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Six months before Helghan Terracide
November 14,2359
Lazar Highway - Five kilometers from Visari's Palace
Alex: He did it….Scolar Visari,The Autarch of the Helghast Empire has committed the biggest unforgivable act in this war and in halls written and spoken history.
Odin:...
Alex:He ordered for the Red Dust nuke to be detonated in Pyrrhus, wiping out the bulk of the ISA invasion forces, along with many of his own soldiers, still in the city.
Odinamn…
Alex:I was beyond words and emotions. I know and understand the history of the Helghast but this...he sunk Helghan to an inescapable fate. A fate only you will never understand.
As Alpha Squad walked to the edge, they see the imperial palace still standing. Right behind it is the nuclear devastated city of Pyrrhus,with the mushroom cloud visible to all.
Rico:He did it...Visari nuked his own damn city.
Garzaamn….
Nakto: Guess we're the only beachhead left. Shit.
Sheena: I knew Visari would use the nuke but not like this.
They turned their heads to see Narville yelling at the marines.
Narville:Where's your goddam C-O? You call yourselves marines!? Get on your feet goddammit! All of you! We're not done here!
Rico: Not like this,man...I'm going after Visari. I'm not waiting here for his goddamn army to come finish us off.
Natko pause for a thought before speaking.
Natko: What the fuck. We're screwed either way,right?
Rico: How about it? Sev? Draken?
Draken: What's done is done. Because of Visari, nobody can undo what he did. Helghan is...condemned to oblivion. We take Visari. Dead or Alive.
Sev:What's left of our forward unit just called in, seeing two entire regiment of Helghast reinforcement heading our way...Radec's personal guard taking point. The rest of Helghan is probably pissed off as fuck their capital city got destroyed by an ISA nuke and hell-bent on gutting each and every one of us. So, yeah...Natko is right...we're here either way. But when has that stopped us before…
Keyra: Guys! You take a look at this!
She takes out her scanner and set it to video mode to show them Visari's final address.
Visari:"My People, sons and daughters of Helghan! On this day, as our enemy's ships burn away in orbit, as their bodies lie broken in our streets, we are once again reminded of the depths of their depravity. For years we have suffered unbearable hardships. Banished by our enemies to die from disease, from famine. They scarred us, they weakened us... But that time has passed. For years we worked away on empty stomachs, slowly rebuilding our strength, our pride and our nation... But that time has passed. All these years, I have been humbled by the honor to lead you. Ever, EVER onwards! From this day, till the end of days!"
After his speech, Her scanner begins ringing, she set on speakerphone only to find Visari on the other end.
Draken:You didn't get me, Visari! You missed!
Visari: Is that you,Alexander. I was expecting your father to send your brother to come get me,but you...I'm impressed. You and your pack are interestingly hard to kill.
Draken:We're not done. I'm not done!
Visari: You know what? I believe that. I do. So let's make it easy. I'm in the palace. It's not far.
Draken:I know where the fuck that is. I can see it from right here.
Visari: Then by all means,Come. Radec and I are waiting.
The call ended.
Rico: Something tells me Visari just made this personal between you and him. Alright,take it to him to them...
Draken:Yeah,let's…
Two Intruders landed next to them. They rode it to the Palace where Visari awaits.
Meanwhile
Visari's Palace
(Argos Bastet Panthera is an OC for this story. He'll have a bigger role. Trust me.)
Argos Panthera walked with Scholar Visari whilst having a conversation.
Argos: Visari, The visions are becoming clearer as my progression to this strain deepened due to my role in Project Chimera many years ago. The way I see it: Alex and the ISA will decide your fate and to a certain extend,all of Helghan.
Visari: What are these visions you speak of?
Argos: Events leading the up to the Helghan End of Days. An event in which Helghan is destroyed from a fire one of us has created for war.
Visari: Is there any to prevent it from happening when I am gone?
Argos: No, The Moirai have sealed it when you ordered the city's destruction. They told me if I try to change either yours or Helghan against their orders, Hera will suffer their retaliation.
Visari: What is my fate then?
Argos: A Martyr. Neither killed nor captured. Most of Helghan will make the ISA bleed for you but the others that oppose your rule secretly or openly will go great lengths to expose you. Regardless ,a power struggle will arise and it could cause unforeseen benefits and consequences for both sides.
Visari: The ISA would never take my life if they wanted to. Their leaders need me alive to control Helghan. But let see where this go.
Suddenly, a Helghast trooper enter the chambers.
Helghast: My Autarch, The ISA are here. They took out the Palace's Arc Tower. Radec and the honor guard dealing with them now but they falling back.
Visari: What's your name,solder?
