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Chapter 22 - The 2nd Encounter

Central District

A group of 10 troopers patrolled around the city in search for any human activities. In their grasps, were plasma cannon tinted with a black pigment that covered the entire perimeter of the weapon. And bit of silver which served as striped garnish. Agent D.R.2 stopped dead on his tracks and centered the aim of the plasma cannons towards the glass door of a local coffee shop. He raised his foot upward and knocked the door down with a kick. He pottered inside and shone his eyes all around the environment. While doing so, his subjects entered inside the very basis of the building and sought for clues. Since they were all wearing artificial helmets, they activated a component exterior to their helmets that enabled a heat signature impairment. The screen of their masks portrayed a yellow and purple visual impairment. Agent D.R.2 shone his eyes towards the ground and picked of traces of shoe prints that lead into the kitchen of the shop. He turned around and flicked his fingers from his right to indicate their advancement. He entered the kitchen while they trailed after him. He continued trailing after the foot prints, eventually they led him to a metal door on the right side of the stove. "Stand back." He adviced them while centering the aim of the cannons towards the door. He pulled the trigger several times, in doing so the cannon launched several plasma attacks that polverised the door to pieces. Afterwards, they entered inside the premises of a nearby room, it was a meat locker

Inside the meat locker

A shop owner by the name of name of Adrian hid himself inside a freezer, he was not alone, he was accompanied by his 10 year older daughter Helena. Adrian was man with a black beard, he also had black spikey hair. Where else Helena had blond hair. They legs and hands responded to their current predicament with utter tremble. They embraced one another firmly as he held her soft hair behind her head, while she clung her hands deep into the fabric of his jersey. She tilted her head upward and said, with a mist blurring out of her mouth. "I'm scared daddy." He leaned his chin against the top of her head and replied by saying, "me too." Suddenly her nostrils were triggered by grueling temperature, vividly increasing around. Though she tried to regulate her sneeze, her system retired against her resistance. Swiftly she placed 2 fingers across both sides of her nose to relief herself. She pulled it off and smiled to herself with delight. However she inadvertently sneezed without any expectation. Agent D.R.2 heared the loud cluster echoe from the door of the freezer. He locked eyes with it and flicked his fingers once more to hint another advance. He opened the door of the freezer and found no one inside. Meanwhile Adrian slowly opened the door of another freezer, which was situated from behind the troopers. He took a glimpse and when realised that an opportunity was dangling from the ceiling, enticing him to grab with utter haste... He took his feet out of the rectangular object, upon doing so his feet gently kissed the ground. He looked back and gently pulled his daughter from the container and placed her against his the right side of ribs. While they made a run for it, one trooper fired a plasma attack towards the brim of his back. The attack devistatdly polverized the tissue on his back, this causing his topple over in the process. The trooper pottered towards them while centering their weapons directly at them. Helena was paralysed with fear, not only fear but despondance as well. She placed her hands on his back and applied force to it by pressing on it. "Daddy wake up! Please! wake up!" Her hands were flooded with blood, which initially oozed out from the his shoulder blades to the thigh. The plasma attack harrowed through external and internal tissue, all that was left was an additional layer of red flesh, subsiding of 180 degree burns. Agent D.R.2 pressed a button on the left side of his helmet, the button initiated a red ray that scanned his body. "Target's life force has depleted." "What are we to do with its spawn?" Inquired a fellow trooper. He lowered his posture and fixed eyes with Helena, whom with devastation, shed tears. "We take it to Slicer, it will find comfort amongst other hostages alongside of it." He grabbed her scruff with utter force as his fingers firmly held onto his sensitive nerves. She tried to fight her way out of this hold by fidgeting and screaming. However her efforts were in vain. The troopers marched out of the building with her, upon doing so a foe stood amidst their path. She sat on top of a roof of a velvet, purple car and glanced at her at the red glamor that glistened from her nail. "Come now. Is this how you treat a mere child? Such shame?" Viper said. Agent D.R.2 aimed the cannon directicly at the positions of her head. She rolled her eyeballs and blew away a portion of dust which was situated on her nails. He then placed his finger on the trigger, before he could press. He suddenly lost control over his breath regulation. He relieved himself off numerous coughs, while doing so he lost grip of the cannon while it fell to the floor. Blood oozed out of his mouth while the coughing persisted. From inside his mouth, a string of a vain came curling from his throat, once it soared out of his mouth, it separated into different branches which rampanted around his entire head. Several branches of vines stretched out of his nasal passages and thrust his eyeballs out of his sockets. Though not a soul was left in his corpse, the vines continued coiling around him internally while doing away with his internal organs and skeleton. Then after the vines split him in half. The other troopers looked at their fallen leader, they as well retaliated. However she gave not a single chance to redeem their fallen leader as they as well had succumbed to the situation befallen unto them. She then jumped of the roof of the vehicle while Helena embraced her and clung her hands deeply into the fabric of her garments. "Please help me! My dad has been murdered." Viper rubbed her back with sympathy and answered to her plea. "My deepest condolences. But there is nothing we can do to save him." She lowered her posture and placed both of her hands on her cheeks. "But I promise you this. Once I've returned I'll see it as my accountability to hold your future within my hands." She embraced her once more as she inquired. "Whats your name dear?" "its Helena," she answered her inquiry while tilting her head just a bit higher. "Return to the building Helena. I have a duty to uphold." She nodded and returned to the building.

