19 Travels From Rooftop To Railway And Meeting An Old Friend

Recap from last chapter: When we get to the top of the stairs, we jump onto another roof and turn left. After we turn left, we jump off the platform at the same time.

Once we land on the next roof, the enemy gives up on us, which is a relief for the both of us. We then go up another set of stairs and turn left again, went up a ladder. After the both of us get up, dad and I run a little bit ahead. But another enemy stop us in our tracks. He jumps off the part of the roof he previously on and comes at us.

Present time:

Callista's POV:

"Raiden, I sense three more coming our way. One is another one in front of us and the other two are ones with wings. I will take the wing cyborgs, while you take the muscle ones. Not unless you want me to take on the muscle ones, while you take on the wing cyborgs this time."-Me

"Actually I will take on the wing ones this time, you can take on the muscle ones. I actually have something which can help you quickly take care of them."-Dad

He hands me a staff, I instantly recognize right away as Mistral's staff, L'Etranger. I do a few tricks with it like how Mistral did, away from him. I then signal to him, he can go on ahead to the wing cyborgs. I sense him nod his head and then moves to another part of the roof to take care of his opponents.

I taunt him with L'Etranger and he comes at me. A Cheshire smirk comes onto my face as I come at him. He tries to swing at me, but I dodge the swing and move behind him. I swing L'Etranger at him many times and a few times L'Etranger went into its whip form, before my opponent turns around to try and swing at me again.

While dodging swings from him, I couldn't see him quickly backhand swings his hammer at me, but I did sense it with my echo-location. I quickly block it with L'Etranger, then push the hammer away. I wait for him to take a swing at me again. When he did, I swipe L'Etranger at the same time. In which causes my opponent to become confused and letting his guard go down.

When his guard went down, I quickly switch my weapons and do a flip causing both of us to go into the air. I do many combos of horizontal and vertical swipes at him. Then I grab the nano-repair from in his back. And I land onto the ground into a crouch position. I crush it as my victim blows up behind me.

But after I crush it, I suddenly feel really dizzy and small black spots come into my view. I feel my body sway a little as I put my left hand on my forehead and I fall to my knees.

I faintly sense dad looking at me, after I fall to the ground. I hear him quickly finish off his opponent and quickly runs to me. I can sense him right beside me as his right hand go under my right arm and his other goes around my waist.

He gently helps me up and I lean heavily onto him for support as we slowly walk over to the wall by the stairs. He takes his right hand off of my arm and helps me take my backpack off of my back before helping me sit down on the ground. As he is grabbing my water bottle from in my backpack, I lean my back onto the wall.

Dad hands me my water bottle as he places my backpack beside me. I put my water bottle on my lap and look up at him with my right hand over my eyes to block out the sun.

"Dad go take...*pants*… care of the last...cyborg, I will stay...*pants*…here and try to get...my bearings straight again....The last one is in...*pants*…the corner of the area that...is by the ladder that...*pants*…we went up on.*pants*"-Me (Breathing heavily)

"Don't try to speak right now, just take deep breaths, Marie. I will try to finish the rest of this battle quickly. Try getting some rest and get some water in your system while you wait on me. Okay, Marie. And this is an order."-Dad

I slowly nod to him as I take my water bottle out of his hand. I do as told by taking small sips of water and take deep breaths as I put my left hand back onto my forehead.

Just as he said, he takes care of the last one quickly and takes the nano-repair out of his opponent's back. He then runs back over to me and hands me it. I slowly take it from him and crush it with his help. This time the dizziness and black spots goes away.

I take one more sip of my water and quickly put my water bottle back into my backpack. I carefully get up with his help. When I'm fully standing, I nod my head to him signaling, he can release me. He nods back and slowly releases his hold on me.

When he fully releases his hold on me, he still has his arms out for just in case I fall down again. But I didn't have any trouble standing on my own at all.

'I guess I was getting a little dehydrated and it affected my body really badly. Man I really need to take care of myself more better.'-Me (In thought)

"You feeling better now, Marie? You look like you were going to pass out after you beat your opponent."-Dad (Worried)

"Yeah, I am dad. I guess I was getting dehydrated either from the heat or from not taking enough water breaks in between each fight we get into."-Me (Shrugging shoulders)

"Okay but if this happens again, I won't hesitate to take you out of the fight. Your health is my top priority or your mother will have my head for sure. Also I am going to make you take more water breaks for just a few minutes in between each battle too."-Dad

"Yeah."-Me (Sheepishly and rubbing back of neck)

We both then nod our heads in agreement and head up the stairs after the barrier went down.

