Chapter 10 – Conquered
"Tch!" one of the thugs scoffed, "Cowards!"
"What were we supposed to do?" another of them asked, "There had to be like thirty sailors and only a dozen of us."
"Yah," a third agreed, "and do you know how tough a sailor is? They're really strong and good fighters, trust me, I learned that the hard way!"
"Shut-up!" the first shouted. "Temper, temper!" they all heard a female voice say, followed by an audible purr, "If you don't control it, then let it control you!" When she stepped into the light, Savage, the white Siberian catgirl with white furred bat wings, was revealed. Over her white fur, she wore what looked to be a silver woman's breast plate and some sort of white silky cloth that covered her front and back. "Who the hell are you?" the first thug asked. "I am Savage," she responded as she bowed, letting her hair fall in front of her before they could see down her armor, "and I am here to enslave your entire world." The group of men looked to each other, and laughed, "YOU!?" one of them asked, "All by yourself?" Savage gritted her teeth, and crouched down on all fours, "You don't believe I can accomplish my mission?" she asked. "Not without us!" someone called out causing all of the others to fall silent. She turned her head, watching as a man around the age of twenty one came out, his face sharp and flawless, except for the scar across his cheek, "And we don't like working as slaves!" he said and stretched out his hand, "So why not be partners instead?" he asked. "Partners?" she asked. "Yah!" he reassured, "Taking over the others will be easy if we can get rid of that mangy mutt, Bolt, and his annoying pack of mutant kids." Savage looked to the man, then down to his hand, "This, Bolt…Is he dangerous?" she asked. "More so that you can imagine." the man said. "Then he will be my first sacrifice!" she said and stood up, "Where can I find him?"
"Where do you think they were from Bolt?" Mittens asked as she stopped drinking the beverage. "I don't know, I can remember them, but…not very clearly!" he responded, and the two went back to drinking. "You don't think that was the group of thugs that tried to volunteer for Katzer's experiments do you?" Rhino finally asked as he turned his attention to the pair. Bolt stopped in mid lap, his tongue still dipped into the drink and his eyes opened wide. "Actually, I think that was them!" Mittens said for him, sharing the same realized shock in her eyes. "Someone actually wanted to become a mutant?" the captain asked. Angelira simply nodded. She reached for her straw, barely touching it when they heard someone scream from outside. "What the…?" Bolt asked and he dashed outside, Mittens, Rhino and Angelira close behind. Savage stood there at the docks, a short sword in her right hand dripping with the blood of the man lying in front of her. The sword looked to have a separate blade on both sides of what looked to be a vented piece of metal spanning the middle, the handle and hilt didn't seem much different than a roman short sword. "I'm looking for someone named Bolt!" she said and the white shepherd stepped forward. "I am Bolt!" he said. Savage looked surprised, but only for a second, "You, the old Guardian of Power?" she asked and grinned wickedly, "I shall enjoy spilling your guts across this ground!" and with a mighty push of her legs, lunged towards him only to be pushed back by a mighty blast of wind. "It looks like you'll have to wait for that!" Mittens said as she moved to Bolt's side. "Yah!" Rhino challenged as he rolled his ball to Bolt's other side, "Cause we aren't going to let you do that!" Savage lifted half of her body up, propping her head on her shoulder as she just lay there, "I see," she said, "Then I guess that I'll just have to take you all out!" Again she lunged forward, one hand on her sword and the other reaching into her breasts. Mittens once again swiped her invisible claws at the alien, but this time was shocked when it did nothing. Savage landed right in front of Bold, and struck the floor where he used to stand.
"Mittens what happened?" he asked as he kept his eyes on Savage from the other end of the dock. "I…I'm not sure!" she said, "They worked before." Savage answered her unspoken questions when she held up a small metallic stick with a shining blue light at the end of it. The stick itself was no longer than Bolt's tail, "Impressed?" Savage asked, "Or scared? This device is from my home world, it reflects all types of elements and is normally used to clear blocked roads, but as you can see, it can also be used as a weapon." Once she finished, she once again lunged at them, again hitting the ground where Bolt stood. She turned her head, finding him and, Mittens and Rhino standing in their original spot. "And this," she said as she lifted the blade, "was used to adhere large objects to the floor of factories!" Bolt looked to her in curiousness, and looked down to his paws. The ground he stood on was covered in a thick sticky tar-like goop and he lifted his paws, trying to free them. Mittens looked down as well, finding her own paws stuck in the goop, and Rhino's ball the same way with the opening door directly above him. "HAH!" Savage laughed, "With you Guardians dead at my feet, the people of this planet will bow down to…" she tried to say, and found the stick in her hand quickly removed with the sound of a gun. It hit the ground hard, shattering the light on top of it, "The people of this planet will fight you, with our own weapons and every ounce of our strength!" she heard the captain say. Savage glanced up at him, anger flowing through her as she looked to the sea captain pointing his pistol at her, "You dare interfere?" she asked. "I dare defy. No one enslaves me and my crew!" he told her and moved only his eyes to see inside the pub. Each of his crew were drunk, either lying on the tables or hanging over chairs, 'At least I can keep them all safe, none need to experience this.' he thought to himself and turned to Savage just as she opened her wings, "You will die for your intrusion, you insolent pig!" she said and let the updraft of air take her up.
