Blue's POV

That doltish bandit has been slashing down his worn out looking curved sword for numerous times! Dammit, I have to keep parrying his attacks until the perfect window of opportunity. But I hope it comes soon because the constant blocking has diminished the majority of my Nano Sabers energy. The small panel on the hilt of the saber was blinking red and I could see the number. 12% battery left. I can probably block for a few more times until the energy runs out and the energized part of the blade would go out just leaving the plain sharpish metal long piece. Using that is not going to be efficient, it wont penetrate the bandits rudimentary leather armor.

"That energy sword is not going to hold out kid!" The bandit said with a chuckle, then gave a right slash. I quickly parried, causing a large spark within the contact of his blade and mine. The panel continued blinking; I noticed how much was left, 7%. The neon blue light began to give off a small flicker. The bandit chuckled, "Bwahaha, weak little boy. Your out of your league! I'm stronger and faster than you!"

I clicked the button causing the energy blade to turn off. I'm going to have to conserve the energy and then activate it again at the last moment. "Haha Give up already?" the Bandit laughed. "Easy kill I guess, heh" he gave a big horizontal slash. I quickly dodged the attack and grabbed his hand. In a swift eye blink I held the lower portion of his arm and kneed it causing it to snap like a twig. The Bandit screeched in pain. "How dare you!" he then gave another slash attack at me. In my eyes the attack was slow, making it easy to dodge low. Then I shoved the hilt right up at his chin. "You may be faster and stronger than me. But you are not smarter." I pressed the power button, thus activating the energy. The beam of blue light shoved right through his chin and straight through his head. His body quickly fell to the ground. I deactivated my sword and took a deep breath. I looked into the distance and I could see Archer pulling out his arrow out of one of the bandits head. But his clothes were ripped and he was bleeding a bit. Archer is obviously better bowman than a common bandit. Of course he won. He noticed me looking at him, he waved and I waved back.. "How's the other two?" Archer yelled. Ah crap.

Zac's POV

This bugger is playing with me. His mechanical boots gave him speed that is even faster than my own speed. He was literally doing circles around me. I tried to concentrate on him, but it just caused me to get a neck in a twist, not literally. That guy used many small daggers as his weapon. He was dashing around me, slashing me. I tried to dodge and block it but it was like fighting a blur. I saw the blur come fast at me. I raised my own dagger to try to counter. "Too slow!" the bandit yelled as he slashed my left arm. I was already bleeding a lot and that certainly did not help. I dropped my dagger and held my wound on my arm, it was the biggest one yet.

"Ha! Little weakling, your finished" he darted at me again at amazing speed. I had a perfect counter plan, I shoved my finger deep into my throat making me gag. I took out my hand quickly. I could feel a slimy liquid building up in my throat. I then spat some out onto my one dagger and spread it across the whole blade. Poison, I guess being an Arthropodic hybrid does have its benefits. I never really used this trait that I have cause I had no reason to. If I can get at least one slash on him, the poison would enter the wound causing him to collapse quickly. But with one dagger and his speed, I can only move slightly to reduce the chance of getting a fatal wound. I started running towards him and he started to glide towards me. Right when we are close right beside each other we both gave a swing. I moved a bit away from the swing but I can feel the pain by my thigh. as we reached across I dropped my dagger and stared to feel and hold some of my wounds. I spat out some blood and turned to look at the bandit and he looked at me. "Haha! You only got a mere scratch off of me!" He yelled. "Heh thats the plan" I said.

"What are you tal-" the bandit started to cough up lots of blood and started gripping the middle of his shirt. "You...you fucker! What did you do to me?! I'll kill you!" He came charging at me at faster speed than before. Shit, at this rate he would finish me off before the poison takes full effect. I noticed his boots blasted making a trail of fire. A light bulb popped above my head. I grabbed my dagger and threw with all my hardest. I panted and fell to my knees not focusing on the many cuts and the endless blood flowing from all over my body. The dagger then got shoved right into one of the bandits mechanic boots. "What the-" the boot with the dagger in it shortly blew up, tearing off the bandit leg. With the one boot boosting it caused the bandit to loose balance. He was going out of control flying in all sorts off directions. I couldn't help but laugh at the sight. Soon after he crashed right into a tree head first making a big splattering sound. "Ew"

I picked myself up an started walking with a limp. I held my wound on my left arm. I walked pass the tree where the bandit's body laid there, headless. "Heh that was fun" I said to myself. I looked up to see Arty and Blue running to me. "Zac! You alright?" Blue yelled. We caught up and caught my breath. "I'm a little cut up but ill recover, where is Pixel?" I asked. Archer and Blue looked at each other then looked back at me. "I thought he was with you" Archer said. Immediately after big banging sounds of metal echoed. We all looked at the direction where it came from. The birds flee from their nests in the trees. "Come on! It came this way" We all started to walk to the direction of the sound. But we were all pretty banged up so we had to help each other walk by interlocking our arms to help us balance. I hope we get there in time.

