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Seeing Jax's movement, Boett and Krisfen both laughed. Mockery flashed in their eyes. In the next heartbeat, Boett's body vanished, turning into a streaking afterimage that zipped across the office. His Mantis Blades hummed with high-voltage electricity, moving faster than the human eye could track.
Krisfen stood to the side, a cruel grin spreading across his face. He imagined the kid—this fool without a single piece of tactical chrome—being impaled in a matter of seconds. He waited for the familiar sound of Boett's blades tearing through soft tissue.
But then, the black-haired "natural" disappeared.
Jax transformed into a streak of light. His black-and-red Katana carved a jagged arc through the air. Red and black clashed against blue electrical sparks.
Clang!Boom!
A figure blurred past Krisfen's vision. He turned his head in horror to see Boett coughing violently against a far wall. Boett's chest was caved in, and the right Mantis Blade on his arm had a deep, jagged notch in the metal.
Before Krisfen could even process the sight, Jax was already charging him with a speed that defied logic. Krisfen slammed his neural link into overdrive, activating his Sandevistan Mk.3. The world slowed to a crawl; sounds became ethereal echoes, and the cold wind felt thick like water.
But in this time-dilated world, the kid was still sprinting at him.
"Fuck!" Krisfen roared. He's moving in a time-stopped world?! Is he even human?
"Boett!" Krisfen bellowed, holding his Gorilla Arms horizontally to block the leaping strike. He threw a counter-punch, expecting the usual result where an opponent has no time to react. Instead, Jax's eyes narrowed, tracking the fist with predatory focus.
Jax dipped his head, leaning into the charge. He slipped inside Krisfen's "forbidden zone"—the intimate reach of a grappler. Krisfen, a veteran of a thousand wasteland brawls, reacted instantly, attempting to bring his massive arms together to crush the boy with brute force.
What a joke, Krisfen thought. You might be fast, but can you match a borg's strength?
Jax didn't retreat. He extended both hands, catching Krisfen's forearms mid-swing.
Brute force?
Jax's strongest attribute was his Physique. While a standard human has a 3, and a legendary set of Gorilla Arms adds 6, Jax was sitting at nearly 10 points of raw, natural power. He was already at the legendary limit of what flesh and bone could sustain. In a contest of pure muscle, Jax wouldn't lose to anyone.
"GET OUT!"
Jax roared, his muscles rippling as he shoved Krisfen's arms aside. Under Krisfen's stunned expression, Jax leaped, driving a knee into the big man's chest.
Boom!
The impact hit like a sledgehammer against steel plating. Krisfen's internalized armor groaned, and he stumbled backward. Jax's reverse-grip Katana flipped in his hand, and he swung a crushing downward blow.
"Block him!" "Are you fucking ignoring me?!"
Boett reappeared, his blades intercepting Jax's fatal strike just in time. Krisfen stabilized himself and charged back in, roaring with fury. A brief collision of less than ten seconds had stripped away their arrogance.
This kid was a freak.
"Boett! Use the stim!" "I fucking know! Shut up!" Boett pulled a jagged injector from his pocket and slammed it into his neck. His Sandevistan efficiency spiked—he was red-lining his systems.
His speed doubled. Boett's cybernetic eye flared a violent red. His body vanished, followed by Krisfen swinging his Gorilla Arms in a wild frenzy. The wind from the punches whistled past Jax's cheek, stinging like a blade.
Jax dodged the heavy blows, but his focus was entirely on Boett. He could take a punch from Krisfen; it would hurt, but it wouldn't end him. But Boett's electric Mantis Blades were different. One cut meant paralysis.
Whoosh—
Jax heard the footsteps behind him. He spun, bringing the Katana up.
Clang!
"You dare look away, you bastard!" Krisfen's voice rasped in his ear as his Gorilla Arms erupted with a hydraulic blast of air, propelling a liver-shot directly into Jax's side.
BOOM!
Jax's body flew backward, smashing through the office wall. Bricks crumbled and rebar snapped, kicking up a thick cloud of dust that obscured the room.
Boett leaped high into the air, his right Mantis Blade aimed like a spear. If they couldn't recruit him, they had to zero him. A "natural" like this was a walking disaster for their business.
But as Boett dived into the dust, he didn't find a broken boy. He saw a pair of eyes that were glowing a terrifying, visceral red.
This wasn't a cybernetic effect. Those eyes were dripping with biological intensity—the pupils dilated to the edge, the irises a mesh of ruptured capillaries.
Potential Burst.
Boom!Pfft—
Boett was launched out of the dust cloud, his body spinning like a ragdoll before crashing in front of Krisfen. His jaw was shattered, wires and metal plating exposed, lubricant and coolant leaking onto the floor as he wailed in mechanical agony.
Krisfen stood frozen. He looked back at the dust as Jax emerged. Jax wiped blood from his lip, his right side heavily bruised. He had thirty seconds. After that, the "Potential Overdraft" would leave him vulnerable.
If I fall into the weakened state now, the rest of the gang downstairs will finish me, Jax thought.
Suddenly, a massive explosion rocked the factory.
BOOM!
The sound of heavy gunshots and the unmistakable roar of Maine's hand cannon echoed from the ground floor. Jax grinned through the pain.
Maine and the crew were here. They had launched the full assault.
Jax took a deep breath, the red glow in his eyes intensifying. He gripped his Katana and lunged forward.
"Die!"
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