Armani Phantomblade: The end of time part 1

10. The escape.

It had been twenty-four hours since Armani had the dream with the spider, he wanted to leave the place as it was going to be the death of him, but he had to make sure that the rogue group had no chance of escaping. Armani decided to sneak out of the house in order to follow a rogue soldier back to the base and destroy it. He saw to, thin, rogue Saitama members standing next to each other. Armani climbed up onto the roof and followed the Saitama across the entire town until they arrived at a burning rubble of a castle that resembled The dark one's old home. Armani lived in the dark lords old home as it was left in his will, he knew it wasn't his home however as it missed the one thing that his home had, a tower in the center of the entire facility. 

"Come on you fools, go inside." Armani said watching them. 

The two walked in and Armani climbed onto the facility. He jumped through the window, silently took down the guards in the corridors before reaching the control room and saw that the rogues had a demon imprisoned within the lower areas of the facility that they were abusing to open portals to another dimension. The demon was asleep, it wasn't moving, it looked dead, probably doing what most demons do and faking their deaths. Armani ran to the location of the demon, killing the rogue guards along the way and eventually found the room where she was lying on the ground. Armani shook her awake and the demon looked at him.

"Armani? My god, they get you two?" She said.

"No, I've been here for days now, sent by Tori to see the end of the rogue cell before they do something they regret!" Armani said.

"I'm Sakamae Clhoe." She said.

Armani jumped backwards in shock, could this be the same person from his dream? It couldn't be, but it was. They shared the same name but Armani never opened the grave. If he did, would he see the same person who was lying before him? He'd never know. He helped her up before trying the other cells to see skeletons hanging, lifeless and dead. They'd still have a few pieces of flesh in certain places meaning they'd rotten away in that cell but not that long ago, the same black blood of the Saitama was puddled around the room, on the walls and on the door as if the skin and muscle was torn away.

"Is there anyone else in here besides the rogue Saitama?" Armani asked Sakamae.

"I heard them bringing a man in here this morning, sounded like an old man. I wasn't sure but we better check." She replied.

They opened each door until they saw a thin, old Saitama hanging in the same shackles as in the last few rooms. Armani cut the chains off and they helped him get out of the entire facility until they ran into some resistance upon trying to leave. Armani gave Sakamae the nod to put him into a corner and stay with him until Armani killed the guards preventing his escape. Armani pulled out Khalida, focused on the enemies and ran at them, he ran at them, moved quickly behind the one in front and ran the blade through his back. He retracted the blade, jumped backwards and sliced at them both. Armani ran towards the doors to the two bigger guards but they were no match for him as he sent a large fire strike at one of them and a larger fireball at the other. The one who was hit with the fireball tried crawling away but he was met with a blade in the back of the head. He gave Sakamae and the old man the signal to catch up to him so they could escape. Armani kicked the door down and all three of them ran for it. They arrived at the place where Armani was holding up and the two of them recovered whilst Armani ran back out with some explosive charges he'd saved from the last destruction and went back to the new base. He headed towards the inner sanctum of the entire facility and he decided that if he placed every charge within the same room, the entire facility will go up in flames. 

"Now, outside and destruction!" Armani said to himself running with the detonator in his hand. 

He'd reached the roof of two houses and the streets were mysteriously quiet, the ominous silence made Armani wondered what was going on, he activated the detonator. The explosion rang out for miles and the wind from the explosion made his coat fly backwards in the wind. Rubble from the building went flying to the air and was smashing into the many houses around him. The darkness of the early morning covered Armani well but he turned around to realize, the entire area was burning from the destroyed facility. Armani had to race back, grab the four people he'd saved, let the old man stay in that house for a while, before heading back to the demon city. He'd have to leave Juuzou with the old man until he'd return. Armani woke up Spring-heeled Jack to take him back to Tori and deliver the news of what he learned. Armani couldn't leave this alone as he needed to stop this now. Eventually, the portal opened wider to hold them both, they arrived within Tori's house and it woke him up.

"Whose that?" Tori shouted down the stairs.

"It's Armani and Jack!" Armani shouted back.

"I'll be down in a minute!" Tori shouted.

The sound of him moving around upstairs and the odd crash as he knocked over some objects while tired. He finally got to the top of the stairs to see three demons, Armani, Sakamae and Jack. 

"Whose that?" Tori asked.

"I'm Sakamae Clhoe. You're right hand sent for me to go to Dimension X to retrieve Armani and Jack, but this Right hand was a fake and I was trapped in there." Sakamae said.

"Oh, you mean Aethex?" Tori asked.

"Yeah, him!" Sakamae replied.

"Well, Armani didn't you say something about an Aethex? Tori said looking at him.

"I never came to speak to you about him." Armani said, shocked.

"But, you did, you came back and told me that Aethex is leading the new rogue cell and you have to stop him!" Tori replied.

"Armani's been in Dimension X with me, we've only just came back!" Jack replied standing in front of Armani.

Tori was shocked, Aethex had come into the underworld and tricked him into thinking that Armani was there. Armani returned to Dimension X to pick up Juuzou and he returned to see the home burning. Juuzou outside, the old man, not with her.

"What happened?" Armani asked.

"Aethex..came with...Yoti!" She said, panting.

"Where's the old man?" Armani replied.

"Dead, shot by Yoti, my arm was damaged by her shot!" Juuzou said, holding her arm.

Armani grabbed her arm and teleported them both back to Tori before they realized that the rest of the Saitama were dead, killed by Aethex's men.