Shattering Humanity-Chapter 100: A Declaration Of War

From the top of Mount Morta, the top of the mountain begins mechanically folding into itself like the dome of a sports stadium with a retractable ceiling.

From the top view the spinning propellers of a Blackhawk helicopter can be seen inside the growing opening.

Once the mountain top is wide enough, the helicopter lifts out of the mountain and begins flying south.

Inside the helicopter, Silpheed piloting, with Nephilim, Tristan, and Bethany on the helicopter cabin.

Tristan is folding his arms over his camera on his lap, displeased side eyeing Bethany.

Tristan: "Why did she have to come along, General? She’s a perverted harlot that only uses her ability to look at crotches and through clothes. I’ve caught her multiple times looking at Stephanie with her IceEye in 2nd Stage, and blushing."

Bethany leans up against him. Putting his arm between her breasts, fully trying to charm him.

Bethany: "Ooohh come on Tritty, don’t be like thaaat, we’re teammates until the day we die, aren’t we? Besides, she’s just so cute and perky inside these loose uniforms. You’re so lucky you get to see her naked. My offer will always be on the table."

She pops off her 2nd Stage "X-Ray Eye", a lustful purple aura, and looks down at Tristan’s crotch and then whispers in his ear.

Bethany: "Hey, remember, I won’t tell Stephanie if youuu don’t."

Tristan pushes her off, gets up and sits with a smiling Nephilim on the other side of the copter.

Nephilim: "Perfect timing Ms. Bethany, we need you to look through the cities below to scan for anything moving while Silph flies low enough."

He holds up a crudely drawn ’map’ of the area with cities around the three mountains in the lower middle of the page, then points to the lowest square on the map labelled "Hanabi City".

Nephilim: "We’ll start south at the closest city to the mountains, Hanabi City. That’s where most of Daisuki’s little squad is from. They may be there trying to scavenge old memories."

He moves his finger clockwise to the next city, a larger, more rectangular border, Roronora City.

Nephilim looks at Tristan.

Nephilim: "From what the two remaining Sisters have informed me, the people who coordinated the terrorist attack have a society within the streets of your old home, Tristan. And they are not friendly, especially to people without IceEyes."

Tristan looks at Bethany on the other side looking down through the floor of the helicopter with her now orange aura.

Nephilim: "They see humans without IceEyes as lower beings, and enslave them. That’s why I requested your darling Stephanie and Briggs to stay behind. Luckily, if they are as hostile a people as the Sisters described, and if they decide to send any projectiles at us before we land, Silpheed has their ’Cut&Paste Eye’."

Bethany looks up and her aura switches back to her lustful purple.

Bethany: "I’ve been meaning to ask you Silpheed sweetie, are you a male or female? Either way, I can work with both, Honey, maybe after this we can get some drinks and see where-"

Nephilim holds his hand up with a displeased emotion on his face.

Nephilim: "Bethany, as the General of Humanity’s Final Flame, I asked you to do something important, please do your task that I assigned you."

Bethany gets scared and goes back to looking through the floor of the helicopter, with a now blue aura.

Bethany: "Sorry Nephilim sir!"

Nephilim smiles to relax the tension.

Nephilim: "It’s alright. But, if you must know Bethany my dear, Silpheed refrains from labelling themself with a gender that refers to them as something human. Even I do not know Silph’s gender, nor do I care. All I know is they were ’birthed’ 10 years after myself making Silph around 19-20 years old and has been a partner of mine way before this calamity of aliens and will be until I die of old age."

He looks at Tristan.

Nephilim: "That type of kinship comes in many forms, not just monogamous love."

Tristan nods and looks at Bethany as she lets out a loud gasp and Silpheed steadies the helicopter. Nephilim hops into the copilot seat and Tristan looks out the side window of the Blackhawk copter. They both look in time to see a small group of people on a high school football field, two seemingly fighting and the others running to get under the bleachers.

Bethany: "It looks as if there is a fight happening and there’s a giant Iceman with two smaller ones accompanying it."

