" What kind of cockroach is he?" He asked himself and he looked at the ground, where a man in black was standing, his arms covering his face unharmed, but that was not what shocked him, the thing that shocked him was his clothes, they didn't have a single speck of scratch on them, they were as good as before.
Krish slowly puts away his arms, showing an unharmed face, but for the credit, his arms were shaking, a sign that it did have some effect, he shook them a few times, and saw Carl descending down his face full of hidden anger, he was surpassing it deep down, but it was ready to explode, and he tried best to control it, and asked with gritted teeth.
" How did you survive?" and he closed his eyes trying to control his anger, cause he knows what's gonna happen next. He didn't reply.
He was about to open his eyes, when he felt something off, he opened his eyes, and saw a pair of green eyes staring at him at a hand distance, his hands on his neck and head. And before he could register what was happening, a cracking sound rang in the empty battleground, which was followed by a thud sound of a body falling. It was Carl who fell, and it was his neck that made that crack sound. Krish who was now alone standing, looked at the fallen, Carl at his feet, his emotions complex and mixed. He took a deep breath, and closed his eyes, thinking back what he did and what happened. And after a few seconds of remembrance, he opened his eyes, and saw something that surprised him. Carl was gone, there was no one on the floor, he was about to turn, when he felt a hand on the back of his neck, squishing it.
" How shameful for a hero. A sneak attack?" And just as he said that, Krish felt his energy draining, he tried to free himself, but found his hand and wrist were covered by a black substance which seems to increase in weight after every attempt he made, and Carl seeing his struggle reminded him.
" Don't try Krishna, don't try. These aren't your usual metal that you'll find in your department store, it's a piece of my creation. A combination of my genius and power, a new kind of metal. One that can hold the beast like you." And he started to absorb his life force.
" Let's call it Arkrytonium. Arya's 'Ar' Krish's 'Kri'. Don't you think it sounds cool?" And Krish wasn't in the mood to listen, he struggled, and the weight got heavier.
" As you might have noticed, this Arkrytonium has a special characteristic, the more you pull, the heavier it gets, and the heavier it gets, the stronger it gets, perfect for holding someone like you." And he tightened his grip on his neck and felt the immense power that it brought. He came close to his ears, ready to say his final words to gradually weakening Krish. He was full of confidence now, no matter what he does now, he has already won. It doesn't matter if he couldn't kill him with a blow, he will kill him by draining his life force. He came close and said in a gloating voice.
" I wo-" his gloating was cut short, when Krish seizing the opportunity, headbut Carl's nose with all the force he could muster, making Carl lose consciousness on the spot giving him ample time to make the next move.
Krish turned, and squatted Carl like a fly, and Carl, being unconscious, was flung high in the sky.
Krish, who was now free from Carl's clutches, looked at his hands, and felt it getting heavier. He took a deep breath, and with a yell of strength, clashed both hands to each other with a thunder clap motion, making a loud ding sound, which was followed by the sound of heaven cracking, and the hand binding of one hand fell, broken in peaces, krish looked at the other, and tore it open with his freed hand, when he heard sound of air breaking, and saw Carl coming at his direction. Krish calmed himself, and took a step back, his legs still carrying that weight, and waited for him to come close. And when he was arms distance, Krish moved, he lifted his leg, and collided with Carl's outstretched fist, and when his leg and his arm collided, something happened that surprised him, the characteristic of the new material created by Carl, and his power collided, two forces of natural, hit each other, two gravity rich objects collide, creating a shockwave that repel both Krish and Carl..
Carl was flung out of the city, and Krish made a gully in the ground. Krish came out of that hole, and looked at his leg, and saw Arkrytonium weights still intact, there wasn't a single scratch on them. He grabbed it with his hand, and tore it open, freeing his legs.
" Why did you remove the weights? It has a repealing power towards Carl." It wasn't a question, Rohit was just asking. And Krish knowing this answered.
" If it could kill him, he would have died thousands of times by me." And after hearing this, Rohit didn't say anything, but pondered, and remembered something.
" Remember him saying he won't die if there is someone alive near him." and Krish nodded, and rushed forward, his arms outstretched.
" Yes." and Rohit, after hearing this, advised.
" Remember the way back home then." And Rohit looked at the screen which was showing a missile heading towards them.
" A missile is coming at you." And Krish, who was fighting Carl, heard that, his expression not changing.
" It has the gene destroying serum I created for Arya and you, and some modifications made by them, they are hoping it might stop Carl's rampage ." And Krish, after hearing that, has no visible expression, but his eyes shifted to the direction of the missile.
" Will it have an effect on him?" And after hearing this, Rohit replied in a casual manner.
" Fifty-fifty, and what mess they make, Sixty-forty probably." And when they were having this conversation, a third voice interrupted them.
" What the hell are you talking about?" And Rohit looked at his daughter who was in front of him in the car, and then look at the sleeping soldiers beside him.
" That missile can kill you!!" Sakshi almost yelled that part, Krish whose senses were high alert, flinched, and received a blow from Carl that launched him into a ruined building.
" It's only a chance." Said Rohit, calming her down.
" But Dad that missi-" And he stopped her midway, and said in a calm voice.
" Let him decide." And after hearing this Sakshi became quiet, and Krish came out of the ruined building, and looked at the sky where Carl was gathering energy and creating The Arkrytonium in bulk.
" There is a forty percent chance it can kill me, and forty percent it can kill him. Worth a shot."
