Chapter 10: Defender Down
(Scene switch: Battlefield, Terra Venture/Leo's POV)
Year Switch: 2018
We were in the middle of a stingwinger attack. Myself, Mike and Maya were back to back fending them off but I noticed Mike's parries and punches were faltering. He's really been bothered since Kendrix' disappearance. He worries for her. He told me she grew quite attached to him in a sisterly way.
Ever since she told him her past she always stood by his side as a shy, quiet broken girl. Picked on in school and brutally abused by her now dead parents. Suddenly, a laser came flying towards us. Mike pushed myself and Maya out of the way and took on the blast. It hit him dead on the chest, he flew back, de-morphed and laid there unconscious.
"No! Mike!" I turned to see Villamax. Anger grew inside me. That beast! I ran towards Villamax with my sabre raised. I hacked my sabre at him. He blocked but I applied so much force that I cut his sword in half. I kicked him in the stomach and he fell to the ground. I charged up my power,
"Fire power! Go!" And flames burst out of my hand and hit Villamax. He fell with an explosion but survived and he fled. I powered down and ran to Mike. I knelt beside his limp body and shook him,
"Mike! Mike!" No movement, no sound from him. I checked his pulse. I sighed in relief, he's still with us. I gave everyone the "All Clear". He's just in critically injured. Alpha will patch him up no problem, at least he'll live. Man if Kendrix came back to find out he's dead, she would surely kill herself. She'd be lost without him.
«Stop thinking that crap!» I told myself. We all lifted Mike's body and headed for the Astro Megaship to get him medical treatment.
«Please be alright Mike.» I pleaded but he's strong. He'll get through this, for Kendrix' sake. She means so much to him. Now I see, through her eyes, why she treats him as her brother. He's the only family she has left. But I wonder what happened to her other family member? There will be serious talk when she returns.
(Scene switch: Outside the Astro Megaship/Leo's POV)
I was pacing back and forth continuously. Despite Alpha telling me Mike will live, I still worried for him. He's my only brother and… the only person Kendrix opens up to. Like, he told me, the whole team they met in University and they ended up becoming brother and sister, obviously not by blood but it doesn't seem to bother them.
But I mean… why didn't Mike tell me anything about her when we were back on Earth, in Angel Grove. I don't understand. When he returns from University, mom and dad would ask has he met anyone friendly and all he say is:
"Just a young girl, only a year or two younger than me." And nothing more, no name given, no background of her history, where she lives, nothing. This "girl", Kendrix, Mike didn't say anything as if she was an unsolvable riddle.