew taller and remolded into a long range particle cannon the shot having been adapted to and used for a fuel source. Her entire body was the cannon. She charged up a blast, lighting up the area around her. “Damn it!” Kei ran forward and thrust her arm into her side. She attempted to hack her body. Both quivered and vibrated, bulged and convulsed. They were attempting to hack each other. The charged blast grew stronger having not been stopped. “I will not lose to you!” Kei growled and fought to hack further. She was running her entire system into the attack. “Fool,” Centurion growled from behind her with sword held up high, “Hacking does nothing to her, I may hate technology, but I know a great deal about it. She would just route you to a different part of her body sealing you off from the actual weapon!” he struck her arm that was doing the hacking and all but cut it off. Kei fell over backwards in pain, her arm now limp beside her. She watched as Centurion stared at her from above. The look on his face was enough to strike a bear dead in fear. It was seen as the cannon fired. Kei tried not to look at him, tried not to look at his eyes. He struck the blade down hard. Kei managed to roll aside barely dodging it. It was by reflex alone. The Lovely Angel landed once again having sustained damage. Jade and Riza rushed across the fields and into the broken dome with their recharged Grav wings. “Kei , like it or not we need to get out of here before the ship is permanently destroyed!” Jade shouted. Riza fired off a rocket blast blowing Centurion aside. He prepped for another attack. The cannon remolded into a multi pronged cannon, soon multiple energy blasts threw themselves into the sky. Finally the being started reforming to normal. “I’ll take that section back now, Kei” Techtonica smirked in her own unseen way. An amoebic tendril wrapped around her body and started to pull off the suit. It was easily hacked. Kei laid there naked broken and beaten, her arm was bleeding badly. Jade and Riza grabbed her and lifted her into the air. Riza provided cover fire as the satellite drew closer. It would hit soon turning the entire dome and miles around it into a giant crater. “Damned insects, heh, shall we finish this, Centurion?” Techtonica asked. “I promise you won’t see another dawn,” Centurion charged forward once again with his sword only to be blocked. The lovely Angel fled the planet on impulse having need for repairs to their warp drive. They headed for the armada of UG ships that managed to save at least half of the people. Kei watched weakly through the window as multiple satellites struck the planet. The pin point drops cratered the surface causing it to crack open. The tectonic plate soon cracked and spewed magma into lava in an attempt to save itself. The whole side of the planet was completely covered. The largest clean up job ever. “Enough, no more, please,” Kei pleaded. She held her arm in pain. She was covered in a blanket as Jade tended to her wound. Yuri was sitting with her husband. Both were badly burnt and injured, but could wait treatment at the next planet. “No more, please,” Kei pleaded again. “It’s over, Kei,” Yuri spoke up. “Over?” Kei didn’t sound so sure. “Look that being was made completely of tiny machines, magma would melt it faster than it could repair itself,” Jade tried to comfort her. “No, she could fly, she could grow new limbs, she could chase us,” Kei cried more. “No, Kei, we are not her enemy. The Reaper is, they are fighting to the death. They are both gone,” Yuri added. Kei couldn’t reply. She would sleep the rest of the way to the hospital. -- Upon arrival, Kei and Yuri held onto each other as they walked down the path. Jade and Riza followed hoping to help in anyway they could. Kei was back to normal now and remembered all that happened. She remembered that those two were the ones who got their ship and also were the ones who brought down the satellites by accident. “Kei, can we do anything at all?” Jade asked. Riza folded her arms and yawned. “No thank you,” Kei thought for a moment, “Dirty Pair!”