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Sylanwood, Barcemanca: The Street, Time: 12:00 AM
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James's leg starts transforming into metallic armor once more as he kicks in the air. "Alright, time to kick some butt!" He gripped his electric halberd, it created a spark around it.
"Then I shall help you, Master James." Angel prepared herself as her shield and lance appeared in her hands.
"Oh hey! You took the helmet off! Your hair is huge!" James admired Angel's hair, it was glowing bright somehow. James doesn't question it, as he just lets his hand run through her hair.
"If this is part of my mission then I shall allow so," Angel stated, not minding that James was messing around. If Mianne trusts him enough to do this, then she shall allow it.
"Ay, you are fighting? No fair, let me get some!"
Angel's eyes widen at the sudden voice in her head, she immediately recognizes the voice.
"Don't you dare-" Angel was cut off as her eyes turned pink with the right side of her hair became pink as well.
"God. Dammit. C1..." Angel muttered her last word before C1 took over her body.
"Hehe...Alright! Time to defeat the vile evil! Let's go, go, go!" Angel? stated as she rushed toward the gleamers army immediately, causing James to fall flat on his face.
"I don't wanna miss out on this!" James swings his halberd around, causing some of the halberd parts to fly around and hit the guards around him.
The part seemed to fly about before it attached itself to James's leg, completing his legging set.
Morenica was amazed at how quickly James was able to take out the guards, "Holy shit...nice one, intern!" She praised before throwing her blade at one of the guards.
The guard just dodged it by going to the side, "Tch, what was that about?!" The guard was ready to lunge at her but the blade came back and hit him in the head.
"Ha! Fuck with that, physic!" Morenica stated, prideful at what she had just done with a smirk on her face.
"Take this, you fucking woman!" The guards try to sneak attack her but Morenica quickly parries the attack with her hand.
"Don't you dare think I couldn't fight on my own!" Morenica spins and kicks the guard in the face before catching her serrated blade back.
Angel and C1, however, are having fun as she is holding one of the guards in a headlock while kicking any guards trying to interrupt her.
"Wonder if I could..." Angel thought to herself before she looked at her lance and transformed it into a more crystallized version of the lance.
"Haha! Now that's more style!" Angel decided to let go of the poor guard before slashing him away with her lance.
James was dashing around with his electric speed, "I think I got the handle of this now..." He'd muttered to himself before face-first slamming into a wall.
"Okay, not yet..." James mentally noted to himself before he accidentally dodged the attack by running up the walls.
"Woah! What are these boots made out of?!" James somehow was attached to the wall, defining the law of physics and gravity. James tries to get off the wall before accidentally wall-flipping and delivering a roundhouse kick to the unexpected guard.
James's body hit the ground, causing him to groan and wince in pain for a bit. "Sometimes you just learn something, everybody, huh?" James got up and started jumping up to see his limit, his jump seemed to be higher than average.
"You insect, get over here." Guro decided to step up and tried his best to catch him. Even though he has a height advantage he seems to struggle to catch the little fella, James.
"Haha! You can't catch me- Woah!" James was a little too late before Guro finally got hold of his leg and slammed him down to the ground.
Guro was towering over him, "You shall be purged for using such 'cursed' form." Guro wasn't here to defeat this brat, he was ready to kill him off.
"You are tall, like very tall and bulky," James stated before he launched himself away to the side as Guro was trying to stab him with his nail rapier. It created a small hole in the ground with a crack around it.
"You wanna talk about it? You seem to be more...angrier." James was willing to listen even though they were enemies, maybe he could talk him out of fighting.
Guro decided to continue attacking him, "Your form. It's a curse to this world, I thought I would only have to purge one of them, but you force me to dirty my hand with your blood. Eldritch is a monster to the people." Guro was trying to predict and bait James to dodge in his direction.
"I don't get it but Rumble Flurry! One-sided edition!" James was trying to kick with his other foot but it created only a dent on Guro's Armor.
