Ch 6 stadium attack
Locus was running thru an empty field for some unknown reason. He just continued running, until he was out of energy.
"What am I doing here?" Locus muttered, sitting on the ground, heavily breathing.
"Hello, Locus." A familiar voice said.
"No." Locus muttered, not wanting to hear that voice again.
"Oh yes." Felix smirked, approaching Locus from behind. Next to Locus, was a man wearing a black hoodie. His face wasn't seen.
"You're dead. The sim troopers killed you." Locus said, not believing that Felix was still alive.
"Locus, it takes a lot to kill me." Felix smirked.
"I used the sword to activate the comms temple. The sword can only work after its previous owner is killed." Locus said.
"Well, that's something you'll have to figure out." The hooded man said, his voice was deep.
"Who are you?" Locus asked, aiming his sniper rifle at the hooded man.
"I, am the solution." The man said, before pulling out a DMR out of his cloak and shot Locus. Locus stood in silence, then looked down at the bleeding hole in his chest. Locus collapsed on the ground, trying to stop the bleeding.
"Oh, by the way. We got your bitch." Felix said.
"Who?" Locus asked.
"The waterbender. Kya." The hooded man said.
"And let me tell you, Locus. She has a beautiful body. I'm going to enjoy her." Felix said, standing over Locus.
"No." Locus muttered, his strength leaving him.
"Believe it." Felix cruelly said.
Locus looked to his left and stretched his arm towards his rifle, but Felix picked it up.
"Looks like I'm the true warrior." Felix said, before killing Locus.
Locus bolted up out of bed, sweating and eyes wide open.
"Locus, what's wrong?" Kya asked, waking up next to her lover.
Locus looked at Kya and clenched his left hand.
"Nothing. Nothing's wrong." Locus said, laying back on the bed, and attempted to fall asleep.
Later that day, Locus was busy cleaning his weapons and armor, a nagging feeling in the back of his head.
"Going to war, Locus?" Kya asked.
"Maybe." Locus said, and grabbed his shotgun putting the gun in his lap.
"Maybe?" Kya asked.
"Do you know where the equalists will strike?" Locus asked.
"Good morning, citizens of Republic City. This is Amon. I hope you all enjoyed last night's pro-bending match, because it will be the last. It's time for this city to stop worshiping bending athletes as if they were heroes. I am calling on the council to shut down the bending arena and cancel the finals, or else there will be severe consequences." Amon said thru the radio.
"There's your answer." Kya said.
"Stay out of the stadium tonight." Locus said.
"You think Amon will attack?" Kya asked.
"Chances are he will." Locus said.
Locus headed to the stadium, where the police department was checking to see if any booby-traps were placed.
"Who are you?" Lin asked, seeing the Spartan.
"Locus. I'm here to help." Locus said, eyeing the chief.
"You can help by searching for booby-traps." Lin said, seeing Locus staring up.
"The ceiling. Makes sense." Locus said, and he headed to the stairs leading the roof. Locus remembered when the space pirates attacked the Charon soldiers at their own capital with an airborne attack, dropping troops in.
Locus walked on the ceiling and pressed on the glass, testing its strength. What he found didn't please him. The glass was rather weak, just able to hold him up. Any further stress, such as hand to hand combat taking place, would cause the roof to collapse.
"Well, guess we'll find out." Locus said, looking at the sky.
Night came, and the game was proceeding as planned. Locus stood next to Lin and Tenzin, decked out in his armor from head to toe, weapons at the ready.
"Come on, refs! What the fuck are you doing?" Tenzin shouted.
Boba face palmed himself, or helmet palmed to be more accurate. He was heavily reminded of Felix and his antics. Someone who wouldn't shut up. God, he hated it so much.
"Tenzin, shut it or I will end you." Locus said, racking the pump on his shotgun.
Lin turned to see Tenzin and Locus face each other, only to be electrocuted from behind.
"Lin!" Tenzin shouted, and knocked the chi blocker away with a blast of airbending, only for him to get shocked in return.
Locus aimed his shotgun and blew the equalit's chest wide open. Shotgun slugs designed to pierce covenant shielding and elite/brute anatomy make short work of the unarmored equalist.
Locus looked around the stadium and saw police guards dropping like flies. Locus stayed where he stood, and checked Lin and Tenzin. Thankfully, they were still alive.
Locus looked at the arena and pulled out his sniper rifle, looking thru the scope as he saw the wolf bats get their bending taken away. A knot formed in his stomach, as he imagined Kya suffering the same fate.
"I believe I have your attention, benders of republic city." Amon started, before one of the equalist's with him was shot, his body torn in two by the high caliber round.
Locus looked thru the scope of his rifle and settled the crosshairs on another equalist and pulled the trigger, killing him.
Locus moved the crosshairs on the 5th equalist, who was strangely wearing a cloak. The figure then pulled a rifle from his cloak.
