1.19 Ascendance Part 4

Joan dodges another of the woman’s punches and follows it up with an uppercut, which the woman also dodges, but just barely.

Or rather Ceta dodges it and follows it up with an uppercut.

“Why isn’t my power working?!” shrieks the woman, freaking out, “I need back up! The others are all dead. The bitch’s #@$%ing boyfriend has taken out all of the others.”

The woman yelps a pair of bullets fly past her head, jumping out of the way, leaving herself completely open to Joan. Taking the opportunity that is presenting itself, Ceta slams a fist into the woman’s face.

She stumbles backwards with a bloody nose and lip and Leo swipes at her with a red and black halberd that Joan doesn’t recognise.

Guns under my bed, a killer instinct and now that nasty looking weapon. Leo is just full of surprises today.

He catches her in the side, leaving a bloody gash. The woman gasps in pain and stumbles backwards. As Ceta moves to retrieve Joan’s pistol, Leo attacks the woman again, but she steps out of the way and disarms Leo of his halberd, knocking away from him.

He swings at her with his left fist, but the woman catches it using her hand with a grin on her face. A grin that is almost instantly replaced by a pained expression as a grey blade shoots forth from where Leo’s left hand connects with the wrist and pierces her own hand.

Where that hell did that come from?!

Even as that is going on, the halberd teleports to Leo’s right hand as he aims it as the woman’s left shoulder. A black energy beams fires from the halberd’s head, tearing into the woman’s shoulder.

She stumbles backwards with a cry of pain as her right arm goes limp and her shoulder gushes with blood. The woman clutches her left shoulder with bleeding right hand and staggers backwards as Ceta takes aim with the handgun.

We’re going to kill her?

This is kill or be killed. They proved that when they murdered your sister.

Ceta pulls the trigger, but Joan is knocked through the air a split second after the bullet leaves the barrel.

She flies down the corridor, Joan gapes at the man hovering in front of the injured woman.

The man has the body shape of an Adonis, but is clearly an Abnormal. His skin is a shiny gold and whilst the man is naked, his body lack any body hair not on his head along with his nipples and...other parts. His shortish hair is a gleaming bronze while his eyes are pure silver.

S-S-Superior!

This is bad.

You think!

“You hurt my big sister,” declares the most powerful parahuman on the planet as he turns to face Leo, 
“You’re going to pay for that.”

Leo attempts to attack, but Superior simply grabs the right arm in which the halberd is held and tears it off with absolutely no effort. Leo grunts in pain as blood erupts from his shoulder.

Leo stabs at Superior with his right hand and Superior laughs, not even bothering to dodge or block the attack and instead just standing there to take the attack.

But Superior is soon silent, taking a step backwards as his eyes widen in a mixture of pain and shock as Leo’s hand-wrist blade pierces his shoulder.

Superior takes another step back as he places his hand on Leo’s chest before unleashing a blast of glowing golden energy. Leo grows flying backwards as the energy beam burns through cloth, flesh, blood and bone with equal ease.

“Leo!” cries Joan, her eyes swelling with tears.

She attempts to rush to Leo’s aid, but halts after a single step as Superior suddenly appears in front of her.

“Oh no you don’t,” says Superior with an angry glare at Joan as he crosses his arms over his chest.

Joan’s eyes stray to his shoulder, where Leo wounded him. The injury is already healed, but Joan notes that there is still some orange blood on Superior’s golden flesh.

Suddenly Superior grunts in pain and staggers forward, almost falling on top of Joan, giving her a momentary glimpse of what is lodged in his back.

Leo’s halberd is lodged in Superior’s back, quite deeply as a matter of fact, with orange blood leaking around it.

Meanwhile Leo, with his right arm and most of his upper body simply gone, is slumped against the wall, panting heavily as his face contorts with pain and determination. His outstretched left hand slowly falls to ground.

With a furious snarl, Superior rips the halberd out of his back as he slowly turns to face Leo. He grabs the weapon with both hands and casually snaps it in two before tossing it aside.

“You die now,” hisses Superior as Leo’s head around so it faces backwards by an invisible force.

“Leo!” screams Joan in despair as she runs forward in a desperate team to reach her dead boyfriend.