Raiden's POV: (During the battle)

After I gave Marie, L'Etranger, I head off to the cyborgs with wings.

Once I get to them, I dodge a few bullets that are shot at me. I then jump up to their level and do a few vertical swipes at both of their wings to dewing them. After their wings are destroyed, they both land on the ground, and I swipe at one of them. I get hit by the other one, but not to much damage comes to me. So I do a few horizontal and vertical swipes at the one in front of me, before grabbing the nano-repair spine. I quickly crush it to heal my wounds I have and start attacking the other one.

Right in the middle of my battle with my other opponent, I quickly take a glance behind me and I see Marie swaying a little bit before she falls to the ground on her knees with her left hand on her forehead.

'No. Not my baby girl.'-Myself (In thought)

I quickly look back at my opponent and slash at him with speed he couldn't register at. I then quickly run over to Marie. I gently put my right hand under her right arm and my left one around her waist. I gently lift her to her feet and let her lean on me as we slowly head to the barrier. I remove my right hand from her arm and gently takes her backpack off of her back before helping her sit on the ground. She leans her back on the wall by the stairs as I grab her water bottle from in her backpack. I hand it to her as I put her backpack beside her.

She puts her water bottle on her lap and then looks up at me with her hand over her eyes to block out the sun.

"Raiden go take...*pants*…care of the last...cyborg, I will stay...*pants*…here and try to get...my bearings straight again....The last one is in...*pants*…the corner of the area that...is by the ladder that...*pants*…we went up on.*pants*"-Marie (Breathing heavily)

"Don't try to speak right now, just take deep breaths, Marie. I will try to finish the rest of this battle quickly. Try getting some rest and get some water in your system while you wait on me. Okay, Marie. And this is an order."-Me

She nods her head to me as she slowly takes her water bottle off of her lap. She does as told and take a few small sips of her water. She also takes a few deep breaths as she puts her left hand back onto her forehead.

I quickly rush over to the area Marie tells me where my last opponent is at. Just as I told to her, I quickly take care of him and took his nano-repair from his back. I turn back around and run back over to Marie.

Once I get back to her, I hand the nano-repair to her and help her crush it, since she was having a little difficulty trying to crush it.

After she crushes it, I could see the color is coming back to her skin. She takes one more sip of her water and slowly puts her water bottle back into her backpack.

I carefully help her back onto her feet and when she is fully standing on her feet, she gives me a nod as a signal I can release my hold on her. I nod back to her and slowly release my hold on her, but I still kept my arms out for just in case she falls back over.

But I notice she is not having any trouble standing on her own. So I put my arms back to my sides. I notice a look on her face meaning she is in thought.

"You feeling better now, Marie? You look like you were going to pass out after you beat your opponent."-Me (Worriedly)

"Yeah, I am dad. I guess I was getting dehydrated either from the heat or from not taking enough water breaks in between each fight we get into."-Marie (Shrugging shoulders)

"Okay, but if this happens again, I won't hesitate to take you out of the fight. Your health is my top priority or your mother will have my head for sure. Also I am going to make you take more water breaks for just a few minutes in between each battle too."-Me

"Yeah."-Marie (Sheepishly and rubbing back of neck)

We both then nod our heads in agreement and head up the stairs.

(Back to present time)

We head up the stairs and onto another part of the roof. An enemy sees us and Marie goes at him with L'Etranger in her hand. I notice Marie is doing a few moves which Mistral did when we went up against her.

After a few swipes with L'Etranger, she is able to defeat her opponent. But while she is fighting her opponent, I notice a helicopter not too far away from the both of us. So I switch weapons from my sword to a rocket launcher. I load the launcher with a rocket and lock onto it.

The rocket has a direct hit on the helicopter and I load another rocket into it as I had to dodge bullets from it. I lock the second rocket at it and again a direct hit. When I was going to reload the launcher again, I notice I am out of rockets.

So I switch back to my sword. I keep dodging bullets and rockets from the helicopter. When it get closer to me, I swipe at it from the underbelly. It then move to another part of the buildings.

I hear an explosion where Marie is at and notice she has beat her opponent. I also notice she is hidden from the helicopter's view. I decide to distract the helicopter long enough for Marie to jump up above the helicopter.