Where'd the equalist get a DMR?!
The 5th equalist pulled the trigger and the bullet damaged the scope, and Locus was temporarily knocked out of the fight.
"As I was saying." Amon said, as the 5th person removed the cloak, revealing Felix.
"Felix!" Locus shouted, and without thinking, leaped over the ledge to confront his enemy only to drop right into the water.
"Wow. I never knew Locus to do something as stupid as that." Felix said, standing next to Amon.
"So once again, the Wolfbats are your pro-bending champions. It seems fitting that you celebrate three bullies who cheated their way to victory because every day, you threaten and abuse your fellow nonbending citizens just like the Wolfbats did to their opponents tonight. Those men were supposedly the best in the bending world and yet it only took a few moments for me to cleanse them of their impurity. Let this be a warning to all of you benders out there: if any of you stand in my way, you will meet the same fate. Now, to my followers: for years the Equalists have been forced to hide in the shadows, but now we have the numbers and the strength to create a new Republic City. I'm happy to tell you that the time for change has finally come. Very soon, the current tyrannical bending regime will be replaced by a fair-minded Equalist government. You and your children will no longer have to walk the streets afraid! It's time to take back our city. For centuries, benders have possessed an unnatural advantage over ordinary people. But thankfully, modern technology has provided us with a way to even out the playing field. Now anyone can hold the power of a chi blocker in their hand. My followers and I will not rest until the entire city achieves equality, and once that goal is achieved, we will equalize the rest of the world. The revolution has begun!" Amon shouted.
A zeppelin fired its cables thru the glass ceiling, and Amon and his equalists leave. Felix aims his rifle at the crowd and pulls the trigger, 7.62mm bullets killing or injuring anyone in the crosshairs.
Locus swims to the surface of the water and aims his grappler pistol at the ceiling, and fired. The cable attaches itself to the roof and Locus rises up to confront Amon and his newfound ally, Felix.
On the roof, Locus cloaks himself and sees and equalist jump down on the roof, only for Locus to blow his head off. Locus then sees Korra and Lin approach to fight the equalists, only for Felix to jump down, with a squad of equalists soldiers.
Felix aims between Lin and Korra, directly at Locus and pulls the trigger. The bullet goes into the cloaking device hooked on the SPI armor Locus is wearing, and shortens out the cloak.
Locus aims his shotgun at Felix, Felix aiming his DMR at Locus.
"We meet again, Locus." Felix said.
Locus says nothing, but calculates plans on how to kill Felix and his lackeys.
"How'd you survive the fall?" Locus asks.
Korra fires a blast of fire at Felix, only for Felix to activate his hard-light shield and dissipate the attack.
"Get inside." Locus ordered.
"We can take him." Korra said.
"Korra, he's like nothing you faced before. He'll kill you before you can blink. Get inside. I'll take care of him." Locus said.
"Korra, we should do what he says." Lin said.
"No." Korra says, and runs towards Felix, throwing fireball after fireball to buy herself some time.
A single gunshot is heard, and Korra collapses, clutching her stomach, blood seeping out.
"Korra!" Lin shouted, and ran towards her.
"You won't be able to save her." Felix taunted.
"Get her inside, now!" Locus yelled, then tackled Felix before he could finish what he started.
Locus punched Felix in the chest as hard as he could, but his armor stopped Locus from killing him.
Felix grabbed Locus's throat and squeezed hard, causing Locus to pry Felix's hand away, giving Felix an opportunity to counter strike. Felix punched Locus in the side as hard as he could and pushed Locus away, then crawled towards his rifle.
"You're gonna pay, Locus. We could have won at Chorus." Felix said, firing his rifle at Locus, forcing him to retreat.
"You dumbass! When we had the sim troopers cornered at the snow base, I could have killed them in the blink of an eye, but you had to run your mouth off!" Locus shouted, ducking under the curved ceiling, out of Felix's line of sight.
"Yeah, and you fucking betrayed me when we had another chance. Remember?" Felix asked.
"It was over by then! And how the hell did you survive?" Locus shouted.
"That's for me to not tell, and you to figure out." Felix said, as he hitched on a cable and rose to Amon's zeppelin, escaping to fight another day.
Locus jumped down from the ceiling and landed on the courtyard beneath him. He ran inside the stadium, shotgun in hand.
"Is everyone okay?" Locus asked, approaching Korra, Tenzin, Lin, and the fire ferrets.
"We're fine. Whatever Felix fired at Korra, I got it out." Lin said, giving Locus the bullet.
"You know him, Locus?" Tenzin asked.
"Yeah. It's a long fucking story." Locus said, picking up his damaged sniper rifle.
On the zeppelin, Amon approached Felix.
"Seems like Locus is as deadly as you said he is." Amon said.
"He is. But I'm going to end him, for good." Felix said.