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Chapter 5; The Third Party
"Clear!" The Black Pawn yelled. The squad of ten Black Pawns moved through the forest base. Their leader followed looking confident as she always did. They had gotten in easily, seeing as the doors were already broken, and were now on the hunt for the renegade E.V.O.s.
"Make sure you search everywhere." Black Knight stated. "I want these E.V.O.s captured and collared. And preferably unharmed."
From the way she walked to her tone, it was obvious that she was used to being in control. Her purple energy mace and her position as leader of Providence made short work of anything that she couldn't control and that opposed her. Except for the annoying defect group. And they wouldn't be a problem for much longer. They had been a thorn in her side for long enough.
One of the Pawns shrieked in surprise as a giant orange boot slammed into him. Before anyone even had a chance to recover, three more of the squad went down. One from the green clad ex-providence agent, another from Onier's Bo staff's electric shock and the last from a barrage of fireballs and red plasma.
When they finally recovered from the sudden and rather unexpected attack they returned fire. Unfortunately for them, Rex had made his Block Party and Amyna threw up a shield.
"Well, they came to us. And Rex is even here too." Black Knight said flatly.
"Black Knight in person. What a pleasure. I'm overjoyed that we are important enough to require your personal attention." Oliver growled, his tone directly contradicting his words. "Did you come to collar us?"
"Well yes, unless you want to join willingly. And return the tech you stole. Either is fine," She calmly replied before activating her mace. "Actually, I'd prefer both."
"Well, you're not going to get either. And certainly not my tech!" Amyna said. "And by the way, I'm the only one that can pull off the purple hair. You just look like a giant walking plum!"
The Providence leader responded by slamming the purple mace into her shield. It shattered but the display of force didn't faze anybody.
"Ooooh, but, I do like your mace, what's it made of? And how does the plasma work? Can I have one?" She added curiously. She was about to say something else but a Black Pawn charged her with a sword. She tried to make a quick shield but didn't make it in time and barely dodged the lethal stroke. Luckily, Onier came and blocked the Pawn's next strike with his staff followed by a quick strike. onier broke his staff in half forming the two eskrima sticks and went on the offensive. The pawn dodged and weaved with impressive resilience and still managed to put get in some deadly sword (strikes of his own.) This quickly escalated into an exchange of quick blows and Amyna jumped back into the fight to assist her friend.
Another Black Pawn took advantage of the downed shield. As he charged Oliver, the latter focused on a nearby water pipe and caused it to burst. The pipe ruptured and jetted out of the wall. The water glowed as Oliver formed it into a sword that blocked the oncoming blade. The Black Pawn's blade was barely stopped by the hard water. Since Oliver wasn't the best at swordplay after a few defensive moves, he morphed his sword into a large hammer and made a swing at the Pawn's head. The Pawn blocked but the hammer had enough momentum already and disarmed the Pawn. A gust of wind blew Oliver's opponent backwards then another powerful hammer strike knocked him out cold.
By this time Six had taken out two more Pawns, Amyna and Onier had defeated theirs and Bo-Bo had taken the last one while Rex had distracted Black Knight. The teen was fighting with his builds and cycled them in a seemingly random pattern. Black Knight's purple plasma mace whirled around, creating craters in the walls and destroying Rex's builds.
"So, BK. It looks like we won. Again. Maybe you need to step up your game." Rex quipped. "It's starting to look bad. What will the Consortium say?"
"You have no idea, Rex. I still have some tricks up my sleeve that you'll never see coming." Black Knight smirked. "Be prepared for it. Prepare for the worst possible thing."
Then her mace collided with Amyna and Six sending them both flying across the room. They hit the far wall and both collapsed into heaps.
"Amyna!" Onier yelled, running to check on the purple haired girl.
At the same time, Rex ran over to check on his katana wielding mentor. Leaving only Oliver to deal with the black clothed, purple haired providence leader.
Oliver faced Black Knight angrily. "You'll regret that." He said as he called on his last reserves of power. Black Knight replied but Oliver was too focused to hear it. Finally, a streak of lightning shot out of his hand into the black clothed leader.
In Black Knights defense, she didn't scream or even react from the bolt of high volt electricity that sent her flying through a wall into the forest. Oliver held onto his attack until Black Knight was out of sight.
"Hey guys..." Oliver began to feel woozy. He coughed dryly. "We won. Woo-hoo..."
Unfortunately for Oliver, the lightning drained all of his bio energy and he could barely stand. The E.V.O. felt the world start to spin as he tried to recover from his vicious attack. But it didn't help and he stated to lose his internal fight. The last thing he saw was Rex helping Six up and Onier picking an unconscious Amyna bridal-style. Then the world spun one last time as he fell. Oliver was out before he even hit the ground.
*Author's note. Once again, thanks for reading! And extra special thanks to my beta-readers.