Helghast: Private Kaplan,my lord
Visari: Go to Lt. Radec and help her in any way you can.
Helghast: Yes, Sir
He ran off to fulfill his orders.
Visari: Take you position on that balcony overlooking here but stay hidden. If they taken me alive, do what you can for me. But…. If they take me dead,then...you know what to do. And Argos, you and my daughter have my blessing for her hand in marriage. Protect her Argos, Keep her safe.
Argos: I will.
He went to the balcony while Visari went to the window that looks over the city.
Visari's palace -Entrance
Helghast:Retreat!
They took them out before they enter the palace.
Rico: Everyone! Let's go!
Natko:You guys go ahead. Garza, Me and the good higs with us will stay out here and keep them at bay.
He close the door as the four headed up to Visari.
Orvo: Helghast reinforcements are going to be breathing down our backs soon! It's a going to be bag and run.
Natko: We're still mopping up out here! Don't take forever-we won't be here that long!
Rico:Alright then. We're on our own. From here on in, we gotta watch each others back,Sev. That includes you, Key'ra.
Narvile: Alright men,now go capture Visari and end this campaign for us all,good luck!
They came running in an huge room where there was an statue of Visari in the middle of the room and chandeliers. As they reached the middle of the room the door on the other side of the room and there came two helghast out of the door and no other than Colonel Radec.
Boss: Colonel Radec
Helghast: Security identified a breach at the main gate.
Radec: Why didn't second platoon...I'll deal with these four myself. Didn't I kill "all" of you yet?!
Alex:No, Radec, You're going to find out the hard way through me.
Radec: Alexander Draken…. You're ruefully mistaken. Cut them off.
He disappeared and the other helghast went to take cover and shooting at them
Radec: Break those four up! Don't let them support each other!
Sev with a StA-3 Stova Light Machine Gun mows down the two on the left while Key'ra and Draken takes out the snipers
Radec: Bring the Chandelier's down upon them!
They shoot the chandeliers,sending down to them. They dodge them and continued fighting until the gates to the balcony opened.
Rico: The balcony doors are doors are open! Sweep Forward! Take up an overwatch position on the second floor!
Radec: Stop them! Bring them down!
Key'ra: Draken and I will take the left.
Rico: ...While me and Sev take the right.
She take out a pryo trooper before grabbing a VC32 to take out the Higs firing rockets at them.
They took their positions. Sev grabbed a Grenade launcher and takes the out the shock troopers coming to them. Key'ra tossed a Teslite Grenade to the pair below,shocking them.
An Intruder crashed right through the window,to the floor.
They take out the last of Radec's forces, leaving Radec alone.
Radec: You seem to want this to be personal, It will be my pleasure…
He teleported to them with StA-3 LMG and started firing at them. Sev shoot him but he teleported to Draken. He dodges his swipes from his knife before he counters and sends him to the wall. Radec dodge Key'ra's knife and teleported near the statue.
Radec: The essence of combat: kill, or be killed!
Draken and Radec kept duking it out until Draken somehow damage his cloaking device forcing him to defend the door.
Sev aims and fired a round into Radec's chest, mortally wounding him.
Draken takes a Shotgun and a few shells from a dead Helghast. Radec take out his pistol but before he can use it against them, Draken shot his Radec right hand off. Radec screams in agony.
Radec's radio
Runa: Colonel,respond. Are you hurt?
Draken takes the radio from him and responds.
Alex: I'm sorry but Radec can't come to speak with you. He's at death's door right now.
Runa:no...
Alex removes the helmet from Radec's head and reloads his shotgun.
Alex: Radec,you made be a Loyal...Ruthless hound...
Alex shoots 4 rounds in his arms and legs.
Alex: ...but when you mess with wolves like me, there's your difference.
Radec: you'll die a Warwolf in Hell ,Alexander
Alex:...Warwolf...I like that name. And this is for Templar.
Alex shoots him the face at point-blank range,killing him.
Alex speaks to Runa on the radio before hanging up.
Alex:You can come out and clean him up. I'm done with him now.
He threw the shotgun away and takes out his sidearm.
Rico spits on Radec's body before moving.
Rico: Killing that son of a bitch for Jan was a good fucking start. Time to finish this thing now. Where is Visari? I wanna break that motherfucker's face myself.
As they neared the Emperor's hall, they came across a whole pile of dead Helghast troops just beyond the entrance.
Alex: What happen to them?
Rico: Looks like they killed themselves. Classy. Saves me the effort…or maybe that sick fuck Radec killed them for practice. Either way, they got what they deserved. Let's go collect their boss.
