Disclaimer: I don't own R+V in any way shape or form…what? I'm temporarily out of witty disclaimers for the moment so what the heck to you expect me to do?

A/N: Well…you probably expected me to write this sooner and all…yeah…I'm sorry but hey come on these take forever for me to write whew…sorry guys but I'm no Homer (Greek one not Simpsons one) oh well if more people can at least comment on this I'll take it as long as no flames. This is the absolute LONGEST chapter I've EVER WRITTEN! So…have fun spending about an hour or so reading it and trying not to get lost :P

PS: So much for short on that last one and this one but oh well…it's a habit

PPS: Yes this is the pretty violent chapter I'll tone it down a bit to keep the

PPPS: Unlike the other chapters with basis primarily on the actual manga chapter or anime episode this is mainly from my own imagination considering how disappointing the anime and manga made it and don't worry this won't drift from the plot it'll revert back to the story at the end of the chapter but it's just a filler for the apparent timeline gap…and it's mainly combat and all so it'll probably suck since it's my first time writing an extended scene but I'll hope I don't screw it up

PPPPS: The title hmm…well it may be a bit misleading but it does have to do with the plot of the chapter so…you guys take a guess right now and find out when you read...sorry for all the PS's

PPPPPS: Unlike the other chapters, the last one ended on a bit of a cliffhanger so I'm going to pick up on that pretty much immediately

PPPPPPS: Sorry again but I have to tell you: Yes this will mainly feature Wayne up until the end when it re-meets the original canon

PPPPPPPS: Last one promise: Guess who cameos? :O

Review Responses:

Tsukoa Fan: She didn't show up here in the canon of the original story and besides I said that it would be her last appearance for a while until her REAL canonical appearance later so her original introduction and all those other chapters with her in them were just cameos. Besides what was I supposed to do in the last chapter? I mean at this point she hasn't learned to trust the team yet and personally I wasn't in the mood to make her OOC as a naïve little girl to get drafted by the PSC under the promise of separating the 2 Moka's? I considered trying that and negotiating her back in this chapter after a bit of a "showdown" but then I remembered I had her temporarily deported and that Kokoa fans like yourself would likely hate that so I scrapped that idea. Sorry about that but don't worry she'll make her real canonical appearance later and until then she will occasionally make cameos in a few references to her.

ninja grandmaster: Yes…yes it is…and don't worry this is going to be as you guessed…mostly

helpful guy: I re-updated the chapter the day after I posted it and mentioned it but apparently people didn't read back to check but fine to all the other readers: Sorry I lashed out at you all

somepersonlol: Heh good job picking up that reference but well whatever. Anyway I had to injure him a bit because after about a few chapters I realized that some people may perceive him as too "godly" which was not my intention so I had to scale Wayne down as with the other planned OC's. As for the other 2 questions…well okay yes one of them will appear in here so try and find the reference to it as for which…well it'll be pretty obvious when you find it

randomguy123: Thanks for splitting up your points, onto your points: Too be honest I never liked the PSC in the first place and, from what I know, not very many others so I figured what the heck. Anyway yeah…that wasn't too much into the main plot so I chose not to implement that since it was already taking forever with the special chapters and all and don't worry I won't take 6 years to update it was a joke. Anyway I fail at describing a face without sounding very cheesy and I'm much better at general appearance unless I have a portrait to work with and I apparently didn't so I decided to provide what details I could. I suppose I'll lower my A/N lengths but I kinda had to put that out sorry, and yes the parka is bulletproof because how else has it not been torn to shreds yet? Oh and pretty much the whole chapter is wreaking havoc on an evil organization so yeah it's kinda like karma (Karma Charger (or in this case Karma "demon"/monster/whatever) does not approve of power-abusive military officers)

The Last Stand

Tsukune had been sentenced to public execution for being human. A painful one at that too and though the majority of the school faculty and student body disliked the PSC for various reasons nearly all had been taught to hate humans with all their hearts for their whole lives and as a result the majority of the faculty and virtually all of the student body was now outside to cheer for Tsukune's execution. All except a few on a desperate but brave rescue attempt…

The door to the PSC base slammed to the ground knocked off their hinges and since no alarm had been raised the guards inside just stood in awe as Wayne bowled right into them and trampled many during his charge before they finally regained their composure

"Fire! FIRE!", shouted one of the sergeants

The troopers who were armed aimed their weapons in Wayne's direction while those who didn't scrambled to pick up the fallen weapons from their dead comrades. Wayne, however was too quick and shifted direction despite his forward momentum, seized a knife from one of the troopers' shoulder pouch, stabbed the trooper's throat with his own knife, took the trooper's Kalashnikov and Submachine gun, and fired into the platoon that was still trying to even aim at him

"So much for military discipline", sighed Wayne when the troopers began shouting curses at him which he quickly silenced with a few slashes from his "wrist knives" when he ran out of ammo

In close combat against such a disorganized group Wayne didn't need to transform and instead used his hands, feet, and the stolen weapons

Apparently Wayne had sprinted forward so fast that he'd left Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore, and Ruby in the dust and by the time the others arrived, the whole platoon was dead in a pool of blood and Wayne was in the process of cutting a trooper with his own machete while 2 comrades tried to close in on Wayne having used up all their ammo trying, and failing, to shoot him. When the others had reached him Wayne had caved in the chest of one of the survivors with a strong roundhouse kick to the heart and curb-stomped the other's head with his heavy boots and crushed his skull easily

"What took you guys so long?", asked Wayne kicking some blood off his boots and brushing his hands

"Why…did…you…take…off…like that?", panted Kurumu

"Well take a look at that", said Wayne pointing at a corner in the ceiling and wall before walking into a side room

The others looked and saw some electric sparks flying along with what appeared to be some sort of glass or plastic

"Video camera, I destroyed it before you guys got here but I made sure it saw me first", explained Wayne apparently in some sort of kitchen and was now packing a bunch of food in his extra parka's pockets, "I also tracked the other cameras through the local network of that thing and destroyed those as well with a mild burst of energy"

"Why would you do that?", asked Mizore

"If you already knew that was there then why didn't you destroy it first?", asked Ruby, "now these guys know about the mission and we agreed to be stealthy!"

"Well…", began Wayne when they entered the lift

Meanwhile in the PSC base control room…

"Sir! We lost all cameras on the first floor and contact with the security forces posted there", reported one of the TV operators, "It looks like they were all deliberately destroyed"

"What?", demanded the commander, "Did the cameras catch any signs of what happened?"

"Yes we had a bit of a blurry feed of someone charging our troops before the cameras shut down", replied the TV operator

"Hmm…", frowned the commander

"Sir?"

"There's no point in breaking into the base for no reason…whoever broke in must have some sort of agenda to risk so much", explained the commander, "The only logical thing here must mean this intruder is on a rescue mission of one of the prisoners…"

"But most of them have turned feral by now!", exclaimed one of the other operators overhearing the conversation

"Most but not all…", said the commander, "A few hours ago Kuyou imprisoned some vampire "princess" or whatever and sentenced her boyfriend to death for being a human so I think it's safe to assume that this guy is planning to save her, and use her strength to help save the human"

"Well…if he was planning to sneak in here he messed up pretty bad", said one of the operators, "We're getting the cameras back and the guy already exposed himself"

Sure enough the camera feed came back to reveal Wayne in the lift…only Wayne

"Cut the power"

Meanwhile in the lift…

"The thing is there's no way we're getting Moka out alive unless we let Inner Moka out and Tsukune is kinda…unavailable", explained Wayne, "So if we all charged in and get her out the whole PSC army would go after us relentlessly"

The others looked in silence

"So…what are you planning exactly?", asked Yukari

"Initial planning was basically running through the schematics of the base, a list of the ordinance these guys have, and explaining what to do at certain points but technically that only applied to you guys", said Wayne, "You see: YOU guys are supposed to stay stealthy while the PSC sees me and only me completely destroying them alone while you guys sneak in, get Moka, get out, and THEN alert me while I take the heat"

The others resumed their silence

"That's crazy!", exclaimed Kurumu, "Look you are definitely the strongest of all of us here right now but there is no way you can survive against all of them!", exclaimed Kurumu, "During planning we estimated their numbers to be in the thousands! And they outgun you by a whole lot!"

"You should have told us earlier", agreed Mizore a bit calmer but still surprised

"If I did then you guys wouldn't have agreed, then would have stayed with me and that would have made the whole mission pointless if we couldn't complete our main objective and tried to hold out against an unending wave", explained Wayne, "Even if we managed to win Tsukune would probably be executed by then"

"But you're not invincible Wayne", said Ruby trying to be as polite as possible, "I mean no offense but to be able to heal and fight you need energy to fight and heal…", Ruby stopped realizing there wasn't any way she knew of to be polite on this

"I know that", said Wayne opening one of his pockets, "So I packed up on this stuff to make sure to keep up my energy

The others looked and Wayne had apparently taken almost EVERYTHING from the kitchen and had stuffed most of it in his many pockets

"I'm not stupid and I know that after not having any really challenging fights or time to get back in shape I'm going to lose energy faster than I intend so I packed up on this to eat some at a time while not fighting", explained Wayne although omitting another part of his plan

The others had no response since it seemed that Wayne was pretty well set

"Look I know you're concerned and I understand that but right now the mission takes priority, not my life so do me a favor: get this done quick so this place won't be my grave", said Wayne

The others nodded

"We won't let you down", promised Kurumu

"Good", said Wayne, "I rigged the camera in the lift here to make it seem like it's only me in here and got rid of the audio so you should be able to-"

Before Wayne finished the power to the lift went out and the elevator plunged into complete darkness

"Calm down", said Wayne before everyone panicked

"We're trapped!", squealed Yukari

"Not quite", said Wayne

Wayne lit up a match he'd taken from a dead trooper and used the little light he had to find and kick open the door

"This is just as I predicted", said Wayne

The others followed Wayne outside and gasped at the sight. They were aware of the large empty space in the PSC complex but this was HUGE and additionally it seemed to be teeming with vegetation and life and was shaped like a fertile, sheltered valley close to the sea and in fact there was a large water reservoir visible across the plain

"Focus!", snapped Wayne which the others immediately did, "Look, the elevator camera saw me break out on this floor and Kuyou isn't here which means that he can't bend the space of the base right now and the whole base follows the same schematics", he explained, "You guys know your assignments?"

The others nodded. They were to keep radio contact on a secure channel with radios Wayne supplied them and stick loosely together but still stay a bit apart to avoid detection since the PSC was unlikely to leave the prisoners completely unguarded even if Wayne drew most of their attention. The valley had many elevators but they were pretty separate and the PSC would likely send troops through those but Wayne had provided them each with schematics and pointed out a group of ventilation shafts that one person could fit through at a time and though they led to different rooms they would eventually re-meet after a short distance. It was imperative they split up for this part to be stealthy but not stay too apart in case something went wrong

"We know", chimed in everyone together

"Good then get moving", said Wayne pointing in the direction to what seemed to be 4 solid mountains which actually housed ventilation shafts like fake rocks hid water wells, "And good luck"

"Good luck to you too", said Kurumu

Wayne shook hands with each of them and nodded

"Remember: I know you don't want to kill but these guys are too tough to restrain without killing them outright and they aren't students like us", he warned, "They're criminal mercenaries from a criminal group of monsters. If you don't want to kill stay stealthy"

Everyone waved goodbye and headed towards their individual entry points leaving Wayne alone in a wide open area. However, what Wayne didn't tell them to get them not to worry was what organization they were from and the exact details of his plan to hold off the enemy

The enemy was composed of mercenaries, true, but when Wayne had taken out each individual guard before entering the base he'd spotted the tattoos on their necks: FAIRY TAIL in gothic letters, one of the monster underworld's most influential and powerful criminal organizations with rank ordered by status, power, and fighting skill

His plan to hold them off was apparently his best bet to ensure that they couldn't be followed on the way out, he was risking a lot more than he normally would have but this was the only way to make absolute certain that the PSC couldn't follow them and call reinforcements when they broke Tsukune out. True he wasn't quite at his best but he'd made sure to try and keep active since the school had a track and a pool for him to run and swim in time to time. However, even with his insurance from raiding the kitchen he hoped he wasn't underestimating his opponent, after all he was going up against over a couple THOUSAND strong well armed troopers and he was going up against them all alone…

"I hope those guys finish quick…", thought Wayne when the others disappeared into the false mountains and he saw some shapes mobilizing, "I'm apparently gonna need more energy and this might not cut it…", he continued while chewing on some jerky and dousing it down with chicken broth

Wayne had tried to communicate before but he'd received no answer from his "contacts" but tried again

"Hello…sorry I'm not here now so leave a message, if this is Wayne Junren Galvan then sorry but I am not here and if you are Logan Altair Arshavir then the same goes for you, bye, Akira", said a female voice from the voice mail from the number Wayne attempted to call

"Okay…well this sucks, I really needed some help", sighed Wayne, "She shouldn't have lost the phone…I made it so it's immune to her powers and sticks with her…oh well next one…"

"Hello…This is what it would sound like if I was here but I am not so please leave a message. If your name is not Wayne Junren Galvan or Akira Akane Akahiro and you are trying to kill me then go away or I will get you and yes I am tracking this number, if you are some random person dialing the wrong number then ignore everything else I just said and have a good day, if you really are the people whom I just mentioned then I will call back in a bit, bye, Logan", said a male voice from the voice mail from the number Wayne was attempting to call

"Dude…you suck…when I actually need help you're not here", sighed Wayne hanging up, "I even made your freaking phone which is immune to your powers and always sticks with you…and what is with the creepy voice mail? That will honestly make just about any anonymous person faint with fear…and stop pronouncing my name wrong on purpose!"

Meanwhile…

Tsukune didn't have much time left, his execution was coming and his friends hadn't showed up yet…Kurumu and Mizore didn't take the revelation too well and he wasn't sure about Ruby and Yukari but Wayne was almost a brother to him but even so he hadn't shown up

"Where are they?", he wondered, "Whatever they're doing I hope they hurry or I'm a dead man"

Back in the PSC base…

A group of some 300 troopers had gathered since the commander and the operators in the control room had detected Wayne to be at least a B+-class monster or higher they didn't want to take any risks but had suggested trying to get him to surrender first

Wayne hadn't armed himself or armored himself yet and instead stood still and calmly watched the troopers line up and take aim at him but he had moved himself to a tactically superior position where should he be forced into close combat, they would have no choice but to funnel towards him through the slightly narrower pass and right now he held a 4 centimeter sharpened branch he'd taken from a tree in his right hand

"YOU THERE!", shouted the lieutenant apparently in charge of the group and stepping ahead of the other troops, "ABANDON YOUR POSITION!", he demanded

There was a pause when Wayne didn't respond and both sides glared and then Wayne raised his right hand holding the stick which none of the troopers understood until he suddenly hurled it at the lieutenant so hard it impaled him, knocked him backwards, and impaled 2 others behind him

"OH YEAH?", shouted Wayne pounding his fists together, "COME AND GET IT!"

