Sorry I haven't been able to update lately, I needed to find a way to connect this chapter to the other plans I have for future chapters. Wow, 17 people added this story to favorites, I feel honored. Anyways, the last part of this story is a bit gory than what I usually write, but no horror story material.
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"Model W and the others managed to escape, and now they have one more member." Shademan stands up from his throne to look at the six Robot Masters. "Shadowman, did you search the entire base for anything concerning his plan?"
"Model W's very good at covering his trail. If he had any plans stored in his hardware, it isn't there anymore. However, I did manage to find something interesting that might help us." Shadowman inserts something into the computer and a hologram of a graph appears in front of all the Robot Masters.
"You mind telling us what all this means?" Burnerman looks at the graph without a single clue. "This doesn't look like anything to me."
"Model W was working on a way to convert the lives of humanoids, reploids, and pure humans alike into a massive source of energy. This type of energy is nothing like the kind produced by the Ciel System or anything else. The green line represents the type of energy that is commonly used and the red line is the type of energy Model W would get by converting people."
Shademan compare the two lines and easily notes that the red line goes through the graph. "If he needs all of that, then he must be planning something big."
"I say we just hunt him down and burn everything that's left. That way, we won't have anything to worry about." Burnerman declares. "I don't know why all of you are making such a big deal out of Model W."
"He escaped last time and we have no idea where to look. How exactly do you think we can hunt him down?" Freezeman looks at the burning Robot Master. "Even if we do, he'll be expecting us and we'll be at a disadvantage."
"This actually all works out quite well of us." The other six Robot Masters stop talking and listen to their leader. "There's an ability that I wasn't able to use in the past due to the Three Laws of Robotics, but now we're no longer bound by those, so I'll finally be able to test it out. Here's what I want each of you to do…"
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Guardian HQ
"We've completed our search of this area. There are no abnormal activities going on here." The face of a Guardian soldier appears on the screen.
"Continue searching for any signs of the Robot Masters or Model W. I'll alert you if any of the other squads manage to find anything." The soldier acknowledges with a nod and Prairie turns off the transmission.
"Model W and the Robot Masters disappeared without leaving any trails behind. Searching isn't likely to yield any results." Ciel looks at the Guardian Commander tapping a nearby table with her fingers in impatience. "They've been at it for two hours now, this isn't working."
"It's the only thing we can do now. I'm not going to let anyone else get killed because of Model W and the Robot Masters. We can't just wait for them to attack and exhaust all our forces to hold them back just to get attacked again later. This needs to end soon."
"We've found… something…" The face of another soldier appears on the monitor. The screen is fuzzy and the voice is distorted. "It's… AHH!" The soldier lets out a scream before his face is completely replaced by static.
"Are you alright!? Answer me!" Prairie tries to contact the squad, but the signal doesn't get through. "Operators, trace the signal." The operators nod and begin working.
"We've traced the signals. We'll send the co-ordinates to the trans-server immediately. This will take a minute."
"Contact Zero, Aile, Vent, X, Harpuia, Leviathan and Fefnir immediately. This could be where one of their bases is located. We need everyone we can get." After about a minute, everyone enters the room and Prairie and Ciel explain the situation.
"This could be where either the Robot Masters or Model W is hiding. Are you sure that you're all ready to do this?" They all nod their heads and Ciel points to the trans-servers. "The data is ready. Get on and we'll teleport you."
The seven of them get on the different trans-servers and teleport out of Guardian HQ. "Do you think they'll be alright?" Ciel looks at Prairie.
"Whatever they're getting into, I'm sure it'll be okay. All seven of them are together, and Zero, X, Vent, and Aile have fought plenty of battles where they were outnumbered and still managed to win."
"Commander, sorry we weren't able to give our report earlier, something was blocking the signal." A Guardian soldier appears on the screen. "There doesn't seem to be any irregularities here, we're moving on to the next area."
"Wait, didn't you just give your report earlier?"
"No, we spent the last half hour trying to get through. Why do you say that?"
"Operators, what other squads are in charge of searching that area?" The operators start checking on Prairie's command.
"That's the only squad who's even close to the area that we got the last transmission from. None of the other squads can even get close to that area without the aid of the trans-server."
"Wait, that means…" Ciel starts typing into the computer and speaks into the microphone. "Zero, are you there? Answer me. ZERO!" Ciel slams her hands on the table in frustration and tries contacting the other six warriors with no luck.
