Operation Snowbreaker(12)

On the scene, Molly was currently hiding behind a tree at a time, observing a GOC tank and few numbers of soldiers with exo-suits pass her without them noticing her presence. As soon as they were out of sight, she quickly stepped out of hiding and went ahead.

"You got this, Molly. You got this. Just don't get caught off guard and find Lawrence and the rest and we'll be ok." Molly mumbled as she continued to move forward, without anyone noticing her when...

"Hey! Get over here!"

"I spoke too soon!"

In a panic, Molly instantly ducks, just in time to avoid a morning star with a chain flying past above her head, smashing and shattering a few trees in front of her and collapsing to the ground. She stood up and looked to see who had done it.

It was an Armored Baron. 

The Armored Baron reeled back his morning star back to his right arm and declared. 

"BY DAVOTH, I'LL KILL YA!"

"No!"

"AND, BY DAVOTH, YOU'LL DIE!"

"😱!" Molly gasps.

"Absolutely!" exclaims the Armored Baron, pointing the morning star at her. "I'M ABOUT TO FIIIIIIIIIRRREEEEEEE!"

"AHHHHHHHHHH!" 

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

In a tranquil snowy forest, the only sound that can be heard was the sound of screams and laughter, even if it could have been heard a hundred meters away, no one heard it.

"Don't do it!" 

"...Ok." The Armored Baron said softly, pointing the morning star away.

"Really? 😃"

"Just kidding." The Armored baron said as he pointed back the morning star at her again.

"😱!" She gasps once more.

"Ohhh! I'm gonna do it like this!" The Armored Baron shouted as he launched his morning star at Molly. 

"Ughhhhh, to hell with it!"

Before the Morning Star can reach Molly, her stand Bad Moon Rising appears and kicks it away from her, and the Morning Star slams against a nearby boulder to her side, shattering it into dust.

"A spirit, huh?" The Armored Baron says as he reels back his morning star to his arm, before adding, "But who cares, you're gonna die!"

"I hope my Stand gets me out of this." Molly mumbles as she takes a step back.

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Somewhere deep in the forest, Rodeo was hiding and moving from tree to tree as he spotted more GOC soldiers moving around the area and heading for the Sentinel Mech's direction, as well as noticing the hell dimension forces and Chaos Insurgency forces were also moving in the vicinity.

"Great, as if it wasn't already hard enough as it is already." Rodeo mumbles irritably, "At least Green calls about the extraction and green flare so that's good at least, just need to get out of here without attracting anyones attention."

As he peers out and glances around to see the area is clear, he carefully walks out of cover and...

By mistake, he steps on an old tree branch that is lying on the ground, which creates a loud crunch sound in the process. 

"...I hope that didn't draw any attention."

Unfortunately, lady luck wasn't on Rodeo's side as the Wintherin landed heavily behind him, rocking the earth. Slowly turning around, Rodeo saw the fifty-feet-tall reptilian beast standing there, and staring directly at him... menacingly

"ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ"

"...Good grief."

The Wintherin spread his wings wide open as the rays of sunlight that pierce the dark cloudy skies and engulfed the Dragon, making himself more intimidating and letting out a deafening roar that echoed throughout the area. The moment he was spotted, Rodeo instantly knew that things were about to become serious as he took a boxer stance. 

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Green was on his way to the last location where Evan was when he gave everyone the call regarding the extraction point, telling them to meet up and avoid contact from the Global Occult Coalition, the Chaos Insurgency, and even the Hell Dimension forces, which a huge number of each party were roaming around the area and most of them either fought against each other in a massive gunfight or were blasted by the mech.

It was complete chaos throughout the entire forest nonetheless for Green to manage to avoid getting caught in the crossfire. Soon after, he came to a halt when he noticed the Stand arrow laying on the ground next to the dead Marauder, who had a slight scrape on his finger. 

"Looks like he wasn't deemed worthy," Green says as he picks up the arrow from the ground and was about to rush to meet up with Evan, only to have him snatched by the throat by the Marauder that he assumed to be dead. 

"Still alive?!"

"We meet again, human." Muttered the Marauder before tossing him into a tree and slamming into it 

"Cerberus!"