With the lieutenant gone one of the sergeants took over instead

"Open fire!", he shouted

All 300 troopers fired one after the other at intervals to keep up the continuous barrage of gunfire while others reloaded and during this time Wayne simply stood there in his human form making no attempt to dodge, or transform to be able to block the damage

Meanwhile…

"How in the world can you stay in these things for long periods of time", Kurumu complained to Mizore over the radio

Wayne had made sure to get a secure channel for the group so now they could speak freely through throat mikes but would still have to watch out for enemies Wayne wasn't busy fighting and right now they were still in the vents

"Well unlike you I don't artificially grow my breasts to woo boys", replied Mizore chuckling a bit at the mental image in her mind of Kurumu slowly having to drag her way through a narrow ventilation shaft that she could barely fit through because of her G-sized breasts

"Oooo you got owned", giggled Yukari while Ruby laughed in the background

Kurumu growled. They might be her friends but she had to admit they really got on her nerves sometimes

"They're NATURAL you morons", Kurumu shot back when she then noticed a light from the venting in a room below her

"Well…you DID pick the particularly narrow shaft you know?", laughed Ruby just before she got her long skirt caught…Ruby had picked the wrong ventilation shaft too and was in the one with rusty walls with peeling walls…

"And you picked the rusty and peeling one", said Mizore, "You know what? This is taking too long I'm speeding up"

Mizore froze the whole inside of the ventilation shaft and slid down the slick surface

Meanwhile…

"Whew…man it's getting cold I'm gonna turn up the heat a bit", shivered a trooper turning on the heater

Back in the vent…

Mizore screamed in pain as searing heat washed over her. Since she was a creature of ice heat well…hurt…a lot

"Turn off the cold!", hissed Kurumu which Mizore immediately did and the troopers shut off the heat, "Now I suggest you go the way we do: just plain crawl"

Mizore whimpered a bit and kept crawling

Wayne had shown Kurumu and the others the schematics of the base and she wasn't supposed to drop out of the shaft until the absolute last vent in the shaft

"Hey I think I got up to one of the vent gaps in here so be quiet for a moment", she whispered which everyone, knowing the seriousness of the issue, did become quiet for a bit

Kurumu managed to cross the hole without a sound but she overheard some troopers' conversations

"So…one guy eliminated the whole security team up top and now he's down here?", asked one trooper

"Yup", replied one of the others, "That's why they put all of us on alert"

"Yeah but hey come on think about it: He's in the freaking LOUNGE I mean come on the place is huge and pretty wide open, with about 300 guys going after him he's pretty screwed", replied the first

"Eh well he took down about 30 guys in 20 seconds without a scratch though", said a third

"Yeah but he got them by surprise", replied the first, "So honestly up against 300 ALERT guys I'd say he's screwed, heck I don't think we even need 300 of them"

"Did you guys hear that?", asked Kurumu when she was a safe distance away

"Yeah we did", replied Mizore

"I hope he's okay", said Yukari

"Trust me", said Ruby, "Wayne hasn't seen much combat in a while but those guys don't stand a chance against him"

"Didn't you just say he wasn't invincible?", asked Mizore

"No he's not…but he's not a weakling"

Meanwhile…

"Cease fire!", shouted the sergeant after about 20 minutes of nonstop firing by which just about everyone had run out of ammo anyway

The troopers looked up and stared in shock. There was Wayne standing in a large pool of blood…but virtually unharmed…

"Hooooleeee sheeiit", whistled one of the troopers

"Over 100,000 armor piercing rounds and all that blood loss but that guy's still standing…", muttered one

"Alright guys time for melee combat so get ready!", called the sergeant and the troopers, albeit nervously, drew knives and machetes and got ready to charge

Wayne stared across. Apparently they'd finally ran out of ammo and were planning on charging with melee weapons

"Finally…man that was not pleasant", he mentally complained. He could regenerate and he had built up a tolerance to pain but he had to admit that still hurt…especially since he intentionally got hit

What only Wayne noticed however, which the troopers didn't notice, was the faint glow of Wayne's blood on the ground and the faint glow on the empty bullet casings

"CHARGE!", shouted the PSC sergeant leading the remaining 296 troopers, 3 already killed when Wayne threw the makeshift spear at the lieutenant and 2 others and with the sergeant not counting himself

Wayne bent down as if in a position ready for a track sprint and stared as the troopers charged him...they started at about 250 meters…150…100…50…NOW

Wayne leapt forward and slammed his left forearm into the closest trooper to him at over 80 mph instantly killing the trooper and the 3 behind him and suddenly grew out a trio of energy claws approximately 4 feet long each from his right hand's knuckles and stabbed the one next to him and in the surprise attack continued to bowl over more troopers until he was about in the center of the mob and then transformed a bit more but still partially

Wayne spread his wings and, due to the sharpness of them, cut through about 20 while growing them and also grew out a pair of sawn-off shotguns on his wrists to fire while cutting, switched the claws into a pair of 6 foot blades with one on each hand, a pair of energy blades on his heels for when kicking, and proceeded to follow the process of shoot with his left hand on the left side, cut with his right hand on the right side, kick backwards with his right foot at the same time, pivot on his left foot and follow by swinging his right foot in a large circle, follow it by stabbing with his left hand, shoot with his right hand across his body to the right which was now his left, pivot again on his right this time, kick forward with his left, shoot with both hands to the sides, stab with both hands forward, ark his left arm to the left, and repeat. His wings were out to assist him take down the guys behind him when he pivoted and kicked in a circle to cut them down since he wouldn't be able to fly in such a small space and he elected to not use any other guns to try to save energy

After about 10 minutes all 300 were dead with their short daggers and machetes unable to catch up to Wayne's fast movements and the length of his wings and blades

"Well…that went easier than expected", said Wayne calmly transforming back and drinking a milkshake with some peanut butter he'd snagged, "But these guys are stronger than that…they'll want to send in more guys and if I stay here I won't be able to hold out forever…"

Wayne looked around and observed the trees and crevices in the rocks

"If this is going to work I'm going to have to not be in one place all the time and take out as many as I can…this time I'd better get to a better vantage point and avoid another all-out battle like this if I can", he decided and after finishing the whole jar and the cup he quickly sprinted over to the water

5 minutes later…

On his "journey" to get to a better vantage point Wayne ran into a group of 5 scouts who had apparently wanted to check out why the other team hadn't checked in yet and, seeing the dead bodies from a distance, tried to double back and were spotted by Wayne

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!", shouted a trooper wildly firing a RPD light machine gun at Wayne

Three other troopers also tried to fire at Wayne with their Sturmgewehr's and bullets slammed into Wayne's body but even though they tore off flesh and caused blood to fly Wayne just calmly walked up to them as if he were taking a walk in the park with nothing happening to him while his body regenerated and he whistled

"OH MY GOD HE'S UNKILLABLE!", shouted the trooper

Wayne had gotten up to arms length with them and, having spent all their ammunition the troopers stopped firing

"Quick run for it!", said one of the troopers to the last one who hadn't fired and he immediately sprinted off to warn command

The lead trooper tried to hit Wayne with the butt of his rifle but Wayne, with surprising agility, dodged it and was immediately behind the trooper, kicked, and crushed his spine with the power of his kick

The other troopers panicked and one took his knife, jumped up, and stabbed Wayne in the neck

"I-I think I got him!", he exclaimed while dangling from Wayne's body

"Uh dude…", said one of his comrades

The trooper looked up and was shocked to see Wayne grab the trooper's hand holding the knife to his neck, pulled it out seemingly undisturbed by the blood loss while the wound healed itself immediately, used his strength to point the knife at the trooper's face instead, and stabbed forward with the trooper's hand still on the knife and promptly stabbed through the troopers' heart and even making his whole hand come through the other side

"Oh no way…", said one of the 2 remaining troopers

"I got him!", said the other

The trooper grabbed a grenade and threw it right at Wayne

"Hey are you totally stupid?", shouted the other trooper

Since Wayne was so close and the trooper forgot to "cook" the grenade he just caught it, and threw it back so hard that the grenade already buried itself in the trooper's chest a split second before it blew him up

"Oh gee oh gee", panicked the last trooper

The last trooper quickly drew his pistol and fired a shot right at Wayne's forehead with the impact slamming his head back

"YES!", he shouted happily before Wayne steadied his head again, the bullet fell out with some blood, the wound healed and Wayne cracked his knuckles, "Oh crap…"

Wayne reached with his right hand, gripped the trooper's whole skull with his hand, lifted him up a bit, and slammed the trooper headfirst into the ground at with a slam force of over 5 metric tons

"Good night", said Wayne as he walked on leaving the dead bodies, patches of his own glowing blood, and the glowing shell casings. He didn't enjoy killing but these guys just had to go…he had a personal vendetta against these guys in addition to the mission

5 minutes later in the PSC command center…

"You've got to be kidding me", sighed the commander, "He took down all of them by himself and took down the scouting party and only 1 guy escaped?"

"Yes sir…it appears we underestimated him…", reported the sergeant

"Alright fine, we're supposed to be able to crush any dissidents so this guy's gotta go", said the commander, "Get every available trooper fit for battle armed and out there and tell them to split up and report when they find him so everyone can regroup and take him down and keep me in radio contact with whoever is in charge got it?"

"Yes sir but what about the heavy weapons?"

"Deploy those too but keep me linked to the leaders of the teams…but keep…you know who in reserve"

Meanwhile…

Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore and Ruby had finally managed to get out of the vents and were now working to regroup and since they were badly outnumbered, they had to stay stealthy

The alarm blared loudly startling just about everyone believing they were compromised until the announcement declared to meet in the "lounge" to hunt down an intruder

"Good luck to Wayne, it looks like just about the whole base is moving out", commented Ruby

Sure enough footsteps were heard by everyone and they all immediately hid in the shadows while troopers milled out to the elevators

"Not quite it sounds like they at least left some guards to guard the prisoners so even if we get to Moka it looks like we're fighting a bit after we regroup", replied Mizore

"He said to stay stealthy but honestly I don't think he can last against all of them", muttered Kurumu

"Well…technically I overheard them say they were going to have to split up…", said Yukari, "It seems a bit natural since they don't know his exact location but I think it's safe to assume we're probably going to have to take down a couple guards if we plan to get Moka out of here"

Back upstairs…

The PSC had plenty of troops but the area was HUGE with a lot of hiding spots so as a result they really did have to split up into a few fire teams and had even moved in some heavy ordinance to cover…however some of the teams weren't exactly distributed well

Wayne was hiding in the bushes initially a bit surprised but assessed the situation: there were 2 guys out in the open relaxing against a rock and had apparently stopped from patrol to take a break…Wayne couldn't tell how close their team was but decided he'd have to fight through some people to get there…time to get ready

"Say how would you rate this guy?", one of the troopers asked his comrade placing his rifle down

"What do you mean?", asked the other still holding his rifle at the ready even though he still leaned against the boulder

"I mean you know he just took down a whole battalion single-handedly and the scouting force trying to double back", continued the first

"So…your point is?", asked the second wanting to see where this would go

"Oh nothing I just hope we don't get randomly slaughtered"

"What?"

The first trooper shrugged, picked up his rifle and casually slung it over his shoulder and shifted his weight a bit to his left foot

"I mean wouldn't it suck you know if we're just standing here in the open with no cover while he's got the advantage of surprise and-"

The first trooper's attempt at explanation was cut off when he was impaled through the abdomen by a pulsing energy blade approximately 6 feet in length and a foot wide and began screaming in pain instead

During the troopers' conversation Wayne had calculated he probably didn't have the time to shoot both of them and slip away before the rest of their team found his location so he decided that the quickest and most efficient way would probably be getting out a melee weapon first onto the first guy, take him down quick, and get the second guy before the team already found out so he'd thrown the energy blade at the first trooper and sprinted after it a second later planning to rip it out after the guy was dead and slice the other with its long reach combined with his own arm length

The problem though was that the slight movement made by the trooper shifting his weight to his left foot had prevented Wayne from slicing into his more vital organs with the massive blade by a fraction of an inch. He'd made the blade extra sharp so that meant the slightest miscalculation or change would result in a miss and instead of dying immediately the trooper started screaming in pain while bleeding massively

"You just couldn't go down quick eh?", sighed Wayne ripping the blade from the trooper's dead body and in the process knocking him to the ground, "Too bad, it would've hurt a lot less"

While not very quiet the trooper had gone down since it was still a pretty fatal wound that virtually sliced him in half anyway. The downside was that his comrade had seen the whole thing and was pointing his assault rifle at Wayne and panicking

"Don't make me spray you with bunch of bullets in your general direction!", shouted the trooper in half-panic and half-warning

"What?", asked Wayne not really hearing what the trooper had said very clearly

Either way when Wayne turned his head and asked the question the trooper had closed his eyes, looked away, and randomly sprayed bullets in Wayne's general direction which Wayne easily dodged around to get behind him and slice the hapless trooper in half from his left shoulder to his right hip

"So much for quietly", sighed Wayne turning around, "Oh well as long as they didn't alert any-…ahhh…crap…how in the world did they get something like that?"

Apparently the pair's squad wasn't really too far away and the screaming already alerted them to his presence. Though not all of them did, most of the squads either contained lots of troops without much vehicular armor or a few troops with a lot of vehicular armor. Apparently this squad was one of those WITH vehicular armor and right now a restored and fully loaded German Tiger I tank had already taken aim right at Wayne

"Okay definitely not quiet anymore", grumbled Wayne as he ducked under the 8.8cm shell that sailed over his head and detonated on the boulder raining down rocky chunks

Wayne stood up and barrel-rolled to the right to avoid a second shot, jumped over a third, and landed on top of the tank

"Hey where'd he go?", the tank gunner asked the rest of the crew

"I don't know!", said the driver as did the others

"Peek-a-boo!", said Wayne into the barrel of the tank's cannon and utterly surprising the crew, "I'm up here slow-pokes"

The gunner looked into the scope and saw Wayne, who jammed his armored fist into the barrel, and fired

The 30-pound high-explosive shell launched out from the tank through the cannon at nearly 800 meters per second…right into Wayne's fist and as a result detonated inside the barrel with the explosion consuming both Wayne and the tank. However, unlike the tank and the crew, Wayne was able to recover from the explosion, jumped off the burning skeleton of the tank, and dusted his shirt off

"Whew…man glad this jacket never shreds", sighed Wayne stretching his arms, "Okay well that was definitely NOT quiet right there…time to move anyway so whatever"

Right as he said that, however, three M3 scout vehicles, with .50 Browning machine guns on the top, rolled over the hill and charged at Wayne

"Let's see you dodge this!", shouted the gunner of the lead vehicle spraying in Wayne's direction

"Aw man well…this is gonna hurt", sighed Wayne getting into a martial walking stance and waiting for a few seconds

Wayne ignored the bullets ripping through his body apparently seeing the drivers were clearly planning to run him over so he waited and smashed his fist into the ground a split-second before the first vehicle hit. Doing so essentially made Wayne an impassible boulder which the first 2 cars smashed against at over 90 mph killing the drivers instantly. After a second Wayne stood up, releasing an EMP wave at the same time to stop them from fleeing, and decapitated the 2 gunners with a single swing of his blade which he lengthened a bit to hit them from this distance.

The 3rd driver was a bit smarter and dodged to the side instead but Wayne immediately jumped up and punched the gunner square in the face impaling the hapless man's brain tissue with fragments his own skull. Wayne then jumped off the vehicle and seemingly left while the driver stopped

"Hmm…oh good he missed me", sighed the driver in relief

"Did I?", asked Wayne landing about 5 meters away

"What do you-oh SON OF A B-"

The driver was stopped in mid-sentence by the 4-pound semtex grenade Wayne had planted on the gas tank of the vehicle completely destroying the vehicle in a blast of metal and fire

"Watch your language bub", said Wayne as if scolding a child and wagging his finger, "And don't try to run over me"

Wayne paused and heard what sounded to be whirring helicopter blades

"You…have got to be kidding", sighed Wayne when he turned around to face a Mi-24 attack chopper

"You're gonna leave this world the same way you entered it!", shouted the pilot with unnecessarily loud and angry volume, "Right through the gates of hell!"

"Well technically we don't come from the gates of hell just because we're monsters and demons", said Wayne as if giving a lecture on philosophy, "You see technically we still have mothers here in this world so-"

"SHUT THE HELL UP!", shouted the pilot launching a pair of S-8 80mm rockets at Wayne

"Just trying to make a point", sighed Wayne

The rockets used were typically unguided but on this current model of a Mi-24 apparently the rockets were now guided by heat

Wayne backed up a step then took off in a running step, leapt over the pair of rockets which curved to chase after him and grabbed onto the side of the helicopter right next to the cockpit and opened a private communications channel

"So…I'm guessing the heat-seeking missiles were one of those seemed like a good idea kind of things?", asked Wayne

"GET OFF MY PLANE!", the pilot shouted into Wayne's ears

"'kay fine", shrugged Wayne

Wayne jumped down and the rockets continued to follow but, though they were locked onto him, they needed to arc back and since he'd gone from a low point to a high point the rockets arced vertically upwards instead of downwards. Now he'd just jumped off and the rockets still continued their given trajectory…right towards the helicopter

Underneath of the scene 3 troopers of the same team were wandering aimlessly trying to regroup with the rest of the team

"Hey we just lost contact with most of the team", said the de facto leader, "What do you guys think-"

The leader was cut off when Wayne jumped off the helicopter and crushed the trooper under his armored foot and now had his back to the other troopers

"Oh…hey is that the guy we're supposed to be shooting at?", asked one of the troopers noticing Wayne

"Yes…yes I believe it is", confirmed the second

Both troopers raised their weapons

"Hands up sucker!", shouted one

"Drop your weapon dirtball", added the other

"I HATE MY LIFE!", shouted the helicopter pilot a split second before the missiles crashed into the chopper on their way to Wayne

The helicopter's missiles were designed to pierce heavy armor and, despite its own heavy armor, the helicopter was made to withstand bullets and weaker missiles, not armor-piercing high-explosive missiles built to take down tank armor, and when the rockets smashed into the cockpit the front end disappeared into a blast of fire and flying metal and, with the helicopter now off balance, the wreckage landed on top of the pair of troopers attempting to shoot Wayne killing them instantly

"Okay let's see…2 people screaming their lungs out, giant explosion of tank, 3 explosions of 3 trucks, and now an exploding and crashing helicopter…", recounted Wayne, "Great just great", he complained sarcastically, "This is going to be virtually impossible to be stealthy in now"

Wayne was already aware there were cameras everywhere tracking his movements after he took down the first group but he'd hoped he'd be able to be quick and get away before reinforcements arrived but the downside was the cameras went straight to the command post and they were in radio contact with everyone in the base and while he continued to try to get to a better holdout point, more teams converged on his location

5 minutes later…

"Oh perfect", sighed Wayne

He'd been sitting by the river eating what he could out of everything he stole and, while in the middle of his munching, another team had made it this time composed mostly of infantry with some vehicular support

Wayne sighed, rinsed his hands, stood up, and stared at a team of at least 30-40 troops

"You know the drill: Give up now and we let you live", announced the apparent leader

"Same to you", replied Wayne to which the troopers nervously glanced at each other

"Chew on this piece o' chocolate!", shouted a trooper from behind the leader emerging with a harpoon he immediately threw at Wayne

"Hey uh…why did you bring a harpoon exactly?", asked one of the troopers, "Or make that kind of statement?"

