"What have you done?!" Doctor Iris exclaimed in horror.
Tony just shrugged. "They just walked in and began to scream like they owned the place then I killed them"
Doctor Iris looked down again. The floor was littered with the dead bodies of countless Killer Baboons. They were well known for their man eating nature, superhuman speed and strength. They were at Emperor tier, and they always traveled in herds. Although this was around half the normal herd, it was impossible for one person to kill all of them. Unless it was an AA ranked mercenary. Even an AA ranked mercenary would find this hard to do something like this.
' his strength is growing at an incredible rate and he doesn't even realize it! '
"I guess you really need this now....." she said, handing over a set of clothes.
She felt her cheek burning up as she ogled the barely clothed Tony.
"Oh.."
He looked down at his shredded hospital gown. But he soon forgot about it when he saw his well toned muscles.
' I don't remember having those... '
"Tony! Go now"
In a few moments, Tony was fully clothed in black. A black hoodie and black trousers. "Slick...." he was impressed.
"Now GO!"
He was still a bit hesitant, especially now that he sensed multiple auras closing in.
Doctor Iris walked up to him, leaned in and kissed him on his cheek. Then she whispered: "Go"
The temperature in the room began to rise drastically
"There's a ship not to far away from the main entrance. Just keep going forward. Its barely a kilometer away. NOW FOR THE LAST TIME, GO!"
Tony dashed out of the room. The last thing he saw was Doctor Iris incinerating everything around her with fire.
' a fire ability? I'm impressed '
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"Iris. WATCH OUT!" Felix screamed like a little girl. Iris was quick enough to dive away from her former position. She thanked god that she did. Because barely a moment later, a giant bat crash landed on the exact same spot.
"Holy shit!" Drake exclaimed, while examining the bat. Its eyes were glowing brightly with ominous red. The skin was smooth and jet black. It had two pointed ears, two horns and four eyes. Its mouth was impossibly wide and lined with razor sharp fangs.
"That thing is at S-supreme tier!" Felix screamed.
"We should run" Natasha suggested.
Seeing Natasha who had defeated two Emperor tier beasts suggest they run only deflated their confidence.
"Let's mo- " Felix wanted to say, but.....
"ARGHH!!"
Everyone froze and watched as Drake, fully clad in steel armor, sailed through the air. Everyone held their breaths, hoping for the best.
But all their hope vanished.
The giant bat just flapped its left wing. Drake was sent back, like a missile. He flew past them, and into the forest, destroying every tree in his path.
Felix swallowed. "So what's the plan?" he wasn't worried about Drake. He had confidence that he was still alive.
"We run?" Iris replied. Then she noticed something. "Why isn't it attacking?"
Truly the bat just ignored them and stood there like a mountain. Felix was even suspicious whether the bat could even see them or not.
"This is a clearing. And its too big to enter the forest" Natasha deduced.
"You think its waiting for someone or something?" Felix asked.
Natasha nodded. "It has a consciousness that's almost human. I'll ask it."
She stretched out her hand and closed her eyes.
{ What are you doing here? }
Felix and Iris both heard her voice in their heads. Strangely enough, her mouth didn't move.
' what's this? ' Iris thought. ' telepathy? '
' no...this is too much power ' Felix thought. Little did they know that Natasha could hear them.
The bat seemed surprised for a moment. A moment later, it began screeching.
It was too loud for Felix, but for Iris, it was a different story. She fell to her knees, covering her ears which had blood leaking out of it. It didn't even seek to make Natasha flinch.
"Great work Natasha. You've pissed it off" Felix said. Both his arms were now laser arm canons.
Iris stood up. Blood was still leaking out of her ear. She seemed genuinely angry for some reason. She opened her dimensional storage and water flowed out. Then she separated it. One moment it was just water. And the next moment it multiplied to countless ice swords floating behind her, glistening in the moonlight. " Felix you know I'm a supportive type. I'll cover you"
Felix nodded.
' at least I still have Natasha. Where the fuck is Drake? '
"I'll support from behind too"
Felix felt his circuits sparking as he heard Natasha say that.
"WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT ME TO FACE THIS GIANT NIGHTMARE ALONE?!"
"Watch out" was all Natasha said before she vanished.
' huh'
Felix looked up.
"SHIT!"
He rolled out of the way. But that wasn't all. Felix noticed a faint red glow in the bat's mouth which was intensifying by the second.
' breath attack? '
"GUYS MOVE!! IT CAN PERFORM A BREATH ATT-" Before Felix could complete his warning, a giant pulsating red ball was already in the Bat's wide opened mouth. Before Felix could even register the size of the bomb, it was spat out.
