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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2

"Safety bubble.", Axel closed his eyes and put his hands together in a praying position. In an instant, his hands were covered with a red aura that expanded to cover each three of them inside the car. The red aura transformed into a protective shield. Their car crashed into the road, but the shield absorbed most of the damage. 

"Thanks, Axe.", Jess uttered as she covered her hands with rage energy and pushed the door out. The rest of the police officers followed her lead. The incident sparked outrage from nearby drivers and passengers. People were spamming their car horns as they were peeking from their windows shouting and complaining about the disturbance.

"Hey! What is this mess all about?! My boss is going to kill me if I deliver this package late.", a truck driver complained.

"I'm late to my date, Godammit!", a random man in a suit repeatedly pressed the button a few times and then punched it to release his frustration.

"Now, what do we do?", Axel asked as he tried to brush off the dread he was feeling. Martin was barely functioning as fear ran through his entire body. He was breathing heavily, as their foreboding fate was in front of them. The highway was in chaos and the cars were in disarray. The sounds of cars beeping and angry people polluted the air. Some people just left their vehicles and ran while some just continued arguing and fighting with each other.

"The only choice we have.", Jess pulled up her gun and pointed it at The Destroyer. "Get yourself together Martin, your daughter still needs you.", She looked at Martin who was still shaken up by the monster they had to fight.

"Yes.", Martin stared at Jess with clear sadness in his eyes. He covered his entire body with rage energy as he entered his fighting stance.

"Let's keep our distance and avoid getting near him.", Jess ordered his colleagues. Both nodded, Jess fired a direct hit to The Destroyer's head but it just ricocheted and hit the ground.

"You are going to need more than just a random low-class gun to deal with a high-class individual.", The Destroyer smirked at her. Jess was ready to shoot him again with more rage energy bullets but The Destroyer mimicked a gun using his left fingers and shot her gun with pure rage energy.

"No!". Jess flinched as her gun fell to the ground and her fingers were damaged by his attack.

"Are you okay?", Axel came to her aid and checked her fingers.

"I'm sorry, that happened so fast, I wasn't able to shield you.", Axel added.

"Axel, create a barrier for us.", Jess commanded.

"I can't move whenever I activate a barrier. You're going to have to attack without me.", Axel explained.

"It's okay. Martin, I really need you to come back to your senses.", Jess stared at Martin who was still frozen with fear.

"Are you going to shoot me again? Maybe if corruption is less prevalent here then maybe you'll have better guns.", The Destroyer said.

"Hey, Martin, both of us haven't moved yet but for opposite reasons.", The Destroyer added with a smug look on his face.

"C'mon Martin!", Axel yelled at him.

"I know, I know!", Martin punched his left palm with his right fist from agitation.

"I'm completely useless in this situation for now, it's all on you now.", Jess looked at both her colleagues.

"Fighting is more of your thing. Give it your best shot.", Jess stared at Martin.

"Got it.", Martin said.

"Okay, enough talking.", The Destroyer put his arms in front of him, pointing all his fingers to the police officers' direction.

"Fire.", Rage energy projectiles were firing from all his fingers.

"Bubble Barrier.", Axel positioned his hands in a prayer position. Multiple baseball-sized bubbles appeared around him and charged directly to the projectiles, causing the bubbles to pop as they were hit.

"More!", Axel summoned more bubbles as they gradually outnumbered the projectiles from The Destroyer. Jess reached for something from inside the car and prepared for an attack.

"Let's go!", Jess threw an explosive that landed in front of The Destroyer as the bubbles charged toward him. The bubbles were designed to absorb damage and also cause small explosions. One explosion followed by multiple smaller ones hit The Destroyer. The smoke from the explosions covered their view of the enemy as more and more people were running away and the sounds of helicopters and police cars were getting louder.

"Come on, even just a small damage please.", Axel whispered as he locked his eyes on the enemy. The cloud of smoke slowly vanished as the image of their enemy was getting more pellucid.

"That didn't even ti-.", before The Destroyer could finish his sentence, a blast of lightning strike hit him behind his neck. He slowly looked behind him and saw Martin.

"Of course it's you.", The Destroyer uttered as Martin and him locked eyes. Martin's body was covered with electric charges that continuously flowed throughout his body. His hair stood up and his fear turned to anger. Martin was ready to fight for their lives.

"Remember don't go near him!", Jess shouted.

"But go near enough so I can, shield you!", Axel yelled at Martin.

"Your body is flowing with so much rage energy, maybe more than your body can handle.", The Destroyer observed him. Martin did not utter a single word. He generated strings of electricity and wrapped them around his enemy's head. He quickly pulled downwards causing The Destroyer to fall, but he pushed himself back up with his left hand. He sent waves of rage energy from his left hand to his body until it flowed through the strings as he got up. Martin quickly removed the strings before the waves reached him.

"That's a good one, but I'm barely fighting at all.", The Destroyer stated with pride.

Martin created a ball of electricity from his hands and threw it at his opponent. The Destroyer created a ball of rage energy and swung it at him, causing the attacks to destroy each other. The two exchanged attacks with Martin bolting and attacking and The Destroyer mimicking his attacks with pure rage energy.

"How is he only attacking with pure rage energy?", Axel was mystified by their opponent's capabilities.

"Signature ability is the enraged individual's way of transforming their rage energy into a technique with a specific function to conserve rage energy. He doesn't seem to be worried about exhaustion, he's insane.", Jess empathized with Axel.

In the middle of the fight, Martin fell to the ground. The Destroyer launched a ranged enraged punch at him. Before the attack hit Martin, Axel summoned a safety bubble that absorbed the damage. Axel fell down to his knees after using a lot of rage energy from defending the attack.

"Axel!", Jess approached him.

"Are you okay?", Jess asked.

"That attack was heavy.", Axel replied.

"The one we should worry about is Martin.", Axel looked at Martin as he got back up to his feet. Martin who was still on the ground glanced at Axel.

"Thank you…", Martin uttered under his breath as he crawled toward them.

"Where are you going?", The Destroyer stepped on his right arm and examined his current state. Martin winced from the pain.

"I should have killed you the first time I saw you.", The Destroyer said as he started to prepare a direct enraged punch.