Mech slayers part 8 [was untitled] 
Senso [War]
All characters and situations Belong to Catbert25 [Sean D'anna]
		
	Dan walked along the trail away from the city, he looked at the strange yet
familiar alien land scape. "It's not all that different from earth." he
commented. He thought back to the city again, it was a strange place to him.
He had seen many familiar things there, they had electricity and plumbing, he
had even seen a plane fly over while he was there, the design on it was
strange and some what crude. Also he noted something else odd. There were no
cars, or anything like them. The air was pollution free, it was as if they had
no combustion engines or Industry. But he had seen manufactured goods as well.
It was sort of strange to him. He also had yet to see any fire arms. Dan mused
on the strange world for some time. Every soldier had some sort of weapon, a
knife, a bo, short staves, Nunchaku, and swords. "This place...is weird." he
finally concluded.
	
	A few hours later Dan walked through a forest as the road cut through it. He
soon became aware that he was not alone. Something was with him. "I'm
surrounded." he said looking around. In the spaces between the trees he saw
camouflaged tents, thousands of them. Men emerged from them with weapons
drawn. Dan was in the middle of an military camp. "Shit." he muttered. From a
very large tent nearby a man emerged with a huge grin on his face. He had long
white flowing hair and was dressed in rich purple robes. He pulled a great
sword from his side, the blade began to glow white. 
	"You should pay attention to where your walking stranger." he said with a
smile. "Oh, my it looks like we've caught ourselves a prince." the man said
looking Dan up and down.
	"I'm not the prince." said Dan with a frown.
	The tall man frowned "Then tell us who you are." he said bitterly.
	Dan smiled. "If I gave you my name...You'd get it dirty." he said dispite the
warning in his mind. 
	Dan glanced around and noticed a hole in the men surrounding him, he bolted
for it. The men gasped as Dan seemed to disappear from the middle of the
circle. The tall man vanished with a smile on his face.
	Dan reached the gap only to be thrown back twenty feet into a tree, the tree
groaned and collapsed. The tall man stood where the hole had once been and
looked down at him his arm was extended in the punch still and a white aura
flowed around his hand. "I am called Gall, and you are dead, boy." said the
man with an evil smile.
	Dan rose to his feet and rubbed his chest where the blow had struck. Gall's
smile disappeared. "Impossible." he said quietly. 
	Dan pulled his boken from his back and pointed it offensively at Gall. "I
gotta get out of here." he thought. 
	Gall rushed him at what to the men would be an inhuman speed. He swung at Dan
who dodged and struck him in the chest sending Gall reeling back ten feet. Dan
charged at Gall and slashed at him with the boken. Gall barely avoided the
strikes. He growled and stuck his arm out, a blast of energy shot from hi arm
and hit Dan in the side. Dan faltered for a moment and fell to his knees.
"That hurt." he thought angrily.
	Gall began spinning around him at an incredible rate. Dan thought for a
moment. "Ye, gods I can't tell which is the real Gall!" said one of the
spectating soldiers.
	Gall smiled and raised his hand causing a blast to build up in it again. Dan
sidestepped the blast and ran up to him keeping up the pace as the pair spun
around. "Say...are you wearing lipstick?" said Dan as he looked at Gall's
face. Gal yelled in rage and hit him away with a backhanded strike. Dan pulled
himself from a fallen tree yet again. He stood shakily. 
	Gall smiled yet again. His smile was yet again short lived. Dan looked at him
with a small grin. "You are wearing lipstick aren't you?" he said.
	"Now you die!" Gall cried angrily shooting several of the white balls at Dan
once again. Dan jumped twenty feet into the air and landed behind them. They
exploded behind him leaving several dead soldiers and trees in their wake.
Dan staggered up to Gall with his hand behind his back. "A gift for you." he
said and showed Gall what was behind him. Gall gasped and backed away. In
Dan's hand was a chi ball the size of a soccer ball. It exploded sending Gall
flying away and creating a blinding flash of light. The men surrounding Dan
covered their eyes defensively. When the blast cleared Dan was gone and gall
was embedded in a tree twenty yards away. Gall looked at his surroundings and
cried out in Rage.
	
	"So that was the famous Gall. Not near as powerful as I thought." said the
Young ninja as she lept down from her perch in a tree nearby. "The mysterious
warriors swordsmanship is unbelievable." she commented as she walked to find
him again. "I'll have to be more cautious." thought to herself.
	"Well look at what we found." said a voice from behind her. Three soldiers
emerged from their places in the bushes and walked towards her. The girl
frowned and turned sharply. She smiled as she looked at them. They still had
the stupid grins on their faces. The men saw her smile and their grins
widened. Then they disappeared and they grabbed for their throats. Blood began
to pour from the small holes that had appeared. The men fell to their knees
making gurgling noises as they choked to death on their own blood. The ninja
girl smiled and fanned three more of the small flat darts in her fingers.  She
turned and replaced them in her robes and walked away to find her prey.
	
	Dan stopped running and collapsed in pain and exhaustion. "He was strong." he
thought as he tried to catch his breath. He touched the burn on his side
carefully. "I almost didn't make it out of that one." he commented dryly. He
sat up and thought. "Now what?" he said aloud. He already knew what he had to
do. He rested for a moment and got to his feet. He turned and began to walk
towards his destination.