"I dunno, it just seemed a good idea at the time along with a pretty smart quote", shrugged the trooper who threw the harpoon before his eyes bulged in surprise, "Oh son of a-"

While they were conversing the harpoon had sailed towards Wayne and was apparently attached to a rope tied around the trooper's left wrist. Wayne had easily caught it right as the pair's conversation ended and yanked before he could finish his angry statement

The trooper shouted his last word without ever finishing it while he flew towards Wayne and impacted on a fist at almost 80 miles per hour

"Whew should have armored that", mocked Wayne while shaking his hand as if he had actually hurt it

"What now sucker you see all this?", taunted the leader, "To take down all of us you'd need to have some…gun that shoots multiple bullets at once in some sort of a burst or something", he continued slurring the words related to the weapon

(A/N: italicized words FYI, usually it refers to thought in my fanfic but in this particular case: he's slurring his words in some fake accent)

Wayne said nothing and indifferently seemingly pulled his 1024 pellet shotgun from thin air, flipped it around in a show-off manner, mounted it on his shoulder, and aimed. Unlike before where it was a single barrel, Wayne instead gave it the appearance of a multi-barrel shotgun instead giving it a single barrel for each pellet giving it the appearance it must weigh almost half a ton effectively intimidating the troopers standing in front of him

"You were saying?", asked Wayne pumping the lever and aiming straight at the leader

"B-but not that one", said the clearly nervous leader though still trying to keep a clam voice, "That one's… dumb"

Wayne shrugged, "Yeah well who cares about-"

Wayne paused mid-sentence and listened to what sounded like jet engines. He turned to his right then after a brief moment of hesitation slung his shotgun over his back, stuck both hands outwards, dug his feet into the ground, armored his arms and legs, and stopped an F-14A Tomcat in mid-flight about to ram him. F-14A Tomcats were the slowest of their "family" but they could still go close to supersonic speed and, though Wayne managed to stop it in its tracks, if he hadn't armored up he would have probably shattered just about every bone in his body. He'd recover but it took a lot to recover from that kind of injury and if his plan was to work, he was going to need all of the energy he could get.

"What kind of idiot in a freaking fighter jet tries to RAM a target on the ground?", Wayne shouted angrily while still trying to hold back the aircraft

"Yeah well apparently the idiots at the airport refueled it but didn't reload this thing", replied the pilot over Wayne's radio channel, "Either way I'm all safe in my bulletproof cockpit while you're screwed"

Wayne took a glance over his left shoulder and saw that the troopers had apparently expected something like this to happen

"Uh oh"

"Take aim!", commanded the leader

The whole group took aim at Wayne and the downside was that Wayne's weak spot was in fact his left side which was facing the group

Wayne, knowing he had to be quick, gripped the nose of the plane and threw it over his shoulder while attaching the stolen harpoon to the end of it. Assuming the pilot was decently skilled he should be able to continue to fly at less than supersonic speeds since Wayne had made sure not to toss the plane capsized

"I hope this works", thought Wayne while the extra-long rope got shorter and shorter by the plane's pull

"FIRE!", shouted the leader

The troopers fired but by then the rope had finally tightened and Wayne sailed into the air and let go after a sufficient height. Before the troopers could adjust their aim Wayne was up in the air at about 700 feet with his shotgun aimed at the group. The single shot he fired hit every single trooper multiple times ripping through their bodies with ease

Since he hadn't bothered to check his downward velocity nor grown out his wings Wayne smashed into the ground immediately after the last trooper dropped dead

"Awwww…man that hurt", groaned Wayne as his bones realigned themselves and he stood back up

"Oh my god I think I might actually get him…", a very confident trooper with a PTRS-41 rifle sneaking up on Wayne said quietly to himself, "REGH!"

The trooper stood up and fired a bullet at near point-blank range but Wayne, having heard the trooper, tilted his head sideways and the bullet sailed past his ear and ricocheted off a boulder, then several more until smashing harmlessly into the mountain side

"Uhhh…", said the trooper

"Yeah…I'll take that", said Wayne grabbing the rifle and hitting the trooper across the face with it

Wayne had on purposely not hit very hard with the rifle since it wasn't one of his rifles but it was still likely pretty useful albeit a bit bulky

"Next time you're taking a weapon THIS heavy into battle let me say: don't go alone and also don't carry it period", said Wayne since the rifle was nearly 7 feet in length and almost 50 pounds

Wayne checked and found the rifle to still be in good condition although with only a single bullet left

"Well…the rifle itself was already pretty heavy so bringing extra ammo in clips that size would be pretty heavy", deduced Wayne, "Alright let's see what kind of havoc I can wreak with this last shot"

Wayne spotted 4 targets within the rifle's effective range and aimed trying to deduce which one the leader was with no avail. He had one shot but 4 targets, they weren't lined up for him to take out all of them with one shot and even if he took out the leader their moral would be temporarily distorted but these guys could just switch positions based on their rank relatively quick and they'd be able to find his position

Then the trooper Wayne had just hit with the butt of the rifle stood back up with an LAW rocket launcher and attempted to shoot Wayne in the back which Wayne ducked under. He then turned around, grabbed the trooper's knife from his own shoulder pauldron, knifed him in the throat, turned around, aimed briefly, and fired. The high-caliber armor-piercing shell collided with the high-explosive missile detonating it right in the center of the group effectively killing all 4 of them with one shot…

Wayne stopped to admire his work for a bit, downed some chicken broth, the last of his food, and walked away

"Well that went better than expected now time to…"

Wayne heard yet another sound that put him on edge

"No…noooooooo", he complained aloud while he quickly climbed a hill and looked, "Ah no freaking way!", he shouted in frustration

A single F-14A Tomcat had really been a bit of trouble for Wayne. Now there was a trio of F-14A's escorting a pair of F-14D's escorting a trio of AA-10 ground-attack planes

"For crying out loud that's just too much", complained Wayne

The AA-10's were pretty fast but they were nowhere near as fast as the F-14's so the whole group had to slow down and unlike the last one he'd fought, these planes were guaranteed to be loaded. They were still a bit distance off but they would be able to bomb him in 20 seconds so he had 3 options: Run/Fly for it, which he wouldn't be able to do in the short time he had, 2: Try to dodge the bombs and missiles, which was probably unlikely due to the notorious amount of bombs the AA-10's contained and the power of them, and 3: Try to take them out, not very likely but probably the best of the 3 options to be honest if he wanted to avoid as many bombs and missiles as possible

Wayne aimed his "special equivalent" of a Lahti L-39 at the lead F-14A. Those things were faster than bullets and had some pretty tough armor but Wayne had essentially multiplied the already impressive firepower of a Lahti L-39 AT Rifle by well over 100 times

Due to it's weight and size the rifle had lost popularity in militaries but there were still weapons using bullets similar to its size. Back then the rifle weighed over 100lbs and was over 7 feet in length and fired 20mm x 138mm shells and was capable of piercing 30mm of tank armor at about 800 meters depending on the skill of the sniper. Now Wayne's version featured a significantly longer rifle of nearly 10 feet, heavier at nearly 4 metric tons, and much more powerful as, assuming the pilots were particularly skilled, the shots would need to go much faster than merely 800 meters per second. His rifle, like the other weapons he would create off of his own body, would fire straight laser beams at nearly the speed of light and the laser would be about the power of an 800mm high-explosive cannon shot traveling at the speed of light compressed into a beam about the radius of the original rifle's 20mm shells set to explode with the force of the 800mm high-explosive shell

To fire such a strong weapon Wayne needed to armor up for the recoil that would obviously come from it and, though not quite as heavy as his absolute final form, Wayne was heavily armored around his limbs, chest, and his wings also grew so the thrust of his "flight" on the ground would keep him from flying backwards and shattering most of his body's bones requiring major cell regeneration

Wayne took aim at the lead F-14A, fired, and watched with satisfaction as the plane traveling at about half-supersonic speed blew up into flaming debris and the debris also smashed into another F-14A which in turn also smashed the new dead hulk into the 3rd effectively taking down 3 targets with 1 shot

"Those pilots must not be very skilled if they forget to barrel roll away from debris", thought Wayne while he aimed at the rapidly approaching F-14D's

The pilots of the F-14D's were alerted of the danger when the trio ahead of them blew up in flames and barrel-rolled away from each other so as to avoid both being shot down by the debris but Wayne still managed to catch one in the middle of its roll by its nose therefore causing the dead hulk to tumble backwards right into one of the AA-10's causing both to go down in smoke leaving 3 targets: 1 F-14D and a pair of AA-10's

Wayne aimed at the last F-14 but the pilot had anticipated this kind of move and barrel rolled away and the shot missed it but hit the AA-10 behind it instead making the shot not a complete waste at least. The pilot was also clever in deducing that a rifle of that power would create a lot of recoil but didn't realize just how good Wayne was at countering recoil of weapons and didn't even see it coming when a second shot hit the nose of his plane right as he spun out of his barrel roll leaving only the last AA-10 to take down which was almost on top of Wayne by now

Wayne panted and wheezed while aiming at the last AA-10. Since all his weapons, including the rifle, ran on him for "ammo", which was his own energy compressed into a thin beam about the size of certain weapons' bullets, the 4 shots from the powerful rifle combined with his blood loss, battle fatigue, lack of nutritious foods from the stolen rations, and his unfitness, from lack of prolonged battle for such a long period of time, nearly exhausted him while he aimed at the last plane

The pilot was aware of Wayne's "distress" and deduced that the slightest distraction at this point would probably make him lose his focus and completely miss with that over-powered rifle and, though a bit out of range for accurate shots, he wildly fired machine guns at Wayne most completely missing but some hitting Wayne but mostly landing on armored sections. However one part that Wayne didn't armor due to what he presumed to be a "lack of necessity" was his face while aiming down the sights of his rifle

A single shot managed to miss Wayne's armor and avoid impacting on his rifle to hit Wayne right in his right eye which he was using to aim down the sights. The force of the impact would have blown the head clean off of any normal being, except the strongest monsters but, Wayne only stumbled and the tissue grew back almost instantly. The apparent side effect was mainly because the shot had caused Wayne to instinctively pull the trigger of his rifle prematurely and unfortunately for Wayne, he'd also instinctively lowered his right and rose his left resulting in Wayne accidentally shooting himself in the foot with his own powerful rifle. Naturally Wayne wasn't capable of making a weapon powerful enough to kill himself with so the shot wasn't fatal. Unfortunately the shot sent extreme pain through his lower body and, despite his quick healing factor, he lost balance due to the sudden loss of support and before he managed to heal himself and quickly stand back up the pilot had already carpet-bombed the area around him with timed bombs set to latch onto the ground, or a target, and blow up 5 seconds later.

Wayne quickly re-aimed his rifle and shot down the last plane with a well-placed rifle shot just before the bombs all detonated and sent him flying

"Well…at least I got him", said Wayne with a bit of satisfaction biting back the scream of pain that he'd held back from both his accidental self-injury and the bombing run, "Smart strategy. Sending so many at me that I wouldn't be able to prioritize and all of them loaded with that much firepower…but those guys are still pretty fail pilots"

A second later Wayne crashed into the water of the "reservoir" at almost 300mph shattering his spine and, though that would have killed anyone else, Wayne recovered within seconds leaving only a small pool of blood from his previous injury and the compound fracture of his broken spine

"Ugh…oh man…good thing I'm practically indestructible", groaned Wayne as he swam back up to the surface and headed for the relatively nearby shore

When he arrived he began washing the blood off his body a bit more properly and started to wash his left arm but before he could pull out he felt something sharp clamp down on his left arm like a vise except this time, it felt like his arm was being crushed by several tons

"Hey what the heck?", Wayne shouted in alarm

Wayne tried to yank his arm back up but couldn't and only felt some more down force

"What is going on for crying out loud?", Wayne shouted in anger

Suddenly Wayne remembered the pictures he'd been shown before and took a look around. A square kilometer of water and he'd been covered in blood…

"DAAAAAMMMMIIIIIITTTTT!", Wayne shouted before he was dragged under by an unrelenting force

Meanwhile…

"Sir…fighter team Delta is completely KIA sir", reported one of the radio operatives in the PSC control tower

"Damn", cursed the commander, "Did they at least complete their objective?"

"Yes sir we have video footage of him now in the 'pens'", added another operative

"Good", sighed the commander in relief, "But keep the troopers ready just in case this doesn't work"

"Do you really think he's capable of surviving now?", asked one of the guards

"Not likely but it's still possible", replied the commander

The PSC had managed to salvage footage of Wayne's underwater battle with the mermaids near the beginning of the year and had noticed he didn't fight as well in water as he did on land or sky despite the fact that he was still quite capable and was able to breathe the water. Now they'd landed Wayne and some of the blood on his open wounds right inside the "reservoir" which was not a reservoir at all and instead the giant pens of the PSC's carnivorous water creatures that'd been intentionally starved for the sake of this

Wayne stared at the eye of a 25-foot Aumakua shark biting on his left arm and wildly punched with his right arm but to no avail. The thing was just too tough and Wayne wasn't at his best right now from his exhaustion and the fact he was in water where these things dominated, and he didn't. What Wayne needed was something sharp or explosive…or both

"Let go of my arm", growled Wayne as he tipped his wrist upwards

Wayne grew out his signature energy blades from his hands and impaled the massive shark through it's head. He missed the brain but succeeded in injuring and disorienting the beast giving him enough time use his other blade to slice into the shark's heart killing it instantly and allowing him to get out

"That…hurt", thought Wayne

Wayne swam frantically away since he knew that sharks were attracted to the scent of blood and, even though the wound healed, he was covered in it. Unfortunately he couldn't swim fast enough and another shark, about 45 feet in length this time, bit into his knees and carried him away

"Big whoop for you buddy", said Wayne grinning, "NEVER make me bleed"

Suddenly the whole shark exploded into bloody foam seemingly for no reason and the nearby sharks which Wayne couldn't see at the moment, which were also much bigger than the last 2, chose not to attack for a moment while Wayne kept swimming

"Can't these guys give me a break?", Wayne mentally shouted in frustration, "First guys with guns, then guys with vehicles, then attack planes, and now freaking sharks in the water?"

