The sound of frantic footsteps echo through the school hall, along with frightened murmuring from the students as they are being led underground. More and more students enter it the room is roughly the same design as the school, a modern grey architecture which spanned a long distance roughly the same diameter as the entire perimeter as the school, room illuminated with red LED lights as well, and a biometric scanning system so that there are no intruders among students and staff.
A huge boom echoed across the school, and running up the stairways is Kevin, Erica, and Tracy continuing to make their way to the principles office.
As they run they pass the school quad where some students haven't gathered with the evacuation group, and these students are surrounded by other Threshold members who seem to be closing in.
Erica wearing a worried expression on her face then relays to Kevin.
Erica: "Kevin! Those kids are in trouble!"
Kevin who's running in front of the pack then replies no longer with his usual smooth and engaging tone, but with a more deep and authoritative tone.
Kevin: "Don't worry about them."
Tracy then replies.
Tracy: "How could you say that?!"
Kevin then retorted.
Kevin: "You, stop pretending that you care, I can see right through you, and frankly it's annoying."
Erica's jaw then tightens firmly as Tracy's face becomes neutral in silence, Erica then gets lost in thought.
Erica: "{He's so weird, ever since we first met him and his friends, his been the laid-back type it seemed like he didn't take anything seriously. Now he's vibe is completely different I know this feeling because of my family's background, this is the aura of a soldier.}"
Kevin then breaks the silence.
Kevin: "Look."
As Tracy and Erica both look towards the quad they see the Threshold members wanting to attack but then as they look toward the school's podium, standing on top of it is Sam, who puts his right hand in the air as he begins creating a mini vortex which pulls the Threshold members, as a bright green aura surrounds Sam with his composed demeanour, he lowers his arm and the direction of the vortex shifts which plummets the Threshold members to the ground.
Both Erica and Tracy are stunned, as Erica remarks to herself.
Erica: "How, there's no way. Coriolis force couldn't do that there's no strong wind pressure inside the school, let alone enough to generate a vortex like that."
Kevin then remarks.
Kevin: "He used the wind inside the school by using gravity."
Upon hearing this Erica's eyes open wide as she's at a loss for words. Kevin then adds.
Kevin: "Yeah, he's a Newton, just like you."
Erica is speechless, as Kevin proceeds to reveal further.
Kevin: "You're not the only who lied in class just so you know, trust isn't easy to come by. That said, I trust both Sam and Leonard whole heartedly, so the fact that you didn't trust us mattered very little to me."
As the three of them approach a crumbled wall which provides a shortcut to the principle's office.
Kevin: "So if you want to survive."
Erica thinks to herself to herself.
Erica: "{I was right. This is....}
Before they pass through Kevin looks back for the first time through this whole ordeal, with his usual expressive light brown eyes, replaced by a more practical and analytical gaze.
Erica: {....a soldier.}"
Kevin: "Shut up and do as I say."
The events then shift back to the intense stand off between Elizabeth and Micro, after Elizabeth made her declaration.
Micro with her witty grin and her head tilted then sarcastically antagonised.
Micro: "Oh really?"
Elizabeth doesn't respond after that however as she holds her palm forward, Micro's demeanour immediately changed as she quickly interlocks her fingers, forming a circle with thumbs and index fingers. A translucent blast hits Micro however a shield absorbed the attack and she stumbles on her feet.
Micro then reflects to herself.
Micro: "{The hell was that?! If didn't put my shield up in time there's no telling what that attack would've done, how did she even launch it? I didn't see anything.}"
Elizabeth then utters.
Elizabeth: "You must be wondering what that was just now. That was my Neon nuclei."
Micro: "{Neon?!}"
Elizabeth then added.
Elizabeth: "Neon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass. It's unique properties make it useful for various applications like lighting and lasers. The reason why you couldn't see it is because it has no appearance for you to identify it by, no colour, no odour, no taste."
As she makes that remark she moves her hands in an obscure motion as Micro witnesses this she only sees the hand gestures not the vibrant, pulsating rainbow colours moving along with her hands.
As Elizabeth looks on at Micro.
Elizabeth: "Only I can see it."
With veins bulging on Micro's face as she smirks.
Micro: "You think that matters? I'm still getting through you."
Micro begins to enlarge herself 20 meters tall as tiny molecular structures surround her massive form, the subtle rumbling noises, and creaking infrastructure are even to evoke fear in Elizabeth, however she steels herself, as she dodges Micro's enlarge attacks she becomes faster leaving behind blurred motions in her trail which disorientate Micro.
Elizabeth: "{Atomic speed increases my movement speed up to 20%, but I can rely on it for very long as it eats away at the units of my nuclei.}"
Micro then breaks down nearby materials with swirling molecular clouds, distorted breaking sounds echo in the area, Elizabeth puts up a shield but shield immediately begins to falter Micro notices the confusion on Elizabeth's face and seizes the opportunity and holds out her right palm towards Elizabeth and begins to levitate her upward.
In desperation while Elizabeth is being lifted up she puts her hands together.
Elizabeth: "{Oh well, this is a gamble, combining my Neon nuclei and atomic energy like this to create a Nuclear reaction. But it leave some heavy damage it'll eat away 150 units, but it's my only chance.}"
Intense heat waves and vibrations fill the room as she fires the intense building rainbow colours at Micro, as Micro sees the determination in Elizabeth's eyes she releases the levitation and the intense rainbow colours disperse as Micro intensely focuses the dispersed rainbow colours turn into harmonious molecular structures floating around her.
Elizabeth's neon colours dim as she pants in exhaustion, Micro chuckles and returns back to normal size then thinks to herself.
Micro: "{I can't get careless now, even if she's out of breath, there's no telling what she has up her sleeve.}"
An exhausted Elizabeth and confident Micro stare down one another, Micro breaks the silence.
Micro: "Hmph, I guess it is over."
Micro unleashes a massive swirling molecular blast. The blast hits Elizabeth the impact emits a deafening roar leaving Elizabeth's fate uncertain. As that deafening roar sends tremors throughout the entire school, Ben, Charlotte and Leonard are searching for the rest of class A1 feel that tremor which leaves them anxious.
Ben: "You guys feel that?"
Charlotte replies.
Charlotte: "Yeah, that doesn't feel right."
Leonard then gets lost in thought.
Leonard: "{That's not good. It feels as if the scales of the situation is tipping in the opposition's favour.}"
Leonard's eyes gleaming with fiery determination as he clenches his left fist.
Leonard: "{We can't let them have their way they've already destroyed so much.}"
The image of Elizabeth's traumatised face is played back in Leonard's mind.
Leonard: "They won't get away with this."
The scales seem to tip in the opposition's favour leaving the fates of everyone uncertain.
To be continued...