TIME FOR AN EPIC FIGHT!
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Perry's POV
I manage to catch Hermes as he and the other Bionics are leaving OWCA to go fight. The rest of them file out of the door as I talk to Hermes.
"Be careful," I tell my son quietly.
"I can't, Dad." Hermes's answer surprises me. "I'll fight as hard as I can. You can't be careful and win at the same time with this guy."
"Then you're not going," I say firmly.
"Dad…" Hermes sighs.
"I lost you once, I can't lose you again." I almost begin crying as I plead with my youngest son. "Please, I can't lose you again."
"Dad, there are twelve of us, counting Adrian," he says. "We have a good chance at beating him but we have to go now."
"Hermes?" It's Priya. She runs up to us and hugs Hermes tightly. "Please don't go. I-I don't want to see you get hurt."
"Mom, it'll be fine." Hermes gently pulls away from the two of us. "But I have to go now."
Priya begins crying into my shoulder as Hermes leaves OWCA, perhaps for good.
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Hermes's POV
The twelve of us are heading straight towards the main facility, the one that Bill and Dimitri were last seen at. I think I might have managed to figure out why the Overlord might want to attack a facility, and if it's why I think it is, then Bill and Dimitri are the targets.
I'm not sure how I feel about Bill and Dimitri. Of course, they were the ones who snatched me away from my mother and I will never forgive them for that, but they did give me these powers, and although it was in a horrible way, I feel like I'm better off with the powers. If I hadn't had powers, I would probably have lived in Teddy's and Hazel's shadows with nothing to set me apart from them. Now I am actually different.
Lydia's POV
We make it to the facility in just under an hour, seeing as it's one just outside Danville. We gather in a semi-circle as Hermes addresses us: "Remember, the Overlord is the enemy. Take him down at-."
The ground suddenly starts shaking again. Pretty much all of us except the ones that can fly fall over. I roll onto my stomach and look up. I see a figure walking along the ground towards us. He has a large red cloak on, along with a mask that covers his entire face apart from his eyes.
"That's him," says Carter rather matter-of-factly.
"I guessed," Anke snaps back.
"Bill Hawkes!" bellows the same gravelly voice that we heard after the battle with the Bionics.
A few seconds later, a large man comes running out of the facility, followed by a younger man. Bill and Dimitri. I recognise them instantly. They haven't changed much in the two years we've been away from them.
I see Hermes gnash his teeth and narrow his eyes at Bill and Dimitri. The other Bionics aren't reacting much better towards them. I feel angry with them too.
"Who are you?" demands Bill loudly.
Dimitri pretend-casually edges behind Bill for protection.
The Overlord laughs, which sends a chill down my spine. "You've really forgotten me already?"
"You do have a mask on," Bill points out in a mocking tone. "If you want me to remember you, why did you wear a mask so I can't see your face?"
"Bill, don't sass the scary guy with a big cloak and earthquake powers," we all hear Dimitri mutter to Bill, scared.
The Overlord lifts his hand and the ground shakes again. Bill and Dimitri lose their balance and topple over backwards. The Overlord takes a few more steps forwards, before Hermes yells, "Stop right there!"
"Oh, the Bionics." The Overlord grins. "The chosen dozen."
"Bionics?" gasps Dimitri in shock.
"Yes, your creations. They're here to protect you." The Overlord sighs deeply. "They really think they can stop me."
"We can stop you!" yells Anke bravely.
"Yeah!" Laurence agrees loudly, though his bravado seems to be fading fast.
"Didn't I banish you?" says the Overlord idly.
"No, you told everyone else to beat me up so I escaped," snarls Laurence. "Don't think I haven't forgotten."
"Oh, I didn't expect you to have forgotten. Anyway, enough talk."
The Overlord lifts his hands again.
Hermes's POV
In the same moment, Lateysha, Noah, and Blaze lift up Adrian, Lapis, and Libra respectively. I lift up everyone else with my telekinesis. This means that when the ground shakes for the third time, only Bill and Dimitri are affected.
While in the air, Lapis projects her falcon, which attacks the Overlord. At the same time, Libra launches fireballs and Noah flings energy blasts. The Overlord blocks all of these with a wave of his hand. Vibrations come out of his hand and knock all the missiles out of the air.
"Anke, get Bill and Dimitri out of here," I command my girlfriend.
"What?" She glares at me. "Why?"
"Because that's our job. We're here to protect them," I point out.
"Yes, but-." Anke ducks in mid-air, dodging a fireball that comes shooting her way.
"He can reflect our attacks back at us!" yells Blaze as she swoops past us.
"Anke, I don't care that you hate them because of what they did to you, do you think it's any easier for me?" I snap. "But for now, the Overlord is the bad guy, not them. Now do as I say."
Anke glares at me, before grumpily putting a dome around the two cowering men.
The Overlord clenches his fist and makes huge clods of earth pop up from the ground. They slowly change shape until they're vaguely human-shaped, and then they attack. Carter flings a sharp shard of metal at one of them, which cuts it in half. No sooner has it happened than the earthman (which is what I've now dubbed them) reforms and attacks Carter back, who scrambles backwards in great alarm.
"What are these?" he splutters.
"Everyone, listen!" I yell. "Tish, Noah, Lydia, Laurence, Carter, Lapis, Libra, and Charlie will fight these guys. Adrian, stay back and help if anyone gets injured. Anke, keep protecting Bill and Dimitri. Blaze, come with me to attack the Overlord."
Blaze swoops over my head as I use my telekinesis to propel myself quickly forwards. As I do, I forwards somersault over a fallen earthman as it reforms.
The Overlord is attacking the forcefield that holds Bill and Dimitri, both of whom are cowering in fear. I reach out with my telekinesis and push the Overlord into the wall of the facility. Then I pull his mask off telekinetically. I step back in horror.
Underneath the mask, his face is scarred, swollen, and marred. It looks very unhuman-like. As I watch the Overlord get up, long, scorched hair falls from a top hair bun. This makes his face look a lot more…
Feminine.
I hear Bill Hawkes gasp as the Overlord turns to face us.
"Tamsin?"
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?! XD the Overlord is a female?
