All Out War(4)

– Outskirts of London, England, Europe -2:30 PM –

In an Osprey heading for the British capital London, Alcina, Karl, Jacob, Miguel and Carlos along with MTF Xi-13, also known as "Sequere Nos" were seated within the aircraft. Alcina was kinda having trouble given her height and her head hitting the ceiling whenever she stood up, even though Carlos has the same height as her, he could adjust at least.

Accompanying the group were more Ospreys flying alongside them as the weather seemed to be cloudy.

"Should have taken a bigger bird." Alcina muttered, feeling annoyed in her current position.

Seeing her like this, Karl couldn't hold his chuckle, "Having trouble?"

"No, more annoying by your words than being troubled, child." she countered, her smile turning scornful.

Karl gritted his teeth, "I ain't a child, tall lady bitch!"

"Cry more baby."

"Freddy Krueger rip off!"

"Giant walking magnet with no brain!"

Watching the two argue, one of the MTF soldiers looked at the person who became Black Sabbath, "Hey Miguel."

"Si amigo?"

"I've played Resident Evil 8 and all, but... do you think these two ever get along well?" he pointed out to the two, who seemed to be acting more hostilely and aggressively at each other.

Looking at the two, Miguel heavily sighed and shook his head, "...No, I don't think they do."

As the Osprey is filled with silence apart from the two grown step-siblings bickering like children, Carlos seemed to sense something wrong as it chirps anxiously.

Jacob pats the bird Stand's head in comfort, "It's alright mate. We survived Vegas and hell being unleashed on earth. We can survive this."

Carlos shortly nodded.

Jacob smiled, "Good boy."

"Okay people, we're right above London, and-" The pilot began to say, but stopped himself from speaking any further when he noticed something through the cockpit window, something... or rather, someone flying right towards them, "What the hell?"

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Outside the Osprey, the armored humanoid bird was flying directly at the aircraft with his wings spread out that appeared like the wings of a Raven.

Raising his arm-cannon of his armor, the armored bird fires a laser shot that pierces right through the right wing of the Osprey and sends it crashing down. Seconds after he dealt with the first one, he started attacking the other Ospreys in his proximity.

"Fear the wrath of a true Chozo Warrior!"

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"You're seeing this right?!" Karl cried out inside the Osprey, witnessing several of the Ospreys were destroyed by something through the window.

"Yes! We need to jump now!" Miguel said.

"Couldn't agree more!" Alcina added.

The pilot had listened to Miguel's words, and so they opened the side doors by pressing a button. As soon as the side doors were open, MTF Xi-13, along with Alcina, Karl, Jacob, Carlos and Miguel jumped out of the Osprey and began free falling. Not even a second after they jumped off the aircraft, the armored humanoid bird swung his clawed hands upon the Osprey that they were on, cleaving the aircraft vertically in half.

"Too close!" Miguel shouted, taking in the overcast weather and realizing that the sky was covered with clouds, "The clouds cover the skies, huh? Good. My shadow weapons won't be affected by sunlight for the remainder of the afternoon."

"The hell was that thing?!" Karl shouted, referring to the one attacking them.

His sister replied, "Don't know. Couldn't catch a glimpse of it."

"It was moving too fast, but it was a bird looking humanoid that's for sure." stated the leader of MTF Xi-13.

"We got incoming!" shouted Jacob.

As they were falling they noticed multiple Horten ho 229 jets flying towards them.

Miguel sighed, "Good grief."

In an instant, Alcina morphed into her half-dragon form and flew towards them. With a 360 degree swing, she slices one enemy jet into two like butter while the other jets fly past her and head for the rest who are still falling. With six hands reeled back and clenched into a fist, Carlos shot forth a barrage of icicles that rocketed into the air like missiles in the direction of the jets and impacted against one of them, blowing it up.

"Damn! This skeleton bird has got some serious firepower behind him!" Karl uttered his amazement. Not long before he heard something overhead to find two Horten Ho jets heading towards them, preparing to fire their weapons at them but Karl used his magnetic abilities to stop the jets in midair and hurled them onto another enemy jet that was heading for Alcina.

Sensing something, Alcina instinctively leans to the right with quick thinking and watches as two jets fly past her before colliding into the jet that was heading towards her, exploding upon impact as a result.

"Show off." Alcina muttered, glaring obnoxiously at Karl who gave her a derisive smirk.

Silently cursing her brother, Alcina flew towards Carlos to grab him and dropped him on the ground safely while Karl used his magnetic abilities on Miguel, the MTF soldiers and Jacob to slow their descent. While focusing his magnetism, Karl noticed he was drawing near to the ground, and with quick thinking he brought a piece of the falling jet's metal and rode it to land next to Jacob and the others, Alcina followed suite as she landed next to them.

"Bloody hell, they messed the city up badly." Jacob remarked as he looked around to see the damaged city of London.

"Believe me the London in Alucard's world was in a much worse shape than this," Karl said, "Anyway, what's the plan?"

"Alcina," Miguel called out the female vampire as he hands her a map, "Head for Site-44 in Essex and try to make contact with the site to see if it's secured," he explained before facing the rest and continued, "Carlos, destroy enemy fighters in the skies so that our own get a chance in surviving but constantly keep advancing to different positions and I'll let Xi-13 be on your side for support. Karl, I need you to sweep the streets and search for any Anti-aircraft weapons to eliminate as many enemies as possible and if you see MTF soldiers in trouble, help them. Jacob and I will travel down these streets with the rest of 'Sequere Nos' and see if there is anyone who couldn't evacuate from the city."

