Operation Snowbreaker(13)

"Gatling!" 

Michelle unleashed a storm of punches with her rubbery arms, knocking out and sending countless exo-suited GOC soldiers flying.

Currently, the four have been ambushed by a large number of GOC soldiers, numbering in the hundreds, after they were able to outrun themselves from the Cyberdemon and the other demons with him a minute earlier. 

Not long after, a hundred more GOC soldiers charged towards them, but at the same time, Evan, Lawrence, and Green arrived from the right. Noticing their presence, they raised their guns and were about to pull the trigger when Evan stomped the ground with one foot and launched forward like a cannon, leaving behind a five-meter-of-diameter crater and generating an ear-piercing boom.

As a result, by the time the soldiers noticed him, he was already in front of them.

"MUDA!" 

With a punch, Evan flung the first soldier away.

And that was just the beginning as Evan spun his body around, unleashing a high kick on the face of a second soldier, followed by an axe kick on a third soldier and a sweeping kick on two GOC soldiers in the face, sending them to a group of ten soldiers and knocking them down.

Meanwhile, numerous GOC soldiers fired their guns at Lawrence, illuminating everything around him with streak of lights from the countless gunfires. His Stand, Ain't No Grave, however, slashes all of the bullets down at great speed, and with a swing of its blades that came out of his arms, he instantly cuts down over sixty GOC soldiers and hundreds of trees in half, killing them all while Cerberus electrocuted the last twenty GOC soldiers with a bolt of lightning. 

As for the remaining two, they were greeted with a punch straight to their faces onto the ground by Evan.

"To hell with the GOC!" 

After dealing with all the soldiers surrounding them, Green sighed, but was suddenly tackled by Amelia into a hug. He smiled and hugged her back. 

"As much as I don't want to ruin this moment, we need to leave!" Lawrence abruptly interrupts their reunion moment.

"Right!" Green nodded as he lightly moved Amelia away from him.

"INCOMING!" Spy exclaimed as he spotted a flaming GOC jet falling towards them, to which they promptly reacted by scattering and letting it crash into the ground in a fiery explosion. 

It turns out, the fighter jet was shot down by a Fighter-class hell ship. Hence why it crashed. 

"Okay, now we have to move." Michelle murmured to the rest as they then quickly ran to where the green flares were fired. 

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With Molly, and her Stand, Bad Moon Rising, both were backing away from the multiple swings the Armored Baron was throwing with its Morning Star as he constantly attacked them. 

At that moment, the Armored Baron raises both of his arms up and slams them down on the ground, creating a huge shockwave that sends Molly and her Stand flying meters away from him and falling to the ground. 

After knocking down to the ground, the Armored Baron proceeds to jump towards them with his Morning Star, ready to smash them to a pulp and with its stating that the weapon was capable of one devastating strike might even obliterate both body and soul thanks to the curse from the Dark Lord, making it capable of harming or killing Molly's Stand.

However, the two were able to react to it and quickly rolled out of the way, letting the Baron smash his weapon on the ground instead, producing a huge crater. He looked to his left, only to see they were nowhere to be found. 

"What?"

All of a sudden, darkness shrouded the area around him.

"Hm?"

Slowly glancing up, he soon spotted Molly and her Stand, which had a baseball-sized full moon floating above her head, standing on small objects that appeared to be tiny white stars beneath their feet that can be held in the palm of your hand. But they are not the only ones as there were over hundreds of such stars floating around them, illuminating the darkness that filled the surrounding.

Everything seemed like he was within the night sky itself.

Despite the fact that the stars Molly and her Stand were standing on were small, they were able to keep their balance.

"What sorcery is this?" 

"It's called Stand power, and it's working perfectly now at a time like this!"

Soon after, Bad Moon Rising made the stars to swirl around the Baron. The Baron attempts to swat one of them away with his hand, but as he came into contact with the stars, bits of flesh exploded off his armored hand when he touched one of them.

"ARGHHH!"

Letting out a painful roar, the Baron looks back at the stars and finds that he has successfully swatted it away, but at the risk of being injured. Unfortunately for him, the stars appeared once more and enveloped him. 

Raising her hand, Bad Moon Rising then fired a green laser beam from the tip of her finger. As soon as the beam of green light strikes one of the stars, it bounces off it, then hits another star and bounced off it as well, and the beam continues on bouncing from one star to another, leaving the Baron bewildered as the beam continues to bounce from the stars that were surrounding him.

As the beam of light rebounded off another star, it began to travel towards him, and since there was a gap in the armor plates over his arm and other portions of his body, the beam of light passed through the gap and pierced right through his arm, causing him to scream in pain. It wasn't over yet, as the beam of light continued to bounce off the stars surrounding him and pierce different regions of his body with each passing second.

Most of the time, the Armored Baron could only grunt in pain and anger.

"Damn human!" 

In complete anger, he was about to launch his Morning Star at them, only to be smacked in the face by the baseball-sized full moon from Bad Moon Rising.

