"Hmmmm there they are." I hum at the approaching force of four evolved humans, each one with a whip augmentation. "Looks like you'll have to wait Gilbert."
"It's about god damn time Tim!" Negan yells at the leader of the evolved, earning a chuckle from me. "Why the fuck were you just watching me get mty ass kicked?"
"We thought you could handle it." The man replies calmly, a emotionless expression on his face, the other three mutants wearing masks stand behind him, unmoving. "You can go now Negan, your services are no longer needed."
"Fucking finally." Negan grumbles while clambering up from the ground. "See ya around kid, I'm gonna go get my dick su-ah"
I grab his wrist and twist it, flipping him onto the ground infront of me. "As long as you're breathing we ain't done. You're gonna watch me slap these four cocks!"
"Aghh the one on the left is a woman."
"You're gonna watch me slap these three cocks... and pound one pussy."I say, looking at the woman on the far left... cant really tell its a woman but I'll take what I can get. "Talk to me after this, kay?" She responds by flipping me off.
Rude
You deserved that.
"Djimon." The leader says, his glowing hazel eyes glaring at me. "Im giving you the chance to stand down, and come with me peacefully. If you refuse..."
I make a groaning, screaming sound and glare at the leader "Yeah yeah, spare me the bullshit. You know you can't beat me. I ain't even stressing over you."
"Alright." The man says and the group spreads out around me. Carl shoots me a worried look as I switch into my combat skin.
"You can go Carl."
"What?" He says, a string of irritation present in his voice. "You don't think I can fight?"
Wow Carl, now is not the time for you to throw your dick around. Still... this could be funny. "Alright carl, charge in there." He gives me a suspicious look, eyes half closed like he knows somethings up. "I got your back buddy."
He keeps his glare on me before rotation his wrists, producing a set of twin blades that replace his hands and forearms. "Try to keep up Dindu." He says and Then sprints forward, arms behind his back like a fucking retard.
You're really not gonna help him?
Shhhhh watch.
"Agghhh!" Carl screams as he charges into the group and jumping, extending his blade out. The leader of the evolved, tim, easily side steps Carls attack before circling behind him, entrapping him in the center of the group. The entire group, and I mean all of them, punched him simultaneously, beating the boy back and forth between them. It was the funniest shit I've ever seen, he was so confident a second ago.
"Ahhahahahahaha!" I howl, having to change back into my flesh suit before I accidentally sent off a psionic blast from my uncontrollable movements. Im one of those guys who HAS to move when you make him laugh hard enough. "You should of seen your face! Your dumb fucking face!"
"Ahhhh!" Carl screams, startling Alma.
They're stabbing him!
"Aaaahhahahahahaahaha!"
Get in there and save him!
"Hehe okay okay." I say before switching back into my combat skin and swinging my rifle of my back, firing a beehive round at the ground swallowing up Carl. The round detonates five feet away from the group, showering them in scolding fragmentation that could kill any normal human, but thanks to the evolves rapid regeneration properties all the round did was get their attention. "Let the dumbass go, this is between us."
They look between themselves, but comply, probably thinking that if they beat me they can just kill Carl later. Carl slinks out from the center of the group clutching his newly injured shoulder. Damn, they really did a number on him, perhaps I waited a little too long.
Carl sniffs, holding back tears and refusing to look at me. "Why didn't you help me?" He whimpers, the multiple cuts on his body quickly closing up. "You said you had my back."
Shit... that was kinda a dickhead move wasn't it? I need to spin this into something positive. "You did kinda just sprint in, I needed to show you how reckless that was." I say, giving him a shoulder shrug before shifting my attention towards the evolved. "How about you sit here and watch me? You could learn a few things about actual combat." I pick him up and place him on top of a turned over tanks, best seat in the house.
"Alright you D list villains." I say, rotating my wrists and revealing a massive blade on my right side and a claw on my left.
"What!?" Carl says as his eyes widen in surprise. "You can use both? Why the fuck haven't you shown me that before!?"
"Im showing you now. How come you never let me watch you and Enid have sex!?" I growl. Okay, maybe it's not the best comparison but it was the first thing that came to mind for some reason. You're telling me you wouldn't watch that? You fucking liar.
"We haven't had sex." Carl whispers, As if those evolved over there give a fuck about his sex life. "We want to, but you told me we cant because I would kill her, remember?"
"Yeah. That doesn't mean to die a virgin though, dont you think she deserves a good ol womb broom?"