Everyone all nodded their heads and each of them moved out. Unbeknownst to them, a Reich Drohne can be seen hovering above a roof, observing them and relaying the information to the Reich and dark aether forces on the ground.

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– Outskirts of California, Arizona, America - 10:16 AM –

In an Osprey that was heading for California, Carson, Rip, Ramsey, Zorin, and Simmons were seated along with Mobile Task Force Delta-4, nicknamed "Minutemen". Lawrence, Green and Johnson were in another Osprey that was heading straight for Site-15 which its situated in the Santa Clara valley since electronic-related anomalies were at risk there. Zorin, meanwhile, was securely strapped to a belt that Rip was wearing around her waist in order to carry her easily.

As the silence continued to engulf the aircraft, Carson cast a glance at Rip and opened his mouth.

"Sooo..."

"What?"

"Not nervous about all of this?"

"I've seen war, Herr Carson. This is nothing new to me, what's new is the battleground and that I'm working with your foundation. So no, I'm not."

"Yes, so shut the hell up." Zorin said to him sternly.

"Ook..."

"Carson, you better not mess up and crack a joke when we get on the ground." Ramsay, the female african-american MTF soldier, warned the masked man.

"Don't worry, nothing ever wrong will happen so long as I'm around! Trust me!"

"Says the guy who left Lawrence in an iceberg." Simmons added.

"Seriously?! Why do people keep bringing that up everytime?!"

"Because you did!" Ramsay countered.

"Alright ladies and gentlemen!" The MTF leader of Minutemen announced as he rose up from his seat, "Our objective is to secure San Francisco and eliminate enemy Anti-aircraft positions and infantry," he said, turning to face Rip, "Rip, you'll be our sniper for the job. If you see someone having the high ground, take the shot. We're counting on you for this."

Rip smiles menacingly, "Don't worry, my bullet punishes all without distinction."

"Alright!" He shouted as he turned around to face the direction of the pilots, "How long before we reach the LZ, pilot?"

"ETA five minutes, sir."

"You heard him, people! Let's shut up, clock in and load up!"

Everyone followed his instructions as they started gearing up by checking their weapons condition and ammunition count. Once they had everything they needed, they were ready.

"One minute!" The pilot announced as everyone present stood up from their seats with their weapons ready and the Osprey along with six others soon descended on the streets of San Francisco.

The side and rear doors of the Ospreys opened, sending the MTF soldiers along with Carson, Rip, Zorin, Ramsey and Simmons out. All of them looked around to find the streets and buildings of the city were damaged or burning but none of them spotted any nearby enemies in their area which was odd but also concerning.

"Clear left," said Ramsay.

"Clear right." said Carson.

"Clear center," said Rip.

"No one here, sir." said one of the MTF soldiers.

"Something ain't right," The MTF commander muttered as he turned to face Rip, "Rip. Use Zorin."

Rip grabs Zorin's head, and the latter looks forward and utilizes her dark aether power to try to sense for anyone fuelled with dark aether.

It only took her less than five seconds to sense something approaching them.

"I got something, It's heading right towards us."

Without any delay, all of them aimed their firearms in the direction she was facing. What they met in the following instant was only a mere dark aether zombie limping towards them.

Carson raised an eyebrow, "Just... one?"

Glaring at the group, the dark aether zombie's eyes suddenly lit up.

Noticing this, Rip's expression shifted to a frown, "Something is really wrong here."

The Ospreys soon began to ascend and as they were about to take off, a laser blast suddenly shot from somewhere and struck one of the Osprey's wings, sending it crashing back on the ground.

"Get to cover!" yelled the MTF commander.

Not even a second had passed after the first shot was made, they were being besieged by more lasers, gunfire, and rockets, all of which was coming from the same direction that the zombie came. Everyone immediately ran for cover and some of those who weren't quick enough to react perished right away.

Rip straps Zorin to her belt and takes cover behind a wrecked bus along with Carson, Ramsey, the MTF commander and Simmons while the rest of the MTF soldiers of Minutemen took shelter behind other wrecked cars, rubbles and other stuff before firing back at the enemy.

"Well this went zero to 100 real quickly!" Carson commented.

"You think we don't see it!" Ramsay shouted at him.

"Rip! Do you have a shot on them?!" The MTF commander questioned the former Millennium member.

Rip peeked out from under her cover and tried to see from where the gunfire was coming from but the unceasing gunfire made it difficult for her to do so. She needed a visual on her target and pinpoint as well otherwise she can't perfectly guide her bullet towards them.

"Hard to say! There's too much going on here! We need to flank them!"

"Then you, Zorin, Rip, Ramsey and Simmons take…" he paused, surveying his surroundings for a moment before pointing to an alleyway, "That alleyway right over there and flank them!"

The people he listed all nodded and made a break for the alleyway, attempting to head for the enemy's firing position.

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Ten kilometers away from the group's position, a Chinook helicopter bearing the Chaos Insurgency's insignia drops off a towering humanoid in a leather mask, dressed in a black leather clothing with a laser-sight rocket launcher on his hand, a Minigun on the other and a flamethrower with fuel tank strapped to his back on the ground.

It was Project Jaeger.

"F O U D A T I O N."