Chapter 7: I-Watt-80
Freefall was like nothing Dauphin had ever imagined. He leapt off the building for a quick escape from whatever might follow. His trench coat blew in the wind as he fell, he began to rotate himself so that way he landed on the ground on his feet instead of his head. His body strained against it but he finally did it. He looked up to see another form that had leapt off the building after him. The floors flew by him in such a blur and the ground was now more rapidly approaching than ever. Finally, his feet hit the ground. The world arround him seemed to roar when he landed. He felt his body slam into the ground and start actually burying itself into it. Shockwaves whirled past him and slammed into a building nearby, causing the windows to shatter. The ground around him cracked. Then the ground returned to normal. And then the world seemed to shockwave again, and Dauphin whirled around to see Frey standing there.
"Copycat" Dauphin smirked.
"Who said I was going to let you do all the cool stuff" Frey laughed.
"Let's get a move on so we can call Echo and she can tell us what type of info is on this damned thing" Dauphin said.
"The disc?" Frey asked.
"No, I wanted to know what fabric was used on my pants. Of course the disc" Dauphin said.
Frey nodded. They began to walk. The sky gave off a greenish tint. This came from the humongous amount of industrial work nearby filtering into the air, or so they wanted you to believe. All the computer signals triggered in your mind would tell you exactly what you saw inside of the Matrix.
Dauphin glanced at Frey who focused on looking forward, they walked down the street. Businessmen and women traveled past them. Dauphin stopped one of them, "Do you have the time?"
The man glanced up from his walk along the ground, "Oh no, I don't carry a watch, I couldn't tell you the time if it meant my life"
Dauphin smiled, "That's no problem, I never know the real time either"
They parted ways and continued walking down the road. Frey glanced at Dauphin, "Now why did you do that?"
Dauphin laughed, "Look man, these people may seem like computer simulations, like the lady in the red dress. But they are as real as can get. This is their world to them. We know their world as those fucking fetus fields where they are trapped, but as long as we're here to them we are human, we should act like one".
"Human kind wasn't exactly the greatest species to begin with," Frey said.
"The species was like a virus, we've heard it before. But look at Zion. 250,000 of us living together in peace man. None of us fight, there are no murders. Once you see there are so few of us left you stop thinking of yourself and start thinking of the good of our kind. You see that we are truly all one giant group"
"So this is how you bored Bacchus to sleep?"
"More or less"
"Well, let me ask you this then dude. How do you know that our species isn't going to go back to it's shitty ways before The Matrix"
"Faith man, that's all I can run off of for now"
Frey glanced up towards the sky, "That seems like what all of us run off of"
Dauphin glanced backwards to check if there was anyone behind him, "Frey, do you think we can pick up a reception nearby without the Matrix catching us?"
Frey nodded, "Yeah, there's an alley up ahead"
"Whatever works man, we need to get in contact with Echo"
Dauphin and Frey turned left into a small alley way and Dauphin sat down next to a dumpster. Frey flicked his phone out and dialed, "Operator?"
"You've got me" Echo replied.
"Is the rest of the team ready to get in?"
"Not yet, almost. Give them a bit of rest."
"Alright, when they come in, where are you gonna send em?"
"Diner outside of the freeway. Hold on, I've got something on my screen"
"Alright, Call us back A.S.A.P"
Frey hung up the phone. He glanced at Dauphin and shook his head, "The team is having a small problem. They need a bit of rest."
Dauphin chuckled, "I can work with that. We don't have much going on other than getting this disc copied and sent."
"Copied and sent?"
"Wrong terminology. We jack out with the disc, and we can leave it on our hard drive. Then Echo can read the disc on our comp. Of course the shit will be encrypted, but you know how good she is"
The phone rang and Frey picked it up, "Yessum?"
Frey leaned up against the wall as a very familiar voice came thgrough the phone.
"Your friend is on the freeway?" Echo mumbled.
"Eizus?!" Frey shouted.
"If he's this weird string of code, he is on the freeway. And it looks like he's up to something. He has about five or six others with him. Including the three agents. He's moving with a purpose to"
"So what do we do?" Frey asked.
"He's after something "
"So we have to go after them?"