"Operators, bring them back right now!" The operators start typing, but the trans-servers start to overload with electricity.
"Something's interfering… we need to shut down the trans-servers!" Ciel presses a few buttons on the computer and the trans-servers all stop glowing. Ciel sighs with relief and tries to contact Zero again.
"This isn't working… we just threw the seven of them into a trap." Prairie starts pacing around the room. "All of this is my fault. If I tried to check things more carefully, and if I wasn't so impatient, then they'd still be here."
"I'm sure that they'll be alright. After all, they have Zero with them." Ciel tries to calm Prairie, but then a siren begins blaring.
"Something's wrong in Innerpeace! The Guardians that have been sent there aren't responding." The operators start typing furiously. "We've located the area that the distress call came from. The threat is unknown."
"I'll go and check it out." Prairie starts walking toward the trans-server, but Ciel grabs onto her arm.
"This is too dangerous for you to go alone. I'll come with you."
"You need to stay and find a way to contact Zero and the others. Don't worry, I'll be fine. Operators, transport me." The operators nod and begin typing.
"Just be careful. I have a feeling that someone planned all of this. Don't push yourself too hard, Prairie." Prairie nods and she teleports out of Guardian HQ.
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"I don't see anyone here…" Fefnir looks around to take in the scenery. There are two tall hills that create a low valley and the ground is covered with grass. "Are these plants real or artificial? I don't remember seeing so much grass in one place."
"These plants are artificial, but it looks like it's just been put here recently, most likely in the last hour or so." Harpuia puts his hand on the ground to analyze it.
"That means someone has to be near." Leviathan looks around. "Hey, is anyone there!?" Leviathan sits down on the ground and sighs. "I thought some soldiers were supposed to be here. They didn't even have the courtesy to wait for us."
"We weren't transferred to their exact location. We'll just have to look around until we find them." X starts walking between the hills and the others follow him.
"I found someone!" Vent and Aile rushes up at the figure of a Guardian soldier. "Are you all right?" The soldier is lying on the ground with his back facing them.
"I'm getting a strange reading from… VENT, AILE! Get away from him!" Vent and Aile turn the soldier and find out that it's just a mechaniloid dressed in the standard Guardian garb. The mechaniloid's head has a bomb attached to it, and it goes off, blinding everyone with a flash of light.
"I can't see…" Aile opens her eyes again to find that the grass is replaced by vines and they've occupied her feet and arms. She looks around and sees that the others are in a similar situation.
"You should have just let me use a real bomb to finish them right then instead of that flash bomb. Things would have been a lot simpler that way." Crashman appears and five other Robot Masters appear with him.
"How many times do we have to explain to you that it would have been too obvious? Just be glad that you don't have to explain to Shademan that you somehow screwed up." Plantman looks around to count the captives. "That's all seven of them. This is a better turnout than we first thought."
"What did you do to the Guardian soldiers who were here?" Aile tries to break free of her restraints, but it doesn't work.
"There never were any Guardians here. I sent the fake transmission to lure all of you here." Shadowman looks at the others trying to break free of the vines as well. "Don't even bother. Plantman spent a lot of time reinforcing it to make sure none of you can break free."
"Alright, Crashman, now you get to use your bombs." Crashman nods and the other five Robot Masters get out of the way. Zero looks up to see explosions on the hills and rocks tumbling down on them. He and the others try to break free of the vine, but they're buried under the rocks before they could do that.
Crashman rushes out of the valley and meets with the other five Robot Masters. "Do we just wait here and make sure that they're dead?" He looks at the pile of rubble.
"Our main goal isn't to kill them, just to keep them busy. All we have to do is drag this fight on as long as possible, but if we're able to kill them, then we will. I doubt that a rockslide will keep them down for long."
A bright light comes out of the rubble and dims to show X in his Falcon Armor. Harpuia flies into the air as well and the remaining five warriors dash out of the valley, with Veent and Aile using Model X. "It's over now!"
"See what I mean? Let's go." Shadowman, Plantman, Metalman, and Freezeman run into a forest, but Crashman and Burnerman stay and weigh their two different options.
"I suppose two on seven isn't a fair fight, and Shademan will be mad if he gets interrupted. Come on." Burnerman and Crashman follow the other four Robot Masters with X and Harpuia following from the air.
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Innerpeace
Prairie enters a building to find it completely empty. Where is everyone? Shouldn't there be some Guardians around here patrolling the area? Prairie exits the building and finds hears a faint sniffling sound. What is that?
