Kapitel 22: Chapter Twenty-Two: Never Changes
Alex ran towards Siran to help him, and with one strong distortion spell, he punched the drone off of Siran. As the drone flew backwards, he contorted his body and landed on his feet. Sliding on his feet, he drew his combat knife. With one lighting fast stroke, the agent behind the drone was cut in half. "What the hell is going on down there?" Ali asks in a panic. "Mom!".
"Stay back, kid" Don says. "This isn't something you'll want to be a part of".
"No time like the present" Athena says as she stands up and firmly grasps her shield in her left hand.
"Silas stays on this helicopter" Ali demands.
"Fine, have it your way" Athena says as she stares at the battle below.
"Shall we go too?" Thor asks.
"I think we have to" Loki says. "Leaving her alone with Siran... there's no way this will end well".
"But what are we going to do without any endo?" Yngvi asks.
"Improvise" Loki says.
Athena jumps from the helicopter and lands on top of one of the drones, crushing him. Another drone charges up to Athena, but she grabs him by the face and drains all of his endo. As the drone was left standing in a stupor, she charged up a distortion spell. She pulled his face towards the ground with an immense force, but before he could hit the ground. /she brought her knee up and kicked him back in the air. With one well timed stroke, she swung with her distortion spell in hand and hit the drone across the face with her shield. In a mere moment from the impact, the drone seemed to vanish. "This isn't Naris's left over endo" Athena says. "Nor is it natural... they must be close".
"Siran, 6 o' clock!" Robin yells as he loads his large sniper rifle with endo. Siran peeks over his shoulder, then leaps to the side. Robin shoots one of the agents coming up behind Siran, and Siran narrowly dodges the shot as it penetrates the former MI-6 agent.
"Shit, not good" Holland says. "We need to pull out. Call in a rendezvous!".
"Sir!" One of the agents replies as he runs away from the battle.
Holland's takes out one combat knife and one hand gun. "I'll keep these gents busy until we get our shuttle out of here". With one long stride, Holland leaps at Siran. Holland shoots at Siran, but Siran barely managed to dodge. With a smirk on his face, Holland had Siran right where he wanted him as he came down fast at Siran. He came down with his blade in hand, and slashed Siran across the right cheek of his face. He aimed for the neck, but Siran was just barely quick enough to avoid instant decapitation. "Siran" Holland says as he stands up, blade in one hand under the handle of his hand gun, the other holding the handgun firmly with his finger to the side of the trigger. "By order of the queen, I want you alive. However, they never said they didn't want you dead either".
"What do you want from me?" Siran asks. "To my understanding, we haven't pissed off Britain... yet".
"You underestimate our intelligence" Holland says. "We know your group of bandits are behind the global epidemic. We know what your crew is up to. We don't need more of a reason to counter terrorist acts such as this".
"Tch" Siran scoffs. "Another looney... great".
"Last chance" Holland says. "Turn yourself in, or I will have to use lethal force".
"Is that right?" Siran asks. As he continues to talk, his skin slowly grows darker, as his sclera turn black, and his hair grows white. "Y'know, I'm kinda glad we never went to Britain to meet an asshole like you. You're just bloodthirsty, and I don't think we'd ever get along... you and your whole intelligence agency can go to hell. I'm really not in the mood for this". By the time Siran finishes speaking, he fully shapeshifted back to his monster like form with horns, white hair, dark skin, and black eyes. "You're no better than The Ly'Lum". Agent Holland leaps at Siran, but goes for a low sweeping kick to knock Siran off of his feet. Siran jumps up and tries to stomp down on top of Holland with a wind spell increasing the impact. However, Holland counters by kicking with his other leg that he previously used as a support for the first sweeping kick. Holland's single foot stops all of Siran's body, and pushes him back about one meter away.
"Oh, this'll be interesting" Holland says.
