Realm of Darkness | Volume One

Mass Destruction: I Don't Know

Outside, as Isaac realized the base door has slammed shut, crushing any aspirations of making it inside for the time being, he turns back and spectates the unfolding battle, looking in awe as Anthony held off pretty well on his own despite being outnumbered and outgunned. One of the clones fired a rocket barrage at him, only to be blocked effortlessly by his blade, as he retaliated with a powerful blast from his core. In tandem to another clone with blades trying to sneak up on him, only for him to turn his head 180° and activate his hypnotic radiation, causing it to malfunction and catch fire. "Stay down!" A voice unforgiving as the obsidian on Anthony's overcoat commanded to the clone, as it crumpled and faltered.

As he eliminated two of them, another one fired its eleven red lasers right at Anthony, although he managed to turn to face it just in time, as all the beams converged on his core. Then, it began to spin rapidly, getting faster with each passing moment; it was absorbing the beams' energy. Until they eventually faltered and ran out of energy. 

"Oh shi-" the clone exclaimed, making a face that reeked of disappointment and fear, cut off by an intriguing display of power.

Anthony, his body crackling from overflowing emerald energy, detached his head from his body, with two energy blasters whirring to life on each side of it. Supported by ionic thrusters.

"You idiot!" He rasped, as he activated all four beams on the now-fleeing clone, leaving smoldering craters in their wake.

"Now's our chance!" Said a mechanized cartel soldier to his partner, as they unleashed another rocket barrage on Anthony, thinking his body's vulnerable now that he's headless. Only to have their theory debunked near-instantly, as Anthony used his blade once more to block the rockets effortlessly, now deploying the two monitors situated on his shoulders, equipped with two energy blasters and a rifle each, taking care of the two soldiers.

Then, the final standing clone unleashed its miniguns on Anthony's body, only for him to face it, get lower, as he began to amass energy in his thruster, eventually propelling himself, leaving behind a crackling trail of emerald energy lingering the air and sending shockwaves and electromagnetic pulses throughout the powerful from its sheer force, potent enough to deal damage to the clone's internal systems, as it froze in place malfunctioning with Anthony tackling it to the ground, culminating in a deafening boom accompanied with a flash of yellow light around them.

As the dust settled and silence ran rampant, Isaac looked back as the two cartel soldiers, once standing arrogantly suspended mid-air succumbed to Anthony's screens; the one on the right was exposed to an orange light emanating from that monitor, as he burned. The other being attracted to Anthony's screen with his purple light, having lost control of his body and he mindlessly crashed into the other soldier, ending them both in a miniature explosion.

Meanwhile, the clone with the eleven lasers, crashed onto the ground, its face sparkling with electricity and slowly burning as it screamed in agony, staring right at Anthony's death screen, which emitted a sickly red light. As for the last clone Anthony crushed its mechanical skull in his right arm with no effort.

Then, as his various monitors headed back to reattach to his body, a mysterious lump of dark flesh and circuits snaked its way into Anthony's neck, hoping to connect to his body and hijack it.

Just as an electric current was established between both of them, it rapidly shifted to an emerald color and fried it, causing it to drop to the ground as his three monitors snapped back into place.

Then, as Anthony faced Thomas and Ryan, he saw them restrain a clone tougher than the others, akin to executioners holding a criminal. As they released it for Anthony to finish off, it grinned with malicious intent, the four powerful arms on its bag spinning the buzzsaws faster.