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It tore at Will's heart to leave his comrades behind like this, but he knew that they had come here to rescue Enyo. And if they spent all of their time focusing on the first group of enemies they ran across the rest of their foes could easily take their captive and run with her. He saw the same desire to stay and fight with their friends in Matt as he looked back, flames dancing up his arms.
"Matt, come on. We need to secure Enyo first. Once we have her you can feel free to crispy fry as many of them as you want on the way back out."
Matt clenched his fists, grit his teeth, and turned to go with William and Kiro.

Gene saw as the Advance Group broke off from the rest and continued on.
Heading in while we keep them distracted. Guess we'll have to hold them as long as we can.
"Support Group, form up! Guards Group, keep them off us!" Gene yelled out, taking command of the remaining Corps. members.
Gene let fly arrow after arrow, alternating targets randomly to keep them guessing, not stopping even while he spoke.
TJ fired the second bolt she had prepared, which contained a glass phial that shattered on contact with whatever it struck, though she hadn't actually aimed at anything in particular, and released a chemical that became gaseous on contact with the air. The gas began spreading out immediately and would cause anyone who inhaled it to start coughing and tearing up. The best part was that it had a small dispersal area and was completely transparent. It did have an odor, though by the time you smelled it it would already be starting to affect you.
Once she fired that bolt she began loading and firing normal bolts again, mimicking Gene and firing at her targets randomly.
Isaac simply stepped between the two archers and prepared his halberd should any of the enemies come near.
Sven used his innate ice abilities to create a shield made of ice in his left hand and began forming daggers of ice in his right and sending them twirling through the air at the beast-man.
((btw, Digo never actually charged in. But I'll go with it that he did simply to defend against this guy...))
Digo, in his man-reptile form, took the two arrows that were shot at him, though they merely caught in his heavy scales and seemed to do little damage. Digo readied himself to defend against the scimitar wielding attacker, sure that he was about to lose a limb, but was willing to trade it if he could close with his fangs and claws. Instead he saw a flash of motion and suddenly there was a new warrior between them.
Malkin had shed his cloak and revealed himself as he truly was. His entire body was jet-black. as were his eyes. He had pronounced and pointed canine fangs revealed by the snarl he wore on his face. Black curving horns protruding from his head, like some kind of demonic ram. Claws could be seen at the tips of his fingers where he gripped a pair of identical scimitars. He dashed in, quick as a flash, and interposed himself between Digo and the scimitar wielder. He brought the ends of the two weapons together and with a twist locked them into a single double ended weapon. He spun and twisted, sending the twin-scimtar-staff into elaborate spins at many angles, suddenly stopping and reversing direction in a moment.
Malkin spun into range of the larger opponent and with a few quick movements and spins sent his own weapon out in a series of moves intended to knock both of the opposing scimitars wide and then stab up right through the man's heart.
Digo stared at the fiendish looking Malkin for a moment and then decided to make himself useful. He turned and charged at the beast-man of the opposing forces, hoping to take him power for power.
Kait was simply stunned for a moment. Seeing Digo change like that was both repulsive and entrancing. and she was shocked to see Malkin's true form as she had never seen him without his enveloping cloak before. She only knew that he was one of few of the younger generation of Hunter/Guardians that was allowed to take missions without a team.
Not sure of what to do she decided that since every one of these people had some sort of ability and that she did not know what they were she would just provide one of her allies backup, and so she ran after Digo, to assist him with his beast enemy.

Hero pressed forward after the rest of his group. It seemed the advance group would go on while they held their opponents in their current area. It seemed as all hell broke loose as arrows flew along with sounds of shattering items clashing metal.

Hiro looked to his right and left. Several of his comrades had already engaged the enemy while the archers began their assault on the others present. So far so good. The arches were getting the job done in distracting if anything the enemy while the others had closed in and were now in melee range. He readied himself for any who would close in.

Mathias gulped when the blade wearing girl attacked again. She leapt into the air towards, him, spinning to make her bladed skirt lift with the momentum and turn her fashion statement into a deadly saw blade. Mathias heard his old teacher's gravelly voice,"Do what they least expect boy. And if it is stupid, so much the better!"
Mathias felt a battle grin spread his lips, and instead of retreating, dodging, or blocking...he charged. Mathias let out a whoop of excitement as he ran forward. At the last instant, he dropped and rolled. The quick manuever spared him her attack, but he still felt a few pings off his armor.
Mathias rolled back up to his feet and immediately reversed direction, charging right back at the girl, his shield held before himand his sword already swinging in a powerful overhand chop.

