Nexus HWR 9.2 Mercy:
"So you're telling me this Luthor guy single-handedly took down all of the best fighters on your continent?" Grif asked the boy sitting on the co-pilot's seat next to him. They were inside the Scarab Tank heading east towards the tank's original destination before it got sidetracked by the group from Awul.
Ben nodded his head at the soldier in orange armor. He grimaced and mumbled, "I couldn't land a single punch on him. Not that it would have hurt him anyway." He clenched a fist in front of him, wishing he was stronger.
"Well duh," Grif said, looking at the kid for a second and laughing. He looked back out the windshield so he never saw the boy turn and glare at him while he continued. "If he could take on the strongest people on Awul, what made you think you had a chance against him?"
"I-" Ben began, then shut up and frowned.
"I mean, turning into a wolf seems pretty fucking cool," Grif continued. He looked at the navigation screen below the sticks for a second and he pulled them to the side seeing they were off course a little. The pilot continued going straight then glanced back at Ben to continue, "but any shmuck with a gun could take on a wolf-"
"I can turn into other things too," Ben snapped. "Not that I need to to kick bad guy butt."
"Whatever man," Grif said, leaning back in his seat. "If I were you, I'd grab myself a badass gun." He motioned his helmet over to the right side of his chair where a rifle was leaning up against the wall. "Look at this," he reached over and grabbed the weapon, then held it up in front of him. He held it up with one hand, and pressed a button on the side that made the entire bottom of the gun snap to the side, and a huge curved blade snapped out of the opening. "It's the Grif Shot 2.0." He moved the gun around so Ben could admire it from all sides.
"It's a gun and a blade," Ben whispered. "That's pretty cool," he said, trying not to sound too impressed. "But see this guy," he continued, and a flash of green light surrounded the kid. Grif watched through the green light as Ben grew five feet taller, his arms and his legs extended, and the symbol on his watch moved to the front of his forehead. His entire body turned gray, but his arms and legs looked shinier silver, and were sharp on the fronts and backs. He still had hands and feet, but his face was pointed out like a swordfish's, with a long silver blade coming out right below his black beady eyes. "Slicer!" Ben shouted, swinging his arms out to the sides and posing once the transformation finished.
"Whoa dude," Grif pulled back to avoid one of the sharp arms coming too close to him.
"Sorry," Ben said quickly as he realized he really did almost hit the pilot. The Scarab jerked to the side as Grif let go of the sticks for a second and the pilot had to get back on his seat to grab them again. Ben scratched the back of his head and said in a low voice not his own, "Haven't used this form much, so I forgot my extended reach for a second."
A flash of green returned Ben back to his human form and he popped a squat back on his seat. Grif was staring at the kid much closer now, "So, where'd you get that watch? And can I get one?"
"It's from my own universe," Ben said, stopping any hopes the orange guy had about getting his own. "Fell from space right in front of me and latched itself on my wrist." He shook his arm around to show that the watch was not loose at all, actually connected to his body. "Only one of its kind," he finished, looking a little smug as he did.
"Space huh?" Grif mumbled in disappointment. Ben chuckled but stopped as the man before him spoke up again, "I was a space warrior on my universe. A badass one too." He added.
"Really?" Ben asked, his voice sounding very skeptical.
"What? You don't believe me?" Grif asked. He motioned around at the vehicle he was in, "This tank comes from my universe too."
"I thought it was from the Covenant's universe-" Ben began.
"Yeah, those alien freaks were around in my universe too. Joined the space army to kick their asses, but Master Chief went and blew them all up before I could," the space warrior sounded a little annoyed, but sighed as Ben asked him who Master Chief was. "He's a Spartan," Grif said, "the best Spartan. Never thought I'd wind up fighting in the same army as him on this world too though."
"He's part of the Resistance?" Ben asked in surprise. "Hope I get to meet him," the kid said with a small grin.
