Setting: The deserted Silver Square turned battlefield of downtown Compass City. Small fires have caught in the lower levels of the shops and buildings. Debris is found everywhere. Newsstands have been busted, sending hundreds of papers amiss. Some statues are broken and cars are smashed, cut in half, and stacked on top of each other. The land has been torn up as if with giant shovels, creating broken and overturned pieces of terrain, sidewalk and street, their edges pointing upward. The scene is deserted, except for the three heroes and 12 Virus Projections. All heroes have a few scratches, smudges of mud on their uniforms, and other signs of fighting for a while.
A car is thrown by one of the projections, and rolls through the air toward Alloy, who turns to face it and darts away. The car crashes into a shop store-front.
Alloy: “They have assimilated more battle tactics, how many computers do you think this virus has affected by now?”
Alloy charges like a samurai and swings up at the projection, spins and hits it from the side, and chops down at it. Each time he only hits its hard force-field skin with no affect. The projection slaps him back-handed sending him into fire-hydrant, breaking it. Water bursts into the sky creating a gushing fountain. Rennek jumps into the air and turns only to blast from both hands a huge pillar of anti-energy toward a projection. The blast causes the projection to shrivel into just the projector device. Rennek smiles, but soon learns that as soon as she stops blasting it, the monster grows back to normal size again.
Rennek: “It’s been a couple of hours. The virus could have gone around the world a few times by now. Anti-matter and anti-energy have no effect on them! I’ve never seen anything like it!”
Sketch: “I better still have my playlist after this is done.”
Sketch forms a ball of pite, squishing it tight between his hands. He throws it between four or five projections, which look at it. The next moment, they are all covered in pite as the small ball explodes like a grenade, sticking them all to the ground. They then begin to cut and break out of the mess. Sketch has a “you’ve got to be kidding me” look on his face.
Sketch: (shouting up at Rennek with his hands beside his mouth) “Alright Rennek, we’re not making a dent. What now?”
Rennek: “I, um…”
Rennek flies downward and becomes semi-transparent. She phases into a monster and through the holoprojector, causing it to fizzle out and the projection to vanish. She lands on her feet and materializes again. (1 down, 11 to go.)
Rennek: “Keep them distracted, I’ll - ”
Rennek is hit in the face by a projection, causing her to fall over, knocked-out. The attacking virus projection then stands over her, ready to drive it’s blade-like arm into her. It plunges its arm down but is caught by a pite net limiting its motion from behind. Sketch holds the ends of the net in both hands and pulls with all of his strength. The monster is thrown onto its back, but phases through the net, leaving its projector behind. Alloy quickly runs and smashes the projector with his fist and turns to Sketch. The monster vanishes. (2 down, 10 to go.)
Alloy: “She’s unconscious. I’ll take her somewhere safe, hold them off!”
Sketch creates a whip and shield and smiles, nodding confidently.
Sketch: “They can’t handle the Sketch!”
Alloy rolls his eyes and picks up Rennek. Sketch turns to the oncoming projections and gulps with a nervous look. Two projections charge toward him, razor sharp arms at the ready to plunge down at him. Sketch wraps his whip around one, and yanks it into the other. They phase into each other, but their projectors collide and crash into pieces. (4 down, 8 to go.)
Sketch is frozen in astonishment, eyes wide. He is next seen with a confident smile again, chest high. The remaining eight virus projections close around him in a circle. He throws globs into one of their faces who thrashes violently, breaking through another’s face and destroying its projector. (5 down, 7 to go.) Sketch ducks and dodges a few attacks from the remaining projections, giving himself some distance from them. He turns and forges a bow with three arrows. He launches them at the monsters. The arrows break on the tough skin of a few and flies through some of the others. One which had an arrow fly through it doesn’t see a sword tear up from its back and through the projector. It evaporates with two clean halfs of the holoprojector falling on the ground. At the same moment, one standing next to it suffers the same fate from behind. Both holoprojecters where cut with a fluid motion. (7 down, 5 to go) Alloy holds the sword with his eyes squinted. Sketch proudly gestures to the broken projectors scattered around and smoking.
At about this time, police and ALOH agents assemble around the square, holding their guns at the ready. The crowd of law enforcement slowly grows.
Sketch: “What do you think?”
Alloy: “I think there are five left.”
Alloy runs and jumps into a projection, knocking it onto its back into the spilled water from the fire hydrant. The electric force-field shorts out, causing the monster to disperse throughout the water. Its holoprojector then drops into the deep new puddle, and fizzles out. (8 down, 4 to go.)
Alloy: “Sketch, do you think you can make a strand of pite which acts like a conductor?”
Sketch had wrapped a band of pite around the last few projections and stuck the end onto an electric meter on the side of a large shop.
Sketch: “Way ahead of you Alloy.”
Alloy sends a sword hurdling and spinning through the air. It pierces the meter and blinding arcs of yellow electricity mixes with the blue and white sparks buzzing around each monster. The current travels through the line of pite and blurs all projections, and also burns the holoprojectors.
The two heroes stand victorious over the smoking scene.
Abstract: “My name is Zach McClain. My code-name is Sketch, but you can call me awesome.”
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