' hm..? ' Dickson noticed something as he scrolled past the battle list. He scanned the entire system once more. ' just as I thought, there's a bug '
The matches which were supposed to be random had its own list already, which was not supposed to be so. He performed a diagnosis and erased all the bugs. Then he refreshed the system.
' that should do it...'
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Felix's mind was in turmoil. He had set it so that their team, team 15 would scale through the first round without fighting, then he set the matches so that only opponents his team could handle were left. Even if they didn't win, their main aim was to gather as much money as possible. But now, it seemed they would be eliminated in the first round after all. The only way to lose a battle was by surrender or death.
He gulped.
"You don't have to do it if you can't" Tony said. For some reason, the pity in his eyes irked Felix as his resolve solidified. But he still had an obstacle to cross.
"They're very strong" he said as he looked to Natasha and Iris. All the while, he was receiving alerts of payments as people were placing bets non stop. Previously, it was 100 or 200 dollars at most. But now it was in the thousands, bothering on millions, and Felix had a feeling the audience had more to offer. Inwaardly, he prayed that none of them would back down now, even though their chances of victory was very, very slim.
Natasha scoffed. "What do you take me for?" she said. She was upset that they didn't have faith in her. She was plenty strong.
Iris nodded.
As they exited their passage, the crowd roared in praise. In their view, this was another massacre. The didn't even have armor on. But some old monsters in the crowd could see the fearlessness in their eyes. The dark haired and gren eyed girl even showed indifference.
This would be interesting...
As they stood opposite their opponents, nearly half a kilometer distance between them, Felix couldn't help but shiver slightly as he discovered the identities of their opponents.
In the middle was a short haired brat. His hair and eyes were red. He looked very out of place in there as he was very short. But anyone who knew him knew he had a 'disease'. Medically, it was some sort of cancer. His hormones that aided growth were very slow in producing. The progress that an average human would make in a year, he'd make it in ten years. So even though he was in his early thirties, he looked like a short pre teen. This was the A rank mercenary Explodio. On his left was a tall and lean yellow haired man. He was so lean that he gave the impression that if wind blows, he'd be blown away too. This was the B rank mercenary Flexo. On Explodio's right was a plain woman. She was not beautiful, at the same time, she was not ugly. There was nothing outstanding about her apart from her pink pixie cut hair. This was the B rank mercenary Stele.
"I thought you were too scared to come out" Explodio said as he sucked on his lollipop. "Brats!"
Natasha's eye twitched. "Look who's talking" her cold voice made Stele shiver.
"READY?!! FIGHT!!" The commentator roared.
In an instant, Stele vanished. Explodio stretched his hand towards them, and tiny little fireflies emerged, flying towards them at incredible speed. Felix suddenly had a bad feeling. "Dodg-"
Out of no where, a punch connected across his jaw.
'wh-what was that?' Felix thought as his mind spun. He was mildly stunned and a firefly got close to him.
BOOM!!
All the fire flies exploded at once, causing a large cloud of dust.
Explodio clicked his tongue.
"For a moment there I thought you were done for" he said as he looked up.
Natasha was carrying a dishevelled Felix, while Iris was floating on a slab of ice.
"Looks like this won't be a boring battle after all" Explodio said.
"DIE!" Felix roared as his hands morphed into laser canons. He merged both hands together to form one large canon. He landed with a firm thud and pointed at Explodio and Flexo."BLAST!" A blinding blue laser light erupted and rushed towards them.
Explodio's expression suddenly fell. These allgedly nameless people were probably on the same level as he or even higher...
"Infrared" Felix said. His robotic eye, which seemed human, turned red. Soon enough, he spotted a heat signature.
' just as I thought '
[Natasha, Iris be careful. That woman's ability is invisibility] Felix warned via the mind link.
Natasha's eyes glowed with a green hue as she waved her hand. Almost immediately, Explodio had an ominous forebrooding. He had a feeling that this girl was very dangerous.
"Flexo" he called out. The said mercenary nodded. His arms elongated and he shot them towards Natasha, aiming to tie her down or at least distract her so that the fireflies could hit her. But out of nowhere, an ice sword slashed at Flexo's arms. If not for the sheer elasticity which made his arms dificult to cut, it would have definitely been cut in two.
"Fuck!" he exclaimed as he retracted his arms.
"EXPLODE" Explodio roared and the fireflies burst into flames. But Natasha remained unharmed. Her green eyes were glowing brightly. Everyone was focused on her, waiting for what would happen next.
