Knights of DayBreak
Chapter 13
By: W.Bob Yankovic


	If the last fic left you wondering what was going to happen you
might get a few answers in this one. But be prepaired for some
interesting events. There are only two more after this one so someone
is going to have to start dieing off, but who will die? Gonna have to
read to find out.


	"Yes, how stupid do you feel now human?" Vyraxon cackled out
amidst laughs. I was in shock. How could this happen? Why would Shandra
sell us out to Vyraxon? There was no obvious reason for her actions. I
stood back up and tried to stammer out a few words, but nothing came
out in words. "You want to know how? I will tell you. You see, my
dimension ties into every other. You might say that it feeds every
other dimension. It is the source of all evil that exists. Shandra here
was weak enough for me to coerce with the Dark Side. After that she
quickly spilled out the whole plan. You might be wondering why you
didn't feel any of this going on. Well as you might remember you
yourself have been tempted several times by the Dark Side. I simply
blocked you out from my dealings. I do say that you were less of an
obstacle than I expected," Vyraxon said as he began to laugh again.
	"That just isn't possible. It doesn't make sense. How can one
dimension be that powerful?" Irvine asked. I didn't want to give my
answer because I feared that it would be true. Vyraxon insted confirmed
my worst fears.
	"What you call the Omega Dimension is in fact what Earth Alpha
calls Hell. As you may guess that makes us Fallen, demons. And we are
that powerful because every villan and enemy that you have killed has
ended up in Hell with us. We simply steal their power and use it for
our own good. Let me show you an example," he said. He charged up a
huge blast and flew up into the air. "DESTRUCTION RAINS FROM ABOVE!" he
screamed as huge blasts flew down at us. We were taken by surprise and
everyone was thrown back away from the impact crater made by the blast.
	"No way! Only the Sword of Darkness can do that!" Mac screamed.
I myself didn't believe my eyes. If what he was saying was true he had
access to every move of anyone that was in Hell. If this was true then
we were screwed.
	"Yes but the Sword of Darkness was used by Lucifer himself to
comabat Micheal and Heaven's angels. So therefore I have the ability to
summon it's power," Vyraxon said.
	"Alright enough small talk," I said as I threw my right hand
out to my side. The rings on my hands began to glow and soon a sword
formed in my hand. "You play your games, I'll play mine. Taste the
Sword of Light," I said as I flew toward him. I raised the Sword up
above my head and brought it down with a force that could have split
the planet below me. The split second before my blade reached the
demi-crown of horns on Vyraxon's head he had his bone blades out and
stopped my swing. I threw more energy into the swing and lowered myself
to the ground. He noticed that I had increased my energy so he doubled
his. Under us the ground began to depress as we struggled to get the
upper hand.
	"You cannot defeat me, I have more power than anyone in
existance," he said to me as he unleashed more of his power. Mac and
everyone else was thrown back by the increase, and I was almost brought
to my knees.
	"Yeah but I have God on my side," I cried as I poured all of my
power into my Sword. The blade began to glow a brilliant white and the
ground beneath Vyraxon began to pile up behind his heels. I was pushing
him down, slowly.  The next thing I knew Vyraxon had opened a portal
under him. He fell through it and closed it before my blade could taste
his flesh. The power stored up in my blade was released and as the
blade hit the ground a huge valley was thrown up on both sides of me.
	I turned around and flew up to get a better vantage of the
battle field. I was hit by a fist right inbetween my shoulder blades
and went sprawling back to the ground. From up above me I heard Vyraxon
laughing. He seemed to do that a lot. "Stupid, stupid, stupid. You
don't believe me. I have all the power. I am supreme. Your God doesn't
care about you. He just sits up there and tosses down judgement and
wrath. The only joy that you humans ever experiance is through your own
selves. We have decieved you from the beginning and we decieve you now.
Who would have thought that all we had to do was let that stupid fool
Adam see his wife naked to destroy generation after generation. You
stupid humans will kill just to get yourself five minutes of pleasure.
You think that God is really in control? You think that He gives you
strength? You think that He listens when you pray? You are nothing more
than an spot on a marble in the middle of never ending darkness to him.
I have always known that the human race was stupid. I was against it
from the start. That is why I followed Lucifer. He knew what was going
on with God and his little schemes. He was more of a genious than
anything that God has created since. He was supposed to be where that
weakling Micheal is now," Vyraxon said as he lowered himself to the
ground.
	"So what exactly does that make you?" Draco said quite
unimpressed by the speach. "I think that makes you a traitor and a fool
to turn your back on God who, last time I checked, created you. How can
you claim to be more powerful than the one that made you? You are the
one that is stupid," he added.
