"Hah…Ngh…" Calliope slammed into a wall as she dragged herself up the stairs. Looking to the signs on the wall and following the trail of destruction. No one was in the Atrium where they entered. But rounding the corner, she too was met with the Atrium where Leery and Leroy had been fighting minutes before, then a rumble shook the building! The Buster Call commencing!
Then a canister slammed through the glass dome above! Shattering the rest of the glass! Calliope jumping back! "What the hell? What is that?!"
Moments later, the Chemite gas filled the room! With barely a whiff of the Gas Calliope began to cough! Dashing to the door on the other side and slamming through the door to see dozens of warships firing Canister after canister through the air!
"Run!" CPA agents screamed as the white yellow gas filled the air, chasing through the streets of the Octagon. Many fell to their knees, boils forming on their face. Other Agents and Marines that weren't already dead or left alive by the crew were faced with a cruel end at the hand of their own leaders…
"What the fuck?!" Calliope screamed as she looked up. Kirk, Jeanne, Dezzi and Raven all snapped to her voice. "Cali! Over here!"
"Oh my god…" Jeanne stumbled backwards speaking under her breath, hand reaching her mouth as she noticed the missing limb.
"Cali! Quick get over here!" Dezzi practically ordered, rifling through their bag.
The First round impacted the Citadel causing dust and cracks to form above the two fighters, now in a room that looked like a Courtroom! A large intricate mural of the land of Eden on the Wall, the logo of the World Government on the Ceiling with no chairs for the jury in the large room. Now it was left almost barren from the impact of Leery and Leroy
Releasing his teeth, Leroy took the opportunity to slam his Legs into Leery! Pushing him away as blood oozed from both his neck and the vampires mouth!
"Ah…Seems like Hugo ended up going through with the Buster Call order. No matter. I'm more than pleased with how this is going, especially with such supple blood to feast on…"
Leroy brought his hand up to his wound, stopping the bleeding. Leroy was lucky that the Bite of a vampire only was used for sucking blood and healing ones self, rather than the belief of turning one into a Vampire. That was only the case if the opponent was already dead. So there was nothing Leroy had to worry about in regards to that…
The Steam had stopped by this point, the sudden tackle knocking him from his blood fueled technique.
"I'm gonna hit you so hard, you're gonna give me my fuckin' blood back you blood suckin freak!" Leroy declared. Putting his hands back on his knees
"Bahaha…You truly are entertaining…But in the Name of Justice. And the entire world, I'm going to take great pride in strike you down, and feasting on your corpse!"
Leerys body transformed again! Body getting leaner, with his wings getting larger. "Zoan types are able to control how they transform and what their transformation appears as once they become strong enough.
"Chiroform: True Bat…" He was shorter, leaner, and by all accounts looked weaker. But this was his best form. His most powerful. A form that used everything he could muster!
"Gear Two!" Leroy screamed as he forced his body back into its hyper flow state! Blood rushing, heating up! Causing steam to form from both sweat turning to steam and the cooler air around him doing the same!
"RAGHH!" The Two roared, leaping towards each other! "Komori Teha Shigan!" With claws flared, Leroy shot his hands back! Twisting them taught and them slamming both his flat palms into Leerys!
The Bat-Mans claws pierced his palms as Leroys fist cracked the bones in Leerys hands! Despite the pain, despite the tower around them shaking….Both of their eyes were locked in a fiery gaze at one another…
22 Years ago.
Zachary Leery, 11 years old
A boy that was born to a top covert agent of the World Government, and was trained since he was 4 years old to be nothing more than a killing machine.
When he was 8 He took his first life, a consort for a king that was under the influence of the world government, whom was attempting to sway said king from separating from the Coalition.
Then when he was fifteen, he was the youngest person in history to Master not only the Six Powers, but also the Art of The Heavenly Body. Where he was then granted the Mythical Vampire Fruit. By this time he had already had over 125 Confirmed kills under his belt. All by his own hand, and on individual missions. A far greater achievement than dozens killed in a single fight.
However, when he turned 16- The World Government put him into the tutelage of one Dr. Tehertz as a part of one of his new experiments to see how much he could play god for them.
For over a Decade Leery was put into a vat of Chemicals that rewired his genome and something known as 'Gene Root'.
This 'Gene Root' goes by many Names; Blood Strain, Lineage Factor, Gene Seed. They are all in reference to the very building blocks of life itself. From which the body and itself reaches into like an archivist in a grand annal reaching for information. From regeneration to growth. Root Gene determines it all
Zachary Leerys was modified to produce higher amounts of Growth Hormone, along with an Enlarged Pituitary gland. Allowing his body to not only Mature at an Expedited rate, but also get stronger incredibly quickly. He was also modified to have an extra lung, two hearts, an enlarged thyroid, and specialty kidneys to process poison making him immune.
This process left his body scared, the holes in his skin at his clavicles, shoulders, small of his back, sides of his thighs and two at either wide of his abdomen were from where the experimentation devices were connected to him. The metal left behind as reminders.
This process allowed Leery to become a tool of Justice. Something that couldn't be stopped by any ordinary person or nation.
He was an embodiment of the World Governments agenda…
His first Mission out of the Test tube had to deal with wiping out an entire lineage from an Island to ensure the solidarity of Nations Monarchy, but half way through said extermination, it was required of him to kill everyone on the Island.
In the Process, he was shot with so many rounds of Ammunition that the Total payload after the entire night was almost worth 4 megatons of TNT. And he'd only gotten stronger from then.
As of now, he's only been a member of CPA-9 for only 5 Years. And in that Time has become the Most Accomplished CPA Agent in the Organizations History.
"Holy Shit!" Calliope's eyes widened as the Giant Warship Dwarfed her vision. The Giant hull was like looking up at an incredibly tall building, Like she was looking at the large water lock gates of Water 9.
Dezzi had finished bandaging her as much as they could. In the meanwhile Kirk had gotten Raven out of her cuffs.
Marines looked over the side of the ship, with no emotion only for one to raise their rifle before being stopped by another. "Leave them. They're as good as dead anyway."
"Fire!" Shouted the Vice Admiral on board, Panthera, commencing the final barrage of rounds into the island to destroy it from the map. Fire already rising from the Octagon.