A Crumbling Society

Part 3-25

Astro Man shot off the ground without a second thought. He was fast but I moved out of the way of each attempt to hit me. Sprinting off I thought he had fled, my mistake and as I was looking away, he plowed right into me. My body hit straight into a building nearby, breaking walls and beams as I made my way through it. Recovering as fast as possible and stopping the movement just in time to take another hit. I think the first one was a shoulder, now I got both boots to my chest. Continuing the same process to control my flailing I once again regained stability. This time I waited for him, increasing my agility, and holding my arm in a tucked position. As he flew nearer, I prepared for him, moving in range he got to me, but I straightened my arm out. Right as I did his throat made contact and I was able to clothesline him, he spun out of control to the ground. Hitting hard on his back he landed into a car, brushing it off fast he returned to the air. Both fists lay in front of him leading his flight, close together and ready but never landing a single punch. Left fist, then right, switching or copying the strike but I dodged each time. A couple of minutes with back and forth and I grew tired. When he returned, I reached out and grabbed his small cape, it yanked him back. Pulling him in closely with it I wrapped it around his face, fully covering him to block his face. Grabbing the front and back of his head my hands twisted clockwise, I snapped his neck. His body dropped almost a second after and he soon hit the ground. People down below screamed in upset so the name calling never ended. Again, I looked over to see if any one of the villains could step it up.

Chaos took his turn by breathing his fire into Diamond which amplified the power. She reflects a lot of energy attacks from her foes but if you're an ally she can increase them. The combined power boomed passed me hitting right into a building causing glass and metal to combust and fall. They tried their best to use it as a giant laser, but it didn't last too long as Chaos needed to recharge. Thinking quickly over the sounds of crashing and people dying, I came up with my idea. Drawing in as much dark energy as I could a black cloud formed. It was entering my hands building up power, I also hovered slightly closer than before. When the cloud was completely consumed, I placed both my hands on top of one another. I waited, strategically coordinating when he was going to make a move. Neither of them can produce attacks from a distance, they're close-range fighters. This makes them weaker while I'm currently in the sky and their powers have to be combined. As he faced Diamond again, he breathed more flame onto her, and she charged up. Unleashing my attack, a white flame exited my hand, this flame contains the power of order, a contradiction to chaos. All things pure shot itself into his body, a few seconds of taking the hit and his eyes were beaming with white light. His flames turned into just light, and Diamond also stored this power. Increasing the flow from where my body stayed in the air the glow grew larger. His eyes were like two flashlights side by side moving around. When he began to yell in pain Diamond began frantically trying to get him to stop sharing his power. Another thing I did, as my power of order passed from him to her, it kept her abilities active. This made it so that she would unknowingly be feeding off of his. She has no way of cutting it off, so she's going to be pulling it in until she does what I need her to. Chaos also will be doing the same, when they had had enough of it, both of them exploded where they were. They also weren't too far from the other villains on stage. Shields and counters came up in defense to stabilize themselves or deflect the exploding bodies. With the light fading out Lunar Witch and Solar Knight were looking at each other. I figured a hard debate about which sister was going to make a move first. They both come from magic but use it differently, so they make for good adversaries.

Lunar Witch took her turn with me, her staff appearing out of nowhere she held on tightly. I made the fight fair by taking a landing and meeting her face to face, the people moved out of the way. Surprisingly there was a lot of room even with the city still locked down. It could also be due to everyone being so afraid of me, but it favored the situation, nonetheless. Taking stance she drew her staff at me, rising it above and twirling it light began to burst from it. Placing the bottom of it under her armpit to hold it in place the front crescent moon was aimed at me. Circles of light hurled my way, this time there was no blocking them. My magic physically wouldn't, it was curious though, thinking of anything to help but, nothing. A minute later and my body was sinking into the ground. I looked below me, there were holes where my boots had already entered, and I was now reaching knee deep. There was also no pain from the light either, another thing that struck me as odd. If this isn't a physical attack or an energy one, it came to me, it was a distraction. She hit me with light to keep me focused away from the ground. Not bad while the gravity of my body was increased, and I continued to sink. As she harnesses the power of the moon, she can use the moons gravity to control the tides usually. Only, in this case, she's adding gravity to mine, or my body, which is causing me to sink into the ground. Throwing me off like this was smart on her part but I was ready to be on the offense. Stretching my left hand to the sky and using my right to cut across at my chest, dark objects began appearing. Falling all around her, they landed, long needle-like spikes stuck out. The ones that landed in her shocked her body making her lose focus. The circles were finished, and my body felt like it weighed eight-million tons. My feet and legs wouldn't even move they were so heavy beneath me, as I was stuck on trying to free myself, but she didn't let up. Aimed again, she then shot out blades of light, spinning towards me they sounded like scraping metal. Slicing at me felt like paper cuts mixed with extended cuts from a blade. As if this wasn't enough, Lunar Witch then launched a full-on assault with her staff. Ending the light blades and taking the air for a brief second, she put her might into landing the staff into my head.