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Chapter 16 - CHAPTER: 15 (DISTRICT FIGHTERS I: GANG OF BULLIES)

DIFFERENT FONT STYLES USED:

"STORYLINE" "'SPECIAL SKILLS OR MOVES'" "SPEAKER" "SPEECH" "THOUGHT" 

 

SCENE: Cassandra's house, Horough Hills.

 

Cassandra: What are you two going to do?

 

Neil: Simple. We're gonna find Wallace; and we're gonna take him down.

 

Brolo: Alright, get ready. We storm the house in… (begins counting on his finger) …five, four, three, two…

 

Neil: …late for a sneak attack. (they all look up to see Neil and Mavy causally step out of the house)

 

Brolo: Shit! How'd you know were here?

 

Neil: I knew you guys would come back. Scum like you never learn your lesson the first time.

 

Brolo: (angry) Don't think you can catch us by surprise like you did before punk! GET THEM! (the seven thugs, following the leader's orders charge at the two at once; Neil and Mavy leap forward and knock them away with single hits, but sure enough, the goons get back up)

 

Brolo: Come on!

 

Brolo, appears to be a middle-aged man in his late thirties or early forties with a broad build, slightly tan skin tone, grey eyes and a bald head. Two thugs rush to Neil. One – a blond guy – throws a punch which Neil easily dodges, the other – a pink-haired girl – swings her foot at his throat, but just calmly backsteps away to avoid it. The man's on him with a punch again but he spins partially and delivers a hard foot to his gut, sending him flying.

 

The woman tries go in for a lunge, left hand stretched for a grab at his throat but he rears his head back and catches her wrist. Before he can knock her down however, a fist manifests from out of nowhere, striking him in the jaw in an uppercut. He screams in shock and backtracks, holding and shaking his jaw as if trying to reset it. He groans as he looks up and sees Kovan standing several yards from them, glaring menacingly he raises his right fist to chin-level, looking like he's ready to punch…again.

 

Kovan – much like Brolo – appears to be middle-aged, with messy brownish black hair peach skin and orange eyes. He punches the air in front of himself, a small, portal-like a disc of orange light appears in front of his fist, just before his arm extends its full length; the fist going through. Another portal opens up just behind Neil's head, Kovan's fist flies through, straight at his head. Neil barely has enough time realize what's happening and dodge, spinning a bit leaping backwards out of the way; his cheek getting nicked.

 

Neil: … (glares at the two as the girl heads over to Kovan's side; pulls out his blade)

 

Over at Mavy's side, she faces against Rouker and two other thugs. Rouker also appears middile-aged, with mossy-green hair, honey skin tone and brown eyes. His eyes begin to glow and with seconds, his body begins to harden and transform till he becomes a living rock statue. He leaps into the air, hands clasped together for strike. Mavy raises and clasps both hands above her head and powers up, merging and turning them into a large, metal shield. Rouker pounds the shield and bounces off, doing little damage. He glares and rushes for another attack. Mavy separates her hands and turns them into ape arms to block the next strike. Rouker delivers a relentless assault of punch after punch, some Mavy dodges, others she's forced to block with her arms, but this just causes damage to her.

 

Mavy: … (the man alongside Rouker points out his arm at Mavy and fires a beam of charged, orange laser at her; she barely manages to dodge it and it hits the ground, the beam eating through the concrete like butter)

 

Rouker: Canna! Liam! Lock her down!

 

Canna – a woman of around the height and age as the others pecan skin and red eyes. Her most defining trait being her "hair", which is essentially a multitude of purple tentacle-like tendrils attached to scalp of purple skin, made of the same material as the tendrils. Liam – a slightly shorter man with tan skin, burnt orange hair and gold eyes.

 

Canna launches her Hair Tendrils at Mavy, stretching them to capture her from afar. Mavy tries to run but is slowed down by her large gorilla arms and is easily captured. Canna wraps her tendrils around Mavy's arms, legs and torso, holding her spread-eagled. Mavy changes her arms back as she is lifted up into the sky. Canna begins pulling hard at Mavy's limbs as the tendrils around her torso begin squeezing tightly; trying to crush and mutilate her at once. Mavy screams in pain, not being able to focus her thoughts well enough to use her skills.