"FUCK!"
Felix swirled around like a ballet dancer, dodging the attack by a hair's breath. His hoodie was partly burnt and the bright red light temporarily blinded his human eye. He slowly turned his head to look behind him. The breath attack created a deep canal. All the trees in the path of the breath attack were vaporised into nothingness. If that thing had hit him, he'd be vaporized, nothing would be left behind to remind people of his existence. He gulped. Reality was starting to dawn on him.
' I'm going to die here..... '
"FELIX! MOVE YOUR ASS!!" Iris screamed. The beast began to move towards Felix at an astonishing speed, with its wings pointed towards the sky.
' oh no you don't '
Ice swords began to rain on the beast. But they all bounced off. The beast didn't even pay any attention to them.
{ Your ice swords aren't strong enough. Let me help you. } It was Natasha's voice in her head.
Iris felt a foreign energy trying to invade her swords. She let it in. Moments later, her glistening blue ice swords now had streaks of green in them. She threw everything at once. This time it pierced the beast. But not even half of the sword got in. If it was only one, the beast would've ignored it. But this was over a hundred swords. A hundred points of pain.
{ It can't go past this, we need a.....} Natasha began.
"INCOMING!!" Drake screamed.
Everyone looked up to see Drake diving towards the Bat.
{ What the...? How'd he get up there?} Felix asked through the mind link.
Iris however noticed that half of his helmet was gone.
{ Hmm...he looks like Felix.}
Felix's face darkened.
{HEARD THAT!}
Drake landed on the bat's back and pounded a random sword deeper into its skin.
The bat screamed and set its sights on Iris. ' hmm....it's wise enough to know who to attack. If Iris gets killed or knocked out, it seems to know that the swords would no longer be a threat ' Drake analysed.
He wasn't connected to their mind link. But a moment later, he was.
{ MAN! Iris is so hot!} he grinned stupidly.
{ WHAT?} Felix and Natasha asked furiously.
While Iris was as red as a tomato.
{ Huh? What's going on?} Drake asked.
"IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW YOU DUMB POLE!" Felix roared while furiously firing lasers at the bat.
{ Its preparing another breath attack. Iris get the fuck out of there} Felix communicated.
He increased the intensity of his lasers.
{ No Iris stay.} Natasha said.
{ What? Are you crazy, witch?!} he was already getting the hang of the mind link. But not quite.{ I always knew that girl was an evil bitch}
{ I'll deal with you later} Natasha said. The coldness was even transmitted through the mind link.
Drake swallowed as his back became drenched in cold sweat. In terms of who was the most scary and terrifying, it was Natasha.
{ Iris, at the right time, put a wall of water the size of the breath attack in front of you and another one above the bat. We can't miss this }
Iris nodded, even though her heart was beating like a tap dancer's feet.
As if on cue, the bat spat out another bright red ball. Iris immediately opened her storage dimension. Water flowed out in two directions. One formed a wall of water in front of her, and the other formed a circular pool right above the Bat who didn't notice a thing.
Natasha who had been observing chanted:
"Open!"
The wall of water glowed, and the breath attack went directly into it. But the sheer momentum was too much. The wall of water evaporated, and the resulting shock wave sent Iris flying into the forest.
"Iris!!" Drake screamed and jumped off the Bat then dashed towards the forest, in the direction Iris flew to.
PS: Natasha had totally forgotten about Drake.
Almost immediately, the pool of water above the Bat glowed, and it's breath attack emerged from the pool and descended on it. It was too fast to dodge, but it raised its left wing to block the attack. It screeched so loudly that the trees shook violently.
"You think it worked?" Drake asked, carrying a blushing Iris.
Felix also came over and peered into the fog. "I'm not sure....."
A moment later, the smoke and dust cleared. Soon, it revealed a very angry Supreme tier bat. Smoke was literally coming out from its ears. Its eyes were now like glowing head lights. Glowing red head lights.
"Guys its still very much alive" Felix whispered.
The Bat raised its left wing. The bone was all mangled and broken, and the membranous wing was tattered beyond recognition.
"At least we made some damage" Drake said. He was surprised Iris didn't make any effort to get down.
But right before their eyes, the bones rearranged themselves and the wings regenerated.
Felix sighed.
"This is just perfect."
"What's so perfect about this, idiot?" Drake asked, his left eye twitching.
"I was being sarcastic, dick head!"
Drake hated sarcasm because he never understood it.
"Y-you....."
The bat raised it's two wings. They were so wide that they covered the two moons. Then it flapped them, only once. But the resulting wind and shock wave sent Felix, Drake and Iris flying towards Natasha, who was also unwillingly flying towards them.