Wayne knew he probably wasn't making it out unless he fought his way out so he stopped swimming and scanned the water with his eyepiece now extended to both eyes looking for sharks while also growing an extra blade in his right hand for extra illumination and as an improvised weapon while his left had held an equivalent of a 50lb semtex bomb. Fighting his way out of any situation was pretty much the only solutions he'd been able to accomplish so far including this situation as since his last underwater battle he'd focused on his swimming and was now able to reach bursts of nearly 15 mph in the water without additional thrust and about 10 mph on a regular swim. Even with his superhuman swimming speed there was still no way he was going to beat a bunch of sharks able to swim at 25 mph or more. Sure Wayne could transform parts of his body to swim better and be able to generate extra thrust but even so, considering the amount he estimated to be in the water, he'd likely accidentally swim right into a shark

Wayne watched around carefully for any of the sharks holding both weapons at the ready while panting a bit. He could breathe underwater but he was facing some pretty hungry predators on their home turf while he was exhausted and all the food he'd packed had fallen out of his parka

Wayne saw a shadow lurking nearby and faced it moving his arms towards him so he would be able to taunt the shark, dodge its lunge, and plant the semtex in its mouth. Unfortunately these sharks came in a pack this time and not one at a time and now Wayne stared at about 6 sharks in front of him instead

"Oh…snap…"

Wayne got ready as all of them charged together and one, about 65 feet in length, immediately bit off his left arm, the one with the semtex, and Wayne shouted in pain but swung around his blade in his right hand and grew it to over 30 feet, longer than he usually made it, and sliced one of the sharks down the middle as it opened up its jaws. He then impaled another with the point of his blade and the shark exploded with the sudden burst of energy he focused into the blade leaving 4 left in the current "pack". He swapped out the large blade for a shoulder-mounted RPG-7 which he managed to keep waterproof and boosted the power significantly and rocket speed as well much like he had used the rifle and his other ranged weapons and also kept his signature 1024 gauge shotgun on his back. He had only one arm still attached to his body so he could only use one at a time using the RPG for longer range and the shotgun for close range

"I know these things can grow based on what they eat but man they must have eaten a lot to reach Megalodon size and bigger"

Wayne aimed and fired a rocket right at a 55 foot shark and promptly blew it to pieces and, since he didn't need to reload, fired at another at about 45 feet in length. That left sharks: a 35 footer and a 60 footer and both were pretty close so Wayne switched to the shotgun and fired once inside the 35 footer's mouth at point blank range effectively blowing it's head off and Wayne was about to fire on the 75 footer when the 65 footer charged back in and rammed and attempted to tear him to shreds but Wayne was able to kick out of its mouth. Wayne remembered this thing ate his left arm…containing the 50 pound bomb and he still had some control over his severed left arm

"You ate my arm", growled Wayne

Wayne hit the detonator and the 65 footer blew up in an explosion matching the sharks he'd used the rockets on and as soon as the interference was clear, his left arm reattached itself to his torso and re-grew the lost tissue from inside the shark's body. Unfortunately that left the 75 footer which, before Wayne could react, swallowed him whole without needing to bite

Meanwhile…

"I think the big one got him", reported the a radio operator in the PSC's control room

The staff in the room began to celebrate until the commander stopped them

"It's too early to celebrate", declared the commander, "We've all seen what this guy can do and let's be honest: He might get out"

"Sir, even if he could, which I doubt, there's still plenty more sharks out there ready to eat him", laughed one of the troopers

"Wait…", said one of the radio operators with his eyes glued to the screen of his security monitor, "You guys better see this…"

Meanwhile…

The inside of an Aumakua shark's body, no matter how big, was essentially all liquid for where the food was supposed to go and as a result, Wayne couldn't get the momentum he needed to smash through the side of the creature and was unable to concentrate his energy to cut or blast out with himself still bleeding and healing from the shark's digestive system attempting to tear him apart while his own body kept healing itself resulting in pain…lots of pain…

"Dammit! Curse these stupid stomach acids and teeth", snapped Wayne smashing aside a sharp "tooth" inside the Aumakua's body

Aumakua shark versions had a quicker digestive system than most fish due to not only their strong stomach acids, but also the various teeth in the hollow parts of their stomachs which would proceed to tear the food apart and allow the acids to dissolve the parts better

Of course, Wayne wasn't in the mood to be lunch but due to the pain he constantly felt he couldn't concentrate enough to cut or blast his way out and the stomach acids were up to his chest in height and, though he was able to recover from the acid burns of the highly acidic substance, the liquid was very viscous and he couldn't get the momentum and so he stopped trying and jumped out, hooked himself to the top of the stomach with no acids, blasted away all the teeth, and prepared his right hand and his feet with sharp blades to cut away at the teeth that were guaranteed to grow back while he focused a bit on a plan

The insides of the shark were pretty dense muscle and about 15 feet thick so even though he could cut through it, it would take a lot of concentration to cut a hole in its side big enough for him to escape. To escape he would need to stop the shark from healing its own wounds by keeping the flesh apart which would take all of his limbs working together and though he could grow some temporary appendages, he wasn't as coordinated with them as his natural limbs

"Okay...cutting or gunning my way out won't work…", concluded Wayne, "It'll take a lot of force to blow it apart even from the inside so I need some giant explosion but I can't focus enough energy to blow it up inside it's stomach…the only place in this thing's body that I CAN blow up now…is the throat…"

Wayne frowned. There was no way this thing was going to let him swim and/or climb through its esophagus into its throat and it wasn't like he could anyway since he was already bleeding profusely and the shark's stomach acids contained strong anticoagulant so even though he could regain cells quick, he had to get out because the constant regaining and losing blood thing was draining his energy pretty fast. Then Wayne thought of a plan that was likely to work and, in a way, pretty humorous since Aumakua sharks could understand human speech. He himself wasn't a human but hey, he spoke various different human languages quite fluently

"Hey big stupid thing", Wayne shouted knowing full well that the Aumakua's sensitive ears could pick up what he was saying while also creating an equivalent of a 20lb semtex bomb in the shape of a grenade which was the best he could do for the moment, "You know what's pretty fun to do?", no response, "Watching relationships end tragically…like Mr. Grenade and his girlfriend Ms Pin", said Wayne tossing the grenade up and down lightly nudging the pin and causing the shark to shudder a bit but still stay calm, "Now Mr. Grenade here isn't the most charming guy since he constantly has temper tantrums", said Wayne shaking the grenade around excessively, "But even so, he's one of those guys who keeps grudges. Now his archrival Mr. Hand here is much more charming", said Wayne waving his hand around and lightly tapping the pin of the grenade, "So…Ms Pin decides to dump Mr. Grenade and go with Mr. Hand here instead…and Mr. Grenade get's pretty upset himself so he has a oh I don't know…temper meltdown if that's the correct term?"

The shark panicked but knew that he had to act and desperately attempted to shove Wayne out of its body with the spines and even opened up its esophagus but what it didn't know was that Wayne could control the timer since it was a weapon he'd made out of his own energy so waited until he was inside the shark's throat. Sure he could just let it let him out but hey, it was a 75 foot bloodthirsty shark and when he made a break for it and detonated it, the thing would come after him again and he wouldn't be able to make another one to break him out. Once Wayne reached the esophagus, he detonated the grenade blowing apart the massive killer shark's head and nearly himself as well but unlike the shark, Wayne's healing involved rapid regeneration of cells, not just particularly hardy cells that could re-stitch themselves together. The difference was that the shark took minutes to recover which wasn't fast enough to save it's vital organs while Wayne recovered in less than a hundredth of a second and easily survived, though with a bit of soreness and with a large quantity of his energy-charged blood swirling around him in a pool and though he was free of the coagulant he chose to bleed for just a bit more and the sharks, thanks to their insane bloodlust, naturally went for him getting into the pool of blood like it was their oxygen

"Alright boys…", said Wayne grinning evilly and thumbing a switch, "Come to Papa!"

1 minute later…

Wayne stood on the shore of the bloody reservoir chewing on a piece of roasted Aumakua shark meat while stuffing as much of the shark "jerky" as he could into his parka. He'd already eaten all of his stolen food and he knew he needed more energy than that and blowing all the Aumakuas in the water up in a giant fiery explosion gave him plenty of dried meat

NOW Wayne was hoping to be able to make it to the predetermined holdout point…except the commander wasn't totally overconfident and had sent some troopers to make sure Wayne stayed dead in the water. Problem for them was: Wayne hadn't exited the water where they predicted and he'd scaled up a cliff and now had a good temporary sniping spot while the guys under him were decently armed but had the wrong weapons for the situation and Wayne had packed at least 30 pounds of the stuff so, even though he still wasn't back to 100%, he could pretty effectively take down these guys from up here…or intimidate them some more

The troopers attempted to fire back at Wayne…mostly with close-range submachine guns and powerful, but high-recoil, assault rifles and apparently some of the more confident and stronger ones had finally transformed but all of them were…golems…sure golems were tough and strong depending on what they were made of but these guys were way below him on the ground without heavy rocks to chuck at him and were made of stone…actually not even stone…they were about 20 feet tall but they were made of talc…one of the weakest minerals on Moh's mineral hardness scale and golems were much better suited for close range combat even if they had some heavy rocks to throw

Wayne wasn't one to underestimate them so he decided to fire back and took down some of the better equipped guys with sniper rifles first and then some golems just as a precaution that they were more intelligent and decided to work as a team and throw each other up the cliff…he'd ran into quite a few tactical genius golems and those encounters weren't very pleasant…especially the metal ones who stood over 100 feet tall when they got angry, had very short tempers, were tactically clever even when extremely mad, and were just generally tough to beat period…but apparently this didn't seem to be the case when they all went down in a few seconds and, of the original 50-man force, only about 20 remained all their comrades down with headshots from the equivalent of 7.62x5.4mm rifle bullets traveling at about the speed of light while the golems had about 5 shots in their limbs and heads. The rifle and power were scaled a bit down in order to not waste energy Wayne was certain he'd need later even if he had some extra food

Wayne looked down at the guys still trying to fire at him wildly. When he'd scaled up the cliff he'd used his wings to help him somewhat fly up while still climbing to save some energy and his wingspan, even with the scaled down version of them in his human form, still reached about 20 feet wide and essentially made him 12 feet tall thanks to the size of them. He didn't shrink them back in order to give these guys a bit of a fighting chance by giving them a bigger target, even if their targets were made of a material over 1000 times stronger than titanium which could also re-grow at will anyway. The thing though was all the snipers were gone and now the guys currently had some pretty bad close-medium range weapons that they weren't even burst firing to compensate for the recoil

"Ah man this is really making start to feel like a thug and bully", sighed Wayne, "These guys can't even hit a target this big when they have weapons that potentially could reach this range if they aimed and burst fired"

Wayne aimed his rifle at a trooper then aimed at a spot that would be a good 3 feet from him and fired bullets in a perfect circle with a 3 feet radius around the guy

"I'll start hitting you", warned Wayne even though the guy probably didn't even hear him due to his and his comrades' loud weapons

"Fall back! FALL BACK!", the trooper shouted and sure enough everyone did

"Huh…I guess that guy must have been their leader…should have done that earlier, it would've saved me some energy from having to fire all those times", deduced Wayne while he jumped off the cliff into the valley, and sprinted towards his original destination

After about 10 minutes of straight sprinting, and having a few skirmishes with different groups of troopers, Wayne stopped again to eat briefly and look up. Apparently the commander of this group was not a complete idiot and his troops had set up yet another entrenchment to try and hold him off. Basically a wall of concrete with machinegun emplacements all over the place

"Haha! What now sucker!", the troopers inside the emplacement shouted and prepared to fire

Wayne stared at the wall. To be honest, concrete was a tough building material but based on the location they built it on…not really

"Right…well while you guys are trying to aim may I suggest you guys get some better engineers?", asked Wayne, "I mean really, you guys built the wall on an eroded cliff overlooking a river, sure it gives you some decent lines of fire but didn't you consider that since there's literally no support under your 'fortress' it might fall?"

The "fortress" was built on a small Cliffside about 10-20 feet above a river leading to the reservoir. The cliff may have been largely solid before but now only a small thin layer of rock of the original cliff was holding the fortress above the river. The water eroded the solid Cliffside and now the once mighty fortress was likely to fall pretty soon

Apparently the troopers didn't care and just aimed at Wayne

"Any last words?", asked the captain of the fortress

Wayne took one last look at the fortress and shrugged

"Yeah…have a nice fall", said Wayne

Wayne picked up a pebble and placed it on his left palm, took aim, and flicked the pebble right at the fortress. As soon as it hit the vibrations shattered the rock of the eroded Cliffside. The rock finally gave way and the fortress toppled down into the river uncontrollably and therefore making the solid infrastructure completely pointless to the forces of gravity. The impact resulted in the accidental firing of the firearms stored in the little fortress and the accidental fire hit the ammunition boxes and fuel resulting in a chain reaction as every flammable object exploded the whole fortress inside-out

"Wow…that was pretty easy", commented Wayne while climbing a nearby hill, "Now it's time to…no…NOOOO way"

As usually for everything Wayne created from his own energy, a powered-up scoped Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 magnum pistol appeared in his hand in a small flash of golden particles rushed together molecule-by-molecule as the focused energy transformed into solid mass. Wayne didn't fire and just held it at his side as he stared at the force arrayed in front of him. A Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 was one of the world's most powerful handguns but what this would probably require a bit more firepower…

It wasn't as large as the first force but clearly more deadly. At least 50 troopers on foot armed not with automatic assault rifles and submachine guns, this time the troopers were armed with M79 Grenade Launchers, RPG-7's, LAW's, Javelin missiles, and high-caliber rifles all within the .50 caliber BMG bullets of 14.5mm bullets but there were more than just foot soldiers…The PSC mercenaries had brought in vehicles. Among them were a quintet of Tiger II Tanks, 7 T-35 Tanks, a pair of M-4 Sherman Tanks, 9 M8 Greyhounds, 5 BTR-80's 70's and 60's each, and 3 M-26 Pershing Tanks. Then to prove Wayne was really cursed: 7 Mi-24 Hind Helicopters, 5 Mi-28 Hind Helicopters, 3 Kamov Ka-50 Helicopters, 7 "Super Cobra" Helicopters, 5 MH-53 Pavelows, a trio of AH-64 Apache Helicopters, and 3 AV-8B Harrier II's in VTOL with fuel lines attached directly to ground fueling stations

"HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET THESE THINGS?", Wayne shouted in frustration, "What did you do? Go to a bunch of international military bases and teleport them back here? …oh…yeah never mind you probably did…", he recalled having read the status of all the vehicles from various military bases around the world

"Whoever it is you are, give up", warned the apparent leader of the group holding an RPG with one hand casually while the others held theirs at shoulder level, "We've got all sorts of stuff here that can totally get you I mean hey we've got heavy weapons, tanks, armored cars, choppers, and some jets and uh…wait for it"

It looked like the mercenaries kept a vehicle depot and armory directly under the base and Wayne raised an eyebrow at the fact that a perfect copy of the infamous 800mm Schwerer Gustav railway gun raised from the ground

"Haha! What do you think of that eh?"

The troopers looked confused when he saw Wayne just yawn

"So…that's it? No nukes or anything of the sort so if I destroy those things I'll be responsible for murder of everyone else in a 10 mile radius?", asked Wayne flipping his pistol casually around his index finger

"Huh?", demanded the leader

"Well…for one thing your helicopters are in a tight-knit phalanx formation which wouldn't be so bad aside from the fact that you can't maneuver in such a small place and they can't all fire at the same time", suggested Wayne, "Your infantry are standing right outside of the tank phalanx instead of inside which would honestly be a better idea, your tank phalanx is essentially cornered and unable to retreat or advance since you've got that railway gun blocking the back and if you go forward you'll run over your own infantry. Oh and you decided to VTOL your Harrier jets and connect them to a fuel source in the ground which is not very well covered and the Railway Gun is umm…a railway gun for a reason because it needs to be on a railway and moving or if it's not moving it has to be entrenched because the recoil will topple it over and it can't have a clear target so…to be honest that is a lot of firepower but you aren't exactly using it very efficiently…"

Apparently the troopers, being only troopers and not engineers nor battlefield tacticians, didn't even understand a single word Wayne said and just stared

"Right…well you gonna surrender?", asked the leader

"No", said Wayne flatly internally laughing at the fact these guys were just wasting their time and resources with firepower and not even caring about efficiency or effectiveness

"Dammit I was sure all this would get him", grumbled the leader, "Oh well blast him to-"

The trooper never finished his order when literally his whole body exploded into a cloud of blood, flesh and bone with nothing left except a pool of blood while the rest of his body had simply been blasted to pieces and spread far away

"Oh my god…", panicked one of the troopers who actually WAS intelligent and realized the amount of power that had to have been put into that shot to completely destroy someone so badly, "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! HE CAN KILL US ALL WITH THAT!"

Wayne fired again and the trooper suffered a similar fate. Sure Wayne was really overdoing it by packing all of that power into a single pistol he could hold with one hand but the rifle didn't intimidate them for some reason so he figured that the pistol with the power of the rifle he'd used earlier on the fighter squadron should send them into a panic. He also didn't have the time to recalibrate every time he fired so he needed enough firepower to take down all the strongest of all those vehicles which would also be able to dispatch the rest, the upside was that nothing would be able to stand up to him now but that was going to cost quite a bit of energy

"Okay that didn't quite get them so fine let's see about this…"

Wayne fired twice and shot down one of the Apache Helicopters and one of the Tiger II's almost simultaneously. That got them into a panic and immediately everyone attempted to run for their lives but Wayne's words were prophetic: The Helicopters couldn't fly out because of how close they were together, the tanks couldn't retreat or advance, the infantry were sitting ducks from the falling debris of helicopters, and since the Harriers were in VTOL: They couldn't even move. Even the railway gun attempted to fire but Wayne was right about that too: It didn't have a clear target and cut an apocalyptic swath through the helicopters' formations but since there was nothing to hold it down from the recoil: it fell over onto its side and pointed harmlessly into the air. In less than 10 seconds Wayne was pretty tired again and was almost out of his supply of food but every tank, trooper, jet, and chopper were all shot down…except for one Apache Helicopter

"Time to run like a little girl screaming!", panicked the pilot when his copilot died even though the chopper itself was still fine

With nothing to block it the helicopter immediately attempted to flee towards the water and Wayne gave chase on foot

"Gotcha", said Wayne smugly firing once

"I'll get you!", the pilot shouted a split second before the helicopter exploded

Wayne just waited a few seconds and about 20 seconds later the pilot, still alive and relatively good shape, crawled out and shook his head not seeing Wayne

"Yeah…I…I'm okay!", exclaimed the trooper in joy, "I'll be…the one sole surviving soldier to tell this tale of greatness! And I'll be a hero and-"

"Ahem", coughed Wayne aiming the pistol, "I'm right here you know"

"AH SCREW THIS I'M RUNNING!", shouted the pilot taking off in a mad sprint

"Hmm…well it's only one guy and that was a pretty big drain fighting off all those guys with this kind of fire power", observed Wayne, "He's not worth the energy…"

Wayne re-absorbed the pistol and considered chasing him on foot and beating the stuffing out of him when he looked behind him and smiled at a much more interesting idea

The trooper kept sprinting and paused to catch his breath when he noticed Wayne not chasing him

"Oh good", he sighed with relief just before his eyes bulged out of their sockets in shock, "NOT GOOD!"

