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Chapter 4 - "Where others fall I rise"

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Before anything could start they heard a loud thud on one side of the hill, another thud was heard again

Every one turned around to look, what they saw were the hillside bulged outward

Just then another thud was heard and the hillside gave out.

To everyones surprise Leo smashed through the wall, clearly engulfed in rage.

His chest went up and down as every breath was took.

Blood was all over him, a nasty scar was across his face, cuts were all over his body, his pupils were barely visible.

With every heavy breath he took, the veins in his body slowly disappeared.

After taking in a few more breaths he turned slowly to look at them.

"Ooh you guys are so dead" he said calmly voice dripping with pure hate

A long tense silence lingered over them.

All they could hear was the breeze gently blowing and a single leaf slowly falling to the ground.

Just as the leaf hit the floor.

Leo dashed towards Alwich at full speed, fist cocked back so wide ready to smash Alwich's face.

"BORIS!!" Alwich shouted

Suddenly the humanoid monster slid in front of Alwich, and caught Leo's hand.

He then tried to follow up with a right hook, but Leo caught that too.

They both struggled

"I remember you" Leo said staring daggers into the monster's soul as he remembered their encounter

Boris smirked

While Autumn and Thomas were distracted watching Leo, Alwich fired a tranquilizer at Thomas.

With little movement of his head, he dodged it without looking.

His focus slowly lock onto Alwich. Flames igniting in both hands

They both started getting closer to Alwich, while he was backing up farther

Meanwhile, as Leo and Boris had their test of strength.

It looked as if they were equal until Leo chuckled,

Leo then started pushing Boris back easily, while crushing his hands.

Boris roared and began kneeling.

But immediately, he rose off the ground and head butted Leo in the nose.

Leo let go, took a few steps back clutching his nose. Blood were seen dripping from between his fingers

Leo growled in pain before dashing and slamming Boris through some trees.

He then Leo ran off in the same direction

Now back at Thomas, Autumn and Alwich

We see Alwich and Thomas running in the same direction, while looking to the side, at each other.

Both running and waiting for one to make a move.

While running, a shadow was spotted above.

Looking up Alwich saw Autumn coming down with the blade, he rolled to the side avoiding the slash.

But just as he rolled, a ball of fire was heading his way.

A huge explosion hit the spot where Alwich was, Autumn flew over to where Thomas was to watch as the smoke clears

But as it clears, We see the asian kid beside Alwich, hand held outwards while smoke were seen rising off it

The asian kid staree nonchalantly at the two

"This guy, who is he?" Thomas asked

"I don't know but he's dangerous" Autumn said

"Most likely one of us-Alwich seems to be controlling people somehow" Autumn added

Alwich and the Asian kid watched as the two whisper amongst themselves

Just then Alwich smirked

"Why don't you show me what you can do...Kaito" he said

Just as the words left his mouth, Kaito held up both his fist in a boxing position.

He then did two quick jabs in the air.

"Huh?"

Just as the confusion hit Thomas, a wave of pressure did too, blowing both of them away

The kid starts walking slowly towards them

"Alright that's it" Thomas said getting up

"I'll handle this one, you get that scientist bastard" he added

"Right"

Autumn then flew in the air and dash towards Alwich full speed

Kaito was ready to intercept with one more shockwave punch, but was stopped by Thomas

A flaming punch connected to Kaito's jaw slamming him off his feet.

"Whoa" Thomas said while flashing his hands

Kaito slowly stood up and spat out a bloody tooth before holding up his hands again

Thomas waited for his next attack. Hands raised in his own weird position

JAB

JAB

JAB

Thomas ran at Kaito full speed dodging to the right then left. Dodging all the shockwave blast

He closes in on Kaito quickly flaming fist ready to strike

He throws a punch to the face

But Kaito dodges quickly and countered with a punch to the gut, then followed up with a left hook

Thomas stunned a bit was then blasted with pressure that sent him flying.

AUTUMN

Meanwhile all that was happening, we see Alwich running while trying to get somthing out of his pouch

Just as he was about to make a turn, A blade lodges in a tree, centimeters from his face

And suddenly Autumn came from above with another blade.