	"Well, Well, the young one is fiesty. And vain. Your power is
supplied by your rage. You mean nothing, you don't deserve to ask me a
question. But never the less I will answer. For thousands of years I
was Lucifer's right hand man, much like Micheal is for God. I lead his
armies, I weilded the Sword of Darkness, I killed thousands of angels,
I stole the souls of countless others leaving them with no choice but
to join us, but I tierd of that game. When Lucifer chose Cordran to be
his champion and drained his power to ressurect him I saw my window of
opportunity. He should have chosen me to go kill that Doss fellow, I
would have not failed the first time. So, I destroyed Lucifer and took
the title of Satan for my own. You may think of me as the new devil.
And where Lucifer failed, I will succeed. I will destroy God's favorite
creation, man. You are just simple pawns in a supernatural chess game.
And I am fixing to put God in checkmate!" He said as he opened a huge
portal under us.
	When I saw what was on the other side of the portal I rubbed my
eyes to make sure that I wasn't dreaming. All around me there were
flames and smoke. We stood in a huge ampitheater amidst a sea of
horrendous tortured souls that screamed and jeered at us, millions upon
millions of them. The heat was unbearable, and the air stung my eyes
when I tried to look around. Vyraxon gave a little bow and said,
"Welcome to Hell, I hope you have a nice stay."
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	Raven kept directing traffic among the huge capital fleet of
the Knights. The Dark Flame Fleet had for all purposes trapped them.
"How are those tankers coming? Why aren't those ships falling back?
Where the hell are all of our fighters?" he screamed out over the comm.
His answers came back in mixed messages of terror and surprise. The
water tankers designed to take step one against the Sheols were not
manned or prepped for flight even though they were supposed to stay on
highest alert. "I'll have someone's head for that!" Raven screamed. The
fighters blasted out of the hangers and just a few seconds later came
the tankers.
	Across the twenty or so click gap between the two fleets Raven
noticed the Serpent Fighters pouring from out of the Sheols and the
Lucifer. Luckily there were no signs of the Lucifer's mega cannon being
charged or prepped to fire. The Serpent that had been rigged was being
kept in a cargo transport that was to flight into the fray and make
it's way back to the Lucifer just in case they got a little trigger
happy.
	"Raven, all fighter groups and tankers have now been deployed
and a defense perimeter has been set up to allow all of the
reinforcement ships to escape and help out with the assault on the
planets," Qui Xux said from behind him. He nodded in agreement and
shifted his attention back out toward the Dark Flame Fleet. On the hull
of Hogo, all of the weapons arrays began to move along their tracks to
the center of the ship to form the Core Cannon. Raven hoped that it
wouldn't come to firing it, but if it did it was best to be able to go
at a moment's notice.
	"How goes the planetary assault?" he asked with a sigh. For the
first few minutes it was going ahead of schedule, but it seemed that
some planets had been armed with defense systems. The forces sent by
the Knights were devestated when they came in contact with these. Now
it was almost an unsalvageable operation. It was pretty much all up to
the Supreme Gaurdains taking out Vyraxon.
	"About half and half. We have sent out warnings to all of the
ships notifing them of the defense systems, but that the plan is still
going on. It is as if we are commanding them to die. I feel low, almost
inhuman. How could this happen, the plan was foolproof," Qui reported.
Inside, Raven felt the same way. This was a travisty of human life.
There was no need to continue this. It was pointless. Why waste a human
being to gain nothing. It was time to make a decision.
	"Call off the planetary attack. Bring them back here. If they
are going to die I want to die by their side. Ask all of the planets
that we have freed to send any space capable ships with them. We are
going to take out this d@mn fleet one way or the other. Tell the
defense line to open fire on the Dark Flame Fleet. All fighters go for
the interdictor first, then go for the Sheols. Tankers dump your cargo
then get clear. Try to pick up any floaters on the way. This is it
people, all or nothing," Raven said in a low voice. He stood and began
to walk out toward the hangar.
	"Where are you going?" Qui asked him. He stopped, but didn't
turn around to face her. A tear fell from his eye as he replied, "I'm
going to be with my men."
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	"You are a liar. And you will die now!" I screamed as I drew
the Sword of Light again. "Everyone at once, just like last time," I
directed. He just circled us and laughed. Before he could blink I was
on him slashing and thrusting as fast as I could. Sarhedrin and Cratin
flew around behind him and began to chuck some serious Ki attacks at
his back. Mac and Draco dove in along side me punching and kicking.
Irvine was beside Shandra capping off anyone or anything that tried to
get at her. She just lay in a little pile on the dirt whimpering like a
dog.