Drustwn snorted and smirked at the two women,"Cute. You didn't mention witty banter was part of the research programs here, Kiro."
His eyes went from one girl to the other, trying to gauge which posed the most danger. Knowing these Axis fellows, it would be the less dangerous looking happy one.
Drustwn slipped a hand into his coat, and lifted the other one to the hilt of his sword that protruded over one shoulder,"We either all stay and fight, or William and I will hold them while you and Matt get Enyo. Your call, son."

Malkin was honestly not surprised when one of the Axis experiments moved in to help against him and the one he was currently engaged with attacked them out of some sort of territorial bravado.
Just like these sorts of people. Trained to fight, but never taught true teamwork. And if their abilities are based on fiendish abilities they probably have heightened aggression too... Let's find out...
Malkin suddenly ceased his spinning whirling barrage on his opponent and began dancing around him instead. He began to deftly twist and evade his way away from the incoming attacks, not even bothering to use his blades, though he still kept them in a firm grip and was prepared to put them back to use if the need arose.

Gene allowed his bow to fall free from his fingers, dropping so that it fell across the top of his foot. He swung off his shoulder the large blocky case that was his crossbow. The press of a plate released it and the frame fell away, the bows snapped out into place, and Gene was able to place his hands on the trigger. He took aim dead center at the formation of incoming birds, where he knew the large hawk to be hiding behind them, and fired with a crossbow that was nearly a ballista.

Sven had been about to launch himself into the fray against the apparent water manipulator when Hiro was suddenly there. Sven pulled up short, not wanting to get himself entangled in another's fight. Instead he just managed to notice the snakes moving through the grass as they were about to close on Gene. Sven waved a hand and exerted himself slightly. The ground all around Gene suddenly froze over. freezing over the grass and everything in it.

Digo closed with his opponent, throwing one hand up to attempt to catch him by one horn. The other darted through the space between them aiming to tear into the enemy's throat.

TJ saw that two of the enemies had diverted to come at herself and her group. She pulled another two of her special bolts from their holster and loaded one and fired, then rapidly followed with the second. One for each of the two new enemies coming at them. Then, without even taking time to see if the bolts would hit, she loaded again and sent more bolts at them.

Kait remained right behind Digo as he charged at the deformed, animalistic, enemy. When he closed to combat range she darted to one side, drawing and hurling a set of daggers aimed for his lower legs. She hoped that if she were able to cut his legs out from under him then Digo would be able to overpower him quickly and they could move on to the next enemy.

"Goddamnit!" Matt griped. "Just how many of these bastards are there?"
Matt was getting frustrated. He had been forced to leave a large number of his allies and friends behind to an uncertain fate. He understood why he had been placed in the Advance Group, but he was not the kind of man that was meant to continue on and leave his enemies behind him.
Flames licked up Matt's arms as he took a firm step forward, towards the two new enemies. As his foot came down both of his arms burst fully into twin pillars of flames that rose up and licked the air well above his own head.
"Matt, no!" Will snapped. "We don't need this place going up in flames while we still don't know where Enyo is!"
Will stepped forward ahead of Matt, placing the raging flames at his back. "Drustwn and I'll take care of these two. Besides, Matt, I'm sure their saving their best for last. That's where you're needed. You two go. We'll catch up shortly."
Will dropped into a fighting stance, his sword held horizontally in front of him. He was suddenly very glad that he had taken some time to train with Master Sean, and wished he's done so more. And also wished that he had his father's sword with him. No. He had left that up on the wall where it belonged. He had to rely on his own power now, not his father's weapon with some old stone stuck in it. He'd win this one with his own power, and surpass what he'd had with the Howling Blade.
Matt was struck by what William said. He was right, Matt knew he had the most volatilely explosive power of their group. And Matt knew they would need that kind of bang before this was over. But that didn't mean he had to like it. Not one bit. Matt clenched his jaw, suppressing his rage, and quenched his flames back down to sparks and flickers.
"Let's go, Kiro."