"Oh my god!" Carl groans covering his head for a second before his red face pops back to me. "You're so infuriating! Why do you intentionally mess with me? What's your problem! Do you hate me or something? Why? What did I do!?"
Wow, I don't think I've seen him this angry before. It's kinda cute, like a puppy when you wrestle with it and it gets aggressive. The little growl in his voice, the tendons on his neck sticking out...Its cute. But this ain't the time for his tomfuckery.
But I couldn't help it. "Well, somebody's sexually frustrated isnt he?" I say, admiring the little anger trembles in Carls bottom lip. I let my voice lowe, bringing on a more serious, threatening tone. "Shut up, sit down, and watch."
He can watch, he can leave, it doesn't actually matter to me. All that matters is I get to beat the fuck out of four evolved, something Ive never done before. This should be a good challenge for me. "Alright cock goblins! We gonna fight? Or are we gonna... do something else?"
"Wow zero effort." Carl says from ontop of the truck. Imma just ignore him for now. Annndddd I cant.
"Carl I will slam your dick in a door if you don't shut the fuck up right now!"
Are you gonna fight them or not?
"Quit it Alma." I say in summarian. "Watch and learn boy, you gotta use your head."
I start off the same way Carl did, sprinting forward at me enemies. There is no tactical advantage when it comes to fighting four enemies. But I'll figure it out as I go.
I change course at the last second, sprint to the outside of the circle and spearing the women who rejected me a minute ago, my blade slicing through her shoulder. I use her body as a barrier, and wait before I make my next move. These people are still human in a way, mentally at least. They haven't grasped their augmentations, and they've never seen anything like me before.
Since she's in my control that leaves three hostiles, and a barrier in their path. Two of them will go one way around her, leaving a weak point on her opposite side. In this case her weak side was my right side, where a man wearing a gorilla mask lifts his blades to attack me. I pivot the women's body to intercept the path of the other two while stepping into a side kick, smashing my heel into the mans sternum and sending him a good forty feet away, giving me some time. Unfortunately for me, the woman is clutching onto my blade too tightly for me to shake her off, figuring out that I can't use the blade if the uses her body as a makeshift sheath.
"Clever." I growl before using my foot to kick he off me. But not before a couple blades bounce off my helmet, badly damaging my natural shield systems. "Very clever."
I dodged the man with the goblin mask's next attack, moving under his diagonal strike and pivoting around behind him, my claws impailing him through his back and stomach. "Whoops." I growl before expanding my fingers and ripping the man in half, my tendrils slither out of my lower back and gobbling up the corpse.
"Kyle!" The man with the gorilla mask screams in shock before sprinting full speed at me, his rage blinding him.
"Wait! Return to the group!" Tim screams, while backpedaling towards the woman, he sliced shoulder rapidly healing from my attack. Gorilla mask either didn't hear him or didn't care, keeping his fixation on me.
Now kids, if you're ever in a fight it's important to keep your wits about you. Never give in to rage, its a trap. You could be the strongest, fastest, most badass mother fucker on the planet, if you lose your mind, you will suffer. Poor gorilla mask is about to find that out.
I let out growl before smashing my blade into the ground, igniting a wave of red lightening that spreads across the burned terrain and lifts Gorrilla mask into the air, allowing my the slice through his belly on his way down. I narrowly miss his spine, meaning he will regenerate from this, but I can't worry about that now, so I smash my armored foot in between his shoulder blades, pinned him to the floor while my claw transforms into a whip. I point it at the woman and fire the spear like tip at her, this would have penetrated through her chest were it not for Tims interference, his own whip intercepting mine.
I'd seen evolved with blades and claws before, but never one with a whip. And now I get the opportunity to test myself against not only one but two more evolved! Im not even gonna count gorilla mask her, he's pretty much done. But that doesn't detract from my excitement. I retract my whip before turning my back to the two evolved, I finally get to do this.
I extinguish my blade and whip before placing my knee on on small of the mans back, keeping him pinned, but letting his back arch. When he does I grab him by the throat with one hand and grab a ankle with the other, pulling the man into me. Gorilla man screams in pain and I know they can hear his crys. I'm sure you see its a trap, but they wont.
"Help!" The man screams as I apply more pressure, slowly breaking him in half. I peek over my shoulder and see the two of them closing in on me, desperation apparent in their eyes.