Prairie follows the sound and enters an alley to find a small humanoid female crying. "What's wrong?" The humanoid backs away against the wall when she first hears Prairie's voice, but then relaxes and manages to talk between sniffles.
"A bunch of… bats attacked me and my parents. I managed to escape… but something's wrong with everyone. My own parents… tried to attack me…" Prairie reaches her arm out to help the crying girl up and leads her out of the alley.
"Where is everyone?"
"I saw them go in there." The girl points to a distant building and Prairie follows her fingers. Recognition begins to dawn on Prairie when she zooms in. That's the emergency weapon storage for the area. Why would they need that for a bat problem? Wait… there aren't any bats in Innerpeace.
"Stay here, I'll go and see what's going on." Prairie tries to leave, but feels the girl tugging onto her sleeve.
"I want to go see mommy and daddy… can I come with you?" Prairie prepares to shake her head but the girl tugs harder. "Please. I want to see them."
The Guardians are supposed to protect the people of Innerpeace, but what's the point if she can't see her own parents. I just hope I'm not making a mistake in doing this. Prairie sighs. "Alright, but promise me that you'll always stay behind me and be careful. I don't want you getting hurt."
The girl nods eagerly and follows Prairie as the two of them head toward the emergency weapon storage warehouse.
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Forest
"Be careful, Plantman will be able to attack from every direction." X points to their surroundings to prove his point.
"Zero… are you there?"
"Ciel?" Zero presses a button on his helmet and begins speaking.
"I've managed to alter the transmission to bypass the interference. Just give me about half an hour and I'll be able to transport all of you back. Is there anything that you need right now?"
"Can you search this area for energy signatures other than ours? We can't find any of the Robot Masters."
"I'll try…" Zero listens to Ciel typing for a few seconds before she groans in frustration. "Something's wrong. According to the scans, the area around you is surrounded by energy signals similar to the Robot Masters. Maybe we didn't fully get rid of the interference yet."
"That just means we need to look for the Robot Masters by ours elf. Tell me when you can teleport us back." Zero clicks a button on his helmet and ends the transmission. "Alright, we'll have to split up and search for them."
"It's safer to stick together. That way, we'll be more prepared if they try to ambush us." X jumps into the air and starts hovering. "Harpuia and I will be alert for aerial attacks and the five of you can cover the ground."
"Wait…" Zero jumps into the air and draws his Z-Saber. He slashes at X, knocking the blue reploid down to the ground.
"Zero! What are you doing?" Fefnir, Leviathan, Harpuia, Vent and Aile all point their weapons at Zero at X, unsure of what just happened.
"X can't fly in his normal armor. This isn't X!" X wipes off the dirt and stands back up to look at Zero.
"You're an observant one, aren't you?" X's armor begins to change into a purple garb. Shadowman looks at Zero and the others. "Since X and Harpuia were in front of you, I took the liberty of creating an illusion. In fact…"
Harpuia transforms into another Shadowman and slashes at the nearest person, which happened to be Vent. Pieces of blue metla fly into the air, but the katana didn't cut deep enough to touch Vent's flesh.
"These two are just copies. They'll go down easily, but be careful nonetheless." Zero turns on his helmet. "Ciel, contact X and Harpuia and tell them our location. Tell them that they're with Shadowman copies if what it looks like we're with them."
"Alright, I'll warn them right now." Zero turns off the transmission and looks at the two Shadowmans. It's six on one, this shouldn't be too hard.
Vent makes the first move by firing a charged buster shot at one of the copies. The Shadowman clone splits into two and the charged shot passes between them as they run forward. Vent rolls backward to barely avoid the two katanas and the copies are taken out by two fiery blasts.
"They can split now!?" The remaining Shadowman lunges at Zero. The crimson reploid ducks down and puts his right hand on the ground. He kicks the copy with his feet while using his right hand to balance himself.
The Shadowman clone shoots upward into the air from Zero's push and Zero aims his Z-Buster. The Z-Buster fires, but Shadowman splits into six before it hits. Just how many times can he use that!? The copies land to surround Zero and they throw shurikens at the red reploid.
I can't avoid this! Zero uses his arms to shield his head and waits for the shurikens to hit. Zero removes his arms after not getting hit and sees the black blades stuck in six large pillars of ice coming from the ground.
"Don't think you're the only one that gets to fight." Leviathan slams her staff down on the ground and the ice pillars break into small needles. She directs the needles at the direction of the Shadowman clones and they all disappear with a poof. "Those guys may be hard to hit, but they sure can't take a hit well."