Meanwhile, Finn, Zia and Rose try to keep the drones away from Siran, as Alex, Robin and Vivi keep the agents away. Holly, Tanya and Blake try to create an opening for them to escape, as Satomi, Mikoto, Ying and Haru keep them protected. Just as they thought they had broken through the enemy defenses, more of the drones showed up. Meanwhile, Loki, Thor, Yngvi, and Meili stayed behind Athena; as she was the only one of them that had any energy left. "How do I get this thing to work?" Finn complains as he hits his mechanical arm over and over. "Stupid thing, go go gun mode or whatever!".
"What are you doing, mistreating your cybernetic arm!?" Vivi protests as she looks over. "Use your calling card, dumb shit!".
"How!?" Finn asks.
"Figure it out, I'm kinda busy!" Vivi shouts back as she prepares to fire back at a few agents.
"Right... thanks. Big help, Vivi" Finn grumbles. He looks all over his arm and finds a narrow horizontal slot on the wrist. When he slides his calling card into the slot, his hand unfolds into a three barreled gun. "Oh, hell yeah! This is rad!". Finn aims the gun at some unsuspecting drones and fires. All three barrels shoot off at the same time, and the tension from the kick back of the gun firing put Finn through so much pain that he felt like his shoulder was going to be torn off a second time.
"Don't worry, we all knew it was impractical anyways" Zia says. "I mean- a gun arm... really? What did you think was going to happen?".
Finn rolls on the ground in pain and groans. "You... don't have to rub it in..." Finn complains.
"Hun!" Rose says as she rushes to his side. A drone charges at the two of them, and she stops the drone's blade with her own small knife. She then flicks the blade at the drone, and it ignites with a bright flash that blinds the drone. As the drone stumbles, Rose helps Finn back on his feet.
"Looks like the British forces are thinning" Alex says. "If there were ever a chance to get the hell out of here, it'd be now".
"Are they... retreating?" Holly asks as she prepares another digital shield.
"Don't count your blessings yet" Ying shouts. "The to east, more of those strange hunters are showing up".
"What do we do?" Blake asks in irritation.
"Cover Siran" Zia says, "then find a route out of here. We can't be stuck here for long, or we'll end up getting the nearest town demolished".
As Siran and Holland fought, The Six Guns crew tried their best to hold off the drones. Siran tried shooting Holland, but he dodged every shot. Siran charged at Holland, but Holland quickly landed a kick on Siran's face, with a strong distortion spell. The kick knocked Siran onto his back, with a force strong enough to cause Siran to slide on his back on the wet grass. When Siran got up, his face was bleeding and he was visibly a lot angrier. "To hell with this" Siran mutter as he stretches his arms outwards. The ground rumbles briefly, immediately followed by rock spikes shooting up from the ground at Holland. Holland continuously jumps backwards, using strong blast of wind spells to help him dodge every spike. Before Holland could stand upright again, Siran was already in front of him, charging with a white and glowing knife made of reactive endo. Holland tried to block with his own knife, but the knife quickly broke after it made contact with Siran's knife. Quickly enveloping his own knife in a bright blue aura, Holland proceeded to block every swing of Siran's blade with a knife covered in armament magic.
"That won't hold up for long" Siran growls as he continues to slash with his blade. "Reactive endo destroys regular endo. How many times will you have to keep activating that spell before you get tired?".
"Long enough" Holland says back as he kicks outward at Siran with another distortion spell. Siran dodged in a flash, and spun around with a new weapon made of reactive endo. Holland barely manages to block it in time with his bare hand. As he looked at the glowing white spear extending from Siran's hands, Holland felt a cold chill down his back.
"Get out of my sight" Siran growls. Siran pulls his spear away and prepares another slash. However, it was suddenly stopped by another reactive endo weapon. A reactive endo knife, from Holland.