"No have, you have a choice, you don't have to. But if you want to get this bastard, your going to have to get after him now"
"Fine"
"You owe me six dollars"
"I hate you, I really do"
"Sure thing Frey, I love you too"
Frey slammed the phone in his pocket. "Eizus is on the freeway. We're going after him"
"We're starting to seem like the power rangers" Dauphin mumbled.
Frey got up and Dauphin followed him out into the street. Dauphin picked up his step and stopped in the middle of the street. Frey stood next to him and placed his hands behind his back.
"This gonna work?" Frey asked.
"No, it won't." Dauphin smiled. The traffic around them buzzed along the street, but their lane remained empty. They stood there, listening to cat calls of "GET OUT OF THE ROAD YOU FUCKING MORONS!" and "STONERS!!". Dauphin laughed to himself when finally, a small blue economy car came puttering up the road.
"See? It is our fate" Dauphin laughed.
"Fate hates us" Frey mumbled. Dauphin held his hand up, palm outwards and mouthed stop to the car. Frey walked to the passengers side door. He opened it up and sat in the seat. The driver glanced at him like he was insane until he was yanked out with an amazing amount of force.
"Sorry! Emergency! I'll get this back to you" Dauphin shouted as he hopped in, slammed his foot on the gas and shut the door. Frey's head hit the back of the chair. He felt the pain for a quick second and glanced over to him, "Next time, I drive"
"Like any good sidekick, you will in due time"
"Quit being a smartass"
"That depends on your perception of a smartass"
Frey shut his mouth and Dauphin sped up, "Call Echo and find out where Eizus is" Dauphin said. Frey picked up the phone and slammed his hands on the numbers, and the phone rang.
"Eizus location, now"
"He's on a pedestrian overpass right now, he's not moving." Echo said, Frey could hear typing in the background, it seemed almost as if a rapid fire machine gun was being unloaded inside the ship.
"Where at?" Frey asked.
"Hold on, you guys are in a blue car? I think I've got a bean on you." Echo said. And after another couple of seconds, "Alright gentlemen, he's about two blocks away. Your going to have to hop out of the car. Like I said, it's a pedestrian overpass."
"So we have to face him?"
"Until he moves, yes. You will."
"Fucking wonderful" Frey said as he shut the phone off and glanced out the windshield, "Dauphin! Stop now!" and Frey's head jolted forward and hit the dashboard.
"The overpass?" Dauphin mumbled.
"Yes" Frey nodded and he unstrapped his seat belt and jumped out of the car. Dauphin followed and sprinted to catch up to him, "You're a little to anxious to be facing this guy, you know that"
"Dauphin, quit. Please. Just stop it"
"Sure thing" He said as they walked on to the overpass.
The overpass was a solid concrete structure sitting over the freeway. It connected half the city with the other half. It was covered in graffitti. It was a straight arch, nothing to fancy about it. It had a cage around it so noone would fall out of it.
It seemed as if the air had gotten heavier. Frey felt as if everything started to fall onto his shoulders. Dauphin followed behind him, and as they traveled up the arch, they could see Eizus body start to take shape. He was staring outwards, over the freeway. He glanced to his left and laughed to himself, "I don't know why you gentlemen are hellbent on destroying me. You will fail, as your predecessors beforehand did"
"I'd like to see you try and prove yourself right," Frey said. His eyes had narrowed, his brows almost downwards in two parallel lines. Dauphin leaned back against the overpass and stared at Eizus. He sensed something about him, as if this had happened before. Eizus was still laughing when he appeared in front of Frey and slammed his fist into Frey's face. Frey felt his body fly upwards, and in a backflip through the air, he grabbed the top grating of the overpass and threw his feet outwards. His left foot smacked into Eizus' chest and knocked him backwards. Frey dropped down and then Dauphin leaped over him. Eizus jumped to the left and Frey flew to the right, they both sailed directly past each other. Frey stood up and him and Eizus were face to face. Eizus slammed his fist around Frey's throat and held him up in the air. Frey began to lose air. Dauphin thrust his foot into Eizus' back and caused him to drop Frey. Eizus turned around and threw a pucn. Dauphin ducked and threw one of his own. Eizus grabbed his arm and twisted it, Dauphin's body following in the air. Frey grabbed Eizus other arm, only to find it disappearing in his grip. It had turned green, and scrolling code had caused it to become transparent.
