The moment the command was uttered we rushed into position. The squad split into 2 groups running to encircle Soulsteel. Instead of leaping out and interrupting our formation, Soulsteel just stood in the center laughing like a stereotypical supervillain:

"HUEHUEHUE! GOOD! GOOD! Come at me underlings!"

Everyone was into position, pointed and loaded.

"Fire!" Isa shouted through the headpiece. With all the shots going off at the same time, the whole place lit up like a massive ring of fire, as thousands of shells hit the ground like rain drops, and at the center where Soulsteel stood, dust and earth flew everywhere.

"Halt." Isa snapped, the firing stopped at once and the place went as quiet as a graveyard. The firing had lasted for a minute, but it felt like it had been an eternity. As we all kind of just stood still and stared at the center, trying to get a good peak through the dust.

"Close..." a voice came from the center. As the dust cleared Soulsteel's cocoon became visible. The steel cocoon was dented and had small cracks here and there, but knowing it had just withstood a thousand rounds of fire, and no matter how much I hate Soulsteel, his toughness was to be respected.

"But underlings are underlings after all. Your prized technology is no more than fancy trash in front of real magic..." a voice came through the crack of the shell, "Now, allow me to show you all what is true power!"

The shell began to shake, followed with a sudden extended fist breaking the front of the shell. Then with two hands, Soulsteel pried open the crack and whole thing just kind of split in half. Then with an arrogant sneer, he stepped away from his now shattered cocoon and ripped off his shirt. As unnecessary as I found his action, I couldn't help but be a little envious.

Ok, quite envious...

"Everyone hold your position and fire at my command!" Isa barked orders, and Soulsteel didn't seemed to mind, as he stood in his place and began to stretch out.

"Ready," Isa paused and held up one fist, "and FIRE!"

A ring of fire lit up once again, but this time, instead of standing still in his place like he had before, Soulsteel leaped like a hundred feet into the air and attached himself to the ceiling for a moment, then aimed and launched himself towards the back of the cavern. A desperate wave of fire tried to follow Soulsteel's movement, as he dodged them without seemingly making any effort. Several MS in Soulsteel's landing area tried to move away, but it was too late, and landing on the poor man Soulsteel pinned him to the ground. Several soldiers pulled back and began fire, but Soulsteel parried the shots with one hand and inhuman reaction. Then in a flash of arcing silver, the MS who was firing at him, and his 3 comrades several meters apart from him, fell to the ground, unmoving.

This is S level threat...

10 times more powerful then all your enemies faced combined...

Isa's comment lingered in my head.

"FIRE! DO NOT STOP OR ELSE YOU'RE DEAD MEAT!" Isa's voice was strong but signs of falling morale was obvious. Soldiers were abandoning their positions, trying to make a run for safety, only to be cut down like livestock by Soulsteel, one after another.

BOOM!!!

It was a shot that silenced all the others, and the first one in a while that Soulsteel dodged. A split second later, a sizable explosion went of on the wall behind Soulsteel hundreds of feet back.

"Close..." Soulsteel commented, who remained in the same limbo position, as he slowly props up his back again.

"EAT MY CANNON! SOUL SHIT!"

Rumble yelled from across the cavern, as he struggled to reload his cannon.

"Cannons are not edible you know? And..." Soulsteel ended his own sentence as he shot one hand forward, which morphed into a gigantic, jumbled up, weird, jagged...Steel hand I guess? Either way, the giant messed up steel hand shot its self towards Rumble from 100ft away at an incredible speed, grabbing him and pinning him against the wall. Rumble, tried to break away but went limp after a moment. Soulsteel's giant hand, then let lose its grasp and retreated to its normal size again, and Rumble's lifeless body crumpled to the ground.

"...I did not like that name very much." It took me a moment to realize, Soulsteel was finishing his sentence.
Whatever remainder of cohesion we had dissolved into tatters, as morale had pretty much evaporated Soulsteel turned his attention towards Isa.