She did a three horizontal swipes and four vertical swipes at the helicopter before it blew up. Marie lands back down close to me and we went onto a red platform which is apart of the roof we are on.

We jump off it and onto another building's roof. Then head right, we jump down onto another roof and I quickly spot another enemy. I tell Marie to stay put as I put the oil drum disguise on myself. I slowly creep around and stay still when the enemy is looking. When his back is to me, I went up behind him and took my disguise off. I quietly grab my sword and stab the enemy in the back where his heart is at.

I quietly whistle as a signal to Marie it is clear to come out. She does and we continue on. But I didn't notice we have a few more until I see Marie grab her glock and shoot down two more enemies with one bullet each on their foreheads. I nod as thanks to her and she does the same as she puts her glock back into its holder.

We turn on a left corner and went straight. But before we could get any closer to the end of the building. We get a message from Wolf on our comm-links.

"You both cannot proceed any further via the rooftops. There is a freight railroad underground. The elevator ahead will take you both to it."-Wolf

Marie thanks Wolf before our comm-links log off.

We then turn left to the building and head to a bar door. I cut the fence down and we head into the elevator shaft with Wolfy in Marie's arms.

Once all of us are on top of the elevator, I cut the cables to the elevator causing the elevator to makes sparks as it is falling to the ground. I feel Marie latch herself to my back as we are falling with Wolfy on my head.

When the elevator hit the ground level, it makes a very loud bang. My feet hit the roof of the elevator. Marie releases her grip on me and her feet hit the elevator roof beside me. We then went straight through a doorway and into the underground freight railway. But we are stopped by the ringtone of a call from someone.

Marie moves her sun goggles over her eyes as I accept the call. The screen comes up and Wolf's picture comes up.

"This must be the railroad..."-Me

"It would appear so. Likely part of Denver's old system. This city was a major transport hub in the early years of freight trains. This particular line appears to have been abandoned some time ago. It was originally constructed to transport supplies to an underground factory. But now it seems even the electrical system is no longer functioning."-Wolf

"Yeah, it's pitch black in here..."-Marie and I

"As a cyborg and half-borg, I trust this is not a serious concern."-Wolf

Then his screen logs off.

Callista's POV:

After Wolf's screen logs off. I take my sun goggles off of my face and back onto my head. I close my good eye and use echo-location to see where I am going. Dad does the same thing. I notice he goes to a crate. He kicks it open and grabs the item in it. I look behind me and see a bar door.

I take Leopard Claw out and slash the door apart. I then sense dad is beside me and we head on down a set of stairs, then head to our left. I echo-locate and see a few enemies up ahead, but I ignore them and grab dad's hand.

We continue to go further into the tunnel, but we reach a dead end, until I look up. I lift our connected hands as a signal to go up. I sense him nod and we both jump up onto a train car. We jump up two more times then I notice we need to go down. I do the same thing with our linked hand and again he nods in understanding.

We jump down behind an enemy, I silently take out Leopard Claw again and had taken care of the enemy. After I kill him, I slowly lower his body to the ground in order to not make any sounds to alert the other enemies we are here.

Once the body is fully on the ground. We continue to head further into the tunnels. But I echo-locate and sense some enemies up ahead again. I take a closer look and sense they are the little Gekkos.

"Dad up ahead there are a few Gekkos, so be careful."-Me (Whispering)

Dad nods since he knows his voice is a little louder than me even when he is trying to whisper.

So we continue on walking and I still have Leopard Claw out. I sense the Gekkos are coming a bit closer to us. I stop walking which in tales makes dad stop too. I let his hand go and I sneak up on the Gekkos. I quickly take care of them before they sound the alarm to the others around us.

I echo-locate in front of me, but notice another gekko and it is a big one too. I quickly head back to dad, but before I could reach him, the big one spots me and jumps on top of me.

Dad hears and comes running to my rescue. He hit it off of me and I quickly get up. But then it grabs dad by his shoulders with one hand and slams him onto the ground a few times.

This time I had came to dad's rescue and cut its arm off, the one which is holding dad. Dad falls to the floor as it yells out in pain. I quickly do the same thing with its other three limbs before stabbing it in the face. After it blew up, I quickly echo-locate ahead and see we have to jump up onto a train again.

I quickly grab dad's hand and point with our joined hands up. I jump up first then he does too.