"What the hell?!" Dauphin shouted.
"No Way!" Frey's jaw almost dropped to the floor.
Eizus moved away from both of them, materialized and smiled. "Gentlemen, this is more difficult than you could ever imagine"
"Bull" Frey mumbled.
Frey dove towards him, both hands wailing in the air. He attempted to slam them down over Eizus' head. Eizus quickly flicked his palm out into the air and grabbed Frey's left hand. He swung with all his strength and slammed him into the side of the overpass. Frey shouted out in full force, Eizus turned his head and began to laugh. Then he felt a fist slam into the side of his head. Dauphin slammed his fists into Eizus left and right, he let all his strength into them, he then brought his right foot up and kicked him in the chin, and letting his left foot follow, flipped backwards. Frey jumped up from the ground and tackled Eizus' falling body in midair. As Frey lay on top of Eizus body, he unsheathed his sword, only to see Eizus with a small gash staring back at him, smiling wildly.
"Now, the fun begins".
Eizus jumped up, Flinging Frey backwards, he then ran upwards, and phased through the top of the grating. He smiled and held his hand up, then with a small control, clicked a button. Dauphin and Frey felt the ground rumble under them, and then
Fire ripped through the air, concrete flying all over in the air. Dauphin felt the heat around him, and the ground fall underneath him. It was as if he could almost fly. He felt himself falling to the ground. Heat gathering closer to him, he could feel his pants being singed. He hit the ground, he thought he was going to fly through it.
Dauphin attempted to move his left leg, and he felt it twitch. He pushed his hands against the ground. And he felt himself beginning to stand up.
"FREY!!!" He called out.
"MOTHERFUCKING HELL!!!!!" Came the response. "Dauphin! I'm fucking pinned by this huge ass pole!"
"Does anything hurt?!"
"NO!!!! BUT THIS POLE IS CAUSING MY CHEST TO FEEL LIKE SHIT!!"
Dauphin ran full sprint over a humongous pile of rubble. He kicked a pole over. "Frey?!"
"Over here!!" He saw a hand wave up in the air. The jacket on it was ripped.
"Frey, that's not a pole on you, that's the hugest piece of concrete I have ever seen."
Frey lay underneath a large chunk of concrete with a small pole sticking out of it, he was breathing and he had a small gash on the top of his right eye. He winced a smile, "It doesn't matter now, we're lucky to have survived that blast. Stupid motherfucking piece of shit bastard Eizus…"
Dauphin wrapped his arms under the left side of the concrete and shouted as he felt the strain hit his arms. He struggled, "YAAAAAHHHH!!!!!" and finally, pushed the concrete over and watched it shatter on the ground.
Frey struggled to stand up, "Man, this is fucking bad." He brushed himself off.
Dauphin stood there with his arms crossed. "Freeway is empty"
"Eizus was on it, he must be able to control things like that"
Frey felt something twitch by his foot, "Holy shit"
Dauphin flicked his head to the left to see that all the concrete was gone. And then something rushed past them, the entire freeway was covered in cars. One rushed behind Frey. Another one zoomed behind Dauphin. Dauphin glanced to his left and jumped onto the freeway median. In mid-air, he saw a car driving straight for Frey. "FREY!"
Frey swung his head over, saw the car and attempted to jump into the air, he felt the very top of the car slide under his stomach. He landed and jumped onto the freeway median also.
The phone buzzed inside Frey's pocket, as it always seemed to. He flicked it open and handed it to Dauphin this time.
"Hello?"
"Dauphin, it's Echo. I'm jacking the team back in soon. I noticed you guys are on the freeway"
"Yes, we are."
"Look, you have to get down it, like three or four exits and hop the wall. I know you two can do it with your level of skill. The team is going to be jacked into a shitty diner outside of that wall."
