DreamWorld
Elsewhere-Skies
Xerxes pilots the Wraith about as Vade bears the distressing need from Kelsey.
Vade: I have to go down!
Xerxes: Do what you have too...I work better alone anyways.
Vade: You sure you can…
Xerxes: One thing you're gonna learn about me is that I'm more than capable. I got this. Go.
Vade nods and pivots this aircrafts down as he begins his descent as Xerxes smirks
Xerxes: Alright...free reign…
Xerxes swivels his craft about and begins to fire missiles and beam at will, destroying everything in sight regardless of their affiliation as he was a man unbound with a childish grin slapped across his face as he relished the carnage about him.
Elsewhere-Battlefield
Tegan looks about at her carnage as the Fallen Agents and D.R.C Agents were clashing all around at a distance as Wesley silent paced back and forth as he watched her.
Tegan: Trying to decipher whether it's really me or not. I gotta say that's rather smart of you.
Wesley just continued to pace about as Wes watched as Tegan's head suddenly severs from her body as Braxton had appeared behind her and had taken the head clean off as he screams
Braxton: Show yourself!
The two watch and listen as Tegan claps as she appears seemingly out of thin area next to Braxton.
Tegan: The drawback to my illusions is that once they've been exposed. The senses of those who've been affected by them actually heighten. I was afraid I would see you.
Braxton: You may have been able to best me before. But that shall not happen again.
Tegan: I want to believe you but…
Wesley stands and stabs to his left, The Tegan by Braxton disappearing as suddenly the real Tegan jumps back as Wesley's spear tip had nearly stabbed her as she looked confused.
Tegan: That's not…
Braxton: You said so yourself...those who've seen the illusions have keener senses. Nobody's as sharp as Wes here. And he's already seen your illusion in work.
Tegan shrugs and spits.
Tegan: Still.
Braxton and Wesley begin to get in either side of her as Braxton nods at Wesley as Braxton attacks get, Tegan surrounding herself with a shield as Wesley doesn't move as Tegan takes the brunt of the attack as she is tossed back as she forms a A long shield and a Pistol, Tegan aiming the Pistol as she fires at Braxton who blocks with his War Axe as he matches towards her, Wesley moving about before he slices at his right and watched as Tegan jumps back as Braxton destroyed illusion with a powerful slash. Tegan looked a bit flummoxed by their tactics.
Braxton begins to encircle her again as Wesley moves about silently.
Tegan: I see...you attack me, force me to use the illusion and he sniffs it out. That's how this works…
Braxton: Maybe, maybe not.
Tegan nods as she seems a bit dazed by this.
Tegan: Gotta say. Wasn't expecting this…
Braxton: It's only going to get worse for you.
Braxton slams the axe down in the ground as Tegan raises an eyebrow as he slowly absorbs the War Axe into his hand as his giant arm suddenly turns into a large black and gold gauntlet.
Tegan: That's neat.
Braxton: My Awakened power...here...let me show you.
Tegan looks about as she feels the ground around her quake and as she goes to jump away Braxton throws his arm out and forward as suddenly everything around her suspends and she goes twirling about a few feet off of the ground aimlessly, Tegan unsure what to do as she couldn't fight the seemingly loss of gravity.
Braxton: Gravity manipulation. No need to worry about your bullshit when you can't even have yourself tethered to the ground…
Tegan seems genuinely worried as Wesley doesn't move as he feels a whisk beside him as Braxton turns and sees it too late so as Tegan wasn't in the gravity well as Braxton screams as Tegan opens her as she looks with surprised eyes as she sees Caleb holding her in her arms.
Tegan: Caleb…
Caleb: Save it. We gotta deal with these guys.
Caleb looks at Braxton as he strides towards them as Caleb sets her down and then was gone from sight as Braxton turned and saw Caleb throwing a punch that hits his left cheek before he suddenly feels a constant barrage of punches along his face as Braxton's stomps his foot and sends a gravity well up in front of him, Caleb appearing a millisecond away as he was by Tegan again.
Tegan: Caleb... do you…
Caleb: Yes.
Braxton touches his lips as blood drools out of his mouth.
Caleb: Super speed comes in handy I gotta say.
Tegan chuckled as she nodded.
Tegan: I guess so.
Braxton: So you're a fast little shit. How many lunches you land in that three second span, two dozen?
Caleb: Two hundred and forty six.
Tegan: 82 punches a second?
Caleb: I'm going for a hundred.
Braxton: How cute. But so you even know what this little cunt is doing.
Caleb: Doesn't matter. Right now all I care about is her…
Tegan looked away as she seemed ashamed.
Caleb: So I'm asking you... please... stop…
Caleb seems to feel the air around him shift, things slow down for a split moment as Caleb zooms him and Tegan back a few feet as Wes was standing where they were, weapon in a position that would have impaled them both as Caleb looks horrified.
Tegan: That was fucking close…
Caleb: Very.
Braxton: What was that...some kind of threat detection? Like spiderman?
Caleb: I guess you can call it that.
Braxton: You're a slippery little bastard.
Caleb: You(to Wes)...I guess you have a speed based awakened ability also…
Braxton: Haha he's got something better…
Teleportation.
Caleb and Tegan look at each other as Braxton grins as Wesley suddenly disappeared. Caleb not sending anything as he and Tegan looked about.