"Alright, we're finally here. Sorry that we rushed off without all of you earlier." Harpuia and X in his Falcon Armor arrive and Zero looks at them doubtfully.
"How do I know that you two are not just more tricks from Shadowman?"
"Well, there was this time at poker on March 26th during the time 2137 when you…"
"Okay, that's enough. I get it already." Zero sighs as he tries to erase the memory from his mind. I sleep in hibernation for one hundred years and lose all my memories, but that's the first one I'm able to fully recover. Maybe I should try to get hibernation sickness again…
"Did it just get colder in here?" Harpuia shivers a bit. "Leviathan, what's the temperature?"
"It's… zero degrees Celsius and dropping." Frost begins to form on the grass and trees, alarming the seven warriors. "They're close…"
"AAA-" Harpuia sniffles a bit to prevent himself from sneezing. "I really hate low temperatures like this."
A blast of ice hits Harpuia behind and smashes him against the trunk of a tree. The ice freezes at the trunk, trapping the green reploid. Harpuia activates his wind sabers and manages to break free of the ice.
Freezeman appears with Burnerman and Shadowman. A large amount of frost twirls around Freezeman's hands and he points at X. X flies into the air as a white beam comes for him. The bema hits a tree and completely encases in ice.
Fefnir fires two fireballs from his twin busters at Freezeman, but Burnerman absorbs it into his own flames. "You can't defeat us!" Burnerman falls screams as lightning strikes him down from the sky.
Harpuia crosses his sabers together to deflect an incoming attack from Shadowman. Shadowman splits into five and surrounds the green reploid, but Vent and Aile dispatches the four copies easily with their X-Busters.
A puff of smoke surrounds Shadowman and the ninja Robot Master disappears. Burnerman throws a bomb at the three of them and ignites it. Vent, Aile, and Harpuia recoil from the force of the blast and watch as the forest catches on fire.
We need to get rid of that or we won't be able to fight properly. Leviathan creates a large block of ice and fires it in the direction of the firing. The ice melts, dousing off the flames. Leviathan turns to find a white beam heading toward her. She lifts her staff up and spins it to block the beam, but finds her arm frozen to her staff.
"Your powers are ineffective against me!" Freezeman fires another beam at Leviathan as the ice on her staff shatters. Leviathan fires an ice serpent from the tip of her staff and their two attacks meet.
Leviathan's serpent swallows Freezeman's beam and heads toward the crystal Robot Master. Freezeman uses his other arm to fire a blast of ice at Leviathan, canceling her attack and slamming her down to the ground.
X fires a charged shot from his buster Freezeman, but a pillar of ice encases the crystal Robot Master and protects him from the attack. X dashes at the ice and jumps into the air while charging his buster. He slams his buster at the ice, slightly cracking it, and fires. Freezeman's protective ice breaks as the crystal Robot Master flies through it.
"Behind you," X turns to find Shadowman ready to strike with his katana. Shadowman gets knocked into the air and disappears when Zero attacks the ninja Robot Master from behind. "I think we got them. Is everyone alright?"
"I think so." Vent, Aile, Harpuia and Leviathan recover as they get closer to form a group. What's that sound? A metal blade flies through the air at Zero as the others get out of the way. Zero tries to deflect the blade with his Z-Saber, and succeeds. The force of the attack pushes the Z-Saber out of the crimson reploid's hands and Metalman appears in front of him.
Metalman appears and dashes in front of Zero, punching the unarmed reploid in the chest. Zero flies toward Burnerman and the red Robot Master gets out his flamethrowers, scorching the crimson reploids.
"Zero!" X fires at Burnerman, but vines pop out of the ground and shield the red Robot Master. Four hands appear from the ground and grab onto X's legs. Three Shadowmans surround the white and blue reploid in a triangle like position. X tries to move, but finds that he's somehow paralyzed.
This is not good. X looks around for help, but find that everyone's occupied fighting other Robot Masters. What's going on? My vision sensors must not be working properly. Everything seems to darken for X except for himself and the three Shadowmans.
"I'll show you my ultimate attack." The three Shadowmans each draw a katana and one Shadowman dashes forward while his katana changes to a glowing gold color. The copy slashes at X in a crescent shape and disappears. The gold light from his katana creates a trail in the slash in the shape of a crescent moon.
