Dawan: “...(Dammit! If I hesitate any longer, we’ll begin receiving unforgivably large casualties, breaching the thousand mark!)

ALL OF YOU WHO STILL CONSIDER YOURSELVES PART OF OUR 6 COMPANY COALITION, FOLLOW MY ORDERS AND RETREAT TO THE EAST IMMEDIATELY!”

At once, several thousand mercenary coalition members organized themselves to the eastern side, and away from the zombie – like traitors before them. Concurrently, not all of the mercenary members moving to the right halted their attacks against their own allies. Those who became immersed in their own individual schemes continued launching their respective assaults, regardless of the situation or developing around them, nor of the resulting loss of personnel their Team 4 will surely face.

[…]

Coalition member # 40: “Heheheh, Don’t think you can hide among us coalition members you asshole traitor! Our group doesn’t need people like you! Just hurry up and die already!”

Coalition member # 41: “Wha – YOU’RE the traitor! Look at how you’re behaving! I knew you had a sleazy look in your eyes! *Clang!* Despicable!”

Coalition member # 40: “Forget it – Forget it! Forget the chattering! Just hurry up and die!”

[…]

Coalition member # 42: “Guo Min, you don’t deserve to live! You dared to attack my wife while she was fighting off those monsters with white eyes! I SAW her become one, shortly after you struck her! You must be the cause for them all, YOU were probably the one who gave them those knives too! I’ll make you pay!”

Coalition member # 43: “Wait – WAIT! He could not have been the cause for our first row of allies to go glowy – eyed, because the ones that stabbed them were the headless corpses of the scouts! Besides! If what you said is true, then maybe he had a good reason for attacking her! Like, mayb- maybe your wife was already turned into one of them and you just mistook another person for her? OR maybe she attacked him first and he struck out in retaliation? Most likely, he was trying to kill one of those glowy – eyed people and your wife got caught in the crossfire! My fellow Ghastly Seal-Breakers group members are far too civilized and would never betray anyone without caus--”

Coalition member # 44: “AHAHAHAHAHA! It felt wonderful to cut her down! Hearing her scream in fear! Tasting her splattered blood…! I only regret not being able to cut her down personally before that light changed her! This is why I love doing this job~”

Coalition member # 43: “...”

Coalition member # 42: “I’LL KILL YOU!! YOU FUCKING PIECE OF UNHOLY SHIT-FOR-BRAINS - I’LL TEAR YOU TO SHREDS!!!! EVEN IF I GET PUNISHED BY ALL 6 ORGANIZATIONS TAKING PART IN THIS COALITION AT ONCE, I PROMISE TO STILL FUCKING END YOU!!!!”

[…]

Coalition member # 44: “Oh no…! There’s a traitor that mixed in with our retreating team’s members here on my side, too! Don’t worry though everyone – I’ll stop him! Heheh, eat my fist you traitorous bastard!! *Boom!*”

Coalition member # 45: “Is that all you’ve got? Heh, too weak! You wanted to take me out with THIS paltry level of damage? Fine, if that’s the case - I’ll kill you first! Then I’ll expose your horrible attempts and prove how my killing you was fully justified! The Coalition of mercenaries will thank me! So for now...Eat my flurries of kicks!”

[…]

Coalition member # 46: “Lightning explosion of despair! *BOOM!* *CRACKLE!* If you don’t hurry up and surrender your lives, Daredevil mercenaries, then prepare to be enslaved!! You’ve NEVER been a group that’s known to be trusted! If you think that I’ll start now, then you people are as dumb as the rumors say!”

Coalition member # 47: “AHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Heavenly separation, fiery destruction! *BOOM!*

Silver Shackles... As touching as it might be to let you try and ‘enslave’ me, I won’t be working for anyone other than my own greed! Ahahaha. Besides, you’ve got to be ALIVE first, in order to ‘enslave’ somebody!

...And we’re NOT the ‘Daredevil’ mercenaries! We’re the ‘Living Devils’!

*BOOM!*”

Coalition member # 46: “Whatever! It’s the same thing! *BOOM!* *BOOM!*”

[…]

Coalition member # 48: “Hey! HEY! STOP ALL OF THIS FIGHTING! Dammit, if we never get past this trap, then the other teams might reach the snotty kids first! I WANT MY MONEY!”

Coalition member # 49: “Agreed. There’s absolutely no reason for us to remain dawdling here! Absolutely none! Let’s just use our powers together to wipe out the traitors or confused and brainwashed allies or whatever you want to call them, and GET GOING!”

