Chapter 4 – The battle continues!

Rebecca sliced another cyber-soldier in half with her sword and blasted another one with a barrage of Flare Arrows. These are too easy, she thought. If they want me dead, why not use their most powerful units? Of course…

She laughed. "They're underestimating me!" she said as she kicked a cyborg away. "Those idiots are underestimating my power!"

She twirled her blade and drove it just past her shoulder and through a cyborg's head.

"Never, under any circumstances, underestimate a SORCERESS!" she said, unleashing a Digu Volt spell on a cyborg.

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Wolverine cut through another cyborg with his claws, ignoring the injuries he had sustained thus far. His Healing Factor would deal with that. He spun his claws around, slicing another cyborg's head apart before kicking its partner right onto Kenshin's sword.

"This is a good workout," he said, smirking. "Haven't had this kind of fight in a long time!"

"These…cyborgs aren't very strong," Kenshin replied, decapitating one of them as he spoke. "Why do you think they're attacking us, anyway?"

Wolverine shrugged. "Dunno," he replied. "We can talk about it later, though. We should win this first!"

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Duncan sliced through the cyborgs like a hot knife through butter. He got hit by another laser blast and barely managed to dodge the missile that came at him.

Wait…missile?

Duncan looked in the direction that the missile had come from, blinking in surprise at the 10-foot cyborgs that were tearing through the greatly diminished cyborg army that the group was currently beating. There were only twelve of these new opponents, but their strong-looking armour and dangerous-looking weapons convinced the Immortal that they were far stronger than these other cyborgs.

He was proven right when Kang was flung back as if he were nothing more than a rag doll. The fact that he was knocked out didn't make things any better.

Oh shit.

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Zelgadis' chimeric body prevented the missile from hurting him, but he wanted to know where it had come from and why it had to hit him of all people. He glanced over at Mewtwo. The Pokemon had shielded himself from the blast, and was currently fending off the last of the cyborgs. Well, the last of the weak cyborgs. The new cyborgs looked a lot more dangerous, and Zel didn't want to find out just how dangerous they were.

"Mewtwo, are you OK?" he asked, never taking his eyes off of the new threat for a second.

~I'm fine,~ Mewtwo replied. ~But Kang isn't!~

Zel looked at Kang in time to see that he was about to have his head crushed by one of the cyborgs. Shit!

Using all of the demon speed he possessed, he ran over and tackled the cyborg. "Astral Vine!"

He raised his now-enchanted sword and drove it through the cyborg's chest. The machination stopped moving and Zel stood up and went over to Kang. "Kang? You all right?" he asked, shaking the draconian and frowning when he didn't respond. He's out cold, Zel thought. He wove a full-power Healing spell on Kang, almost sighing in relief when the draconian woke up. Kang's eyes widened in shock.

"Zel! BEHIND YOU!"  

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!

"OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! DAMNED MACHINE!" Zel said, turning and blasting the cyborg in the face with a Digu-Volt spell. "I thought I killed that thing!"

Indeed, it was the same cyborg that Zel had disabled with his sword only a moment earlier.

"They must have a backup power source," Kang said. "It's getting back up!"

"GAAV FLARE!"

The red-black blast of black magick came out of nowhere and exploded against the cyborg's head, blowing it apart like paper. Moments later, Rebecca ran up to the two of them. "C'mon!" she said. "We're falling back! These cyborgs are built to destroy whatever it is they've been ordered to! They're extremely hard to kill!"

The two males didn't argue, they just ran into the palace.

"Kurt! Go and activate the security system!" Rebecca said. "Now!"

Kurt bamfed away, and, moments later, Adamantium plates slammed down over every opening in the palace, leaving them in darkness. Then the emergency lights came on.

Lashana and Telca are prepared for anything, Rebecca thought. She turned to the males in front of her. "We need a plan."