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With the new skill that had been created out of nowhere telling me I was being watched, I started to move as I formulated a plan to capture Stryker and his colleagues.
According to my map, only one of the many red dots surrounding Stryker was on the move.
If I had to take a guess, that one moving enemy was Sabertooth.
The question now was how to deal with him; his regeneration was undoubtedly a problem.
"I suppose I could out-damage his regeneration," I muttered as I stopped moving in front of a clearing full of animals that looked at me in fright.
I had to admit, Africa was beautiful, the animals, the relatively clean air, the animals; it was really a shame I was always here for business, not for pleasure.
Taking a deep breath, I opened a portal to a place nearby the moving red dot, and after passing through the portal, took a seat on a rock, waiting for Sabertooth to arrive.
It was a shame, really, of all the enemies I ever expected to face; Sabertooth was one I didn't want to meet, not because I was scared or anything, but because he was one of my favorites.
"Well, fuck it." I chuckled, looking at my map, which said he was around a hundred and thirty meters away from me.
Meaning I had at best a minute or so before I had to face the guy. So, it was time to list my options. For an enemy like him, his regeneration was a problem, but if the movies were anything to go by, drowning him would work just fine.
But to drown him, I would have to immobilize him, maybe cut his arms and legs.
"There you are." Someone growled, that someone being Sabertooth. He sounded excited, thrilled to meet me, or rather to hunt me.
"I know where you are, hiding really makes no difference." I said, greeting the hiding beast with a smile as I stood up from the rock I had been sitting on.
"I suppose you are right." Sabertooth replied, jumping out of the shadows with a wild grin. [Sabertooth LV 161]
Well this is new, usually enemies are a few levels ahead of me, not on my level. "So, is there any way you would let me go and capture Stryker?"
Sabertooth snorted, baring his teeth at me in a rather animalistic way. "Time to die."
"I thought as much." I sighed, equipping my armor, similar level or not, I was not going to let the kitty cat scratch my body if I could do something about it.
With a roar and a wild grin, Sabertooth charged at me. As I stood in place with a defensive stance, which allowed me to parry the hunter's first blow with my right arm.
Surprised by the lack of damage with his attack, Sabertooth threw a flurry of attacks with his claws trying to rip my armor off, but with a bit of grace I took a step back blocking each and every single attack.
Countering by digging my claws into his abdomen.
Unmoved by his bleeding stomach, Sabertooth jumped above me after, landing behind me with a feral growl, as his injuries started to heal at an alarming rate, and in the blink of an eye, his injuries were no more.
"This will be fun." He grinned, licking some of the blood I had drawn from him from his bare fingers.
"Please don't make this sexual." I replied, weirded out by his rather explicit excitement about this fight.
Growling at my comment, Sabertooth ran at me on all fours, leaping mid way like a tiger to its prey.
But before he could reach me, I used my telekinesis to slam him to the ground, as I jumped above him digging my hands into his spine.
If there was something I had learned during my less than willing time on hydra was how the human body worked, and immortal or not, Sabertooth was a human, meaning the entire mobility of his immortal body depended on his little spine.
Hissing in pain, the Hunter made an attempt to throw me off him, but my grip on his spine and my telekinesis made it so it was impossible for him to move.
"Under normal circumstances, you would've probably won this match. But.." to make a point I cracked his spine, momentarily leaving him paralyzed. "These are not normal circumstances, are they?"
"I will kill you!" He roared, as I withdrew my bloodied hands from his spine.
"Maybe, but not today." I replied, opening a portal to one of my contain zones, which had been gracefully provided by SHIELD. "See ya later." I smiled, kicking the Hunter into his prison.
With Sabertooth out of the way, things were bound to be easier. "Let's see where the others are." I muttered looking at my map to see I was surrounded by three red dots.
"I told that animal to wait for us." I heard a rather femenine yet somewhat sadistic voice comment as she came into light. [Kimura LV 149]
"You know him, he rarely listens." Another femenine voice commented, as she came out of the shadows. [Copycat LV 148]
"We will punish Sabertooth later, for now. Let us capture this subject." This time the one who spoke was a man, an armored man. [Ajax LV 160]
"Hmm." I hummed, looking at the three, and then looking at the map, we all were a few miles away from Stryker, which meant… I had no need to fight them. "I just realized I do not need to fight your asses, so… bye~" I waved at them with a smile under my helmet as I opened a portal to where Stryker was, leaving the three hunters alone rushing but failing to stop me.
At the other side of the portal, I encountered Stryker sitting on a wooden chair with a wide welcoming smile on his face.
"I was waiting for you." He claimed, which made me feel uneasy.
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Surprises in this universe were a thing I was used to, but this... this was unsettling, for the last thing I expected was encountering Stryker with a calm demeanor sitting on a timber chair with a broad welcoming smile on his face.
[Stryker LV 31]
"I was waiting for you." He smiled, which made me feel all the more uneasy. As a general rule, an enemy welcoming you to his lair is never a good thing, not like this.
