"James."
"Wake up James."
"Bouchard? Raine? What's happened to you?!"
Grayson looked up and see a mutated Hag flying in front of him, but something its voice, it belonged to Raine.
"I am the Chrysalis, I knew you would come."
"No... NO! What have they done?!"
Grayson was shocked, to say the least, he had found the remains of Raine's body inside the tower, her remains were all splattered over the floor.
And yet here she was, talking to Grayson with a mutated form that resembles a Hag.
"You promised to help me, James"
Out of nowhere, Raine starts to attack Grayson's mind with her psychic powers.
"Aaaaaagh!!!!" "Get out of my head!"
"You think you can resist, but you are mistaken. Join us"
"The way my brother joined you?!" "It's too late Raine"
"The serum's already spreading. like a virus!" "The entire system is collapsing!"
"How many carriers have already left infected Raine?" "How long before this is all gone?!"
Raine suddenly started to scream really loud..
"Aaargh!!!"
Grayson had awoken from his nightmare.
"Raine..."
Even tough Raine's death was justified, Grayson could never let her death go.
Killing her hurt himself more then it did to Raine, even tough he was angry and distrustful of her, he din't want to her to end up having a death like that.
He already knew the how the pain felt of losing someone close to you to the Chimera like that.
His Brother was the prime example of this thing, his brothers death caused Grayson to go on a personal vandetta, ending up destroying countless of conversion centers for vengeance.
Once a person is infected with the Chimera virus, there is no hope for them left. The only known cure for this virus is to put the victim out of his misery.
"Are you alright Grayson?" Coming from his partner Sergei. He was a person among the Russian refugees that Grayson met after the battle of Warsaw, they became a good team, especially since Sergei knew the streets of Kiev like his head.
"Don't mind me, are you ready to get up that arse of yours and join me in killing some of those gray skins?
"You really seem hell bent on killing the Chimera are you?" "We could use more people like you, who are not afraid to fight the Chimera head on. I am not just bent on killing them, I am going to wipe the Chimera from the face of the earth!"
"That's the spirit!" "Now where are we headed?"
"We are going to blow up that nearby conversion center, even tough the carrier strain has been dying out, they already have a new conversion process ready, so I like to give em last goodbye party before they die"
"Very well, lead on Tommy" Sergei joked.
"Please don't call me that, you are bringing back memories of a person I never want to think off again"
"Alright mate"
Grayson and Sergei were getting their gear ready, Grayson pulled out his trusty .44 Magnum.
"Too bad they didn't have these during the battle of the London tower."
Grayson found this weapon on the bodies from one of the Americans who traveled to Russia. The magnum .44 is from American origins and has special bullets that can be exploded once it has impacted something.
"same here , those things are excellent in taking out those armored drones, especially when they swarm you with those things."
Grayson and Sergei headed out and started walking trough the now ruined streets of Kiev.
"I have been meaning to ask, what has happened to the former colonel of the Marquis? You had to take this position only recently."
"Yeah funny you ask, I killed him."
"Damn mate, your reason for killing him would probably have been for a good reason, but killing fellow humans is not a very good thing to do in these times when the Chimera are hunting down humanity as it, especially with only how much of us are left"
"He was a total bonker, a power hungry moron that only didn't care much for others. At first he still had some reason left for me not to end his life, but when he later somehow later managed to infect himself, i knew what i had to do.
"Now that makes more sense"
Grayson and Sergei were walking further down the street until they saw something in the distance.
"Hide," Grayson said
Grayson looked over his cover and saw what was ahead of them.
"Boyle thought they were only in Europe and Africa."
"Nah, they have been in Russia for a while now. Ever since the mental strain has been dying out, the conversion centers needed workers, and with all the Russian females that were stored inside the Chimeran towers it seems they decided to replace the menials with Boilers".
"Isn't that lovely." Grayson joked
They were about to engage them when they suddenly heard a scream, a female scream.
The sound of Bullseye fire could be heard in the distance.
"Grayson, what should we do?" Grayson showed a smug smile, "We do what we are good at, killing those gray gorillas"
"Are you going to do that?"
"What...." Grayson said surprised.
"Are you really going to kill them, James? Our former selves?" Grayson was listening in disbelief.
"You could have saved me you know, back in Bonn. But you were to late.... You let me become one of them."
"Raine?!"
Somewhere on the streets of Kiev, a magic light came out nowhere, wich later dimmed down.
On that spot now stood a mirror, but it was no ordinary mirror.
This mirror was capable of travelling trough universes, and suddenly out of the mirror came a creature.
It was a blue pony, Princess Luna, Princess of the night, guardian of dreams.
She stept outside the mirror and looked around, she wanted to travel to diffrent universes to learn more about other civilizations.