"Dad, you have to get into your oil drum disguise in order to not alert the enemy we are here. I will be behind you and I will tap on one of the sides of the oil drum to tell you where the enemy is. You will have to go the opposite direction of the taps."-Me (Whispering)

He nods in agreement and gets into his oil drum disguise. I get behind him and continue to echo-locate ahead of us. I see a few more up ahead and I gentle tap the side I see them at. We continue to do this, until Wolf comes onto our comm-links.

"There is a maintenance shaft up ahead. Use it to return to the surface."-Wolf

We continue to go forward until we get to another level and dad quickly gets out of his disguise. He jumps up beside me and we jump up one more level before he puts his disguise back on. We turn left and notice there are not that many enemies. So I double tap on the drum and dad get out of his disguise again.

He goes after the only big one, while I go after the Gekkos. I quickly finish off the Gekkos and help dad take care of the big guy. After he blows up we head to the back of the room we are in. Then turn right and went straight until we see light.

Once we get into a room full of light we get a call from Wolf. I quickly put my sun goggles on my face as dad accepts Wolf's call. I gently grab Wolfy since I had to put him down for a few of the fights. He helps in his own way by distracting the enemies for us so we can take care of the enemies very quickly. I pet him on the head and he nuzzles into my chest. I smile and giggle at how cute he is being.

Raiden's POV:

"Raiden, Callista. It would appear your only way forwards is to return to the surface. You both will exit an evacuated commercial district. Security is heavy, but you both need not worry about collateral damage when engaging the enemy."-Wolf

"About time...Finally we can cut loose."-Marie and I

"Proceed to the right from the exit. You both will find a stairway on your right. Those stairs lead to a shortcut to World Marshal headquarters. Do not be distracted by the advertisements. You both are not here as tourists."-Wolf

"Sure."-Marie (Sarcastically)

"We'll just buy a quick souvenir or two for Rose and that'll be it."-Me (Sarcastically)

"Raiden, Callista, we must hurry."-Wolf

"...Remind me to teach you about sarcasm sometime."-Marie

"I've seen plenty."-Dad and I (Same time)

"Then listen. Those battlefield emotions that the nanos suppress...Listen to them."-Sam

"What are you talking about?"-Dad

"Shhhh..."-Sam (Puts index finger over his mouth and then the same hand over his ear)

We both look behind us as we hear fast footsteps heading to us. We see two cops running from the left and then faces us.

"There they are!"-Chief cop

They take their batons out and the chief already has the electricity turned on.

"Kill them!"-Other cop

The other cop slashes his baton down to extend it and the electricity turned on it too.

Raiden's POV:

(A/N: The parentheses say in head, is what Raiden can hear. But Callista cannot hear the cops voices.)

"Can we take them?"-Cop on left side (In head)

"What's wrong?"-Chief cop (Out loud)

"The way they killed all the others...Oh god."-Chief cop (In head)

Both Marie and I get into defensive positions and back up as the cops are slowly coming at us.

"Please, God...don't let me die."-Cop (In head)

"Let's do this!"-Chief cop (Out loud)

Both cops come at the both of us. The cop on the left comes after me and the chief cop goes after Marie and Wolfy.

"I have a family. This isn't fair."-Cop (In head)

"Little punks!"-Other cop

"Listen closely, now."-Sam

"Listen closely to what, Sam? I cannot hear anything. Raiden do you hear anything?"-Marie

I don't answer her question and neither does Sam.

"Die!"-Chief Cop (To Callista)

"I didn't ask for this life!"-Chief Cop (In head)

"I watched my wife and son die...This is all I had left."-Other cop (In head)

"You both ain't crap!"-Other Cop (Out loud)

Both cops come at us with their batons raised in the air and we both are dodging their attacks, but I am a little more distracted than Marie. Both of us are cornered with our backs close to a tree. I block the attack from the chief cop, while Marie blocks the attack from the other cop.

"Goddam IED took my legs. I needed a job!"-Chief Cop (Sam laughing in the background)

"Stop!"-Me

"Raiden, what is going on?"-Marie

I continue to not answer her and shove the cop away from me. Same with Marie and I shove Marie behind me as both cops come back at us.

"I didn't know what I was signing up for!"-Chief Cop

I block the attack from the other cop, but didn't notice the chief coming at me from the side about to swing his baton. The baton nails me in the stomach, while the other cop nails me in the lower jaw causing me to go flying to my right. I tumble a few feet before stopping on my stomach. Marie comes running over to me and kneels on my left side.