There's two more left. X notices that another Shadowman has a light blue katana and the air around him seems to be freezing. He looks at his armor and notices tiny snowflakes on it.
The Shadowman rushes forward chargess straight across X with his katana raised. X feels his leg encasing in ice and soon, his whole body is trapped as large spikes of ice rise up from the ground around him. The ice shatters in two when the effects of Shadowman's attack finally sets in. That Shadowman disappears, leaving only one more.
I can't risk another attack. I need to find a way to move… The darkness starts to change into a blurry rosy violet color as X tries to see the last Shadowman clearly, but everything seems to be messing with his vision. The last Shadowman's katana is a pink color and large pink petals form around X, as if he's the center of a flower.
X looks at Shadowman and sees him getting closer, but his whole body doesn't seem to be moving. Shadowman leaves a trail of images behind him as he gets closer. The purple ninja Robot Master jumps straight into the air when he reaches X, slashing at the white and blue reploid.
The flower scatters into thousands of petals and flies in the air and X's blood darkens them. X falls down to the ground as the last petal drops and his vision returned back to normal. X reverts back to his original form and Shadowman prepares to finish off the blue reploid.
Aile and Vent glance in his direction and sees X lying on the ground. They try to help, but Plantman grabs onto their legs with his tail and slams them down to the ground. If we don't do something quick, then X will be in trouble.
"Vent, we have no other choice than to use that." Vent nods and the two of them return to their human forms with Model X in their hands. They each reach into their pockets and gets out Model O. "Rock-on!"
"Changing armors isn't going to help you defeat me!" Vent and Aile finish their transformation and Plantman raises his tail up as thorns appear. "Rose Needle!"
Vent jumps into the air and spins with his OX Saber, sending blue waves of ice to freeze the incoming needles. Aile fires her fully charged buster past Plantman and at Shadowman, giving X some time to get up.
It's getting harder to breath. We can't stay in this form for too long… Vines surround Plantman's right hand and hardens to transform his hand into a large green spear. The green Robot Master dashes at Vent and attempts to pierce the chosen one.
Vent grabs onto the spear with his hands and tries to push the Robot Master back, but the tip of the spear edges closer to him.
"Vent!" Aile prepares to fire her buster at Plantman, but his tail grabs onto her hand and it pulls her down.
"I have you now!" Vent loses his grip on Plantman's spear and Plantman prepares to finish him off. "AGH!" A flying Metalman knocks Plantman away and a black armored Zero appears next to the two chosen ones.
"You'll pay for that!" Metalman stands back up and tosses his blade at Zero, but the black reploid avoids the attack and fires his Z-Buster. Zero turns to look at Vent and Aile panting heavily.
"Are you two okay?"
"We're just not used to, using this." The two of them revert back to their human forms and collapse on the ground. A tree falls down to reveal Fefnir and Crashman brawling with their fists.
An attack hits Zero from behind and he kneels down in pain to find Shadowman's katana. Zero trips Shadowman and tosses him away, but the ninja Robot Master disappears. There's too many of them right now. We can't take them. Metalman comes at Zero with his fist raised and Plantman charges with his spear.
A red flame attacks the two incoming Robot Masters from the side and knocks them away. X comes out of the flames with his Ultimate Armor. Fefnir gets tossed to them and Crashman tosses his crash bomb.
X fires at the bomb, causing it to explode before it reaches them. The three of them recoil from the hit and end up next to Harpuia and Leviathan fighting Freezeman and Burnerman.
"Zero, I managed to alter the trans-server. I'm taking all of you back."
All of them teleport out as Shadowman's katana hits nothing but air. "I'll go and warn Shademan right now to retreat."
"They got so lucky. Just another minute and I would've had them." Burnerman slams the ground with his fists, sending a patch of grass on fire.
"I guess there's nothing else we can do here. I'm going to report to Shademan." Shadowman teleports out of the forest and the other five Robot Masters follow him after a slight pause.
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Innerpeace Weapon Warehouse
Prairie sneaks inside the entrance and sees the citizens grabbing weapons of different kind, as though preparing for war. What's going on here? Prairie sees the girl that she brought with her scanning the crowd with her eyes, probably looking for her parents. A look of recognition appears in the girl's eyes and she rushes inside.
"Wait…" Prairie tries to grab the girl and stop her from going in, but it was too late. The girl runs up to a male and female humanoid.
"Mommy, why did you and daddy just leave me like that?" The two humanoids turn and Prairie gets a good look at them. Their eyes are blank and not a single sign of recognition is on their face. They don't even recognize their own child?
