DM149: Well, time to move onto the epic battle. As a side note, the Lemon will be within the next few chapters.
Sly: HUZZAH! Yes! There IS a God!
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Sly raced across the Parisian rooftops towards his destination, leaping the gaps between the buildings effortlessly. He looked up and saw hundreds of black crows circling the infected area of the city. He knew enough to know that crows or vultures would circle the area if there was a fresh kill nearby. But with all the deaths in the area reaching the thousands, it wasn't a peculiar sight.
Sly skidded to a halt on the final building which allowed him to view a miniature war between the marines and the evolved infected. The battle made for near perfect cover as he brought out his new binocucom to contact Penelope. As he gazed into it, he noticed a few changes, for one there was a switch on the right side, motive unknown. Also, the button that he usually used to take pictures with was now gone, replaced with a smooth metal surface. And finally, all the blue that was on the body of the binocucom or in the visor was now black. After getting acquainted with the new controls of his device, he contacted Penelope.
On the lower half of the visor, the usual image of the young female mouse came up on the left, and on the right was an image of Sly. Before Penelope could say anything, Sly's eye was drawn to his own image, for the first time actually seeing his recent self in a mirror image, he could easily say he looked more menacing then he thought. His hood darkened out most of his face, creating a strange, dark aura around him. And his brown eyes seemed to glow yellow under the blood-stained hood.
"Alright Sly." Penelope said, bringing him back to reality. "I've relocated the prime subject for the anti-bodies."
"Great Penelope." His voice even sounded dark on the playback. "I just hope your boy isn't down in that bloodbath, 'cause I don't think he'll last long." He followed up, the binocucom zooming in on the battle below.
"Don't worry, I'm zooming in on the specimen now." Just as she finished up, the binocucom zoomed in on a water tower on a building behind the Infected hive.
Needless to say, Sly was confused. "Uh, Penelope, you sure you got this right, I'm looking at a water tower."
"Don't be fooled Sly, Use the switch on the right side of your new binocucom." As she finshed, Sly felt around for the switch and flipped it. As soon as he did, his whole vision was covered in a thin shade of orange and he was seeing that inside the water tower, there was a massive bulk of what looked to be an elephant titan floating in strange-colored water.
"What the hell is that?" He asked Penelope.
"That is the specimen. Hes in an incubation state, the infected utilize these water towers to grow and breed their titans. Once they hatch, the titans are immediately in adult-form and are ready to kill."
"Geez" Sly said. "That is one big baby. So I just wait until this guy decides to wake up."
"Well actually, the normal incubation period for a titan is around 1 to 2 weeks and this guy has only been in for a few days. And we don't have that kind of time, luckily your class of infected is so powerful all you need to do is stand near it and it will speed up the growth process and lower the time to less than a minute."
"Great. I'll go give our friend a wakeup call."
"Be careful Sly." Penelope said firmly. "I highly doubt that that titan will be happy about you waking him up so early. Plus once you inject him, you'll need to let the anti-bodies grow a little. So you'll need to make sure he stays alive for awhile. Over and out"
And with that Penelope hung up and Sly put the binocucom back in his jacket pocket. Sly backed up from the edge a few steps and then crouched down in a running position with his hands on the ground. He then dashed forward and leapt off the edge with all his force, sending him flying into the air. In mid-air he straightened himself out and forced himself through the air into something of a glide towards the next building.
He came down directly on the Infected hive, immediately as he hit he was forced to his knees as the parasite took another leech from his body. He stood to his feet and kept reminding himself that doing this would get rid of this thing. He then made a mad dash for the building in front of him and began running up its side.
He reached the top and immediately his eyes darted to the water tower in front of him. As he began walking towards it, he could already hear a hissing sound coming from it and infected rust spreading across the metal casing. "Yea, come and get me big guy." He said as he pulled the anti-body syringe from his jacket. Only 5 seconds later, the sound stopped followed by an explosion from the tower, sending the infected water in all directions.