Before Grif could respond, something started beeping on the control panel in front of him. The space warrior in orange armor looked down at the dashboard and started pressing a few buttons. "Let's see," he mumbled. His fingers typed fast, and Ben tried leaning over to see the screen in front of him to see what was happening. Suddenly, more numbers and random letters started appearing without Grif typing anything and the orange-armored warrior gasped. "Shit!" Grif exclaimed and jumped out of his pilot's seat.
"What? What is it?" Ben asked, jumping off his chair as well and running after Grif who started running for the main area of the tank.
"Canary," Grif shouted as he got inside the main room. Over two dozen people were sitting around or having conversations inside the clustered vehicle that was already packed even without the new additions they picked up the day before. A woman with long, blonde hair, wearing a black leather costume with a blue jacket over it, spun to face the guy running out of the cockpit with a little boy trailing him. "We just got a distress call. Only twenty miles to the east."
"Are you sure it's for real?" Dinah Drake, the original Black Canary, asked the pilot.
"I checked and they had the most recent codes. They said it was threat level Beta," as Grif reported, Ben stared confusedly at the soldier wondering how he got all that information from the gibberish he thought he saw on the control panel. Grif continued, "The enemy number in the hundreds, from the sound of it, the situation doesn't look good."
Black Canary frowned and clenched her fists at her sides. Many others in the tank were looking down with angry and some ashamed looks. Natsu and the others who were grouped together near the right side of the tank were getting confused. "What are you waiting for?" Natsu snapped at them all. "Aren't those your comrades out there?"
"Threat level Beta isn't something to back up with thirty extra troops," Dinah muttered loudly. "We could be walking into a slaughter."
"I say we give them a wide berth," Grif offered up. "Get to Pon-Gatso as fast as we can."
Ben frowned at the man next to him who he actually thought was pretty cool until now. "You're just going to leave your comrades to die?" Grif looked down at the kid through his visor, and Ben continued, "They called for your help!"
"Hey! They didn't call for us specifically," Grif argued back. "Who knows, maybe a larger team nearby got the message. One that won't get their asses kicked as soon as they show up."
Conner Kent, Superboy, turned to a shorter man on his left with spiky black hair. "Tell your friends what a Beta threat means," he told Gray.
Gray looked next to him at Superboy and began in a loud voice, "It doesn't matter." Everyone looked over at the ice wizard who continued, "I could say there are a million enemies waiting for us and you still wouldn't change their minds, or mine." He narrowed his eyes and spun to Black Canary, "We should go."
Canary looked over at Gray in surprise, and then rubbed her own chin like she was thinking about it. "Nooo!" Mr. 3 shouted. Galdino pointed at the ice mage, "You are going to get us all killed!"
"You can all just stand back and hide if you want to," Natsu growled around at the nervous people. "I'll take care of them all on my own."
"You're going to get yourself killed," Superboy scoffed over at the Dragon Slayer.
Natsu glared over at the muscular man and snarled, "You wanna bet?"
Gray looked straight into Dinah Drake's eyes. "Trust me. My friends are stronger than you think. We can save them."
"Grif," Canary started, her voice sounding urgent. The pilot looked over and already started groaning as he predicted what she was about to tell him. "Get to that distress signal's location. Everyone else," she looked around at her tank's occupants. "Prepare for battle."
The entire main room started bustling about and Grif ran back into the cockpit to get the Scarab moving again.. "Hey," Natsu yelled. The soldiers all stopped running for their weapons and turned to the pink haired mage instead. "What did I just say?" He asked in annoyance. He turned back to Superboy and said with a smug grin, "I'm going to take them all on myself."
"Wait, I thought he was kidding," Blue Beetle muttered to the Korean guy next to him holding a sniper rifle. The older man just shook his head wondering if Natsu was serious.
"You still don't understand what a Beta threat is," Black Canary began to him.
"Natsu," Gray started, making his friend look his way. "This is going to be tougher than you think. We should attack togeth-"
"Hold on a second Natsu!"