"Ah, finally..." Soulsteel flashed his signature Scythe like smile towards us, as he rubbed his knife form fingers in a terrible screech, terrible screech.

"The knight in shinning armor himself...Shall we dance?" Soulsteel bowed in a creepy like manner. He probably thought Isa was a man. Which is reasonable since as far as I was concerned, she fought with the strength of 10 men.

Isa who seemed less concerned of being called a man and didn't fall for Soulsteel's play of words. Instead she got into stance with her spear pointing at Soulsteel.

"I see, too shy too dance. A lady not a man then, forgive me." Soulsteel straightened himself again, then with no warning he was in front of Isa in an instant. Sparks flew in all direction at once, as live steel tangoed with another.

Parry, strike, dodge, feint, stab, slash, dodge...

Watching them exchange blows was like seeing each of them growing an extra set of arms. Their movements were a blur. My eyes just couldn't keep up anyone, despite only standing 10 meters away, I felt like there was nothing I could do, I was completely useless. But after the first 5 seconds the result became clear: Isa, my mentor, the demon women. With her Inhuman strength, was struggling against Soulsteel's attack.

Then suddenly, in a swipe of silver, Isa's spear was sliced into half, and blood poured from Isa stomach dropping her to her knees. Soulsteel, whose wore the expression of the hunter closing in for a prize, grabbed Isa by the back of her helmet and lifted her body and armor above ground.
"Where is the little metal arm boy? If you don't come out, I will cut her in half for sure this time..." his voice trailed off as he scanned the place, I wanted to run, but my legs were frozen in fear, I looked around frantically for help, but across the whole cavern, there were only ruins and lifeless armor laying all over.

"FOUND YOU!" Soulsteel looked in my direction and chuckles then burst straight out laughing. After what felt like ages, he stops laughing, and cocks his sideways with the same scythe grin on his face:

"How many times has it been now? 3? And you know what they say about 3? Good things come in 3s! And I feel lucky we already..." he chuckled, as he places one of his knife form hand on Isa's waist.

"I am in a good mood today boy, so I will give you a choice! If you come here, I will let your previous little commander go..."

"Run..." Isa's weak voice was cut off by an agonizing shriek as Soulsteel stabs her in the side with his fingers without hesitation, her body went limp.

"Or you can stand there, and give you a live human anatomy lesson of your commander..." he said as he creeped his fingers onto Isa's stomach.

Soulsteel, as you can obviously tell was not about to let anyone go, letting Isa go just means killing her later, so there was really no point in giving in, but by not giving in.

Curses! I can't do shit! CURSES! WHY AM I SO USELSS?

Hot tears began to roll down my cheek. There was nothing I could do about the power disparity, and did this all happen to me...

CURSES! If only I was stronger...why did this all happen to me, why? WHY? WHY? AGHHH! If only...If only I could do something...

I stared at the hanging body of Isa warily.

If only...only...

For those past few months Isa put me through a hellish course of training, and if I were ever given the option of changing my choices I would move to another country. But over the course of those past few months, it was those small things that happened during training, the adventures we went on, the times we fought side by side, the times where she saved my life, well I know I am sounding cliché, but I don't care, cause that's just the way things are. Not every moment was flashy and memorable, but it was those unmemorable and unflashy moments that made up a significant chunk of my life, and those moments I sincerely and honestly want to share it with the person I care for, because I care.
After taking in a deep breath in and out, and I dropped my gun to the ground.

"Made your choice then? I like where this is going...HUEHUEHUE!" Soulsteel laughed manically as I began to slowly make my way towards him.
At first it was a walk.

Then it became a run.

And before I even knew, it was just like the time with saving Illyria all over again. I was running faster then the wind, with the gale wind roaring in my ears as I screamed at the top of my lungs:

"AGHHHHHH!!!"

Q: What would you do to someone who hurt your loved one?