The trooper was promptly "eaten" by the mouth of the corpse of one of the giant Megalodon sized sharks Wayne had just fought but Wayne hadn't destroyed the body completely and had thrown the corpse like a ball and the trooper was promptly crushed by the speed of the massive body running into him. The thing's brain was dead but the shark's insides were still relatively intact and alive so the trooper was essentially digested alive

"Oooo…ouch that didn't go exactly as planned", commented Wayne since he was just planning to crush the guy quickly and not have him digested alive slowly and painfully and not be able to get out like Wayne had, "Well at least the job's done…let's hope he passes out before he gets to the worse parts past the stomach and has time to realize the bad things he's done in life"

"I'll show you to use me for transportation!", shouted the vengeful pilot of an F-14A flying at Wayne at nearly 400 mph to guarantee that he would be able to control the jet enough to hit Wayne accurately

Right before the plane collided with Wayne the pilot looked around in confusion

"Hey…where'd he go?", he wondered

"Did yah miss me?", asked Wayne's voice on the radio

The pilot looked up and saw Wayne was on the right side of the plane right next to the cockpit and was giving him the middle finger

"Huh? How did you get there?", panicked the pilot

"Well if you want to splatter me then don't go below the speed of sound in a supersonic jet or you'll never get me since I can go even faster than that anyway", suggested Wayne, "Anyway I've got somewhere to go and you've got my ride", he said shifting to be in front of the cockpit and grabbing the Plexiglas cover

"Hey what are you doing?", panicked the pilot

"Well this is the only way to get inside so…"

20 seconds later…

A surviving tank driver crawled from the ruins of one of the M-26 Pershing tanks and coughed a bit while standing up

"I did it…I survived!", the survivor cheered jumping up and down ecstatically, "What now? In your face you tried but didn't kill me-"

The sole survivor was cut off mid-sentence during his cheering when the pilot of the F-14A Wayne just hijacked crashed on top of him killing both of them instantly

"Ouch", commented Wayne while he threw away the severed cockpit and resumed flying leaving a trail of his own blood from a wound he would need to more properly heal later although it would probably still be necessary for his plan anyway, "Okay you know what, forget the holdout point it's been a couple hours and since they know the layout they probably are already there…the others better be quick because this is really getting tougher and tougher"

Right as Wayne finished his sentence to himself a trio of F-14D's flying in perfect wedge formation flew behind him and he just shrugged. F-14D's possessed superior firepower, maneuverability, and flight speed to F-14A's and, despite being outdated, they were still among one of the best fighter planes in the world in a dogfight. However…

"Haha you guys can have all the tech you want, you're STILL suckish pilots!", taunted Wayne into the plane's radio referencing when he'd taken down a trio of them on foot about an hour ago

One of the F-14D's locked a missile onto Wayne and Wayne waited for a heartbeat before accelerating to full speed to break missile-lock and left the missile in the jet wash. As predicted: Another missile was soon heading towards Wayne from another F-14D and Wayne attempted the same tactic but apparently it didn't work. Wayne made quick mental calculations as to the approximate speed of the missile to his own velocity and counted about 15 seconds to intercept.

"Haha this guy is so dead", laughed one of the pilots to his comrades

"Yeah…Hey Moron! Suckish pilots eh? Well just try and dodge that! Haha!", added the other mocking Wayne in the radio, "Who needs piloting skills when you can just get a missile and watch it chase someone ha!"

"I think he's mad…", warned a third pilot

"Eh who cares, he's doomed anyway", replied the second pilot who mocked Wayne on the radio

However Wayne still had a few tricks up his sleeve and waited a moment. He would need precise timing for his plan to work and also some luck that the plane would be able to bear such stress so he waited for 14 seconds before suddenly jump-accelerating back to near full speed, pulling back on the joystick and turning the plane upside down and then flipping back over doing a perfect Immelmann loop and heading straight for the formation of F-14D's at the near super-sonic speed of 670mph which was the absolute LAST thing the pilots were expecting and didn't have any time to fire while Wayne charged right at their formation and then suddenly spun his plane sharply into a 90 degree sideways angle and flying right between a pair of F-14D's. Lucky for Wayne the F-14A DID manage to withstand the obvious stress for such a maneuver at such a high speed, unluckily for the F-14D's…

"Have fun trying to dodge that! 'Who needs piloting skills when you can just get a missile and watch it chase someone blah blah blah' Well to answer your question: YOU ARE!", laughed Wayne re-aligning himself as soon as he was past

The missile had stayed locked onto Wayne even during his unexpected Immelmann turn and had tracked him all the way at nearly the same speed as he was flying. Wayne's sharp rotation when he flew in-between the pair of F-14D's resulted in him not having to realign his flight trajectory while the missile kept following him. As a result it still followed his path but when he re-righted himself back up the missile continued to chase the same path but now there was another thing in its way: The F-14D that had fired the missile and whose pilot had mocked Wayne on the radio. The surprise of the maneuver, combined with the lack of proper piloting skill, caused the debris of the plane to slam into another plane before the others barrel-rolled away to safety and Wayne turned around to face them. Now however, Wayne had a missile lock on one of the planes already!

"Nighty night bub", said Wayne pulling the trigger to release a missile…except nothing happened and the F-14D pilot, taking advantage of the F-14D's superior speed and maneuverability, broke missile lock by speeding away and breaking right

"What the heck?", shouted Wayne in confusion and frustration checking the ammunition to find it all empty when he noticed a dent on the nose of the plane he had missed and sighed, "Boy this sucks…"

The plane he had just hijacked and was flying right now was the SAME plane that hadn't been loaded with ammunition and was the SAME plane that had tried to ram him a few hours ago which he'd stopped with his bare hands and thrown away casually…This was a pretty awkward situation: A single, battered F-14A with no ammunition vs a trio of superior F-14D's that were fully loaded…

Wayne sighed, he was low on tactical options and the best plan probably wasn't a good one: His best bet would be trying to fight like pre-WW1 fighter planes using one hand to control the plane while firing with his other hand but those weren't exactly very fast planes as compared to this plane that was capable of supersonic speed and at this point: they were all fighting in a enclosed area at over 500mph so control was critical, especially for when the F-14A was pretty battered and, as if to frustrate Wayne even more, with slowly responding vertical elevators after his previous maneuver and damage the plane had already sustained. Then Wayne looked out of the cockpit window realized that maybe he DID have an extra tactic but it was going to be tricky

Wayne had noticed a bare glint on one of the canyon's walls and when he looked closer he could see TV monitors and people milling about and deduced that was how they constantly found his location: They had a control center. If he jumped out of the cockpit and attempted to shoot while flying he wouldn't have much chance and the F-14D's could prove difficult targets due to their constant strafing, but if he got rid of the plane and the F-14D's couldn't change direction…he could probably take them down quickly AND get rid of the control center…if he timed it right

"Worth a shot", Wayne decided while banking hard right straight towards the glint he'd seen earlier

Meanwhile…

"Sir, That plane he managed to hijack has sustained heavy damage and has no ammunition I'm telling you that our own fighters can handle it and there is no need to go on the ground personally to command what's left of our forces to take him on in another ground assault", advised one of the commander's subordinates, "We should just wait here and watch him get taken down and enjoy the show"

"You've seen what he's capable of", replied the unfazed commander walking towards the elevator, "We've also been tracking his power since he entered the base even up to now as compared to his full strength: He came into the base at just barely 7 or 8% of his total power apparently having been deprived food, water, or rest for a fortnight while fasting, fighting our stealth groups, and working, now he's at just above 2% power and maybe now we can stand a chance on the ground since he is clearly a capable pilot even with a battered plane or just flying with his powers and we don't have many fighters to counter him there"

(A/N: Fortnight=2 weeks I decided to do that just to make the guy sound more formal)

"Stealth groups sir?", asked the subordinate

"That's why we didn't attack them earlier, we needed information and they always just happened to disappear with their bodies reappearing in front of our doorstep from blunt trauma wounds and lacerations with traces of just pure energy…and these weren't just random guys off the street they were among our best: A Class monsters also capable of stealth", muttered the commander, "After seeing his attacks, I've concluded that he took them all down…since there were multiple groups at once who were all killed, I've concluded that he's spent the last 2 weeks not eating or drinking and only fighting while simultaneously gathering information on US. He's weakened now so we might stand a chance", the commander finished finally entering the elevator and about to head down

"Stay safe sir", replied his second in command

"You too", said the commander a split second before the doors closed and he rode down

"You in command now?", asked one of the analyzers to the lieutenant

"Yes", replied the lieutenant, "At least until he finishes down there…what's wrong?"

"Well umm…you know that guy with the totally battered plane who is also bleeding a lot out of an open cockpit?"

"Yeah?"

"Well…his plane is on fire…", said the analyzer nervously

"Well that should be good!", exclaimed the lieutenant, "What's wrong about that? He's gonna blow up soon!"

"Yeah he seems to know that and he's kind of making a kamikaze charge right at us now…with some C-4 strapped to the plane too…"

"Oh well that shouldn't be to-WAIT WHAT?"

The lieutenant sprinted forward and looked out the glass observation window and saw that Wayne was indeed speeding towards the control room with his plane apparently rigged to create a MASSIVE explosion

Meanwhile…

"Hello boys", said Wayne preparing to jump off the speeding plane, "I'm baaaaaaack!"

Wayne jumped off the F-14A just as it impacted into the control booth. The C-4 packs were rigged with red phosphorus as well which exploded from sudden pressure and since the plane smashed into the room at over 550mph, the red phosphorus ignited and caused a chain reaction which set off the C-4 AND the fuel. The F-14D's, not aware of Wayne's plan, were caught by surprise and were unable to change direction and one plane flew right into the explosion being blown up itself by it and Wayne, riding the explosion, appeared in the place of the lead F-14D, aimed 2 of his custom pistols, of the same power he'd made them while taking down the vehicle phalanx earlier, and fired with precise shots shredding the F-14D's to pieces and exploding them almost immediately after from the explosive rounds themselves, and the fuel tanks

"Gotcha", said Wayne proudly admiring his work briefly before focusing on landing

Since there was no time for Wayne to spread his wings and attempt flight to counter his downward velocity Wayne smashed into the ground…again

"Ugh oh man that hurt", groaned Wayne as his bones realign themselves and healed after having been dislocated from the fall and then took a quick look around, "Ohhhh…no"

Wayne had fallen in probably the worst spot to be in this whole place: A smaller valley with about a 50 meter radius with one exit and a wide open terrain. Normally this would probably be a good fallback point except that the one exit was blocked by several hundred troopers…and probably thousands of troopers were around the rim of the valley all aiming at him with heavy weapons and vehicles all of which and whom were able to fit and be able to fire due to makeshift raised platforms above. Sure he'd normally be able to take them down pretty easy but the lack of energy was not really helping in this situation…the weird thing was that they hadn't fired yet

"What are they waiting for?", wondered Wayne taking a 360 degree look to see that he was indeed surrounded and had the low ground

Then Wayne noticed the troopers blocking the exit stand aside to let out a single man who, at least by human standards, would be very handsome and tall at about 6 foot 1, black hair, brown eyes, and a face that essentially would make any woman think he were prince charming. Wayne could see this guy was likely a leader of this group based on how they reacted to him and saw that he had clearly earned his position via merit due to several scars along his neck and hands, he couldn't tell how strong he was but he was likely pretty powerful due to his rank

The man walked up to Wayne, along with a large group of troopers jumping down from the rim to be able to surround Wayne in close quarters as well, and looked up to make eye contact with Wayne which seemed a bit ludicrous due to Wayne's extra bulk, height, and horribly injured appearance compared to the relatively average and pristine man who was the apparent leader

"I must give you my complements and congratulations", began the leader of the group very formally, "I am the commander of the PSC mercenaries whenever Kuyou and his lieutenants are away and I request to know your name"

"Wayne", replied Wayne, "But why ask? I'm sure you already know since you guys keep a census of the whole place"

"We need to make sure it's you and since we can already hypothesize your mission we believe we can negotiate", explained the commander

"Hmm…well you've been trying to kill me for the best part of the morning and afternoon so…why should I negotiate?", asked Wayne, "After all, since you know of me now, you know I'm associated with one of your rivals and additionally I've heard that you pure-blooded stick-ups hate outcasts like me", added Wayne

"Maybe but you've proven yourself to be worth attempting peace with and respecting", answered the commander

"Ah BUT you attempt to murder me and my friends for 2 weeks with assassins when you discover our capabilities, you insult us at every turn, you abuse your power, AND you attempt to disband us as a group and yet you choose to stop because I'm strong?", growled Wayne with irritation

The commander was clearly getting irritated at this point

"You aren't even a real monster!", declared the commander, "Sure, you're stronger than many of us but you were a filthy human yourself once who got his genes re-written and became born of a tank rather than like us!", he shouted angrily, "And you are not even in a place to negotiate", he added pointing out the many troops surrounding Wayne on different levels

Wayne rolled his eyes but secretly checked his communications unit

"Well I've beaten plenty of your poor comrades easily this afternoon and besides that you don't even KNOW my mission", said Wayne

"Oh? Don't we?", the commander half-asked and half-mocked, "Based on your connections we've deduced that you are attempting to break out your friend Moka and together you two plan on saving your other mutual friend Tsukune from execution. Well allow me to show you something"

The commander pulled a data pad from his pocket and tapped a few buttons to reveal it was actually a holographic display and tossed it onto the ground between himself and Wayne

"Vampires are allergic to water and as soon as they touch it, they get paralyzed and in large bodies of water, they drown due to being unable to swim out"

The hologram revealed several troopers, the apparent guards, downed by various claw marks, icicles piercing their bodies in many ways, golden basins on the ground, vines, and various other plants sprouting from the ground while an apparently free Moka was standing alongside Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore, and Ruby and Kurumu was talking into what appeared to be a mobile radio. The sight of the scene shocked the camera greatly

"Mhm…right okay now get yourselves out and get to the courtyard, make sure you're at least 50 meters from the building in 3 minutes got it?...Okay good luck to you too I'll see you later", Wayne said into his radio headset before hanging up and the hologram Kurumu did the same

The commander and the troopers looked up at a grinning Wayne in shock. This was certainly not what they were expecting

"Yep, that's right. You guessed my mission wrong", said Wayne still grinning, "I was never the romantic hero to directly save his friends or die trying, I was just the distraction for others to save them and it worked: You guys went after me while they were all safe and sound and all they had to fight were those poor guys over there"

5 minutes ago…

After crawling through an extremely complex maze of ventilation pipes very slowly to avoid detection and following Wayne's map, Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore, and Ruby finally dropped out of the ventilation shafts not 10 feet apart from each other and at the end of the hallway that would lead to Moka's detainment center. All of the guards were posted externally but there were only a few of them who were easily defeated quickly and since virtually everyone in the entire base was about 30 floors above them, nobody heard their frantic calls for help. The newspaper club was lucky that they'd ran into a group of 7 rookies who barely even knew how to operate their equipment and therefore completely avoided injury

In the cage Moka heard gunshots, shouts of surprise and pain, and wood splintering and began to smell some flora and felt a bit cold so she took a look and saw a raven fly up

"What?"

"Stand back", warned the raven

Moka followed the phenomenon's advice and was amazed when the virtually unbreakable bars simply bended away into a hole as if they were made of thin plastic. Moka jumped down, careful to avoid the water, and the raven flew around the corner briefly. For a moment Moka still saw the raven's shadow but then it seemed to change and grow until she saw the shadow of what looked like a human. The shadow's owner walked around the corner and Moka saw none other than Ruby Toujo

"Long time no see", said Ruby grinning ear to ear

"Ruby!", exclaimed Moka in joy and surprise before she suddenly took a look of confusion, "But…how?"

"It wasn't just me", explained Ruby pointing behind Moka's shoulder

Moka turned around and saw Yukari, Kurumu, and Mizore walk up from behind. Yukari had a bright and cheerful face, Kurumu had a completely cold expression refusing to look Moka in the eye, and Mizore still looked mostly indifferent but seemed to be bordering anger

"It took a bit to sneak in here and take out those guards but we made it", said Mizore keeping her gaze

"No kidding, it was exhausting", sighed Yukari putting the back of her hand to her forehead for emphasis

"You came!", exclaimed Moka happily

Kurumu barged through Yukari and Mizore and walked up to Moka who looked down and prepared for what she was sure was coming. Sure enough Kurumu struck her hard across the face and sent her to the ground…except it didn't seem the hit was out of anger like she was expecting…

"What are you spacing out for?", asked Kurumu looking up abrubtly, "We have to save Tsukune don't we?"