Gray was annoyed he was interrupted but turned in surprise and looked over at Ben who was standing there pointing at Natsu from twenty feet away. Ben pointed at Natsu, then brought his hand in and shoved a thumb in his own chest. "I call fighting them!"
"What?!" Most of the room shouted, including Natsu. Natsu took a step towards the younger boy, "Too bad, I called it first!"
"Wait," Dash began, as he realized it was up for debate. "I want to fight them too!"
"No way," Ben snapped over at his blond friend. "I call fighting on my own. I can take them all."
"You can't tell him no," Natsu yelled over. "I get to," he said, and then looked over at Dash and told him he couldn't fight.
"This is so not fair," Dash grumbled and crossed his arms. Ben and Natsu started arguing louder and getting closer and closer to each other as they did.
Finally, a voice spoke up from more towards the middle of the room. "Why don't you guys just play rock paper scissors?" Natsu and Ben turned to him, and then everyone else looked in at Kirito as well. The ninja wearing a black t-shirt and black pants put his hands in his pockets. "Goku said that that was how they always resolved who got to fight first since none of them ever wanted to fight together."
"Goku?" Black Canary muttered, wondering if she just heard that teen correctly.
"Son Goku," Galdino whispered under his breath. The man with his hair in the shape of a three raised his hand, "Excuse me." Kirito turned to him and glared at the guy who gulped but kept talking, "Who is this 'they' you are talking about?"
Kirito frowned, but stated, "Goku, and Gohan, Vegeta, Superman, and Tetsuo."
"You're telling me Superman played rock paper scissors to decide if he was going to fight someone or not?" Superboy asked, his voice full of skepticism.
"Yeah," Kirito replied without putting much thought into it as he did not know Superman like Conner did. "Since Superman was always fighting alongside Goku, he had to adapt to the Saiyans' way of doing things."
"Alright then," Ben said, crossing his arms. "That's fine with me."
Natsu looked down with a frown for a few moments at the younger boy, before holding out his right hand in a fist. "Me too," he agreed. Come on Rock! Natsu thought hopefully as Ben stuck his hand out in front of him as well. For everyone in the room, as they were no longer going for their weapons, this now became their main focus. They watched as the two boys swung their arms, and one threw rock, while the other threw out paper.
"What?!" Natsu yelled.
"Yes!" Ben exclaimed. The kid started dancing around while Natsu groaned in defeat.
Superboy looked around nervously, less so than most people inside the tank, but still feeling a little on edge about letting this kid fight on his own. Most of the others felt ashamed in themselves for not having the nerve to tell this kid he could not go out there on his own. He mainly just felt nervous about waiting for the boy to fail in saving their comrades before he was allowed to jump in himself.
He walked over towards Black Canary and whispered, "Do you really think this is a good idea? Letting these kids decide our course of action?"
Dinah hummed for a few seconds, before looking at Conner with a small smile. "Why don't we give them a chance? They kicked your butt pretty easily." She smirked at his instant annoyed reaction.
"I was caught off guard, and they ganged up on me. Still, even I would not be foolish enough to attack a Beta-level threat all on my own," Superboy added.
"And we all know how impulsive you are," Canary mocked, though she sounded a little more serious when she said it. Maybe this is a bad idea. The Scarab jolted as Grif turned it into the next gear, speeding them up to their top speed. Black Canary stumbled but Conner grabbed her arm to steady her. "Thanks," she mumbled as she regained her footing and he let go of her.
She looked over and saw that kid, Ben, talking to his younger blond friend, the ice mage, and the black haired teen who brought up rock paper scissors in the first place. Dinah stumbled over to the four of them while her men grabbed onto railings or strapped themselves in as it was getting hard to stand. Black Canary looked down at Ben as she got over and asked, "Are you sure you can handle this?"
"Don't worry," Ben assured, waving it off like it was no problem at all.