I looked at him, trying to formulate a response; as I inspected my surroundings, he had to have a trap, something. "I see," I replied.
With a grin, Stryker began to clap as he stood up from his chair. "I must admit, I had my doubts as to who you were when Victor told me an enemy was nearby. But, seeing as you are here." he smiled. "Well, I am glad I was correct."
I had to admit; I was lost in this rather bizarre scenario; I mean, he was happy I was here. In fact, he seemed delighted.
"I think this is the first time I see someone so happy to be captured," I replied, eyeing the minimap every now and then; he had to have a trap, an enemy powerful enough to give him this peace, something.
"Well, I am a realistic man." Stryker chuckled. "Besides, you won't capture me."
"Your compliance is not a factor on this." I snorted, walking towards him, ready to end this mission once and for all, when all of a sudden, he tossed a file at me.
"Read that." He smiled, walking towards a small fridge on the ground. "And after that, we can talk about my capture."
I looked at the file and froze; it was a SHIELD file about me. "I see now." I chuckled, grabbing the file with a sigh, "This file is supposed to make me change sides, right?"
"In a way." Stryker nodded.
I looked at the file again, and I started to read the information within the file with a sigh; I had to admit, I was curious about what could be within the file that could make Stryker think I would switch sides, I was to say something, skeptical about the whole thing.
However, soon enough, I found out why he was so sure of this as I read the file more and more, beginning to finally understand why Stryker was giving me this; the file was nothing more than a contingency plan to stop me should I become evil.
It went into great detail how Emily was my main emotional weakness, and how exploiting her would bring me to my knees.
"SHIELD is not your ally." Stryker began, but before he could continue, I started to laugh. "You find that file amusing?"
"This?" I waved the file at him, burning the thing down with my mana. "Nah, it annoys me a bit, sure, but otherwise, I'm okay with it." I chuckled.
"They are planning ways to kill you, and you laugh?" Stryker replied.
"SHIELD is free to plan, just like I am." I winked. "Besides, this is just the report of a random agent stating the obvious."
"Which is?" Stryker inquired, his eyes on me.
"That a father's weakness is his child." I smiled under my helmet.
"I had a feeling you would react this way." Again, Stryker smiled, and once again, I felt uneasy.
"Enough," I stated, pulling his body towards me with telekinesis. "I don't know what game you are playing, but I ain't playing these games."
"Good." He grinned.
Even at my mercy, he was confident, but of what, if the file was not enough, what was his actual plan? "Well, bye." I sighed, my patience running thin, as I opened a portal to throw him into Fury's office, but before I could do that, a magical blast of eldritch energy blasted me into the ground.
"Took you long enough," Stryker commented.
"We had to make some... preparations." I heard someone reply.
Brushing off the dirt of my armor, I stood up as I looked to see who had struck me down with Eldritch magic, only to find a group of women flying in literal brooms above me.
The first woman to the left was a blonde beauty that had what I like to call the no-no eyes, meaning her eyes gave you a feeling of uncertainty like she would stab a man mid-fuck for what he said two years ago. [Adrth'a Lomen LV 151]
The one in the middle looked innocent, inviting, like a trap waiting to strike its prey; it was unsettling, though this one was a brunette, unlike the one to the left. [Royth's Lomen LV 149]
The last one was an Asian beauty, her pristine skin and exotic charm vibrating with her rather revealing clothes; she looked both innocent and dangerous at the same time. [Permf't Lomen LV 150]
"The Lomen Coven," Stryker said, his index finger pointing at them with a cocky smile. "They are my plan to you."
"Those the Ancient One knows you work for him?" I said, cracking my neck.
"Foolish boy." Adrth'a hissed. "We do not answer to that sorceress, for we are witches!"
Witches huh, I wonder if they are related to the witch that at one point will try to steal the dark scepter from the ancient one in the future.
"But you answer to a man with no powers or magic, good to know." I chuckled.
"Laugh while you can, little sorcerer." Royth's grinned. "Soon, we will be the ones laughing."
"Okay... well, time to go," I muttered, considering these three were around my level, and the enemies around the camp and those who I had left in the middle of nowhere were drawing near; I would soon be outmatched in numbers at least, so it was time to do what people call a tactical retreat.
However, as I tried to open a portal, nothing happened.
It felt like something was blocking my magic altogether.
"Runes... and a claimed space, the nightmare of every magic caster, don't you think?" Permf't winked, flying towards me in a rather seductive manner. "You are powerless here."
Runes, this bastard was buying time... meaning the witches were otherwise occupied creating a runic space to block all but their magic, well fuck, Stryker just outplayed me.
"You learn a lot from videos and such." Stryker grinned as Ajax, Copycat and Kimura arrived, walking towards him all with smiles on their faces. "I knew SHIELD would eventually send you, so I invested a lot of time and money into hiring these resourceful witches."
"Well... fuck..." I sighed; it seemed like I would have to get out of this with my hands and my hands only. Suddenly I'm glad I have an almost indestructible set of armor protecting me; I feel like I'm about to get a lot of hits today.
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