	A few day's later...
	
	Commander Alek Hunter stood on the ridge and watched the field, Gall's forces
had yet to try to breach the defensive barrier his men had created along the
roads to Sambika. One of the men ran up to him and saluted sharply. They young
boy tried to catch his breath. "S..s sir!" he said desperately. The look in
his eyes told Hunter that the news would not be good. "Sambika is under
attack! Gall and his forces approached from the east! They destroyed Commander
Sanders forces with a giant!" said the boy.
	"What?!" said Hunter. "Get the men up we march in five minutes!" he yelled.
"I only hope we can make it in time. Where is the prince?" he asked one of the
nearby men. 

	Gall smiled as the giant mech crashed through the walls of the city, It
easily crushed the defenses placed their. It walked and raised its arm. The
gun roared with multiple shots, and a building collapsed. The men rushed into
the city. The palace was the first to fall with the Mech's help they were able
to enter the city only Yards away from it at the cities most heavily defended
point.
	"Protect the Queen!" echoed from the mouths of palace guards as they were
over come by the swarms of men who poured in from the palace gates. The queen
stood from her seat in the throne as the men poured into the palace. She
watched as her guard were easily over come. "I demand that you stop this
at..." it was as far as she got as a spear impaled her on her throne. "She
screamed for a moment and then fell silent." The royal court was easily
cleaned up after that. Gall waltzed into the room with a maniacal grin on his
face.
	 "Where is the young princess?" he asked. 
	 "She was not present." said one of the men as he kneeled before Gall
respectfully. 
	Gall frowned and blasted the man with a casual energy bolt. He was reduced to
ashes.   "I can see that fool." he said calmly. "Find her and kill her." he
said to the men surrounding him.
	Fourteen year old Princess Miza ran down the halls of the palace. Guards
flanked her and tried desperately for any way to escape. The Akama forces
pushed them ever higher into the palace. Finally they reached the king and
queens bed chambers, the highest room in the palace. The Akame men entered and
they fought desperately eventually being backed into the long balcony that
overlooked the city. Miza watched as the men sent to protect her were
slaughtered mercilessly before her.
	
	Dan walked through the chaotic streets of Sambika grimily. He stood at the
foot of the palace. He looked at the city. "It seems I'm to late to warn
them." he said to no one. A large mech crashed through the streets blasting
with a ridiculously oversized machine gun. Above him he saw a small body being
thrown off the edge of a balcony high above. He made a dicision, he ran.
	Princess Miza felt herself free fall off the edge of the balcony. I hope it
doesn't hurt too much." she thought as she saw the ground rushing up to her.
She closed her eyes.
	Malkiyor, Balthazar and Caspar fought desperately on the streets against the
Akama forces. It looked hopeless. More men came from the gates and they
resigned to their fate. "We will take as many of them with us as we can." said
Malkior. The other two nodded. On the horizon out side the city more men
appeared, their spears and swords held high. They charged.
	
	Dan felt the wind on his face as he ran, his heart raced. He pushed himself
in a jump and began to fall. "I have never turned my back before I'm not about
to start now." he said as he felt the ground rush to him. He reached his arms
out.

	Miza closed her eyes, the late Dr. Kiman said it would take a full minuet to
reach the ground from the top of the castle. She wondered how much time had
passed. She felt arms around her she opened her eyes. Someone in a black cloak
had her in his arms. "Death?" she wondered. He manuvered them back so that
they were almost touching the wall. With that his hood blew off and he planted
his feet against the steadily curving wall. Their fall slowed. She looked at
the man's face and gasped. She grabbed his neck tighter as the man skillfully
prevented them from just bouncing off the wall and flipping into the air.
"Brother?" she said in shock. They hit the ground and rolled several feet
until they finally stopped. The man looked at her with his pearcing eyes. 
	"You OK?" he asked.
	The girl's eyes went wide. "Brother?" she asked again.
	The man smiled. "No young one, but I have been told I look allot like him."
said the man. The fighting around them had stopped. The once screaming
residents watched in awe. The man had Just ran up the side of the palace and
caught the falling princess in mid air. 
	Dan turned to see the three men he had met in his earlier visit to the town.
"Hello, you three think you can get her out of the city?" He asked with his
boken drawn. The men the three had been fighting backed away, some running in
terror. 
	"Y-yea." stuttered Caspar taking the princess by the arm. The three men ran
towards the now empty hole in the wall that the mech had created. They ran to
see the army advancing towards them. 
	"Shit forgot about them." said Malkior.
	"Look!" cried Balthazar as he pointed at them. Leading the army was the flag
of the King, the emblem of Josei.
	"It's about time." sighed Malkior in relief.
TbC.....

	Think things are going well? Don't forget that we still have a crazed
sorcerer and a giant Mech crashing around. The battle is far form over. We'll
have fun with that one I bet. At any rate we still have to deal with our lost
little friends in the woods, and what ever is stalking them. What is it? I'll
say one thing it sure isn't a cute little animal that the cast will take as a
pet. I garentee you won't see one of those in this story. Those things piss me
off. Kinda like Democrats.....
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and thanks for the info!
P.S. I do try to answer any questions also.
[by the way the Democrats thing was an obscure South Park joke so don't flame
me.]