DIFFERENT FONT STYLES USED:
"STORYLINE" "'SPECIAL SKILLS OR MOVES'" "SPEAKER" "SPEECH" "THOUGHT"
SCENE: The Warehouse.
Crashhopper lets out a bloodcurdling scream as he drops to the ground, a pool of blood forming below him. The other look at it with different expressions and reactions, the cartel all stunned by the enforcer's brutality, the squad look shocked at Lazarus' ruthlessness, while Kyle and Candy look at it like he just won a soccer match. Lazarus looks down at his opponent with a blank face, a sword in both hands, one raised to strike when he hears a voice from behind.
Kyle: (whistles) And here I thought you still don't have your memories. (they all turn to sound of the voice to see Kyle and Candy at the door)
Calculette: (shocked) Huh?
Manhandle: What the--?
Don Weaver: Who the hell are--?
Lazarus: (hateful) You! (speaks with clear venom in his voice so obvious it might as well be dripping) What are you doing here?!
Kyle: (shrugs with faux gaze aversion) My best friend's invading villain district to battle mafia groups he has no reason to even be involved with; of course I'd show up.
Lazarus: (glares hatefully as he slowly walks towards him) Still holding on to that same line?
Kyle: Same line? Son, it's the truth. That's something you should know, after all, my words tell no lies.
Lazarus: (stops for a moment at those words…) Huh? What? (…but then shakes it off and continues walking towards him)
Kyle: (seems to notice this) Hmmm.
Lazarus: Enough of your games, Kyleo!
Manhandle: Who is that?
Sonic Wave: I feel like I've seen him somewhere before.
Calculette: Kyleo… (gasps in realization) Wait, could he be--?
Don Weaver: (aims the ray gun at Kyle) Just who the hell are you?! (fires at Kyle who doesn't even turn to face the shot)
Candy: 'VOLATILE MODE'. (hair turns red with orange streaks and she fires a ball of blue-white flame that hits the shot, creating an explosion that surprises everyone watching; turns to face him with an angry expression) I don't think so.
Don Weaver: (growls at her) Why you brat! (fires webbing at her…)
Candy: 'FIRE WALL'. (…which she blocks with a wall of fire that explodes in brilliant blue-white on contact)
Kyle: (still staring down Lazarus with crossed arms) So, are you finally ready to listen?
Lazarus: (yells) Quiet! I've being waiting for this day a long time. (charges towards Kyle) Now I can pay you back! (Kyle generates his gold, glove-like energy aura around his hands, the fingertips extending into claws; he parries a swing from Lazarus with one hand, Lazarus swings the other sword at Kyle, who grabs the blade with his bare hand, Lazarus grits his teeth) …
Lazarus leaps back from Kyle and back towards him and delivers an X-shaped sword slash, Kyle parries it with an outwards slash then lunges at Lazarus who dodges it, drops to the ground and delivers a leg swipe which Kyle easily dodges with a jump. Lazarus quickly rises up and swings at Kyle's waist, but the white-haired teen turns his flesh and hair to solid steel, the blade shattering like glass on contact with his skin before generating a coat of aura unto his foot and kicking at Lazarus' face; the enforcer however, anticipates this and rears his head back to dodge.
Lazarus: (slides back and looks up at him with a hateful glare) …
Kyle: (lands and undoes his steel form, looking at him with an impressed smile) Well, you anticipated my slasher kick? You've grown, you're rapidly getting back to your usual self.
Lazarus: (lunges at him again) Enough of your nonsense already!
Kyle: (lunges at him as well…) You enough of YOURS! (…both collide attacks – fist against sword; letting out a small shockwave; Calculette and Sound Wave both stare at them with surprise and awe)
Gravitator: Calculette, Sound Wave, go help him! Now!
Calculette: (surprised) What? What about you?
