Avon knew instinctively, something big was happening and most likely it wouldn't be something good.
The footing rose so quickly that he lost his balance, he forced himself to fall forwards so that he can stop his fall using his hands rather than falling on his back.
Once in a crouched position, he raised his head in a flash and his eyes quickly darted around, observing the situation.
He noticed that the footing was rising only near the perimeter of the arena and it was in an uneven manner.
Along with him there others were being pushed up by the ground and two of them had fallen flat on their backs.
He observed all of this in just a few seconds.
Feeling uneasy, he fired up his jet and launched himself into the sky, after making it to a certain height he looked back down at the rising platform.
The other three were still on it and had no control over their body because of the speed at which they were being pushed up and also because they had lost their balance.
Next Avon heard a *thud*, a very loud one and the the platform stopped rising, the three cadets on the platform were thrown upwards by their inertia, and in an instant the flat footing turned into a sharp and spikes grew out.
Avon's eyes widened predicting the next moment, before he could think anything else two of the cadets fell back down on the platform and their momentum was sufficient for the spikes to piece throught the armour and their bodies. Meanwhile the third cadet fired up his jets at the last moment when he was thrown up, but not on time, so he fell but because his fall was interrupted he simply got deflected off the spike thanks to his armour.
Avon rushed in to help the cadet and pulled him off the platform by grabbing his arm.
"Th- thanks" the cadet said.
Avon began looking around and saw similar scenes near the perimeter of the arena, at the other regions he saw something else, battle!
Down below, seven feet tall and 2 feet wide mechanical beast-like beings were fighting with the cadets.
At the center the commanders and their elites were defeating the mechs fast. But at the perimeter, what Avon saw made him fear for his life.
'Th-This is a massacre!'
He said to himself. Because he was surrounded by constant screams and shrieks. On cadet's head was brutally ripped apart from their body along with their spine dangling out, another cadet had a hole punched through her torso.
He heard another scream to his left and saw a mech raising a cadet above the ground using its pincer-like arm which had stabbed her in the shoulder. Then, it fired something like a shell from its forearm which exploded at the cadet's face. And just like that her upper body was gone.
Avon couldn't bear what he was seeing, he didn't know what to do, run away? But how? He could never make a complete escape on his own. He was scared for his life. The death that he had seen when his planet awakened was different, such a brutal battlefield shook him to his core.
While he was lost in his thoughts one of the mechs from below fired two missiles-like ammunition towards them.
Avon still had his guard up and noticed it coming from his left, it was coming in too fast for him to accelerate in any other direction, just in the nick of time he turned his jet off and immediately began falling, because of this he barely missed the missile. He was watched the missile miss his head by just a few centimetres and collide with the person who was beside him. That man's body was obliterated in a second. The blast was not an ordinary one, it looked like an implosion emitting blue light.
Then *boom*, it was loud blast and the shockwave pushed Avon backwards, since he had not completed his fall yet he didn't feel much of the shockwave's impact and the armour protected him from the heat.
The blast accelerated his fall in an inclined direction and he fell down hard. As soon as he could control his body even a little, Avon immediately stood up, not wanting to let his guard down anymore.
' I'm down on the ground, I can get attacked anytime'
And he was right, a mech appeared, but to his surprise, it was the metal base of the arena that he was standing on that transformed into the mech.
The mech rushed towards him with its long pincer-like arm ready to stab through him.
His body, remembering all the training and simulation, dodged the attack. Obviously, the training opponent was different but it was still helpful.
The mech then extended its arms and rotated its upper body very fast to hit Avon who had dodged and moved a little behind the mech. Noticing the wild momentum of the mech while rotating, Avon launched himself high up using jets and changed his direction to attack the mech, using the weapons system he extended two blades from his forearm and dived down targetting the wires present at the joints of the face and chest region. He did it so fast that by the time the mech stopped its sweeping action Avon was already at its neck.
To his surprise bullets shot out from either side of its neck, but his armour protected him. He slashed hard on the neck but because of the impact he felt from the bullets, he couldn't cut all the wires.
The bullets continued hitting and he was thrown down on the ground by the mech using its arm. The impact was not too painful and he stood on his legs again. His mind was surprisingly calm, only thinking about how to defeat the enemy in front.
Green liquid began leaking from the wires he had just cut. Knowing that he should target that spot again Avon decided to use the mini missile in his armour.
The mech hadn't wasted much time and was rushing towards him, he decided to hold his position to get a good aim. As soon as he saw the opening he fired, the mech intercepted the missile right on front of its neck.
But the mech used something on its shoulder to intercept the missile and not the hands. Since it had not stopped its approach towards him and he had not moved at all, it Swung its hand and landed a clean hit on Avon.
He went flying and hit a wall behind. Even though the armour absorbed most of the impact he felt some pain. The mech was again rushing towards him, but this time Avon again pulled the blades and decided to something different. He began rushing towards the mech head-on. Once they were close enough, the mech pushed its claw forward in order to stab Avon, meanwhile Avon was waiting for it to make a move first, the moment he saw claw coming towards him he turned on his jets.
Because of the sudden acceleration that he acquired, he went from a meter in front of the mech to directly behind it from the gap between its legs. During that movement he slashed the remaining cables.
The claw struck empty air as he simply disappeared from his spot.
Now the head and body had been separated and green liquid was spilling over. Avon's insides felt uneasy because of the sudden acceleration he experienced.
The mech though, hadn't lost its power. The body was making way towards the head. Avon them remembered about the organic heart these beings were supposed to have.
Not wanting to give the mech a chance he first ran towards the body, and using his blades he cut the claws from the hand. Now that he knew he should target the cables it easy to know where to cut.
He took one claw in his hand, it was almost as long as him. Holding it with its top facing down, he launched himself upward.
Then he turned off the jet and spun mid-air to gain more momentum as he fell and struck the body hard. The claw had now pierced the body completely and pinned it down.
Then he pulled out all the cables coming out of the neck region, and as he expected a heart came out too. It was almost the size of his face. He took a small ball from his armour and put it on the heart. The ball then exploded and the heart was gone.
He looked at the mech's body and head and could see that it had no more power.
In this moment, he felt calm sense of victory. He knew he could never have escaped and this victory gave him hope of survival. His eyes now had a resolute look in them and he said to himself.
' This is no place for me to die. I have too much left to do. I cannot afford to die. I can not and will not die! I must survive this on my own. I will survive this.'