The Borg with the Eagle head reared back it's right taloned fist and tired to slash at the four Guardians, only for all four of them to stop and activate their defensive shield, but to their surprise and horror the claws shredded their shields like a hot knife through better and sent them flying backwards into several trees, where the slash wounds on their chests where sparking where the talons actually managed to leave huge damage to their armor.
"That really hurt." Marty said with a moan as he sprung to his feet and took up a fighting stance and began using his teleportation ability to dodge the borgs incoming slash attacks, buying time for his fellow Guardians to rise to their feet and take up their own fighting stances, just as the bot swatted Marty to the side and began rushing at the other three Guardians.
"Ice blast power pass!" Ricky shouted as an ice ball formed in his right hand and he shot it at the borgs legs, only for it to somersault over the attack with surprising speed and agility and deliver a devastating dive kick with it's clawed feet, and pinned Ricky to the ground, where he struggled to free himself.
"Super Stomp!" Ash shouted as she jumped into the air and brought her right foot down first, which created a shock wave that actually knocked the machine off it's feet and it stumbled backwards, making Ash smile underneath her gray visor, only for it to turn to a grimace of pain as a purple energy blast struck her in her gut as the borg with the fighter jet helmet was standing there with purple smoke emanating from a huge gun that had once been it's right hand.
'Looks like I'm the last one standing, no pressure at all.' Joseph thought to himself as he gulped and used his copied Super Stomp ability from Ash and created another shock-wave that ripped the ground open towards the two borgs, but this time they where ready as they using hidden thrusters levitated over the ground and waited for the shock-wave to subside, and once it did, the eagle headed borg opened it's mouth and let loose a high pitched sonic shriek that made Joseph drop to his knees and cover his ears, while the other borg fired a missile and it struck Joseph in the gut, and even though his armor easily absorbed the blast, it still sent him flying backwards through several trees, and he landed in a crumbled heap, and it was clear that he wouldn't be moving anytime soon, and Ash and Joseph where out of the battle.
"RZ, we are getting destroyed here, we need backup!" Marty yelled into his NFL-R.
"Marty, the others cannot fight without their NFL-R's, and it would take to long for the Rushers to arrive, you need to get out of there." RZ ordered the Guardian, who closed the line of communication, and proceeded to teleport himself around different parts of the battle field and fire an energy blast every time he appeared, only for the borg to predict his next appearance and fire a purple and black energy blast that struck the Jewish Guardian and he was out, and with one kick to the face, Ricky was out too, and now all four Guardians where defeated.
'Let's see the abilities of these Guardians.' the being controlling the borgs thought to herself as the eagle headed borg picked up Ricky and Marty and wires came out of their chests and inserted themselves into their wrist mounted NFL-R's, and downloaded all available information from them, and dropped them to the ground when the download was complete, and the Jet borg did the same with Joseph and Ash and as soon as the download was complete, it as well dropped them, but she was in for another surprise as unknown to her she had also drained all the power from their armor and all four Guardians NFL-R's deactivated and they where lying their in their civvies, be it unconscious, and the tow borgs took pictures of their faces, and with that, the mission was complete, and they using heir flight abilities took to the skies, cloaked themselves, and headed back to the construction yard.
'Ish Taylor, Ashley Reynolds, Troy Kang, Tua Tupola, Marty Stevens, Ricky Cervantes, and Joseph Sanders,' she thought to herself as her borgs re-entered their pods to charge, 'now that I know who you are, I will be coming for you, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.' she thought to herself as she let out an evil mechanical laugh as she thought on her giant throne. ...
"Joseph," the rookie Guardian heard a voice call to him through the dankness, "wake up Joseph." the voice called as Joseph woke up with a start, only to be held down by Swoop.
"Calm down, your safely back at the HOK." Swoop said in a clam tone as Joseph relaxed and laid back down on the hard light bed.
"I feel like I got hit by a runaway train." Marty moaned as he as well woke from his induced unconsciousness.
"That's not a bad analogy," RZ said as he was looking at all four of his Guardians who had been defeated, "this threat easily won this battle, and showed no mercy during the fight, I hate to say this, but your lucky to be alive." RZ said in a serious tone as Ricky tried to stand up form his bed, only for his knees to buckle and fall to the ground, where the Browns Rusher, K-9, bent down and gently picked him back up and put him back on the bed.