The first thing That hits them is the psionic pulse the smashes into them and cracks the earth beneath me, followed by the immediate storm of spear like appendages that eject from my bio-metallic armor, piercing through their bodies and attaching to the trees and tanks littered around the area. I shake off my molted armor to reveal a quickly regenerating layer generating on my body. For me to use such a devastating attack is very rare, so rare that I don't even have a name for it, but it would have something to do with porcupines. My tendrils slither out of my back and attach to the top half of he corpse in my hand, the gorilla mask still on the mans face.
I shake off the rest of the shedded, bio-metal and admire the the damage my attack did on the other two evolved. The woman is dead, a spike piercing through her chin, up and out of the top of her head before attaching to a tree, there's plenty of other spikes impailing her, but thats the one that killed her. Tim is badly hurt and completely immobile, suspended in the air with spikes going through his arms and legs, almost is a crucifix pose. But the spike that would have killed him pierced him a little too low, and is embedded behind his left collar bone.
"Looks comfy." I say, his head looking down at me, but his eyes can't focus. Damn...I overdid it. Looks like I won't get that fight after all. I grab one of his arms and pull him, ripping him apart through the forest of spears. My tendrils chew up the little bit that it can before sliding back into my body. That attack does quite a bit off damage to me too, draining my energy reserves, luckily these evolved fill me right back up! But I should save my energy anyways.
I switch into my flesh skin before saying "Did you see that Carl?"
I wasn't expecting him to not be there, I thought he would still be sitting right on top of that overturned tank were I left him, he's usually so obedient, albeit reluctant at times. But he's missing, and you know who else is missing?
"Fucking Gilbert!" I scream, a wave of frustration washing over me. I better not find out Carl helped him in anyway!
Alma! Patch me into Ricks radio!
All radio communication is down, some sort of jammer.
"Well thats just fucking perfect!" I growl to myself, unsure of what my next move should be. "Have Fenrir deal with that Jammer." I tell Alma aloud before making my way into the woods, hoping to find some trace of Carl and Negan. It didn't take long.
"Aghhh!" A scream of pain echoes through the forest, as I sprint towards the epicenter, reaching a clearing that held a group of people I quickly Identified as squad four, Rick's group. And in the middle of the clearing was Rick and Gilbert, both injured from the struggle I must have barely missed. Ricks leg has been badly broken, his shin bone snapped in half to the point that his heel pointed straight at his head. However it looks like Gilbert got the worst of it, face down and unconscious in a pile of his own blood, a laceration through is throat.
"That looks uncomfortable." I joke over ricks fallen body, his face contorted in pain. "I wanted to be the one to kill him, but I'm glad you got your revenge."
"We're not planning on killing him." Carl says, appearing into my peripheral vision and I give him a quizzical look, unsure of if I heard him correctly. "He'll spend the rest of his life in a jail cell."
"And there it is..." I groan rolling my eyes at the boy, "The stupidest fucking thing I'll hear all day." It feels like everything I say to this boy goes in one ear and out the other. A medical crew comes out of the woods with a stretcher, two members treat Rick and his broken leg while the other six make sure Negan doesn't die from blood loss, putting him on the stretcher and loading him into the back of a pickup truck. I offered no help, In fact it took everything to not consume that mans nearly dead body.
"I know you're angry with me." Carl says, wrapping his arms around my torso from behind and pressing his face next to mine. "But It's better for use to learn forgiveness, that is if we ever want things to return to how they were before."
"What's with you people?" I say, carefully peeling Carl off of me. "All you ever care about is getting back to the way things used to be. What was so great about how things used to be? That worlds gone now, and you have the opportunity to make a better one, so why repeat the sins of the past?" I ask, allowing myself to make eye contact with carl, it's uncomfortable for me, and I'm not very good with words, but I want him to understand what I'm saying. "Your species was killing this planet, and now the planet is fighting back. You can't beat it, so maybe you should learn to live in it? It'll be different then it was before, sure, but maybe it should be? The way you were going? How much longer did you have?" I let my eyes drop, I'm failing, I know that. I can't put the words in my head into English, I just don't know what to say. "Look, just think about it Okay?"
"I will." He says, ruffling my hair. "I promise."
Found it. Alma rings out in my head, and my eyes flare as Half of my vision changes to a birds eye view. A armored vehicle with a spinning satellite of some sort. And a man standing next to it alone, his eyes clearly seeing the Hawk flying above him. Carmine. My vision goes back to normal and I see carl giving me a concerned look.
Looks like he wants to meet you. Setting a waypoint for this location.