 

Neil: (turns in the direction of her screams) Mavy!

 

Brolo: (teleports behind Neil from a cloud of darkness…) You should be me more worried about yourself. (…and traps him in a bearhug)

 

Neil: (struggles to break free) …

 

Brolo: (smiles smugly) Sorry kid but you're breaking out my grip. I'm twice you size for peace sake. Now you'll know what happens when you mess with people way out of your league and butt into things that are none of your business.

 

Neil: (stops struggling) You're twice my size, yet I'm…10X YOUR STRENGTH! (Neil easily breaks out of Brolo's hold, pulling out his dagger and slashes him across his face and chest in one go with his dagger)

 

Brolo: (shocked from both the escape and the attack) …! (collapses)

 

Kovan: (shocked) BROLO!

 

Neil throws his dagger at Canna's tendrils, slicing them each in two. Canna screams in pain as she recoils. Mavy falls back down to earth as Neil leaps into range, catching her midair. Canna drops to her knees as the remnants of her tendrils still attached to her head retract to normal length, bleeding.

 

Neil: (carrying her bridal style) You okay?

 

Mavy: (weakly) I'll live.

 

Rouker: (furious) GET THEM!

 

Neil: (lets Mavy down to her feet) Can you still fight?

 

Mavy: (shakily gets back into a fighting stance and nods) Yeah.

 

The goons all rush at them all at once. Liam fires a beam at them which they dodge easily, the beam slicing through the walls of a building in its range. Mavy leaps forth towards her opponents, arms turned into large bird wings for flight to increase her speed. Liam moves his hand about, the beam still firing, following Neil's path. The black-haired boy's eyes shift to gear-shapes. He backflips over the beam, left hand extended to catch his boomeranging dagger. He sticks a perfect landing and races straight to Liam; catching the man off-guard with his speed.

 

Liam: (startled) What?!

 

Before Liam can properly react however, Neil delivers a hard right to his face, knocking down and out. The blond guy from earlier charges at him from behind with a fist to strike, but Neil leaps straight to him first when he just a few feet away, right hand gripping the man's face. And in what looks like a flash – maybe quicker – the man is sent headbutting the hard concrete beneath their feet. He turns for a moment to see Mavy take on Kovan, Canna and the pinkette, Manna.

 

Neil: Careful Mavy. That guy can transport his punches.

 

Just as he says that, sure enough, Kovan throws his fist out and it gets portalled over Mavy, whom just barely manages to dodge it suddenly appearing right in front of her. She twirls left to dodge and spreads her wings wide to kill her momentum just in time dodge a five-finger scratch attack from the pink-haired; her fingers leaving a fading trail of pink light like streaks of pink glow in their wake. Mavy takes off into the sky and transforms her left wing into a long thorny vine. Using her other wing to keep herself airborne, she rears back her vine-arm and swings it at them, sending a swarm of thorns at the three. Most of the thorns hit, piercing into the bodies of all three, causing great pain, but nothing they can't handle.

 

Kovan: (now furious) … You bitch. You'll pay-- (BA-DUMP!) Huh? What? (his legs begin shaking, growing weak until he collapses to his knees; his allies collapsing to the ground as well) What did you…?

 

Mavy: This vine comes back from a rare narcotic plant whose juices act as a major ingredient in a powerful paralyzing agent. Enough to bring even an E-class monster down.

 

Kovan: (groans heavily) … Guh! You bitch! (the three collapse to the ground, she hovers to the ground and shifts her arms back, powering down; she turns Neil's fight, where he's effortlessly dodging Rouker's punches, quickstepping backwards to evade each strike)

 

Neil: So…you can transform your skin into solid stone? That's a pretty good skill. It increases both offense and defense… (easily backsteps a right hook…) …however it kills your speed as a consequence. (…and swipes his foot against Rouker's, making him fall)

 

Rouker: (grits his teeth in anger) …! Why you…!

