"This is breaking News out of New England, we are receiving details about a hostage situation at Gillette Stadium," the female news anchor said into her camera before pausing to take a breath, "a tour consisting of children is being held hostage by the Anticorian criminal known as Stellaria," she paused again as a picture of the female Anticorian appeared on screen, "she is holding the group in the teams Megacore vault and is threatening to harm the children if local police or any Guardians show up, we will continue to monitor the situation as events unfold, this is Kate Charming, Fox News," Kate said as the news broadcast ended.
Underneath the construction yard the being sat there watching the news report, and a smile crept across it's mechanical face, for one of it's most hated enemies had just revealed her location, and she would quickly be dealt with, and the best part was that there would be no Guardians there to interfere with business, which meant that after Stellaria was killed, it could easily kill the Rusher, as well as destroying the Megacore. The being wirelessly connected to one of the thirty two pods and it began to glow blue and red. The door to the pod opened to reveal a large hunched bulky form. It's eyes lit up white as it stood up from it's hunched position. It had an Army helmet on it's head, but the Star in the center was crossed out.
The being quickly made it's way to the pod that would take it New England, for it had business to take care of, and this time, no Guardian would interfere...
"I'm going to say this one more time, Rusher," Stellaria hissed as he held out an armored hand, "give me the Megacore, and I will let the children go." Stellaria said as she pointed to the frightened children that where being held hostage.
"You wont keep your word," Freedom shot back as he continued to tuck the Megacore, "as soon as I give you the Megacore for all I know you'll try and kill us all," Freedom snarled as he shot the insult at Stellaria. Stellaria sighed before she replied.
"Very well then, it seems I will have to use other measures to persuade you..." Stellaria said as she snapped her fingers and one of the Blitz Borgs reached down and snagged a small child and hung her upside down by her feet. "If you don't give me the Megacore I will execute a hostage every fifteen minutes, starting with this young girl!" Stellaria snarled as the girl screamed from her hanging position. Just as freedom was about to answer a mechanical roar echoed through the Megacore vault. Suddenly a large mechanical behemoth walked around the corner and spotted the Blitz Borgs and Stellaria.
"Destroy it!" Stellaria shouted as she pointed at the mechanical beast. Two of her Blitz Borgs ran forward and attempted to shoot it with energy blasts. However the blasts just bounced of it's armored body and the energy blasts ended up hitting the Borgs and resulted in them shriveling up and turning back into little green mechanical balls. The being eyed the last Borg holding a small child and ran forward and grabbed the Borg by it's throat and hoisted it into the air with one powerful mechanical hand, the Borg immediately dropped the child without any care as it tried to free itself. The child screamed as she fell through the air, however Ash ran up to her and caught her and safely put her on the ground.
"Everyone run for it while the Borgs are distracted!" Ash ordered the other kids and the tour guide as they all quickly ran out of the vault and headed towards safety, once all of them where safely out of sight Ash and Marty activated their NFL R's and shouted "Enter the Rush Zone!" and their civilian attire was replaced by their Guardian armor as they took up a fighting stance next to Freedom.
What happened next surprised the Rusher and Guardians as the mechanical behemoth punched the Borg so hard that it turned back into a ball, leaving Stellaria to look stunned underneath her face plate at what once had been a dream scenario, now it had turned into a nightmare.
"Stellaria, your outnumbered, give it up." Ash ordered as she held up her guard. Before Stellaria could reply the beast ran forward and grabbed her by the waist, resulting in the female Anticorian trying to free herself, but it's grip was like a vice around her waist, as it reared back a mechanical fist and punched her so hard that it knocked off her faceplate, raveling her face, and her yellow eyes where filled with fear.
"You got to help me Guardians!" Stellaria shouted as the grip around her waist was increasing by the second, and it was obvious to her that without the Guardians help she would be most likely killed in minutes.
"As much as I hate to say it, she's got a point." Marty whispered to Ash, which caused his leader to begrudgingly nod her head in agreement.
"Put her down!" Ash shouted at the mechanical monster. It just ignored the command and continued to squeeze the life out of Stellaria. Marty used his armors ability to teleport to appear in the bests face, where he started punching it. The best roared and tried to punch him with its free hand, but due to his phase ability the attack phased right through him.
"Going to have to try harder than that!" Marty joked as he continued tp punch away at it's face. Finally the beast had enough as it threw Stellaria against the wall with all its might, resulting in her groaning in pain as she collied with the solid concrete wall.
"We helped you Stellaria, now help us defeat... whatever this is," Ash ordered the injured Anticorian while Marty continued to distract it.
Stellaria laughed in response, "Like I'd help a guardian, I just needed you to free me so I could do this," Stellaria said as she pressed a button on her armored wrist and teleported away in a flash of orange light.
"Thanks for nothing!" Ash shouted in anger at the spot where the Anticorian once sat. Suddenly she heard a scream and she turned around and saw that Marty had been flung against the wall and was now laying in a crumpled heap.
"Super Stomp!" Ash shouted as she jumped in the air and brought her foot down with all her might and her armors ability created a shockwave that ripped the ground apart in the direction of her enemy, however it just stood there like it didn't even feel it. Ash growled in annoyance and shot energy blast after energy blast from her closed fists but they all just bounced off her enemies armored chest.
With surprising speed her enemy rushed forward and grabbed Ash by her waist.
"Let me go!" Ash shouted as she tried to free herself but with no luck. The monster than brought the struggling female Guardian up to it's eyes and began turning her in her hand like it was studying her, and that really grossed her out.
"You want to study me, than take this!" Ash screamed as she fired an energy blast directly into it's purple eyes, actually cracking one a bit. The beast roared in apparent pain and threw Ash against the wall but due to her angle her foot bent up against her leg and she felt and heard something crack and she screamed in pain and grabbed her foot.
The being took a few steps towards her to finish her off but then suddenly a blue portal opened up above it and the other Guardians who had been at other stadiums arrived and took up defensive stances. It narrowed it's damaged eyes and decided while it wanted to kill this female Guardian, it would need to be at full strength for that, so it threw a smoke pulled to the ground and disappeared behind a cloud of thick inky smoke. By the time the smoke had disappeared the being was long gone.
Ish quickly spotted his injured teammates and sent Troy and Tua to check on Marty while he and RIcky went over to Ash,
"Ash you alright," Ish said as he offered his female friend a hand, which she took, and put her arm around her friends shoulders and allowed them to give her support.
"I think my ankle is busted," Ash said as she winced in pain, "all that matters though is Stellaria, and whatever that was didn't get the Megacore or the Rusher." Ash said as she continued to wince in pain over her busted ankle. Troy, Tua and Marty walked over to the other three Guardians.
"You alright, Marty?" Ish asked the Jewish Blonde.
"I'll manage, let's just her back to the HOK so RZ can X-ray her ankle." Marty said as the portal back to the Hall Of Knowledge opened and allowed the Guardians entry back to their headquarters, and they hoped Ash's injuries wouldn't be to severe...
So Ash has been injured, how bad is the injury, well you'll have to wait till next time to find out, which hopefully wont be to long my good friends.
