Blank Slate

Chapter 3 - Blood & Rust (2/3)

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""...Y/n...?"" Peni and Gwen softly muttered, low enough and obscured as they stared at the person in the distance. He certainly looked like Y/n, but... no way Y/n would do something like this... boast a dangerous aura, or plaster a smile that just emanates harmful intent.

But Gwen called out to him, as the four arms slowly moved to lower him onto the top of a van. Both have a belief there may have just been a slight mishap, a mind control scenario, or some other factor. Many are open to possibility, as unlikely as it may be, but their concerns right now came first before any assumptions.

"Y/n! Are you okay?! I'm... We-"

"What have you done with my machine, Gwen." Y/n however spoke venom trailing in his voice. One of his arms moved slowly before its claw snapped open to reveal a blaring red light staring right at them.

"Wh...? Gwen stammered. "Machine? I don't... I don't know what you're talking about? What machine?"

"The power of the sun in the palm of my hands...! It's gone." He further specified. One of the arms' claws opens up like a jaw to reveal a blaring red light.

"H-Hey... I don't know what machine you're talking about, but if you just please stop this we can find whatever it is!"

"Uh-huh... You wanna play games? Fine then." Y/n said before two of the arms extend off to the sides, both piercing the roofs of an SUV and a Sedan, the few people that were inside hurriedly exited their phones still in hand recording.

"Y/n..." Peni uttered, as both of them stagger a bit. The robotic limbs lifted both vehicles, Y/n mildly moving his arms about controlling their angling.

"Catch!" He yelled as he coiled the arm holding the SUV back and the arm holding the sedan forwards before slinging the SUV forward.

Gwen and Peni jump off of the car, the SUV narrowly avoiding the Agent's car grazing the roof and impacting the car behind hers. "Holy S**t..." The Agent uttered.

Y/n soon threw the sedan at Gwen, just before she could land on the concrete road the force was enough to knock her off of the bridge, narrowly passing through the suspender cables.

"Gwen!" Peni uttered before controlling Sp//dr to charge at Y/n who only launched one of his more heavy-duty arms at her knocking her back into a semi-truck.

"Kh! Huh...?" Gwen muttered in pain as she attempted to push herself off of the sedan's grille before looking forward to see a child and her parents still in the car, horrified expressions plastered on their faces. Without wasting time she crawled over the hood of the car and reached for the back bumper, shooting a web onto the side of the bridge and latching it onto the car, where she opened the side doors of the vehicle.

Back at the top of, the bridge Peni managed to avoid Y/n's robotic limb, piercing into the truck with ease. "Y/n stop!" Peni pleaded, while Y/n, only pulled his arm out, both he and the arm itself snapping to face her, the claw rotating before launching at her again which she avoided and countered, jumping high up before slamming down onto the robotic arm, pinning it in place.

"Y/n snap out of it! Please, this isn't you!" She pleaded, thinking of one of her theories that he may have been mind controlled.

"There is nothing for me to snap out of! Don't get in my way, kid!" He yelled the three other arms being launched towards her, managing to grab Sp//dr's bulkier frame before throwing them away off the bridge.

"Hh?" Y/n then turned to see Gwen land back on the bridge the small family holding onto her, he strode towards her the arms cracking the road with their aggressive latches.