 

Rouker spins round to deliver a powerful left to Neil, but the teen readies his own fist, sending a right hook to collide with Rouker's. Both fists hit. Despite Rouker being made of stone, Neil still proves stronger, his fist not only completely shattering Rouker's arm into pieces, the force of impact in his punch sends the goon flying like a straight bullet into a nearby car; both denting it and triggering its alarm. Rouker drops to the ground, screaming in pain as he grabs the bleeding hole down his shoulder where his arm once was, returning to normal before losing consciousness. Mavy walks over to Neil as shakes his right arm, holding by the wrist with his left.

 

Mavy: You okay?

 

Neil: Superior strength or not, rock is still rock. (turns to the last man left) Now…as for him. (the man – a marshmallow-skinned man with very low-cut brown hair and red eyes, wearing a tan t-shirt with blue jeans – trembles, dropping back unto his rump; both teens stride menacingly towards him)

 

Louis: No. Please don't hurt me.

 

Neil: Don't worry, we won't hurt you…as long as you tell us what we want to know.

 

Louis: W-what?

 

Mavy: Where's Wallace?

 

Louis: W-what? Why do you want to know where he is?

 

Mavy: (acting cutely) Because we'd like to have a talk with him.

 

Neil: (demandingly) Where is he?

 

Louis: N-no. I can't backstab him. There'll be hell to pay.

 

Neil: (threateningly) Don't…there'll still be hell to pay. (grabs him by the collar of his banana-yellow t-shirt) You know what…? You don't have to tell us. You just have to be alive for us to get the info.

 

Louis: (fearing torture, begins to cry) No! No, no! Please don't! I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to do these things. But I had no choice.

 

Neil: Even if he's stronger, you shouldn't have conformed to him.

 

Louis: If it were just that, wouldn't have done it. But Sarah's in danger, I had no choice. (this reply piques their interest)

 

Neil: (confused) Sarah?

 

Louis: That's Wallace's way of making people who don't stay in line, yield. He goes around snatching up people's friends and family members, holding them hostage. No one's strong enough to stop him, so we have no choice but to do as he says; I haven't seen my wife in months, I don't even know if she's okay. (the two teens are left shocked by this revelation, powering down they share stunned looks)

 

Neil: (disgusted) How revolting. As if it wasn't bad enough that he enslaved an entire town, he even uses abduction and blackmail to oppress people.

 

Mavy: (angry) Gah! People like that make me sick. (turns to Louis) Hey, you want your wife back? Tell us where Wallace is.

 

Louis: (hesitant) I-I can't do that. If Wallace finds out I double-crossed him, Sarah will be trouble.

 

Neil: And she'll stay that way until you help us take down Wallace. What are you gonna do? Every one of his bidding forever while your wife stays missing hoping that someday he'll just leave and never come back?

 

Louis: …

 

Neil: (leans down closing to the still sitting man) If you really want to save your wife, then help us help you.

 

Louis: (still hesitant) Alright, I'll do it. If there's a chance to save Sarah, I'll take it.

 

Mavy: (to Neil) Nice motivational speech.

 

Neil: (shrugs) Mmmm.

 

Mavy: (pulls Neil aside) Neil, he might have a point. We don't really anything about this Wallace guy. The fact that he has hostages at his disposal makes things a little trickier. What if he tries to use them as a shield or something when we confront him.

 

Neil: (thinks it over for a second) You're right, that would be pain. (turns to Louis) Hey, where's Wallace keeping all the people he's kidnapped?

 

Louis: (shaking his head) I don't know. No one does.

 

Neil: (sighs in frustration) Of course not. Otherwise you'd try to save them yourselves. (turns back to Mavy) Okay, here's the plan. You go with this guy and find Wallace, I'll look for the captives and free them.

 

Mavy: How're you gonna find them on your own?