"Kurumu…"

"Even though I'm still angry with you for keeping Tsukune's secret when we had a right to know…you were both in trouble and we look after our own", finished Kurumu

Moka began to apologize when Ruby interrupted

"Now is not the time to be apologizing and making up, we have to get out of here", explained Ruby, "We'll give you some details later but we have to go"

"Right, Moka you can apologize for everything later after we save Tsukune", added Kurumu, "Actions speak louder than words. If you're really sorry then you can at least help us"

"It doesn't matter if he's a human", added Ruby, "Sure, he's different but he's proven himself to be just as compassionate and honorable as the best of us"

"He saved all of us even when he knew we could easily just thrash him", continued Kurumu, "Face it, we owe him our lives and he's never thought negatively of us even after what we did to him"

"Yeah…it looks like we finally understand that ourselves", added Mizore, "Either way let's go!"

Everyone agreed and began to sprint out this time taking the elevators since there was no more need for stealth

"Hey Wayne, we're done here and heading up top. You might want to yourself if you're still alive", Kurumu said into the radio, "Don't worry we'll be out in less than 2, good luck to you"

Back to the present…

Wayne wasn't doing very well anymore. Due to their positions, everyone could fire and wouldn't need to aim, all the troopers had to do would be to fill the area with bullets, shrapnel, and explosions and they were pretty much guaranteed to hit Wayne while Wayne was having trouble aiming back and firing due to the sheer volume of destructive power all around him

The commander had decided to ignore Wayne and pursue the others instead but Wayne wouldn't let him and had turned him around and punched him in the stomach. However, whatever it was that the commander was enabled him to take quite a bit of punishment and he only stumbled instead of breaking anything and was still capable of ordering everyone to fire together while he retreated to attack the others. Of course: Wayne wasn't going to let that happen

Wayne was still under heavy fire but charged headfirst towards the direction the commander had just fallen back while everyone fired together. Wayne left a long trail of blood but kept charging and the commander knew it and shifted direction and forced Wayne to run in circles for a whole minute while continuously getting shot. After about a minute Wayne finally caught up but then immediately fell to his knees from the extreme blood loss he suffered from the multiple wounds all over his body that he could only partially heal at a time due to the fact they were only reopened by fresh attacks. The commander ordered a cease-fire and walked up to Wayne

"Rather than insult me you should have tried to negotiate", sighed the commander, "That way you would have avoided having to suffer such pain, normally you'd be able to easily fight through all of us but I've watched you: You can recover from virtually any injury but constant-sustained damage will whittle you down and you can only recover so long as you don't succumb to exhaustion like now"

Wayne said nothing and glared upward

"Pity. You could have been a valuable asset to us but I suppose not anymore", finished the commander, "Goodbye"

Similar to Wayne's own energy blades the commander extended a trio of solid blades from his right hand except this time: It was shorter like a set of claws growing from his fingers rather than wrist, it didn't hum or pulse like Wayne's blades but crackled instead and were yellow rather than pale blue

"Lightning blades…short claws about 30cm long…Raiju presumably wolf right?", asked Wayne as the commander approached him, "And I'm assuming you have an older brother who is higher in rank but of the same species as well with blue claws?"

"Yes that is correct", confirmed the commander with fangs growing from his canines and hair spiking up, "Since you absolutely refused to surrender peacefully I suppose you want to go down fighting so let's see how well you fight with death itself"

Without any further warning the commander plunged the claws through Wayne's skull and grew the claws inside of Wayne's body effectively impaling him and sending a billion volts of electricity into him with 200,000 amperes of current essentially simulating a bolt of lightning inside Wayne's whole body

After about 10 seconds of the continuous stream of electricity the commander stopped and Wayne collapsed smoking with some remnants of electricity still glowing around him

"That should put you down for good", said the commander with satisfaction turning around, "Okay boys we have a prisoner to stop from escaping so let's get to it

Suddenly a hand reached up and grabbed his shoulder forcing the commander to turn and stare in shock. There was Wayne with blood gushing from various open wounds and parts of his skin charred but still alive and half grinning and half snarling. That was what the commander saw before Wayne's own energy blade impaled his abdomen and Wayne held him on while keeping him alive while the troopers stared in shock

"That was the best you could do?", laughed Wayne, "To be honest, even in my current state I could have recovered from that faster if I wanted to and second: I know a guy who can inflict over 10 times that power by snapping his fingers casually. He's even defeated other lightning creatures by roasting them with even more lightning than they could handle and…", Wayne smiled even more darkly, "We may be allies but I've been able to withstand some of the worst he could dish out when I've been in even worse condition than this"

"No…you're bluffing! There's no way you could survive that!", protested the commander

"Oh?", asked Wayne, "Even so, I'm sure you watched the underwater monitors while I was in that reservoir and I'm sure you were a bit surprised when you noticed the sudden explosion right?"

The commander didn't answer but Wayne could tell that he was from his eyes

"Well my friend: My blood contains super-condensed energy in every single drop which can all be released upon my will in a giant explosion. A single molecule of it contains the power of 500 metric tons of dynamite and you folks caused me to bleed all over this place and my blood was absorbed and spread around in the ground…especially here"

Wayne held up his left hand and it turned out that it held a button on a switch with a skull and crossbones symbol on it

"You asked how well I fought with death itself. As you can see I made it, how about you?", Wayne asked calmly and coldly while pressing the button exactly 3 minutes after hanging up from the radio call

Meanwhile outside the base and behind the mob in front of the main building…

"The next part of the plan was to wait until Wayne broke Tsukune's fetters from a long distance", Ruby explained to Moka

"On the radio he said to be outside in 3 minutes and we still haven't seen him", added Kurumu

"Well he said long distance", replied Mizore, "Either way we need to be ready to charge in and save Tsukune as soon as he's freed before those goons get him"

Right as Mizore finished her sentence there was a small flash behind them and, curious, the group turned around just in time to see the air shimmering in front of them with hexagonal patterns around a giant crater right where the PSC stronghold just was

"What…happened?", asked Moka

"I energy shielded the area around the base before we went in so that nobody would hear the explosion and the flash would be a lot duller", said a male voice

The group turned around and were all shocked when they saw Wayne seemingly unharmed and casually leaning against a wall

"Wait…how did you-", everyone began to sputter together

"Hey, I blew up the whole base but I'm a fast flyer. I stayed behind during the explosion to make sure the whole place was destroyed and then I just flew out", explained Wayne, "Either way there are troopers in that crowd and in the building there still so get behind the crowd and get ready to move in"

"What about you?", asked Moka

"Well…I'm going to head up to the roof of the main building, blast my way through any remnants, and take down those chains when reach the top and calculate the necessary power to break them", explained Wayne

There were only a few minutes left so Wayne took off immediately before anyone else could say anything but everyone knew what to do…they just hoped it would work

While everyone else was outside waiting Wayne was inside the main building fighting through what was left of the initial PSC mercenary force. Since he'd taken down their whole base these guys were just the ones who were assigned to make sure everyone watched the execution by forcing everyone out of the building. The execution was to happen in only a few minutes so when Wayne charged in mowing all of them down without remorse, they were completely taken by surprise

Due to lack of time Wayne completely ignored avoiding collateral damage and energy efficiency. What he needed was speed and that's what he was doing: Charging through the building at about 20mph wielding 8 40-barrel Gatling Guns grown from his arms like a pair of submachine guns firing fully automatically at anything that moved pouring over a million anti-materiel, high-explosive, armor-piercing rounds per second. He'd done a bit more searching and managed to shrink his final form to make him only slightly larger than his human form while condensing all his previous power into it therefore giving him the speed and strength as before while the previous size was stronger 10-fold

"They're probably gonna make me fix that…", thought Wayne when he completely shattered a hallway door by running through it and immediately spraying a pair of troopers and the wall behind them

Apparently word had already reached these guys that they were the last ones and had passed most phases of death: They had skipped straight to the acceptance stage and had bypassed denial, sadness, and anger meaning they knew their deaths were coming and were ready. However even with the element of surprise they quickly began to counterattack Wayne fighting as hard as they could before dying landing several serious wounds. If Wayne didn't need to be quick he would have pitied them and toned down a bit to give them a better chance of survival but speed was essential and he continued sprinting/flying through the hallways and stairs mowing down all resistance without stopping from firing and without bothering to avoid the attempts at counterattacks

Following this: Nearly the entire inside of the building was gutted from the various shots Wayne had sprayed everywhere and the floor he'd been on was crushed and scorched but after a little more than 4 minutes of nonstop sprinting and firing: Wayne made it to the roof albeit a bit winded and transformed back to his human self and looked across the courtyard. So far: Nobody had alerted the PSC outside. Good…

Wayne couldn't see Moka, Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore, or Ruby in the crowd but hoped they were ready because if they weren't: the whole rescue attempt would be completely useless

Wayne used his eyepiece to check the distance and any other factors to determine the shots. His shots could move at about light speed so no need to worry about missing from various factors and all but the problem was that Tsukune was strapped to the "stake" 5 times separately for each limb and his torso. Since there was no "center point" where they were all connected so a 5 for 1 shot wouldn't be possible and the power needed to break those chains was enormous. Wayne was really regretting that he'd sprayed wildly back there but he'd needed to be quick so he had no choice

The chains were incredibly small targets and were a little more than half a kilometer away from where Wayne was positioned and were right next to Tsukune which meant Wayne had to condense the power of 10 2,000lb JDAM bombs into a single shot about the size of his pinkie nail...and he needed about 5 shots in quick succession…not exactly his favorite targets, especially since he was now at barely 2% of his full power and this kind of thing would drain him down to about 1% or less

"Well…", sighed Wayne as he aimed down the sights of his specially made rifle, "At least I'm not gonna need a bigger rifle"

The rifle extended almost 7 meters in length and weight about 4 metric tons, if it weren't for the fact it as part of Wayne's body and the fact he was so naturally strong, it would have been impossible for anyone to aim or fire, especially 5 times in quick succession. Wayne held his breath, aimed, and was about to fire when the bells to the clock tower right below him rang suddenly and messed up his aim. It was time…

At the ring of the bell the stake to which Tsukune was tied to burst into flames and Tsukune made one last attempt to free himself but to no avail. It looked like upon learning he was a human, everyone had left him. The flames didn't immediately set him on fire Kuyou was to sadistic for that, he wanted to make Tsukune feel fear before his death and set the bottom on fire first so the fire would take longer to burn him but even so, he could feel the heat and nearly passed out when suddenly he felt a slight impact on his left arm and then dropped it with the chain also falling off. Before he realized it his other arm, both his legs, and his torso in less than a second were free leaving him to drop forward but not crash into the ground. When he looked up the first thing he saw was a brush of pink hair

"No…"

The scene was initially chaos. Nobody expected Tsukune would be freed from his fetters right as the execution started and were just as surprised by the sudden appearance of his 5 rescuers

"Don't worry Tsukune I've got you", said Moka grinning and holding him up in her arms and setting him back on his feet

"But…how?", asked Tsukune, "You were locked up in their base after they interrogated us…"

"We broke her out", Tsukune heard Kurumu's voice

Tsukune turned to see Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore and Ruby also running towards them. They all came…

"What are you doing you fools?", shouted Kuyou, "Stop them!"

At this the 10 remaining PSC officers jumped from the crowd and attempted to surround the group and transformed. The group only knew Deshiko by name and in a flash her slick, form-fitting robe became a long-flowing pink robe and a large, circular hat around her head and though her face still looked alive and healthy, her clothes looked more like ancient Chinese funeral clothes which clearly marked her as a Jiang-Shi. The others whom the group didn't know by name turned into a variety of creatures: The pair of lieutenants whom interrogated the group earlier took the clear shape of a steel golem standing at about 11 feet tall, another as a humanoid raiju sparking with electricity. The others took shapes of humanoid monsters that the group couldn't identify but, based on the fact that they got their ranks by their power, they had to be at least level A monsters

"Your attempt at rescue was brave but there's no way you can escape us now", said Kuyou flatly, "But do you realize this is the biggest betrayal possible? To save our worst enemy from his rightful fate"

"You have to trust someone to be betrayed", said what sounded like a distant voice projected over a long distance, "We never trusted you and you never trusted us either"

Everyone in the crowd turned to see a tall, bloody figure jump down from the roof of the building behind them and sprint straight for the site of the confrontation and made it in only a few seconds. When Tsukune took a closer look he recognized the jagged scar across the figure's face and the bulky armor all over his body plus the large 8-wing back piece on him. It was Wayne

"Glad you made it", said Kurumu grinning

"Well I couldn't miss out on this could I?", asked Wayne smiling briefly before getting serious, "Either way all of you better get out of here"

That got everyone's attention

"What are you-"

"They're not going to show any mercy", answered Wayne, "If we go up against all 10 of these guys right now plus Kuyou, we won't stand much of a chance. The idea was to get Tsukune to safety so you guys move it. I'll take care of them, Kurumu and Ruby; just fly everyone out of here as quick as you can. Don't worry I've got this"

Everyone just nodded. Kurumu took hold of Tsukune and Moka while Ruby took Yukari and Mizore

"Don't let them out!", shouted Kuyou

It was too late when the other officers raised their arms and pooled their energy together to make a giant energy shield around the surrounding area as the others had already left. Only Wayne stood inside with all 11 of his adversaries. The shield created a semi-circular dome with about a 20-meter radius and was transparent but glowed with a faint blue and had a hexagonal tessellation across it

"Let me guess", said Wayne, "All of you pooled in about 10-20% of your energy to keep people from breaking out of this and the only way I can get out is if I beat all of you?"

"You guessed right", said Kuyou, "We also know that you yourself are pretty powerful and that you didn't get any sleep at all for the past week while fighting off some of our groups at night"

Wayne nodded, "And I also took out your whole base myself thank you very much…by the way: You should really consider better battlefield tacticians"

Kuyou shook his head

"You all came together and now you're willing to die against all of us? You must be either very brave or very stupid"

Wayne took a look around and sighed. Had he been at full power he might have been able to fight off all of them but at only 1%, he didn't stand a chance

"I won't be able to stop you", said Wayne getting out a 40-barrel Gatling Gun on his right hand and a cut-down version of his powerful rifle on his left, "But just because I'm going down, I'm not going down easy"

"You'd betray your own kind for your kind's worst enemy?", asked Kuyou half-interested

"My kind's worst enemy isn't humans", said Wayne pointing at Kuyou, "It's snobbish, indignant, spineless, rats like you who think you're superior to everyone else and can just push everyone around"

"Just the same as last year", sighed Kuyou, "That's what all of you said and look what happened to them"

"I don't care what happened to them", said Wayne, "You're not a paragon to the common good of monsters and demons alike, you're just a sadistic, racist, abusive bully who secretly fears what you think is inferior to you, that's why you hunted down us and Tsukune especially"

Kuyou gritted his teeth then calmed down and just nodded his head

Immediately all 10 of the enemies charged Wayne from all directions and Wayne responded. Wayne quickly gunned down the enemy immediately in front of him with a sustained burst that immediately ripped through his body and when a second attempted to sneak up behind him he whirled around and hit him with his shoulder knocking him to the ground and before he could get up Wayne jammed the barrel of his rifle into the fallen man's face and fired at point-blank range completely destroying his upper body. They might be transformed but they could still be taken down. Wayne aimed with his rifle and landed a headshot on another enemy charging him and simultaneously gunned down 2 more with his Gatling Gun. That left 6 more enemies including Kuyou and by now they had gotten close enough for close range combat so Wayne switched to his fists instead. At close range they couldn't all fight him at the same time and squared off with a creature that looked vaguely humanoid except was more muscular, was about Wayne's height and had bones sticking from him all across his body like blades and chains attempted to slash at him but Wayne jumped up, did a backflip over him, and kicked him in the back of the head and before he even hit the ground Wayne grabbed onto his face, one of the only spine-free areas on his body, and pummeled him onto the ground once, grabbed him by his shoulder spikes and kicked his spine causing him to yell out in pain but not quite take him down. The creature stood up with surprising force and Wayne stumbled momentarily which was all it needed to land 3 slashes across Wayne's abdomen. In response Wayne ducked under the 4th, kicked once, and used his forward momentum to spin around and roundhouse kick him twice then punch him upward and smash him back down with both fists, land on him, then smash his left leg. While Wayne was bashing the hapless trooper a second one, shaped like a raiju wolf, lept onto his back, bit into Wayne's neck and sent an electric current about 5 times as powerful as the first raiju wolf he'd encountered. What the wolf didn't expect was that Wayne reached over his shoulder, grabbed the creature's neck with his right hand, grabbed the tail with his left hand, and yanked so hard that he ripped out its spine and disemboweled it then used the spine as a whip to knock the first trooper down again but he recovered anyway and lashed out with one of his arm's whips. Wayne back flipped over the attack and grabbed both of the creature's arms forcing it to hold still while he relentlessly kicked him twice so hard that he ripped its arms out of its sockets and crushed its skull under his foot

The crowd murmured words of excitement, they were clearly impressed at how Wayne had defeated 7 of his enemies so easily despite how powerful they were supposed to be

"Those were your best?", asked Wayne to Kuyou, "No offence but your men suck"

Kuyou gritted his teeth, "You defeated them but not the rest of us", responded Kuyou

This time Deshiko tackled Wayne so suddenly that both rolled around the ground. When Wayne stood up he landed a right hook across her face but, since Jiang-Shi's were almost impervious to pain she tackled him again except this time Wayne used his momentum when he stood back up to punch her in the back with his left hand, dodge a claw swipe, and land another punch that caused her to fall to the ground from the sheer force.