"How long have we been out?" Ash asked with a moan and a sigh.
"A few hours, the Rushers found you shortly after the battle and brought you back here to the Hall of Knowledge." RZ answered the red headed Guardians question.
"RZ, the safe zone-." Ricky began as he couldn't finish the sentence and grabbed his chest due to pain from being pinned earlier.
"The safe zone is operational again, I re-booted it roughly an hour ago, however this new threat has proven it can get through the safe zone at will, and until we learn more about who, or what this threat is, these attacks will most likely continue." RZ said in a serious tone as the Ish, Tua and Troy entered the HOK and ran to their injured friends sides.
"RZ, mom told me they where attached but she didn't know any details, can you fill us in?" Ish asked his leader.
"This new threat penetrated the safe zone, and they tried to stop it, and where defeated." RZ gave the quick version of what happened.
"That ain't good," Troy said in a gently tone as he took a knee next to Marty, "we should have been there to help." Troy said as he slammed a fist against the ground.
"Next time you will be, for I have constructed you new NFL-R's," RZ said as the Jaguars Rusher, Spot walked forward and handed the three Guardians their new NFL-R's, which they took and slipped unto their left wrists, as hey continued to look at their injured friends with concerned looks.
"They will be staying here tonight so I can evaluate their injuries and check for internal damage." RZ said wisely as Ish and his three un-injured friends nodded their heads and turned to leave, and give their friends a good night sleep.
'These Guardians where no problem at all,' she thought to herself as she sat on a giant throne, watching recorded footage from the battle she has just endured, for even though she had won, there was still much to learn to have a better performance next time, 'it seems the season kicks off soon,' she thought as she saw the schedule of NFL games, and the Chiefs would be on the road taking on the Patriots in New England for opening night, 'it will be to risky to send one of the Crushers with the stadium packed full of people, so a crusher would be easily spotted, than again, that might be good for my plan.' she thought as she brought up a map of Gillette Stadium.
But after a few minutes of observing the layout of the stadium, she figured there where a few other problems that would quite possibly arise, and throw her whole operation into chaos, and granted she did like chaos and anarchy, but these factors could not be overlooked or ignored.
'The Anticorians will most likely try to strike at this sporting event, as well as Wild Card since it's opening night in the league and both the Patriots and Chiefs Megacore will be at full power, thus making them likely targets, then again ,there will be all sorts of negative energy, tremendous amounts of negative energy from both sides, and that energy is power...' she thought to herself as she clenched her metal right fist, and a smile formed on her skull like face, as she sank back into her throne, and powered down to recharge.
"At least we got our abilities back." Troy said an in attempt to raise the three remaining Guardians spirits, as they where walking on the sidewalk down the street that would lead them home.
"It wasn't soon enough though." Tua said in a defeated tone.
"I agree with Tua, if we had been there, we might have made a difference." Ish said in an equally defeated tone.
"Guys, we can't blame ourselves," Troy began as he removed a strain of his jet black hair from his right eye, "if anyone Wild Card is to blame, he stole our NFL-R's, that's what stopped us from helping the others, so if you want to blame someone, blame him." Troy said with a slightly angry tone.
"We are partially at fault Troy, we allowed ourselves to get captured, that's how Wild Card removed our NFL-R's from our possession." Ish said as he pulled out his cell phone to return a text, unaware that their conversation was being listened in on...
"Four of the seven Guardians have been defeated, oh how delightful." Wild Card said as he stood in front of a monitor listening in on their conversation, the reason he was able to do this, their old NFL-R's where hooked up to the monitor through wires and creations of his own designs, and that allowed himself to listen in on all their communications, and now that four Guardians where down, it would be the perfect time to strike, and the Patriots and Chiefs Megacores would be his.
AN: This was originally supposed to be two chapters, but I decided to combine them into one long chapter since I wont be able to update this weekend due to a busy schedule. Next chapter should be out Monday or Tuesday sometime, also I need your help my loyal fans, can someone please tell me those hard-light three-wheeled bikes that the Guardians used towards the end of the series? Anyways I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and I cannot wait to write the next one, till next time, Nobel Six over and out