As she found herself at a decent height, he again pointed his gun at her, and began pulling the trigger. She quickly moved to the side, descending from the lack of updraft and beginning to glide through the air. The captain began moving towards the docks, aiming carefully before he fired again. Two more times she dodged, only to catch a bullet to her left wing, near her fur lining. Down she went in pain, slamming her shoulder into the ground to protect the rest of her. "No!" she whispered to herself, "I will not be denied my destiny again!" and with a powerful lunge, dashed towards the captain. He fired three more shots, hitting her in the shoulder once and scratching her cheek, and his gun clicked twice before she plunged the sword deep into his chest. "NO!" Bolt shouted as he stopped his struggle to free himself. Savage smiled as she placed her foot on the captain's chest, and kicked him off of her blade, making him land in the water below. "No." Bolt whispered, the shock of failure running through his body as he heard Dark Bolt laugh maniacally. Suddenly he blacked out, dropping only his head and he also began to laugh. Mittens looked up at him, a dark fear beginning to envelope her as his fur quickly changed from white to black. The black bolt shaped patch of fur changed, fading to crimson, and when he lifted his eyes, they changed to a menacing red. "At last!" Dark Bolt said. "You!" Mittens said, causing the dog to turn his head, "But you fell from the ship, no one could have survived that!"
"I can't die until we both die, kitten!" he said, and turned is head to the goop at his paws, "I am him after all." As soon as he began to growl deeply, the inside of his mouth lighting up with a green light. Mittens gasped and turned to Rhino, "Get off of the ground!" she yelled, and pulled out her fire claws. Rhino jumped up to one of the vents of his ball, holding on tight with all four of his paws as Dark Bolt released a powerful stream of green fire, hardening and melting the goop all at the same time. Even with her fire claws out, Mittens found the heat of his flame nearly unbearable as it singed her now fireproof fur, and she screamed out her discomfort. "YIKES!" Rhino called out as the flames surrounded his ball, heating the floor of it up to intense temperatures. Dark Bolt finally stopped his stream of flames, and pulled up, breaking the hard casing around his paws easily. The solidified goop cracked and shattered around all three of them, freeing them completely and letting Rhino roll his ball until he was at the ground. "Impossible, you were to be powerless!" Savage said in shock. "I have to thank you alien!" he said, simply refusing to use her name, "If you hadn't sent my other half into shock like that, I wouldn't have been able to get free the way I just did." Savage once again lunged at him, and dashed forward, meeting her half way before he caught the blade in his mouth, quickly tossing her behind him. As Savage landed on her back, Angelira made her way to the top of Rhino's ball which had quickly cooled, "Everyone's been evacuated," she said, "The barkeeper and guards helped."
"I suppose it's been nice knowing you all," Dark Bolt chuckled, and lifted his chin to take a deep breath. Mittens gasped again, switching to her wind claws, just as Dark Bolt let loose a powerful super bark. Savage dodged to the side as Mittens lifted both her and Rhino, Angelira flapping her own wings to fly away from the blast. The entire bar came crashing down as the sound wave slammed into it, Mittens and her friends flying a short ways away, and Savage running back into the streets. Dark Bolt began laughing again, his excitement for destruction rising into a height of euphoria. "BOLT!" Mittens cried, catching the black dog's attention, "Oh, no my dear, my name is Dark Bolt!" he said and opened his eyes wide, the middle of them glowing a bright green. Mittens moved as quickly as she could, dodging to one side and flying away from him as he released a few more shots of his laser vision. "Oh!" Dark Bolt heard his other half groan in his head, and stopped his attacks, staring at the retreating black cat and her friends, "Mittens?" Bold asked, and somehow saw her fleeing, "Mittens!" he exclaimed, "What did you do?"
"Nothing my weaker self!" Dark Bolt lied, "She is simply running from you!"
"I don't believe that!" Bolt said. "Oh but watch, I make no attempt to attack her, and yet she continues to run, fleeing out of her own fear!" Dark Bolt argued, "I offered her a chance to accept your sins, me, yet all she did was run. You see the reality now!"
"NO!" Bolt said in confidence, yet the more he watched his wife run from him, the faster that confidence disappeared, "No," he said trying once more to convince himself that she wasn't running away, "no." he whispered as he accepted what Dark Bolt said, finally lying down and just letting the chains hold him in place. Dark Bolt chuckled as he felt his other half finally recede, giving up completely on fighting back. "I have won!" he said to himself and turned to begin hunting the alien girl Savage.
High in the sky, Mittens turned her head away from the black dog as she continued to fly away. "What are you doing?" Rhino asked, "We need to go back and help him!" Mittens simply shook her head, "We can't can we?" Angelira asked, "Not like this." Mittens began to cry, her tears making it very hard to continue flying, even in a straight line, "I swear," she finally said, "I'll get Bolt back, even if I have to fight him to do it. But I'll have to get stronger first!"
The End