	We continued to pound on Vyraxon for a good five minutes until
he decided that he had enough. He grabbed me by the leg with his tail
and flung me across the floor area into the wall on the edge of the
ring. He did likewise with Mac and Draco, then turned and fired two
blasts from his eyes that fried Sarhedrin and Cratin. "My minions, I
have brought us a sacrifice. Take them if you can!" Vyraxon screamed at
the top of his lungs. From out of the ampitheater poured the millions
of onlookers. They flooded over us like a dark wave of evil. I didn't
have time to fight any of them off. They just piled on and began to rip
at my skin. And they weren't just you average garden variety demons,
these guys were strong.
	Everything went black as one of them hit me in the back of the
head. I fell to my knees and they surrounded me and began to beat the
crap out of me. I could tell that everyone else was in the same
situation, I could hear Irvine blasting as fast as he could, Cratin
screaming, and Sarhedrin cursing.
	Unbeknownst to me Vyraxon had made his way over to Mac and
joined in the pummeling. So he was getting an extra share. I could feel
everyone's energy level dropping. Could this be it? Finished off by a
hord of demons in the epicenter of Hell itself. It didn't sound good to
me, but there wasn't much that I could do about it. I began to fire
randomly hoping to make a dent in them. I wasn't going out quietly. But
it seemed that Mac wasn't either.
	From the depths of the pile I felt Mac's power growing. What
was he doing? Was he going to blow himself up to try to save us? I
caught a slight cry come out from his general area. Then it grew. Soon
his voice filled the whole arena and shook the walls. Then from out of
the pile of demon flesh burst Mac, or should I say Super Human Lvl 2
Mac.
	He flew straight up in the air and began to scream at Vyraxon.
"You have no right to take us! We are God's children! YOU HAVE NO POWER

COMPAIRED TO HIM! AND I WILL SHOW YOU! MURUBATSU!" he screamed. Out
from his hands lept a huge blast that aimed itself at the outer ring of
the attacking demons. They started dissentigrating like dust as soon as
the blast hit them. Some tried to run but even the residual energy left
after his blast had hit the ground fried them.
	The Fallen beating on me stopped just long enough to look up to
see what was going on. This gave me the split second I needed to get
out from under them and fly up directly under Mac.
	Mac began to rotate his murubastu attack around the edges,
pouring more power into it every time that he made a complete
revolution. The Fallen were dropping like flies. I had to get the rest
of my crew out before Mac's blast fried them too. Then a great idea
came to my mind. "EVERYONE THAT IS ON GOD's SIDE CLOSE YOUR EYES!" I
screamed out. Seconds later I powered up an attack that Goku himself
had tought me. "SOLAR FLARE!" I screamed out as I emmited a blinding
light. The Fallen shrunk back covering their eyes giving the rest of
the Gaurdians a chance to escape.
	Super Human lvl 2 Mac kept pouring out the power and soon it
the crowd of millions had shrunk down to just a handfull. Mac reached
the ground and faced them, then to finish his move he let out a blast
that blew out straight toward the remaining Fallen and Vyraxon. They
tried to block it, but Mac was too strong. I sheilded my eyes as I
checked on everyone to see if they were ok. Mac let out one final
scream and his beam quadrupled in size. Then he lowered his hands and
stared at the huge gully that he had made.
	"Don't mess with God's chosen," he said in a sneer. Then from
the canyon came the voice of Vyraxon. It was somehow deeper and darker
than any other time that I could remember.
	"God? You want to know who God is? He is a puppet master. You
are his puppet. His angels were too dear to him to lose so he sent you
with a promise to help you. God doesn't care. He just sits back and
laughs at you as you DIE! His lack of motivation is disgusting. He
claims to give everyone the ability to decide for himself, but that is
just a falicy. He wants you to believe that so you will praise Him. All
he wants is for someone to tell Him how great that He is. He created
human kind to be his eternal yes men. If you join me now we can rid
existance of his influence. But if you refuse I am afraid that I will
have to show you my full power. Choose now mortals," He said as he
slowly raised himself from the wake of Mac's attack.
	"I CHOOSE GOD!" Mac screamed as he launched himself at Vyraxon.
It was uncanny, almost immediatly Mac had him reeling. He gave him a
kick to the mid section then and upper cut. As Vyraxon's helpless body
flew in the air Mac phased in behind him and gave him a double axe
handle to the back of the neck then flew below him and uppercutted him
again. I began to cheer for him. He was winning. He grabbed Vyraxon by
the tail and began to crack his body like a whip. Then he flew up in
the air and threw him down at the ground. The crater that his body made
hid him from view, but not Mac's.