And he flew up. And in the military car, Sakshi heard this, put down her tablet, and said in a voice that only she could hear.
" Well if they remake this, they're gonna make it dramatic."
And in the middle of the battleground, Krish and Carl, Carl was changing his costume, discarding the metal on his suit, and replacing it with a thin layer of Arkrytonium, which was also floating in the sky, in the shape of cubes, a white halo surrounding them. Krish dodged and muddled through the blocks of invincible metal and rain of gravity, and soon reached near Carl.
Carl starts to throw the newly built Arkrytonium on him, and it is continuously difficult to dodge all those boxes, and some manage to hit him really hard. Krish flew back, krish looked at the cube and it needed several punches to break it, and dodged one aiming for head.
" It's coming." He heard his father's voice.
Krish didn't respond, and looked at the several cubes in front, and he had a bold idea.
And Carl, who was standing in the air making something big, noticed something. He looked at a certain direction, and saw a block of Arkrytonium coming at him in speed, Carl didn't bother to look at it twice, and let it pass by tilting left, he was about to say something when he felt something of, and when he looked back, he saw a cube size of building heading towards him.
He was startled, and immediately used his power to vaporize the huge cube immediately, and a dust cloud was formed from that huge cube. Carl was about to squat away the dust when from somewhere a punch landed on his face, he was about to get out the dust cloud when a hand grabbed his ankles and brought him back, and showered him with punches and kept him in the dust cloud. Carl soon managed to get back to his senses, and Krish, knowing this, didn't slack, he rushed forward and grabbed his ankle, and spun in a circle creating momentum and speed, and when it was at a feverpitch, krish tossed him out the dust cloud, at the direction of the missile, and followed suit making sure he hit the mark.
He dashed forward, and hit the flying Carl with his shoulder dash, increasing the speed.
They were moving in the direction of the missile, and Carl didn't notice it. He was trying to get free from Krish's clutches by punching him in the back, but Krish kept his hold and didn't let go, and Carl from the corner of his eyes saw the missile, but it was too late to do anything, it hit him point blank creating a huge shockwave and cloud of bright blue cloud of antiserum.
And in the UN conference, many people watched this explosion on the screen, none screamed, none celebrated, they waited. Waiting for the results of their missile, even Rohit waited to see what happened.
They didn't have to wait for too long, when something or more like someone came out from the cloud, and when they looked closely, they found it was Carl, and his condition didn't seem too good. He was coughing, and his face seemed a little blue. He was struggling in the air. And seeing this one person couldn't sit still and asked if it works? In a questioning manner, he didn't get a reply right away, but a scientist did try to find out, and when he did, he didn't know what to say, when he saw something falling from the cloud, and when he looked closely, it was Krish, and he was falling a stingless kite unmoving.
He hit the ground with a loud boom which was followed by a long silence. A silence where everyone waited for the outcome once again. Carl was barely able to float, Krish didn't have any moment, and no one was ready to make assumptions about the outcome till they got the confirmation. And one who was monitoring where Krish crashed, noticed something, he immediately set up and informed everyone about that, there was a movement in the pit where Krish crashed.
And soon enough, Krish came out from the pit, his steps unstable and his form huncher.
" He is safe." yelled out a female operative in excitement, which was out of place in this situation, people there didn't pursue that, and focus on the current matter first. They all looked at the monitors, and in that monitor they saw Krish standing from the pit, his legs shaky and he looked out of breath, but otherwise looked fine.
He looked up, and tried to float, and found it a little difficult, but he followed suit anyway. He slowly but steadily flew up, and kept increasing his speed, and soon he regained his former speed, he cogged back a fist and punched Carl square on the face. The force of his punch was so large that it created a sonic boom, and launched Carl's body at breakneck speed. Krish followed soon with more punches, and Carp after receiving two other three of these punches, regained his senses, and created a clone to confuse and entangle him, and Krish knowing the difference in real one, squatted the duplicate to ground and keep on chasing the original when they hit several space debris. Carl, who was in front of couldn't get the chance to save himself at all, Krish wasn't giving him any of that, he kept him going and kept him disoriented. He was making sure he couldn't do any of his fancy moves, and soon they were out of the atmosphere.
Krish grabbed Carl's feet stopping him from advancing, And Krish flipped him, and grabbed his neck from behind ready to twist, when he felt him saying something in a weak voice.
" Do you… do you really think they'll treat you as a hero?" and after hearing that, Krish paused, and answered him in a low voice.
" I don't know, I don't care. I'll do what I can, and feel sad when I cannot, what else can I do?" And after hearing this, Carl chuckled.
" I can do, I can do much more, I can do much more." And he snapped his neck in an empty void of space, and let him go.
He looked at the floating image of Carl and the earth behind him, his eyes flickered, and then he looked back at earth, and grabbed Carl's arm, and put him on his shoulders, and turned his back to earth, and looked at the closest star to him, the sun.
" What is he doing dad?" And hearing his daughter's question, Rohit looked at his mobile screen and said in a calm voice.
" Giving him a proper burial." and hearing this, she was a little stunned.
" In the sun?" She asked, not believing what she said. And Rohit didn't entertain her further, just looked at charts of data. And Krish's journey to the sun soon became known to everyone, the people in UN couldn't understand what they were doing, and they came to a conclusion.
" He is taking his fight away from us." There was more to this from what was said, but everyone there knows what it means. They didn't know what happened in space, but they knew where they were heading.