Chapter Six: Reunited In A Bloody Pile
Kim awoke in a dark building. She was against the wall and she groaned as she got up.
"Son of a..." she muttered groaning as she stood up.
"So the girlie is in here after all!" came a grimmy voice.
Kim saw a dark ball come for her, and before her eyes could adjust to the light it was upon her. If it had not been for a flash tackling her to the ground she'd have been crushed meat. The dark ball smashed into the cement wall with a large shatter blowing her and whatever was holding her five feet from the wall.
As they skidded to a stop on the floor she looked up to see Rez holding her. He looked down at her and said "Stay down! This guy is tops and he didn't know you were in here. Stay here and he may not see you. His psyhic weapon is out and it's ability is to pulse rapidly when it hits anything blowing all around it away. It's a giant chain malice so stay down or die! I'm going to try to take him down so move!" he yelled kicking her in the shoulder as she slid back against the wall again."
Alright already, but geez did ya have to be so rough? Kim thought to herself.
"You ready to die yet rebel scum?" the grimy voice yelled at Rez.
"I will personally see to your downfall. Every user that Victor has will be killed as they are my enemies...and my enemies are those allied with Victor, so I will slay you!" Rez yelled as he ran forward at the large man. The man stood roughly six foot tall and was large bulging with a combination of muscle and fat. He wore no shirt and some very long jeans.
Rez dove to avoid a blow from the chain malice which made a broad sweep to the left. Running his hands along the ground he pulled out two daggers, one in each hand and leapt up in the air comming forward at the large man.
"Eat...this!" Rez said going to plunge the daggers into the man's belly. Before the daggers made contact, a flash from the ceiling came down wielding a sword made of light! The daggers flew left and right out of Rez's hands as he lost them stunned by the appearance of this new opponent.
This new opponent was fast and was upon Rez taking advantage of his stunned lack of defense. The man holding the sword of light brought it down vertically as if to cut Rez in half.
Falling down to avoid the blow Rez landed on his back and the sword stopped pursuing him. The man holding the sword made of light dodged to the right as the chain malice came down towards Rez.
To much! Rez screamed in his head as he formed a dome from the cement to cover him. This was a big mistake becuase as the ball hit the dome the exploding force smashed it to bits and the pulse smacked into Rez like a sack of cement and knocked him back slamming him face down into the wall upside down.
The man with the sword of light was now rushing to come to stab into Rez.
"No Rez!" Kim shrieked. This stopped the man as he looked to her slowly. A cruel smile came to his face as he quickly changed targets and ran at her. "Oh boy a female! The last ten were so delightful...I wonder if this one will squeal as they did...maybe even beg for her life?" he shrieked in a crazy high pitched voice running for her.
Rez peeled off the wall and landed flat on his back. "Kim!" he yelled slapping his flat palm to the ground and grunting as he focused all his attention to form one spike from just an inch to Kim's right. Just an inch to the right of her right arm pit a sharpened cement spike flew at the her attacker. He saw this and rolled left hitting the floor and skidding an inch or two before standing and watching Rez.
Why is he just watching me? Rez pondered...but the answer soon came to him in the form of a spikey ball heading for him.
Two seconds is all I'm asking for here! Rez shouted into his head as he ducked but the ball exploded into the wall behind him and as before the pulse launched him into the air towards the fat man. He landed on all fours still dizzy when he got his answer.
"To crush a rock...I need a rock..." Rez said. "I'm no tactician but...I just gotta put all my stakes on this one plan!" Rez yelled running at the fat man.
"Coming back for more? Stupid mistake!" the fat man sputtered jerking the chain ball back from where it was. With flying speed it came back towards Rez's back. He smirked and simply dodged to the left as the ball kept comming at the fat man. His eyes widened in disbelief as it made contact the spikes stabbed into his belly splattering blood to the floor. Then the pulse knocked the fat man up into the ceiling then he slowly as he peeled off it, he fell back to the earth. He landed on his spike ball which again pulsed him. This time he flew backwards dropping the chain and making it disappear.
As the fat man hit a pillar it crumbled and the fat man finally hit the floor skidding a few feet and stopping.
"The bigger they come...the harder they fall." Rez muttered turning his attention back to the man with the light sword. "Bloody hell!...No matter I'll just have to take you out fast little lassy!" he yelled revealing an irish accent. "Shame I won't get to enjoy this." he yelled moving his blade to plunge it into her stomach.
"Leave the girl alone !$#!" Rez yelled.
As he moved to block the man with the sword made of light again Rez saw he wasn't going to make it in time.
I'm to far back I'll never make it I need a projectile! Rez thought quickly.
Focusing his thoughts he ripped off his shirt, it was now nothing more than wet tattered cloth, but he was gonna make it into what he needed. He altered it into a bow and the sleeve he had torn off he made into an arrow.
Aiming carefully, but speedily Rez let the arrow fly at his opponent.
Annoyed the man blocked the arrow cutting it in half. "Just give up already! Or did you want me to kill you first? You know what? I'm already in a foul mood, and so you can just die now! Plus with you out of the way I can enjoy…" he shot a nice look at Kim while drooling. "sweet potato pie…" he finished licking his chops.