	"You blaspheme God, you curse Him, and you lie! You claim that
he is evil! NOW...YOU...DIE!" He screamed as he powered up a blast. His
hands began to glow white hot. Then he flung his hands straight down
and screamed "PILLAR OF LIGHT!" A huge blast of the purest white energy
sped down at Vyraxon's broken body. The blast was easily thirty yards
across, and it looked like it could take out a planet with no trouble.
	As Mac cut off his beam I saw him revert back to regular human
and fly our way. "Vyraxon is no more," he said. I slapped him on the
back which knocked him over. "Easy man that took a lot out of me," he
complained. I wondered why no one else was rejoicing until I noticed
the crumpled figure of Shandra laying on the ground and everyone
huddled around her. I rushed over to find her clinging to life, barely.
	"Hey you aren't going anywhere," I said as I leaned over her
and took her hand. "I'm still not through teaching you." She half
opened her eyes and looked at me.
	"I..I'm...so..rry" she said slowly. I shook my head and put a
finger to her lips. I felt sorry for her. I could imagine the turmoil
that was going on inside her.
	"Don't talk, it's alright. Let's get you out of here," I said
as I opened a portal behind her. I slowly levitated her off of the
ground using the Force and began to move her through it. Right before
she entered it, the portal shut. I turned slowly and looked over my
shoulder. It wasn't a pretty sight. Vyraxon stood there dripping with
his thick black blood. He was missing his tail and all of his right arm
along with the right half of his head.
	"You...leave......when...I....say....so," he rasped out through
half of a mouth.
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	"What do you mean? Surely you aren't planning to go out there?"
Qui asked Raven. He didn't give an answer. He just walked out the door.
She got up and took a few steps his way before the ship began to shake
under her feet. "What was that?" she asked the first officer.
	"Ma'am it seems that we are under direct attack by a whole
deployment of Serpent fighters carrying some kind of warhead that is
nearly impossible to see or track on radar. We are trying our best to
get rid of them, but all of the fighters have been assigned to attack
the Interdictor. Wait there are three fighters flying out of the
hangar. They won't identify. 'H-wing fighters identify yourselves,' the
deck officer said holding his hand to his ear to hear better.
	"Don't mind me, I'm here to exterminate some snakes," Raven
said over the headset. The officer looked to Qui and told her who it
was.
	"There are three ships. Who is flying the other two?" she asked
as she took her seat again. "Raven who is with you," she said over her
headset. She heard a laugh followed by a transmittion of fight data.
	"I am. Ever heard of remote control?" he said. Qui tried to ask
him what he hoped to do, but he shut off his comm. She banged her fist
on the panel and cursed. "He is going to get himself killed," she said
under her breath. Just then the ship rocked again as the Serpent
fighters made their second pass. "Why aren't we shooting back? Someone
give me a damage report!" Qui said.
	"Sheilds 40%, no structural or hull damage, but we can't take
many more of those," someone said from the lower deck.
	"I don't know what you people are doing, but that really
hurts!" Hogo said over the intercoms. Qui jumped, forgetting that Hogo
was a living Jurain ship. She gave him permission to fire at any of the
Serpents that he could get in his sights, but not to use too much power
in case they needed to use the Core Cannon.
	Then from the forward view port Qui saw an explosion. Then
another. Then three H-Wing fighters flew by, guns blazing. Raven was
taking on two full wings of Serpents by himself, and winning. Then from
farther off a larger explosion could be seen.
	"Ma'am the interdictor is no more. The tankers have made their
dumps and the fighters are making attack runs on the Sheols. Should we
call them back or proceed with the attack?" he said. That is when Qui
noticed that she was now in control with Raven running around in space.
	"Um, keep going. If the losses get too serious call them back.
Maybe this will turn out half way right," she said in a shaky voice.
She watched as Raven took out Serpent after Serpent out in front of
Hogo. She never knew that he was such an experianced fighter pilot.
	Soon the threat on Hogo was over and she saw him flying out
towards the battle that raged around the Sheols. The ships had very few
structural weaknesses and were armed to the teeth with all kinds of
goodies. Every pilot had been subjected to endless hours in the
simulator to prepair for the threats of the Dark Flame Fleet, and they
had been well spent.
	With the hull integrity weakened greatly by the water dump, the
fighters had a much easier job. The plan was to fly by and dump around
twenty resonance torpedoes into the weakened area. Ten torpedoes would
be enough to cause a planet to break up if they all hit at the same
point at the same time. Hopefully that would be enough to take out a
Sheol or two before the threat became to great to stick around.