"Would you mind helping me out?", asked Deshiko as Wayne picked her up with one hand and tossed her into the side of the barrier which ricocheted her back to the ground just as hard as he'd thrown her

At that the golem, and the humanoid raiju wolf attempted to assist although Kuyou stayed behind. Wayne immediately tackled the raiju and when both stood up Wayne stomped on his leg and kicked him away, Deshiko tried to assist but he stopped her in mid air by grabbing her by the throat whirling her around as a club against the golem, hurting her more than the golem, and then roundhouse kicking her away with his left foot. The problem was that they recovered relatively quickly and now he was surrounded on all sides but Wayne still wasn't going down. Wayne swung at the raiju with both hands and knocked him back right before the golem picked him up with one hand, Wayne slammed the golem's face with the back of his right fist but in response the golem stabbed into Wayne's side with its claws and Wayne punched again and twisted this time managing to break free. Wayne reengaged the raiju and managed to kick him in the stomach and elbow Deshiko in the face before the golem picked him up over its shoulder, and slammed Wayne to the ground. Wayne immediately got to his feet but Deshiko immediately kicked him in the face at his scar and knocked him back to the ground. Wayne got back to his feet and attempted to aim his 1024 pellet shotgun at Deshiko but the raiju hit him with a quick electric bolt that stumbled him and Deshiko kicked him again and while Wayne was attempting to recover the golem grabbed Wayne's right arm, the one holding the shotgun, aimed it at Wayne's head and fired it point blank sending Wayne flying about 5 meters before slamming into the ground and skidding 2 meters causing him to cough up blood. He was so weakened that these 3 were thrashing him since the first 5 were fought in ranged combat, the next only came in a pair, but these came in a trio

"Is the last safe haven for us monsters from humans not worth a single human life?", asked Kuyou from the platform while Deshiko, the raiju, and the golem approached Wayne who was getting back to his feet again

"You'll never stop at one", spat out Wayne getting back to his feet, "I'll take you all on!"

Wayne got back up and aggressively took on Deshiko, the raiju, the golem, and Kuyou all at the same time completely ignoring his injuries. Wayne lunged at Kuyou and grabbed Kuyou's shoulders and slammed him into the ground much to Kuyou's surprise and then grabbed the raiju as well by the back of his neck with his right hand and sliced the golem's left hand off with his left energy blade, let go of the raiju, dodged a fireball from Kuyou, which hit the golem instead, jumped and kicked off of the raiju's head, used the momentum to knock Kuyou down with a flying kick, picked up Kuyou, punched him twice in the stomach, and then kicked him in the face right back down on the ground before turning back to attack the others. Wayne head butted Deshiko aside then shoved the raiju to the ground before picking him back up and slamming him into the ground again. Kuyou had tried to sneak up behind Wayne but Wayne was aware and dodged a flaming claw swipe and grabbed Kuyou's left leg and yanked upward, Kuyou didn't fall off balance so Wayne punched Kuyou's back between the shoulders and knocked him to the ground, kicked him in the face so he was standing back up somewhat, then punched Kuyou twice in the face with a right and left hook sending Kuyou back to the ground only to be picked up again and head butted to the ground yet again. Wayne then turned around to duck under the raiju's electric claw attack and then grabbed the raiju's right arm, the one he'd tried to claw Wayne with, yanked it to the side, and then promptly ripped it out of its socket

"My arm!", shouted the raiju in pain and shock

"Yeah well it's mine now!", bellowed Wayne flipping the detached arm and swinging it by the stump like a club

Since the arm still had claws on it when Wayne hit the raiju with its own arm he was also slashing and shocking it as well knocking him to the ground before Wayne impaled it with its own electric claws on its own arm killing it instantly. Kuyou lunged again and jumped on Wayne's back but jumped up and landed on his back slamming Kuyou into the ground with his weight before picking Kuyou up with both his hands, and smashed Kuyou's back on his knee breaking Kuyou's spine and then tossing him away. The golem attempted to smash Wayne with its massive fists but Wayne leapt over it and jumped on the back of the golem and got both of his arms under the golem's chin

"You steel golems are virtually invincible except for one little flaw", said Wayne as the golem attempted to get Wayne off, "Your neck joints are weak!"

Wayne pulled on the golem's head so hard that after a yank the golem's head ripped from its body along with fragments of its spine killing it instantly. Wayne jumped off of the corpse and threw the dead body on top of Deshiko who was still trying to attack him trapping her beneath her dead comrade's massive bulk

"That all you got?", shouted Wayne, "Who's next?"

Suddenly Wayne felt a sharp pain in his chest and looked down to see a flaming blade impaling him through the heart which was not good

"You're so weak", taunted Kuyou behind Wayne despite the fact he'd nearly been killed in Wayne's rampage and that he had to stab Wayne in the back to defeat him, "I can recover from my injuries just as quickly as you and I am rested unlike you"

Wayne coughed up massive amounts of blood. The scar on his face was just something that hurt more when it got struck but he'd been stabbed through the heart which did massive damage to him. Normally he'd be able to recover but he'd been so exhausted there was just no way for him recover from the massive damage and even worse: Since the blade was hot and flaming it was also burning up his other internal organs. Still Wayne wasn't going down easy even if he was so badly damaged. He wasn't sure if Kuyou could still survive his last countermeasure but he had to try and at least weaken him for the others if not kill him

Kuyou pulled his blade from Wayne's seemingly lifeless body and grinned. Then he was shocked when Wayne, still bleeding massively turned around and punched Kuyou in the face. In response Kuyou stabbed Wayne through the chest again in another spot drawing even more blood

"What were you expecting to do in that case?", asked Kuyou, "You knew you weren't going to make it so why bother?"

"Well…", coughed Wayne, "I wasn't trying to injure you from that, just get you to injure me more…and spill my blood…all over this place"

Kuyou raised an eyebrow. Sure he was standing in a pool of Wayne's blood but…

"Your whole base went up in smoke", explained Wayne, "But it went up in smoke because of the fact they spilled my blood…a single molecule of it contains the explosive power of 500 metric tons of dynamite and in this closed off space, it'll amplify it even more…"

Kuyou's eyes widened

"No…you're bluffing"

"Oh?", asked Wayne thumbing the switch as his vision darkened, "I knew I wasn't going to make it but I had to try and now I'm once again at death's doorstep…You beat me…but my friends will fight just as hard as me…even to the death…if you go down now…then it all ends…if not…then it will be ended by them"

Wayne grabbed Kuyou's throat and held on. He wasn't strong enough to crush Kuyou's windpipe now but at least he could hold him

"I'm ready!", shouted Wayne with the last of his strength, "How 'bout you?"

Wayne hit the switch and a massive explosion followed. The shielding around the area kept the explosion contained but amplified the blast greatly inside the barrier. The blast continued for about 10 seconds before the barrier broke and the explosion was so spent that the crowd outside suffered no damage but still felt a strong gust of wind. When the dust settled…none of the PSC officers' bodies were 100% intact except Deshiko since Jiang-Shi's can't die and she was underneath a steel golem's body and Kuyou and Wayne

Wayne's body was still intact since his body just simply couldn't break and Kuyou was still alive because, despite how drained Wayne was, Wayne's body still had some energy left in it, enough for Kuyou to make a barrier out of by draining it and creating a shield around himself to protect himself from the blast

Wayne was finally down…the PSC had finally beaten him, their casualty rate was nearly 100% but they finally defeated him. He gave them hell before he went down and he went down thinking he'd finished the fight

Since Kuyou had drained energy from Wayne to protect himself he was still at about 50-60% of his full power after the battle. Kuyou drained the very last energy he could from what was left of his dead comrades' bodies getting back up to close to 100%. Enough, in his mind, to put an end to the newspaper club, his most hated enemy in the area. Since the weight of several people forced Kurumu and Ruby to slow down, Kuyou could still see them

"You can run but you can't hide", said Kuyou

Kuyou got on his knees as his body slowly transformed into his true form. In the end he was a giant golden fox with 4 flaming tails while his eyes and mouth glowed with fire: A Youko Kyuubi Spirit. Kuyou grabbed the end of Wayne's shirt with his mouth and spun his tails around to lift off and pursue the rest of the newspaper club

Meanwhile…

The others finally made it to the roof of the main building and took a short break before trying again for the portal

"We should be safe here for now", said Moka

"Good", sighed Kurumu, "Because you guys are heavy"

"There's no way we're making it out on foot", pointed out Mizore gesturing towards the crowd that was attempting to enter the building to catch the excitement, "By now they'll never help us and will either go after us or at least hinder us"

Suddenly a large figure dropped to the ground with a loud thud next the group and caused everyone to turn

"What the…", began Mizore

The object was what looked to be a human body except it was a bit different. The body had a large hole in its chest but most of it was too charred and bloody to make out many features but everyone recognized the characteristic heavy armor plating all over the body with the blue and golden lights still lit up across it. The eyes were a single visor, the back was a collection of metal wings of different shapes with clear engines to add extra thrust, the right arm still had a flickering blue glow to it from the energy blades that constantly came from the wrists. There was no mistake: It was Wayne's body

"No…", gasped Tsukune, "He couldn't…"

"Just like last year I'm afraid", said a male voice behind the group

Everyone turned and saw none other than Kuyou, who had changed back to his human form though he still burned

"He tried to resist justice and failed as everyone else did", said Kuyou raising his hand, "And just like him you will all die"

"Hold on Kuyou we had a deal", said a female voice, "I'm the one who's going to kill him, I can't have you go too far and kill him yourself"

There was only one person with that kind of malice and yet gentleness in her voice. When everyone turned it was Ishigami Hitomi

"They took everything from me, and not only that but they cut my hair and let everyone know", continued Ishigami, "I'm the one who will kill them and I won't be satisfied until I skin them alive, dismember them, and crush their skulls on the rocks!"

The reappearance of Ishigami Hitomi surprised everyone greatly. Ever since the last incident when they'd gotten her kicked out nobody was expecting Ishigami's return, and yet here she was, with her hair grown back as well!

"You remember me right Tsukune? When my snakes bit into you?", asked Ishigami with her hair growing back to snakes, "That was when I found out about your true form. What I tasted was without a doubt, human flesh"

"And you told fiery meathead here didn't you?", asked Kurumu pointing to Kuyou

"Makes sense, that way you'd be able to find a reason for your return and you could use the student body's general hatred of humans to get back at us", concluded Yukari

"That sounds like something Wayne would say…", mumbled Moka immediately turning everyone's mood sour again at the reminder

"Good deduction", complimented Ishigami, "Now DIE!"

"Hold it!", shouted Kuyou grabbing Ishigami's snakes with his bare hands, "Since Tsukune is a human he and the whole lot must be killed according to the law and that is my duty as an officer of the law"

"Come on you already killed Mr. Rampaging Overkill", groaned Ishigami pointing to Wayne's collapsed hulk, "Fine you can get Tsukune but I get the rest myself"

"I don't think so", warned Kuyou dangerously while his hands and hair turned to fire

Kuyou shoved Ishigami aside and sent a massive fireball towards the newspaper club which immediately exploded at their feet but caught Ishigami in the fringes of the blast

"You bastard", hissed Ishigami angrily

"Damned Woman", Kuyou shot back, "Either way: If any human were exposed to these kinds of flames there would be nothing left"

When the smoke cleared Kuyou was, put simply, surprised for the second time today. The first was the sheer aggressiveness of Wayne's rampage and how close he himself had come to death twice, this time was the fact that just about everyone was still standing and Moka was lying on top of Tsukune having protected him from the blast and apparently having taken most of the blast

"So…even though she was mostly sealed away she shielded everyone from the blast…not bad this has become more of a spectacle than I expected", thought Ishigami

Despite the fact Tsukune had been shielded by the worst of the blast he still suffered quite a bit of damage and coughed some blood up

"M…Moka?", asked Tsukune through his darkening vision

"Tsukune take off my Rosary", Moka requested, "Even if everyone else hates you for being a human I promised I'd always protect you no matter what"

Tsukune made a reach for the Rosary but then collapsed right as his fingers touched it and Moka caught him. He was too weak to grab and pull off the Rosary. The rest of the newspaper club simply watched and shed tears

"Foolish girl", hissed Kuyou, "You realize that the boy is a human and yet you still protect him? Doing so makes you nothing but a traitor to your own kind and all other monsters in the world!"

Kuyou was even more infuriated by the absolute lack of response and now his whole body burst into flames

"What you are doing is a serious act of treason against us all! In the name of justice; I'll destroy you with my flame so there was no evidence of your existence in the first place!", howled Kuyou preparing to hurl a ball of flame, "DIE!"

Suddenly vines burst from the ground and gripped Kuyou's wrist stopping the attack

"What?"

"We exist too you know", said Kurumu smartly with her claws and wings grown out

"Thank you", sighed Moka in relief

Kuyou tugged on the vine and frowned

"Hmm…this doesn't feel much like a vine and it's not flammable", observed Kuyou, "Oh I see…"

Kuyou fired another blast in Kurumu's direction

"It's just a trick!", Kuyou shouted, "I'll burn you all to ashes!"

"You know you guys really made things into one big mess", said a male voice from the stairwell

Everyone turned and saw, much to their surprise, Gin Morioko

"Gin?", exclaimed Kurumu in disbelief, "But didn't you just-"

"Forget it", sighed Gin, "You guys already went this far so I figure I may as well try and hurry this up"

"How 'bout this", snarled Kuyou grinning sadistically, "All of you have gathered your fangs at me…Have you all gone mad? I am the justice of this academy!"

"Maybe we are crazy", replied Gin leaping forward and undergoing his werewolf transformation, "Sorry but I can't lose my friends…again"

"Again…", muttered Yukari

"So…last year…", continued Mizore

"I swore I'd take you down for good last time along with my friends", hissed Gin charging towards Kuyou, "I'm not a hero but I'm sentimental. They all went down for something they believed in and I'm going to finish it!"

Kuyou just laughed and prepared some more fire

"Do you really think-"

Suddenly Gin disappeared

"What-"

Gin reappeared right next to Kuyou and immediately rained 7 punches into Kuyou's face and torso

"Justice or not", said Gin transforming back to his human form, "Last time my friends died, and this time I'm not letting that happen again. I'll make sure to mess you up good this time"

Everyone gathered together around Tsukune

"Isn't this great?", asked Moka, "Everyone knows the truth and everyone came to help"

Tears formed along Tsukune's eyes and everyone gathered around as if nothing had happened

"I'll admit you're stronger than you were last time", said Ishigami coldly, "But your opponent is still much stronger than he seems"

In a blazing flash Kuyou reverted back to his fox form and glared at the group

"Get down!", shouted Gin leaping in front of everyone else

"Well done guys getting Kuyou to take you this seriously is quite an impressive feat", commented Ishigami, "But this is the end for you, you can't even injure Kuyou when he's like this…so beautiful, you could call this art, it was definitely worth sticking around for this. Have fun suffering for everything you did to me"

"Get down!", shouted Gin, "This is one of the world's strongest supernatural creatures! The higher ranked ones can even be considered as gods!"

"How do we defeat something like that?", asked Mizore

"Tsukune Aono", growled Kuyou, "We must kill any human who knows of the existence of this safe haven in case you reveal this place to the outside world…why do you monsters protect something so dangerous? The whole lot of you shall be buried under here by me right here, right now!"

"This is all my fault", groaned Tsukune placing his face between his hands, "Everyone might be killed all because I'm a human…it's all my fault"

"Don't make that face", responded Moka, "Don't worry we don't blame you for this, we're all here with you"

"She's right, just stay back Tsukune, we'll handle this", agreed Kurumu

Yukari, Mizore, and Ruby all wordlessly walked up and stood next to Moka and Kurumu while Gin just scratched the back of his head and Wayne…well…just stayed face-down in the ground

"Anyway what is your true form?", asked Gin, "I mean if you're a human and all…"

"Uh…", stammered Tsukune

"Nah just kidding", replied Gin giving a thumbs-up, "After all, there's no reason for anyone to want to know your true form anyway"

Though it was a bit strange, it showed Gin was still loyal to Tsukune along with everyone else, Tsukune was touched by just how supporting everyone was

"You bastards!", Kuyou shouted out rudely, "You know he is a human and yet pretend not to know? You are a group well past redemption. I WILL KILL YOU!"

"Uh oh…", gulped Gin

"Energy is concentrating on his tails", observed Ruby, "He's preparing something!"