Try as they may, they couldn't resist.
{ SHIT! } They all exclaimed.
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Tony was running through the forest, obeying Doctor Iris's instructions. It took him all his power to resist the temptation of turning back.
He suddenly stopped in his tracks.
' hm? '
He looked up to see a bright red light illuminate the darkness for a moment.
' the fuck is that? '
It was still in the direction he was meant to go.
' I might just be able to go into battle again '
He dashed towards the light.
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' huh? '
Felix was temporarily knocked out after the impact.
But he only found his face pressing against Drake's butt.
"AHH!! HELP!" His voice was like that of a distressed three year old girl.
"Get off me you freak!" Iris said when she saw that Drake's face was lodged between her breasts.
That wasn't even the worst of it. Natasha was buried under all of them, with no hope to get up at all. The reason they couldn't get up was because Drake was at the very top, fully clad in steel armor, and unconscious. She was so angry that she wanted to pound them all in the ground. Then she suddenly noticed that something else was going to pound them all in the ground.
{ Iris MOVE!!}
Iris, still blushing , flustered and angry looked up to see the Bat's feet rushing toward them. They were all tangled up, and Drake was like a mountain on top of them. She knew it was only a miracle that could save them. She closed her eyes, expecting death. But when the feet was barely one feet away.....
"Oh. My. God!"
Every one stopped what they were doing and slowly turned their heads towards where the voice came from , including the Bat.
Emerging from the forest was a young boy, wearing a hoodie, with the hood, dangling behind his neck. His whole outfit was black. And he had a confident look and a strange white orb in his left hand.
The Bat narrowed its eyes and slowly retreated. But when it set its sights on the orb, it opened its mouth wide for another breath attack. At that exact moment, Drake jumped to his feet, and his armor receded back into his skin. "Huh? What's going on?" he asked, looking from the Bat to the new guy.
{ Perfect timing..... } Natasha, Iris and Felix thought together.
"Huh?". Three knocks landed on his head at the same time. "OWW! What was that for?!"
"Hey metal head!" Tony called out.
"Wha--"
"Catch!" Tony threw the orb to him.
Drake caught it. Immediately it touched his hands, an ominous sensation spread through his body. It was as if he was under the array in MHF once again.
' now..' Tony thought. ' these guys couldn't deal with this beast, obviously. By the way, what's that in it a mouth? '
The beast spat out the breath attack in response.
Everyone dived out of the way, and took cover in the forest. Everyone except Tony. Instead of running away, he ran towards the red ball that was fast approaching.
"What the--" Drake was stupefied.
"That guy's crazy!" Felix said.
"He's gonna die" Iris said, sadly.
Tony threw a punch towards the breath attack. But instead of making contact, it phased right through his left arm, vaporizing it from the shoulder, along with half of his face.
"Fuck!" Drake bent over and threw up.
Tony now had no left arm, and the left part of his face had only the skull remaining. Every flesh was vaporized.
' hm...so that's what it was. I'm not strong enough to destroy it.... ' he looked at his absent left arm. ' regardless... '
The human onlookers choked when they saw the flesh of the skull regenerate. Their surprise turned to horror when the arm regenerated at an impossible rate. The only way one would know that something happened was the nonexistent sleeve.
Tony analyzed the bat once more. 'that thing's probably at Supreme tier ' He looked at the others. Two girls and two boys....if the robot guy could be considered a boy.
"Huh?"
He looked up to see the bat, aiming to squash him. But all it squashed was air.
"Slow!"
In a moment, Tony was above the Bat. With his two fists balled together, he pounded at the center of the Bat's head.
For a moment, neither Tony nor the Bat moved. It was as if they were waiting for the blow to sink in.
"You think we should help him?" Felix asked.
"No. We'll only get in his way" Natasha said. ' why can't I read his mind? ' she thought.
The Bat screamed in pain as blood gushed out of it's punctured skull.
"Haah?!" Drake was beyond shocked. His metal sword and Iris's ice swords didn't penetrate the Bat's skin to draw blood. But this boy had injured the bat with his bare hands.
"What am I seeing?" Iris was also shocked.
Natasha was equally surprised.
"This guy's strength is probably equal to that of a Supreme tier beast!" Felix announced. He was still very weak. He would never dream to have that kind of strength.
"Could you stop comparing us to Beasts?" Natasha said.
The Bat jerked its head, giving Tony a boost. Tony flew up high into the air. It was so high that they were barely able to spot him in the night sky. Then the Bat spat out a breath attack.
"He's in the air. He can't dodge it!" Iris was genuinely worried for him. Although his regeneration was impressive, if the breath attack hit him head on, he'll be vaporized.