Coalition member # 48: “Yeah, I also agree with what you said just now! Also, what in the heck is our LEADER or the 6 other Coalition representatives doing?!”

The moment these words finished escaping her soft lips, coalition member number 48 bore witness to a small bright speck of light, shoot overhead of the army of traitors.

Yes, army. It was now an army. One of 989 former mercenary members to be exact, and very soon, the group of white-eyed zombies were planning to claim another 11 souls to add to their growing group.

That tiny speck of light shone with such brilliance, that not even any of the representatives could continue staring at it for longer than 15 seconds. Coalition member number 48 was forced to close her eyelids shut after reaching her eyesight’s limit, yet even after having done so did she notice a vague, red outline of that spec, that strange speck of light, and even stranger was the clear increase in size it was currently experiencing. It grew bigger, wider, and so much hotter than before. She felt like she would collapse at any minute just standing in its presence! This was NOT some ordinary heat!! There was no doubt about it; she had felt this strange heat being emitted before in that dark, sightless world. The person that fired it, was none other than the man leading their very Team 4: Dawan!

He’d just finished creating a small sun that loomed dangerously overhead of the glowy – eyed former comrades - in - arms.

Dawan: “I don’t know if you people are just unable to resist whatever has it’s control over you, or if you really have turned traitor, but I can’t afford to waste any more time here. Regardless of the truth, you have placed yourselves in my way. Without our support members to try and cure you, I can only send you off as painless as possible. Farewell, my temporary subordinates. I promise to inform your higher-ups respectively, in order to offer my condolences to each of your families.

That is, if each of you still have any families left, to contact. Obviously, this wouldn’t apply to my Bright-Burn mercenaries mixed in over there, isn’t that right, Denzel?”

Denzel: “...Yes. I’ll be sure to remember the 16 who have fallen, in place of their lost loved ones. In the mean time, the rest of us have decided to quieten down, our unruly troublemakers over there, in the Coalition’s side. Do we have your approval to take action?”

Dawan: “...Yes. If you need to, you can go ahead and kill them without hesitation. I can’t trust my back to somebody that has already stabbed it. If they were willing to do it once, they may be willing to do it again.”

Vice: “Roger!”

Denzel: “Sure thing. As Bright-Burn’s representative in this company, I do have an image to maintain.”

Ergio: “Ok. I shall make short work of them. Ah, I mean, I will try calming and pacifying them first. If that doesn’t work, THEN I will make short work of them.”

Weston: “What are we waiting for? Quin has already begun slashing away at the more ruthless guys that started brawling. I’ll handle the sap who lost his wife.”

Vice: “Then I’ll—”

Ergio: “Dibs on the elemental users, then…! *VROOSH!*”

Vice: “Ah – Hey! That’s who I was planning on - *Vroosh!*”

Denzel: “...You guys, that doesn’t leave me with any… QUIN! STOP ATTACKING THEM ALL AND GIVE ME TWO! (After saying all that stuff about upholding my image, it’ll completely shatter if I am the only one to stand here and do nothing...! I must hurry!)”

…

Dawan: “DAWN OBLITERATION!”

Dawan controlled the growing sun with one hand, as he watched his fellow elites pacify the unruly bunch. One was even straight up impaled by Quin for making an unforgivable remark about ‘killing his wife and family’ if Quin threatens him again..It’s not like Quin HAS a wife and family, but the remark was still unforgivable, nonetheless.

And as a bright, white glow covered those injured in that little skirmish...Dawan released his clasped fist, opening the palm, which in turn, halted his ‘sun’s’ growth – spurt, and slowly dropped it. As the hand descended...so did the sun – engulfing every single traitor beneath it!

...Or so it would seem. Who was the man, orchestrating this little ‘coup d’etat’?

Mr. Abrams needed to merely flash both of his irises before a series of teleports occurred. First: came the engulfment of Team 4, elites and subordinates included. Next, the white-eyed energy puppets each disappeared from beneath the sun, appearing in the Eastern – most side of this battlefield...in the EXACT spots where Team 4 originally stood! But, wait: if the puppets were there...then where was Team 4?

Well, the 4,010 members remaining, not including Dawan, felt an increasing sense of nausea overtake them, when they reappeared in someplace very hot, and very uncomfortable…

The group only had enough time to gaze upwards for a mere second, before their eyes felt an incomparable bursting sensation! Their skin began to bubble and burn without remorse, and again, an incredible sensation of nausea overwhelmed their psyches until everything; pain, resistance and even their ability to process a single thought, vanished without a trace.

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