Ultraya: Origins

Chapter 37: Desperation

28/05/4013 AD – 19:43 – Earth – Ailutarya – City Streets

"Are you serious?" Ru-Flare was furious as she looked around her and at the ally status screen; Skyswipe, Grouslash and Whirlizak were being suppressed by a bunch of nobodies and her soldiers had been wiped out by some stupid, water-obsessed moron. The sun had fully gone down by this point, only flames lit the area now.

"Are you ACTUALLY serious right now?!" Ru-Flare expanded her feathered wings, flew above the battlefield, and raised her hands over her head. She began to form a large fireball in the space between her open hands. "Maybe I'll just scorch the lot of you!" Ru-Flare's voice was angry, menacing, yet full of fear. "I'll kill the mighty Hyperzio, his stupid pet, these pathetic Humans and the miserable failures that call themselves my allies!"

She suddenly flinched as Hyperzio fired a beam from his shoulder cannon straight through the fireball Ru-Flare was forming. Whilst the fire itself didn't harm her, the force of the blast dealt slight damage. She became even more angered and started blasting flames from her hand, using her arm as a devastating flamethrower. Hyperzio responded by firing missiles from his backpack and arced them around, causing them to head straight at the Angel. Ru-Flare stopped her flamethrower and formed a sphere of fire around her. She expelled this sphere, and all of the missiles were disintegrated.

"I knew it", Hyperzio smirked calmly. "Ru-Flare, how old are you?"

Ru-Flare looked stunned, "W-why is that important?"

"You're young", Hyperzio stated. "You didn't earn those wings through genuine combat, and something tells me that you literally just acquired that form before the battle". Ru-Flare was somehow even more stunned than before; her only motion was simply shaking in her armour. The battlefield fell silent. All eyes were on Ru-Flare.

"YOU- YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!" Ru-Flare suddenly screeched, releasing a large blast of powerful, raging flames. Hyperzio jumped and activated his spherical shield. Jonathon, Alpha and Fated also jumped and deployed strange energy shields from devices on their arms, although it required Alpha to deactivate his arm-blades first in order to access his shields. Unlike a Wyperian spherical version, these Human shields only covered their front, like a large medieval shield. Skyswipe and Grouslash also deployed shields and Whirlizak maximised his remaining rotor's power and blew the fire out of his reach.

Anmarina cheerfully ran around the corner of a nearby building, "Hyperzio I killed the-"

"ANMARINA, SHIELD UP NOW!" Hyperzio begged.

"Why-" Anmarina's final words before the area became completely engulfed in flames. Anyone without protection within a five-hundred metre radius was obliterated.

The flames finally cleared over three minutes later. All of the Wyperians, aside from Ru-Flare, had their shields decimated. Skyswipe and Grouslash had their health drained to a mere pixel on their health bars. Alpha and Fated had burn marks around the edges of their armour. Jonathon was sweating violently and was struggling to breathe. Hyperzio descended back to the ground and tried searching for Anmarina.

"Anmarina!" he called out. "Are you alright?"

No answer.

"ANMARINA!" Hyperzio cried repeatedly, full of desperation.

No answer.

The smoke started to clear as Hyperzio checked the status screen of his visor and his fears were confirmed: Anmarina's health bar was gone.

"ANNA!" Hyperzio continuously screamed variations of her name. The sound of a rotor stirred up and a weak wind blew the smoke away. Whirlizak was barely standing; parts of his body were missing; he was closer to resembling charcoal as opposed to a machine. Hyperzio stood in shock for a second only to look around desperately. The body of a blue-haired girl covered in scorch marks lay on the ground.