A few minutes before the crush.
Luke was on the phone talking to the shadow guard secretly protecting Beatrice, he felt really dumb for forgetting about them.
Every member of the Archman family had shadow phantom guards protecting them in secret. Luke mom and sisters were completely unaware of the existence of the shadow phantom guards and had no idea they were protecting them in secret.
Like their name suggested, they were like like shadows who protected their masters. Luke had panicked upon hearing a stranger call him with his wife phone and had completely forgotten about them, it wasn't new since he forgets them almost all the time.
"Ok keep an eye on the situation, I'll be there soon" Luke said to his caller.
"Roger" a silent voice replied.
After Luke hanged up the call, he's eyes were blinded by a piercing light in front of him and before he could react his car was hit by a truck which continued to push his car until it crushed a large tree.
Though the car looked horrible on the outside, the inside wasn't as damaged as one might think.
"Internal shield power down to 25%"
"External shields power down to 1%
"Engines power down to 0%
"initializing lock down mode to minimize damage "
"initializing repairs on gas tank"
"Gas tank repair complete"
"Establishing connection with the nearest Archman Hospital"
"Connection established"
"Estimated time of arrival in 7 minutes"
The car AI reported all the damage to Luke as alarms were going off in the car.
Luke had suffered some external injuries and was bleeding from all part of his body with his clothes in in tatters but other than that he was doing pretty well.
He sat on his seat breathing heavily, he was in extreme agony.
"Damn this planet"
"Give me visuals from outside" he said to the AI whiles holding his head which was bleeding, he couldn't see through the glasses because there were cracks all over it making it impossible to see outside.
When the Visuals were displayed before Luke he gritted his teeth in anger and frustration. He should have dealt with this guy a long time ago.
He remembered James very well because he didn't like his aura for some reason.
Luke just sat in the car and watched as James poured more petrol around his car and continued to stand there admiring his handiwork, Luke wanted to punch that smug look on James face so badly but alas the doors won't budge.
"Another car is approaching our location" the AI reported.
Luke saw a dodge Challenger approaching their location.
"Hmmm isn't John support to be at HQ"
But when the car finally stopped, he saw Victoria come out instead, he watched calmly as Victoria make his move but when he saw the lighter he became filled with shock and doubt.
"She's not gonna make it"
"Is the water reactor core still functioning?" he asked anxiously.
"The reactor is still functioning, repairing of damages has begun" The AI responded
"How long is it going to take?"
"Approximately 30 minutes if it functions normally"
"Push it to full powerful"
"Pushing it to full power might be dangerous, the reactor not exploding after merging it with the vehicle is already a miracle
Pushing it further might cause an explosion in a five mile radius" the AI advised
Luke knew the AI was right.
"Ok, concentrate full power on repairing the door for me"
The gate started repairing itself automatically.
Luke watched on as Victoria was crushed by James, but wasn't too surprised since he expected it after seeing James lighter.
"How much longer?" he asked.
"Three minutes to completion"
Luke shook his head, if he were to wait for three minutes, Victoria would probably die.
"You know what screw it" Luke eyes turned blue like usual, but this time the color was more deeper than usual.
He then gained the ability to see and hear what was going on outside without relying on the AI.
He heard James talking about the secrets of the universe and couldn't help but smile to himself.
"And what would you happen to know about the secrets of the universe" he uttered quietly but it echoed through the entire area.
He lifted his legs and kicked the door flying.
If the AI had emotions it would have been pissed, All he had to do was wait a few seconds.
He stepped down and looked at James calmly, the cuts and injuries on his body started healing at a very fast rate and after a few seconds he was looking completely fine.
If not for his tattered clothes, one wouldn't know he's just been in an accident.
James looked at Luke with surprise written all over his face, he could hardly believe how Luke survived such a crash.
And the most shocking thing to him, was the fact that the car was repairing itself at a rate visible for all to see.
"F**k, what the hell is going on" he asked.
"A few minutes ago, weren't you blabbering about Secrets of the universe.
You are holding a phantom power converter, and you look surprised by this". Luke said disdainfully.
But What I would like to know it's how you got your hands on that lighter? Luke asked curiously.
James on the other hand was in deep thought.
"If I manage to get the secret behind that strange car, Krustalia would become invisible in battle.
Imagine having self repairing armored trucks and ships. We might even rule the world"
As he was still engaging himself in his fantasy's, water started to gush out from Luke's damaged car and began to cover the damaged car, forming a sphere around it.
Blue light flickered as the repairing of the car began to speed up.
James eyes became red with greed whiles a devilish smile formed on his lips.
When Luke saw his eyes full of greed, he sneered.
"Tonight I just wanted to kill you to please my anger, but who would've thought that you will also give me a gift to which I accept.
Listen kid, I don't care who you are or who is behind you, as long as you tell me the secrets of this car, I might spare you and your girlfriend over there" He lied through his teeth whiles pointing at Victoria who was still on her knees.
Luke looked at James with an amused look, this guy really doesn't know who the predator is, does he?
James didn't also want to waste time since he knew it was futile to convince Luke with words, Force would be the most simple way.
He lit up his lighter causing a phantom fiery sword to to manifest, but this time it wasn't just a phantom but a real fiery sword.
After the sword manifested he didn't waste time and with just a leap appeared right in front of Luke.
The distance between them weren't far to begin with it, but It still didn't change the fact about how fast James was because all this happen within a micro second.
If one was not observant enough, he might think that James had the ability to teleport.
Victoria watched on helplessly as she expected James to cut of one of Luke's arm.
I'll go with your right hand" James said sinisterly before slashing it towards Luke's right hand, but before the sword could come close to Luke.
Luke released terrifying aura, which shook James to his very core, the Manifestation of the Omega phantom sword broke into pieces before reverting back into a lighter.
When James saw this he panicked and tried to twist himself and pull back, but before he could even begin to do that, Luke grabbed him by the neck as James body was suspended above the ground with the only support keeping him there being Luke's right hand around his neck.
James didn't panic, he immediately grabbed a dagger from his tight and attempted to stab Luke in the neck, but Luke effortlessly grabbed the dagger with his left hand.
Luke then grabbed the hand holding the dagger and twisted it backwards making James shout in pain, he could see his bones crushed and mangled along with his skin, but what causes him more dread was the fact that Luke turned his hands in an unnatural position and was bringing the dagger close to his abdomen
But before he could even plead for mercy, Luke used James hand and stabbed him with the dagger causing James to scream in pain and agony.
The dagger was laced with a potent poison which would make one feel like, they were being eaten alive by rats from their inside, if the antidote is not administered early, the person would die a horrible and painful death.
Luke threw him on the ground after braking all his limbs, staining James clothes with his own blood.