Gravitator: (keeps his eyes fixed on Don Weaver) There's no time to worry about that! Just g--
Lazarus: Don't you there! (this outburst surprises all three) Nobody, takes step enough! This is MY fight! (Lazarus backflips in place to dodge Kyle's claw attack and attempts to stab him, only for Kyle to easily evade it)
Calculette and Sound Wave: (sweat drops) …
Don Weaver: (roars wildly before screaming at the rest of his thugs) GET THEM NOW! (the remaining mobsters charge straight at Kyle, Candy and the enforcers)
One fires a beam of heated plasma, another swings a giant battle axe, a third points a staff and fires a ball of purple energy, a fourth turns into a wolf and lunges at them; amongst other things.
Candy: 'CRITICAL MODE'. (the orange streaks change to yellow and she snaps her fingers in the direction off the mobsters, igniting sparks that flutter around most of them, creating explosions around them)
Sound Wave: (forms a triangle shape with his hands…) 'SONIC CATACLYSM'. (…and delivers a powerful sonic wave blast that knocks the rest out)
Candy: (turns to face the two enforcers powered down) So…I guessing you're Laz's squadmates.
Calculette: (puts up a defensive stance) And you are?
Candy: I'm Candy, Laz's friend.
Calculette: … Your name is Candy? Wait, explosion-based skills? Color-changing hair? Are you…The Iron Lady of Life and Death? Candice Carmille?
Candy: (lets out an impressed whistle) Wow. Don't you know your stuff.
Calculette: Then… (turns to Lazarus and Kyle's fight) So, that…could that be…?
Candy: (nods) Yup. The Tyrant King, Kyleo Kalahan. (both enforcers just gawk at her like she just said she is God)
Black Ant slams his hammer on the ground that sends a trail of lava at Manhandle, who leaps into the air to evade and enlarges his fist, sending straight at the rogue villain. Black Ant slams it with his hammer to dispel it, not missing a beat, Manhandle sends an enlarged other fist straight to him; the rogue not being able to react quick enough to block it too and gets sent flying, the fist keeping him in motion into and right through a wall. He keeps his fist in place for a few more moments before he feels something that alarms him and suddenly…his arm explodes.
The rest of the arm crumbles away, Manhandle regenerates his arm instantly as Black Ant walks back into the building; rubbing the back of his neck as he moves his neck back and forth to relieve the pain. Manhandle glares at Black Ant as the villain slowly walks up to him, Black Ant crosses his arms in front of himself, hunches over and throws his arms apart with a roar, letting out a battle aura of black and reddish-orange; releasing his full power. Black Ant slams the hammer again, creating an earthquake that shakes the entire district; everyone within stumbles, struggling to stay standing. Black Ant lunges at Manhandle, slamming him with his hammer and causing his body to explode, much of his sand turning to glass.
Calculette: (worried) MANHANDLE!
Sound Wave: Why you! (leaps into the air and fires a sonic attack at Black Ant)
The villain slashes across the air, projecting a transparent energy shield, to block it. The hammers head ignites with a crimson flame and Black Ant begins swinging it wildly, sending fire slashes at them. Calculette projects a wall to block them, Sound Wave sends another wave at the villain who gets hit square; not able to attack and defend at once. Don Weaver fires at Gravitator, who blocks it with a shield and makes a hand gesture that sends the blaster out of his hands. Don Weaver growls in rage and bends over forward, sending his spider legs into a flurry of powerful stabs that the gravity user blocks. Candy meanwhile just stands in place, watching the battles, first the young enforcers' fight, then Gravitator and finally turning back to Lazarus and Kyle's fight.
Lazarus: (swings his sword angrily) Finally! I can finally get my revenge on you for humiliating me!
Kyle: (seems bewildered) Humiliating you? You're then one who attacked me, don't go blaming others for the consequences of your own mistakes.