As the full moon came floating back to her, it soon transformed into a crescent moon, which the Stand then snatches it and throws it back towards the Baron like a boomerang. In a split second, the Baron rapidly shifted to the right and dodged the moon as it flew back to Bad Moon Rising's hand.

Raising his arms in the air, the Baron slams both of his arms into the ground, generating another huge shockwave that pushes the stars that were surrounding him away from him and throws the green laser beam off its trajectory, bouncing off another star and hitting a rock before disappearing completely.

Panting over, the Armored Baron muttered, "I swear in the name of Davoth, if you throw a quarter moon at me this time… I'm gonna lose it!"

"DORA!"

Just then, the Armored Baron gets his face punched by Robert with immense force, such force enough to send him flying and breaking through dozens of trees before crashing into a pond. Catching Molly by surprise, she and her Stand turn to see the rest of the team, except for Rodeo, who wasn't with them. 

"Stars and moon, huh?" Michelle comments once she lays her eyes on the breathtaking environment in fascination.

"Molly!" 

"Lawrence!"

Noticing Lawrence calling her out, Molly swiftly built a stair of stars going down by repositioning them with Bad Moon Rising and walked down them before hugging him.

"Where were you guys?"

"Long story." Green replied, "But I saw green flares in the air and there from the foundation who's coming to pick us up."

"So we need to move." Evan added.

"And Rodeo?"

"He may have seen the flares, but we need to move now." Amelia explained, "We'll find him along the way to the green flares or he'll find us."

"There they are!"

Just then, the team soon noticed a Tyrant and dozens of Immoran troopers approaching them and were about to unleash their wrath upon them. However, their attacks were soon halted when the Tyrant and the troopers were attacked by a group of GOC attack helicopters. In response, they started firing back at the helicopter, which gave the team the opportunity to make a run for it to the location where the green flares were shot. 

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The Demonic Wintherin rammed Rodeo through numerous trees while flying across the forest, grasping him with both arms. As the Wintherin continues to soar into the sky, Rodeo jabbed to his chest with all his might, causing the Dragon to roar in pain and let go of him in the process. The Wintherin grabs onto a tree and looks at Rodeo falling on the ground before rising from it. 

"First it was Scps, then it was Stands, and now I'm up against a Dragon. Yup, just another day at the office for me."

When Rodeo mutters these words underneath his breath, the Demonic Wintherin roared, drawing back its head to unleash a pillar of crimson flames at Rodeo, who quickly rolled to the right and brought out Sheer Heart Attack. Grabbing his own Stand, and like a baseball player, he tossed it at the Wintherin with all his might.

"KOCCHI WO MIRO!"

Sheer Heart Attack was sent flying like a bullet toward the Wintherin. But the Dragon did not survive millennia without a certain level of intelligence. So when the Stand got close enough, a massive tail slammed into him, reversing his momentum and sending the Stand rocketing back the way it came, and landed heavily on a tree before unleashing a pillar of hell fire on the Stand, but it came out unscathed.

Realizing that it's hellfire breath was ineffectual, the Wintherin rushed off the tree and flew towards Rodeo before raking its claws down. The single slash of it ripped the earth apart, erupting up in a burst of dirt, snow, and hard concrete, but failed to catch its target. Having easily dodged the telegraphed attack, Rodeo moved around the dragon at fast speed. It growled, fire flaring in its maw, as it turned, it sought to crush him between its jaws, but Rodeo simply shouted. 

"SHORYUKEN!"

And struck the Wintherin in the side of its head, combining his own strength as well as the double the force of the dragon itself into a single, devastating blow that shook the very air. Causing the dragon to take a few steps back before flapping both of his wings at the same moment with full force, creating a surge of wind that sent Rodeo flying and slamming into a tree. 

Extending its gigantic wings once more, the Wintherin flies towards him at the speed that broke the sound barrier, causing the surrounding trees to pull in its direction from the strong force of the wind. Despite the fact that it was going at a rate of traveling at the speed that may be able to easily catch up to a fighter jet, Rodeo avoided it by rolling to his right, and the Wintherin rammed himself headfirst into a mountain, which caused a huge tremor. 

This gives Rodeo an opportunity to charge towards him, but the Wintherin quickly sweeps his leg with his tail, causing him to tumble to the ground before grabbing his leg and hoisting Rodeo up, the Dragon slams him on the ground twice before tossing him into an abandoned Tank and crashing into it. 

"ROARRRRRR!"

The Demonic Wintherin roared, assuming he had taken care of him. It then spread its wings and was about to fly out when…

BOOM!

The Wintherin was interrupted by a streak of light, headed straight for his face. Taken by surprise, he did not manage to dodge the Sabot round of the tank shell, which struck him directly in the face and exploded in a burst of fire and smoke. As the smoke cleared, it revealed the Dragon was remained unharmed, but it only served to aggravate it.

With the dragon's flank now exposed, Rodeo went on the offensive as he hopped off the tank. Once he landed on the ground, he slammed his foot onto it before running towards the Dragon at astonishing speed.