"Ben," Gray began, making his voice as serious as he could so that the boy would take him seriously. "Beta means that the soldiers fighting are rank yellow or up. The fact that there are hundreds of them probably means yellow, as hundreds of orange soldiers would not be leaving anyone alive to send out a distress call. Still, these are powerful fighters. Ones with abilities, strengths, high-tech weapons, experience probably," Gray put a hand on the younger boy's right shoulder, "so don't start off by testing them. Fight your hardest right from the beginning."
"My hardest?" Ben asked, lifting up his eyebrows. "I don't think-"
"Your hardest," Gray repeated. He squeezed tighter on Ben's shoulder. "One false move and you're dead. I know you of all people understand that."
Ben's eyes turned dark and the boy looked down for a second. Black Canary noticed the three others all looking at Ben with pitying looks, and she wondered what it was that had the boy so depressed all of a sudden. "Just be careful Ben," Gray repeated. "And go kick some ass."
Speakers turned on above the heads of the people in the fast-moving Covenant tank. The voice came out scratchy but it sounded like Grif's, "Three minutes until arrival."
"How fast are we moving?" Natsu muttered from next to a window as he heard that voice over his head. Thought he said twenty miles. Three minutes out... that means we're moving, like, really fast. He tried to do the math in his head, but Igneel only taught him the basics: addition, subtraction... that's it. Figuring out their current speed was beyond him.
The right side door of the Scarab opened up. Wind rushed inside as they were moving very, very fast. Ben saw the door open and he took a deep breath. His friends wished him good luck, and Kairi walked over and leaned down towards his face. She put her own face right up in front of his and whispered, in a voice that was quiet enough that the wind drowned it out for everyone else except for Ben, "If you get in trouble, you can call out for help. There's no shame in that. We already know how brave you are." She leaned forward a little more and gave the boy a small kiss on his forehead.
For a second, Ben remembered Kairi lying on the ground in front of him, her limbs all mangled after being crushed by Nox. He flinched, but then his eyes focused on the girl leaning back from him. She was not dead. She was right there, smiling at him and telling him he could call for help if he needed any.
He smiled back at her in an emotional way for a second, before noticing Gray and Kirito looking at them oddly. He changed his smile to a more cocky smirk and said out loud, "Don't worry, I won't need any help." With that, Ben turned and ran for the open door. He sprinted straight through it and leapt off the side of the still-moving Scarab.
The tank was already slowing down and Ben noticed that from the wind that was rushing into the tank from the door slower. Half the room freaked out as Ben dropped below the side of the tank and fell back behind the moving vehicle. A few seconds later however, Ben came lifting back up over the side and flew forwards faster and faster each second. Really, the tank itself was slowing down, but to the people inside it looked like Ben was moving faster.
When the tank got to a slow enough speed, everyone else ran outside and to the front of the tank to watch Ben. They saw the boy shooting across the sky in front of their walking Scarab, over towards an area with huge smoke pillars rising up around it. Natsu stepped up to the front of the pack and he watched the young boy who he promised multiple people he would look out for. "Be careful Ben," he mumbled, and only the two people on either side of him heard him. Juvia held her hands together up to her chest, while Kairi stared ahead with a more confident gaze. Kirito lifted his hands and grabbed the hilts on his back, ready in case things went south.
Gray frowned, but thought back to Metropolis for a moment. He thought about Ben standing up to Lex Luthor while he himself stood back fearing for his life. He thought about the boy firing a Kamehameha wave in Atlantis and defeating Kyogre who he thought Ben had no chance against. He thought about Ben's watch almost self-destructing and the boy flying over the water in order for the explosion to not hurt them. He has a Keyblade. He has that watch. He can fly. I believe, Ben. I have to. For him, someone who lived in Aebrith for two years with little to no hope, trusting his friends was more important than anything at this point. They've been scolding me for being so cautious since we got here. Prove me wrong Ben. Show me that we're more capable than any of them give us credit for.
Ben flew away from the Scarab and he saw it stop moving when he took a small glance back. He turned back forward fast though, and looked towards the rising smoke pillars. There were four of them in all, and as he got closer he saw the burning carcasses of transport vehicles below. There were six other trucks, hidden behind the veil of smoke with a line of soldiers holding weapons who were using the burning vehicles as cover to fire at the enemies from behind.
