Seperate Ways

Staring at the collapsing buildings in the distance, the General watches the destruction from afar while standing on the roof of a building alongside ten Immoran troopers by his side.

Glancing at the troops, the General nonchalantly ordered, "Send a search party and if you find any one of them alive... extinguish them."

"Yes, general." One of the Immoran troopers nodded.

"Also any of you make sure that Revenant's team don't do anything idiotic." The General added in a serious tone. 

This caused all the troopers to groan in annoyance.

"General, why do we still have them in our army? They are complete idiots." The other Immoran Trooper complained.

"Yes they are, but they are useful in some areas of our operations so we need to keep them for now."

Sighing, the Immoran Trooper simply agreed, "Yes general."

"Good. Now look for them."

The troopers nod and head for the location where Queen's Requiem and Finn's gang was. 

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Underneath the rubbles of the demolished buildings, the area was completely covered in a massive dust cloud and building debris was literally everywhere. Rodeo was lying underneath some debris with his ears ringing.

Not far from him was Michelle, who was hiding underneath the seat of a broken bus which tanked most of the falling debris but was still intact. Talk about luck for her. 

As she got out of the bus, she saw the area that they were in was completely covered in a dust cloud and debris from the buildings that literally fell on them. She is also surprised that those ship's blasters didn't hit them perfectly. 

'Seems like these guys aiming are as bad as a stormtrooper.' She thought and looked around her surroundings, only to realize the area was eerily quiet but she could still hear gunfire and roar sounds that were technically far from them. 

Deciding to look around and not make a sound in order to make sure that none of hell's forces hear her, Michelle moved forward and spotted a broken building in front of her and it was the same one that collapsed on them. 

Entering the collapsed building through a broken window, Michelle saw the inside was also broken much like the outside as well. She then noticed a right hand with an armored glove on it sticking out from one of the piles of debris. Michelle knew from the golden plated skull on the hand that it was Rodeo. 

Immediately, she ran towards him and turned most of the debris from concrete to rubber which in turn made them lighter and easier to move. 

After removing the debris, she could see that his armor and helmet, while they did have minor dents, were still mostly intact. Michelle gently patted his head and instinctively, Rodeo instantly raised his arms in a defensive way and panicked a little bit but Michelle held his arms and tried to calm him down.

"Rodeo. It's me Michelle. Calm down." She said to him in a calm and gentle manner so that he would calm down.

Rodeo looked at Michelle for a few seconds until he finally calmed down and let out a sigh.

"Where are the others?" He asked.

"I'm not sure. Let's get out of this place first and then try to contact them."

"Yeah. Good idea."

Smiling that he was alright, Michelle helped Rodeo get back up on his feet and when they got out of the collapsed building, they suddenly sensed something and so, they immediately took cover behind a vehicle when they saw one of the ships hovering above them as it used a red spotlight to look for them. 

Rodeo and Michelle tried to make contact with site-17 and the other team members through their helmet radio but only static sounds were heard. 

Rodeo cursed inwardly, "Damn it. Can't make contact with Amelia and the rest." 

"Me neither. So what's the plan?" 

"They're searching for us and when they find us, they will kill us on sight, so no doubt about it. We need to leave this area and look for another way to reach the portal and try to make contact with Amelia and the rest again."

"Seems simple enough. Then let's go."

Both of them started to move out of the area while hiding from the ships spotlight by taking cover behind cars and debris, including using the dust cloud to their advantage of avoiding getting spotted. 

After going from cover to cover they were able to reach a broken store and enter it, using the back door of the store, they opened it and found themselves in an alleyway. Although they were now out of the ship's search area, they still needed to get as far as possible from the area. 

They continued walking down the hallway and exit the alleyway, finding themselves in a street. They looked left and right and surprisingly there was no one. 

"Looks like the coast is clear. Come on."

Michelle nods and before they could head for another alleyway, a Blood Maykr comes flying towards them and grabs both of them by the neck and starts flying upward and heading south.

The Blood Maykr looked at them and shouted maniacally.

"TWO KIDS GONNA DIE TONIGHT!" 

"No! You!" Rodeo and Michelle yelled and both stabbed him in the head with their combat knife and since he got stabbed in the head they unfortunately crashed into a window of a room of a hotel building. 

"Ok, that was red vs blue levels of stupid." Rodeo commented.

"Yeah. That wasn't smart of us to stab him in the head while he was flying in the air and holding us."

Looking around for a moment, the two noticed that they had crashed into a room of some sort which you would find at the best of hotels. They also noticed the Blood Maykr was lying on the floor of the room dead with the combat knives still lodged in its head. 

But then, Rodeo noticed that he was lying on the floor on his back and, Michelle...

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...was lying on top of him. Which accidentally happened when they crashed here with the Bood Maykr. 

Realization hits them like a hammer, in an instant, both of them blushed red in embarrassment and the two seperate each other at a speed that a millisecond is not the right word to describe.

"EEP! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! I didn't mean to! We... crashed and...uhhhh....that's why we ended up like that in an accident! Sorry!" She yelled panickingly, blushing in embarrassment behind her helmet and looking away.