The battle started to heat up as both parties went on the offensive. Mathias, who very nimbly countered Hfie’s spinning attack, was on the verge of splitting her head open. Hfie landed on the ground with her back turned to her opponent. The moment Mathias’s sword came down over her head; Hfie’s skin stone began to change at a very rapid pace. It turned to an almost red color, but only on her forearm and left hand as she brought it up behind her to catch Mathias’ blade in her grasp with a metallic clang. Her skin was hardened to iron.


“That boy will have great trouble against Hfie without aid.” Zero pointed out to his comrades.

“It is true that Hfie’s strong point is against one opponent where she can pin point a single attack and block it.” Ugene agreed.

“Her greatest weakness is speed though.” Zero mentioned. “If the attack is too fast, she won’t be able to conjure up her defense in time.”

“ But she will be fine for now. The main concern is Megan and Xin who are now at a disadvantage of four verses two.” Ugene pointed out.

“If only Sjana leapt into the battle…” Zero trailed off, referring to the woman who had yet to even move an inch.

“You of all people should know that Perfect Series don’t take orders from us. They are free to their own choices no matter what the situation.” Ugene reminded Zero.

Zero went silent.


An enemy to attack his flank surprised Xin. Hiro’s staff had caused the icy blades encompassing his arm to crack and fall apart. Xin’s other icy blade then melted down in an instant and refigured itself as a large fist around Xin’s own fist. Xin then swung his icy left at Hiro’s chest in attempt to knock him away.

Megan now appeared to be in a very tough spot. She was behind Hiro, therefore stuck in between him and the two archers as well as Issac who had parried away her attack and aimed his flint pistol. All of TJ’s bolts had hit their mark, one hitting her in the center of her chest, one in her upper thigh and another in her right shoulder. Megan grit her teeth at the pain. Issac then brought his pistol up and fired on her, hitting her right underneath where TJ had hit in her chest. Megan fell backwards on the ground where she lay still.

The giant ballista Gene had shot soared through the hair, impaling several of Nhea’s crows all together and then stabbing into her giant hawk’s neck as it attempted to dodge it but to no avail. Nhea was overcome with fury at this happening. Not only was her prized hawk killed, but also all of her venomous snakes that were slowly frozen since they could not escape to the surface. “Time for me to get serious!” Nhea announced to herself in a bout of frustration. Nhea brought a hand to her lips and whistled an odd combination of sounds. Almost immediately, three dire wolves sprinted from around the corner of brick building nearest to her. These dire wolves set their eyes on Sven. One of the three split off and dashed to where Nhea and Rhino were in attempt to aid Rhino fend off Digo. The wolf, similar to Kait’s attack on Rhino, went for the legs of Digo with its powerful fangs anticipating flesh.

Rhino brought his arms up and crossed them to block Digo’s throat gouge with his spikey forearms (similar to a porcupine). Munch of Rhino’s body seemed to mutate and morph regularly, leaving Digo probably confused as to where these pointy quills came from. Rhino was not as luck when Kait had swept in to cut up his lower legs. Her cuts were deeper than anticipated by Rhino because of his thick skin. She had cut into much of both of his thins and outer calves. Rhino stood his ground despite these injuries. Blood slowly poured from his legs as he then pushed out both his arms with great force to push away Digo. He was then going to follow up on this by charging Digo with his horns.

Several paces away lay Gear. He had been severely damaged by Phear with just one attack. Gear’s body was made up of regular organs, but entwined with gears and sophisticated body modifications. This complicated things when he becomes damaged because it makes healing up extremely difficult and almost impossible to stop bleeding until he is repaired. There was blood pouring out all around his torso and the dent in his side. The firing system inside his body that they used to launch the wave of arrows like they had previously was beyond repair. His internal gears connected to his legs were also damaged, so we could not stand up. “Curse that b*****d Phear…” Gear muttered to himself in pain.


“Gear appears to be out of commission due to Phear’s pride.” Ugene reported.

“He will likely die soon, but he does still have some uses.” Zero replied. “He still has artillery loaded and his self destruct ready on our command.” Pointed out.

“Yes, true.” Ugene agreed. “I’ll send the command on your mark.”


Gear himself knew his artillery and firing capabilities were intact. He then slowly turned over so he could aim in the desired direction. He brought up both his arms, both loaded with large ballistae similar to Gene’s that had killed Nhea’s hawk. Gear was now precisely aimed at TJ and Issac. “Firing artillery one and artillery two.” Gear stated, firing these two enormous ballistae using powerful mechanisms in his arms.