The enemy made Ben gulp. He looked past the smoke veil that he came in from behind, and he saw an army. They're all, animals? He looked around at the creatures scattered around the front of the burning transports. There were centaurs, pigs, wolves, lions, rabbits, bugs, crabs, and many had more human-like faces than their animal counterparts. They were much larger than normal animals Ben thought were in the wild, and they all looked like they had many human attributes he was not expecting. Many of them were holding up guns and cannons, others had swords, scythes, and axes. In the very back was a vehicle that looked like a drill, and probably acted as one considering the hole in the ground behind it that happened to be a similar size to the circumference of the bottom of the drill.
"I've got this," Ben stated. Remember Ben, don't let the watch drop into the red. Then again, Gray said I have to try my hardest from the very beginning. I should take his advice. Ten second intervals have proven to fully recharge the watch as long as I choose the interval myself. Make sure you take those full ten seconds if you need them.
Ben flew straight above the lines of Resistance soldiers. Many of them pointed weapons up at him thinking he was another Chimera Ant flying over, but were surprised to see just a human boy flying over them and through the smoke of the charred vehicles they were using as cover. Ben flew straight through and four dozen flying Chimera Ants shot towards him without hesitation. They did not look surprised; they were ready for one of the enemies to be able to fly, and they charged straight at him.
What they were not expecting however, was the small human child to light up green out of nowhere. They all stopped flying towards him and stared in awe as his body started growing larger. His skin got shinier and more green, becoming crystal in composition. "Diamondhead!" Ben shouted, and he did not drop out of the air. He kept flying in his alien form, and he pointed his arms forward. "Haaa!" His hands with crystal-like fingers morphed into spikier ends that fired huge chunks of green crystal out from them. Two of his attacks collided with enemies, wrapping them in crystals and making them fall from the air as their wings were wrapped as well.
As Ben fired at the others though, they swerved out of the way to avoid getting wrapped up. Two of them flew towards him, ones that had long tails sticking out that Ben was wary of since the very ends of them looked to have stingers. As he was looking out for them though, he barely noticed a yellow beam flying up towards him, and he scooted back in the air a little to let the beam fly by. Diamondhead isn't working well enough, he thought, even while pointing his arms forward and firing dozens of small, sharp crystals that did not wrap around his enemies, but instead cut right into them and their wings mainly, dropping them from the air.
New plan, he thought while looking down at the ground. "Fourarms!" He shouted, and his body lit up green making his large green crystal arms transform into red muscular ones instead. He dropped out of the air with two extra red arms, and two more yellow eyes to speak of. His shirt was white with black lines going vertically down it. He dropped all the way through the air with his arms crossed, barely wincing as yellow lasers crashed into him. His tough skin was too strong and the Chimera Ants only figured it out when he was but ten feet above them. Some tried backing up, but Ben slammed all four arms into the ground and made a huge crater that sent chunks of grass and dirt flying at his dispersing enemies.
"Get him!" an Ant that had the body of a tiger but stood on two legs shouted. He lifted his claws and his sharp nails extended. The tiger Chimera Ant charged forward, but when it leapt at Ben, he rose his upper right arm and grabbed it around the throat before it could slash at him. He released the tiger, then punched forward with his lower right arm to slam it in the stomach, while at the same time using both left hands to punch approaching Ants on his other side.
Damn, there's just too many of them! Ben flipped backwards as a grizzly bear with a scythe and wearing a t-shirt swung a scythe down at him. As he landed, two purple blasts of light shot at him and he ducked down to let them fly over his head. When he ducked though, three different creatures swung down with swords at his back. He clenched his teeth and forced some of his aura around him, cracking the blades as they hit his back.
A mile away from him, a couple dozen people released their breaths as for a second they thought the boy who transformed into a four-armed alien was about to get stabbed. Grif came running up from behind them all and he shouted, "What's going on? Did we decide not to attack like sane people?"
