Chapter. 53
Catherine rushed to Rebecca who dove out of the way. Rebecca rolled to her feet then drew her handgun, firing off a few rounds but each one was deflected by Catherine. "That all? Why Vinny picked you I'll never know."
"Shut up! you don't know anything about V!"
"I know he picked you to be his pawn." Catherine charged Rebecca and swung her daggers. Rebecca ducked under the blades but Catherine followed with a knee to Rebecca's face, knocking her back. "Don't feel bad, I picked Vinny to be a pawn too. Maybe someday you can make one for yourself." Catherine threw a dagger, Rebecca dodged but the blade cut along her torso. "It' just how the game is played. I game Vinny brain burst to do something for me and he wants revenge. I'm saving you here by getting you out. Soon Vinny would have used you for some plot, then you'll seek revenge, creating your own pawn. Then after you used them they'll come for you're head, creating a pawn of their own. It's the cycle of this game."
"That's not true. Prism shift, red!" Rebecca changed into red form and fired missiles as her minigun and laser cannon warmed up.
"Vanish!" Catherine turned invisible, Rebecca fired her weapons in all directions until her special gauge ran out, turning back into her white form. Catherine revealed herself and punched Rebecca in the face. "Need proof? Look at Corina and Lyle. Corina made Lyle to protect herself from Peter. So Lyle will get tired of being the 'big hero' and strike her down to free himself, maybe creating his own pawn to do it."
"That's a lie!" Shouted Corina.
"Oh don't act like that. You gave brain burst to Lyle to protect yourself. That's what everyone does in this game of power. You create your own down fall to kill your creator. A cycle that'll never end!" Catherine kicked Rebecca in the ribs.
"Stop this!" Vincent shouted with his hands on the barrier. "You have a problem with me then you take it up with me!" Vincent punched the barrier. "Leave Rebecca out of this!"
Catherine looked to Vincent over her shoulder. "So now you want to fight? A little late for that Vinny. This is what I was warning you about, caring for others makes you weak, it binds you. To be strong you have to have no attachments, nothing to weight you down." Catherine threw a dagger at Rebecca, graving her left arm. "But don't worry Vinny, mama will take away any distraction."
"No!" Vincent punched the barrier. "Rebecca has nothing to do with you!"
"She has everything to do with me! She's making you weak, you care more about what she thinks then getting stronger!"
Levi shakes her head. "Your logic is flowed, how do you expect Vincent to get stronger if he has nothing to use that strength for? Why get stronger if you have nothing to protect?"
Catherine laughed and turned to Levi. "You of anyone here should understand. Do you need a reason to be strong? Do you really need something to protect to have strength? No. Getting stronger is reason enough to get stronger. Fight for the sake of fighting. That is what it means to be in this world. We kill for points to level up to get better at killing, when you have attachments you have weaknesses. Things that can be used against you." Catherine holds out her arms. "I have no attachments, nothing to keep me from gaining power. That's what I want for you Vinny, and to have that." Catherine turned back to Rebecca. "I need to clear your mind by getting rid of this little nothing."
Corina slammed her hands on the barrier. "Do you really think Vincent will thank you for hurting Rebecca?! He'll just hate you!"
"And? It means Vinny will have a drive to get stronger. So what if he hates me, as long as he gets more powerful that's all that matters!"
Everyone looked to Vincent who kept punching the barrier, Lyle noticed that small cracks were forming in the barrier but lingered for only a split second.
"Attachments, bonds, acceptance... Love." Catherine spoke the last word with disgust. "None of this matters, what matters is power. How you get it also doesn't matter. That's why Lyle and Corina are weak, I refuse to let this parasite do the same to my Vinny." Catherine drew two daggers and raised them to impale Rebecca.
Rebecca's body shifted to green, blocking Catherine's daggers with one shield then struck her in the head with the other. Everyone watching was shocked. "She got a hit!" Cheered Corina. Vincent stopped punching the barrier and calmed down.
