Deliver Us From Hell

Deliver Us From Hell is a 2011 short story by J. G. Taschereau that was included in Tales of the Other Universe: Volume 1. It details the final moments of the Liberation of Magid and introduces the ill-fated members of Mathias Albright's  bounty hunting group.

Synopsis
After days of battle, the rebel forces fighting against the government regime are closing in on the Royal Palace. Mathias Albright and his group make final preparations and move through the streets as shootouts with the government soldiers occur. The group eventually meets a branch of the rebels and learns that all rebel forces are moving towards the palace while a bomb distracts their enemies father away. The gate still remains heavily guarded, so Mathias decides to divert the guard's attention with a bomb before opening fire.

The resulting explosion causes the building the group was hiding in to collapse, killing several rebels and Stephen Moloch. The remainder of the group moves into the palace in search of Klauss. Without their maps, which Stephen had, they cannot locate the space above Klauss' bunker to bomb and only draw the attention of more soldiers. Ben Walker sacrifices himself so that the other two can escape. Nelly Hawthorne is then heavily wounded by Pappade Klauss, but the rebel forces break into the palace before Mathias can be killed.

Mathias pursues Klauss up to the roof of the palace where he is nearly killed by the collosal dictator. Using his knife, Mathias wounds Klauss and forces him to retreat. Before Klauss can descend back into the palace, Mathias cuts his rope and sends Klauss falling to the basement. In the basement, Klauss interacts with Mabus and is killed by his henchman.

Mathias later wakes up in a medical field and learns that the liberation is over and has favored the rebels. His is also told that no one is still alive in the medical field where Nelly was brought too, leading him to suspect she is dead. In reality this was a mistranslation of the doctor, as Nelly survived and had left the medical field but moved off on her own. Mathias is treated as a hero by the press and the rebel forces, but his only thoughts occupy those friends that he lost in the fight.