 

Neil: I'll do scan of the town.

 

Mavy: (unconvinced) Are you sure? Horough Hills may only be a low-rank district, but it's a big one, and your sensory range--

 

Neil: I'll be fine, don't worry. But will you be okay against Wallace on your own?

 

Mavy: Don't know. His official profile state he's a tier-rook, but he'd have to stronger to take over and an entire district. I guess I'll only know when I face him.

 

Neil: (nods understandingly) Be careful. (leaps onto various object and lands on the roof of a tall, nearby building before leaping away)

 

Louis: Where's he going?

 

Mavy: (helps him up) Don't worry about it. Let's head over to Wallace.

 

Louis: (nods shakingly) Okay.

 

Mavy: (they begin walking) Oh yeah, I don't know your name.

 

Louis: Louis.

 

Mavy: Mavy.

 

 

SCENE: Elsewhere in the district.

 

Neil sits cross-legged atop the roof of a building, eyes closed in concentration as he maintains a meditative pose. He gets an image in his head of a building with more bio-heat signatures than all others; most which are underground. Opening his eyes, he decides to check it out and leaps off, onto another rooftop. On the way, Neil thinks about Wallace, his sudden power-up and his actions; how he enslaved an entire district through force and blackmail.

 

Neil: (getting angry) … How repulsive. This guy's no different from a typical high school bully who picks on those they perceive as weaker just because they have a little more strength. It seems this guy's boost in power got to his head and now he thinks he can do whatever he wants; but he's no more than a normal fish in a tiny pond who wouldn't last a day in a higher-ranked district.

 

Anika: (memory) But it's true though. The authorities won't offer a hand to help us if we begged for a thousand years. Look, don't worry about us. That's just the way things are: The strong rules over the weak and the weak just folds and does as they're told.

 

Neil: (gritting his teeth in frustration) … I hate to admit but it's true. Only might makes right in this world. But to enforce a society where the strong is aloud to oppress the weak? The leaders of his world are all just a bunch of assholes. (after a few minutes, stop atop a building directly opposite the suspected building; he looks down to the front entrance, seeing several men standing guard outside) Hmmm, this must be the place. (takes out a pair of electronic binoculars from his duffel bag and activates the heat-seeker function, allowing him to spot the heat signatures of multiple people in what seems like a basement floor of the building) Oh yeah, definitely here. (Neil leaps from the top of the very tall building and lands feet first on the pavement in front of it, creating a large crater and boom that alerts the guards; Neil himself, seeming to suffer no recoil from the action)

 

Guard: (sees Neil) Hey who're you?! (Neil ignores the question and dashes forward at them) Whoever he is, ATTACK! (the guards all charge at Neil at once, skills active and bloodlust oozing, but Neil just increases his speed, flash-stepping past them; all guards get slashed by his dagger that they never even saw him pull out and collapse to the ground)

 

Neil: Now. (heads inside)

 

Neil dashes into the lobby, looking around in the empty room, he thinks about where the captives are and remembers the heat signatures were coming from underground. He looks down and stomps the ground hard with all his strength, smashing through the floor and into the basement, where, sure enough, is large number of people all sitting on the floor, bound and gagged while about six people – four guys and two women – stand guard.

 

Neil: (dusting himself off) Oh yeah. Definitely the place.

 

 

SCENE: Enforcement HQ, Bishop's office.

 

Bishop logs on to the building's camera footage but finds it all irreparably damaged to the point of being rendered completely useless.

 

Bishop: Hmmm. All the files have been completely fried, every last one from the ones of over the last several years to the ones of just this evening. It seems whoever did this wanted make sure we not only not find anything out but are also put at a disadvantage. But how? Even with expect computer knowledge, there's no way they could destroy all the footage so quickly. Unless…

 

 

SCENE: Horough Hills, Neil's location.

 

The thugs all stare at him in confusion; wondering who the new character is.

 

Coran: Hey! Who the f*ck are you?!

