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(A/N: Welcome aboard Nerdy Nebula.)

Chapter 25: Smoke on the Water

"The seals have been broken. All we can do now is mitigate the disaster," Ryker commented as he fixed his gloves.

"Damnit Josh, if you weren't so distracted-!" Victor started.

"Cut me some slack, I'm trying my best not to burn the whole forest down here!" The black smoke flew off in four separate directions. One into a tree, one into the ground, one into a boulder, and one into a rather large puddle from the recent rain.

"Entities of pure energy that possess corporeal hosts and lash out blindly without reason. Codename unholy ghosts," Lucas stated as he drew his bat once more to defend against the stone figure rising in front of him. This figure had no head, a huge torso, and giant fists that drug on the ground when it walked.

"Now don't you start!" Ryker complained as he took a stance against his own enemy. This one was made of dirt, towered above the four humans, had patches of grass resting on its back and arms, and like its brother had no head.

"What I read it on the reports it seemed like fun," Lucas replied as the other unholy ghosts took form. Joshua was now faced with a slim figure comprised of pure water. It must not have had much to work with because the monster was practically a stick figure. This left Victor to take care of the wood rapidly splitting away from the tree and warping mysteriously into his exact likeness.

"Well that's rather unsettling," Victor spoke like a normal person would about the morning news. The being made of water was the first to strike as it slashed its inexplicably sturdy claws at Joshua. The gunslinger was just barley quick enough to dodge. Before the Water had enough time to adjust its sight four rounds were emptied into its pole like abdomen if you could even call it that. However the four balls of fire did little against the unholy ghost and quickly fizzled out. In retaliation Water swung upwards catching Josh by the chest with its claws. It then thrusted forward, its limb stretching as it slammed the gunslinger into a tree, leaving a substantial impression in the wood. Water retracted its claws leaving Josh to fall to the ground. His clothes torn where the claws should have ripped through him.

"Thank god I was able to focus my caine to one place in time!" He thought to himself as he rolled out of the way of another strike. As Water's claws sank deep into the wood Josh ran in a half circle formation firing all the while. These bullets did just as much damage as the last pair did. "This isn't working what else can I do?"

Lucas didn't have much trouble dodging the slow moving Rock, as he jumped into the air landing a clean hit on its shoulder. The rookie agent looked up to see that he did no damage as he quickly rolled away from the heavy fist that cratered the ground where he once stood.

"Damn this thing is made of tough stuff. The gem it used to be must've been a master at hardening her own body," Lucas thought, letting his superior sense of judgment shine through his usual devil my care attitude. Dodging a right hook that would've undoubtedly sent him flying, Lucas got in close and forced his hand onto Rock's chest. A thick sheet of ice formed where Lucas had his hand. "Now!" The batter thought as he grand slammed his grey bat into the freshly iced area. The ice shattered, revealing a still undamaged Rock. The rookie didn't have much more time to do anything before a fist nearly half his size plowed into his middle. Just like you would've thought he went flying right past Ryker's head.

The veteran said nothing, knowing that he wasn't doing much better with his opponent than Lucas was with his.

"Alright, you heap of dirt I didn't last this long just to get put down by a bag of potting soil!" The aging man wound up and threw a hard punch right into Dirt's statuesque face. The soil gave in and let Ryker's fist sink deep inside without doing any real damage. As Ryker struggled to pull his most valued appendage free several vines sprung from the ground and wrapped around the sidewinder's arms and midsection. Once the flora had a sturdy grip Dirt let go and the vines retracted into the earth pulling Ryker with them. The veteran got to work quick, pulling and crushing the vines that bound him. Unfortunately for Ryker he couldn't free himself before Dirt made its first move and punched Ryker square in the chest.

Victor stared himself down, not quite sure what to do next other than cut it into several little pieces.