Lazarus: (holds his sword with both hands, the blade pointing up like a medieval swordsman) This fight ends now! (charges towards him, sword pointed forward for a stab)
Kyle effortlessly dodges it, parrying it with his claws on one hand and lunges at Lazarus' throat with his other hand but the enforcer teleports away just in time. Lazarus instinctively but gently grabs his neck as if to check if it's still there; Kyle throws away the sword and tightens his fists, pulling them up in front of himself in a boxing stance with a determined glare on his face. Lazarus glares hatefully at Kyle and rushes at him, delivering a flying kicking to the head that Kyle swiftly dodges with a half backflip, hopping off the ground with his hands back to his feet as Lazarus steps back.
Not skipping a beat, Lazarus performing a spinkick, once again aimed at the head which Kyle blocks with a hand and throws a fist which Lazarus catches and generates electricity from the hand which flows throughout Kyle's body; Kyle screams as gets electrocuted. Kyle staggers backwards, dropping to a knee with a pant, he looks up at Lazarus with a very – surprising – calm, unsmiling expression; much unlike the devil-may-care smile he had on until now.
Kyle: Huh, you've gotten stronger. You're definitely becoming more like your old self. (Lazarus reacts to this with an expression of confusion) Alright, I'll stop going easy on you.
Lazarus fires a psychic energy beams which Kyle blocks with a summoned force shield, then charges towards him, he drops to a slide and delivers a legswipe that Lazarus evades with a jump, which Kyle anticipates and props up on his hands with a spin and sends a kick to the stomach that sends Lazarus flying. Kyle flashsteps into the air, and delivers a dropkick that sends Lazarus flying back to earth and lands with a stomp to Lazarus' back; the boy coughing out blood.
Kyle: (puts his hands behind his back as casually walks off and around Lazarus to face him; crouching down to maintain eye contact) So, are you finally ready to listen?
Lazarus: (grits his teeth with a tightening fist; mutters under his breath) Guh! Damn you.
Kyle: (holds his hand up to his ear as he leaned down lower) Sorry, what was that?
Lazarus: (yells) DAMN YOU! (creating out a tornado that causes Kyle to leap back instinctively)
Kyle: (shoots a calm glare) …
Lazarus: (waves his hand out…) 'MIND ASSAULT'. (…and sends out a psychic wave at Kyle)
Kyle: (waves his own hand at the attack…) 'PERFECT DEFLECTOR'. (…and reflects the attack back at Lazarus, making him cry out in pain, he quickly bolts towards to Lazarus and spinkicks him in the waist, sending him flying to the side and to the ground; Lazarus weakly tries to get back up but Kyle puts a foot to his back, stopping him) No. No more Lazarus. You're going to listen now! Whether you want to or not.
Lazarus: …
Black Ant: (slams his hammer the ground…) 'ROCKY STORM'. (…and drags it through, sending a flurry of rocks at the enforcers)
Calculette: (waves her staff out…) 'MASSIVE WALL'. (…and manifests a massive energy wall that cracks as it blocks it till it gets shattered completely; the rocks begin flying at them, but Sound Wave blocks them with his sonic waves, then pulls out a pair of earplugs and hands it over to Calculette)
Sound Wave: 'HIGH FREQUENCY'. (sends out an omnidirectional sonic attack that forces the man to his knees, clutching his ears in pain) Calculette, now!
Calculette: (can't hear but gets the message; nods as she gets into action) Right! (raises her staff in the air, summoning a swarm of energy spikes…) 'STORM OF ASSAULTS'. (…points the staff at the rogue and sends them at him)
Black Ant wraps his arms around his head in a vain attempt to shield from the attack, "vain" being the keyword, as his body is riddled with gashes and stabs. He drops to his hands as well with a shocked and despaired look on his face, breathing heavily as he bleeds out. He glares up at them with gritted teeth, he squeezes his hand into a fist and slamming it to the ground.
Black Ant: (speaks shakily) Why…you. (hangs his head down, muttering under his breath) I can't believe this. I can't believe I'm actually losing to a bunch of kids. Why? How? How could I… (speaks louder) HOW COULD I LOSE?!
Black Ant roars in rage as his power flares out of control, a large cloak of black aura with red accents bursts from his body, releasing a wave of power that actually begins to push everyone near back. The rogue villain gets back up, an aura cloak wrapped around him, his wounds beginning to heal, not instantly but fast enough that the pain is already gone and he can stand, walk and fight.