But what she saw was not what she had expected. Evrthing around her was like a apocalyptic city, buildings where broken and ruined, mass destruction was all over the street, corpses, blood stains. And there was no trace of life around her, the whole street was deadly silent.
She walked around for a bit to study the area around her, when she suddenly heard someone talking a language she din't understand.
But it was not just the language that disturbed her, the creature who said it hada monster like voice, heck, what the creature said sounded more like growling then actually speaking.
She quickly turned around and looked for the source where the growling came from.
And what she saw next scared her beyond belief.
It was a biped with a grey skin and had really weird appearance.
it had claws and had some sort of weird device on its back, while also having a unknown device in its claws.
Its teeth put the most fearsome predators teeth to shame, they where sharp beyond belief, but the thing that scared the most where its eyes.
It had 6 eyes on its head and the emited a really strange gold color out of it, like it was gazing on heir soul.
However, she was to distracted to notice the creature had pointed his weapon at her.
Out of nowhere a really loud sound came and out of the device game lots of red energy balls spreading towards her at insane speeds.
She quickly put up a magical barrier that blocked the bullseye projectiles, but out nowhere more hybrids came and started to shoot at her.
Luna knew she had to do something, she couldn't keep up the barrier forever and just standing there wouldn't do her any good.
But when she was about to do something she suddenly heard someone yell.
"Hey, you grey bastards! You're primary treat is right here!"
Suddenly atnother loud sound was heart and one of the hybrids skull was vaporated by the pressure of the speeding bullet crushing trough it skull.
Luna turned her head and saw a biped, but this one was alot diffrent, this one had a light purple like skin, but had no fur except on its head.
It had eyes that where similairs to that of a pony but alot smaller.
It also had this weird device in its hands that luna concluded was some sort of advanced crossbow.
The hybrids turned around towards him and tried to shoot but for them it was to late.
At that time Grayson had shoot a projectile from his Carbine's mounted grenade launcher.
The grenades crashed and exploded in the middle of the position where the hybrids where standing, their bodies where blown away like ragdolls, but one poor hybrid was unlucky but standing to close to the blast and its body exploded with blood flowing trough the air.
But Luna suddenly noticed 2 hybrids came around the corner and where about to shoot Grayson.
She quickly concentrated a vast amount of magic in her horn and blased its magic towards one of the hybrids.
The hybrid never had a chance for the magic slamned at his body with insane force, his body got amputated by the sheer force and was instantly dead.
However, the last hybrid was still alive, luckely for Grayson, Sergei came running around the corner where the 2 hybrids previously came from. He pointed his Rossmore at the hybrids head and pulled both triggers, the sheer force of the double barrled shot vaporized the poor hybrid's skull like grayson did, only with much more force.
Luna was to overwelmed by the situation to say anything.
Then Grayson shouted "Hey you! Get your blue arse out of there before more Chimera patrols show up!"
Luna din't knew what he meant with *Chimera*, but she did know that standing there wouldn't do anything good.
So she gallopped after the humans that where running trough the streets.
Unfortunely luck wasn't at their side, multiple chimeran dropships had found them and their dropping off Chimeran attack forces.
Then Grayson said "Sergei! You get the err...... Female out of there! I will hold off those Chimeran Patrols."
"Are you not a bit over your head in this Grayson?" said Sergei half joking.
"I have fought through legions of Chimera and taken down the Chimeran tower in Paris, did you really think some puny chimera patrols would be enough to stop me?"
"No, i am familair with your ways of playing Mr Hero, but your luck won't last forever!"
"Enough joking around, just get her out of there damnit!"
However, Luna was not buying it.
"Are you crazy?! Are you going to throw away your life just because of your own blasted ego?!" Shouted Luna in disbelief
"Thanks for the input, but i dont need a lecture. Look after yourself would you. " Grayson said while running towards the Chimeran Patrol headon.
Luna could not believe his sheer stubberness, but she had no time to think about it.
They both moved trough the allyways to find a safe spot while Grayson was heading towards a group of Chimera just came out of a dropship.
"I may have changed after the events with Mallory and Raine, but there is one thing that will never change, my desire to wipe out evry Chimera off this planet." Grayson tought while holding a smug grin.
Luna however was in a train of toughts.
"What kind of world is this?" "Why are both species fighting againts eachother in such a way? We had plenty of wars in Equestria but they where never fought at this level where entire cities where destroyed just like that." Luna just din't know what to make any of this, when Celestia told Luna about the mirror she tought she was going to find atnother universes where there would atleast be some level of friendly actions towards eachother.
This was out of control.
Gun shots could still be heard and the sounds of Chimera screaming in agony as they where riddled by bullets and vaporized by explosions.
For most killing Chimera was just a matter of duty and survival.
For Grayson however, it was his only thing left in life where he could enjoy himself with.
He was desired this one thing.
Retribution
