"You heard me, I'll be bait." Blake repeats, sending his point home.
"You should be able to follow up on it quite nicely considering you know, you can stop time." Blake coughs dramatically emphasizing his point.
"Your serious..." Morgan's says, dumbfounded expression filling his face.
"Watch me! Follow my lead this time." Blake says, humms emit out of his feet echoing across the cave. Sending a wink Morgan's way before rushing to build speed.
"I swear you're crazy." Morgan says, wiping a hand down his face.
Riding along the cave walls a green blur starts to illuminate the pitch black. Building up his speed he leaps off the wall heading straight for the enemy. Short platinum hair beams back at him.
"Let's see if you can handle this!" Blake yells out directing the built up force into a vertical spin slamming his heel down as hard as he can now. Stealing the move from Kiara.
*CRACK*
Pieces of titanium and carbon fiber crumble off his boots. As the green light reflects off the gleaming material. Diamond covered arms nullify all his force entirely. Sending it back at him in a devastating return of force.
"Almost got me." A stout muscular woman snorts, diamond skin reflecting the light around them with an intense shine. Her gaze casts down seeing nothing more then a fly in front of her.
"Don't announce your attack next time dipshit, that should be obvious" She mocks, her skin returning to normal, smoothing out from the diamond it once was.
"Wait a minute you're that shitty non power user everyone keeps talking about pouring down the grapevine. People just won't shut up about you." She laughs, thinking Blake was just a rumor not a real person.
"Does it matter as long as I kick your ass?" Blake retorts, long fueled anger and resentment start to take over noticing reflections of the past.
'This time will be different.' He mutters to himself expressionless. The task at hand only sharpening his focus.
"The strong are the ones who get rewarded, the weak just get the scrapes. Let me burn that pecking order into your mind." She says slamming her diamond covered knuckles into her palm repeatedly.
"Don't go crying to your father's grave after this. You'll get no comforting words from the dead." She scowls tightening her hand into a sharp diamond covered fist.
"What was that fools name everyone keeps going on about, Erik whatever?" Her cruel smirk penetrates into his mind.
Like a nail to his mind emotions swell and surge forward in a violent storm. Amongst all of the emotions a fury alien to him starts to brew and spread out from the deepest parts of him. Hibernation of the being disrupted by its intense forming rage.
"Fight...Fight...Destroy...win....How dare they insult us!" The beings' anger getting more and more vitriolic.
'Either you fight or I will!' An aggressive expression erupts and cracks through the darkness of his inner mind, green energy starts to circulate inside of him all around his body. Sharp eyes of an unknown presence pierce into him.
"Was already planning on it." Blake says, shuddering at the presence trying to fight off his anxiety of it.
[Power supplement activated]
[35/50 Energy]
The now crumbling boots roar to life with a constant loud hum, skating forward his speed starts to build up rapidly pushing his boots far past their limit.
"The rats finally scurried out of they're little hole?" Her partner remarks sitting on a rock watching the battle with a wide smirk painted across her face, her chin tucked into her palm observing carefully.
Sending out a green unfiltered stream of electricity from his prosthetics palm. The girl's shoulder is seared through leaving an erratic bore hole.
"AHHHHHHHHH! He Just...attacked me!? I thought you said he didn't have a power Tina!" Her partner screams out, gripping at her shoulder trying to soothe the now searing pain branching through her.
"He doesn't Lana look at his arm." Tina deduces, noticing the electricity coming from Blakes prosthetic thinking she's seen through his parlor tricks
"Of course! You know why am I not surprised this powerless fool has a few pathetic tricks up his sleeve." Lana scowl her voice filled with pain and agitation.
"GAH" Her fresh wound sends a stabbing sensation throughout her shoulder. As charred flesh flutters its way into her nose.
Charging the injured girl Blake tensing up his triceps and biceps directing his muscles into one solid strike holding his fist low and ready. Lana's brown eyes trying to decipher Blakes next strike.
"You really thought you could just waltz in her and think everything would go your way!?" Tina laughs, before grinning with malevolence. Her fists shift into rough diamond replacing her smooth skin before slamming her knuckles together.
"Remember the name Tina as you struggle through your worthless life." She mocks, throwing a strong right straight for Blakes skull.
"I like to think it's the cunning ones that uproot everyone else." Blake retorts smirking at Lana as he narrowly avoids the blow lowering his stance just barely where only a few of his black strands are caught.
"What are you babbling about you pathetic runt?" Lana scowls, sending intense waves of sound through her voice. Dense vibrations reverberate through the air. Crashing against Blake making his eardrums plead for mercy.
"NOW" Blake yells out as loud as he can throughout the cave network, clamping both of his hands against his ears trying to defend against the sound waves.
