Phighting! Apocalypse AU

Chapter 1

Explosions could be heard from the Underground Arena as the group of Phighters watched as the clock started its final countdown.

"Common Guys! We got this!!" A Blueish White haired boy yelled to his fellow teammates as he launched himself in the air trying to find a perfect place to fire a rocket. 

'10...9...8...7...' The clock blared over the sound of the fight as it was reaching its final seconds.

"Hurry up!" A robotic voice shouted from the other team, A couple groans could be heard the the team shortly after he yelled.

'6...5...4...'

A couple more attacks launched out from both teams just as the match ended.

'3...2...1... MATCH OVER' The attacks ended immediately after that, Cheers could be heard from the Blue team when they realized that they had won. "Great Game everyone!" The Blue haired boy called again. "Thanks Rocket!" Called a man holding a Boombox. "No problem!" Rocket responded as a wide grin appeared on his face.

"You think your dad's gonna lower the prices again for us?" A guy with a Slingshot asked him. "Ha! As fun as that would be, I don't think so... At least not for awhile-" Rocket responded sheepishly. "Eh- that's fine. Well I'm gonna head out, ima a sweaty mess-" Laughter could be heard from some of the others after his remark. "That sounds like a good idea actually- I could use a break." Rocket replied A small chuckle could heard from a Man holding a sword as he walked toward the two. "Hey Sword-" Rocket replied to his best friend. "Hey Rocket."

At least 20 minutes went by with a mix of everyone chatting and bandaging wounds that hadn't been treated yet, until Rocket saw someone or something in the distance.

"Hey... I'll be right back-" Rocket softly said, it was clear that no one heard him- Except Sword. "Where are you going???" "I thought that I saw something" Rocket replied to the curious man. "Okay... Just be quick, We're all planning to hangout after everyone washes up from this match." "Copy that Sword-" He said with a small smurk on his face. Sword rolled his eyes at Rockets response. "Hehehe, be right back 'love'." At that comment Sword jumped a bit, clearly not expecting Rocket to say that, as Rocket walked away Sword couldn't help but blush at his comment.

Rocket slowly made his was over to where he believed that he had seen someone or something watching them, while the others had started to head out. "Wherever your done come meet us by Zuka's truck!!" Someone had called out to Rocket, when he turned around to see who called him he was greeted by a man called Skateboard. "Will do Skate!" Rocket shouted back.

After a couple of minutes Rocket finally got to where he believed that he saw 'someone'.

"You should've stayed with your friends... Rocket-" A distorted voice said from the shadows.  Rocket immediately knew who it was and within seconds noticed the multiple explosives covering a older area of the Arena. "Wha- What is-" He could feel his blood run cold when he realized what was about to happen. "Wait- Wait your not Planning- That's gonna kill all of us!" Rocket shouted, the others took notice of it and started to grow wary of Rockets shouting. "What does- 'Kill us'? Who is he talking too??" Skateboard asked the others, it was quite obvious that something bad was about to happen... but what?

Multiple explosions erupted from where the saw where Rocket was heading, at the same time thay saw Rocket sprinting twords them. "Guys! We have to go! NOW!!" They all immediately shot for one of the many exits praying that they would not only make it out alive but also get answers on what was going on.

Almost everyone had made it out and was waiting for the others as they watched in horror as the Arena started to collapse in on its-self. Sword had fallen back a bit to try and help Rocket, who unfortunately was the farthest away from the exit but the closest to the falling debris. Rocket had started to catch up with the others as they made their way out of the arena. Rocket was starting to lose his breath quickly as the debris started to get closer to him, Everyone was either terrified for Rockets survival or traumatized from the experience. Everyone watched in horror as a large piece of debris hits Rocket in the back of his head.

It seamed as if everything was in slow motion as they watched Rocket hit the ground with blood dripping from his head, everyone seamed to be frozen as they watched the rest of the Arena collapse around him. 

No one moved for what felt like hours before confused shouting and questions erupted from all the Phighters exsept for one- Sword. He was frozen in place just staring at the now collapsed arenas entrance, replaying what had just happened and if he actually just say his best friend die. "Sword!" Sword snapped out of his trance and glaced around to who had called his name to see it was Boombox who had called his name. "Sword- I know that your torn right now- but we have a bigger problem- not really but- you need to see this." He clearly was fighting tears, Rocket was one of his closest friends but something in his voice and how he stumbled over his words gave Sword a scene of urgency. 

Everyone eventually calmed down and went to see what Boombox had been so worried about. As they all made their way up to the roadways above the once existing Arena they immediately took notice of how the civilians looked different, it was noticeable that they all had a strange purple tint on them, their movements seamed sluggish and forced. "They don't normally act and look like that- right???" A girl called Vinestaff asked the others. "No, it's inhumane for them to do that" "I'm surprised that you know what that means Subspace-" "Shut it Medkit, nows not the time." "Will both of you stop!?" The two of them stopped phighting immediately after they heard Sword snap at them. Everyone felt a shiver go down their spine, Sword was normally one of the calmest Phighters and it was practically impossible to get him to yell and for him to snap at both Medkit and Subspace, was terrifying. "Let's just focus on WHY their acting like that, Okay?" They all nodded at Sword and started to make their way to the unusual civilians, all was calm until one of the civilians noticed them and started to make their way twords the Phighters, groans could be heard as the group got closer, they couldn't help but pull out their weapons and prepare for anything that could be thrown at them. 

It wasn't until the 'civilian' had made its way to the group that they realized that their appearance wasn't the only thing off. 

Before the group could get a word out the 'civilian' lunged at them and tried to attack them, if not kill them. The Phighters were confused but had no choice but to phight back, it wasn't until they had knocked out the strange civilian that they realized that there were many more heading their way. "Uhm guys? Something tells me that these guys aren't 'Human' anymore. Heh-" Slingshot nervously said. "No kidding." "Can you be a tad bit nicer Hyperlazer?? We're literally being surrounded by these guys!!" "Isn't that rich coming from you, Katana." "FOCUS!" Hissed Subspace. 

The Phighters continued to Phight the strange civilians for hours before they eventually made an escape to a building that hadn't been destroyed by the 'Infected' as they were calling them. They had been able to reach Zuka eventually, apparently he had heard the Arena collapseing and had run into a couple of the 'infected' on his way there, he had also had run into Broker too. They Informed Zuka on the whereabouts of his Son and what they had heard before his unfortunate demise.

"I... Your telling me my Son is..." Zuka was heart broken to hear that his son, his only child, was dead. Everyone couldn't help but feel horrible for his loss. "Oh dear-" Broker said, barely above a whisper. Broker had been with Zuka for many years through his life, Zuka losing his arm was hard enough, Broker knew that Zuka never expected for his son to die before him. It had only been a joke in their household, it was never expected to become reality. "We- we need to make a plan to survive or we're going to end up... joining him very soon. There's bound to be more infected out there, we can't be caught off guard." Zuka said, It was clear that even with his loss he couldn't let anyone else die.

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"You won't get away with this, Beta. I'll make sure of that-" - R.

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