Protectors- Wrath of The Stranger

Chapter Three: Voice Of God

Zachary and Spirit exited the building, just in time to watch Kinetic dispatch the last policeman, slicing his head off with the edge of a broken car door. He turned to watch as the two approached him, squaring off with the God of Speed. Even the few police that he had been able to kill had pushed his speed, and armed with the word of God, his power had become entirely different to what it had been days ago. Zachary took the form of Lilith this time, his body becoming that of a demonic being, tarred black wings stretching from a lithe and dangerous body. Spirit's entire body was coated in purple energy, illuminating the surrounding area as the makeshift armour spread for a ten meter radius. They had been willing to consider Kinetic a neutral party, if not an ally, but his continual drive to kill had become too much to let slide. He took off towards Zachary, ducking under the Lilith's kick to land a blow to his gut. Zachary dropped backwards, letting the punch push him to the ground, before reverting back to human form, avoiding Kinetic's foot as it stomped down on his head,

"Zachary!" Niamh shouted, "Stand still, this is going to feel weird!"

He suddenly felt like the air had rushed out of his lungs, but nothing strange happened. Then he realised that he was wrong, Kinetic had been thrown against a fire-hydrant, and was looking as winded as him. Spirit was panting, crackling energy showing that she was at her absolute limit,

'Listen,' she told him telepathically, 'we need to let Kinetic believe that I can go faster than him. What I'm actually doing is a time-stop,'

Zachary was taken aback, he had no idea how such a power could be possible to attain. The ability to prevent the entire universe from moving for even a nanosecond was far beyond anything Spirit had shown before,

'It's only in a ten meter radius,' She thought, answering his question, 'it basically removes the concept of time from the fabric of reality for a split second, but it takes a lot out of me to use,'

"What have you been scheming?" Kinetic asked, appearing behind Zachary, "That was a strange sensation,"

"You're beginning to figure out Spirit's second ability," Zachary bluffed, "not even you can keep up with it,"

Johnathan Stone lashed out, catching Zachary with an uppercut, cleanly snapping his head upwards, before following it up with a gut-punch. Before he could deliver the blow, however, he found himself punching thin air, a few meters away. He turned back to Zachary, but only caught the crackling Aura of Spirit,

"I'm faster than you can even comprehend," Niamh taunted, "guess I'm the real God of Speed, huh,"

Kinetic's face flushed with rage. He began to tremble with fury. Then he took off towards Spirit at full speed, just shy of breaking the sound barrier,

'Zachary,' Spirit thought, 'I don't think I have it in me for another time stop just yet,'

Zachary instantly transformed into his draconic form, firing off a quick bolt of lightning. Although the lightning was immensely fast, it didn't manage to hit Kinetic, but did force him to change trajectory, moving around Spirit, rather than through her. She used her wings to fly up, banishing the circle around her as she rained down bullets formed from compacted tarmac, the tiny projectiles strong and sharp enough to pierce bone. As the barrage peppered the ground, Kinetic weaved and dodged the little pieces of road, but that made him predictable. Zachary fired a powerful bolt into the floor at Kinetic's feet, firing him up into the air, 

"Niamh!" Zachary exclaimed, "remember what you did last time!"

She nodded, concentrating as a purple cloud formed underneath Kinetic, before breaking into two, a second hanging just above the first one. As the God of Speed landed in the bottom cloud, he fell from the top one, continuing a loop of falling,