Completely expecting Rodeo to be out of the fight, the Wintherin was not unable to react in time against his renewed assault.

"EXPLOSIVE FISTS!"

As if on cue, there came a sound, like that of someone being punched, except a thousand times more powerful. The heat and the shockwave of the powerful explosion produced seemed to warp the very space, accompanied by a great roar of pain as the great bulk of the Dragon slammed into a mountain kilometers away, the impact causing the entire forest to tremble. Rodeo had struck its chest so hard that its scales had cracked, something even a ballistic missile could not do.

As for Rodeo, after using his Explosive Fist ability, he was, on the other hand, blasted hundreds of meters away and crashed into a group of trees. As they both stood up at the same time, the Wintherin, whose chest had been scorched and cracked by the explosion, observed Rodeo approaching him in the far distance.

"I'll give you some credit for surviving that." Rodeo mumbled, gripping his ribs as various injuries were apparent all over his body, including his armor, which appeared to be on the verge of breaking apart.

"Grrrrrrrr..."  The Wintherin could only growl in response

"Yeah, whatever." Rodeo cracked his neck and was about to charge at him to deliver the finishing blow, when...

"Fire!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

A hail of bullets was raining down on Rodeo, with some piercing right through his armor and impacting the right side of his chest, although it didn't penetrate it, it left a bruise. In the following split second, more bullets came flying at him as one bullet wounded his exposed arm, and another bullet shot his leg. Like the first one, it didn't pierce through him, but it forced Rodeo to fall on his back on the snowy ground. 

*Music Stops*

The Wintherin looked to his left and saw ten GOC soldiers in exo-suits approaching them, armed with heavy machine guns in their hands. The Wintherin could easily kill them if it so desires, but due to its injuries, it chose to withdraw and flies back into the sky.

"Hey! Don't let it get away!"

The exo-suit GOC Soldiers with their heavy machine guns on hand, aimed at the Wintherin and fired, but the beast from hell had already vanished from their sight.

"Damn it!" 

"Well, at least the other guy's dead." One of the soldiers  said, looking at the motionless Rodeo on the ground, "Man, I thought the command told us it was a raid on a huge Chaos Insurgency base, but I didn't expect it to be a mech, a dragon, and other freaks being here."

"Kocchi wo miro."

Startled, the ten soldiers peered down and saw Sheer Heart Attack below them.

"What the hell is tha-"

BOOM!

Before they could react, they were instantly engulfed in flames when Sheer Heart Attack exploded on their faces, killing them all. After annihilating them to atoms, Sheer Heart Attack was then called back by Rodeo, who was still alive but bleeding out from the bullet wounds and combine that from the injuries he got from his fight with the Wintherin, which includes broken bones, and wanted to get out here. 

"Point 50 Caliber BMG rounds. Of course, they are strong like a son of a bitch. At least it wasn't something explosive like a cannon."

Suddenly, five black pixelated cubes came flying towards him and latched onto his arm. 

"What the?!"

Looking ahead, Rodeo soon spotted Tartarus and his Stand, The Perfect World, which had morphed its head into a cannon and fired a shot that impacted Rodeo's chest, sending him flying and landing into the same abandoned GOC tank.

Rodeo examined his chest and noticed that part of his  armor had been entirely wrecked and burned most of his chest, leaving a severe burn mark. Groaning in pain, Rodeo tries to crawl out till he saw Tartarus and his Stand once again, along with over a dozen CI soldiers following him.

Rodeo hurriedly took cover behind the tank. He peered over to them and noticed Tartarus and his men soon came to a standstill.

"It's over, Killer Queen. My Stand's cubes are already glued to you and disable your abilities. You're also injured, and your high-tech armor took a serious damage from the shot." Tarturus stated as he smirked sinisterly, "So I'm giving you a choice, join me and the Chaos Insurgency and we destroy the foundation together, or we'll give you the same treatment I gave to the ice pterosaur bird and forcibly make you work for us. So come out from that tank or my Stand will do it by force."

Rodeo attempted to activate Bites the Dust that he had used it on Amelia back in the Vtol. Unfortunately, all of them, as Tartarus stated, were all inhibited by his Stand's cubes. Rodeo tried to remove the cubes, but the cubes would create thorns to prevent him from doing so.

'Maybe I should've used Bites the Dust before this happens, damn it!' 

Is this it for him? No way out? He could run for the flares that Green indicated, but his injuries might slow him down greatly, and they could capture him easily and force him to perform unspeakable things, and negotiations were clearly not worth it, and... he can't risk his team going back for him otherwise they will be captured by the Chaos Insurgency, killed by the Global Occult Coalition who are still fighting the mech and getting annihilated or the Hell Dimension forces rip and tear them until it is done.

"One more thing, the cubes attached to you not only allow me to negate Stand abilities, but also allow me to track you down anywhere you go. I already put one on your friend, The World, or Evan is his name? With that, I'll locate him and your friends easily unless they try to remove the cubes, which is easier said than done actually."

Rodeo lets out a sigh and quickly sends a communication call through his armor's helmet to his team.