Brooks
Chapter 4: Fighting the Assassin from Hell
"Get out of my house!" he told the assassin as he swung his flaming fist towards him. Zero dodged it & unsheathed both of his swords.
"Die." he told Brooks as he sliced through the air at him. Zero quickly sliced at Brooks who dodged it & filled the room with steam like he had done earlier. "Don't play games with me. You can run all you want, but i always kill my prey." Zero called out as he slowly began walking through the steam searching for Brooks.
Brooks stayed quiet as he waited for an opening to strike the assassin.
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Brooks lunged at Zero again & hit his helmet this time with the power of earth, crushing the helmet & part of it fell to the ground. As Zero staggered backwards Brooks landed another hit followed by another and another until Zero's helmet had nearly shattered into pieces & blood had painted Brooks' knuckles & broken fragments of the helmet laid scattered on the floor. Only a few pieces had stayed on just enough to cover Zero's eyes.
Zero was furious & violently swung his swords at Brooks. "You damn brat! I'll kill you!" Zero roared as he continued to swing his swords. Brooks grabbed one of the blades of Zero's swords and it quickly began to turn red like a cherry. The blade began to deform as it was overheated from Brooks' hand & was bent in half. The other sword was shattered with a loud cracking noise as Brooks' other hand turned to metal and broke it into tiny fragments.
Zero leapt back & pulled out his pistol. He had began to run out of options at this point. He quickly made a decision of whether to stay & fight or to escape while he still had the chance. "Damn." Zero jumped through a window onto the ground in an alleyway & began to parkour onto the roofs of the nearby homes and businesses to flee.
Brooks had followed after him & hadn't stop to realize he shouldn't let anyone see his powers. He was lost in the moment. Brooks sprinted and jumped from rooftop to rooftop after the assassin, catching up to him easily since Zero was already wounded & becoming exhausted.
Brooks tackled Zero and the rolled off of the roof of a restaurant onto the street below. Zero gritted his teeth & head-butted Brooks who was holding him down. Brooks was dazed and shook his head to regain focus as his head pounded in pain. Zero took the chance to to take advantage & began to punch Brooks in the face. Brooks turned to rock to protect himself & then burnt Zero with a heat blast that broke the rest of his helmet off revealing his entire head and face.
"You'll pay for that! Wait. What!? No! My voice modulator!" Zero quickly realized that the voice modulator had been destroyed when the helmet was shattered and broken.
This would've been the perfect time to hit Zero, but Brooks was too astonished to know how to react. He only exclaimed "Wait. You're a girl?! I thought you were a guy!" And in fact Zero was secretly indeed a girl; a fairly attractive brunette to be exact. Her eyes were a beautiful blue that you could lose yourself in.
She hesitated & then punched Brooks again before fleeing, leaving Brooks unconscious in front of the gathering crowd that'd witnessed the last bit if the fight & saw his incredible ability to harness the elements at his will.
No one spoke a word as they had no real idea how to respond. Was he a danger to society? A hero? No one knew for sure.
-a few hours later-
Brooks awoke inside the hospital on a bed hooked up to many fancy machines & gadgets. He looked around groggily trying to figure out where he was as a doctor dressed in white walked by. Once Brooks caught a glimpse of the man, he began to panic & have violent flashbacks to the experiments Dr. Musgrove had forced on him.
The doctor rushed over & called for someone to come over to help. Brooks shook violently in the bed but before anyone else could come in, he had stopped and returned to normal. The doctor was relieved & made sure Brooks was back to normal again before exiting the room.
"What happened?" brooks thought to himself as he looked around realizing he was in a hospital. "Where's Sarah?" he asked as he stood up in the bed only to pull the machines hooked to him along with him & sharp pains pierced his entire body. He got out of bed & his legs shook making it hard for him to walk. He made his way to the doorway and leaned against it as he looked out into the hallway looking for Sarah.
He hobbled over to a help desk with a young woman & asked her if anyone had come to see him earlier.
"A woman did about an hour ago but left shortly after." the woman answered. Brooks was relieved to hear that. "Sir, you shouldn't be out of your room." she continued as she got up & helped him back to his bed.
A.N. next chapter Brooks will be in hospital a little while longer before leaving & trying to track down Zero & reunite with Sarah. A new enemy might appear as well.