Catherine reversed her grip and lunged at Rebecca to punch. Rebecca's body shifted to blue, her fist met Catherine's, breaking her arm and sending Catherine down. Rebecca picked up Catherine and hurled her into a pile of rubble. Catherine crawled out of the rubble and shook her head. "Alright, you got some skill, but I'm still going to kill you." Catherine drew another dagger and rushed at Rebecca.
"Prism shift purple!" Rebecca's body grew thinner turned a bright purple, her hands retraced into her arms, replaced with with a pair of three feet long blades with a slit running down the middle and a small barrel between the base of the blades.
"Wow." Corina was starstruck by Rebecca's new form.
Levi squinted. "Duel blades? But purple are meant to be long range as well as close."
Catherine swung her blades down and Rebecca caught the daggers between her own and snapped the daggers in half. Catherine staggered back and Rebecca stabbed Catherine with one of her blade and hurled her away, as Catherine stood up Rebecca held up her arms and fired bullets from the barrels between her blades.
Catherine took several bullets before she took cover behind some fallen concrete. Rebecca kept firing, chipping away at the concrete. Lyle crossed his arms. "Bullet based weapons have a capacity limit. How does she reload?" He turned to Vincent who watched with a massive grin.
Rebecca's ran out of bullets, her blades made loud clicking sounds. "Out of ammo?" Catherine rolled out of her cover and rushed at Rebecca. Rebecca kept her arms up and shot her blades at Catherine. One struke into Catherine's upper thigh and the other into the right side of her torso. Catherine stopped and dropped to one knee, she grabbed onto the blade in her thigh and tired to pull it out but cut deep into her fingers. "Okay that was good." Catherine stood up and pushed the blade out of her thigh. "But now what do you have with no blades?" Rebecca swung her arms down, a new pair of blades replaced her lost ones. "Fuck." Rebecca fired bullets at Catherine. "Vanish!" Catherine turned invisible, Rebecca kept firing but was no longer hurting Catherine. "Now what brat? Can't hit what you can't see!"
"Prism shift yellow." Rebecca's body changed to yellow and held up her right hand, now a large rose. "Petal storm!" The rose broke into a wave of petals the swarmed around Rebecca, leaving behind a thick metal spike. She felt some of the petals strike something but when she looked she saw the petals hanging in the air. "Got you." Rebecca charged with her metal spike and impaled the petals, revealing Catherine. Rebecca grabbed Catherine's arm and stabbed her in the chest four more times with the spike then punched her in the jaw.
Catherine spun away and staggered back a few steps, blood flowing from her wounds. "What the hell just happened?" Catherine felt dizzy from the blood loss, she drew a dagger and shook her head to clear her sight.
Rebecca body turned purple, Catherine swung her dagger but Rebecca swatted it away with one of her blades then stabbed her in the chest with the other, forcing her to the ground then finished the fight by running her other second blade through Catherine's head.
Everyone returned to the real world, Rebecca fell to the floor with minor pains while Catherine screamed while holding her face. Vincent and Levi kneeled down to help Rebecca to her feet.
Catherine lowered her hands and glared at Rebecca with hate filled eyes. "You fucking-" Catherine took a step and Lyle stood in her way, she sidestepped him but then Corina was in her way. "What does she have that I don't?"
"Redeeming qualities." Commented Rebecca.
"The fuck you say to me you little shit!"
"You heard me thot. Maybe someday you can buy yourself a better personalty."
"You-" Lyle and Corina stood in Catherine's way. Catherine tightened her fists. "If not for that fucking, Chrome-" Catherine turned and walked away, holding the side of her head.
"That was incredible Reby!" Corina turned to Rebecca while clapping. "That purple form was so pretty!"
"Please don't say that."
"What was that?" Asked Levi. "I've never seen that from you. Vincent rubbing off on you now?"
"I just... I couldn't let her say all those things about everyone."
Levi gentle rubbed Rebecca's back. "Now we know you have that fire in you, bring it to all your fights and you can't lose."
"Thank you Levi."
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