"So pass four exits, hai"
Dauphin hung up the phone. He nodded to Frey, "We have to run down the freeway for about a mile or two. Dodging a shitload of traffic, we can go about 400 feet on the median, but then it goes away"
Dauphin handed Frey the phone and began walking along the median. Frey followed him, "There's police up ahead. I know that they are after us, I can feel it like lightning in my spine"
They continued walking until the median ended. They stepped off and broke out into a run. Dauphin moved to the left and Frey to the right. Frey turned himself sideways as a car roared past him. He heard police sirens explode into the air. Dauphin leaped to the left of one car and then to the ride of another. He felt it swish through his trench coat. Dauphin jumped up and moved over to where Frey was. Frey jumped out of the way of another one. Still in full sprint, Frey saw a truck headed right towards him, he flattened himself in the middle of two lanes and felt cars rip in between him. Dauphin dropped to the ground and felt the truck sail over him. Dauphin jumped up and saw two police cars headed towards him, one was turning to the right and the other leaning to the left. Dauphin jumped up and ran over the hood off one of them as the two cars collided, sending metal flying all over. Another car slammed into the two police cars and dragged them along the road.
Frey had a humongous van heading towards him, he unsheathed his sword again. And in full sprint ran right towards it, mouth wide open in a battle cry, he could see the drivers face, scared. He then proceded to slam the sword into the front of the car and propell himself over it, slicing through the car as he flew through the air. He heard the car split in half and the driver scream as he ran out of the traffics way. Dauphin jumped over one of the flying chunks and moved over to the left, "FREY! TWO MORE EXITS!" he shouted as one flew by, the exit to "Fruitridge blvd". Dauphin slid to the left and then to the right. He saw a cop car heading towards him, and he brought out his staff and swung it into the side, knocking the car across the freeway. His face lit up as the car burst into flames on the side of the freeway. Frey leapt over another car, "DAUPHIN! ONE MORE!!" as the exit to "Freeport blvd" flew past them. Dauphin slid across the lanes as another car flew by him, this one not a cop car but a black one. And finally they could see the exit sign approaching nearby. Dauphin waved to Frey and he ran across the lanes. They both then leaped high up in the air and landed on the wall. They sat there for a bit, "What the hell is that?!" Frey called out as a black dot zoomed out of nowhere, and it flew past them in a blur of black.
"Neo…." Dauphin mumbled, and then an explosion shot off just to their right, flames rising high up into the air, black billowing smoke everywhere. Metal chunks flew to their left and right, and they saw that the flying black dot/Neo had something in his hands as he flew into the air.
Frey picked up the phone, "Neo passed us Echo! Is he alright?!"
"He's fine, he picked up Morpheus and The Keymaker, they were on the freeway as you guys were running down it, you lessened up the heat on them. Then the two trucks they were on collided, Link nearly had a fucking heart attack"
"You have a lot to tell us when we jack out Echo," Frey mumbled and hung up the phone.
"Fucking Neo saved Morpheus and Keymaker from that huge ass explosion just now. We ended up lessening the heat on them because we had the cops charging us"
Dauphin leaned over, "The drop isn't that harsh Frey, we should go down. You can see a shitty diner just down the street"
Frey leaned back and fell off the wall, and landed his shoulders in a humongous pile of boxes. Dauphin slid off the top and walked over, handing Frey a help up, "Doesn't work like the building, not enough free fall time man"
Frey brushed himself off and stood up, "I should consider getting self cleaning clothes, this brushing off stuff is getting beyond annoying"
"Humanity is at stake, and your worried about dirty clothes"
"Damn right I am, if we cant have that, there's no point in saving them"
"Of course"
The began their walk to the diner and saw that the team was just walking out. Dauphin waved to them and walked over. Frey smiled and rushed to them, he started speaking with Cross immediately. Bacchus walked over to Dauphin, "Heard you guys were on the freeway"
"Almost got blown up, and saw both Eizus and Neo. We have a disc now, we're going to go see the prophet, you guys wanna rest up real quick?"
"Yeah" Bacchus smiled.
Dauphin strolled over to the rest of the team, gave them a quick nod, "Shit is hitting the fan now."
Frey began telling everyone what had happened after the rest of the team left, Cross listening with all his attention. Bacchus and Jord stood next to each other.
Frey and Dauphin stood outside of the diner with the rest of the team. Jord and Bacchus had their hands in their pockets while Cross sat on the ground. Pedestrians walked by them, not even noticing until Dauphin stood up and looked at one of them. He held his hand out to one of them. A man stopped and looked up at him quietely until Dauphin spoke, "Excuse me sir, do you have the time?"