"It's ok, Michelle. I understand. Accidents happen." Rodeo said calmly.

Judging by his tone, Michelle thought he is very calm about it and sigh in relief. But in reality, Rodeo was also blushing in embarrassment behind his helmet.

Suddenly, Rodeo and Michelle's helmet radio came back to life.

[Rodeo? Michelle? Can you hear me?!] Amelia asked the two in a panic tone.

Getting up from the floor, Rodeo responded to her.

"Loud and clear."

Anyone can hear a sigh on the other side of the call, Amelia calms her down and said, [That's good to hear. I tried to contact you and the others but something is jamming the radio and camera helmet feed as well. Evan's helmet radio and camera feed are still coming dark. Which could mean his helmet might have suffered damage or got destroyed. Do you think he's...]

"He's alive." Rodeo cuts her off, "With an ability like stop time he won't go down easily and after site-19 he's learned from his mistakes. You saw the ship's right?"

[Yes, we did see through the camera feed. What are they exactly?]

"Their Immoran hell ships with Immoran troopers pilot them." Michelle cuts in and explained, "Immorans are basically or somewhat humans, but are from the hell dimension, they wear red armor forged specifically to prevent them from becoming beastly versions of hell's forces which we've seen up until now."

[I see. Also, given you a report that the Jäeger Bombers and Hammer Down are having a hard time fighting those ships in the air given their more superior technology, but the perimeter walls around the city haven't been broken yet, and some of our UAV drones just got shot down by those ships.]

"So basically your blind from the skies?" 

[Yes for now. But we still have some eyes on the ground. Security cameras being one of them.]

"Alright, just keep us updated regarding the others, and if necessary tell the foundation call more MTF teams to the city because things have gotten more dangerous and serious."

[I'll see what I can do. Just stay safe out there you two.]

Then the radio call ends. 

"Hmm..."

Noticing Rodeo was in deep thought, Michelle asked, "Something on your mind?" 

"Yeah, actually. Amelia said that she tried to contact us but couldn't and we couldn't contact her or the others as well, that to when we were close to those ships."

Realizing something, Michelle gasps, "Your not saying that if we are close to the ships, our communications and gear might get jammed?"

"I'm afraid that's the case. They might have jammers on their ships as a way to prevent us from making contact with anybody outside and inside the city and rendering our gear useless."

"So now what?"

Looking outside the window, Rodeo could see the city which was still damaged and burning while gunfire and roars still being sounded and hell forces walking the streets, some flying in the air. 

"We continue our mission. Head for the source from where the invaders came and close it."

"Got it. I hope the others got out from there."

"Don't worry. I'm pretty sure they did. Now let's get out of this place."

Michelle nods, they both retrieve their combat knives from the dead Maykr, exit the room and head down the corridor. 

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With Nikolai and Miguel, the two were searching for weapons inside an abandoned military humvee. Its just the two of them after they unfortunately got separated from the others when the buildings dropped on them. 

As they were continue to search around, Miguel found an M4 carbine rifle in the backseat. While Nikolai... found a Minigun. 

"YES! I like this weapon."

"And what about your right hand, amigo?" Miguel asked, staring at Nickolai's hand, compare to the minigun, his Hand is more deadlier as it can literally erased anything.

"Sometimes comrade you need to have every weapon at your disposal. Whether it's Stand abilities, firearms or even kitchen utensils. It's called being prepared for the worst."

"Can't argue with that. Do you have an alternate route to the place where the portal opened?" 

"The sewers is an alternate route but the problem is that if its just us two go neck deep into a well guarded place that is surrounded by their forces is too risky. You have speed and I have power true but we're not invincible. So..."

"So we stick to the streets and it's shadows and heading there without going through the sewers."

"Da comrade. Now let us move."

Miguel nods and the two walk down the streets. 

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"SHINEI!"

With a roar cry, Jacob cuts dowb a Prowler's head in half with his chainsaw, killing it in an instant.

"Well he's dead." Finn said in the background.

"Yeah."

All around them, pretty much more than a hundred of bodies of Hell Soldiers, Dread Knights, Imps and Prowlers were lying on the ground dead either by Finn's bubble ability or Jacob's punches, Desert Eagle head shots and chainsaw... or should I say a bit of all of that. It was just the two of them as they were also too got separated from the rest as well.

"You don't want to get those scratches on your arm's patched up?" Jacob asked Finn.

"Well I was planning to get it patched up by Roberts ability but then this happened and we have no idea where he is so... if you have something to patch these up, I wouldn't mind using it."

Pulling out a medkit from one of the compartments of his armor, Jacob begsn to wrapped some bandages around Finn's arms and patching up the scratch marks. 

"That'll do. So let's move out, lad." Finn said and moved forward.

"Yeah mate." Jacob nodded and followed him through the desolate streets of Vegas.

As the two European Stands began to head down the road, unbeknownst to them however, a beast with a chainsaw for a left arm was watching them leaving.

 With a mechanical voice, it spoke out.

[Threats detected. Must be annihilated.]