Phear was impressed by Malkin’s skill and decision-making amidst a battle, which brought a wide smile to his face. “I will be the one to slay you.” Phear roared. He then picked up his pace, matching Malkin’s impressive agility and then went on the offensive. Phear gave Malkin a flurry of swipes and slashes with both scimitars just as Malkin did previously, cuts coming from every angle. The battle between the two seemed to be very similar in contest, though each individual superior in their opponent’s opposite of strengths. Phear's strength and Malkin's speed.


Liora laughed in a very cocky manner at Matt’s reactions. “Someone is a little fired up.” She poked at Matt. “If you are already losing your cool against us then you have no chance against what’s beyond us.” Liora said as she gestured to the doors on either side of the front desk.

“We’re fine with letting two of you go. Two on two seems entertaining enough to me.” The woman with white hair said, agreeing with her intruder’s strategy. Her slightly smirk never leaving her pretty pale face.

“Yeah, we will let you two go past us no problem.” Liora added as she placed her hand on the hip, her skirt swaying slightly to the side with arrogance as she spoke. She was clearly making the confidence in their victory known.

Kiro’s visage was serious, almost angry. “Matt, let’s go.” Kiro asserted as he walked toward the door on the right. On his way towards the door he spoke over his shoulder to his companions, as well as Matt who got the left door as his destination, “Whatever you do, just don’t die. Take every advantage you can get.” Kiro then drew both of his katanas before even pushing door the open. He had to be completely ready to defend himself now. It was kill or be killed, as it was always for him.

Mathias felt a hard shiver go up his arm when his blade impacted on to Hfie's raised hand. He heard the metallic clang of metal meeting metal, and while his eyebrows raised in silent amazment, a part of him just wasn't really surprised. From what Kiro had told them, and what he had already seen of these Axis guys, he wouldn't be surprised if this girl pulled another weapon out of her throat.
Her fingers curled and trapped his blade in her grip, and Mathias barely hesitated and punched forward with is other arm, using his shield like a great metallic fist straight at her face. He hoped she wasn't expecting that...

Drustwn nodded to Kiro's words before he and Matt made their exit. Drustwn already fought the way Kiro suggested, every time. He looked over at Will and inclined his head towards the waiting ladies,"It's proper for a man to ask a lady to dance. I had my eye on the short pretty one, if you don't mind?" he grinned and looked over at Liora, exhibiting just as much confidence as the Axis members. He had no illusions that both were dangerous, but in Drustwn's experience, those with special abilities tended to rely upon them, and held those without such augmentations at an automatic disadvantage. He'd surprised many an opponent that thought a regular human to be easy prey before.
Drustwn smiled again and ran an appraising eye over Liora,"A lovely dress, Miss. It looks just right for dancing. Give me your hand, and we'll spin until you can't stand up."
He still hadn't drawn his blades, though his hands remained poised, right inside his coat, left above his shoulder.
"Don't be rude, William. Ask your partner to dance..."

Xin saw the last second attack by Hiro as he dodged under it while Hiro fell backwards. It was finally Xin’s upper hand. Xin quickly materialized more water into his free hand and froze it into a jagged sword while he also morphed his icy fist into the same. He pounced on Hiro with his arms across his chest. He was going to slice both outwards from his chest horizontally as he hoped to come in contact with Hiro below him.

Hfie smiled faintly at Mathias’ response to her catching his blade with her bare hands. “First time for everything, isn’t there?” She provoked Mathias right before she was bashed in the face with his large shield. Her body tumbled over a few times before she quickly got back up. She appeared unharmed. “Oww.” She cooed quietly before smirking again at Mathias. In that moment she was caught off guard by a bolt shot by TJ across the battlefield. It stuck into her shoulder, though it did not seem to enter her skin. Hfie carefully looked at it. There was a splatter of some sort on her arm that began to bubble and burn her arm. She winced at the pain, but reenforced her skin with iron in attempt to stop it from burning too deeply into her body. Damnit. Now this guy knows I can be hurt. Hfie thought to herself. Hfie then pulled in her chain and began twirling it above her head; the sword on its end creating a high pitched whistling sound.

