Chapter 11- Captured
Rath opened fire at the swarm around the hole, letting energy, explosions and shrapnel cover the area as the arms of the backpack he wore spit out an amazing amount of firepower in rockets, energy orbs, and laser beams. The effect was noticeable, but did nothing to stop the survivors as they left the wounded where they lay. The older Bruce, with the chin beard, was the first to use his sword, as he threw it. It cut the legs out of one, then landed the point into two of them.
Absolute chaos was all that could be said after that. Everyone jumped, slashed, parried, trusted, and punched at anyone in their way. Yet, none of the 10 ever hit one another. They all seemed to make a morbid dance, leaving blood and parts and the dead behind them in a graceful series. No one missed a beat as Rath joined, swapping his backpack mounted siege weapon for a short sword. Then as clear as day Bruce and Steven met.
Bruce stood with his arms out wide, inviting the other in to a trap. He parried the trust, and put a right hook where Steven's jaw was half a second earlier. Steven slashed upwards and downwards. But Bruce was not easily trapped, as he batted both swords away with his right, then made a wide, looping slash with his left. Their skills with their blades evenly matched, or so it seemed. Steven let lose a bolt of blue lightning that Bruce caught and sent it at a man/machine that was about to come down on Beth. Bruce then sent a swirl of red and green light at Steven with his fingers. It was then that Asu decided to break the careful balance that Bruce had maintained.
She came in, brass knuckles hitting Steven's head soundly. Steven recovered quickly and made a hasty slash at her, which she caught on the knuckles. Steven now had to fight two instead of just one. He decided to fix that, by dropping a fist sized box on the ground, and a count down started on its digital display.
"You have two minutes before a twenty megaton blast rips this place apart. I suggest you start working on hacking its clock now."
Bruce looked at the box, then Steven. Steven was fighting Asu; there was only one choice. He knelt and opened up his right arm implant and plugged the proper cord into the slot. It took little more then half a second to disarm the bomb, but the bomb had done enough. Bruce looked up just in time to see a hypospray pour a sedative into Asu's blood stream. Steven, with Asu over his shoulder, went back to the hole and left in the digging machine that Bruce hadn't noticed thought the mob and the fighting. The drones were almost all dead by now, so he had time to think. To think about the growing sense of doom in his stomach.