"Oh God." Sly winced as he wiped the slime from his face and shook it off of his body. He looked up and saw a slime covered titan bringing itself to its feet. Once it stood, it let out a garbled elephant's cry. Wasting no time, Sly rushed over to it and climbed onto its back. It thrashed around and yelled out a bit but Sly was able to bring his hand down and jab the syringe into its neck. This caused even more yelling and thrashing that sent Sly flying off of its back.
As Sly stood he saw the empty syringe land at his feet and the titan grasping its head and moaning in pain. Sly activated the short-wave comm.-link in his ear and contacted Bentley. "Bent. I just injected the titan with the anti-bodies."
"Great." Bentley's voice came in over the comm. "I'm starting the timer now. I'll alert you when he's ready to be… actually you haven't explained what you're going to do to get the anti-bodies out of the titan."
Sly smiled slightly. "Don't worry, I got it." And just as he hung up the link, the titan decided to make a run for it, jumping off of the building, Sly soon followed it.
Sly hit the ground and looked around to find it running towards a Blackwatch checkpoint. The soldiers immediately took notice of the titan and focused all their fire on it. The titan's skin was thick enough to withstand the bullets for awhile, but not forever. As they were firing, a Blackwatch trooper didn't notice Sly's foot flying through the air toward his head. As Sly's foot made contact, he seemed to hover in air as his other foot came around and sent the soldier flying into another one.
Sly hit the ground and immediately picked up the dropped assault rifle on the ground. He aimed at the 5 other soldiers and open fired on them all. Once they were all dead, the titan immediately began running down the street. Sly dropped the rifle and ran after it. "Just stay alive big guy. Then I'll kill you."
"Sly." Bentley's voice sounded out through the comm. "The incubation process is complete; I hope you know what you're doing."
Sly rolled his eyes. "Bent, you've known me for almost all your life. I would have thought that would've given you enough time to know that I always know what I'm doing. Over." After he hung up, Sly jumped into the air and propelled himself forward. He came down on the titan's back and immediately latched himself onto its back and dragged the beast to a stop.
Just as they stopped, Sly let go and balanced himself out as the titan tried to grab Sly using both of its hands. Sly just pressed his palms against the meaty appendages and pushed them back. Then he kneeled down and balled his hands into fists and proceeded to bash them into the titan's temple several times. As the titan was dazed, Sly then gripped its head firmly and prepared to consume it.
Then, several spiked tentacles came out from Sly's back and each jabbed themselves into the titan's head and neck, once they were in they began to suck all of the infected blood out of the titan. Sly pulled the tentacles back into his body as he felt the titan's body go limp. He jumped off and immediately he could feel the anti-bodies taking affect on the parasite. The part of his body with the parasite felt relaxed as it fell off from his body and through his jacket onto the ground. "Ah, much better." He said. "Now lets have a test run."
He pictured the claws in his mind as the familiar Solonam goo overtook his arms, but as they got to his hands they seemed to change. They were now twice the size of his hands and the blades were each 1.5 feet in length at least. He swung them around, slicing at the air, marveling at his new-found power. "Oh yea, This is gonna be fun." He said to himself as he brought the claws back into his body.
But as he was testing his new claws, he didn't notice the Blackwatch Troopers taking notice of him and moving slowly around the building corner and aiming directly at him. "We have the Target in sight. Repeat. ZEUS is in our sights."
Sly heard the leader say this into his walkie and just laughed to himself, from what he could tell, there were no more than 6 soldiers behind him and each of them would be too easy to take out. Disregarding his arrogance, Sly turned around but was met with a surprising conclusion. 4 soldiers each equally and standardly equipped were on either side of a large soldier, at least twice their size leading Sly to believe he was something of a bear species and the leader of their group, this did not intimidate Sly. What intimidated him was what he was carrying; the gas tank mounted on the gun's top, the shape and design of the main barrel, and the small flame in front of the barrel all added up to one thing: flamethrower. Or in other cases, a chemical thrower which could be used to fire napalm, liquid nitrogen or electro gel. In this case it was napalm, a chemical every virus including Solonam was vulnerable to.