Freefall was like nothing Dauphin had ever imagined. He leapt off the building for a quick escape from whatever might follow. His trench coat blew in the wind as he fell, he began to rotate himself so that way he landed on the ground on his feet instead of his head. His body strained against it but he finally did it. He looked up to see another form that had leapt off the building after him. The floors flew by him in such a blur and the ground was now more rapidly approaching than ever. Finally, his feet hit the ground. The world arround him seemed to roar when he landed. He felt his body slam into the ground and start actually burying itself into it. Shockwaves whirled past him and slammed into a building nearby, causing the windows to shatter. The ground around him cracked. Then the ground returned to normal. And then the world seemed to shockwave again, and Dauphin whirled around to see Frey standing there.
"Copycat" Dauphin smirked.
"Who said I was going to let you do all the cool stuff" Frey laughed.
"Let's get a move on so we can call Echo and she can tell us what type of info is on this damned thing" Dauphin said.
"The disc?" Frey asked.
"No, I wanted to know what fabric was used on my pants. Of course the disc" Dauphin said.
Frey nodded. They began to walk. The sky gave off a greenish tint. This came from the humongous amount of industrial work nearby filtering into the air, or so they wanted you to believe. All the computer signals triggered in your mind would tell you exactly what you saw inside of the Matrix.
Dauphin glanced at Frey who focused on looking forward, they walked down the street. Businessmen and women traveled past them. Dauphin stopped one of them, "Do you have the time?"
The man glanced up from his walk along the ground, "Oh no, I don't carry a watch, I couldn't tell you the time if it meant my life"
Dauphin smiled, "That's no problem, I never know the real time either"
They parted ways and continued walking down the road. Frey glanced at Dauphin, "Now why did you do that?"
Dauphin laughed, "Look man, these people may seem like computer simulations, like the lady in the red dress. But they are as real as can get. This is their world to them. We know their world as those fucking fetus fields where they are trapped, but as long as we're here to them we are human, we should act like one".
"Human kind wasn't exactly the greatest species to begin with," Frey said.
"The species was like a virus, we've heard it before. But look at Zion. 250,000 of us living together in peace man. None of us fight, there are no murders. Once you see there are so few of us left you stop thinking of yourself and start thinking of the good of our kind. You see that we are truly all one giant group"
"So this is how you bored Bacchus to sleep?"
"More or less"
"Well, let me ask you this then dude. How do you know that our species isn't going to go back to it's shitty ways before The Matrix"
"Faith man, that's all I can run off of for now"
Frey glanced up towards the sky, "That seems like what all of us run off of"
Dauphin glanced backwards to check if there was anyone behind him, "Frey, do you think we can pick up a reception nearby without the Matrix catching us?"
Frey nodded, "Yeah, there's an alley up ahead"
"Whatever works man, we need to get in contact with Echo"
Dauphin and Frey turned left into a small alley way and Dauphin sat down next to a dumpster. Frey flicked his phone out and dialed, "Operator?"
"You've got me" Echo replied.
"Is the rest of the team ready to get in?"
"Not yet, almost. Give them a bit of rest."
"Alright, when they come in, where are you gonna send em?"
"Diner outside of the freeway. Hold on, I've got something on my screen"
"Alright, Call us back A.S.A.P"
Frey hung up the phone. He glanced at Dauphin and shook his head, "The team is having a small problem. They need a bit of rest."
Dauphin chuckled, "I can work with that. We don't have much going on other than getting this disc copied and sent."
"Copied and sent?"
"Wrong terminology. We jack out with the disc, and we can leave it on our hard drive. Then Echo can read the disc on our comp. Of course the shit will be encrypted, but you know how good she is"
The phone rang and Frey picked it up, "Yessum?"
Frey leaned up against the wall as a very familiar voice came thgrough the phone.
"Your friend is on the freeway?" Echo mumbled.
"Eizus?!" Frey shouted.
"If he's this weird string of code, he is on the freeway. And it looks like he's up to something. He has about five or six others with him. Including the three agents. He's moving with a purpose to"
"So what do we do?" Frey asked.
"He's after something "
"So we have to go after them?"