"Intriguing" Holland says, "but not intimidating... you need some new tricks, Siran of The Six Guns". With each stroke from Siran's spear, Holland managed to block. Both of them moving at an amazing speed, sending off strong bursts of wind with each clash. Suddenly, in the distance, Holland heard the faint sounds of a helicopter approaching. Holland used a wind spell to get away from Siran. Once he had some distance, Siran immediately tries to attack with more spikes shooting up from the earth. However, Holland didn't dodge this time. Instead, Holland prepared a strong stability spell, and stood on top of one of the shooting spikes, sending himself flying into the sky. As the helicopter passes over them, Holland grabs onto one of the rappel ropes hanging from the side. "We will be finishing this later, Siran!" Holland calls out to him. As they fly away, Holland is pulled up the rope, and into the open side door of the helicopter.
"Tch" Siran scoffs, "he got away".
"Leave it" Vivi calls out. "We have more to worry about".
As Siran looks over, he sees even more drones approaching them. Behind them, stood a familiar face. "Ares" Athena says as she drops the limp body of another drone. "I knew you'd show up sooner or later. Where's Zeus?".
"Somewhere that you are not" Ares replies. "I'm afraid you've missed your chance for a touching reunion".
Siran looks over at Athena, then over at Loki and his brothers. "What are you doing here, and who the hell is she?".
"That's... well- uhhh" Loki says, trying to think of a good excuse.
"The name's Athena" Athena says. "Goddess of wisdom and daughter of Zeus".
"So, an enemy?" Siran asks.
"Hey, I get that you're quick to your guns" Loki says, "but we're not the bad guys here".
"I thought you'd be too afraid to show your face to Zeus" Ares says. "After you were nowhere to be found when we looked for your assistance".
"Like I'd be assisting you" Athena scoffs. "I have my pride".
"You have no shame" Ares says.
"I'm not sure what's going on" Siran says as he turns to Ares, "and I will be having a talk with you guys later about this... fist to face".
"Don't you mean face to face?" Loki asks nervously.
"But I owe this man here for the last time we met" Siran continues.
"Well, if it isn't Ishmael" Ares says.
"Hey, jack-off!" Athena protests. "Your quarrel is with me!".
"Not interested in late participation" Ares says.
"I'm here to arrest you" Athena says. "You'll be coming with me".
"My magic has always been better than yours" Ares says with a laugh. "What are you going to do!? You aren't even entertainment for me anymore".
In an instant, Athena appears to Ares's side with her fist prepared for a sucker punch. With one punch, Ares was sent into the ground, forming a small crater with his body from the impact. "Don't like my magic?" Athena asks. "Then how about my bare hands? Unlike you, I don't need magic to have strength. I can still kick your ass with my fists alone". Athena then stands over Ares as she bounds his hands. "You're coming with me".
"Whoa..." Blake says in amazement.
Athena carries Ares over her shoulder and begins to carry him off. Suddenly, she stops and looks at Siran. "We need to talk about your kid" she says. "I'll be back for that".
As she begins to walk with Ares over her shoulder, she suddenly hears some slight chuckling from Ares. Suddenly, Athena's clothes begins to set on fire. In her panic, Ares kicks Athena's lower back, and kicks himself off of her shoulder. "The marching of time always has, and always will bring us closer to war. War is the one thing that never changes, yet, brings the most change to those who witness it. A trial by fire, that's how we die. Not by man, but by sin. You will remember that, Athena".
"Want your ass kicked more?" Athena asks.
"Unfortunately, I my job is complete" Ares says. "I'd love to stay and chat, but I have better things. I'll see you in the next war, young titan".
Athena charges at Ares, but he vanishes in a cloud of fire before she could reach him, even with her amazing speed. "Damn!" Athena shouts. "That slippery little bastard!".
"You should've seen that coming" Loki says. "Face it, you'll need help".
"And you'll give me that help?" Athena asks. "Pfft- you were completely useless in that last battle".
"What the hell do you want with my son?" Siran asks as he points a gun to Athena's head.
"Your son" Athena says, "has power that can rival or surpass Naris" Athena says. "And I can help you".
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