Calculette: (shocked and scared) What? What is this?
Sonic Wave: (sweating nervously) I-I don't know.
Candy: (shocked and dumbfounded) Oh crap! He's entered rampage mode.
Sound Wave and Calculette: (shocked) What?!
Sound Wave: (stares at the villain with an expression of disbelief and a slight hint of fear) So this is…rampage mode? (Black Ant shoots a glare of mindless fury, summoning another hammer and lunges straight at them, the hammer raised high to strike)
Candy: (pushes them away…) Look out--! (…only to get flunked like a baseball flying back out the doorway, the two young enforcers gasp in shock; everyone stops what they're doing, watching the scenario, Kyle turns over to Candy's body with visible concern)
Kyle: Candy! Are you okay?!
Candy: (sits back up, rubbing the tiny trickle of blood that drips from her lips with her fist; faint scratches on her body) I'm fine. (gets back up and looks at the rogue) That really hurt. (Black Ant roars like a wild animal and slams the hammer on the ground, devastating the entire earth right below everyone's feet and sending them all to the ground; Candy gets up again) Goddammit. 'VOLATILE MODE'. (powers up and shoots a ball of explosive energy at Black Ant, the attack hits squarely, creating an explosion that completely consumes him only for it burn out with little damage done; her expression turns to an obvious dumbfounded one) Like hell?!
Kyle: (pulls himself up with a large piece of rock) Candy, don't fight that guy! Not in that state!
Lazarus: (not even pretending to care about the rampaging rogue) You have your own opponent to worry about. (gets up and releasing a wave of telekinetic force that devastates the already shattered ground in its path)
Kyle: (slams his open right palm at the attack…) 'VANISHING SHIELD'. (…the attack disappears in an instant)
Lazarus: (stunned) He dispelled my attack?
Kyle: Enough of this madness Lazarus! That's Candy, she's our friend. Your friend. We need to help her.
Lazarus: I don't have friends. (slams his hand on the ground, causing the earth to rise up right under Kyle suddenly like large, jointed, bulky pillars with pointed tips)
Kyle crosses his arms in front of himself, the pillars stabbing into his arms, some in his legs, one into his side; Kyle coughs out blood. Kyle roars as he rips his limbs from the spikes, the tops of the rocks shatter apart as he leaps back. He grits his teeth from the pain as he bleeds out, Lazarus creates another sword and lunges straight at him.
Kyle: !!
Lazarus slashes at Kyle just as he summons a force shield, the attack ends with the sword shattering like glass on a brick wall and the actual blow reflecting unto Lazarus himself and sent flying backwards, instead. Lazarus' face shifts from cold determination to total shock as Kyle leaps straight at Lazarus, spins, charging his usual blue-white electric-like energy in his foot and delivers a powerful kick to Lazarus' chest; the boy coughing out a pool of blood as he's sent flying like projectile into a wall.
Black Ant charges at her like a stampeding bull on steroids. She spreads her arms out, summoning a ball of explosive energy in both hands which she throws at him. The balls hit and explode in a large inferno, this does nothing to even slow him down, she steps back in surprise as the villain swings at her, she raises her arm to protect her face, but he's sent flying by a sonic attack. She turns to see Sound Wave and Calculette running towards her.
Calculette: Are you okay?
Candy: Fine. Thanks.
Sound Wave: It's not over yet. (they look over to see Black Ant getting back up, breathing hard, looking like it's everything just to stand)
Calculette: He doesn't look good.
Candy: Rampage mode works by igniting the meta's minergy inside their body, that's why their power spikes spectacularly. However, not every meta has the same minergy supply and if you don't have much, the rampage won't last long. In other words, he's doesn't have enough minergy to last long in this state.
Calculette: (impressed) You sure know seem to know a lot about it.
Candy: (beams) You don't be in as many fights as I have without learning a few things. Rampaging causes minergy to burnt out far quicker than normal; at least twice as fast.