 

Neil: Better question: are any of only doing this because you're being coerced by Wallace?

 

Owen: What the f*ck does that have to do with you.

 

Neil: I'm taking Wallace down and freeing those captives. (they all just laugh, thinking he's joking)

 

Coran: Very funny, sure you are. We've got a comedian here.

 

Owen: Just run along before you get hurt.

 

Neil: (pointing a finger out at them) It doesn't matter if you believe me or not. I've got job to do and you can either be of assistance or a hindrance; you decide. (finally realizing he is dead serious; they all begin to approach him menacingly) Well. I guess I've got my answer. (one woman – Juni; a tall, fair-skinned woman purple hair and eyes – walks close from the side and grabs him by the wrist, only for Neil to rip his arm out of her grip and deliver a punch to her stomach all in one swift motion, sending her flying into a wall and surprising the other captors and even the hostages)

 

Owen: (angry) Why you.

 

Owen – a tall, slightly tubby, dark-skinned man with short, brown hair and green eyes – glares hatefully at Neil, eyes glowing, he raises his arms up over his shoulders to back and swings them forward to ground in a karate chop fashion, launching a crescent-shaped blade of green energy from each hand like a pair of energy slashes. Neil easily dodges them and backsteps just in time to barely dodge an incoming attack from Gwen, or rather, Gwen coming in like an attack. Neil's left cheek gets grazed, producing a straight-lined cut which immediately begins bleed but he pays it no mind as he glares up at the other woman, Gwen – a tall, fit, light-skinned woman with golden hair and golden eyes. Her most prominent feature being her pair of large, golden, eagle-like wings in place of arms, white feathers growing from the sides of her torso and scaled, bird-like feet complete with curved, sharp talons.

 

Gwen lunges at him again, feet extended to strike with her talons but Neil effortlessly evades it completely this time. She turns and lunges again, Neil ready for a counter but the ground suddenly starts shaking, causing him to lose his focus. Neil raises his arms over his face in an attempt to protect himself but Gwen manages to scratch him flying past. Neil's arms drop to the ground as he winces in pain. He looks around at the thugs he's fighting. Coran – a tall, nasty-looking, redhead with blue eyes – who seems to be the leader, just stands there while the others attack. The other two guys – a blond man with silver eyes and black-haired one with brown eyes – are charge at Neil. Neil gets ready to fight back another tremor seizes his focus, he drops to his hands and one knee to stabilize himself. Trying to understand the situation, he notices Coran's glowing eyes despite still just seemingly standing there.

 

Neil: Hmmm. This must be he's doing. No doubt it's his special skill.

 

Neil tries to get up but is met with a fist enveloped with a glowing, silver-blue aura, straight to the midsection, courtesy of the blond, Claus; sending him back a few feet and coughing out blood. Neil staggers back to his feet only to receive a sudden punch to his face, which catches him off-guard.

 

Neil: (shocked) …! What was that? (looks around and sees a conscious Juni rubbing the back of her head with one hand, a glowing, purple aura surrounding the fist of the other; a pissed look on her face) She's still awake? Even though that earlier attack wasn't full-powered, I expected it to at least knock her out for the rest of the fight; she's tough. (the ground starts shaking again) … If I want take these as*holes down, then I'll have to deal with him first. (glares at Coran, ready to counterattack)

 

Neil cleans the blood of his lips as Claus, Gwen and the raven-haired, Keon all charge towards him with Owen providing support from the back with his energy slashes. Neil leaps into the air to evade the tremors and threw a pair crystal-bladed throwing knifes at Coran, which hit both his shoulders, causing him to scream and breaking his concentration; ending the skill effect. Neil then lands performing and dropkick directly on Owen's head, knocking him out. He turns to the other four but receives another surprise punch from nowhere, wincing, he glares at Juni. Keon charges at him, a shroud light-brown aura surrounding his right hand like piece of armor and extending to a pointed tip.