Nephilim: "That’s Daisuki and his growing group of followers. Silpheed I’ll take control while we land, Tristan take a picture-"

The flash from Tristan’s camera goes off cutting off the General. Tristan holds up the polaroid picture, waving it to clear the picture, a lime green aura from his popped off IceEye.

Nephilim looks back towards the scene below and gets a surprised look.

Nephilim: "Bethany dear, are you seeing this?"

Bethany: "Yes, sir, I think I am."

Tristan goes to look out the copter’s window. He realizes who the two fighters on the football field are and his eyes get wide as the two stop and look up at them.

Tristan: "Katsu? Saku?"

From below Katsu looks at the approaching Icemen and yells at them. His yell can be heard over the spinning blades of the Blackhawk.

There is now a blue aura coming from underneath Silpheed’s eye patch.

Bethany: "Sir, I think, I think the Icemen, all three have...have."

Nephilim: "They’ve stopped."

He looks back at Tristan.

Nephilim: "Young Tristan, remember when I told you not to rule out your ’pal’s’ left eye ability being able to control Icemen?"

Silpheed: "Nevv-eh-um Zir!"

Nephilim quickly looks and the giant Iceman has already picked up the smaller.

Nephilim: "Silph, I think you have an idea what’s going to happen, get ready."

Silpheed nods and Tristan watches as the giant Iceman winds up the smaller. He quickly peeks at Katsu and gets sad, disheartened eyes, tears even form as he can barely see Katsu’s frightening black aura but too far to notice the sliver of bright white.

Tristan: "Katsu, no, please, it can’t be true, you wouldn’t-"

As Katsu looks directly at the flying vehicle, unaware his old friend is in it, he directs the giant ice monster to launch it’s smaller companion like a diamond ice bullet towards their helicopter. The spinning alien soars through the sky still gnashing like it was unaware of the situation it was in.

Bethany: "Oh my God it’s heading straight for us!"Silpheed’s left red eye can be seen focusing on the projectile heading straight for them. Right before the point of the "bullet" touches the glass of the helicopter window, it *POPS* out of existence.

Nephilim swings the helicopter to the side and the two eighteen year olds in the back slide and hit the side of the flying container. They fly away, west, from the hostile group.

Tristan is now on the floor of the helicopter and he sits up thinking about the events that just happened. How someone who was once his friend, is now an enemy that uses his power for evil to control the aliens that are also humanity’s enemy.

Tristan: "I can’t believe it. That was actually Katsu, that Saku kid didn’t have an IceEye aura so it had to be Katsu. Has he always been like this? Or was it the IceEyes that made him evil? He didn’t have one in the Academy, or was it actually that ex-convict that brainwashed him? I’ve never seen an aura that was pitch black. I can’t believe he would be trying to use any power to hurt others without any thought, even if someone was trying to hunt him down. Why, why him?!"

Nephilim can be heard from the front, still piloting the aircraft.

Nephilim: "Well my young apprentice, that is what we call a ’Declaration of War’ if I’ve ever seen one. It appears Dice has been teaching them to make irrational decisions without thinking of the consequences beforehand, I knew he wasn’t actually trying to atone for his sins. I gave him the benefit of the doubt when I let them off the hook originally and didn’t ’cheat’ with the tracking devices to make it more fair."

Tristan has his back against the closed side of the copter and lets out a deep sigh, knowing the implications of what that means concerning him, Stephanie, and her quadruplet little sisters.

Tristan: "What if Steph was in here and we had actually got hit?"

Then to break the tension Bethany can be heard and stumbling on the metal floor.

Bethany: "Wo- wo- wooooahh."

Bethany playfully falls into Tristan’s lap, face first even though the turbulence has subsided.

Bethany, blushing, then licks her lips while still having her IceEye in 2nd Stage looking between Tristan’s legs.

From outside the helicopter flying west, Tristan can be heard yelling.

Tristan: "Get the hell off me, you slut!"