Kuhn Lau then appeared from behind and said, "My madam Bloom. Such nobility." With a smile she turned to him and said, "darling. You should not expect anything less from a someone of my breath." "We have unveiled the secrete plot?" said Ace who approached them from behind. "What have you found?" Inquired Kuhn Lau while Ace leaned against the wooden end of the scythe. "Slicer has sent his subjects throughout the city to capture as much hostages as possible." "What do you do you think he intends to do with them?" Inquired Kuhn Lau. "I believe he wants to incite an onslaught, as some form of redemption." Yung Fu said as he appeared from the side while bouncing a helmet on top of his palms. The helmet resided from one of the troopers. "What makes you say that?" Viper with her eyes furrowed with bewilderedment. "The sublime law of the Elite Force is to execute a fatal response when drawn attention to. Since they were unable to set Death Wrath free, massacring the masses would be their form of retaliation." Max stepped forward with his finger under his chin. "It would make more sense, after all why wouldn't he do that." Indistructro then landed on the ground with extreme force, therefore inciting a plate of cracks around the spot he stood on. "I have located Slicer's central base." "Where might it be?" Kuhn Lau inquired. He turned around and fixed his eyes towards the central district. He clenched his fist and said with a deep distorted voice. "We go forth." Yung Fu then placed his hand on his Pete's right shoulder, and held firmly onto it. "Are you ready young Pete?" He tilted his head from right to left and interweened his fingers, then after he stretched his palms forth with the back of his hand facing his facial feautures. "I was born ready." Ace then pointed the sharp end of his scythe towards the central district. "Well then, let's get a move on. Our friends friend Slicer awaits. It would not be wise to keep waiting."

Central Distric

The Tallest building in the city

They pottered towards the central district in a row of harmony, while the apokoliptic environment around them contrasted against their unity. It was utter chaos, no pedestrian at sight, a fleet of cars were mercilessly lying on the tar upside down, while fire engulfed their bonnets. Buildings leaning against one another where else smoke hovered around, and ashes spurn rampantedly across every block. Not mentention the endless trail of ground split. All of this caused by a thunderbolt. When the 7 Guardians stood 3 kilometers away from the building, a gush of wind soared past them. The gush promted the lose edges of their garments to glide back. The strands of their hair to flow back presumably like an knight with long blond hair. Whose hair is complemented by the wind. At the same time, they reached their eyes towards the sky and beholded a timid sight. A tornado subsiding of a lighting bolt descended to the ground with utter haste.

The magnitude of its heat caused the glass walls of the building (situated just a few meters away) to melt to a liquid form. When the twirling light bolt finally shook the ground it carved a crater. It then rejected its tornado form and hovered around Slicer whose facial feautures faced the tar. He looked up and sauntered towards them. Doubt then struck all seven of them, for he had initially handed their defeats one by one. The only person that he has not touched yet was Pete. They all took a step forward and gulped heavily. "Mr Atkinson. I see you have decided to join your fellow Guardians in the duel." Slicer said as he glanced at his palm and played with his finger. He then continued, "How interesting. I suppose they want me to seal your demise. Just like how events were suppose to unfold whereby my sword was suppose to take your life force. However fate was not so kind. You remember don't you?" His hands shook heavily from his words while a drop of sweat slid down from the forebrown of his forehead. He was about reminise about the events of the previous encounter in Oaklahoma city. He clenched his fist and rejected those thoughts. But fear so ever present. He then looked at every adversary and said, "And what do we have a here. The rest of the 5 Guardians and a washed up military official. To think all 7 of you allied as coherent to defeat me? Such redundance. None of you can even hold a candle to me individually. So what gives an impression that you stand a chance." Pete stepped forward and said, "When life knocks you down. You rise from the ashes." Without warning, Pete stretched his right hand towards him and fired an orange yellow ki blast towards. The force of the ki blast erupted an explotion that towered above 2 floors.