"You alright Dindu? Why did your eyes just flare?" Carl asks, still running his fingers through my hair.
"I have to go." I say, backing away from him. "Stay safe Carl!" I yell before switching into my combat skin and blasting off into the sky, leaving Carl confused in a cloud of dust.
I make my way to the way point, it takes three minutes. The man hasn't moved, and im able to confirm its just him. He seems undisturbed in my presence, instead focusing of finishing his pastry, a bagel I think, slathered is cream cheese.
"Right on time." He says, not taking his eyes off the food item in his hand. "Im almost done with my bagel." He takes a extra large bite, not bothering to savor the delicious flavor.
"This has really taken the tension out of the situation." I say, switching out of my combat skin at the sight of the mans lunch. The man tosses me a paper bag containing four bagels.
"Thats why I brought them..." the man says motioning to the seat across from him. "They can civilize any situation."
I think he had the intention of talking things out, Im not sure why, Don't think either of us truly wanted that. So instead of talking we just ate, using up a small tub of cream cheese. It took a good ten minutes before he broke the silence, curiosity getting the best of him.
"How much do you know about your kind?" He asks, folding his hands on the table while I continue to eat my final bagel. The question catches me off guard, but I do know a couple things.
"There was one girl... but everything's a bit fuzzy. I think she was like me? And I think I killed her...
"So you CAN be killed."
"I said I think..." I grumble. Honestly! Im not lying! There were giants and these big ass walls and this fucking plane. But the woman? The angel? I cant remember her so well. "I had to use my Leviathan, and I never saw a body, but I feel like I killed her."
"The lev... that monster? That was you?"
"Kinda... I don't remember much while in that form." I admit, finishing up my last bagel. "But yeah, technically its."
"Hmmph, Eugene told me you were from Africa..."He raises a eyebrow at me, leaning in close and tapping his finger on the table "You don't look African. Hell, you don't look like anything..."
He's a barrel of information ain't he? I just grunt and go back to my bagel for a moment. Who the fuck brings bagels to a war zone anyways? Where'd he even get them? Fucking costco!?
"Why did you do this?" I ask, and Carmine gives me a quizzical look. "The bagels, the table, the jammer. You clearly wanted to meet me here. But why?"
"I wanted you to understand."
Ah fuck. Here we go boys, the big speech where the villain explains his motivation. Yahoo! Generic writing for the win!
I let out a sigh. "Understand what?"
He takes a moment to think, before standing up and facing the sun with his hands clasped behind his back. "There are those throughout history who will never be forgotten... those who have inked their names into history with the blood of their enemies."
"What's your point."
"They weren't all mere humans. some of them weren't even mortal, but the worms that eat them are the same worms that eat everybody else." He says, taking his pistol out of his holster and tossing it into the forest. I raise a eyebrow at him, but he continues his speech. "Even your kind, the little we know about them. They either fled or died out long ago, leaving humanity without proper guidance. Without gods."
Now that... that catches me off guard. Not only does he know about my kind... but they've been on this planet. "My kind? What do you know about my kind?"
"When I first joined the army, I was part of a expendable group of men, a bit of a bullet sponge squad actually. They sent us into the most dangerous parts of the world. Places were we shouldnt have survived... they expected me to die, but I never did obviously."
"In vietnam there was this... this tear in our reality. A doorway from one realm to another. My team was sent in as a sort of test group." "I met a woman who was like you. She was... she was buetiful, and kind. But she was a fierce warrior on top of that. When the realms split we fought side by side to close the void. I tried to go with her, but she told me to stay here. To protect this planet..." There was a moment of sadness there. A pained expression bursting through his stoic facade for just a second before he shook it away and continued. "For decades I waited, and watched for signs of something. An invasion, another void. When the plague struck I thought I had found my calling, my reason of being but no. It was you all along."
He begins stretching his arms and I get the hint, getting up from the table and watching him carefully. Something was happening to him, I could tell. His demenor was changing. "Those demons told me I was made for something special. That I was a rare breed that can do godly things. All I needed was a drop of your blood to unlock my full potential.
The air shifted around him, a blur cacooning him into a cloak of light. The confusion was quickly replaced by realization as a massive figure emerged.
"Armor?!?" I ask, switching into my own combat skin. His armors a bit different then mine, no weapons, no design, and he's bulkier. I've never seen a human take on this form, and from what Hall told me, he has other powers too. "Fascinating."