"Explode" Natasha lightly said.
"Eh?"
She waved her hands, and green streaks of light rushed forth, towards Explodio. Before he could even breathe, the were infront of him and...
BOOM!!
They exploded right in front of Explodio.
Everywhere became silent.
"TSK!" Natasha clicked her tongue. She had revealed her powers, and all it did was to heavily injure Explodio. But the truth was he used his one time life saving defensive artifact.
"A...WITCH?!" Someone from the crowd broke the silence.
The crowd took in cold breaths. Witches were feared, hated and respected. But demons, although their existence were highly covert, humans who knew about Demons atd them to the core.
' just as I thought. She's a half demon half witch hybrid ' Tony thought.
But nobody was as surprised as Felix. ' I thought she was a demon? '
"Guys!" Iris screamed.
They all looked forward to see a massive black cloud hovering above Explodio and Flexo. Stele was still nowhere to be seen.
But looking closely, it was no cloud. It was a large cluster of fireflies. The freaking fireflies that exploded on command. And Explodio himself was not in a good mood. All the veins on his face were pretesting, twitching in agitation.
"BRAT!" he suddenly roared.
' oh crap.. ' Fellix said as he hastily activated infrared vision. It was just as he thought. Stele was stealthily making her way towards Natasha. Natasha on the other hand seemed to be preparing another spell to counter this. Stele was so stealthy that even her footprints and shadow were non-existent.
"Natas-" A whip-like hand came out of nowhere and flogged him across the face. He gritted his teeth, bearing the pain.
According to what he had revealed, everyone assumed that he only had robotic arms. The replication of human organs were practically unheard of. He didn't know why yet, but he would guard this secret very well, lest he be used as a lab rat.
"Get out of my way!" Felix roared as he shot a fury of lasers.
Flexo was practically dodging for his life. He knew he was no match for this robo-freak. All he had to do was stall him. And in no time, his mission was accomplished.
Thump~
Stele landed a beautiful axe kick in the middle of Natasha's head. Witch or not, she'd be knocked out in an instant. Stele was never the one for killing, so she opted to distract the biggest threat while Explodio finished up. Even if she tried, she knew she could never kill a witch.
She and Flexo retreated. Felix gritted his teeth in frustration. "That does it!" like a rocket, he daashed towards Stele. Immediately she saw this, she activated her ability and changed course, but little did she know that it was useless before the infrared vision. Felix compressed the laser so it would be faster and pierce sharper. He didn't want to kill. He wanted a hostage. He aimed at her legs and shot two shots to each calf.
ARH!
Her scream rang out as she fell with an undignified thud, her invisibility instantly cancelling out. Felix swooped down and carried her towards Natasha, as the legion of fireflies approached. Stele was crying in Felix's arms, begging him to let her go. But his robotic heart would not yield. It turned out she was the wekpoint of their team.
"Iris what the fuck are you doing standing there?! Iris! IRIS!!" Felix called out as he landed above the unconscious Natasha. Iris just stood there, her legs shaking as she stared at the approaching swarm of death.
"Tsk! Stop or your team mate dies" Felix said as he pointed his arm canon at Stele's head.
Flexo frowned and looked at Explodio beside him. "They really got us, huh?"
But there was no response. All the veins on Explodio's head were about to...well, explode. His eyes showed insanity as he chanted. "Witch die. Witch die! Witch die!!"
"What?! Stele's there! With them!!" Flexo said. He knew Explodio was crazy, but not this crazy. Even if this trump card killed all of team 15, if it as much as rendered Stele incapable of fighting, they'd be disqualified if they didn't find a replacement. And they had no freaking replacement because Explodio had the habit of pissing every single person he meets off. The only reason they were here in the first place was because they were interested. Now, Stele was going to die because of curiousity? Ironic!
"Explodio you hav-" a firefly appeared right in his face and landed on his nose. He gulped.
"You don't care about your teammate?!" Felix screamed. It was now he realised he was neck deep in shit. All he could do was resign to death. He looked to the stands and saw Tony holding Drake back, preventing him from running out to save them. He smiled as he released Stele, but her legs were messed up, she couldn't even stand. His only regret was that he wasn't able to replicate his balls, thus making him die as a virgin. He looked at Iris who was shivering like a leaf, mumbling inaudibly in fear.
"It's gonna be okay Iris..." Felix said as the cloud of fireflies swallowed them.
Then Explodio roared with insanity."EXPLODE!!"
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