Fusion

19. Another Fight to Remember

Nitro pulls out his staff and charges electricity through it as the others circle us like sharks. Warp and Oblivion, who were previously down for the count, are now back into the fight. Javelin twists a spear in her hand and readies it for the kill. Oblivion charges his hands. Warp twirls her batons, and Titan hovers there, above the ground, waiting for a fight.

Suddenly, Collision drops from the air and lands in front of us, clearly unconscious. A second later Elemental drops out the sky at supersonic speed and upon impact with the ground the earth cracks beneath him. He stands up and looks at Titan.

"What are we waiting for?" Elemental says in an eager tone as he brushes some dust off his shirt.

Oblivion jumps in the air with her spear in hand and lands on top of Elemental. She then plunges the spear into his gut and he yells before throwing her into the wall. He blasts a ray of white energy at her and I speed over to Titan.

"Hello, Jack." He says in his usual dark tone. He raises a hand and blasts red lasers at me. I teleport behind him and grab him by the neck. I hold on tight, but he struggles relentlessly. His body then reshapes itself, as if he were made of many nanobots instead of shaped metal.

"I added a few upgrades." He slides out of my grip by reshaping his arms and then forms a large blade with one of them.

"Great. Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse." I reply as he repeatedly slashes the long blade back and forth at me as if he's an enraged madman. It grazes my chest twice and slashes through my shirt, stinging like heck.

I grab his arm and twist it to the left before punching Titan's chest with all my might. It creates a dent in his armor, but he immediately reshapes it. He looks at where the dent was and then back at me and smiles in disappointment.

"Oh, come on." He then blasts me point blank with concussive energy and I am thrown into the air and through one of the prison's outer walls. The concrete crumbles as I bust through it and fall to the ground outside, into the war zone.

Grunts are being thrown around and bashed like rag dolls, heroes are growing weak, and all-out warfare rages on. I stand up and dash over to Javelin in the blink of an eye.
She ignites a light spear in her hand and faster than the speed of sound I snatch it from her hands. I smack her across the face with it and punch her into the prison wall. A white flare of energy bursts from my hand. I then blast a wave of gravity at her and she is thrown into the wall again. Warp teleports behind me and swings her batons but Nitro runs by with his staff and swings it at her stomach. The voltage electrocutes her before I freeze her solid in a block of ice.

"Gimme some, Rookie." Nitro grins and holds his fist out at me while leaning forward. I bump his fist with my own and light my hands on fire afterwards. Oblivion rolls by and then stands up and blasts lasers at us, gunslinger style, shooting them from his fingers.

"Hey, Boombox!" I shout at Oblivion as I jump out of the way of his blasts. "Try this on for size!" I charge a spear of light in my hand and throw it full force at him. He blasts it and it explodes, then I fire one of his own rays at him and it explodes when it hits him.

"Never miss," Nitro says, and chuckles. Then Titan flies by and tackles Nitro to the ground. I dash into Titan and toss him off of Nitro.

"Titan, I've got a science question!" I heat up my hands as hot as I possibly can, it hurts, but I manage. "You're made of metal, I'd bet. And metals melt, right?" He flies towards me and I release a large blast of fire at him. I burn it as hot as I can and hold it there. He slowly walks towards me, his body slowly melting and becoming misshapen.

"Nanobots won't work if they're melded together." I blast him even harder before he turns into a distorted version of what used to be him. I quit shooting inferno from my palms and walk over to him. He is kneeling on his knees, one of his arms completely melted off his body and the other crisp and broken, his head is tilted to the side in a fixed position. The spot that is his "mouth" glows red as he speaks. Oh, gee, glad that part still works.

He speaks eerily. "I'll be back. You can never truly kill me. I will always rebuild myself, my consciousness traveling through the databases of the internet. But tell me Jack, how many times can you die?" My face turns grim at this. He begins to laugh hysterically, but I quickly grab his head and crush it with my hands. He stops talking and I can tell he's already gone.

Rush runs over and smiles as he looks at Titan's mangled body. He whistles and then talks. "You really taught Titan a lesson this time. It looks like he spent a couple hours inside a volcano. Nice job." He runs his hand through his white hair and then speeds around, gathering all the bad guys and stacking them in a pile. "You guys want me to take these guys back to the prison at HQ?"

"Yeah," Nitro replies, then Elemental flies over and lands softly on the ground. Rush speeds off, carrying two people at a time and comes back every few seconds.

"What now?" I say, startled at our win.

"We confront Purge." Elemental crosses his arms. "And we take him down. For good. Even if we have to kill the guy."

"I hate to say it, but I agree. This guy is insane and can't be imprisoned. There's no other way to end it." Nitro shrinks his staff and puts it in its holster on his belt.

"We don't even know where Purge is though," I respond, grimly, still rattled by what Titan said earlier.

"Actually, we do." Nitro smiles and looks at me. "He actually set up camp back in New York City. He took the Empire State Building as his base of operations. Not before supping it up with defenses, guards, and alarms, that is."

"Well, let's go," I reply. "I'm ready to bring Purge to justice."

"As am I," Elemental says. "Let's finish this fight and devise a plan to draw Purge out the tower." He begins to run off into the fight. Nitro and I follow as well.

It is pretty much over. There are barely any grunts left, delivering the last stand, and the heroes are tired but winning. After fifteen minutes of fighting the battle is over with and we all gather in a circle. Arc, Quiver, Elemental, Nitro, and I gather at the center and talk to the rest of the people. Arc uses his glove to fire a thin laser at the grass to draw a diagram of the plan.

"Okay so after that we're going to-" I interrupt them, abruptly.

"Look, I don't think we need to do any of that," I say to Arc. He looks at me confused, his helmet off, and stands up, a little irritated.

"You have a better plan?" He gives me a serious look.

"I'm going to go in there and fight Purge, by myself. I'll take care of him." I reply sternly.

"You're going to what? You think you can reason with him?" He steps closer to me and his tone raises. "I think you forget that you were in his little lab for six months. You have no idea what this man is capable of. I watched him as he absorbed the power of a nuclear bomb above New York. I was there, trying to stop him, when he obliterated half of England a few weeks ago, by himself, when they tried to stop him. After that, he took over a few countries and stopped for a couple days. Then the last of the U.S. military tried to send in fighter jets to possibly kill the man. He destroyed every last one of them. He's so powerful almost every leader of every country is cowering in fear inside their own personal bunker while they try and battle him with sticks and stones. I've seen it all, Jack. So don't try and tell me you're going to reason with him."

"Listen, Arc. I'll do it with or without you. Where do you think Purge got his powers from? I can take him and at the loss of fewer lives." I stare at Arc with serious eyes.

"If anything. And I mean anything, goes south...we'll be right behind you. I swear." He puts his helmet on and his suit lights up with blue energy. "You're a brave kid, Jack. Know that."

With those last words, we begin to travel back to NYC to confront Purge once and for all.