Pixel's POV

Regaining conscience, I opened up my eyes slowly. I looked around and I saw myself laying down, leaning on a broken tree. I looked at my body, it was cut up and bruised. I look at my legs but doing that I noticed the dirt trail like that went slightly deeper, and I was at the end. I must have been knocked back by som- The bandit! I looked forward and I can see him with heavy armor and was using big machine like fists. He then pounded them together and the big metal bang ringed in my ears. "Come on now, this is just getting to easy!" He said. Dammit, his whole body have heavy armor that even with my lumine power cant penetrate it. But I managed to throw some solid punches, denting his armor a bit. I slowly get up, feeling my muscles ache. I endured the pain and help up my arms. I can still feel power in me, I'm not going to give up.

"Gotta say kid, you got good endurance" The bandit said smirking. "But lets see how strong you are against this!" The beast charged at me with his arm cocked back, powering up for a punch. "there has to be more ways I can use Lumine" I thought to myself. I looked back up at the man,, he was closer than I thought! I just thought to myself making a big over shield like with the lumine power. Thus making me throw may hands aside making a streak of light blue lumine in the path of where my arms flew back. It expanded in a blink of an eye making a big bubble like shield. The shield was effective as the bandit slammed his fist into the shield which broke his metal arm. "Arrgh! No biggy! ill just use my other arm!" my shield dispersed as he charged with his other metallic coating arm. He seemed slow but he was actually really fast. I dodged a few swings but one of them caught me, right across the face.

I stepped back due to the recoil from the punch as I tried to recover another punch landed right in my chest making me fall onto my knees. "Weak. You may have some glow power thing but it is useless against me. Too bad your friends aren't here to help you"

"Pixel!" A familiar voice echoed through the forest. I looked up to see Blue, Zac, and Archer limped out off the tall grass and trees. I was glad to see them but I noticed they were injured. "How are you alive?! My boys should have killed you all!" The bandit said facing them. "It seems there was a turn in events" Blue said calmly but gave the bandit captain the evil eye. "Y-you? Impossible! You little shits are going to pay for what you have done. I am going to rip your intestines and make your blood splatter across this fucking forest! Them im going to mount each and one of your heads on a damn pike!" The Bandit started walking fast to the three, shifting his attention from me to my friends. Anger then suddenly filled through my blood. I've never felt so enraged. I felt different, like something else came into my body. And a different type of feeling came to me. A new power, much,much greater.

Archer's POV

Shit! That behemoth is going to slam us down to bedrock! We weren't in no shape to fight, we were all to injured. Blue tried powering up his Nano saber but it didn't have enough power. And my arrows cant go through his armor. But in the middle of me trying to search for a solution I noticed Pixel in the back. He was on his knees just looking down. What is happening to him? He slowly raised his head up. "!" His eyes were bright red and his canines teeth where longer and sharper than average. He had a raged face expression, with his teeth showing in a frown. In a blink of an eye he vanished with a blow of the wind then appeared in the sky right above the bandit. He charged downwards towards the giant. But instead in light blue Lumine powers, it was black with shining crimson. The Bandit noticed and looked up, He raised his metal arm to block it but it was no use. Pixel tore right through his entire arm! The bandit yelped and clumsy fell back. Pixel landed with a slam to the ground, but like a cat he was on his feet.

Pixel then started to walk towards the fallen bandit. "No, no! Please don't hurt me anymore! Ill leave you guys alone I swear!" The bandit pleaded mercy but Pixel continued walking like he didn't hear it. Pixels hand then got engulfed in the same black and red flame like essence. "Oh fuck! No! please we can work this out! How about some gold or or or some rare jewels?!" Pixel then stopped walking when he was standing right over the bandit. "I-I-I can- HUK!" Pixel grabbed hold of the Bandits neck and lifted him up high. It seemed like this guy was too heavy to be lifted but there is Pixel holding him by the neck with one hand! Where did this sudden power come from?

"P-Pixel Wait!" I yelled but he didn't listen. The bandit was choking and his face was red. In a blink of an eye Pixel shoved his two fingers into the bandits eye sockets and blasted the black and red flame into his skull from his two finger tips causing the bandits head to literally explode. Blood splatted everywhere in a flash, Pixel let go of the giants corpse and is fell to the ground with big metal clangs. "That was brutal" Zac said quietly. Pixel stood for a moment but then fell to the ground. We rushed to him, Blue looked and felt his body. "He'll get up soon, come on lets go." Now all four of us limped across the red blood stained forest to head back to the plains covered in blood and signs of battle. Since I had reduce injury feeling I was the one who used all my remaining strength to hold up everyone. But I to was drained. Slowly we cross the plains and my vision started to blur, I looked to my side everyone's eyes were closed, they look lifeless. "N-no..." I managed to say as I collapsed to the floor on my side. Everyone else was motionless. Everything was silent, only the howling wind the brushed against my ears. I coughed up blood and noticed my cuts.

If not treated I might bleed out to death out here, and everyone else too. I felt like sleeping, I was tired, so very tired. But before I closed my eyes I could see purple particles float around us "An...dr...he...lp" I tried to say as my vision fade to darkness.

Author's Note: Long wait huh? Sorry bout that, but finally we pick up where we last left off. Hooray!-Porkchops456