Sylar caught himself before he was able to tumble to the ground for a second time. He quickly popped his jaw back into place, ever so grateful for his regenerative abilities, as he regained his balance. I will have to remind myself to thank Claire once again. I can't imagine what I would look like without them.
"Why exactly am I fighting you?" Sylar asked as he rose to his full height. "I mean, enjoy a good fight just as much as the next guy, but why 'freehand' fighting? Why not use our abilities?"
"First, you're fighting me because you need to be trained, and yes before you ask, I am the best trainer available for you." Lexus took great pride in belittling the "great serial-killer." "Second, you of all people should know why we have to be able to fight hand-to-hand. Remember your encounter with the Shanti Virus? If we are unable to use our abilities to defend ourselves, we must still be able to fight. You wouldn't want to look weak now would you Sylar?" Lexus gave this speech while circling Sylar, trying to determine his weakest point. The sooner this is over the better!
"Come on," Lexus started again, "I want you to come at me. Make me worry just a little. Fight like you fought Peter."
With that Lexus bent down and pulled her leg around her body in a way that should have knocked Sylar off his feet. He realized what was happening and quickly jumped, kicking Lexus in the shoulder in the process.
"How is it that you know these things about me?" Sylar managed to get out before being kneed in an all too sensitive area. He immediately doubled over, gasping in pain.
"Let's just say, I do my homework. I happen to know everything about you Mr. Grey." Lexus responded as her sidekick sent him flying across the room, causing him to smash his head against the metal wall. She strolled over to her partner's limp form, trying her best to hold in the grin that wanted to overtake her serious lips.
"Just curious, can you recover if you are stabbed in the heart?" She asked Sylar as he came back to consciousness. She placed the heel of her shoe on his chest, right over his heart. "I'm not sure," Lexus lied as she pressed the heel into him, "would you like to find out?"
"Enough!" Ramsey yelled through the door as he entered the room. Lexus removed her heel from Sylar's chest, allowing the whole it had made to stick back together. Ramsey shot a look at his daughter that said it all. "This will accomplish nothing. I need to see how you two fair against each other's abilities."
"Oh Daddy, don't be so uptight. It's not like I was really going to kill him. Lexus said as she smiled innocently at her father. I won't kill him, today.
Ramsey looked as Sylar who was beginning to moan in pain as his skulled repaired itself. The giant gash straight down his right temple subsided until only a trail of blood was left in its place.
Ramsey returned his attention to his daughter. "Cecilica, I want you to give him three minutes and then explain to him the rules of the next engagement. Oh, and try not to kill him, would you dear?"
"Dad, how many times do I have to tell you not to call me that? That's not my name anymore." Lexus exclaimed in an annoyed tone, shaking her head in disagreement.
"Of course it is my dear." Ramsey added before exiting the battle room.
Lexus turned her attention to the suffering Sylar. He really sucks at handling pain. What a baby, get up already. I'm not going to wait forever. Her thoughts continued in this fashion for two and a half minutes as Sylar finally stood up, supporting his shaking body against the wall that had cause him much harm.
He gazed as his conqueror astonishingly. How was that possible? Is she stronger than me? NO I CANNOT ALLOW THAT! As he looked into her eyes he saw a mix of power and pleasure. He could tell part of her wanted so badly to destroy him, while the other was radically enjoying this experience. "Did you enjoy that?" He asked, testing his vocal chords.
"Save it." Lexus snapped. She decided it was time to have fun with this act. "On to round two." She started, adding a deep southern accent for affect. "In this round, the opponents may use any means necessary, abilities included, to defeat their opponent."
"Are you sure you're ready for this, little girl?" A fully recovered Sylar mocked.
With a twitch of his finger, Lexus was lifted into the air and held immobile with his telekinesis. Her face displayed her shocked reaction as she was thrown against the window her father was looking in from. The shock only lasted for a moment as her lips curved up into a glorious smirk. In that instant, Sylar flew back into the wall as Lexus fell to the floor as graceful as a cat.
"Silly boy, did you really think it would be that easy?" She brought him up from the ground and held him tight, inches off the floor, separating his arms and legs until he was in anatomical position. "Now listen to me, I'm going to give you one more chance to prove yourself."
Sylar dropped to the ground with a thump. He immediately stood up, shooting electricity from his palms straight at Lexus. After bombarding her with that voltage for thirty seconds, he lifted her off the ground and held her there.
Lexus gave out a painful scream as her skull became to open. She could no longer see anything; she could only feel…pain. Out of nowhere the ground began to shaking causing Sylar to lose both his balance and his concentration. He unwillingly released Lexus from his hold as he crashed to the ground, breaking several bones. As he tried to come to his feet, he was pounded with a blast that send him slamming to his knees.
Lexus let out the energy blast from her left hand until she saw Sylar slump forward. Sure that he was dead, she cut off the power and fell back to her resting place on the ground. She readjusted her head so that she could admire the gaping hole in Sylar's chest. Let's see him bounce back from that. I bet he'll-
Her thoughts were cut off as her father busted through the door and into the death chamber. "I SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU NOT TO KILL HIM!" He screamed at Lexus as she got to her feet.
"What, did you expect me to just take it? I'm sorry, but I am not going to sacrifice myself for the sake of his ego." Lexus shouted back as she disappeared through the door and back into the warehouse.
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After three hours of grueling pain Sylar's body finally completed closing the wound. When he regained enough strength to open his eyes, he noticed he had been moved from the place where he had died only hours before. Now, strapped to a medical table he tried to move, but he couldn't. He focused on moving his leg, arm, hand, even foot but nothing happened. He could move his neck but only to the left and right slightly. Fear began to over take him as his mind reeled with possibilities. What happened to me? Am I paralyzed? Is this permanent?
"Relax." He heard a small voice say from somewhere behind his head. "You will be fine. I'm paralyzing you so that you can recover fully. You have no idea what damage was done to your body. It is difficult even for someone of your power to survive a blast like that."
"I-I don't understand. What happened to me? Where am I?"
"You're in the medical bay, located deep within the warehouse, underground to be exact. As for what happened to you, you were shot with a high intensity energy beam that left a hole in your chest, almost cut you in half, and took off one of your arms in the process."
"Umm…I…ouch." Sylar managed to get out before being bombarded with another wave of pain.
"You had to completely re-grow several vital organs, including your heart. I have to say that I am quite impressed. I did not believe you would survive that." The voiced danced around in Sylar's head as he attempted to pin-point its location.
"How long am I going to be like this?" Sylar asked between waves of pain. "I've never felt so much pain."
"You will be like that for as long as I see fit. I am, after all, the doctor." The voice became louder until Sylar was looking into the face of its owner.
"YOU!" Sylar growled, utterly disgusted. "You did this to me."
"Yes and how I'm helping you. Gotta love the irony." Lexus teased as she threw Sylar a fake smile.
Sylar's eyes snapped shut as he drifted into unconsciousness.