"No have, you have a choice, you don't have to. But if you want to get this bastard, your going to have to get after him now"
"Fine"
"You owe me six dollars"
"I hate you, I really do"
"Sure thing Frey, I love you too"
Frey slammed the phone in his pocket. "Eizus is on the freeway. We're going after him"
"We're starting to seem like the power rangers" Dauphin mumbled.
Frey got up and Dauphin followed him out into the street. Dauphin picked up his step and stopped in the middle of the street. Frey stood next to him and placed his hands behind his back.
"This gonna work?" Frey asked.
"No, it won't." Dauphin smiled. The traffic around them buzzed along the street, but their lane remained empty. They stood there, listening to cat calls of "GET OUT OF THE ROAD YOU FUCKING MORONS!" and "STONERS!!". Dauphin laughed to himself when finally, a small blue economy car came puttering up the road.
"See? It is our fate" Dauphin laughed.
"Fate hates us" Frey mumbled. Dauphin held his hand up, palm outwards and mouthed stop to the car. Frey walked to the passengers side door. He opened it up and sat in the seat. The driver glanced at him like he was insane until he was yanked out with an amazing amount of force.
"Sorry! Emergency! I'll get this back to you" Dauphin shouted as he hopped in, slammed his foot on the gas and shut the door. Frey's head hit the back of the chair. He felt the pain for a quick second and glanced over to him, "Next time, I drive"
"Like any good sidekick, you will in due time"
"Quit being a smartass"
"That depends on your perception of a smartass"
Frey shut his mouth and Dauphin sped up, "Call Echo and find out where Eizus is" Dauphin said. Frey picked up the phone and slammed his hands on the numbers, and the phone rang.
"Eizus location, now"
"He's on a pedestrian overpass right now, he's not moving." Echo said, Frey could hear typing in the background, it seemed almost as if a rapid fire machine gun was being unloaded inside the ship.
"Where at?" Frey asked.
"Hold on, you guys are in a blue car? I think I've got a bean on you." Echo said. And after another couple of seconds, "Alright gentlemen, he's about two blocks away. Your going to have to hop out of the car. Like I said, it's a pedestrian overpass."
"So we have to face him?"
"Until he moves, yes. You will."
"Fucking wonderful" Frey said as he shut the phone off and glanced out the windshield, "Dauphin! Stop now!" and Frey's head jolted forward and hit the dashboard.
"The overpass?" Dauphin mumbled.
"Yes" Frey nodded and he unstrapped his seat belt and jumped out of the car. Dauphin followed and sprinted to catch up to him, "You're a little to anxious to be facing this guy, you know that"
"Dauphin, quit. Please. Just stop it"
"Sure thing" He said as they walked on to the overpass.
The overpass was a solid concrete structure sitting over the freeway. It connected half the city with the other half. It was covered in graffitti. It was a straight arch, nothing to fancy about it. It had a cage around it so noone would fall out of it.
It seemed as if the air had gotten heavier. Frey felt as if everything started to fall onto his shoulders. Dauphin followed behind him, and as they traveled up the arch, they could see Eizus body start to take shape. He was staring outwards, over the freeway. He glanced to his left and laughed to himself, "I don't know why you gentlemen are hellbent on destroying me. You will fail, as your predecessors beforehand did"
"I'd like to see you try and prove yourself right," Frey said. His eyes had narrowed, his brows almost downwards in two parallel lines. Dauphin leaned back against the overpass and stared at Eizus. He sensed something about him, as if this had happened before. Eizus was still laughing when he appeared in front of Frey and slammed his fist into Frey's face. Frey felt his body fly upwards, and in a backflip through the air, he grabbed the top grating of the overpass and threw his feet outwards. His left foot smacked into Eizus' chest and knocked him backwards. Frey dropped down and then Dauphin leaped over him. Eizus jumped to the left and Frey flew to the right, they both sailed directly past each other. Frey stood up and him and Eizus were face to face. Eizus slammed his fist around Frey's throat and held him up in the air. Frey began to lose air. Dauphin thrust his foot into Eizus' back and caused him to drop Frey. Eizus turned around and threw a pucn. Dauphin ducked and threw one of his own. Eizus grabbed his arm and twisted it, Dauphin's body following in the air. Frey grabbed Eizus other arm, only to find it disappearing in his grip. It had turned green, and scrolling code had caused it to become transparent.
