Operation Snowbreaker(8)

"Out of all your plans, this might be the coolest... AND CRAZIEST!" Evan exclaimed at Rodeo from inside the Tank. From what they have been experiencing lately, Evan has made a great point, it is truly indeed the most bizarre thing they were facing.

"Absolutely!" Michelle agreed.

"Also, how the hell did they get their hands on a sentinel mech and find us?" Robert asked in an infuriated and confused tone.

"And where the hell did the CI get a stand arrow from?!" Green added.

"Everyone, those questions we'll be answered later!" Rodeo interrupts everyone's ranting and tries to calm them down before continuing, "Now we need to notify the command for an extraction point."

"I already did." Green stated.

*Music Play — Noisescream - The Doom Party*

"Music?" Michelle said in confusion, looking around for the source where the sounds came from.

Opening the hatch of the tank above, Spy peeks out the front overhead. When he turned around to look behind them, his expression was instantly changed to utter shock and horror at what he was seeing right now.

"Gentlemen... and lady, we have a problem."

Curious, Rodeo and everyone else peeked through the hatch to see what Spy meant. 

And what they saw frightened them.

Just behind the team were a huge number of CI soldiers on snowmobiles and military Humvees, as well as Armored Barons running on foot at high speed, were trailing the team. In the sky, dozens of Blood Maykrs were flying after them, as were several Fighter-class Immoran hell ships in hot pursuit along with a group of CI attack helicopters. What made matters worse was that the Sentinel Mech itself was literally running downhill behind them, with each footstep of the machine of war rocking the neighboring mountains and the entire landscape.

"BATTLESTATIONS PEOPLE!" 

As soon as everyone is ready, Spy immediately man the machine gun and begins firing at the CI Humvees, snowmobiles, and the Blood Maykrs. The CI began firing back as well, followed by the Blood Maykrs, who began firing at them while also killing some CI soldiers to keep them out of their path. 

On the tank, Rodeo and Evan come out of the hatch and find two Blood Maykrs flying towards them, preparing to stab them, only to get a hole punched through their chest and sent flying towards two CI snowmobiles, slamming into them and knocking them out of the chase. 

But it's not over yet, as the Sentinel Mech swings its axe down at the group at extreme speeds.

"Left!"

As soon as Rodeo says that, Lawrence turns the tank to the left and the axe collides with the ground, creating a massive shockwave that, thankfully, did not send the tank flying due to its weight and Evan's intervention. However, it sent some CI snowmobiles and military Humvees flying instead as the tank continued going downhill at full speed. 

"Green, load a tank shell and fire at that mech!" Rodeo instructed him.

Following his words, Green inserts a tank shell into the chamber and then rotates the tank barrel towards the mech before firing the round at its knee, yet it suffers no damage. 

"...Well that's embarrassing." Evan commented at the futile effort. Just then, he saw a CI attack helicopter launch rockets against them. 

"ZA WARUDO!"

As soon as time has stopped, Evan flies towards the frozen rockets, grabs them, and tossed them back at the attack helicopter, but he takes one rocket with him and throws it at one of the Immoran hell ships. Once he was done dealing with them, he decided to lift the tank and fly hundreds of more meters to further their distance between them.

When it reaches the 25th second, Evan drops the tank down and lands back on it.

"Let time move once again."

When he says that, time moves once again and the rockets hit the attack helicopter, destroying it and its flaming wreck crashes on top of a humvee, destroying it as well, but the rocket that hit the hell ship was unharmed.

In response to that attack, the hell ships' blasters began firing at them. By some miracle, the tank swerved left and right and successfully avoided the laser rounds, some of those shots also hit the CI snowmobiles and military Humvees, blowing them up to scrambles.

"Good job, Evan! You're making it easier for us to survive." Spy said to Evan pleasingly as he continued to fire the machine gun into the CI soldiers and hell's forces. Just then, he noticed one of the Armored Barons, who were still running after them, launched the Morning Star from one of his arms that was hooked to a chain towards them. 

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BAM!

The Morning Star slams into the right side of the tank, causing it to tilt to the left with a huge dent on its side. Evan and Rodeo, who were on top of the tank, were on the verge of falling off if Spy hadn't grabbed them as the tank went downhill. The Armored Baron reeled his Morning Star back and continued to pursue them. 

"Those guys are from the DLC of Doom Eternal!" Rodeo shouted, shortly noticing another Armored Baron charging towards them, preparing to smash them with his Morning Star.

But then a rubber arm came flying out of the tank's hatch by none other than Michelle, punching the demon in the face which sent him flying tens of meters away from the tank and crashing into one of the CI attack helicopters, both of which came crashing down on the ground with the helicopter exploding. The Armored Baron, on the other hand, managed to survive unscathed because, well... despite being armored as it continued to chase them. 

