The Hunt Begins (Dark Data)

[Ash Williams]

They arrived at the small abandoned town but was populated again with the forces of Nebula. Ash has heard that there were other settlements out there like Darkshire that were made before The Pale Moors became what it was today. Unfortunately, they weren’t as heavily fortified as Darkshire which used to be the main hub for Camelot of this verse. The town’s atmosphere felt darker compared to the rest of the verse. From how fortified the town was, the team could tell that this will be challenging to infiltrate since there were so many of those dark creatures protecting their power. That didn’t bring down their spirits. They were primes after all and Ash had experienced some tough fights from defending castle Kandar to protecting Darkshire from evil primes.

They went over with the plans and from surveying the town, it looked like there was only one way in which was the front entrance. Of course, there was a sizable number of Nebula’s forces at the entrance making sure nothing gets in or out. If they made their own entrance by trying to saw their way through the palisades, it would take a lot of time plus the noise of Ash’s chainsaw would attract Nebula’s forces. Apparently, Celestia will fly over to get pass the wall then draw out attention to distract some of the Nebula’s forces. Possibly, that will confuse the front entrance guards so that Revan, Yu Kanda, Ash, Sombra, and Chara could take them out on ground.

Stealth wasn’t going to be easy for this group since none of them was fit for it. As half of the group got to pass the wall, the other half approached the entrance but tried to remain quiet as possible. They didn’t try to attack but waited off to hear sounds of the dark soldiers to be alarmed. After a couple minutes when Celestia flew over, she cast down her magic at the rear guards behind the entrance. Suddenly, the primes engaged the enemy at the gate without mercy.

Nebula’s forces scrambled to get ready for the attacks coming on both sides. Some starting rushing to pour gunpowder and pellets in their flintlock rifles. Others unsheathe their blades, clubs, and axes as their main weapons. Before Ash moved in for the attack, he realized Chara wasn’t with them anymore and expected her to be somewhere beyond the wall hopefully killing off Nebula’s forces. He yanked the cord of his Chainsaw to start up the motor again which began sputtering then whining loudly with fuel smoke puffing out. His shotgun was whipped out of the holster and fully loaded.

Revan and Yu Kanda were the first to follow in and strike the darkened creatures. Sombra followed in also and cut down the enemy forces with his scythe. Ash dashed out of cover and proceeded to enter with the group. Two of the dark creatures were about to flank Sombra but were shot down by Ash with his boomstick.

Chaos began to ensue on the town from the front entrance assault. Nebula’s forces rushed to their posts and prepare for the group of primes. As Ash got Sombra’s back, one of the entrance guards that remain standing sprinted toward him with a spear. His enemy screamed with a war cry for Ash to avenged it’s fallen, comrades. Ash ducked to avoid the spear that was going for his head. Luckily enough, Sombra moved further away to advance along with the others. Ash quickly swung his chainsaw above him while the dark creature made its move. The weapon’s pole was made of wood which the top part of the spear was sawed off from the evil dead slayer. His enemy retrieves the pole back to its body and made a defensive stance. The eyes stared menacingly at Ash and the creature’s fighting spirit was still not broken. Ready to face death.

“Boy, you guys aren’t afraid of nothing.” responded Ash in astonishment that his enemy didn’t run off cowering after Ash degraded its weapon.

Afterward, Ash sliced the Nebula fiend through the wooden pole that used to be a spear. His defeated opponent got sawed in half and the remaining corpse fell to the ground along with sawed the sawed weapon. Two more of the entrance guards popped up on Ash’s left side but were at a further range. They aimed flintlock rifles and were ready to fire them. Ash was in a vulnerable state and they did catch him off guard while focusing on who was in front of him earlier. Before they could fire upon Ash, Yu Kanda came in and slayed the two riflemen that perished.

“Focus, we need to all move together so that we won’t get outnumbered massively.” said Yu Kanda in annoyance and loudly over the fighting that was going on while gazing at Ash. The evil dead slayer could tell that one of his teammates was not enjoying the plan of this assault. The Darkshire’s defender nodded in agreement and followed Yu Kanda further into town.

Yu Kanda complained about the attack plan and thought it would be a flaw. Ash did know doing a front assault was a bad plan. Although if they did do stealth, Ash would have to be one of those guys to wait outside until the coast was cleared since he wasn’t well at being sneaky even his weaponry weren’t fit for that kind of job. They’ve could’ve caught them off guard if it was that way.

Ash stepped back and watch the exorcist go on a killing spree with Nebula’s forces. He has never seen anyone kill so many people under a small time. This made him glad that this prime was on their side and could help make the Pale Moors have a brighter future. Afterward, he seen The Black Order’s general covered in the gore of his enemies.

Yu Kanda, Ash, and Sombra followed in quickly to save Revan from being outnumbered. The evil dead slayer unloaded the last buckshot that was in his gun upon some of Nebula’s forces. After firing and killing a few that were within range, Ash holstered his shotgun and revved his chainsaw loudly then dashed into the group, sawing his way to cut down the numbers of the enemy. The exorcist and the dark pony followed and help save Revan.

This place was a mess and the atmosphere became the darkest that the Pale Moors could ever be. Streets were dirt and mud which wasn’t like Darkshire’s that have a nicer pave to it even less filth. Still, Celestia flew through the sky being an air support to the team. Chara navigated through the town to regroup with her allies for this mission. She glitched to catch up with the group and eventually did. They ran down the main road toward the square of the city, they were blocked off from Nebula’s forces creating some barricades of wooden spike walls and at least two old cannons that were on both sides. Their rifles and cannons fired upon the primes as they made their appearance.

Gunpowder filled the air as the scent of the battle that was going on. Without time to waste, Celestia darted down quickly toward her allies to protect them with her sun wall. She landed and made the sphere of fire around them that took the damage of the incoming projectiles. One cannon ball hit the barrier that made their shield weaker to take any more projectiles. The second cannon ball landed in front of them causing mud and debris to kick up in the air and rain down.

The riflemen started reloading their guns fast as the group of liberators was moving closer to them. Celestia deactivated the sunwall before it would break by any more projectiles. Nebula’s forces pour out of the barricade and charged forth at the group of the primes to stop them. The riflemen and artillery squad couldn’t really be left alone to stop them from the lengthy process of loading their weapons. Many of the dark defenders held battle axes, swords, maces, and spears who were charging at the liberators.

Celestia took to the skies again to at least distract and take on others from an advantage point. The grounded liberators used their ranged powers or weapons to lessen the incoming force. Ash grabbed his weapon out of the holster and reloaded his shotgun. He waited for him and the enemy to get closer so that his weapon could be effective then fired. Two were killed by the number of pellets while others got damaged that were more positioned in the outer area. Revan used his bow to fire a couple arrows at targets he was focusing on. Three gotten killed by the archer’s skill and dissolved into black mist.

A couple more were killed by Sombra, Yu Kanda, and Chara’s ranged powers. The numbers of the charging dark defenders became smaller. All the liberators clashed with their enemies as they met contact.

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