Chapter. 31
It was Saturday morning when Lyle pulled his truck up into the library parking lot. Lyle turned off the engine and climbed out along with Corina and Levi.
"What do you think this is about?" Asked Corina.
"That's what were here to find out." Levi sighed and walked ahead of everyone. The three arrived in the back room to find Jade and Catherine waiting. "What's going on?"
Jade waved her hand down to summon a brain burst territory map. Many of the opal zone were flashing red. "This is what's up! Ruby is making a huge push into our territory!"
Corina covered her mouth in shock, Lyle patted her back then turned to Jade. "How big is the invasion?"
"Almost everything they have. Catherine reported that the ruby legion is pulling most of its forces from the emerald front for this attack. Their willing to lose some of their own land for this attack." Jade scanned the room. "Where's Vincent?"
Levi shrugged. "Wasn't with us."
Jade turned to Catherine. "Call him."
Catherine moved her fingers then waited, after a minute Catherine waved her hand down. "He's not answering."
"Keep trying!"
"Maybe Vincent just wants to spent his weekend with his girlfriend." Said Corina.
"No she's not!" Catherine shouted as she stood up. "I know Vincent, he's not the type to fall for that bitch's little weak girl tricks."
Levi grinned. "What's the matter Catherine? You upset Vincent would rather be with an actually woman?"
"Shut the fuck up Levi!"
"I'd call you a two dollar whore, but we all know you're cheaper then that."
"Fuck you!"
"I don't do thots."
"Enough!" Shouted Jade. "Catherine find Vincent and get him ready to fight." Catherine's fists were shacking as she returned to her seat. "I'll need to move some of our forces from the emerald front to stop this attack. Lyle, Corina I'm putting you two as the only defenders in the one of the front line zones. Levi I'm moving you to any zones that need defending. Same for you too Catherine. We need hold as much as we can so you all need to win every single fight by any means. Use the incarnate system if you have to, just hold the line!"
Everyone nodded. "We still have some time before it starts. Catherine keep trying to reach Vincent, let's see if he'll ignore a call from his leader."
"Do we really need him that badly?" Asked Levi.
Jade pointed to the map. "Are you not seeing this? I need everyone on this! We're going to lose some territory from this but how must we can somewhat control."
A few minutes had passed and neither Catherine or Jade could get a hold of Vincent. Jade check the time to see they had two minutes left. "Fuck it. I'm gonna have to have a talk with Vincent when I see him. The battle is about to begin. Get ready, use the incarnate system if you have to! Winning is all that matters right now!" Shouted Jade.
"Very well." Lyle leaned back and cracked his knuckles.
Corina clapped her hand together. "I'm ready."
Levi rolled her neck and crossed her arms.
The world around them broke apart as it was being reshaped for their battles. Lyle and Corina stood in a destroyed city, before the couple stood a pair of blue avatars. Corina and Lyle rushed the two avatars. One of them drew a sword just as they were bashed down by Lyle's fists. The avatar held up their sword and Lyle slammed his shield on them, cutting the avatar with their own sword.
Corina held out her hands and blasted the other avatar with lasers, the avatar rushed towards Corina with a spear. Just as the avatar thrusted their weapon at her Corina spun out of the way and took off one of her pigtails, which extended an energy blade to be used to stab the avatar in the back of the head.
The battle was over and another began, a green avatar with shields on both arms and a metal avatar appeared and charged them. Lyle punched the green avatar who blocked with their shield, sliding back a couple feet. Lyle kept punching them to push them back, the avatar shoved its shields at against Lyle fist. With the avatar's arms out Lyle punched them on the side with his other fist, knocking them down. The avatar looked up just as Lyle decapitated them with the rim of his own shield.
The metal avatar throw punches at Corina as she kept backing away, watching their movements Corina waited for an opening. When the green avatar's health dropped the metal avatar stopped for a moment, Corina stopped moving back punched the avatar. The avatar blocked with their arms and Corina followed up with a jab to the stomach. Corina punched again but the avatar ducked and spun out of the way. The avatar caught Corina's next punch but was too slow to stop another stomach jab. She went for a punch to the head and the avatar caught her fist with both hands, letting Corina go for another stomach jab. The avatar throw a punch of its own, Corina knocked the avatar's arm away and struck them in the face. Corina punched them in the chest a few more times the finished with an uppercut. As the avatar stumbled Corina dashed behind them and snapped their neck.
The third battle began with a purple and red avatar appearing. Lyle held out his shield and rushed towards the red avatar as they shot at him with a minigun. The bullets were bouncing off the shield so the avatar aimed for Lyle's legs. Lyle dropped to his knees and lowered his head, trying t hide as much of himself as possible behind his shield. The red avatar stopped firing, Lyle looked over his shield to see the red avatar's weapon overheated. Lyle jumped to his feet and changed his shield to an ax. The red avatar froze in fear as Lyle bared down and split them in half.
Corina and the purple avatar circled each other firing lasers at each other. Corina stopped just before her lasers overheated and dashed to the purple avatar. The purple avatar straightened their hands and energy blades extended from them, they held their hands back then then lunged forward as Corina got closer. Corina pulled off her pig tails that became energy blades, she fell to her knees and slid under the purple's swords and cut them in half with her own.
The fourth battle started with two metal avatars, they rush towards Lyle and Corina who also did the same. The first metal avatar reached Corina and threw a punch, Corina sidestepped the attack and grabbed the avatar by the arm to throw them to the ground, leaving them to smashed under Lyle's fist.
Corina ducked under the second avatar's kick then punched them in the chest, followed with a roundhouse kick to the head, sending them to the ground. The tried to push themselves up but was also smashed under Lyle's fist.
"Hold long do we have to keep this up?" Asked Corina, resting her hands on her knees.
Lyle kneeled beside her and rubbed his hands. "We go as long as we have to."
A blue avatar and a yellow avatar appeared, signaling the fifth battle has began. The yellow avatar started punching the blue in the back to build up their special gauge, they placed their hand on the purple's back to turn them to a jet black.
The former blue avatar raised their sledgehammer and rushed to Corina. Corina drew her swords and ducked under the sledgehammer and slashed their chest once for the avatar to run right through her and towards Lyle.
Lyle punched down at the avatar but the fist went through them and the avatar struke Lyle in the knee with the sledgehammer then run behind him. Dropping one his wounded knee Lyle turned around and swung his arm at the avatar with once went through them as the swung the sledgehammer into Lyle's shoulder.
Corina turned her attention to the yellow avatar, she reattached her pig tails and fired lasers at them, which the avatar dodged. Lyle held out his shield to block the avatar's hammer attacks then noticed Corina trying to catch the yellow avatar. He changed his shield into an ax and hurled it at the yellow avatar just as the former blue avatar's hammer crashed into his hand.
The yellow avatar stopped running to just as the ax struke the ground in front of them. Their turned around and Corina placed his hand on the yellow avatar's face and fired lasers from her palms, killing the avatar.
The blue avatar's body color changed back to normal. Lyle grabbed them with his good hand and slammed them into the ground until their health was gone.
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