Sly began to laugh nervously and back up slowly, he didn't get very far before the commander yelled 'fire', pun probably intended. The flames seemed to move in slow motion as they engulfed Sly and he closed his eyes and covered his face with his arms. He expected a burning sensation and unfathomable pain, but instead the fire seemed to embrace and warm his body. He felt a little hot but it was more like he was in front of a burning fireplace. Suddenly the fire stopped and the bright light against his closed eyes disappeared along with the warmth.
As he opened his eyes and turned his head towards the soldiers he noticed something, his vision was coated in a thin shade of blue and the soldiers were each highlighted by an orange glow. As he looked down at his body, he nearly jumped at the sight. His skin covered and gripped by a thick layered Solonam exoskeleton, on his arms his bones were easily outlined and his fingers seemed to be like silver bones, his spine was visible on his back and the front of his head was coated in a smooth layer of Solonam with no visible eyeholes but he could still see in a thermal-like vision.
The soldiers started backing up after realizing that they're weapons didn't have any effect. "Our weapons have no effect." The author sarcastically thanked the soldier talking into his comm. Sly just smiled behind his mask and dashed towards the flame soldier, leapt into the air, and put his hands over his head in the intention of crushing the soldier's head on impact. As he came down though, he noticed that the soldier wasn't crushed but in fact was completely cleaved down the middle.
Sly gazed at the new weapon in his hand. In his right arm was a 4.5 foot long sword at least a foot wide at its base, the blood slid off of its sleek surface, giving it a permanent shine. At this point, the soldiers were smart enough to begin running, 2 ran one way and 2 the other way. "Oh no you don't." Sly whispered to himself as he stood and shifted his arms into weapons he called "whipfists" in which his arms became bunched up Solonam and could be stretched out to great lengths and impale enemies on the three knife-like fingers on its end.
He sent out both his arms towards the soldiers, the first was lucky to be quickly stabbed in the back of his neck and to die instantly. The second though was completely impaled on Sly's arm and brought back to him, Sly then pushed him off of his arm and brought his foot down on his head. Sly returned his arms to normal and pivoted to face the other soldiers that were a good ways away by now. Sly began to run towards them.
Their speed was no match for Sly's as he quickly caught up with the first soldier and jumped on his back, pressing down on his body and killing him instantaneously. Barely slowing his pace, Sly leaped off of the soldier's body and continued towards the second. He grabbed the soldier by the back of his neck and skidded to a halt. The soldier just began clawing at Sly's hands and thrashing about. "No matter what you do to me I'll still look better than YOU." The soldier made one last brave retort towards Sly.
"I highly doubt that." Sly said before lifting him over his head with both hands like a barbell, he gripped the man tightly with both his hands and twisted him a quarter way around and made his spine snap in two, the soldier started screaming bloody murder and his lower-half went limp. Sly then pulled his body apart with ease, causing blood to stream out from both halves. Sly then dropped both halves of the soldier and his armor. He then began running for the safehouse.
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Back at the Safehouse…
Sly bursted in through the door with a smile on his face. "Mission Success." He announced.
"Good work. So the virus is gone?" Bentley asked, not even looking up from a map he was studying.
"Yep." Sly answered as he took a look around the room. He noticed that one person was miising; Carmelita. "Hey where's Carm?"
"Oh she went to do some recon near the infected districts." Bentley answered.
"Infected districts?" Sly whispered to himself and repeated Bentley's words. All of a sudden, the dreams started coming back to him, over and over all he saw was Carmelita getting impaled by the clawed hand, then Neyla's twisted voice echoed in his mind. "…You AND that bitch ruined me."
Sly regained control of himself and found Bentley staring at him. "Sly are you OK?"
Sly didn't answer but dashed out the door and onto the roof across the street, ignoring Bentley's yells. He just hoped he wasn't too late.
DM149: Shit gonna go DOWN!!
Sly: Oh so I'll be able to save Carm right?
DM149: …Yea sure why not? Read&Review!
Sly:..What do you mean by that?
