He took a few steps back, then, bearing the pain he ran towards the edge and jumped off it. The moment he jumped he used the burst and went a little higher and futher. Then his began falling downwards.
He tried continuously to activate the jet and a few bursts kept coming in between. Within a few seconds he was almost halfway there and his altitude had dropped considerably too.
A mech which had just crushed the skull of a cadet looked above and saw Avon, moving unnaturally through the air. The mech aimed a missile at him without hesitation and fired.
Avon saw the missile coming at him with great speed. There was a momentary glint in his eyes.
Again, at the last moment he spun around and let the missile pass by before grabbing its tail.
The missile this time didn't go in a continuous ascent but continued at the same altitude, and the direction was a bit off too.
He used his jet to correct the direction and altitude but what happened was, because of the upward push, the nozzle of the missile faced down and after the burst was done, it began descending. Only direction seemed to be slightly corrected.
Noticing this Avon tried to pull down on the tail, the nozzle faced a little higher and continued and he repeated pulling down the tail its nozzle faced up again. Then continuing his ascent he heard a sound from behind and saw the mech flying towards him. It was approaching fast, but obviously slowed than the missile. But since the missile was moving irregularly the mech could reach him.
Avon reached above the elevated platform before the mech reached him. Then when the mech had come close enough, he used his burst to separate from the missile and caught on to the mech. He stuck his blade in it and it shot a bullet at him.
It hurt a lot but he beared the pain for another second because he knew what he had to do.
He held a few cables and tried to pull them but they wouldn't come out since they weren't cut anywhere but this was enough to distract it.
The missile which he had ditched would eventually come back tacking him and it did. At the very last moment, he spun along with the mech using the burst and the missile hit the mech right from behind. Avon felt the impact. He was thrown with great force. He fell hard on the elevated platform, his body ached all over. His armour was damaged even more and he felt a burning sensation at some parts. He was bleeding near his hip. His hands were paining and his ribs were broken.
Breathing heavily he stood up, limping he searched for the pillar. He found it and put the second stick inside.
The very next moment the floor vibrated and a blue light surged all over the footing.
Avon didn't know what happened and walked over to the edge to figure it out. He saw that down below all the mechs had disappeared. Still in the middle the big one was still fighting. However the commanders were not present in the arena, the ten elites seemed to be fighting the big one.
Avon knew there was no rest till all this had ended, and he thought to himself constantly that he had to help end it all. He had already done a big task but it obvious the fight wasn't yet done.
The time when his blood was hot and his senses were sharp was when he had to make most useful of his body, later the pain would take over and render him useless, he knew that so not letting his mind or body coold down, he jumped off the edge and using the bursts he made it to the centre. The big mech was having a hard time defending against all the attacks but it was not receiving enough damage. It was so busy that it didn't notice Avon approaching from above.
Right when he was on top of it, he let himself fall, using his blades he pierced the top of the mech's head and pulled his blade while still inside trying to lenghthen the cut. His foot slipped off the head and the blade tore through the metal as he fell downward.
This was enough to break the mech's rhythm. Unable to defend against the next barrage of attacks it began faltering.
Then Avon saw that one of the elites was just attacking from a distance and seemed unable to move. He approached that man and asked him where the commanders were.
The man said that the commanders went to the core to shut the planet down.
Hearing this he began moving towards the opening in the east where the core was supposed to be. He knew that the big mech no longer stood a chance against the elites and using bursts of his jet he tried to enter the opening.
After two bursts the jet gave a longer thrust of about five seconds before stopping again. This was enough to enter. He tried again but it didn't work any longer and he fell on the floor. The jet seemed to have stopped working altogether.
He continued limping deeper after standing up. It was getting darker and darker. He began hearing some sounds as he walked further in.
He could see flashes of light in the distance, sometimes green, blue,red or white. He walked further in and saw the pathway opened into a large chamber. In the chamber the commanders were engaged in a fierce battle with a huge wolf-like mechanical organism. It was slightly bigger than the one outside. Its movements were very unnatural and abrupt.
Avon could see the commanders fighting it in their own styles. A huge plasma cannon was fired at it from one side, while a highly concentrated laser beam was fired from another. One more commanders jumped high and used a long blade to strike the beast. The mech was taking some hits but dodging most. In fact it was landing more hits than it was taking.
One of the commanders crashed into the wall, One more bashed down. They were quick to join the fight again. Avon just watched from a distance as he could do nothing here.
The mech suddenly retracted its legs and an omni-directional wave shot out. It hit all the commanders at once and they were sent flying.
The mech then rushed towards one commander and as it was about to land a hit, three balls hit it from behind and *boom*
They exploded but nothing happened to the mech, but that was enough for Avon, the mech was distracted and the commander was on his feet already.
The mech suddenly disappeared from its place and before Avon could search for it, he was hit from from his right side, the force and speed of the attack were devastating.
He was sent flying and crashed hard into the wall. He could feel his bones completely shattered, he couldn't feel his right hand and the pain was just too much and his vision was blurring. He couldn't make anymore. His body was broken completely.
The mech had moved extremely fast and appeared behind Avon, then like a fly, it swatted him towards the wall. All of this in fractions of a millisecond.
This was how fast and strong the mech was, it was only because of the commanders that it couldn't use its full potential.
Its plan was to temporarily, meaning just for fraction of a second, render all commanders unable to attack. Then it would use the opportunity to attack the weakest one amongst them in that time gap. While fighting with the commanders it had gauged their capabilities and hadn't shown All of its capabilities to them. Hence the omni-directional attack worked and the plan was almost successful. Except for the unexpected meaningless attack made by another, extremely weak being who had appeared.
Following its own algorithm of eliminating the weakest ones first, it changed its target to Avon.
Avon who couldn't even follow the mech's movements with his eyes had no chance.
Now he lied on the floor, his eyes just watching the battle take place, he couldn't speak, hear and definitely couldn't move. His vision was fluctuating between sharp and blurry vision. He just lied there, breathing slowly, trying to keep himself alive but he didn't know , he couldn't look anymore dead.