"Nope," Gray stated, still looking out towards the battlefield as he did. "Ben's out there."
"You can't be serious," Grif said in a deadpan tone. When a few others looked at him and shrugged, the soldier in full orange armor tilted back his head in shock. "You are serious. Damn it," he pushed forward through the crowd until he was up at the front with Ben's friends. "Why did you let him do this? That kid's going to get..." Grif dropped his jaw as a single figure in the distance with a brown tail held his hands forward and shot a blue beam in front of him.
"Haaaa!" Ben yelled, finishing his Kamehameha that was always a lot easier when he was a Saiyan. He watched as it flew forward, but barely any of his enemies got caught in it. And worse, he now had to worry about all of the Ants, as even the ones who were not originally focused on him, who were still firing at the Resistance fighters behind their cover, were coming for him after that display of power.
I need to recharge the watch now. I haven't finished them as quickly as I hoped. He flew straight up in the air right as four swords were about to collide on his body. Being a Saiyan increased all of his senses, along with strength, speed, and energy. His increased speed allowed him to fly up between the last four flying Chimera Ants before they could attack him either, and he kept shooting up in the sky without taking a break. Enemies gave chase, but froze as a green light shone above them.
The flying enemies chasing him looked up nervously, but the boy who transformed again turned back into his usual form. He did not even have that brown tail that seemed to make him so much stronger. The different Chimera Ants looked at each other, nodded, and then flew up in a group after the boy who kept flying straight up away from them.
Ten, Ben thought. He looked down to see if he was being chased, and opened his eyes wide to see Chimera Ants flying after him, and gaining fast. Nine. He kept flying as fast as he could in his human form, but it was not enough and the Ants literally born to fly were about to catch him. Eight. Seven.
The boy stopped flying all of a sudden and let himself drop. The Ants were surprised, but they rose up their claws, one of them snapped up her tail, and one lifted a sword covered in poison. Ben was about to drop down to their level, when he did a backflip in midair and lifted just over the sword just swung at him. He saw the sword going under his back and saw purple liquid flying off of it. He slammed a fist up and hit the Ant's hand around the poisoned weapon's hilt, making the creature drop it.
Two sets of claws were about to slam into his back, and since he was no longer flying he focused some of his energy into making a veil on that spot. Their claws hit him, and two claws had their nails shatter upon impact. Two others though, sliced through his aura and through the back of his shirt and into his skin. His guard did not hold, and Ben winced in pain as he felt the shallow cuts. The veil at least slowed the attack to keep the attacks weak, but he was still angry that he got hit, and spun with a kick so strong that the two who slashed at him were hit. He hit one in the head, and he put so much power into the kick that that one's head got smashed into the other's and they both flew across the sky.
The Chimera Ant with the long tail also covered in poison hesitated as two of its remaining allies were sent flying. Ben grabbed her tail below its point while she was hesitating, and he swung her into the one whose hand he punched a second ago, sending both of them flying as well. Four, three, he started flying up in the air again before the four he sent flying could recover. Only one of them started falling out of the sky, while the three others regained their composure and started flying up after Ben again.
"Don't let him get away!" The female Ant with the long tail shouted.
"He just got above the clouds," one of the ones with claws yelled.
Two... one...
"Be ready for him!" The one who lost his sword but now bared a mouth full of sharp teeth growled. He lifted a few more feet, before slowing down and coming to a full stop at the sight of a green light just above the clouds. He was about to keep flying up, when suddenly the clouds were gone. In their place, was a giant.
"WAY BIG!" the monster hundreds of feet tall roared.
The Resistance fighters a mile away dropped their jaws at the sight of the falling giant in the sky. "Is that," Superboy began, lowering his bottom lip as the monster fell from the sky. "He's huge."
Ben did not fly. He did not even know if he could fly as Way Big. He just fell, his back facing the floor. He fell straight towards the army of Chimera Ants down below who started panicking at the sight of the monster falling towards them. They fired their weapons up at him, but Ben was already focusing his huge energy on his back to soften the pain of the fall when he hit the ground.