"What the hell?!" Dauphin shouted.
"No Way!" Frey's jaw almost dropped to the floor.
Eizus moved away from both of them, materialized and smiled. "Gentlemen, this is more difficult than you could ever imagine"
"Bull" Frey mumbled.
Frey dove towards him, both hands wailing in the air. He attempted to slam them down over Eizus' head. Eizus quickly flicked his palm out into the air and grabbed Frey's left hand. He swung with all his strength and slammed him into the side of the overpass. Frey shouted out in full force, Eizus turned his head and began to laugh. Then he felt a fist slam into the side of his head. Dauphin slammed his fists into Eizus left and right, he let all his strength into them, he then brought his right foot up and kicked him in the chin, and letting his left foot follow, flipped backwards. Frey jumped up from the ground and tackled Eizus' falling body in midair. As Frey lay on top of Eizus body, he unsheathed his sword, only to see Eizus with a small gash staring back at him, smiling wildly.
"Now, the fun begins".
Eizus jumped up, Flinging Frey backwards, he then ran upwards, and phased through the top of the grating. He smiled and held his hand up, then with a small control, clicked a button. Dauphin and Frey felt the ground rumble under them, and then
Fire ripped through the air, concrete flying all over in the air. Dauphin felt the heat around him, and the ground fall underneath him. It was as if he could almost fly. He felt himself falling to the ground. Heat gathering closer to him, he could feel his pants being singed. He hit the ground, he thought he was going to fly through it.
Dauphin attempted to move his left leg, and he felt it twitch. He pushed his hands against the ground. And he felt himself beginning to stand up.
"FREY!!!" He called out.
"MOTHERFUCKING HELL!!!!!" Came the response. "Dauphin! I'm fucking pinned by this huge ass pole!"
"Does anything hurt?!"
"NO!!!! BUT THIS POLE IS CAUSING MY CHEST TO FEEL LIKE SHIT!!"
Dauphin ran full sprint over a humongous pile of rubble. He kicked a pole over. "Frey?!"
"Over here!!" He saw a hand wave up in the air. The jacket on it was ripped.
"Frey, that's not a pole on you, that's the hugest piece of concrete I have ever seen."
Frey lay underneath a large chunk of concrete with a small pole sticking out of it, he was breathing and he had a small gash on the top of his right eye. He winced a smile, "It doesn't matter now, we're lucky to have survived that blast. Stupid motherfucking piece of shit bastard Eizus…"
Dauphin wrapped his arms under the left side of the concrete and shouted as he felt the strain hit his arms. He struggled, "YAAAAAHHHH!!!!!" and finally, pushed the concrete over and watched it shatter on the ground.
Frey struggled to stand up, "Man, this is fucking bad." He brushed himself off.
Dauphin stood there with his arms crossed. "Freeway is empty"
"Eizus was on it, he must be able to control things like that"
Frey felt something twitch by his foot, "Holy shit"
Dauphin flicked his head to the left to see that all the concrete was gone. And then something rushed past them, the entire freeway was covered in cars. One rushed behind Frey. Another one zoomed behind Dauphin. Dauphin glanced to his left and jumped onto the freeway median. In mid-air, he saw a car driving straight for Frey. "FREY!"
Frey swung his head over, saw the car and attempted to jump into the air, he felt the very top of the car slide under his stomach. He landed and jumped onto the freeway median also.
The phone buzzed inside Frey's pocket, as it always seemed to. He flicked it open and handed it to Dauphin this time.
"Hello?"
"Dauphin, it's Echo. I'm jacking the team back in soon. I noticed you guys are on the freeway"
"Yes, we are."
"Look, you have to get down it, like three or four exits and hop the wall. I know you two can do it with your level of skill. The team is going to be jacked into a shitty diner outside of that wall."