Disgusted with this opponent Kim sneered "As if you could possibly get past Rez to get to me. Not to mention the fact Michael would kill you if you even laid a hand on me. In fact I'm sure he's on his way here now to slay you for your comments. He's probably pretty tired and cranky and he'll kill you if Rez doesn't."
"Who is this Michael your pathetic boyfriend or something?"
"He's my lover who'll come to my aid no matter where I am. He's the one who Victor couldn't kill, and Michael will kill Victor one day soon." Kim said.
At this the man with the sword made of light opened his eyes wider.
"I see…ol' metal arm. Yes Victor has put a nice bounty and Michael is currently top priority to Victor…so if it is as you say then if I capture you, Michael will come running." the man said smiling revealing two rows of sharp teeth.
"You filed your teeth?"
"Yes, what business is it of yours. You're just meat to my blade anyway!" the man yelled as he ran at Rez.
The blade is pure light, I imagine he has a hidden ability he hasn't revealed yet either. I'm pretty tired, but I still have a good amount of fight in me. I can't make contact with that blade… thought Rez to himself.
As the light blade was thrust at Rez, the man with the blade smiled sensing victory was near.
"Aww so close and yet…" Rez muttered leaping up into the air. "So far away…"
"Heh think your safe up there?" the man yelled slashing his sword in a vertical motion and an arc of light as long as the blade itself flew up at Rez.
It extends?! No…it detaches a wave of energy that is fired at the opponent…
Flipping in midair, Rez barely dodged as it slashed open the bottom of his left leg.
Flinching as the wound opened and blood started to empty out of his body. This is crazy…that must be his ability…but, now I'm wounded…I don't think it will slow me down to much.
"You ready to lay down your life?"
"Heh, you must be pretty weak because I've been scrapped more than this, I fought Victor longer than you, not to mention…"
Rez's foot clashed with the ground and thin cement spikes shot out of the floor all aimed for the opponents head.
"You still bleed!" Rez finished his earlier sentence.
"Oh do I?!" the oppenent yelled spinning fast and slashing all the spikes in half.
"Wha?!"
The man was now upon Rez almost in an instant and he didn't have anything to block with. Without thinking he grabbed the blade, and threw it to the right. This mistake caused his left hand to burn fiercely.
"What a foolish man you are! You think you can grab pure light?!"
"When I fight I fight with it all on the table! For you to stab me would have been worse than this burn. By the way… look at my hand."
"It isn't there any…-" he was interrupted by a quick punch with that very hand that should have burnt off. Pieces of charred heat gloves now stuck to the opponents face searing him.
"You…altered…a glove…" the opponent looked down at Rez's feet. "…from your shoe?!"
"It's all on the table now…and if you'll notice I'm not wearing any shoes now."
The opponents eyes widened in fear as he realized this was true. A knife in Rez's left hand was now visible to the opponent.
With a quick dodge backwards the man nearly tripped and fell, but Rez had already thrown the knife. It stabbed the through the back of the hand the sword was in.
"You miserable little-" but he was cut off as Rez brought his arms in to his chest and then shot them off. Two discs now shot towards the opponent's lungs at blinding speed. They stuck into his body with a PPPCCKKK!
"Clark woulda been proud…what would he have said if he were still here?...checkmate?"
"I am still here you stupid." Said the old man limping in covered with burns.
"Clark! When we crashed and you stayed behind to stall the light man I thought you…"
"Nope…sorry you had to take on both of them. I killed all the soldiers in that squad. Not to mention I found this bloody mess." Rez said dragging Michael in out of the rain."
"MICHAEL!" Kim yelled running over to him and squeezing him in a big hug.
Clark had to separate the two for fear of her squeezing the blood out of him and him bleeding to death.
"God! Your all covered in blood and it looks like you've been through a huge battle! Did you fight Victor again?! I warned you mister and if you won't listen to my warnings on your own then I'll have to-" she was cut off by Rez,
"Nice of you to come AFTER I've defeated the two users..."
"Yeah well I woulda come sooner but bloodloss from MY OWN battle with a user and ten gunmen, was well as a flight in the cold rain kinda got to me a little."
"Oh yeah my first user knocked me around like a rag doll and the second that's a second one right after my first battle singed my left hand to where I can't move it and sliced me a couple times and I still defeated them. How was your 'battle' huh?"
"It was...explosive." said Michael dryly and scowling at Rez.
"We need to get moving, surely a squad could come looking for us at any minute."
"Your right, Clark how far are we from an entrance to your subway?"
At this Clark thought for a second and cleared his throat saying "The main entrance is about a half a mile south of here. We've got to move quickly."
Fifteen minutes later the bloody/wet group arrived at Clark's subway. He put his hand on the ground and disabled all the traps as they made their way down the stairs.
Michael who was on Rez's and Kim's shoulders plopped down on the couch and grimaced as his tailbone hit the cushion.
"So where does this leave us?" Rez asked.
"Clark do you have a first aid?"
"Of course I'll fetch it."