 

Keon tries to impale Neil but Neil easily evades the attack and senses Juni's approach and performs another dodge mid-travel, grabbing her wrist just as she was about to strike. Neil swings her around like a ragdoll, throwing her straight into Keon; both crashing into a nearby wall. Claus and Gwen both lunge at him, Claus with a glowing fist ready to punch, while Gwen extends her talons to scratch.

 

Neil: … (pulls out his dagger)

 

Claus: You're dead child! (Neil dodges Claus' punch, slashing along the torso as he went by and bends backwards to dodge Juni who just…)

 

Juni: Let's see you dodge forever!

 

…turns around and to strike again but leaps over her, performing an flip and slashing her along the back at the same time; she crashes to the ground, tries to get back up, but collapses again. Neil "sheaths" his dagger back into his jacket sleeve as the ground suddenly begins shaking again and Neil turns to slightly recovered Coran, who had pulled out the two knives but is now bleeding from his shoulders. At the same time, he turns again to see Owen, Keon and Juni also on their feet. Even Claus somehow manages gets back up, albeit shakily, and clutching his wound.

 

Neil: … Hmmm. These guys are tough. (looks at his opponents and has an idea, leaping up into the air and pulling out another throwing knife; seeming to aim it at Coran again)

 

Owen: (stands in front of Coran to protect him) That ain't happening twice.

 

Neil: Hmm!

 

Neil throws the knife…at Juni instead. Caught off-guard, Juni can't react in time and receives a crystal knife to her lower arm; causing her to scream in pain and shock and the others to also be stunned in surprise.

 

Owen: (furious) YOU BITCH! (sends a pair of energy slashes)

 

Neil lands on his feet and effortlessly dodges the attack, before rushing up to Owen, Coran once again makes the ground shake, but Neil just jumps and delivers a spin-kick straight into the side of Owen's face, sending him flying into a wall; knocking him out completely. Keon lunges at him to stab, but Neil just leaps back away from him and Claus leaps up to take him down with glowing-fisted punch, only for Neil block it with his hands, the impact sending flying backwards into a wall that he just briefly lands on feet first and ricochets off back to Claus whom he then knees in the gut. Claus coughs out hard as he's sent flying into a wall, getting knocked out as well. The remaining three just stare in stunned silence, unable to process what just happened. Neil gets up from the ground and turns to the thugs, pointing at them.

 

Neil: (voice loud but firm and very authoritative) This is last chance to give up and be spared anymore of the brutal beatdown. Make the right choice. (rather than surrender, the remaining three – to the surprise of no one – just get ready engage him again)

 

Neil: (shaking his head disappointment; sighs) It was my stupidity for even trying to give you a chance.

 

Coran creates a tremor to distract Neil as Keon and Juni both lunge at him; the latter having already pulled out the knife from her wrist. Juni reaches first, literally in the blink of an eye and tries to throw a purple, glowing fist at Neil, but Neil easily evades it with a jump and sidestep, causing to just brush pass him without even scratching him. Neil drops to his hands and knees upon landing down because of Coran's tremor, Keon arrives with his own glowing fist but Neil leaps backwards into a backflip, using his skill to locate any nearby tech. Sensing an old computer system in the lobby above, he wills the flat-screen monitor down the hole and into the basement with his skill and keeping it afloat, balances of the back, using it like a kind of hoverboard to avoid the tremors.

 

Keon begins throwing punch after punch and even kick after kick, making his foot glow through the shoe, but Neil just easily either blocks and parries each attack with his own limbs, or just dodges them completely. Keon tries to break the computer Neil's riding on, but Neil anticipates this and has scoot away Keon, then twirls it around just in time to dodge a punch from Juni.

 

Juni and Keon: …

 

Neil: Okay, that's enough fun. Time to end this.

 

Keon: (grits his teeth in anger) Cocky brat. (turns to Juni and whispers) I've got an idea. I'll go high, and you go low. He's afraid of Coran's skill so he doesn't want touch the ground, so…let's ground him whether he wants it or not. (Juni nods)

 

The pair dash forward towards Neil, who managed to overhear their conversation through the enhanced hearing capability all metas possess, gets ready for their attack, pulling back out his dagger again. He leaps off the monitor, flipping over them and lands on the ground, before speeding over Coran who…

 

Coran: (surprised) …!