"Alright, I don't know why you look like me, but if you were hoping to gain a bit of sympathy that way you are sorely mistaken," Victor said smoothly as he pulled out a gold butterfly knife out of his suit jacket which he flipped and wielded masterfully. Wood was the first to strike it swung its fist swiftly just as Victor, but what the gem spirit couldn't account for was what its opponent did next. Before the hit landed Victor disappeared into a puff of smoke. Unbeknown to Wood Victor reappeared behind it with a second puff of smoke. Like an assassin in the Sidewinder confidante plunged the blade down to the hilt into Wood's head, and pulled it out just a swiftly. It became apparent that this wouldn't be enough as Wood started to warp so that it was looking Victor dead in the eyes. (Like the x100 in T2) A pair of sturdy looking roots grew out of Wood's hands before it attempted to swing at Victor again. Victor was able to hold off one hand by grabbing on hard to the spike like roots, but had no way of defending against the second pair. He grit his teeth as he took the hit right to the face, but did not let go. A long scratch stretching from his chin around his eye and to his forehead now bled heavily as Victor flipped Wood over his shoulder. Placing his knife firmly at the seam of his crotch, he ripped it straight through Wood's body; rendering the unholy ghost in twine. Having thought that was the end of it Victor straightened his back and started to walk away until his heightened senses picked up the sound of something shifting in the dirt. Quickly he leaped away before an array of wooden spikes sprung from Wood's corpse. Victor was able to dodge most of the spikes, but took a pretty deep gash to his right thigh. Victor simply watched as the unholy ghost's two halves pulled themselves up and started to merge together. However before they could finish their healing process a large blast of fire hit it square in the chest. It snapped its attention to Joshua who now held his smoking guns with a grin dodging Water's attacks by just a hair. Wood went to attack Joshua, but two more large blasts of fire had it stumbling to its knees as it burned helplessly. Victor now turned his attention to dirt and Ryker who were still going at it. Before Dirt could land another blow to Ryker's bruised face, Victor cut him free with one slash.

"Rookie, get over here you're not going to anything to that thing!" Victor called out.

"On it!" Lucas replied cheerfully as he ducked low and froze Rock's feet to the ground, and leaving it like that. "Oh I've got an idea for this one," Lucas cheered as he touched a hand to Dirt's side while it was busy with Victor and Ryker. As He jumped back a good portion of Dirt's side froze solid.

"Good thinking Rookie!" Ryker complimented as he punched the frozen [portion. The frosted dirt fell away as Lucas repeated the process on Dirt's head which Ryker punched away once more. That must have been enough because after that it collapsed back into the shapeless pile of dirt it came from.

"Alright, I think I know how to deal with the boulder," Ryker said as he approached Rock who had just managed to break free of the ice. With a small bound the veteran pounced on top of Rock and quickly began punching rapidly. Slowly but surely a small crack began to spread on Rock's top. His job done, Ryker leaped back off of the unholy ghost.

"The harder the rock the less pressure needs to be applied to a small crack. It's up to you now Rookie," Ryker passed off the metaphorical torch.

"I've got you!" Lucas cheered as he took Ryker's place and placed his hand over the crack. Rock stopped moving as it started to emit shrill cries. Ice grew in the crack causing it to widen and deepen rapidly. With one crack the split grew half way down Rock's back. Lucas and Ryker switched places one last time as he slammed his hardest hit into the center of the ice filled crack, causing it to fall apart.

"Alright last one," Lucas cheered, excited to finish his first mission.

"Hurry up will you? I've been dodging for damn near twenty minutes!" Joshua yelled as he ducked under yet another slash. Lucas charged in freezing Water in one touch; allowing Joshua to finally end the fight with one well-placed pistol whip. "Good work, rookie!" Joshua congratulated as he walked away from the remains of his opponent.

"Thanks, I told you you were underestimating me,"

"What are you talking about? I didn't doubt you for a second," Joshua denied as his friends joined in the laughter.

Meanwhile two sets of shoes clacked loudly as they walked down a hallway. The figures opened a door and walked into the small room with nothing but a computer on a table.

"Charlie, show yourself," A female voice commanded.

"We've waited long enough," added a male voice. The Screen lit up as Charlies familiar voice came over the other side.

"Ah agents Mahashewarren, it's been a while since I've heard from you"

(A/N: I'm sorry.)