Future Defenders - Book 2 - Call of the Multiverse

Chapter 23 - Call of the Multiverse

"Bring it on? Don't make me laugh." Evil mocked. "Others had attempted and fallen, or escaped with their life."

"You said you were a villain right?" Riley asked, in which Evil rolled his eyes whilst giving the slightest of nods. "In case you've forgotten, they always lose in the end."

"Well there's a first time for everything!"

Once again like he had done many times before, Evil attempted to catch his enemy off guard as one of is tentacles emerged from the ground. But even though it had only been a few days since his first encounter with him, Riley predicted the attack to come as if the two of them had been going at it for decades. Grabbing the tentacle and clenching it in his grip, he unleashed a burst of telekinetic energy, obliterating the goo in his hands to atoms. 

Evil pulled back what was left of his tentacle, screaming in pain. As he attempted to shake off the agony, Riley was already in front of him, grabbing him by the head and flinging him across the courtyard. Picking himself up, Evil turned to Enigma, who was still dealing with Rusty, Zachary and Adam. 

"Stop dealing with those idiots and come and kill this bastard." Evil yelled out.

Enigma turned to see Evil knocked down, disappearing from his fight with the trio and reappearing behind Riley, placing him into a headlock. As he fought to release the stranglehold on him, Riley flung Enigma over his head, channelling his telekinesis energy and slamming him headfirst into the ground.

"Batter up!" Yelled Riley as Enigma bounced up after hitting the ground.

"And play ball!" Zachary responded, shooting a lightning bolt straight at Enigma, knocking him out cold.

Turning g back to face off with his enemy, Riley noticed Evil wasn't where he was before, having used Enigma as a distraction to escape somewhere, but that would be what he would want them to think. Instead he was preparing to catch someone off guard, pick them off one by one. But he wasn't going to let that happen.

Riley closed his eyes, blocking out any external distractions, focusing on sensing a slight movement. Planting his hands into the ground and channelling his telekinesis energy, he felt something moving through the ground. Something almost like a snake, but what he could tell was one of Evil's tentacles, heading towards-

"Look out!" He yelled, eyes shooting open and raising his hand, firing off telekinetic energy to the side of Niamh, where a tentacle had emerged. "Stay on your guard, he's not gone yet and trynna pick us off. His tentacles are in the ground."

"If you cover for me and Kaedan, we can maybe force them out or at least using our powers." Hannah spoke, Kaedan nodding in agreement."

"And we'll deal with him in the meantime," Rusty began, before suddenly turning and grabbing another tentacle ready to kill him. "And speak of the devil."

Rusty pulled the tentacle with the help of his powers, ripping out the tentacle and removing it from where ever Evil was. As Hannah and Kaedan began to do their thing, Riley began to refocus as the others stayed alert in their own ways. Sensing a third tentacle, moving in the ground, his eyes shot open and yelled out to Cam.

"One of them is headed your way."

Pulling out their energy weapon, which was a bow and arrows, they turned and fire a shot and the looming tentacle, slicing it in half. At the same time, Adam punched into the ground, revealing a fourth. Grabbing hold of it with both hands, he ripped it apart and flung the remains to the ground. On the other side of the courtyard, Niamh, out of the corner of her eye saw a large shadow approaching from behind Kaedan and Hannah, tentacles regrowing.