The moment Green stood up and shouted, Cerberus sprang out of thin air and delivered a right hook on the Marauder, only for an arm to appear beside him and catch his fist. 

"?!"

This caused everyone to be taken back by this.

"Hm?" Even the Marauder felt the same way.

Cerberus took a couple steps back, and the arm vanished before a humanoid materialized in front of the Marauder.

The humanoid had the same height as the Marauder, it had a black-gray skin with some orange glowing clawed hands that emits heating temperatures, his lower face where the mouth was glowed in a orange light, but it's eyes and the top of his head are covered by a black gray horned helmet of some sort and some black gray spike sticking out from it's shoulders and knees.

This was the Marauder's Stand. 

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"...That can't be good."

"Well, this is something." The Marauder muses in interest as he attempts to test out the Stand.

With a simple wave of his hand, his Stand blasted a projectile from his palms at Cerberus, but he dodged it with ease, only for the projectile to hit a tall tree in the distance and rapidly melt it whole in a matter of seconds.

While the projectile is fast as a speeding bullet, Green was able to catch it with Ceberus' enhanced eyesight. and discovers that it is formed of magma.

Without wasting time, both Stands delivered a hook at the same time and their right fists collided, then they did a lightning fast spin kick on each other, resulting a huge shockwave that flattened the grass and pushes the trees back by the clashing of their kicks, it also resulted the two Stands to back away from each other. 

At the speed dozens of times faster than sound, the Marauder's Stand fired another magma shot at Cerberus, but he formed an ice shield out of nowhere to block the magma from himself, but it instantly melted the shield completely. 

"Now this is very interesting."

"So it's the same type of stand as Cerberus." Green said to himself after examining the battle, "Not enough range but has a lot of speed, power and strength to it, and can manipulate elements. For me it's fire, ice and electricity, but for you it's... magma."

"So that's what you call these spirits, huh? A Stand. Quite the name for spirits that literally... well standing beside you, of course. Maybe I'm gonna call my Stand... Firestarter."

"Like the song?"

"Of course, that song. Now before we begin, I'd like to know your name, human. This is our second meeting, so I deserve to know."

"It's Thomas Green."

"Then, Thomas Green, let us fight with our Stands and our skills this time." The Marauder declared, "We weren't on equal footing last time, so having a Stand of my own will make it fair for us."

Cracking his knuckles, Green replied, "Bring it on then."

 *Music Play — Fall of Davoth*

In the next instant, Cerberus delivers two fast jabs at Firestarter, but it blocked the jabs with its elbows, then leaps into the air and went for a superman punch and at the same time, covering his right fist with magma to deliver the punch on Cerberus, but he coated his left fist in flames.

The two fists in two similar elemental powers both soon collided with each other, resulting in a shockwave that blew the two Stands apart.

"Tch." Green ended up clicking his tongue.

"Shall we compare each other's rush attacks?"

In the next split second, both Stands unleashed a barrage of punches at each other as their fists collided at blinding speeds.

"WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR! WAR!"

"RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE! RISE!"

Both Stands kept on yelling while launching their rush attacks as the barrage continued. Then Cerberus went for a right jab, but Firestarter ducked from the attack and responded by sending a few jabs at Cerberus' three heads at unprecedented speed, who didn't have enough time to react, resulting in receiving numerous hits and spit out blood, which Green felt that damage as well.

"Now to kill you both!"

The moment the Marauder shouted, Firestarter summoned a gigantic Broadsword composed of magma rocks and went for a vertical slash on Cerberus, but Cerberus counters it by blasting a bolt of electricity on Firestarter, temporarily stunning him for an instant.

But that instant is enough for Cerberus to ignite his fist on flames and swing it towards its chin with immense force enough to injure the Stand, but Firestarter instantly recovers from its stunned state and swiftly backflips away from the flaming attack and lands in front of the Marauder.

Recovered for a split second, Firestarter was about to launch another attack with its magma ability when...

Bam!

BOOM!

Before they could even react, a GOC tank came crashing down next to Green and the Marauder at blazing speed, causing a large explosion that required Cerberus to shield Green from the dangerous shrapnels that it shot out.

They turned to the right and saw it was the Sentinel Mech hurling and kicking GOC and CI vehicles left and right, sending hundreds of soldiers into the air, and blasting helicopters and jets off the sky.