 

…creates another tremor, but Neil just jumps, levitating the monitor over to use as a stepping stone and slashes an X-shape across his chest. Coran collapses to the ground from the attack. Keon and Juni both stare in shock at what happened.

 

Neil: (turns to face them) Now that I no longer have to deal with that annoying inconvenience, I can take you two down without any issue.

 

Keon: … (clenches fists in anger) Boy…you've made a big mistake, and YOU'RE GONNA PAY! (lunges at Neil with his energy spike)

 

Neil: Trash.

 

Neil effortlessly dodges the extended arm and spins with his own arm extended, slashing the older male across the chest with dagger. Keon is sent flying back from the impact, catching himself on his feet, he presses his hand to his chest and begins to groan before falling to the ground. Neil then raises his arms in front of himself to defend himself from Juni's surprise attack; said girl leaping back a few feet to separate herself from him.

 

Neil: (tilts his head in thought) Hmmm. I see. Your skill lets you increase your attack speed to the point of being able deliver punches faster than the eye can see. It also seems to increase your strength a bit but significantly not to the extent of your speed so your hits aren't as strong as they are fast. You're not even that fast anywhere since I can still sense your approach and anticipate your attacks. Furthermore, there seems to be a cooldown period between each strike, I'd say about 15 – 30 seconds. Am I right?

 

Juni: (glares at him murderously) … (runs at him madly; yelling) JUST SHUT UP!

 

Juni tries to deliver another surprise punch, Neil – ready as always of course – evades it and catches her arm by the wrist and punches it directly in her elbow joint, dislocation her arm. Juni screams in pain as this action and Neil lets her go. Juni staggers back, clenching her broken arm with her pierced one. She glares hatefully at Neil one more time before he sends flying knee to throat, sending flying backwards into a wall and getting knocked out cold. Neil takes a moment to catch his breath.

 

Neil: Didn't think I'd have use that much energy fighting a bunch of small fries. It's my fault for running in blind. Their skills were totally unexpected, caught me by surprise. (sighs) Whatever. I won anyway. (finally turns his attention to the bound and gagged hostages who're all staring at him and trembling in fear; something even he notices and rubs the back of his neck sheepishly) They seem really spooked. Well, can't exactly blame them. After everything they've gone through and witnessing that fight just now firsthand, obviously they're weary of another clearly strong meta. (sighs in exhaustion) Hopefully Mavy's having better luck than me.

 

The scene fades to black as the CHAPTER ends.

 

 

STORY CONTINUES IN CHAPTER: 16 (DISTRICT FIGHTERS II: BOSS BATTLE)

 

Stat Bonus

 

Manna's stats:

Skill(s): Five-finger Streak

Level: 2.3

Str: 30 Mob: 40 Int: 10 Atk: 35 Def: 10 Rcy: 10

 

Liam's stats:

Skill(s): Lazor Blade

Level: 2.5

Str: 40 Mob: 25 Int: 15 Atk: 35 Def: 20 Rcy: 15

 

Kovan's stats:

Skill(s): Portal Punch

Level: 2.5

Str: 35 Mob: 35 Int: 15 Atk: 30 Def: 15 Rcy: 15

 

Conan's stats:

Skill(s): Hair Tendrils

Level: 2.6

Str: 30 Mob: 40 Int: 15 Atk: 25 Def: 30 Rcy: 15

 

Rouker's stats:

Skill(s): Rock Solid

Level: 2.8

Str: 35 Mob: 15 Int: 20 Atk: 35 Def: 40 Rcy: 20

 

Brolo's stats:

Skill(s): Ambush

Level: 2.8

Str: 35 Mob: 45 Int: 25 Atk: 20 Def: 20 Rcy: 20

 

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