As they land on
the floor, Protector comes out on top as Dark Tendril ends up on his back.
Protector doesn’t hold back as he swings both of his fists into Dark Tendril’s
fist repeatedly.
As Guardian uses
her armour and KEPs to break free of the energy tendrils, now only half
restraining her.
Dark Tendril didn’t get the chance to fully restrain
me otherwise I wouldn’t be able to break free so easily. Hmm, it appears that
Protector’s punches are actually hurting Dark Tendril. Why is that happening
when I couldn’t do anything?
A mixture of
power, multitude and timeframe.
Please explain in greater detail.
The exoskeleton
suit in the armour enhances his strength. Protector is inherently stronger than
you so his enhanced strikes are much more powerful than yours. He is doing it
rapidly to the same area within a short amount of the time. The large amount of
power being repeatedly delivered rapidly is actually overcoming Dark Tendril’s
defence.
So how is Protector not getting hurt?
His armour
protects his fists from damage while Dark Tendril is caught off guard and has
yet to recover.
Should we intervene?
Wait until you
have the ability to harm Dark Tendril, but be prepared to support Protector if
he needs the help. In the meantime, attempt to get the capability to harm Dark Tendril.
So any ideas on how to do that?
Perhaps you could
upgrade your energy projector batons to more power? Other than that, I have no
suggestions to offer at this moment in time.
Thanks for the help anyway.
Sparing
Protector only a single glance before she gets to work, Guardian begins to
attach more ElecMag cells to one of her batons.
Boosting the power to the energy projector should
strengthen the energy projector. Of course overcharging it like this will burn
through more power quicker and I will have to do make major repairs to it
later. Not to mention it is much more likely to malfunction or break when being
used.
We need the extra
firepower.
I know, but this is only a short term solution, we’ll
need to work on a long term one when we can.
We have to make it
out of this in one piece to do that.
I know that as well.
As she finishes
adding two ElecMag cells to the baton, Guardian whips her head around as she
hears Protector grunt in pain.
Dark Tendril has
fought him off and aims his hand at his head as a handgun made of solid black
energy forms in it. The villain is clearly preparing to finish off Protector
for good.
If that gun was able to dent my armour, it should have
no trouble piercing one of my old suits. Then again, Protector’s modified suit
includes a lot of Gardium, but I don’t want to take any chances.
With no time to
waste, Guardian activates her KEPs as she zooms at Dark Tendril. She tackles
him as they fly at the wall. Dark Tendril still gets a shot off, but Guardian
is certain it went off target.
At the very least, it won’t kill Protector if it does
hit him.
As they impact
the wall, Guardian keeps on going, using Dark Tendril as a battering ram to
break through. They fly not only through that wall, but the next one as well to
reach the open city.
With Dark
Tendril in her gasp, Guardian tosses him into the ground. He slams into it
hard, leaving a small crater around his point of impact in the road.
Dark Tendril
begins to get to his feet as Guardian hovers in the air, finishing modifying
one of her energy projector batons into something with enough power to hurt Dark
Tendril.
But how will I subdue him?
Subdue him? I
don’t think you’ll be able to subdue him.
So what did you expect me to do?
Kill him.
Why?
Because he is an
enemy trying to do the same to you. I am also certain that he has already
harmed innocents and will do so again if not stopped.
But I don’t want to kill people.
Humph! Then you
are going to have to flee instead.
Why do you have no problem with killing? We’re a
superhero.
I’m a soldier.
With her energy
projector baton now fully modified, Guardian activates it and a bright,
electric blue energy beam appears, about thirty centimetres long.
In mid-flight
amidst the night sky with an energy blade weapon in her hand, Guardian is sure
that she is an impressive sight to behold.
“You know what Guardian?” says Dark
Tendril from below, “Let’s call it quits
for now. My bosses didn’t tell me you could do all this.”
And with that,
Dark Tendril steps into the shadows before disappearing into them.
“Guardian?” asks
Protector over their private comm-link, “What should we do now?”
“Get back to the
basement with what you got,” replies Guardian, “I need to figure out how to
explain all of this to Alexandria and the authorities. They ought to be
informed of this, especially about Dark Tendril.”
And here we come to the end of chapter six. We find more about Legacy's companion and Guardian 'wins' her second supervillain fight, once again using cunning, trickery and deceit. As matter of fact, if Dark Tendril had continued the fight, he would have won. But he didn't know that and with Guardian wielding a nasty looking energy blade, Dark Tendril decided it wasn't worth the risk.
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