The next few minutes were kinda too fast. I began to shoot at those scavengers while using the dead guy as a shield. Then everything was nothing but a blur. I knew my body was moving, but I couldn't see or hear anything except for the muffled sounds of screaming and gunshots. When I got my vision back...
Three of them rushed at me with some kind of mace-like weapons and my blaster was lying on the ground. More than fifteen guys were lying in a pool of blue and red blood around me. I didn't have the liberty to stand and think. I just acted on my instinct.
I clenched my teeth and pushed my body to its limit as I ran toward them with the dagger. There is no fucking way I'm gonna die in here. I'm yet to lose my virginity. Hahahaha!! As expected, the weakest-looking one on my right moved faster than the others. All my focus was on his hammer. It's light brown, maybe because it's made up of rock. Who cares? I swooped down, slashing his belly open like a freaking hot knife cuts butter.
Blue blood splattered all over my body. Shitty and sticky alien blood... I need to take a shower after this.
His organs fell out as he fell to his knees dead. I grabbed the mace and threw it hard toward the guy on my right, but he was fast alright. He deflected my attack with his mace and, well, if it wasn't for my
The dagger penetrated through his throat.
"Grgggg!" He grabbed his throat as he coughed up blood and fell to his knees before me.
[Baaam!] A hard smash on my right threw me to the ground like a ragdoll. Everything is spinning like crazy. Did my skull break or something? I can't feel my arms! It was as if a truck hit me hard.
"Where are you looking?"
My eyes traveled upward. There is a scruffy-looking guy wearing something similar to one of those space marine gear. I got hit by his mace...
I looked around. Damn! I killed everyone and now there's only one fucker left to deal with, but I can't get up. Fuck!
"To think a human can do all this with an injured body. But guess what? More credits for me!" He roared in a taunting tone and cracked his neck before kicking my stomach.
"Gaaah! Fuck you!" I cursed, yet grabbed his foot before he could kick me for the second time, but it was useless. My weak grasp had no effect on him. The scavenger lifted his foot, and a terrifying and painful feeling gripped me as he crushed my right arm under his metal boot.
The sickening sound of bones crunching echoed inside my head like a warning. A painful screech slipped through my trembling lips, making the asshole above me chuckle with pride, "Don't worry, brat. There are so many ways you could sell for a pretty penny. I could make millions by turning you into a sex slave for aliens or making you fight in an arena. What do you prefer?"
"Fuck you, asshole! I won't beg you."
"Maybe I'll sell you to one of those mad researchers. They take dead and live bodies without discriminating. I guess, a dead lab rat it is."
The scruffy asshole raised his mace over his shoulder before preparing to slam it against my head. As my life flashed through my eyes, a sense of relief and nostalgia rushed through me. For someone who died once before, a second time isn't that scary. "Well, guess I'm dying again."
"Here's a gift for your new life, Kid, Any final words?" He smirked in triumph.
My eyes went to the figure behind him. Gamora has regained her consciousness. Hahaha! Is this my luck or some fucking plot armor? Whatever it is, this asshole is going to die today.
"Yeah. Look at your back," I said with a smirk.
"Hahaha! You think such old tricks are gonna work on..."
Puchi! Blood spurted out of his mouth as a metal knife pierced through his heart from behind. I heaved a sigh of relief, "Nope. I knew you wouldn't believe me 100% and thus, waited for her to get back up."
Ping! The system window popped up, but I didn't have a single ounce of stamina to look at it.
The last thing I remember was Gamora coming toward me while limping and then everything faded to black.
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[3rd person POV]
Nebula treated Gamora's wounds in the base.
"What happened out there?" Nebula asked while staring at Gamora.
"I found a trace of Rocket and went to investigate. But it was an ambush. I never stood a chance against them and barely escaped with my life," Gamora answered as she sat up on the bed and touched her now-healed thigh, "They blasted my ship, but I barely managed to get here before it crashed. How's Jack doing?" She asked, glancing at a human, asleep a few feet away from her.
"He will be fine. But what happened after the crash? When I got there, both of you were passed out," Nebula questioned with a strange feeling in her chest.
"I don't remember much, but I was dying. Then when I woke up, there was a med pack around my stomach and dead scavengers around us. Jack... I saw him killing two of them, but the third one got him. I barely managed to move and took him down," Gamora let out a heavy breath and sighed.
"Huh!?" Nebula was bewildered by the ridiculous claim, "Are you serious? There's no fucking way. That boy was zapped with a disrupter bomb, twice or more, and considering the damage on his body... Burned legs, broken ribs, broken arms, and too much poisonous smoke in his lungs. Are you sure, he took them down? We found twenty-five dead bodies there!"
"Twenty-five?" Gamora frowned and glanced back toward the sleeping teen.
"Twenty-five cutthroat armed scavengers... Ten of them died from a single shot in the head and the rest of them died from this..." Nebula took out Gamora's dagger, "Found it in Jack's hand."
"So, in short, you are telling me that, Jack took ten perfect shots plus he massacred the rest with just a dagger?!" Gamora was awed, "I knew he was special after watching his training with Fiona, but this... Nebula," She turned toward her sister, "...run a test on his body. Find out if he is really a human or if he possesses some kind of mutation or other power!"
Gamora felt it. There was something inhuman about him. Especially when she saw him train. His moves were perfect, and the way he lured his opponent into a trap without them noticing was something a noob shouldn't be able to pull off. And the way he handled the weapons at the range was extraordinary. It was as if the weapons in his hands were parts of his own body.
Her instincts told her to be wary of him.
'Jack, I want you more, now,' She gulped unknowingly while staring at the innocent-looking human.
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[Jack's first person POV]
Ahh! My head! Fuck! It's like someone is having a party inside my brain, with heavy metal music in the background! I groaned as I opened my eyes. "Arggg!" The bright light was searing my eyeballs.
A hand moved across the wall, turning off the lights in the room. "How are you feeling?"
Gamora? I took in the surroundings and sighed, "I'm okay. Guess, you saved my ass, huh?"
"Isn't it the other way around? I'm here because of you," she chuckled as she took a seat on the chair beside my bed, "If not for your help, I would be dead by now. Thank you."
"You can thank me by lying to my family a little bit. Don't want them to worry about me so much," I replied as I lay there with my eyes closed.
"Don't worry. I've talked to them," Gamora leaned forward on the seat, "Jack, do you have any idea what you did back there?"
"Not really, other than the fact I was fighting three scavengers, and one smashed me hard. Then saw you stabbing that freak, that's all I can remember. Why are you asking me that?" I frowned with my eyes closed, not knowing the gravity of what I had done. I can tell there are lapse gaps in my memory. Maybe because I was hit.
"Jack! Twenty-five scavengers? You killed Twenty-five of those cutthroats, with just a blaster and a dagger," Gamora exclaimed.
"Ohhh? Wohohoo! Congratulations are in order, don't you think so? Are there any bounties on their heads?" I sat up after hearing the feat I had accomplished. "I mean, there should be some kind of bounty on their heads, right? Considering the fact that they were criminals and I was the one who killed them."
"Yeah, yeah. You'll get your bounty reward," She sighed with a frown.
"Hey, are you alright?" I asked her as I looked into her eyes.
"Yeah. I'm good. You take some rest. I'll bring you some food and drinks," Gamora left the room.
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