Sound Wave: If he's running out of minergy, that means he'll also lose his skill too. (makes a determined face) Now's chance.
They move to attack again, but Black Ant slashes the hammer across the ground, sending flaming rocks at them like missiles, Calculette blocks it with a shield, but the rogue leaps into the air to deliver an overhead slam. Sound Wave fires a sonic blast at him, but Black Ant literally slaps it away with a slam from his hammer; shocking Sound Wave. Candy grabs the two by the back of their clothes and pulls them along as she leaps back, narrowly evading an attack that creates a massive crater.
Candy: Looks like he's figured it out himself and is trying to make it a fight to the finish. Not good.
Calculette: What now? Nothing we do even phases him.
Sound Wave: (grits his teeth) … (Black Ant rushes towards them, but sand suddenly shoots from the ground and wraps around his arms, legs, neck and torso like tentacles, restraining him; shocking everyone)
Calculette: Huh? What?
Manhandle: (reconstituted himself) Now! (his reemergence surprises them)
Sound Wave: (surprised) Manhandle?!
Calculette: You're alive?
Manhandle: NOW!
Calculette: (manifest a rope of energy from the head of his staff, whips it at Black Ant's hammer, then rips it out his hands) Go for it!
Candy: (raises her hands into the air and summons a storm of energy balls then swings her arms downwards in his direction, sending them all flying straight at Black Ant) 'RAIN OF FIRE'.
Sound Wave: 'SONIC CANNON'. (sends a massive Kamehameha-style sonic wave attack)
Both attacks hit square, bathing Black Ant in a pillar of fire while the sonic blast basically rips through him. Black Ant's charred, battered and bloodied body collapses to the ground, unconscious. The three enforcers all breath hard, Candy though, having not fought as much as them, is fine. She turns to watch Lazarus and Kyle's fight, which is really just a beaten-up Kyle slowly walking up to an even more beaten-up Lazarus struggling to get back up from the ground in the hole in the wall.
Kyle: (reaches him with an expression and tone so calm, you would think he's a kid in a boring class lecture, not a teen who just bested his best friend in a fist fight inside a mafia group's warehouse) Alright, Laz. Enough is enough. You're gonna listen, whether you like it or not.
Lazarus: (glares up at him hatefully) … (gets up quickly, trying to deliver a last-ditch punch, but Kyle effortlessly dodges the attack before slamming an open palm to his face; blood shooting from his mouth on impact as he falls back down on his rear)
Kyle: Cut it out, son. It's over. (Lazarus continues to glare but says and does nothing) I'm tired of playing these games, I'm tired of letting my friend be lied to by a conniving toaster.
Lazarus: Still spinning those stories?
Kyle: You of all people should know that I'm don't spin lies. I only ever tell the truth, I can only ever tell truth; after all, "my words tell no lies".
Lazarus: …! (flinches at those words for second, but shakes it off) So what? You're saying that Bishop's being lying to me all this time?
Kyle: I think you already know that yourself. I'm sure you've started doubting it all yourself. You know that they are cracks in whatever story he told you.
Lazarus: …
Kyle: You're starting to see that the things he said don't add up. Wait, did he even tell you who you even are?
Lazarus: I do know who I am.
Kyle: (looks skeptical) Oh really? And tell me, who are you?
Lazarus: I'm well…I'm…wait…who am I? (tries to remember but suddenly clutches his head in pain as he groans)
Kyle: (raises in brow in confusion) ?? I'm guessing he didn't even tell you about the memory wiper.
Lazarus: (shocked) Memory wiper?! Are you saying…?
Kyle: How do think you lost your memories? A bonk on the head? It would have to be a really hard one. And it seems no matter how hard you try, your mind just refuses to remember, doesn't it? Every time your memory gets jolted, you feel an intense pain run through your brain, like your mind is trying to stop you from remembering.
