Catalyst

Chapter 63: Completed Emotion

Lariat: "You're our targets."

Lariat's team is dealing with 50 soldiers armed with sidearms and grenades, with Lariat killing one with an arrow upon descent.

Edo: "Hi how are you?"

Roy: "We won't let those fuckers take this land!"

Eryth: "(awkwardly) We aren't even on land."

Jay draws his gun.

Soldiers: "W-We just docked!"

Jay: "Exactly the reason why we're here."

Alphonse begins creating a black ball in his hands.

Alphonse: "They've got explosives!"

Phillip: "We've dealt with worse."

Jeremy: "And we know that those things aren't-"

A grenade is tossed and detonated in front of Isabel, but she defends in the nick of time.

Isabel: "(bleeding) Fun?"

Grenades are tossed at random, along with bullets heading for the gaps in the explosions to pin everyone in one area, but also doing minimal damage.

Anthony: "I just hope my ears won't be bleeding by the end of-"

The ground beneath them gives away, causing them to fall to a lower level.

Alphonse: "I hope they didn't plan that!"

Soldiers: "(awkwardly) We didn't."

They all crash into what seems to be food storage that breaks their fall.

Lariat: "(shaking it off) At least that's okay."

Everyone quickly gets back on their feet as more bullets begin to fly.

Alphonse: "Here!"

Alphonse throws the ball, obscuring the soldiers' aims with an bubble draining light.

Jay: "At least it'll be harder for them to aim."

Footsteps are heard above.

Jeremy: "For a few minutes at most!"

Another grenade falls down.

Philip: "(grabbing grenade) Not happening again!"

Phillip tosses it back up, exploding in the soldiers' faces, with four dropping to the lower level, dead.

Edo: "Using their attacks against them doesn't sound that bad."

25 soldiers have arrived in front of them.

Anthony: "Until you remember that this was inevitable."

The soldiers in front of them take aim as the soldiers above continue to shoot.

Meanwhile...

The child like girl is sitting at the top of a tree, overlooking the ocean.

Girl: "(in awe) It's so beautiful..."

The young dwarf looking person stands at the base of the same tree.

Dwarf: "Nyria, do you see anything besides saltwater?"

Nyria: "No Thoris, just water, cliffs, and-"

Nyria and Thoris jump when they hear dozens of explosions go off at once.

Thoris: "(startled) Cannons?!"

Nyria sees part of a battleship cave in.

Nyria: "There are some boats at the coast and those explosions occurred at the one on the far right!"