Chapter 12: Practice?
Meanwhile, in Pleroma…
Albedo: Show me that you're not weak! Ha ha haa!
Liquid: Have at you, laughing boy!
Albedo: Ha- huh?
Liquid throws a fireball like a baseball at Albedo and it strikes him in his left arm. The arm disintegrates. Albedo looks down at the stub and regenerates another arm. Just as he looks up, Liquid punches him in the face. Again and again, until he finishes with an uppercut, that makes Albedo do a back flip. Albedo uses this momentum to kick Liquid in the chin, which also launches him backwards. They both land on their feet a few yards away from each other.
Albedo: Not bad. But take this!
He throws a black ball of energy with both hands at Liquid. Liquid puts both arms in front of him and creates an invisible energy shield. The black energy ball hits the shield and Liquid slides on the floor a few feet back. The energy ball disperses and Liquid spreads out his arms at hip height with a rapid motion. It sends a large, green blade of energy at Albedo. Albedo lifts his leg up high and heel drops the blade and rams it into the ground. It creates a small crater in front of Albedo.
Albedo: Still standing, I see. But not for long!
He dashes at Liquid while bursting his fists into flames. Liquid braces himself while Albedo pummels him with fire punches.
Albedo: Come on, Come ON, COME ON! Now DIE!
Liquid: Take this!
Liquid puts both his hands together and raises them at Albedo's chin. It throws him in the air, but before he can go higher, he hits him in the stomach, hard. This causes him to bend in the air. As he begins to fall, Liquid kicks him in the face while still in midair. This sends him flying and spinning up high. Liquid throws a massive fireball at him and hits him while twenty feet in the air. The impact sends him like a rocket against the wall. The impact cracks the wall and Albedo begins to fall to the ground, but he begins to float in midair.
Liquid: Damn! He can do that, too!
Albedo: Arrgh!
He had been underestimating Liquid. He was beginning to get impatient. He began to create a massive black ball of energy over his head with his hands.
Liquid: Oh crap.
Albedo: This is the power granted to me by U-DO! Have a taste!
Margulis: Damn. He's getting too serious. He could kill him.
Albedo launches the massive ball of energy down at Liquid, but he dodges it by jumping up high in the air. The energy ball does massive damage to the concrete floor. Liquid then notices that he is still up in the air, floating.
Liquid: And so can I.
He looks up and sees Albedo still floating in the air at the same height as his. He had a shocked look in his face.
Liquid: My turn!
He puts his elbows beside his hip and his firsts facing Albedo. Albedo does the same and they both begin to gather their energies.
Margulis: Damn, fools!
They both fly at each other and their energies collide. They keep pushing at each other, trying to blast the other away. There was a swarm of red and black energy all around them. Many U-TIC soldiers were watching this in awe.
Liquid: Uarghh!
Albedo: Ahhhhrghh!
They both make an impulse with their energies for an attempt to defeat the other, but because they both do it at the same time, they are blasted in opposite directions. Albedo hits the wall again and this time falls to the ground. Liquid hits the ground and slides across it a great distance. They both sit up and shake their heads. As they were about to get up to continue the fight, Margulis steps in.
Margulis: Stop it, you fools! You are making a mess of our base! You are supposed to be training, not trying to kill each other!
Albedo: Bah!
He says, as he stands up brushing himself off.
Liquid: I could've had him…
He murmurs under his breath.
Albedo: What was that!
Margulis: Stop it! You're acting like children. Now go rest or something. I have better things to do than to baby-sit you two.