"For the love of Davoth, these idiots will crush us instead if they continue to throw them like that." Marauder grumbles.

By then, two engine sounds can be heard at that point, and the two looked up to see two Hunter-class and four Destroyer-class hellships arriving, dropping more reinforcements and bombarding the area with more blaster shots.

"Just a tiny reminder, we lost the crystal."

"What!?"

"This battlefield won't be enough for us, and since two more sides want us dead, and... that this place might get bombarded with blaster fire, and since I just got recently a Stand now and our fight might get interfered, I'm withdrawing from this fight... for now," Marauder says to Green. "We will meet again, Thomas Green, and have a battle without distractions and interference from either side."

Marauder, along with his new Stand fled as Green started hearing more sounds of explosions and gunfire can be heard in his surroundings.

"The guy's honorable, I'll give him credit for that." Green said as he glanced around, "Now I need to get out of this place."

Looking up in the sky, Green soon spotted four green flares fired in the air. 

'It's got to be the foundation! I hope the others saw it.' Green thought to himself as he dashed to the source of the green flares. 

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Surrounded by hundreds of knocked out bodies of CI soldiers, Evan and Lawrence's Stand Ain't no Grave were relentlessly attacking The Perfect World from all sides, but despite facing two extremely fast Stands, he maintained parrying and dodging the assaults without breaking a sweat.

Dodging another blade, the Perfect World sprang into the air and morphed his head into a cannon, and fired a shot at them, but Ain't No Grave, Lawrence, and Evan scattered around and avoided the shot.

Ain't No Grave threw the loose white bandages on his arms towards The Perfect World, the bandages wrapped around his legs then pulled it downward and slammed the enemy Stand back to the ground before pulling The Perfect World towards himself and did a horizontal slash with both of his arm blades, but before it made contact, The Perfect World broke into a swarm of small cubes and phased through the attack before morphing back into its humanoid form behind Ain't No Grave.

Transformed one of his hands into deadly claws, the Perfect World instantly slashed down on his back, but Ain't No Grave's blade on each of his arms retracted back within it and sprang out off his back, clashing with The Perfect World's claw and foiling his attack. 

"What?"

'I see. So Ain't No Grave can make the three arm blades on each of his arms to retract back and come out from any part of his body, whether it's his arms, legs, chest or back, and perhaps possibly his head.' Evan pondered when he inspect Ain't No Grave's new skill they discovered.

The Perfect World leaped away from Lawrence's Stand as it caused blades to emerge from both of his legs, then did a rapid horizontal spin kick on it, but the Perfect World backstepped from the attack but received a horizontal slash on his chest, causing Tartarus to grumble. 

Ain't No Grave then swings his bladed legs left and right, sending multiple wind slashes towards Tartarus, who commanded his Stand, The Perfect World, as it came in front of its user and morphed both of his hands into two layers of enormous shields and joined them together to defend against the attack.

"You fell for it, fool! Now watch your ability be disabled!"

Upon hearing his remarks, a huge swarm of small cubes bursts out of the snowy ground and heads towards Lawrence and Ain't no Grave like a ferocious beast, in order to nullify their ability till... 

Pew! BOOM!

A crimson bullet tore through the air and struck the midst of the field they were battling at, resulting in a violent explosion that sent them all flying a few meters apart and landing on the ground. 

"What the hell?!" Tarturus groaned angrily as he and two of his enemies stood up and saw six Fighter-class hell ships soaring through the sky, firing their argent-fueled blasters at them.

The Perfect World morphed both of his head and hands into cannons, and in an instant, it began blasting back at the hell ships. Meanwhile, Evan and Lawrence had just gotten up off the ground and were about to do something when they heard someone screaming their names. They turned around and saw Green calling them. 

"Green?!" Both exclaimed.

"Follow me! I saw the green flares!" Says the latter.

Following his words, they dash along with Green, leaving Tartarus behind with the hellships. The latter himself noticed them leaving and was about to chase them down. Unfortunately, with the hellships in his way, he has no choice but to deal with them first.

"OUR FIGHT IS FAR FROM OVER, FOUNDATIONNNNNN!"