Lazarus: …! (thinks back to how his memory has being returning lately, how he always gets a massive headache everytime and is left a heavy migraine for hours afterwards)
Kyle: Of course, for someone like you, I imagine it won't be enough to completely cull your memories. Oh yeah, I just realized, you never watched the flash drive we left behind, did you?
Lazarus: I knew you left it there!
Kyle: (casual shrug) Well, technically Neil left it there, not me. But if you we want to know the truth, if you really want to know who Lazarus La rose is, then watch it. (Lazarus doesn't answer, he just sits still in thought; Candy stands over ten yards away, witnessing the exchange, before walking over to them in concern, or at least she tries to but…
Candy: Kyle, La--
Gravitator: Look out! (Candy turns and gasps, barely moving quickly enough to dodge the sonic energy wave beam that comes her way, the clothe on the small of her torso's side getting blown off; her body remains intact though)
Don Weaver: (roars in blind fury as he fires left and right like a madman) DIE! JUST DIE!
Sound Wave: (raises an arm over his face as Calculette creates a shield) Ugh. He's lost it.
Manhandle: How do we take him down?
Gravitator: (protecting himself with a dome) … I can't even get close; I need an opening.
Candy: 'CRITICAL MODE'. (snaps her fingers, exploding the space around the mafia boss; Don Weaver screams in surprise, providing the opening Gravitator needs)
Gravitator: This is it! (delivers a push midair that sends a wave of gravitational force straight at Don Weaver; sending him flying)
Don Weaver: (gets back up, glaring up at his foe) Damn you! (his body begins to morph, his arms turning into long spider legs, his clothes ripping apart, his torso becoming bulky and head and face looking monstrous with eight eyes and large fangs; ultimately looking like a twice as tall spider-human hybrid) PREPARE TO DIIIEEEE!
Manhandle: (looks on with both shock and amazement) Oh crap.
Calculette: So this is the power of a special-grade villain.
Gravitator: (grits his teeth in frustration) !! (Don Weaver dashes at him with accelerated speed, too fast for enforcer to react, a sharp slash flies across the front of his chest, forcing blood out of him; the three enforcers look on in shock while Candy herself visibly flinches)
Sound Wave: (heavily concerned) Gravitator!
Calculette: (afraid for their proctor) Oh no!
Manhandle: (sweat drops – even in his sand form) Not good.
Don Weaver: NOW DIE! (prepares to deliver the finishing blow, but an explosive beam hits him square in the chest, sending him flying back)
Candy: (they all turn to see her standing in a battle stance, a resolute look on her face) Don't just stand there, help him. (hair turns back to blue but eyes stay glowing)
Candy lunges at Don Weaver who sends the eight spider limbs on his back towards her, she raises her arm over her face, the limbs just dealing minor, insignificant scratches of her nigh-invulnerable skin before delivers a powerful, super strength-enhanced punch to his chest; sending him flying. The rogue opens his mouth and fires a string of web that clings to her arms and he flings her around with a jerk of his head, slamming her into the ground, into some boxes, a wall and back on the ground; each time the impact either destroying the object crashes into or leaving a moderately-sized crater. Manhandle slams a giant fist into the mutated spider man's jaw; sending him flying. The rogue tries to get back up but is dealt with by a perpetual sonic wave attack, meanwhile, Calculette heals Gravitator's injury.
Gravitator: (gets back up) Thanks. Okay you can leave the rest to me.
Calculette: But we can help--
Gravitator: No, he's too strong.
Candy: For who? The teenagers who are holding him back? Or the guy who just went down with one strike. (Gravitator groans)
Manhandle: (raises an arm out, summoning a swarm of sand spears in the air) 'SAND SKEWERS'. (slashes his arm downwards, sending all the spikes which scratch and slash through his body, cutting through his exoskeleton)
Don Weaver roars like a wild animal and sends his back limbs into a frenzy of omnidirectional strikes. Manhandle creates a sand dome around Sound Wave and himself, Gravitator projects a gravity dome around Calculette and himself, while Candy raises her arms to protect her face, though the attacks just lightly graze her flesh. Candy grabs a limb in each hand and uses her super-enhanced strength to pay him back for ragdoll swinging, twirling him in a tornado before sending spiraling into the boxes; sending contents flying everywhere. The enforcers release their shields, Manhandle lunges at him with his arms turned into long, sharpened, pointed rods. Don Weaver releases his battle aura, coating himself with transparent red as he releases his limits that sends Manhandle flying back. The five look on at him in shock as they sense his overwhelming power.