But Alwich jumps back instinctively

She then follows up with a wide slash but was blocked by Alwich's scalpel

With his free right hand he throws a punch at her

But Autumn flows under it easily

She pushes forward and grabs Alwich, flying up with him. And slams him into a tree branch

Alwich then falls back to the floor, but quickly recovers

He looks up at Autumn floating in the air above him

"You nimble little brat" he said while holding his left arm

"I guess it would work for you if you weren't so predictable" He said

Just as those words were said Alwich took out a small device and presses a button

With that, electricity enveloped Autumn

She screamed in pain before falling to the floor, smoke rises off her body as she lay limped

Alwich walked over to her smoking body and puts his hand in his pouch

Just as he was shuffling over her body, Autumn suddenly spins around with a giant needle in her hand.

Which contains the same yellow substance they were using in the lab

She spun around a stabbed Alwich with it in his stomach then followed up and stabbed him in his chest with the knife

Just as Alwich roared in pain she rolled away and leaned herself on a nearby tree, still partly stunned from earlier

She watched as the yellow substance slowly go into his body.

Alwich screams for a while before suddenly turning it into some maniacal laughter

He laughed and laughed for awhile before suddenly stopping randomly

He took the needle and blade from out his body and throws them away then stood up

"Aww you wasted it" he said as the dark veins that the yellow substance caused start to dissappear

"Ah Luminex" He said while holding both his hands out to the sky

Just as his veins completely disappears. She could see that Alwich looked way better than earlier he was no longer pale skinned but looked way younger like in his 30s or 20s

"Where others fall I rise"

"What ends you feeds me"

"Tell me, what am I?"

He asked looking At Autumn

....

He then starts talking again

"In all my life I've never been so lucky"

"But I guess I gotta do everything myself"

"Stupid bots" he then slowly starts getting closer to Autumn

"All my life, I've been trying to resurrect the best of the best" he grabs Autumn by the throat slowly lifting her up

"I've found one of you, and now I want the rest of you "

"Why, why are you doing this" Autumn asked

"Your not very observant are you?" he then takes out a vial with the yellow substance

"Luminex, so much untapped potential, took me 200 years to find out how to produce it. And even then the ingredients are rare."

"With Luminex I can do anything, for now tho I'm building an army, soon the world will know Doctor Alwich Fuerths"

Just then a shadow casted over them.

Looking up a huge body was falling, Alwich jumped out of the way and the body fell heavily on the ground.

It was a body missing a head. And further up Alwich could see Leo heading his way slowly.

In Leo's hand was Boris's head, his left hand was bloody, definitely not his blood

"Oh..this is a problem" Alwich said dropping Autumn to the floor

She feel to her knees choking.

And in the distance, a few clashes were heard along with the crack of knuckles

"GET BACK HERE!!!" Shouted Thomas in the distance

Soon the two were visible, Thomas and Kaito in hand to hand combat

Kaito was running backwards trying to regroup while facing Thomas

He easily ducked a flame enhance right hook

Then blocked a followed up Jab

And gracefully leapt over a leg sweep, and uses his mid air motion to push off Thomas, landing on a tree branch.

Kaito began jumping from tree to tree while Thomas ran harder

When they both reached the clearing where everybody was

Kaito tried leaping over to where Alwich stood, since he was on the side where Leo was

But Thomas jumped midair too, clashing again with Kaito,

Both caught each others fist midair

Soon they landed staring each other down

They slowly began walking around each other, so they could both go to their comrades

After forming up successfully Thomas wipes the blood from his lips

Leo was just reaching. His teamates could feel an ominous aura coming off him

He stared down Alwich, Before he rolled Boris's head over

Alwich stopped it with his legs, hands in his pocket

He bent over and picked it up

"Well well well, I guess you truly are something special" he said

He then give back the wide creepy smile

"I'll be back" he said

He then took out a what looks like a stamp gun, but there was a vial with luminex attached to it.

He then aims at the ground and fires, immediately a golden portal appeared.

The two jumped inside along with Boris's head

....

A huge silence stood there for a good minute before Leo suddenly fell to the floor

"LEO!!" Autumn shouted

"I don't know what the hell this world is, but thats it, I'm getting out of here one way or the other"

And that was the last thought Leo had before everything went to black

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