"All I have to do is consume you, and Ill be the god of the new world. I can bring humanity from the brink of extinction. I can make sure none of this ever happens again! And all that stands between me and that is you!"
A burst of energy, a sudden reactive impulse? The alarms in my head start to blare as Carmine launches at me like a missle. i was lucky to dive right under him, my own cacoon gobling me up. It was foolish of me to think he had any intention of talking this out. He wants to eat my ass, and gain my powers.
I swing around and dodge his fist, the limb swirling into a blade before my very eyes. With a backwards leap I prepare for a full fledged fight, my right arm forming a massive blade while the left takes on the whip.
The thing about the whip and the duel dagger arms is that theyre actually the same, with a few differences. While carl, and most of the other evolved may have thier entire forarms replaced by the weapons, mine jet out from just under my wrist, a effect of the armor itself. The blade can be used as a sort of dagger or short sword, or can be swung on a sort of bio-metallic tendon like a blade on a chain. Brings a few options with its versatility, although relatively lacking in power compared to everything else.
The blades spark as he slams his down into mine, a sort of struggle ensuing just moments after. He's strong, thats unmistakeable, but somethings off. The armored for doesnt breath, and so a teep to the solar plexus does realatively little damage. Im send stumbling backwards for a brief moment before I shoot my whip foward, the knife like appendage tangling itself around his foot.
A quick yank and he's down, but nearly immediately got back up to his feet. It was a test you see. I wanted to see if he knew how to fall, and he passed.
No more playing around. My arms change back into their regular shape before I jet my back arm foward in a Karate style straight punch, igniting the air around me in a solid stream of red lightening. He retaliates with lightning of his own, his beam colliding with mine. A sickening crack shatters the air and knocks the two of us back, skidding on the dirt beneath us.
"Heh, not bad." Carmine says, and I give a deadly growl. My hand form claws and I stick them into the earth, stalactites piece out of the ground, Carmine rolls foward and narrowly avoids getting impailed.
"Djimon!" He screams as he charges at me his claws matching mine. I jump over him and he ducks under my swipe, twirling around and facing me. We claw at each other like territorial tigers, ripping into each others armor before I headbutt him, making him stumble back. He switches his right arm into a blade, smashing it into my helmet and exhausting my shield systems.
Hey watch out! There's two of us in here!
"Right!" I say, dodging the rangers next three attacks, waiting for a opening to deliver a flying knee to his head, denting the armor on his skull. "Fuck You Carmine!" I scream as he falls to the ground, rolling out of the way of my fist.
"Cmon you unnatural fuck!" He screams and faces me. I switch into a blade with my right hand, leaving my left normal. The large man charges at me and I jab at him with my blade. He does what I expect, my blade piercing the air of his shoulder. But when he swipes at me with his own blade I sprawl under it, grabbingn his ankle and pulling it to me, making him fall on his back. I bring my blade down and hammer him in the chest, chunks of his armor cracking off from the hit. He retaliates by swinging his blade and knocking my feet out from out of me.
Rookie mistake Spartan.
Who's side you on?!
Whatever, just grab him!
"Aghhh!" The man roars and rolls, trying to get ontop of me but ending up in my guard. I wrap my left leg around his torso and lock it into place by putting my foot in the crook of my knee. I keep my hands behind his head, keeping him low on my body so he cant posture up, smothering the man as he desperately strikes my side where my liver would be.
Warning system overload!
My internal alarm cries out as wave after wave of magnetic induced lightning shoot out of my armor, frying the monster on top of me, his body trashing desperately as the electricity fries him alive. He responds by overloading his own systems his
Lightning pulsing through me and igniting a battle of attrition.
Warning!
The word flashes on my hud as my vision falters, all of my energy going into this attack.
I realize The stale mate before he does and put my legs on his hips to push him off me. We both scramble to our feet, exhausted and lacking the energy to even form weapons. Luckily for me I don't need to.
"Aggghhhhh!" I scream, wrapping him up in a thai clinch and slamming my knee into his skull so hard the bio metal casing breaks, and the distortion swallows him up just to spit out his bloody, broken corpse. His skull was broken, and stabbed at his own brain.
"Shit." I groan before transforming into my human form and collapsing on the ground next to the corpse, my vision fading in and out. I was planning in fueling myself with his corpse, but I cant swallow him up without brain activity.
Vertigo quickly sets in, and I stumble each time I try to walk. "The jammer." I whisper to myself as hallucinations rack my mind. Taking me into another body.
Toby's.