James yelped as Guro's massive armored form suddenly barreled towards him, nail rapier gleaming. He desperately kicked off the ground, metallic boots firing him up the wall just in time to avoid being impaled.
"Yikes, no need to get stabby big guy!" James called down nervously from his perch.
But Guro's eyes burned with zealous fury behind his helmet. "Do not play the fool! I know what lurks beneath that innocent guise - the heart of a wretched Eldritch abomination!" he boomed.
James' jaw dropped in bewilderment. "A whata-what now? I'm 100% certified human last I checked!"
Guro was unmoved, cold hatred twisting his scarred features. "Lies will not absolve your unholy essence, creature! Now face righteous cleansing!"
He launched himself upward, massive spikes affixed to his gauntlets gouging handholds in the brickwork. Before James could leap clear, Guro's hand shot out, seizing and slamming him against the wall.
James choked as massive fingers clenched his throat in an iron grip. Guro's rapier flashed, plunging deep into his shoulder and pinning him in place.
James screamed in pain, struggling desperately to tear free as blood ran in hot rivulets down his armor.
"P-please, I don't understand!" he gasped through the crushing chokehold.
But Guro only twisted the rapier deeper, face contorted in a zealous snarl. "Your false innocence fools no one, abomination! Now burn forevermore in righteous flames!"
A ball of roiling light ignited in his free hand, smoke obscuring his deranged gaze. James' struggles grew weaker, wavering on the edge of blacking out. No time left - was this the end for our hero?
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!"
A black gauntlet punches Guro away as his body crashes through multiple abandoned buildings.
Guro was pissed now, "Who dare interrupt the cleansing?!" He was struggling to get up from how devastating the punch was.
It was Bada, he finally got up from his nap. "James, are you alright?" He examines James's wound, "What have I been doing?! The wound seems to be deep!" Bada feels like he failed as a teacher for just slacking off for a bit.
"Don't worry...I have worse injuries..." James chuckled before groaning a little and clenched his wound at how deep it was.
Bada doesn't take it lightly, "You can't be joking about this! He hurt you and I shall make sure that he won't do it again!" Bada's gauntlet starts to emit steam with green energy starts flowing on his palm. Bada starts emitting a green aura around him.
"Boss! What shall we do?! The image is stating that his power is off the chart for us to calculate!" The Gleaner stated, that even though his mask expression was smiling, he was sweating under the mask.
Guro's eyes widen behind the mask, "Oh...Holy shit, we are so dead." Guro decided to give his last command, "QUICK! DEFENSIVE STANCE, NOW!" Guro ordered as all of his troops started to get in a defensive position.
Bada sticks out his right palm as he prepares himself in a stance, "Nucleus Blast." Bada grabbed onto his right arm as he shot the energy beam.
It was loud, almost ringing through the entire town and muting all the noise away. The wind started to drift in the beam direction the pressure started to get heavier, blinding everyone who stared at it Morenica and Angel ducked themselves into the ground at the sheer power of the blast.
It starts becoming quieter as Guro and his troops blast away into the star. "Why didn't you idiots tell me he was the ArchSentinels!!!!-" The stars sparkled as they left the sight of our heroes for good.
The charred street is now ruined in ashes and the scent of nuclear power. It was emitting a strange noise that Bada could hear as the gauntlet started to cool down, exhausting out steam.
James was the first one to look up, "Holy crap...what the hell..." He looks around his surroundings as if it was ruined by the blast.
Bada got off his stance as he picked up James and carried him on his left shoulder while Mianne was on his right shoulder, "Come on, let's just get going. We will talk about it back home." James was kinda embarrassed that his inspiration was picking him up but he doesn't mind that.
"What a hell show that was, ah?" Morenica teased, she saw it with Sugar helping her suppress the power of it in the gauntlet.
"Shut. Up." Bada was not having a great time as he carried our heroes back to the carriage with Morenica and Angel following behind them.
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