Sound Wave: So this is his true power.
Gravitator: Goddamn! I knew he's a special-grade and a tier-queen but, I didn't realize just how strong he really is.
Manhandle: Fine then. If he's going all out, then we will too. (makes a crouching, martial arts stance with his arms at his sides before releasing a golden aura with a pale tan accent)
Calculette: He released his limit?
Manhandle: Come on, lets end this.
Manhandle stretches his arm into a whip and swings at Don Weaver, slashing across his chest, a diagonal, bloody gash appears on his chest. Don Weaver fires webbing at them, they disperse to dodge it. Candy's hair switches back to orange-streaked red and she showers Don Weaver with a brilliant-blue inferno that ignites in an even more brilliant explosion. The raging man-spider lunges towards them, leaping into the air, but Gravitator holds him in place with anti-gravity, then uses increased gravity slam him into the ground and pin him there. Calculette points his staff at him, summoning several chains from the ground to bind him in place. The rogue growls furiously as he tries to force himself off the ground, Calculette and Gravitator both double down on their restraints, everything in their power just to keep him in place; this doing very little to stop him, he still begins slowly and painfully get back up.
Gravitator: Are you kidding me? This is 10X gravity right here. How--?
Candy: (walks over to them) Spiders can generally lift up to almost 200X their own weight. For a human, especially one as big as him, that's a lot of tons.
Gravitator: (grits his teeth) … '20X GRAVITY FIELD'. (increases the force applied, creating cracks, fails to stop him) Sonova-- '30x GRAVITY FIELD'. (fails) '40X, 50X, 60, 70, 80, 100, 120X GRAVITY FIELD'. (the cracks increase in size this too fails) Are you serious?!
Candy: I said the 200X.
Gravitator: Now what?
Manhandle: It's fine. This is good. (delivers a giant sand fist from above right unto Don Weaver; the young enforcer stretching his legs tall to attack for above) Done. (it's not done, the arm explodes into grains in the air as Don Weaver leaps in the air) !!! Goddammit!
Don Weaver raises his right spider-leg limb and swings it at Manhandle, sending a giant net of webbing at him; the young enforcer gets snagged, getting wrapped up like a burrito and crashing to the ground. Everyone looks shocked as Don Weaver lands and slowly walks up to Saeto.
Sound Wave: Crap! (prepares to fire but gets spun around with webbing)
Candy: Goddamn. Won't this guy just stay down? (Don Weaver suddenly roars like a wild animal, his aura blazing furiously like a raging fire)
Calculette: What?!
Gravitator: (grim) Lemme guess.
Candy: (nods) Yeah. His rampaging.
Gravitator: Are you serious?
Calculette: Now what?
Candy: Now, we fight with everything we've got. Pull no punches till he's down and out.
All three remaining fighters face him with a mixed sense of determination, ready to fight till one side dropped, when…
BOOM!
…they all shield their face as dust shoots everywhere like flames from a flamethrower, then look on as the dust settles to show Kyle standing on top of the now unconscious villain, his hand to the back of the man's head and the body lying face down in giant crater; the rogue turns back to normal. Everyone watching has a different expression, different thoughts on what just happened, but the one they all share is:…
All: Seriously?
Gravitator: (a bit annoyed at Kyle's easy win) I can't believe we all had to work together and fight as hard as possible just to slow him down and this guy yeets him with one move?
Calculette: (rather impressed) That's the strongest guy in the whole world for you.
Candy: (chuckles softly) Show off.
