'I will always be chasing after you, no matter how big the gaps between us gets.'
As Mu raises up into the air and levitates while Jupiter fell through the air, he reached out with his glowing fist towards the figures of Mu as his mind began to recollect itself. Then, with a flash of light, he realigned parts of his body that Mu easily broke apart.
No...this is not the end. Shaking his head defiantly, Jupiter still his body and landed softly back onto the ground. He had never won against Mu throughout all of the years, and he isn't sure that today is the day either. However, he came here with a mission, and he is going to complete it to the best of his ability no matter what.
Mu floated in the air and looked down onto Jupiter similar to how she has always done before. A strange fury lit up inside of her mind when she caught the glance of his. The same strange unexplained glance that she had never figured out. She is his enemy! Where is the cold glance?
Was he ever serious when he fought against me....? Was he always taking easy?
'Why do you ALWAYS have that look?!' Mu murmured through gritted teeth, 'do you not take me seriously.....' Reaching out the hands to the side, Mu spun around as her very movement stirred up waves of materials before two giant concrete hands were formed and they combined to crash into Jupiter. However, he exited the predicament with a single flash of light.
Then, a flare flew through the cracks created by Jupiter and Mu's exit from the underground shopping mall followed by another. The first one had the color of white while the other had that of blue.
'Oh, so you are calling reinforcements now?' Mu said with a mocking tone while Jupiter stared at the flares blankly, 'ANSWER ME!'
She waved a hand towards Jupiter, and a wave of destruction traveled through the ground and decimated the area that he was just standing on. However, Jupiter dashed out of the way and approached her in the air.
'This will only lead to open conflict.' Jupiter said, now mere tens of meters away from Mu, 'you know we cannot have that.'
HE HAD THE SAME DAMN LOOK.
'Hell if I care! Just die already!' Mu screamed, swing her hand forward in a frantic motion as Jupiter dodges it. Then, she brought both hands to her sides and swung them in a wavy pattern, as the air molecules around her are stirred into a frenzy.
'Click.'
The sound of a camera shudder interrupted the battle, and both Jupiter and Mu turned their heads to see Jon standing on the ground with an analog electronic camera pointing at them.
'What...the...' Mu's eyes twitched as veins popped up around her forehead as all that came out of her mouth are unintelligible noises, 'sxxxus????'
She still looked so...even when she was angry. Jupiter forced himself to turn away from Mu and looked back down at the cameraman that seemingly popped out of nowhere.
'Even you haven't fallen so low, have you?' Mu said, suppressing her anger and said.
'Looks like the deal might be compromised.' Jupiter said before looking over to Mu, 'may I suggest a group assignment?'
'This is not a game!' Mu said through a blush before looking away again, '....but if you want, I guess I will help you get rid of the cameraman...'
'They are like pests in the other city settlements...but why are they here?' Jupiter said, and Mu saw the cold analytical look return to his pale face despite his appearance in Escalation 3, and she can't be helped but be annoyed by it. Why doesn't she get serious treatment?!
'Doesn't matter.' Jupiter said, 'the Red Blob is top secret, and our involvement outside of our countries need to be too. Cameramen are notoriously hard to kill, so let's do it quickly and cleanly.'
'Fine.' Mu said, her arms crossed again, though there was a sense of relief on her face. Jupiter looked at her pretty face amid her angelic glow for a moment and smiled, but she looked away quickly.
'This sure brings me back.' Jupiter said before he dived towards the cameraman still snapping away on the ground, 'thank you.'
'WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?!'
Initially, Jon had planned to stay in the dark for a long while. As the two groups of soldiers in the underground compound began fighting with each other after both Jupiter and Mu flew out of the building, the trio of cameramen faced a strange choice at their hands. Part of the reasons that they are here is to investigate the truth of the Red Blob, and yet there was never any intention to witness an international incident on their hands.
'We will let the fight go on,' Jon said, gathering the trio together in a tight space before he sets off to follow after the two leaders, 'but I do not want this to escalate further and have a war on our hands.'
'But what can we do?' Pethant asked.
Looking down at the battlefields, and most of the soldiers that came with the two leaders have taken each other out, with the remaining two fighting to the death before they both fired off signal flares to call for further reinforcements.
'Pethant and Ally, you two go figure out the truth behind the Red Blob from the middleman.' Jon said, 'and I will go out there to film the other two. Then, we will make everything live, and draw as much attention here as possible.'
'But how would that stop this fight from escalating any further, master?' Pethant asked.
'Treaty-treaty-treaty!' Ally interjected, 'Basha-and-Necrovia-asked-for-neutrality-on-the-grounds-they-don't-go-outside-to-do-stuff! If-the-city-conglomerate-learns-they-come-out-for-Red-Blob....BIG-TROUBLE!'
'Right...' Pethant finally understood.
'I will leave you two to figure out what to do with the truth about the Red Blob.' Jon said, before bringing his camera towards Ally, who gave it a tap and connected it to her network. Giving her a good head rub, Jon dashed away from the underground mall and headed back out.