"Your in no shape just tell me where it is." Kim snapped.
"First subway car immediately to your left when you walk in..." Clark said sitting down in a rocking chair.
Clearing his throat Rez began again. "So...the squads have obviously completed square A ahead of schedule...they must be on their way to recruiting more users as we speak. Surely Victor has enough men now to work around the clock. This means that he's finish each quadrant even faster and it's only a matter of time before they begin to look underground...literally speaking of course." said Rez.
"Well strategically we need to sneak out and about on the streets and round up or warn as many users as we can. At this point ordinary people are pawns."
"They'll still be pawns with guns."
"None the less, users are what we have to fear now. The data file you snagged showed they have no idea how many there are. So of course they're gunning for as many as they can get until all are on their side or well...dead."
"Look one thing is clear, it'll be a couple days before any of us are healed...even with our healing sped up. So who is in the best shape now?"
"I hope you mean who will be in the best shape after a good night's rest you coot! None of you are even in shape to set foot out of this subway. Clark it took your last bit of altering ability to turn off and reset the traps. Rez, your still too exhausted from the fight even if you aren't wounded horribly. As for you Michael...your bleeding bad, you've got broken bones, AND your stamina is blown. You won't be out for a few days at LEAST.
Rez volunteered to put some dogs on to roast as he walked over to the freezer. Sliding it open, the mist hit his eyes and made them water.
"Freakin cold freezer..." Rez muttered feeling inside for the package of weiners. He finally found them and turned to an old table that hadn't been used in years.
He altered this table into firewood and carried all the stuff out of the train car muttering the entire way about his pain he had. He had no sooner piled the wood then they lit fire right in front of him. He leapt back with a startled expression upon his face.
Turning Rez saw Clark pretending to be asleep with a cap over his eyes. His cane had just poofed away and he now a simper on his face.
That centenarian! He's gonna get a freakin permanent decathator- His thought was interupted by Kim telling him she wanted one hot dog and Michael wanted two. Rez put on four since Clark was 'asleep'.
"Okay gang listen up, Victor is gunning for as many users as he can get his hands on. So that leaves us three options. Storm the headquarters again and kill...we'll make a genocide of everything. Number two, we just go out on the streets and start killing as many as we can. Or final option, organize a rebellion army to counter-attack Victor's." said Michael.
"Well as much as I love the first two since they envolve mass and random killing I'm gonna have to say all three of those options sound like pure garbage, absolute dung if you get my drift."
"Aside from the colorful vocabulary of captain webster here, he has a point. Michael all those options are suicidal. Even the third one is nigh impossible. We'll get stabbed in the back and you know it. We can't trust anyone. All that aside...the third is also the most logical. You had it in mind to strengthen our forces, and that sounds best. I say we add a member to the team. Someone who fights like us and stands a chance of survival. An enemy of ours...yet the enemy of my enemy is my friend type thing..." said Clark going into a mumble
"You can't be thinking. There's only one person...NO! I ABSOLUTELY FORBID" But he was cut off by Kim jabbing a finger just below his right ribs a "weak" spot of Michael's. He gave a jump, shot her a look of death and sat down.
"You're thinking of Cane aren't you?"
"Stupid guy can't be dead yet. We'll just have to find him. There's one more thing I neglected to mention though...and this falls into number three as well. There's word going around of an underground organization. They're kind of a...cult proclaiming Jesus will come to release them of this city. They're fifty strong so far I know. I think they have a couple users...but they're top secret for a cult. Into some weird stuff, blood drinking, virgin sacrifice and so forth. Anyway, they'll surely fight against Victor since he's proclaiming himself as the 'New God'"
"How do you know about this?"
"Information network. I am one of the four great drug lords." Rez said.
"Four of us...each in charge of the drug trade of this city, and we have access to the only network of communication in this city." Rez continued.
"Alright alright, so this cult thing sounds worth investigating if they are gonna go against Victor. So I say we check them out. Do you know when and where they meet?" Clark asked.
"I can find out." Rez said pulling up the pointy sticks of hot dogs. He passed them out (even giving one to Clark) and they ate in silence. When finished they tossed the pointy sticks into the fire and settled in. Rez found some old books and he altered them into blankets.
"Alright, tomorrow Kim and I will track down Cane. Rez, you and Clark will sit in on this meeting of the...cult of mathis or whatever." Michael said.
"That's fine."
"Yeah, sounds good...well as good as good can sound in this City of Rain..."
Yeah...good...such a rare word in the City of Rain. Michael inhaled the last puff of his cigarette and then tossed the remains into the fire as it was mostly embers now. He lay down on the couch an Kim on top of him as he pulled a couple blankets around them, they were quickly asleep under the warm dry blankets.
Rez had made was looked like a doggie bed with the blankets in a circle around him and he lay on his stomach. Clark went inside his sub car and collapsed on his own bed. He pulled the quilt up to his chin and was instantly asleep.
Great...Cults and Cane...the two things I hate most, was Michael's last thought before he drifted off into the nothingness of sleep. The rain outside making the rythm to which they marched into slumber.