"You could have hit me!" Spy shouted at Michelle in anger.

"But I didn't." 

As the chase continued, the Mech was about to fire another shot, this time at its maximum capacity that could destroy mountains to oblivion. However, before it could unleash its wrathful power, numerous missiles and rockets struck its head and chest but still cause little to no damage, but the distraction messed up its aim, and instead shots at a large group of CI attack helicopters and even their own hellships, utterly obliterating them all to nothingness.

"What now?!" Marauder screamed in fury.

Revenant, who was with him, glanced through one of the holographic screens to see what hit them, only to find a squadron of F-15 fighter jets with the GOC's logo on them flying in the air at mach speeds in the air, followed by dozens of Apache attack helicopters of the Global Occult Coalition heading towards them. No doubt to kill them all.

"It appears to be those GOC guys the robe boys mentioned."

"Great, more annoyances." Marauder grumbles, "Send in more hell ships to deal with them! I'm getting back the crystal one way or another, even if I have to burn these humans down to the ground!"

Rodeo, Spy, and Evan, who were still on the tank, could see over a few dozens of GOC attack helicopters appear on the scene, facing off the hell ships and the mech as they began to engage by releasing a hail of rockets and missiles on them.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

It was chaos that was unfolding by the GOC, and they were about to unleash another wave, only to be quickly cut in half by a single swing of the mech's argent axe. Further up in the sky, more hell ships and the GOC jets started to engage in aerial combat with each other as more Immoran Fighter-class hell ships appeared out of nowhere and joined the aerial warfare undoubtedly called by the Marauder. 

Michelle peers through the tank hatch and says, "Well that's not good." 

"The Global Occult Coalition." Rodeo muttered solemnly as he noticed more CI military humvees and snowmobiles approaching from the horizon, "And they just don't stop, return fire!"

Immediately Rodeo, Evan, Spy and Michelle fired back at them with their weapons, taking them out one by one while Robert and Green continued loading and firing tank shells. At the same time, Green's Stand Cerberus launches a barrage of fireballs at them, exploding the vehicles upon impact while Lawrence keeps driving the tank. 

Grabbing one of the GOC attack helicopters, the Mech throws it towards the tank Queen's Requiem where, only for Evan to use his [Time Stop], moving closer to it, Evan throws the GOC helicopter with greater strength at two CI snowmobiles and crashes into them. 

As time began to resume, Evan was about to return to the tank when he noticed something flying towards them from above, revealing to be none other than Tartarus, who had morphed his Stand "The Perfect World " into a pair of black wings with orange lines that were attached to his back while he was holding an NTW-20.

"Oh crap. That's an anti-tank rifle."

"None of you are going to get out of this place!" Tarturus roared from the sky as he fired multiple rounds from the anti-tank rifle, despite the fact that it was traveling faster than a speeding bullet, Evan simply deflected and kicked all of the shots away, some of which instead hit a couple of CI mobiles and Humvees, killing some troops and drivers or destroying the vehicles in the process.

Evan then flew towards him, but Tartarus morphed his Stand into a pair of ten arms linked to his back and unleashed a flurry of punches on Evan with them, and Evan did the same as their fists collided. It was a long battle between fast moving beings until they sensed something alarming, so they quickly flew back away from each other, just in time to avoid a laser blast from the mech's cannons as Evan lands back on the tank and Tartarus lands on top of a CI humvee, landing over hundreds of meters apart from each other.

Standing over the humvee, Tartarus' Stand broke into a swarm of cubes and drifted in the air before morphing into its original humanoid form, but this time with sharp clawed hands reaching a hundred centimeters in length and massive dark wings on its back. 

In mere seconds, the Perfect World spread its wings and with a single flap, it instantly appeared in front of Evan.

Immediately, Evan delivered a rapid cross-punch, only for the Perfect World to shatter into cubes and fly past him before morphing back into its humanoid form behind Evan, catching him off-guard, enough for it to prepare to stab him in the back. However, before he could do it, Rodeo appeared behind him and punched the Perfect World in the face, sending it flying off the tank.

However, it used its wings to continue flying after them. The Perfect World then morphed both of his hands into Gatling guns and started firing hundreds of rounds at them, but Spy easily deflected all the shots away, as did Cerberus with his ice spear. 

As Tartarus continued to chase and fired his guns at them, he soon noticed something downhill, which turned out to be a very huge and deep open chasm with the only piece of walking land being on the opposite side.

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"We are gonna jump over the crack!" Rodeo said.