"So pass four exits, hai"
Dauphin hung up the phone. He nodded to Frey, "We have to run down the freeway for about a mile or two. Dodging a shitload of traffic, we can go about 400 feet on the median, but then it goes away"
Dauphin handed Frey the phone and began walking along the median. Frey followed him, "There's police up ahead. I know that they are after us, I can feel it like lightning in my spine"
They continued walking until the median ended. They stepped off and broke out into a run. Dauphin moved to the left and Frey to the right. Frey turned himself sideways as a car roared past him. He heard police sirens explode into the air. Dauphin leaped to the left of one car and then to the ride of another. He felt it swish through his trench coat. Dauphin jumped up and moved over to where Frey was. Frey jumped out of the way of another one. Still in full sprint, Frey saw a truck headed right towards him, he flattened himself in the middle of two lanes and felt cars rip in between him. Dauphin dropped to the ground and felt the truck sail over him. Dauphin jumped up and saw two police cars headed towards him, one was turning to the right and the other leaning to the left. Dauphin jumped up and ran over the hood off one of them as the two cars collided, sending metal flying all over. Another car slammed into the two police cars and dragged them along the road.
Frey had a humongous van heading towards him, he unsheathed his sword again. And in full sprint ran right towards it, mouth wide open in a battle cry, he could see the drivers face, scared. He then proceded to slam the sword into the front of the car and propell himself over it, slicing through the car as he flew through the air. He heard the car split in half and the driver scream as he ran out of the traffics way. Dauphin jumped over one of the flying chunks and moved over to the left, "FREY! TWO MORE EXITS!" he shouted as one flew by, the exit to "Fruitridge blvd". Dauphin slid to the left and then to the right. He saw a cop car heading towards him, and he brought out his staff and swung it into the side, knocking the car across the freeway. His face lit up as the car burst into flames on the side of the freeway. Frey leapt over another car, "DAUPHIN! ONE MORE!!" as the exit to "Freeport blvd" flew past them. Dauphin slid across the lanes as another car flew by him, this one not a cop car but a black one. And finally they could see the exit sign approaching nearby. Dauphin waved to Frey and he ran across the lanes. They both then leaped high up in the air and landed on the wall. They sat there for a bit, "What the hell is that?!" Frey called out as a black dot zoomed out of nowhere, and it flew past them in a blur of black.
"Neo…." Dauphin mumbled, and then an explosion shot off just to their right, flames rising high up into the air, black billowing smoke everywhere. Metal chunks flew to their left and right, and they saw that the flying black dot/Neo had something in his hands as he flew into the air.
Frey picked up the phone, "Neo passed us Echo! Is he alright?!"
"He's fine, he picked up Morpheus and The Keymaker, they were on the freeway as you guys were running down it, you lessened up the heat on them. Then the two trucks they were on collided, Link nearly had a fucking heart attack"
"You have a lot to tell us when we jack out Echo," Frey mumbled and hung up the phone.
"Fucking Neo saved Morpheus and Keymaker from that huge ass explosion just now. We ended up lessening the heat on them because we had the cops charging us"
Dauphin leaned over, "The drop isn't that harsh Frey, we should go down. You can see a shitty diner just down the street"
Frey leaned back and fell off the wall, and landed his shoulders in a humongous pile of boxes. Dauphin slid off the top and walked over, handing Frey a help up, "Doesn't work like the building, not enough free fall time man"
Frey brushed himself off and stood up, "I should consider getting self cleaning clothes, this brushing off stuff is getting beyond annoying"
"Humanity is at stake, and your worried about dirty clothes"
"Damn right I am, if we cant have that, there's no point in saving them"
"Of course"
The began their walk to the diner and saw that the team was just walking out. Dauphin waved to them and walked over. Frey smiled and rushed to them, he started speaking with Cross immediately. Bacchus walked over to Dauphin, "Heard you guys were on the freeway"
"Almost got blown up, and saw both Eizus and Neo. We have a disc now, we're going to go see the prophet, you guys wanna rest up real quick?"
"Yeah" Bacchus smiled.
Dauphin strolled over to the rest of the team, gave them a quick nod, "Shit is hitting the fan now."
Frey began telling everyone what had happened after the rest of the team left, Cross listening with all his attention. Bacchus and Jord stood next to each other.
Frey and Dauphin stood outside of the diner with the rest of the team. Jord and Bacchus had their hands in their pockets while Cross sat on the ground. Pedestrians walked by them, not even noticing until Dauphin stood up and looked at one of them. He held his hand out to one of them. A man stopped and looked up at him quietely until Dauphin spoke, "Excuse me sir, do you have the time?"