Kyle: (hops off the rogue) Hey Candy, little help? (spreading arms out a bit; Candy fires her green beams at him, healing him in almost an instant) Thanks. Now come on, let's bit. (nods his head to the side in direction of the exit)
Candy: (confused) Hah? But what about Laz?
Kyle: (smirks) Don't worry. Maybe not tonight, but he's definitely coming back.
Candy: (looks at him, gives a long contemplating look and nods) Alright. (both teens run off into the night)
Gravitator: They're just running off?
Calculette: I think we should just let them be. Besides, we're too low on strength and minergy to deal with people like them, anyway.
Gravitator: TSK!
Calculette: (remembers something) Right. (manifests a giant pair of scissors which she uses to cut her squadmates free) You guys okay?
Sound Wave: (gets back up) Yeah, I--
Manhandle: Of course not! Even after all that we almost got beat and needed some weirdo to save us!
Lazarus: Well, you sure are irritable, aren't you. (they all turn to see an injured Laz limping towards them) Hey, little help?
Calculette: Huh? Uh…yeah. (waves her staff over him and heals him; the injuries disappearing within a full minute) There.
Lazarus: (inspects his body around) Thank you. (looks over at Don Weaver) Well, better call HQ to let them know the mission was a success. (pulls out a kind of disc-shaped smartphone like a small pocket mirror and taps the screen)
Sound Wave: Hey Lazarus, what was all that? Why were they here?
Calculette: Yeah. How do you know both the First Almighty and a named fighter?
Lazarus: (grimaces in thought) …! I…don't know.
TIME: The next morning.
Enforcement's clean-up crew arrive on scene to take care of the aftermath. The guards handcuff the mafia members and haul them into large vans; the resident villains watching on from behind a line of police tape. The squad watches this happen from the sidelines, sitting on a couple of benches.
Sound Wave: Last night was far more hectic than I thought it be.
Manhandle: (back to normal form; scoffs) I can't believe that after all that, we had still had to be saved! (slams his fist on the bench) Goddammit all!
Gravitator: … Those two invaded an evilzone and took down two major- to special-grade villains; just to get him? (turns to Lazarus) But…I was told he was just another target of Terror that got saved too late. So what's exactly his connection to bigshots like them. (he looks at Lazarus' face, like really looked at it, seeming to examine him with his eyes) Now that I think about it, he actually looks familiar to me; but where have I seen his face before.
Lazarus: (stares to the ground in deep thought, trying to process everything Kyle had told him; but of everything he was told, one thing really sticks) Memory wiper?
The scene fades to black as the chapter ends.
STORY CONTINUES IN CHAPTER: 26 (CRIME AND PUNISHMENT)
Stat Bonus:
Crashhopper's stats:
Skill(s): Superior Leap, Blazing Kick
Level: 6.3
Str: 65 Mob: 90 Int: 50 Atk: 90 Def: 40 Rcy: 40
Black Ant's stats:
Skill(s): Summon: Hammer
Level: 6.3
Str: 80 Mob: 45 Int: 65 Atk: 90 Def: 45 Rcy: 50
Don Weaver's stats:
Skill(s): Arachnid
Level: 6.9
Str: 65 Mob: 80 Int: 65 Atk: 100 Def: 70 Rcy: 30
Corinth\Calculette's stats:
Skill(s): Energy Builds, Search, Instant Heal
Level: 5.3
Str: 35 Mob: 35 Int: 70 Atk: 60 Def: 50 Rcy: 65
Saeto\Sound Wave's stats:
Skill(s): Sound Cannons
Level: 5.4
Str: 50 Mob: 50 Int: 60 Atk: 70 Def: 60 Rcy: 30
Merlin\Manhandle's stats:
Skill(s): Sandmaster
Level: 6.2
Str: 52 Mob: 65 Int: 50 Atk: 75 Def: 80 Rcy: 50
Gregory\Gravitator's stats:
Skill(s): Gravity Master
Level: 6.5
Str: 50 Mob: 60 Int: 80 Atk: 70 Def: 90 Rcy: 40