Braxton: Oh...did I also forget that he can use invisibility also…
Tegan turns as she screams for Caleb to Kate as Caleb senses go off and zooms to the right but not before catching a slicing slash to his ribs as Wes appeared, Caleb clutching at his wound as it bleeds heavily as Wes had nicked him deep. Caleb groans as Tegan watches Braxton and Wesley regroup as they begin towards them
Tegan: Can you move…
Caleb: Yes...let me take you from here... please…
Tegan: I…
Zyanya: Jesus you two...this isn't that goddamn complicated.
Tegan looks to see Zyanya finally arrive as she comes and stands next to Caleb as she watched as the other two hold off as they study her as she grins.
Zyanya: Not here to fight. Just here to back up my buddy here.
Zyanya touches Caleb blessing side and Everyone watches as Caleb's wounds begin to heal.
Braxton: That's...not suppose to be possible…
Zyanya shrugs as Caleb gets up and moved his hips as he nods.
Caleb: Good as new.
Braxton: Digital healing isn't possible!
Zyanya: And yet here I am just doing that impossible thing. Shucks. Now I feel special.
Tegan: Zyanya.
Zyanya: You're a fucking idiot, Tegan.
Caleb: Zyanya!
Zyanya looks at Caleb.
Zyanya: I'm only speaking the truth. And you know it too.
Caleb doesn't speak as Braxton looks bewildered.
Braxton: You(pointing at Zyanya) I'll keep alive because we may have use for you. The other two are not up for debate.
Zyanya: Well, Caleb here is my friend. Tegan could go either way. So…
Zyanya reaches behind her and draws her two tomahawks as she spins one and watched as Caleb stands ready as Tegan looks between the four as she grins.
Zyanya: If you wanna step at them...you gotta step at me.
Braxton: Fine.
Caleb: Your left!
Zyanya throws her tomahawk's up and crosses them as she blocks a sudden attack by Wes as Caleb zooms over and grabs Wes before Wes teleports away as Braxton appears and slams his fist down, causing a fissure that cracks and splinters and travels towards Zyanya who jumps to the side while Wes appears next to her and kicks her in the chest, Zyanya falling over as Caleb zooms behind Wes and goes to tackle him but Wes goes invisible and teleports away as Caleb senses him and dodges Wesley's attack as the two begin teleporting and speeding about around each other, dodging eazy other as Zyanya watched as Braxton creates a gravity cyclone and sends it at Zyanya who avoids it barely but as she died Braxton appeared and lunched her, launching her flying back as she lands hard and coughs up blood as she watched as Braxton held his hand out and seny her spiraling into the air as he controlled the Gravity around her, tossing her to and fro with relentless ease but in doing so he left himself open and Tegan runs up and throws one Zyanya's tomahawk's into his left pec, Braxton screaming as he drops his arm and Zyanya lands hard in the ground below as Tegan goes to her, helping her up as Braxton pulls the tomahawk out and throws it down as Zyanya touches her abdomen and heals the crushed ribs she had suffered.
Zyanya: Shit he hits hard.
Tegan: We can do this if we…
Zyanya: There is no we, Tegan.
Tegan looks at Zyanya who doesn't make eye contact.
Zyanya: We both know what you're going to do. I did this because I'm hoping Caleb will understand what me and Xerxes have always told him... you're no good for anybody but yourself.
You can see the words puncturing Tegan hard as Caleb and Wesley continue their incredible fast moving right as Tegan watches as Zyanya dissipates the tomahawk on the ground and brings it back to her hand as Braxton charges the two women as Tegan nods and closes her eyes.
Tegan: You're right...you're always right, Zyanya.
Braxton swipes at them and they both dodge as he sends Zyanya flying as Tegan fights him, or rather, an illusion of her as she watched them from afar as she went towards where she could see the blinks of Caleb and Wes, eventually catching a break as the two appeared and checked one another out as they were panting as they had exerted a lot of energy as Caleb suddenly watches as he started charging after Wes, Wes teleporting away as Caleb looks about before he sees Tegan standing off a bit away, Caleb appearing beside her in a blink of an eye.
Tegan: Doesn't just have to be me. They see whatever they want.
Caleb: What's going on why aren't you helping Zyanya?
Tegan: Because she's right. I've made up my mind. And there's nothing you or anyone else can do to change that. If...god if only you had come to me sooner...come to me out there...when I really needed you the most...maybe things...maybe I could…
Caleb: We can leave this now...me and you...nobody else. If I failed you then I failed you and I'm sorry, but I'm here now, asking, begging, pleading with you...just come with me...Tegan…
Tegan has tears in her eyes as she touches his face as she can see his pain and confusion as she nods and Caleb suddenly feels the sharp sting of a blade penetrating into his chest, Caleb gasping as he shudders as Tegan looks at him and smiles as she kisses his lips softly.
Tegan: It's the one you never see coming that hurts the most...remember this pain...and know it's pain you've allowed me to wear for many years...if I ever see you again... I'll kill you, Caleb.
Caleb: W-Why... Tegan…
Caleb steps back as he grabs at his wound and coughs up blood as he looks around to see Tegan was gone, the illusion of her now there as she wipes her eyes from afar as she heads towards the Tower as she leaves the illusions there to cover her getaway.
End of chapter.