They reached the end of the hall and entered Visari's enormous throne chamber. The entire room was a giant, empty cavern with little inside it except two gigantic Helghan triads on the floor and the ceiling, a large mural of a Helghast soldier standing behind a group of "patriots", and two flights of stairs on either side leading up to a small executive desk on the far side of the room.
The man himself was standing with his back turned, staring out through his windows at his ravaged, desolate wasteland of a city. There were no soldiers, no bodyguards, no one left to fight who they hadn't killed already. It was just Rico, Sev, Key'ra,Draken and Visari.
Rico: Visari!
Sev: Scholar Visari! Scholar Visari...I'm placing you under arrest under article 27...
Visari: And who are you,soldier?
Sev: Sevchenko,Sergeant First Class.
Visari:"A sergeant? They send a sergeant to take Visari? Are your commanders all really so…afraid?"
He slowly walked down the left flight of stairs and stopped in front of them.
Sev:War's over, Visari. You lost.
Draken: You just don't know it yet! You can surrender no questions asked or…
He tossed Radec's bloodstained mask to his feet.
Draken: ….Go down the same path Radec did.
Visari: Really, and who won? The cowards who commanded you and your comrades to come here and die? The Helghast have lost nothing! We fight for who we are! We wear our wounds like badges of honor! Helghan is ours, and we will die before we let it fall to plunderers." That is why your leaders dare not make a martyr of me. Your fleet burned, your friends butchered...And you become a hero for saving my life? Does that sound like a victory to you, Sergeant Sevchenko?
Rico: Son of a bitch.
Sev: Good men have died. People have died—on your side, as well as ours! We'll see you rot in a cell for it! You'll pay for what you've done!"
VisarI:For giving my people pride, purpose!? We have built this great nation from nothing! Take me, and Helghan will dissolve into chaos. The ISA war machine, powerless against the sheer will of my people. We will choke the streets with our dead before we surrender. Your masters will beg me to restore order. You have not won! You will never!...
But before any can react, Rico had enough of his words and shot him in cold blood, to their shock and horror.
Sev: Rico! NO!
As Visari lie,bleeding on the floor,he looks up the ceiling to where the logo of Helghan Corporation is, With three interlocking arms to show that Helghan was on friendly terms and at peace with the UCN and ISA, as well as reflecting the virtues of Peace, Justice and Freedom between the three nations.
Visari: Madness….The madness….begins.
Visari breathe his last blood soaked breath….. and then he dies.
Sev, Draken, and Key'ra look back to where Rico is at,who sitting on the stairs, filled with guilt for his actions, before walking toward the exit, Worn from what he has been through and disillusioned with Rico's execution of Visari, they leaves the palace and sits on the entrance steps. Narville,Garza,Natko, and Sheena went in only to see the three of them walked past them.
Narville: Sergeant, Corporal?! What happened?
Garza: What happened,Alex?
Draken: I don't want to talk about it,Garza.
Sheena:Key'ra !?
Natko:Shit...Sev!
Narville:Goddammit!
As Draken about to write his entry, he and the others look to the skies to hear...and see the roar of dozens of helghast ships,descending down to attack them and the surviving ISA.
ISA:Fuck!
ISA:Helghast ships!
ISA:I thought First wave took them all of them out.
ISA: We're screwed!
ISA: Oh,man! I can't believe this...
Draken heavy sighed at this predicament and sits down with Sev and Key'ra sits down and writes in his journal as the ISA begins their evac.
ISA: We need to get the fuck out of here!
ISA:Move out,move out ,report to your CO's
ISA: Come on people, let's go, let's go!
Meanwhile back on Vekta
Draco Enterprises
Augustus was in office preparing for a meeting in a few hours. Suddenly , a tape recorder on his came to life and begins playing a final message to him:
"Augustus, my friend, If you are hearing this,then my life has taken by either one of your sons or the ISA themselves. My army has heard and felt my death...and now they seeking my murderers and their comrades to spill their blood. But despite all of what happened here, I now have succeeded my desire to become immortal by the means of martyrdom. History will write of me in its pages as a cruel,power-hungry dictator to eyes of humanity. But our and your family secrets is safe from others but if your sons learns any of it,then you see the understandable anger your sons give to you, They will forge their independence and rise along with their armies to fight against you and later the UCN. I have one final favor for you as an old friend: Watch over my daughter and her suitor and they shall help you with whatever you need to be done. And should anything happen to them, I want you do what must be done. If anyone choose to harm them, Don't hesitate,shed no mercy. Goodbye Augustus, or known to a few and me, Prince Phobos.
-Autarch Scolar Visari
Augustus/Phobos[softly]: Visari, you crazy bastard, thanks.