Arsenal
Chapter 25-Tyson
Tyson's Ordeal
So just a quick recap, Kerjack turned out to be evil and tried to wipe out the whole school. He's got a map piece and he wants to kill me. The sad part is, I'm slowly getting used to this crap.
He threw me into the courtyard, causing me to crash into a grassy field. I quickly reverted back to normal as Kerjack jumped behind me. I quickly turned around, struggling to turn into another alien before I was reduced to ash. I knew I needed something powerful, Sketch, Upchuck and Articguana weren't going to cut it this time.
I quickly managed to transform again, this time I selected Feedback. My skin becoming pitch black and my eyes being replaced by a green Cyclops like one. This occurred right before Kerjack generated a circle of black flames around me. I nimbly jumped up, firing a large ball of electricity towards my foe.
It exploded on contact, he moaned slightly in pain. But other than that, he was fine. He sighed, knowing I'd need an incredible source of power to stand up to him. There was nothing around, no high tech devices to leech off of.
I eyed the map piece which had bonded to his stomach, I gulped a bit. Knowing that absorbing it's energy could be incredibly dangerous. But then again, my current situation wasn't so safe either. As he rushed towards me, I commanded my two antennae to fly towards the map piece. Trying to drain it of his strange cosmic power.
As I quickly succeeded, I felt strange thoughts filling my mind. I felt more powerful as strange thoughts began to drain more from the map piece. "You are powerful, use that power to destroy your enemies.." said a mysterious voice.
"No.." said Kerjack as he fell back, looking tired and drained.
I must've drained some of his mana by mistake, but I didn't have time to worry about that. The map piece popped out of his stomach and fell to the ground. I was about to return this energy, since these voices were getting louder and louder.
But I heard a loud roar from the Headmaster's office, I quickly flew up towards it and through the Echo Echo sized hole in the window. I saw a strange woman, coated in red energy. In her hands was a bleeding Paladin. "Woah.." was all I could say as I saw the Omnitrix symbol on her stomach.
"Kayla?" I asked as she dropped poor Paladin, moaning in pain.
She seemed different somehow, like she wanted to brutally murder anything that crossed her path. She charged towards me, her eyes filled with bloodlust.
I quickly fired off some lightning, but it was black because of the new energy that surged through me. She yelled in pain, but she quickly kicked me out of the window. Unlike the last time, it seemed to hurt less. Before I crashed into the field again, a dome of black energy surrounded me.
Having this energy in my bloodstream felt weird, like some other force was corrupting me. This was what the others must've felt. Mack, Celedon and Kerjack, they were all corrupted with this voice. Which made them worse people that they already were. But I was different, I was a hero. The problem is, I had to fight Kayla or she'd rip me in half. It was a shame really, I actually kinda looked up to the old frog princess. (If I actually called her that, she'd tear me to shreds.)
She jumped down on the ground and began an onslaught of powerful punches and kicks. It felt like I was being sucker punched by a freight train. If it wasn't for the black energy empowering me, I would've been beaten to death already.
I quickly hit her back, I must've broken her nose because of the large cracking sound I heard. This began a rather brutal fight between the two of us. I was giving into the voices of chaos and destruction in my head. At first I just wanted to survive, but as the fight raged on. I wanted to tear her head off.
I was quickly about to shoot her through the chest, but she suddenly reverted to normal. The poor girl fell back, passed out from the fight. She was bruised all over, she looked very hurt and I was the one to blame. I quickly used my antennae to return this evil energy to the map piece, right before I reverted as well.
I was tired and beaten, my nose even bled somewhat. But that didn't matter to me. I quickly picked up the map piece, careful not to invoke it's power. Before picking up Kayla as well and carrying her to the infirmary.
Fortunately Lana, Kayla and Paladin got all of the medical attention they needed. Aurora had used the sonic blaster to return everyone's willpower to them
Kayla and Lana made a quick recovery, but Paladin wounds were severe. So he needed a few weeks to properly heal.
We couldn't wait around though. We stayed for a few days to lick our wounds, Kayla refused to tell me much about what happened with her and Paladin. She only said how she went out of control with that alien of hers. I couldn't blame her, she must've blamed herself about what happened.
I honestly thought it was my fault too, I mean I let that energy get the better of me. I was almost as bloodthirsty as she was. We almost killed each other, two wannabe heroes mauling each other. What a way to go am I right?
I remembered that dream I had, about the Planet Nevana. The fairy told me their problem and our mission weren't that different. So with 3 map piece in our humble possession, we sped off back on the Aldrin. Forced to leave behind the guy who was practically our leader.
I told them that we should go to Nevana, explaining my dream. They didn't seem to object. I know why Kayla was down, but Lana clearly still felt useless. I mean she was smart, brave and actually really cute. But because she wasn't there to stop us from almost tearing each other to shreds, she felt worse than before.
To make things worse, Kayla and Lana began to argue. I tried to play the peacemaker, but I tended to fail awfully. So here I was, the only one trying to keep things together in a broken and beaten team.