	"Reporting loss of Beta, Tau, and Epsilon flights; tankers four
through ten; five Corellian class freighters; and a Lambda class
modified attack shuttle," the deck officer reported. Qui let out a
sigh, "sixty four fighters per flight, times three, ten people per
tanker, times six, no telling how many on the freighters, and five on
the shuttle. God help us all."
	"Ma'am, bad news. The Lucifer is turning its bearing towards
us, and charging up its cannon. What should we do?" the deck officer
said in a stone cold voice.
	"Pray, pray hard, and charge the Core Cannon," Qui said as she
dropped to her knees behind her command station.
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	"H..How?" Cratin said as he stared at the battered walking
corpse that was Vyraxon. "No one could have survived that, not even
Shane or Mac. It's just not possible," he said. Vyraxon used his one
arm to wipe the blood out of his one good eye and began to walk toward
us.
	"You..just..don't..get..it. I..am..all..powerful.
And..I..will..prove..it," he said as he began to flap his tattered
leathery wings. Before I knew what was going on he was in the middle of
us dealing us a whoopin that I couldn't compare to anything else. It
was like he was faster than light. He only had one arm, but he was
punching all of us faster than we could block.
	He flew straight up in the air, charged up a blast, and shot it
straight down at us. We were hit and driven down into the ground. I
stood up holding my now broken ribs and looked around for everyone. I
saw six other holes in the ground, but no Vyraxon. From behind me I
heard a whirring sound and I spun around just in time to duck under His
bone blades, which were now circling his wrist like a big drill bit.
	I drew the Sword of Light and dove at him. He sidestepped and
brought his blade down on my back, but I righted myself and blocked
just in time. He swung again and I backflipped out of the way and
swiped down at his knees. He leaped over my swing and on the way down
tried to split my skull, much like I did to him before. I rolled under
him and started an upstroke that would split him right down the middle.
He teleported out from infront of me and reappeared at my side lunging
with hopes to impale me. I spun out and brought my sword hilt down on
his back. This sent him to the ground. I quickly turned my blade around
to stab him through, but he teleported again.
	I turned around to find him but all I found was a ki blast in
my face.  I fell to my knees and tried vainly to regain my sight. I
heard him walking over to me, dragging his right leg. Mac had done a
number on this guy, but he was still kicking back pretty hard.
	"I will now kill you. You are lucky, I will not torture you for
long. I had hopes that you would join me and together take out God. He
would have frailed in then power of the both of us. We could have ruled the whole universe. Now I have to kill you. It is a shame though, I
almost had a shred of respect for you," Vyraxon said. I heard his bone
blades beginning to spin again. I rubbed my eyes for all that I was
worth. I jumped to my feet and held one hand out in front of me waving
it back and forth to get some idea where he was.
	That is when I heard it, the whirring coming at me rapidly. I
dropped tomy knees and said, "I'm your's Lord," expecting it all to be
over in a matter of seconds. I felt his blade pass in front of my face,
he was testing me.
	The next time I heard it come close he screamed "Goodbye
McInnis!" Right before I expected it to hit me I heard a very sickening
sound along with a slight cry of pain. Finally my sight came back to me
and I saw what had happened.
	There before me was the crumpled form of Shandra impaled on the
still spinning bone blades of Vyraxon. I looked down to my shirt to see
that it was covered with her blood. She had sacrificed her life to save
me. I guess that it was her way of proving that she was sorry. A tear
fell from my eye as I looked to Vyraxon and found him quite pleased
with the outcome.
	"I was planning on killing her anyway. I guess that it was
better this way, quick, relativly painful, but not enough blood," he
said as he shook her body off of his arm. He took his blades and
cleanly cut the head off of her body and stabbed it in the back. He
held it up for me to look at. Then he did something that he shouldn't
have. With some gruesome power he manipulated her lips to say "Vyraxon
is God, give in to him."
	"You are one sick bastard," I said as I stood. The rage and
hate began to build up in me. I began to feel the Dark Side flow
through me. With a flash of smoke I changed over from MegaFighter to
DarkFighter. Vyraxon began to laugh at me and held his hand over
Shandra's body. In the blink of an eye he vaporized it. In the pile of
ash I saw only her ring to show that she was even alive.
	"Aww, did I kill her?" he said in a sadistic voice. That pushed
me over the edge. I drew all of the power that I could into my body. I
floated up off of the ground and let out an earth shaking scream.
	"I WILL KILL YOU!" I screamed as I felt a not so familiar power
begining to take over my body. I shook and curled up into a ball in the
air. Then I threw my legs and arms out as a huge black flame engulfed
my body. As I landed I noticed that I was larger. And judging by
Vyraxon's half of a face I knew that I had reached my second level
evolution, Hell Blitzkreig.