"With a damn tank?!" Michelle exclaimed, bewildered by his proposal.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Y E S!"

"...We're gonna die."

Ignoring her words, Rodeo looked over at Lawrence and shouted, "Punch it Lawrence!" 

Lawrence put more gas into the engine as they were about to reach the crack. Rodeo, Evan, Michelle and Spy went back inside the tank and closed the hatch. Once they were inside, Rodeo yelled. 

"NOW!" 

"WAR!" 

"RAZOR!"

As the tank hits a snowy ramp, the tank jumps over the chasm. In the following instant, Cerberus and Ain't No Grave appeared behind the tank and punched it in the rear with full force in order to give it more propulsion to reach the other side, all of it happened in sloooow motion.

"LIFE ALWAYS FINDS A WAYYYYYYYY!"

"FUCK YOU, RODEOOOOOOOOOO!" 

The slow motion ceased as soon as Spy cursed Rodeo for his idiotic plan, and they reached the opposite side and began driving away. 

The CI soldiers pulled on the brakes on their vehicles and came to a complete stop. The Perfect World, who was standing next to Tartarus, extended its index finger, and a tiny pixel cube appeared on the tip before shooting it at the tank at bullet speed. Despite the very large distance between them, it successfully hits the tank, and the pixel cube crawls into the tank through a small gap, rolling towards Evan and gluing itself to one of his legs without him noticing.

Everyone couldn't continue to chase the tank, except for the mech, which simply hopped over the chasm and effortlessly reached the other side, where it continued chasing them, leaving the CI soldiers and Armored Barons behind. 

Armored Barons: 🙁 

Deciding to channel their rage onto something else, the Armored Barons changed their attention to the CI soldiers and proceeded to attack them. 

One of the armored Barons tries to attack Tarturus, only for it to be caught by Perfect World's grasp before slamming it into the ground and crushing its head, blood and guts sputtering around.

"Keep them busy." Tartarus said indifferently to his man.

The soldiers nodded and Colonel Tartarus seized a snowmobile and drove away, attempting to find another way to reach the group while the CI soldiers continued fighting the armored barons.

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Queen's Requiem remained inside the tank, and after successfully jumping over the deep fissure, they drove to the extraction point, unaware that the sentinel mech had crossed the crack and was still chasing them, but since the mech was still far away, they didn't notice it... yet. 

"Rodeo... come up with a plan like that again, I'll delete your PS5 save files!" Michelle threatened him.

"NO, NOT THE SAVE FILES!"

"Good grief." Robert said flatly, "But still what the hell was that Stand? It looks like it can break itself into multiple pieces and morph into any shape." he wondered, referring to the Perfect World.

"Or it could have more than one ability than just morphing into any shape it wants." Green added.

"Perhaps." Evan nodded.

As everyone remained silent, Spy heard a helicopter noise, he opened the hatch and looked outside and saw a V-22 Osprey flying past above them and flying onward.

"Our rides here, mon amis."

Hearing his words, everyone's expression brightened, and some of them stepped out of the tank to look at the helicopter in delight. All of a sudden, a laser blast flies past the foundation aircraft, luckily missing them at the length by a hairbreadth, but shaking it slightly.

They turned around to see the Sentinel Mech catching up to them. Spy then makes a call through the radio to those aboard the Osprey to land promptly. The pilots in the Osprey did exactly that, and immediately landed on the snowy ground and brought down the ramp on the aircraft's back. 

Inside the V-22 were over seven MTF soldiers, along with Molly and Amelia, who came as supportive backup with their Stands while they were in winter clothing. The tank stopped near the tiltrotor aircraft, and the team disembarked the tank and hurriedly entered the aircraft by walking up the ramp as the mech was coming in on them. 

"FLY!"

The pilots instantly took off the aircraft into the air before the mech could reach them. The mech fired more lasers from the palm of its hands and shoulder cannons. Unfortunately, all the shots missed and the Osprey soared away. 

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BAM!

Inside the mech, the Marauder fiercely smashes the control panels in a fit of rage. Looking over to Revenant, he shouted.

"IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE SKY, REVENANT?!"

"The rest of the Immoran Fighter-class fleet are dealing with the GOC scumbags, while the Destroyer and Hunter-class hell ships won't be able to meet up with us since they are providing support to our ground troops back at the mountain." Revenant explained. All those words didn't calm Marauder down, he clenched his fist so tightly as his mind was about to explode and destroy everything in his sight.

However...

"But... we do have one thing flying around in the sky."

Marauder calmed his mind down as his hand ceased clenching. Fixing his gaze at Revenant at his back, he asked.

"And that would be what exactly?"

"...a Dragon."