"Is something the matter, Raiden and Shadow?"-Sam

I start coughing as I try to get up with the help from Marie. I wipe away blood from my mouth and look over to where the cops are.

"I've nearly saved enough to bring mama to the States..."-Chief Cop (In head)

"Finish them off!"-Chief Cop

"Whatever it takes to be free of this torture!"-Other Cop

"STOP IT!"-Me

"RAIDEN!"-Marie

I get into a defensive position with Marie beside me also in a defensive position.

"What am I even fighting for...?"-Me

"We finally make it to the States, and for this...?"-Cop #3

"How the heck did I wind up like this, fighting for these guys...?"-Cop #4

Marie takes on two cops while I take on the other two. I move to the center of the plaza, while Marie moves away to one of the sides close to the where I am at. I start swiping at the cop who is the closest to me, he dodges a few of my attacks but I nail a few good hard hits on him. See in my peripheral vision Marie is doing good also.

"Jesus Christ...What the heck was I thinking? Why would I do this to myself?"-Cop #3

I am able to finish off my first cop with a single vertical hit to the head and then took his nano-repair unit. Then I went onto my next one, which came at me while I was taking the nano-repair unit. But I finish him off with five horizontal swipes.

"Even moving to America...Didn't change anything..."-Random cop

"There's no reason for me to be here..."-Cop with rocket launcher

I help Marie with her last one and he had a rocket launcher in his hand. We were able to quickly finish off him, but I was so winded I had to take a knee. Marie and Wolfy come over to my right side with her left hand on my shoulder, along with Wolfy nuzzling me in the side.

"Raiden, Nightmare, are you both injured?"-Wolf

"I thought they had a choice. A fair choice. Not like you."-Me

"Raiden, is this why you were so distracted during our fight."-Marie

I nod to her and she gets down into a crouch position. She hugs me to try comforting for both herself and me.

"People are different."-Wolf

"As opposed to AIs? You're all the same, huh? You and your brothers. Manipulating mankind for our own good."-Me (Anger in voice)

Marie puts her hand on my hand which is holding my sword as I stand up.

"It appears my statement has upset you. I apologize."-Wolf

Marie takes her hand off of mine and she moves onto the other side of me to be in between Wolf and I. She puts her hand on top of Wolf's head and rubs it gently.

"No, it's...I know you're right."-Me (With a little hind of anger still in voice)

"As for AIs, we adapt as we learn. Just as any intellect operates, man or machine. Altering the course of mankind is not among my defined directives."-Wolf

"I guess that's a relief."-Marie and I

"Samuel's behavior does not match established parameters."-Wolf

"You know him?"-Me

"Affirmative. Nightmare does too, but not as long as I have. We served together on three previous missions. He proved most capable."-Wolf

I am shocked my own daughter knows the enemy, but even more so when he mentions my daughter.

"You think highly of him."-Me

"I have always found him...dependable. Until now. Scouting data for the next area."-Wolf

A screen comes up in front of Wolf and I press the button to gain access to the file. Once done Wolf goes over to Marie one more time and she gently rubs his head with affection.

"I'll patrol ahead. You both follow."-Wolf

He then moves away from the both of us and goes ahead of us. Marie walks onto the left side as I get up from my crouched position. She grabs my hand as a source of comfort and I squeeze it to help reassure her I am here for her.

TO BE CONTINUED...

(A/N): The next chapter is going to be with Monsoon and it is going to get a little bit darker than the last few chapter. Also I have been leaving hints on what happened to Callista when she was kidnapped by Liquid Snake and it will get even more cleared up when Raiden and her are on their way to Sunny's place. You, my little wolf pups, might be surprised on what happened to her. Another thing is that Callista is going to have a few more additions to her by the end of the next chapter.

Callista: I think you said a little too much and I do not what dad to know about it yet.

Raiden: *Walks into the room* Marie, what is Wolfhunter talking about?

Callista: Uh um nothing dad. I hear John calling my name. Coming bro. *Runs out of the room*

Raiden: What is going on with her?

Author-chan: You have no idea on what could be going on in that mind of hers.

Anyways my lovely little wolf pups I will howl to you later. *Howls and runs away from Raiden*

*Raiden follows after Author-chan* Get back here you.

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