"You are one risky bastard Blake I swear." Morgan comments impressed through a face of concern. Ripples leave his fingers, time stopping once again.
"We wouldn't have caught them off guard with this otherwise. Time to get my end done." Morgan sighs to himself. Surging his leg muscles with power he rotates his body slamming his shin square into Lana's unsuspecting face.
A deep imprint of Morgan's shoe is seen in Lana's nose. Squashed like a jam donut frozen in place waiting to come pouring out in full throttle.
"ERRRRGGGGG" Morgan's face fills with anguish, bearing through the immense pain. Time refuses to budge, returning part of his force back to him. Moving before the pain sets in, Morgan rotates Blakes body around to face Tina.
"That one hurt like hell! I've done my part Blake now you do yours!" Morgan winces. The small bones in his feet begin to fracture. His drawback sending intense recoil through his body in shards of agony.
*Snap* Ripples come flowing back into his fingers as the swing of time starts to return to to motion once more.
Blood starts to gush out of the poor girl's smashed nose. She shudders as her mind shuts down unable to handle the intense sudden pain in her face, slumping to the floor in a pool of red.
"Lana!" Tina screams ring out in the cave network.
"What did you do!?" Tine exclaims, tensing her hands into fists shifting them into a dense diamond.
"Ended the match." Blake says, a green spark leaving his darkened gaze.
"Ended the match, oh please. Your little toys couldn't even take a strike from me. You'll just continue to scurry around like the rat you are." Tina talks down to the vermin before her.
Rushing forward, she weaves her head past one of Blakes prepared strike. Her diamond covered knuckles reflect his face. Bone starts to crunch as her fist connects with his cheek.
[-10HP]
[25/35HP]
*Spit* A wad of blood and mucus shoots out of his mouth splattering on the cave floor in a rain of crimson.
"Did you hear a bell?" Blake mocks, wiping the blood off his lips staining the back of his hand.
"Bring it on!" He yells out his voice full of willpower.
"I'd be happy to." She smirks, sending a diamondized flurry of punches. Her fist finds its way through his defense's again striking him in the chest. Cracking a couple ribs in the process.
[-10hp]
"BLAKE!" Morgan yells out, horrified by the brutality he's witnessing.
Forcing his eye open through the intense swelling, he traces his enemy through the tint of red in his vision. Successfully dodging the second blow he tries to back away to catch his breath.
*SLAM* Diamond knuckles connect hitting him in the side of his jaw in seconds he slumps down to his knees barely able to breath, the darkness of his mind starts to creep in suffocating him slowly.
[-10HP]
[5/35HP]
Disorientation sweeps over him like a sandstorm. The world begins to sway back and forth in his vision. His equilibrium fully destroyed unable to even haul himself to his feet. His vision swaying back and forth as his brain bounces around in his skull.
"Looks like it's time to put you to sleep boy" Tina says, sending both of her fists crashing down into him, the glint of the diamond filling his vision.
"My body won't move!" His legs remain stiff, unwilling to part from their spot, gravity pressing down on him through forming nausea.
'I can't! I can't react in time!' Dread fills his mind unable to process what's happening.
"Of course we can!" A low growl of a voice echoes out from the back of Blake's mind.
His body begins twisting on its own, narrowly avoiding the crippling slam. In the same motion he deliver's a fierce counterattack running his foot along the ground building momentum rapidly from the electromagnetics in his boots.
"Let me return the favor." Blake growls as a menacing smirk fills his expression.
"You, what are you! You're not the same rat!?" Tina exclaims, her eyes widening in shock at such a drastic change in Blakes presence.
Directing all of the force down a precise trajectory, his leg sweeps round finding its way into Tina's, striking directly into her unprotected chin. Taking her waking mind with one fluid strike. Her body crumples to the floor as blood pools from her mouth.
'Do better next time, i will not be defeated by some jarhead!' The voice full of fury and anger dissipates into the murky blackness of his mind returning to its hibernation, disappearing as quickly as it had appeared.
'I don't think ill ever get used to that.' Blake mutters to himself regaining control and sense of his body.
'I had to be bailed out again by that thing again. I don't know if I should be happy or extremely worried at this point...' Blake's sighs, his thoughts ricocheting off the walls of his mind.
'Either way that just shows...I'm not strong enough yet.' His thought's course through his synapses at a rapid rate from the cooling adrenaline, his fist clenching and unclenching at the confirming his control.
"You, you actually took her out. That was one hell of a kick Blake!" Morgan cheers, filled with awe and bewilderment.
"I knew you had some hidden potential in you but I wasn't expecting this!" Morgan's arm finds its way around Blake's shoulder laughing through their rough victory.