Chapter 8: FACE OFF
"Got a lock on him?" Billy asked noting he must be careful.
"Yes sir."
"Good, land and bring him in."
The ships whole bottom immediately opened up and touched down onto the hard gym floor.
"So this is my pick up?" Minion thought. "Hehe, where am I going? Space?"
People scattered out of the building and some even stayed inside and marveled at the whole scene.
Through the crowd one thing stood furious. "Minion," its raspy voice calls. The voice alone killed everyone in its wake. People dropped silently as police surrounded the gym.
"Chaos, Utter Chaos," Bobby said viewing the scene thought Billy's Maniacal eye's.
The crippling figure moved throw the dead bodies, mere feet away from Minion.
"Uhh, who the hell are you?" Now Minion was confused, was this man picking him up?
"Die…Die…DIE!!!" The crazed creature begin to conjure up a black mana rush, energy swirling in front of him, waves of raw mana turned into a liquid like substance, making it translucent black and dark blue like swirl. The thing moved his black undead arms through the black mana source and murmured something that could cripple your soul and make you wish you never had the gift of hearing. His figures curled into a loosened first, then his eyes bulged and he yelled. The ball of power soared through the air right towards Minion's clueless face.
Startled Minion tried to pull away, but the only good his feet did was throw him to the side, witch was almost enough, the energy ball hit Minion's chest creating a small crater indention in his chest. He howled with pain as his newly limp body thudded onto the ground. All that happened within the time Billy jumped out of the spacecraft and transformed into his human form before he hit the ground running.
"Shit!" Billy yelled, "He's dead for sure! Err, might as well try!"
"No…" The dark creature sputtered as it limped to the two.
Billy Grabbed Minions arms and hauled him onto his back. The thing put one open hand out in front of him as he walked forward. Then a energy burst shoot from his outstretched arm, the blast through him backwards onto the ground as his body started to lift itself up, not by using limbs, he simply floated up and landed on his feet and walked forward. The blast hit Billy head on, knocking parts of his arms off, synthetic blood ran down his arm.
"Gahhh…. Ahh…" Billy panted as he tried to haul himself onto his ship, his mercenaries prepared to depart.
The creature started walking forward again, but this time a mercenary jumped out of the ship, she was dressed in aerobe robes. She ripped them off revealing a fight uniform.
"Go" she called to Billy as she throws him a badge representing her current rebellion ranking. It surpassed his and came close to a general's level.
"But I have orders," Billy called to her, "Everyone must report back or I'm dead." He panted through his mouth.
"I know, I was put on your ship to protect you from failure, I was ordered to delay any attacks, I can handle this newbie myself, now go."
Billy nodded to his superior's judgment as he fell into his ship; Minion fell off his back as the doors closed.
"No…" The creature said as he powered up another crippling blast of black mana.
"Hey, creature, your fights with me!" the fake mercenary cried as Billy's ship took off.
The Thing spared her no glance, but simply shoot mana at her, the blast went right throw her with out any hesitation. The general was killed instantly. Billy however spared her a glance, he saw her die, and watch the creature howl with anger as he shot his final blast towards the ship in the air. The energy wave simply hit the ships shields and reflected off. Police surrounded the area, but that was the last thing Billy could make out as the ship entered space.
"This is better for the kid," Billy thought out loud. "He won't be panicking in front of me like I did when I was recruited."
Bobby watched for the ship anxiously, as he did with any new recruits he has herd well about.
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