Prairie watches and notices that another humanoid grabbed an iron pole and is approaching the girl from behind. Something's really wrong with everyone. There's no way anyone in Innerpeace would attack a child if they were still in their right minds.
Prairie comes out of hiding and a bunch of humanoids begin pointing their guns at her. Prairie flips a large table and ducks as it deflects the bullets. She grabs onto the girl's hand and makes a run fro the nearby door.
"What happened to mommy and daddy? Why are they attacking us? Did I do something wrong?" Prairie slows down as the girl starts to pant heavily trying to keep up with her.
"Here, climb onto my back." Prairie notices a few droplets of tears falling down the girl's face. The droplets begin to increase in quantity. "It's alright. I promise that everything will be back to normal soon."
The girl nods and she climbs on as the humanoids begin chasing them. Prairie manages to outrun them and make some turns so that the large group separates. Prairie begins breathing heavy and sweating because of the heavy weight and sees an alley.
I've been seeing a lot of those today. She enters the alley and finds herself at a dead end. Footsteps are heard and Prairie lets the girl down. She stops breathing and puts her hand over the girl's mouth as she begins to sneeze.
Just a little bit more. Don't turn now… The footsteps fade and eventually disappear. Prairie exhales and removes her hand from the girl's mouth. "That was a close one."
"I want to go back home…" The girl begins to sniffle again. "I miss mommy and daddy. Why did this have to happen? Is it because I've been bad?"
"It's not your fault. I promise you'll be able to go back home." Prairie reaches for her communicator and tries to contact Ciel, but can't. Ciel changed the frequencies? This isn't good. I have to find some way to warn. "Come on, let's go."
Prairie grabs onto the girl's arm again and prepares to leave. "Going somewhere?" Prairie freezes and looks at the brick wall that marked their dead end and a familiar figure phases through the wall.
"Shademan! You're the one behind all of this." Prairie puts her arms around the girl protectively and backs away, but feels someone behind her. Before Prairie could turn, a bunch of arms grab onto her as she loses grip of the girl.
Shademan grabs onto the girl's shoulder and she freezes. Shademan then looks at Prairie. "Ever since I was first made, I had the ability to control humans and weak robots just by simply biting them and inserting special toxins into their blood, both real and aritficial, like the monsters that my designs were based off of. The only things I ever used that ability on back then were just weak machines with no real intelligence, but now I have new possibilities. I have to say I developed a taste for blood today."
"What do you plan to do?" Prairie tries to struggle free, but finds that the hands holding her to be stronger than she first thought. Shademan must have increased their strength.
"First, I'll give you a demonstration."
"Help me… please…" The girl weakly cries out as two Shademan's incisors lengthen into fangs. He bites down on the neck of the girl and she freezes in fear. After ten seconds, Shademan lifts his head up and the girl's eyes become hollow.
Prairie watches weakly as the girl faints on the ground. "I have no use for weaklings. She'll do anything at my whim, and at my whim, she'll die." Shademan snaps his fingers and blood shoots out of the bite marks on the girl's neck.
No… she was so young… no one deserves this kind of fate… The girl faints onto the ground and Shademan moves toward Prairie. "Now that that's done with, it's your turn."
Prairie feels a few hands legging go of her and she closes her eyes. Two teeth pierce the skin on her neck. Prairie feels her body losing heat and something seems to be changing in her programming for the worse.
Prairie opens her eyes again and feels all the hands letting go of her. Praire kneels down as her vision becomes blurry and she clutches her head in pain. "Now that I'm done here, I don't need any of them any more."
Prairie turns to find all the humanoids screaming in pain as blood oozes out of their bite marks. The ground becomes covered with blood and it reaches Prairie as she tries to support herself by putting her hands on the ground. The blood starts to stain her gloves and her coat as Shademan walks away.
"I may still have a use for you, so I'll let you live for now." Prairie watches as the blurry image of Shademan disappears away from her sight. I can't stay conscious for much longer. I need to shut down and… conserve my… energy.
Prairie closes her eyes and faints face first on the blood covered ground.
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Fun fact:
The move that Shadowman used was based off a combination in the Playstation 1 game, Saga Frontier, released in 1998 or so. It has a very non-linear battle system, and the three katana moves are called Moonlight Cut, Blizzard, and Tres Flores.
I've decided to start playing again, and that's why I haven't been able to update. Remember to R & R.