"Hazy rolling flame…", said Kuyou calmly whipping his tails in a cyclone, "REALIZE MY TRUE POWER!"

"Oh no…", gulped Gin, "I can dodge it but if I get out of the way…"

A massive explosion followed and heat seared across the group of friends but, though Mizore was a bit light-headed being a creature of ice, everyone was relatively fine

"What happened?", asked Tsukune

Everyone, even Kuyou, was surprised to see Gin standing boldly with burns all across his body having taken the whole blast all to himself

"GIN?", exclaimed Kurumu in surprise

"I guess…I was the biggest idiot in the end", sighed Gin collapsing to his knees, "I've had enough of losing my friends, I just couldn't help it", he finished before collapsing to the ground mortally wounded but still semi-conscious and immediately everyone gathered around him

"But why? He's way faster than any of us! He could easily have dodged it!", exclaimed Yukari

"I think he may have been trying to protect us instead", answered Ruby

Tsukune slumped his head

"It's my fault", concluded Tsukune

"Hmm?", asked the others

"It's my fault Gin AND Wayne ended up like this", declared Tsukune through tears, "I just can't let it go on!"

"So much for the werewolf and his speed", taunted Kuyou, "2 down…right here and right now I'll make you all realize you don't stand a chance against me even as a group!"

In a massive burst of energy Kuyou transformed again

"What the? Is he turning back to his human form?", shouted Mizore

"No", answered Ishigami, "What you faced was his combat form…this is his finely honed juggernaut form!"

In the massive shockwave everyone fell back down and only Tsukune was still standing. There was Kuyou, still erupting in flames, with his lower body still like a fox and with his tails still coming from his back but with his head and upper body looking like a human

"Your comrades really are marvelous aren't they?", asked Kuyou, "Isn't it great that they all tried to save you Tsukune?"

Tsukune said nothing and looked around. Everyone was still conscious and struggling to their feet but Kuyou was already preparing another attack and had his eyes on Moka

"Now sit back and watch what each of your comrades' dying moments is like", said Kuyou turning to Moka, "Starting with her!"

Kuyou was about to turn Moka into a pile of cinders when Tsukune stood up quickly and began to shout at Kuyou

"Wait! We've lost, and we'll apologize for everything!", exclaimed Tsukune, "I'll surrender peacefully and accept execution but just please forgive everyone else!"

That got Kuyou's attention and he turned to look at Tsukune

"They're my friends", continued Tsukune, "Whether they're human or not they're all very important to me so please…", Tsukune collapsed to his knees, "I'll accept my punishment but please…just spare everyone else"

Everyone looked up and muttered words of astonishment at Tsukune's self-sacrificing attitude

"Humpf…for a human I have to admit that's pretty admirable", said Kuyou, "Out of consideration for your courage I'll spare their lives in consideration"

Tsukune brightened up

"So you mean that you'll-"

"Hah did you really think I meant that?", asked Kuyou, "What do you mean 'friend'? Human friendship is so superficial it just makes me sick"

Tsukune gulped in surprise at just how sadistic Kuyou really was

"Just shut up at watch your comrades suffer!", shouted Kuyou sending a blazing fireball right at Moka

Suddenly Tsukune leapt up in front of the blast and took it all for himself leaving Moka relatively unscathed while he suffered burns even more severe than Gin's

"Hey what are you doing?", asked Kuyou, "It wouldn't be much fun if you died first"

"Tsukune!", cried Moka running towards Tsukune's collapsing body who held his left hand out in Moka's direction

"What a human…to thrust his body into a fire with such a frail body…", thought Ishigami in a bit of respect and admiration, "I have to admit that's very brave to face suicidal odds with virtually no escape from death…"

Moka managed to reach Tsukune and reached for him but Tsukune lowered his hand and grabbed Moka's Rosario instead before falling to the ground

"Tsukune?", was all Moka could say before the giant flash of light that followed the removal of the Moka's Rosario

"Here it comes…", grumbled Ishigami putting her hand in front of her eyes to block out the intense light

"Moka? What happened to Tsukune?", exclaimed Kurumu managing to get to her feet along with everyone else

"Have fun with this opponent Kuyou", said Ishigami grinning a bit, "This is the very enemy who defeated me all that time ago…"

Moka' eyes turned red, her hair turned silver, her canine teeth extended, her body grew much more muscular in build, and her face took the clear expression of a scowl

"So that's you eh? A super vampire?", asked Kuyou in amusement, "Not bad…I've heard many stories about their strength but even a vampire can't hope to stand up to me-"

"YOU!", Moka howled at Kuyou

Before Kuyou could react Moka sprinted forward behind Kuyou and kicked him straight into the water tower with surprising force

"He's not breathing!", exclaimed Kurumu

"What do we do?", panicked Mizore breaking her normally calm expression and attitude

"Move aside", commanded Moka reaching Tsukune's limp body, "I've got one last thing that might save his life"

"What do you have in mind?", asked Mizore

Suddenly without warning Moka bit into Tsukune's neck like she usually did when she drank his blood

"Hey what are you doing Moka?", exclaimed Kurumu, "Now is not the time to be draining what's left of his energy!"

"I'm not drinking his blood", replied Moka stopping momentarily, "I'm injecting my own into him"

"That's right…", muttered Ruby, "A vampire's blood is what keeps its power which is said to be able to heal virtually any wound…"

"Will that really save Tsukune?", asked Yukari

"That thing Wayne gave him drains your vampire blood and stores it for use in his own bloodstream while still making it compatible with his own body", commented Mizore

"True but I've never attempted direct injection", replied Moka, "It might be able to at least temporarily break out of the seal and save him"

The others looked at each other and nodded in unison before all standing in a line in front of Moka and Tsukune

"Let us handle this", said Yukari

"You take care of Tsukune, we'll cover you", added Mizore

"You'll die!", warned Moka

"We're willing to accept that", replied Kurumu

Moka nodded

"I haven't been around you much personally but I have been around through the other 'me' so let me say: It's been an honor", said Moka before resuming her blood transfusion

"Don't let him take one step forward", said Ruby

"Don't worry, he won't", replied Mizore

"We have to work together if we're going to beat him", said Yukari

"Then let's do it…for Tsukune", rallied Kurumu

"For Tsukune", agreed everyone else

"Please work…", Moka almost begged while she injected large quantities of her blood into Tsukune's body

"Take this!", shouted Mizore launching a hail of hundreds of razor-sharp ice blades at Kuyou

"Too weak", taunted Kuyou as he effortlessly destroyed each shard with a swipe of his tail, "Humans are supposed to be our mortal enemies! Why can't you understand something as simple as that?"

Kuyou swiped his tail again and directed all of his energy at Mizore sending her flying away from the formation

"Mizore!", exclaimed Kurumu

"She's…", began Yukari

"Focus!", replied Ruby raising her wand in unison with Yukari, "Kurumu buy us a few more seconds!"

Kurumu didn't need Ruby to tell her as she grew out her claws and wings and lunged at Kuyou

"YOU don't understand", shouted Kurumu, "We can all get along together well if we just try! We're living proof of that and you're just someone who can't accept the fact that it's possible!"

"Nonsense!", bellowed Kuyou

Kuyou launched a salvo of fireballs at Kurumu who nimbly dodged each one before finally being hit by one and getting launched backwards

"Now!", shouted Ruby

"Black Sealing Spell!", Ruby and Yukari shouted in unison

A circle of Yukari's steel tarot cards surrounded Kuyou instantly

"Ha you think you can stop me with this stuff?", taunted Kuyou burning all the cards to ashes with his tail

"You fell for it!", shouted Yukari as the ashes turned into a circle with raven patterns with surrounded Kuyou

"Just try and escape from that!", Ruby taunted back

"Why don't you witches just disappear", howled Kuyou swiping his tail yet again and scattering the ashes

The ashes re-formed into the shape of a giant raven about twice the size of Kuyou that promptly impaled Kuyou through the chest with its beak

"Gotcha!", shouted Yukari triumphantly

"Okay that's it", shouted Kuyou angrily burning the giant raven

"I think that really hurt him!", exclaimed Kurumu

Suddenly the aura surrounding Kuyou grew even MORE intense than before

"Time to die", said Kuyou launching a giant, blue fireball towards the group which exploded like a bomb

Meanwhile…

The blast shook the whole building meaning the crowd working its way up felt the whole thing causing everyone to stumble before continuing

"I hope everyone's okay…", gulped Nekonome at feeling the powerful vibrations

Back upstairs…

Giant pieces of ice smashed back down onto the floor and shattered. The last remains of Mizore's attempt to shield her friends. Even with the protection: Kurumu, Yukari, and Ruby all fell to the ground and attempted to rise again

"Too…strong", groaned Ruby as she fell back down before trying to rise again

"Pretty good…", commented Kuyou seeing Mizore's collapsed and barely conscious form lying on her back and the icy shards around the group growing some more blue flames from his fingertips, "She used what was left of her strength to literally put a glacier around you guys…not bad but there won't be a second time"

"Yeah because I won't let you", replied Moka standing back up, "When I defeat you

Kuyou just laughed

"Well well well…", said Kuyou noticing Tsukune still collapsed on the ground unconscious, "It looks like your attempts to revive him were a waste, he's still there on the ground"

Moka didn't comment and just kept glaring at Kuyou

"Come and get it…vampire", taunted Kuyou, "Defeating you will just increase my fame around the school with tales of my strength

Moka leapt forward immediately and landed a kick square to Kuyou's face

"You got him!", exclaimed Kurumu

"Wait…her power isn't as overwhelming as it usually is", noticed Yukari, "Moka…how much did you…"

"That seal is tough to crack", replied Moka repeatedly kicking Kuyou who apparently didn't even flinch, "I injected almost half of my blood into him but he's still not getting up"

The others gasped in surprise

"So you mean Tsukune's…", began Kurumu

"What's wrong? That's all you can do?", taunted Kuyou, "I can barely feel a thing!"

"I think I might have given him too much…", thought Moka as Kuyou easily caught Moka's kick in mid-air and responded with a punch that sent her flying back

"He's too strong!", panicked Yukari

"Moka sacrificed her strength for Tsukune but she's so weakened…she can't do a thing!", exclaimed Ruby

"You're so weak", taunted Kuyou as Moka rained another volley of kicks which barely even scratched him, "You got so engrossed with trying to be friends with a human you became so weak it's like you're not even a monster!"

Kuyou landed a salvo of punches so quick and powerful; Moka couldn't dodge or fall backwards as she was hit from all angles in rapid succession

"Humans are weak, lazy, traitorous, and willingly harm other beings", finished Kuyou as he continued to attack, "You who would attempt to mingle with them must die!"

Kuyou slammed Moka into the ground causing her to skid towards Tsukune's limp form

"Time to die…", said Kuyou charging his attack again and firing

The attack was dead on and a massive explosion followed. Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore, and Ruby turned away

"This can't be happening", sobbed Mizore

"They're gone…", sighed Ruby

Kuyou laughed a bit then was surprised greatly for the THIRD time in the hour. His attack was dead on…and yet there was Tsukune, standing unharmed, holding his left arm ahead of him while his right arm held Moka behind him, and looking very, very ticked off

"What the hell?", wondered Kuyou in fascination, "If you were human you should have died long ago! What are you?"

Closer inspection showed Tsukune's eyes had turned bloody red and his hair had turned from black to a reddish brown instead

"What? The burns on his body should have been mortal and yet they've healed!", exclaimed Kuyou

"That's the healing effect of vampire regeneration", explained Kurumu

Kuyou gritted his teeth

"So…you weren't a human! There's no way a human could survive that", hissed Kuyou in surprise, "Damn…Ishigami tricked me"

"And apparently so did I", said a male voice

"What?"

Kuyou turned just in time to see a metal fist collide with his face and fall backwards. When he came to he was surprised for the FOURTH time in the hour

"You died", hissed Kuyou, "I saw you die and you didn't move at all!"

"You'll have to try harder to kill me…if you even can", said the figure, "And besides, even I can't kill myself so even if you defeat me; you can't kill me…at least not forever"

The others looked at the figure and then looked back to where they left it. Wayne's body wasn't there anymore…instead he was awake and was beating Kuyou while looking nearly completely healed

"How?", asked Kuyou as he fell down to the ground again

"I never died in the first place", said Wayne, "Clinically, yes I was dead but as soon as I reach that state my body 'locks down'. It enables me to make my body completely immune to damage inside my armor and heal itself with reserve energy while it still gives the illusion that I'm dead and beyond recovery. You fell for it and brought my body here which saved me the trouble to have to get back up here myself"

Kuyou stood back up and stabbed Wayne through the chest again and was shocked when Wayne just indifferently pulled it out this time

"Back there when I was exhausted and injured I couldn't heal this kind of wound", said Wayne, "If I waited a bit longer I'd be back to 100% but I'm not…still this kind of stuff happens to me a lot"

Wayne grabbed Kuyou up by his arm, turned Kuyou to face Tsukune, and held him still while Kuyou kept struggling

"Hurry up and get him!", shouted Wayne as Kuyou continued to burn and stab Wayne, "This is really starting to hurt and the only way to even hit him hard enough now is if he can't move!"

"Don't underestimate me", howled Kuyou as Wayne cracked Kuyou's ribs, "Do you really think you can defeat the likes of me?", he shouted, "I am Kuyou! I am-"

Suddenly the stairway door opened to reveal the flood of students and staff breaking through the door. They saw all they needed to: Everyone but Tsukune, Wayne, Kuyou, and Moka were down. Moka was standing by, Wayne was holding a still struggling Kuyou and Tsukune was seething with supernatural energy

Kuyou didn't get to finish his sentence when Tsukune and lunged and struck Kuyou so hard, he smashed Kuyou AND Wayne through the floor and down all the way to the bottom of the whole building and still left a crater in the ground below

"No way…", said everyone simultaneously including the crowd while others reported down the crowd to the others

"That…was a bit…excessive", groaned Wayne as he flew/climbed back up

Tsukune simply collapsed much to everyone's surprise

"I guess that last attack really winded him", suggested Wayne as the newspaper club gathered around Tsukune

"Is he okay though?", asked Kurumu in concern

"Hah he'll wake up feeling like the king of the world tomorrow when he regains consciousness", joked Wayne

"His wounds healed and provided him with extra energy which he just used against Kuyou. He should definitely be fine", confirmed Moka

The crowd roared with approval. Sure not all of them like humans but Kuyou had been one heck of a tyrant and the person who had just been on execution for being a human was, in their eyes, actually a monster even STRONGER than Kuyou who had defeated him in a single blow despite Kuyou being in his juggernaut form

"Well…it didn't go exactly the way I planned but it still worked", said Wayne to the newspaper club away from the crowd

"What do you mean?", asked Kurumu

"Well…rather than seeing a human who accidentally trespassed here into a safe haven for monsters everyone saw a powerful vampire defeat Kuyou in a single blow", said Wayne, "Sure it was a bit rockier than I planned but at least the end result is the same. Now when Tsukune wakes up everyone will be worshipping him", said Wayne while everyone continued to cheer

The crowds reactions varied slightly but all followed the same idea of praising Tsukune for his actions and with others discussing ways to apologize to Tsukune for their mistreating of him

Moka walked over to the edge of the hole and stared at Kuyou's unconscious and horribly injured form

"Well now Kuyou…you don't have a problem with Tsukune being here anymore now do you?", asked Moka replacing her Rosario

"I bet not", said the newspaper club happily

"Well everyone!", Wayne addressed the rest of the crowd and holding out a tape recorder, "What do you have to say to him when he gets up?"

"Tsukune Aono, we're sorry for suspecting you and we acknowledge that you're powerful enough to defeat Kuyou that easily", the crowd said in unison

"That reminds me of just how much I was bullied by them before", mumbled someone in the crowd

A chorus of agreements followed the last comment

"Here's to the school's hero!", everyone cheered together as they followed the newspaper club who carried Tsukune's unconscious form out

"Well that was fun", sighed Wayne, "…But I really wish I didn't agree to clean up the mess", he groaned as he looked at the sheer destruction of all the combat

Then Wayne heard a few beeps and checked his cellular phone grown from his arm

"Hey did you say you needed help?", asked a male voice on the phone

"We got your call about a few hours ago but we were kinda busy…", said a female

Wayne's eyebrow twitched

"Well thanks a lot for being late", he sighed, "Forget it I'll talk to you later, just stay hidden around the world for now", finished Wayne hanging up, "Man…when I actually need them they're late…perfect…"

Well…there you go! 2 months of it and I'm finally finished with that chapter…whew…that took forever. Anyway the reason for this being extremely long was because I had several oneshot ideas and also because I'm getting very busy so I decided to leave you guys with something extra long and good to occupy you for the hiatus back there and the hiatus coming up. Sorry

Up next: Trouble with the Past and Blood. I'm sure fans of the original series will be able to guess what's coming so no need for a spoiler

Well…bye for now and I'll see you in…god knows how long oh well you might see me again in a few oneshots