Dang Convergence Vol. 1

Chapter Nineteen The Darksent, Part 1

Chapter Nineteen

The Darksent, Part 1

Plumes of smoke billowed into the air as an intense fire raged through five city blocks. Several buildings looked like they'd been sawed in half, and all around were police vehicles and ambulances, with medics frantically rushing the wounded into the back of trucks, some sense of desperation and urgency to their action.

"Hey, you guys can't be here!" a police officer yelled at Dante and Dang, one who had an entire half of his face covered in blood and was clutching an odd weapon that protruded from his left shoulder. Upon closer inspection, the weapon looked a lot like a spike, and it looked like one made entirely of shadow. "We're cordoning off a five-mile radius, there's something loose in here. You gotta get out of here."

Dang and Dante exchanged wary looks and without saying anything, they walked right past the officer. The officer yelled for an entire minute but fell quiet after an inhumane roar filled the air, causing it to tremble against their skin, the ground quaking beneath them. After the roar, the officer's yells turned into stuttering sounds, after which he gave up, turned on his heels and ran for it.

Dang pressed a finger against the comms in his ears. "Daedalus, did you hear that?"

"That didn't sound good, Dang," Daedalus' voice was grim. "You sure you don't need me for backup."

"No," Dang shook his head. "Dante and I will check it out first. If it goes south, Daniel and Megan are on standby. You're the last resort."

"Well, that isn't offensive at all," Daedalus muttered.

"Anything goes wrong, we need the guy who knows stuff about the multiverse and cosmic energies alive," Dante said. "But it is crazy though. Only just arrived on this universe and I'm already having to deal with an apocalyptic event?"

"It's not apocalyptic," Dang said quickly. "Gotta be optimistic."

"I don't know, dude," Dante said, casting a glance at a bleeding woman who was wheeled past them on a stretcher then. "This gives me pretty insane apocalyptic vibes. Like a doomsday event or something."

"That's not helping."

Dante shrugged and went on in silence, the both of them getting closer and closer to the source of the roar they'd heard earlier. After a few minutes of silence, the ground quaked beneath them once more, and then Dante pointed up at a truck that was falling out of the air, right at them.

Dante snapped a finger and an explosion altered the truck's course so that it missed them by a sufficient amount. Although shards of glass still went flying right at them after the truck hit the ground, and Dante had to summon a wall of intense heat to shield them from it.

Dang ran a hand through his hair again. "Looks like we're dealing with a pretty angry anomaly," he sighed. "What a drag."

"Let's end this quickly?" Dante asked.

Dang looked at him and nodded. "I'd prefer that."

"Alright," Dante grinned, his eyes turning an intense orange. Smoke started to issue from his skin, as well as from the soles of his sneakers. He lowered himself a little, adopting the stance of someone about to surge forward. He looked at Dang, gave him a nod, and then yelled: "Go!"

Dang took off first, charging forward with incredible speed. Dante waited until Dang had gained some considerable distance on him before surging forward, a trail of flame in his wake. Dang leapt high into the air, and so did Dante, with Dante propelling himself with jets of flames.