Fan Fiction / Card Captor Sakura Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Yamato Gun IV ❯ Whisper ( Chapter 10 )

"Fallen angels at my feet... Whispered voices at my ear... Death
before my eyes... Lying next to me I fear... She beckons me, shall I
give in... Upon my end shall I begin... Forsaking all I've fallen for
I rise to meet the end..."

"Mmmnnmgn..."

I groggily awake back on the bridge of the Hyperion II, crash-landed on Braxis. A large gouge in the side of the hull reveals snow and night.

I shakily get to my feet. "Rei?" I call out, albeit a little weakly.

I look around. "Rei?" I call again, a little louder.

"...Ami...?" Rei replies.

"Rei, are you alright?"

"I think so... I'll live, at least... what about the others?"

"I don't know... Raynor? Schezar? Anybody?"

"Nnn... wha... wh..." Comes Raynor's attempt at a reply.

"Raynor! Where are you?" I call, transforming.

"Here... Wherever here is. I'm-arg-under some wreckage." He seems quite calm considering the circumstances.

His voice seems to be coming from the left. I look around, and catch a glimpse of sea green. "I think I see you." I go over to him and start lifting off parts of beams and girders. "Rei! You mobile? Can you come help?"

"Yeah." She says, coming over, and helps me uncover Raynor.

"Thanks, both of you." He says. "Any other survivors?"

"Besides us, you're the first one who regained consciousness."

"You've got a second." Schezar's voice comes from behind us, sounding like he's in a lot of pain.

"You ok, Schezar?" Raynor asks.

"I'll live, but I feel like I just went toe-to-toe with a Hunter Killer."

"Yeah, don't we all. Anyone else?"

"I'm here." Kazansky replies. "Looks like I got off easy. Barely a scratch on me."

"Damnit, Kazansky, you never get hurt. I demand you injure yourself this instant!" He says as we finish clearing the debris and freeing him. "Man, that feels better." He says, getting to his feet.

"I suppose it would." I reply.

"That's it for the survivors? Walters? Usagi? Anyone?"

No answer. Raynor, Schezar, Kazansky and I look around for any sign of the others. We find Usagi unconscious, but alright, and wake her up. Walters looked like she had a broken arm, and didn't wake up when we tried, but was still breathing.

At that point my mind decides to remember the encounter with Mengsk. "Shit, we're sitting ducks here." I say suddenly.

"What?" Raynor asks.

"When we were knocked out, me and Rei went to the Imaginary universe. I killed Mengsk, and he said if he died the order would be given to destroy the ship. So we've got to get as many people as far away from this ship as we can, now."

"I knew I should have stayed in bed this morning... Let's go." Raynor and all the other survivors start to exit the ship through the gouge in the hull.

"Computer?" I try.

Nothing. No power. "Nice try." Rei says as she exits and I follow.

As I exit, I see Raynor looking up at the sky and do so myself. Silhouetted against the brownish-grey overcast sky is a Battlecruiser. "The Caesar." Raynor says. "Mengsk's flagship. He's moving into position to Yamato Gun us." He sounds thoroughly defeated.

"Let's go then! Get away from here!"

"It's useless. A Yamato Gun blast can level half a square mile. We're all dead."

A light starts forming at the nose of the craft. "It's been a good run." He says remiscinently.

"It's not over yet." Rei says. "It can't be over yet! There's gotta be something we can do! Anything!"

"Unless your attacks can reach that far and destroy the nose of that ship in, oh, about seven seconds, there's nothing."

The light gets brighter. It looks like an orange comet has parasitically merged with the ship. A loud hum fills the air, getting more and more high-pitched.

Then, out of nowhere, a lightning bolt splits the sky and hits the Battlecruiser in the nose, destroying the Yamato Cannon before it can fire. Four seconds later, the thunder catches up to us and almost deafens us, it's so loud. "What the..."

My eyes light up as I put two and two together. "MAKO!"

I jump up on the top of the downed Hyperion and see Makoto there, a large sword in her hand, the blade of which made entirely out of lightning. "JUPITER!" She reverse intones, holding the blade above her head. "THUNDER! CANNOOON!" She brings the sword down in a vertical slice and it flashes a brilliant pure white for a split second.

Another lightning bolt hits the Caesar in its right wing, and an explosion can be seen even from here. The ship starts to falter in its hover. "MAKOOO!" I call happily as I run over to her.

She turns, and immediately breaks into a huge grin. "AMI!" She says as I wrap her up in a fierce embrace, squeezing her as tight as I can.

"You're alive! You're alive!" I repeat over and over again, as if I need to be convinced of the fact.

"I'm alive! I'm alive! Oh, it's good to be back!" She says over my verbal loop.

I finally break the embrace. "You have one more of those left in you?" I say, tears of joy starting to well up in my eyes.

"Hell yeah." She says, giving me the peace sign. Little crackles of electricity travel in the space between the two fingers.

"Alright then." I say, looking at the injured Battlecruiser. "To blow it up, you're going to have to hit the Engineering section, the dark part near the back of the ship."

She squints at the ship. "I think I can manage that." She says. "Stand back."

I step back a little. "THIS ONE'S FOR EVERYONE IN THE HYPERION II! JUPITER!" She says, raising the sword over her head again. "THUNNNDER! CANNNNON!"

The largest bolt of lightning rips through the air and all but splits the ship in two as it hits the back of it, sparking an explosion that envelops the entire ship. The whole glowing mass starts to go down.

"You did it, Mako! You did it! YOU DID IT!" I say, wrapping her back up in a hug.

"Hey, Ami, where'd you-MAKOTO!" Rei's voice comes from behind me. "Makoto, you're alright!" I hear her footsteps speed up as she starts running over.

"I'm better than alright, I feel like a million volts right now!" Makoto replies over my left shoulder.

I let her go again. "Don't ever leave like that again." I say before Rei catches up to us.

"I won't. You'll...you-you'll make sure of th-that..." Makoto noticably slumps into me.

"Mako!" Rei and I say as I try to keep her up. "What's wrong?"

"I ust went back up. All the THC in my-my system's not f-flushed out yet... I think."

"Oh... understandable."

That makes her laugh, and it's then and there I know that things are finally starting to look up. Two almost-deaths, one attempted suicide, and probably thousands of sudden demises later, the latest chapter of Yamato Gun is over.

But that's just it.

It's over.