The animalistic army Nhea commands was widdled down quickly by her enemy’s efforts. Sven wasted no time dispatching her two wolves as they swiftly charged to sink their fangs into someone. The icy spikes shot up too quickly for the wolves to dodge. They impaled them completely with red icy points sticking out the other side of their bodies. Kait also managed to pick up on the remaining wolf before it reached its target, Digo. Her daggers landed one under its jaw and another very close to its face. The daggers did not immediately kill the wolf, but caused it to fall under its own weight and bleed out.

Nhea became enraged at the horrid sight of her pets and beasts getting slaughtered in front of her. She had one more ace up her sleep, but she was going to wait to play that card.

Rhino was charging at Digo when he noticed the oncoming arrow towards Nhea. He then stopped in his tracked and side stepped as quickly as he could to get in between the arrow the Nhea. The arrow pierced through a soft spot in between Rhino’s natural armor, lodging itself fairly deep in his flesh. Rhino winced at the pain, but was relieved to have saved Nhea from harm. This also had another draw back for Rhino, he had gained momentum against Digo, but now he was off guard and now wounded.

“Rhino!” Nhea called out quickly as he was struck by Gene’s arrow.

The duel between Malkin and Phear was a high-paced one. Both danced around, taking swipe after swipe at each other, but at the same parrying and dodging each attack they threw at each other. They seemed about equal, but Phear could read through what Malkin was up to though. He is trying to tire me out, but bad news for him, I could go on for days with my super human strength that gives me amazing endurance! Phear thought to himself. With that Phear changed up his game plan. He began slashing much much faster and putting a lot more strength into his swings at Malkin that even caused the air to push back against him slightly. Any normal man would have been shoved off his feet. The only downside from improving the brute force of his attack is that it would cause Phear’s reaction time to suffer. Phear was willing to take that risk in order to do some damage to his sparring partner.


Liora smiled at Drustwn’s words as she came around from behind the marble desk. She walked over to the far side of the room and faced Drustwn. She brought her arms up and clutched her fists together in a stance to let him know she was ready. “My name is Liora, code name LAX09. Your move.” She insisted after introducing herself.

Before WIlliam had charged, the white haired woman jumped up on top of the marble desk with her armor chipping it as she landed. She pounded her armored gauntlets together to signal she was prepared. “I am Wilhelmia, code name WAX09. Come!” Wilhelmia shouted at William.


The doors shut behind Kiro. He had entered into a long hallway that was surprisingly wide. The hallway was lined with paintings on both sides and small little marble stands that propped up sculptures. In between each set of sculptures and paintings were doors made of fine wood and golden door handles to match. It was definitely a hotel for the upper class indeed. It had been years since Kiro had been down this hallway. It changed a lot. It used to be a dim, dark hallway with just candle lit lights.

Kiro knew none of the doors on the sides were the way to go. It was at the end of the hall that led back to the experiment rooms and holding cells. Both halls taken by Kiro and Matt would both lead there, it was just a matter of the obstacles before them. Kiro sprinted forward down the hallway but then stopped in his tracks at the sight of the back door at the end of the hallway opening. The figure that came through the doorway was deathly familiar to him. His image was imprinted in Kiro’s mind after his fatal encounter with him. The large man Ajax stood in front of Kiro.

(( Old description of Ajax: The man had bright red hair that was long and straight, which partially covered his face. The man was tan, extremely well built and towered about six feet and six inches. He was wearing nothing on his chest, but he had on shoulder pads and arm and wrist guards. His lower half he wore loose black pants with black shoes. The man’s waist and saw he had an odd shaped dagger that curved all the way around towards the handle and on his other side of his waist he had a sheathed broadsword. ))

The hallway Matt entered was identical to the hall Kiro was in, but instead of greeted by a large man with red hair; it was a beautiful young woman. She had extremely long brown hair that went past her back thighs. Her eyes were sky blue with a fairly normal, kind expression. Her figure was thin, but was mostly concealed by her black and white jujitsu gi similar to Kiro’s. She wore red and black fingerless gloves and black shoes. It appeared that she was waiting for Matt because she was leaning up against a sculpture when he appeared in front of her. There was still quite the distance between the two of about twenty feet. “Hello.” She said calmly to Matt as she stood up straight and faced him from the distance between them. “I commend you to making it this far.” She praised Matt and then bowed to him.