"Run!"
"Get away!"
Ben's back was so huge that the Ants who started running doubted their ability to get out from beneath him. Way Big fell so far that he almost slammed down completely on top of them. Right before his back slammed into them though, he lowered his hands and feet, slamming them all into the ground and keeping his back elevated a little. Chimera Ants stared up at the massive white wall directly over their heads and most of them could not breathe in sheer horror.
"What is he doing?!" Superboy shouted. He looked over at Gray who had his jaw dropped as well.
"He, doesn't want to kill them," Gray whispered. The ice mage rubbed his forehead wondering what he was going to do. He slowly lowered his hand though, as Ben stood up fully as Way Big. He turned around and glared down at the enemies below him.
All of the Chimera Ants were terrified now. They knew he could have just killed them, and he was just staring down at them like he was deciding whether or not to kill them or not. He lifted his head the slightest bit, then reached down both hands and grabbed the sides of the huge drill that had bored through the ground near them. The Chimera Ants could only watch as Ben lifted it, put it only in his right hand, wound up, and threw their drill so far into the sky that a few seconds later they saw the purple forcefield light up, the barrier of Nexus.
Ben had thrown the drill so hard it left the atmosphere and hit the barrier that prevented them from leaving. He looked down at the monsters in front of him and said in a booming low voice, "RUN!" He stomped his right foot forward and the Chimera Ants nearby where it crashed down had to dive out of the way to avoid the foot.
For a second, nothing happened. And then every single member of the army facing the Resistance fighters turned around and ran away. They got about a hundred yards away from Ben's feet, when thirty or so of them came to a stop. They turned, and white auras surrounded their bodies. Way Big stared harshly at these fighters, the most powerful of the army, and he crossed his wrists in front of his chest. A bright light-blue beam shot out from the white and red giant monster's crossing-point of his arms. The blue energy slammed down to the left of the Chimera Ants, and Ben moved his arms right to drag the beam across where they were standing.
This time, the Ants panicked for real and spun, sprinting away after the rest of the army as fast as they could. Way Big's beam smashed straight through the ground they were just standing on, incinerating it all and tearing several dozen yards down into the ground. Once Ben saw every single Ant was fleeing, at least the ones able to, a green flash of light surrounded Way Big and a little human boy floated there a hundred feet off the ground in his place.
The Scarab Tank parked a mile out from the battlefield was silent for a few seconds. Then, Mr. 3 whispered, "He, did it."
"No fucking way dude," Grif muttered. He wiped the visor of his helmet to make sure he was not seeing things.
"Never doubted him for a second," Kirito stated. A few of the others looked at the ninja in surprise and Kirito added, "I sure wouldn't want to fight him again." He thought back to their fight in Pao Town, and after that when they fought side by side in Metropolis. Every time he saw Ben fight, the kid improved so much.
"Heh, I could've done it faster," Natsu said, though he was smiling ear to ear admiring Ben's work.
"I told you," Gray started, turning and looking at the shocked group behind him. "My friends are stronger than you're giving them credit for." Juvia turned and smiled at her boyfriend, while Natsu just smirked along with the other boys. Gray continued, "With their help, I truly believe, we can start to make a difference in this war."
A/N Thanks for reading! The chapter's name was Mercy, and I think it works nicely with what Ben just showed his enemies. Anyway, hope you enjoyed the battle! Next chapter, things get really, really intense. I hope you're ready, for Nexus HWR 9.3 League of Assassins.
joebob323 chapter 49 . 4h ago
Ohh... I was thinking of Tora, not Bora. Your response just gave me more questions! Gah! I cannot wait for the next chapter, it doesn't matter who is in the next chapter, they all have ended on cliffhangers. Thanks for the chapter!
Glad you enjoyed it, and though this chapter may not have ended on a cliffhanger, I hope the title of the next one has you on edge... Thanks for the review! Thanks again everyone for reading this story! 'Till next time!