'Shit....' Looking all around him with only the android next to him, 'what should I do...'
The IRL tab of the streaming site Dwitch is rather quiet at this time and with the right title and thumbnail...Looking towards Ally, Pethant had an idea.
'What's UP all of y'all out there on the InterNet! This is your first-time streamer PO here, bringing you the HEAT directly from a strange abandoned city, as the investigation of the mysterious material that around the heightened generation continues!' Pethant screamed into his camera, which was connected into the world wide web thanks to Ally's presence. He is wearing his usual armored suit with a camera positioned in the middle of his chest. However, Ally added a face cam in the corner of the stream layout too.
Soon, with Ally's body as a draw, more and more viewers are pulled into Pethant's stream, as they walked out slowly from the darkness towards the Middleman who appeared to be smoking a cigar of sorts.
Leaping off the uppers levels and landing in front of him, Pethant and Ally prepared to approach the middleman when he tossed the cigarette forward and leaned forward.
'You pests are interrupting the fun.' He said, 'why are you here?'
'What is the truth behind the Red Blob?' Pethant said, walking forward, 'what is this city doing in the middle of nowhere? Why are Basha and Necrovia fighting here outside?'
'Hah.' The Middleman lets out a cold chuckle before he slowly stood up, 'tough questions have costly answers.'
Then, he tapped his foot onto the ground as a shock wave exploded from underneath his feet before it rammed over towards Pethant. Ally moved immediately in response, stepping in front of Pethant and parrying the attack head-on as blasts of air broke apart after her. Holding the camera steady, Pethant introduced the Ally as the title fighter.
'You hired a bodyguard?' The Middleman said with a smile, 'what...are you going to beat the truth out of me?'
'I-can-just-get-the-Red-Blob-and-send-it-to-labs...' Ally replied simply, standing up tall to the simping of all of the audiences going all crazy in the chat. That's what they came here to see, and they are surely getting a hell of a view thanks to Pethant's camera work.
'You can try.' The Middleman said confidently when Ally suddenly disappeared from where she was and reappeared in front of him. The middleman didn't have any time to joke anymore, as he kicked the suitcase to the side before creating a shock wave with him in the center and sending Ally backward.
Ally was about to grab onto it before the shock wave pushed her back. However, she planted her feet solidly into the ground and the shockwave that peeled away the layers on the floor and everything around her felt nothing stronger than a gentle shove.
'Is-that-all-you-have...?' Ally said with a taunting smile on her face as the stream finally hits five hundred viewers.
'Don't get cocky!' The Middleman said, slamming a fist into Ally's body and creating a massive ripple from the point of impact before she was sent flying backward. Her outfit is now torn apart as her body is partially exposed. This only put the chat into a further frenzy as the stream hit one thousand viewers at last.
'You okay?' Pethant asked, and Ally shot back onto her feet before Pethant finished the sentence. Giving the camera a seductive wink, Ally dashed forward towards the Middleman again with Pethant helming the camera and following the actions closely. This is a battle of fighting against expectations, as the middleman moved with ruthless efficiency and speed despite the heavy armors that he is wearing, and each and every one of Ally's attacks contains devastating power despite her appearance.
'Looks like she is okay...' Pethant said as the movements of the two fighters began to blur into obscurity as their combat speeds increased slowly. Switching smoothly to the slow-motion camera, Pethant continued to follow the action as he approached the battle in a circular fashion, slowly bringing the audience closer and closer to the action with every step while giving them new perspectives on the fight and on Ally's body specifically.
The middleman lets out an outburst of shock wave again, but it did nothing to Ally this time as she landed an array of punches onto his body. Then, as he tried to counter with his very own empowered attacks, Ally accepted them into her body as if it was nothing but a love tap.
'Damn you!' The middleman grew more and more frustrated for the first time today as he jumped backward, 'ESCALATION 2...'
Ally appeared in front of him and kicked him right in the face before he was able to go into Escalation 2. His body flew through multiple windows before he crashed into rows of tables and chairs into the restaurant.
'STOMPED!'
'MY GODDESS!'
'Ally POG!'
'turn around please!'
'GET CLOSER! CAMERAMAN!'
The chat was going crazy, and Pethant was so focused on filming the fight that he didn't even look over to the viewer count, and they have finally topped the IRL tab. Approaching the suitcase laying on the ground with Ally, she slit it open with her hand to reveal the red blob inside.
However, the suitcase was empty.
'You think this is going to be easy?!' The cracked voice of the middleman came from the restaurant that he broke into. His voice modulator sounds damaged, and parts of his real voice came in and out of existence intermixed with the modulated version of his voice, 'I will show you the true power of the Red Blob!'
Then, taking a single drop from the container he had with him, the middleman swallowed it whole before an outburst of energy sends even Ally stumbling backward.
'Here comes the climax...let's see what the Red Blob can do...' Pethant said, focusing the camera onto the figure of the middleman as a red mist surrounded him before the transformation began.