"Why are you always popping up?!" I shot a beam at her and she bursted into a small fireworks show. My beam kept on going.
"You know you missed me." She put her hand against my back and blasted me foward.
My back surged with a burning pain as she laughed. Dust recovered and slung his fist into her face. With a loud "BOOM!" Tangerine flew sideways into the air, flipping like a ragdoll.
Flor swung her arm down on Dust but missed as he dodged it and jumped away. She retracted her arm and shot out flower petals. They sliced past him and he yelled in pain. Sky redirected them away with a blast of air, then encased his hand in ice claws to pary Sting's energy blades. The shreds of Dust's shirt that were left on him fluttered away as he ran towards Flor. She whipped him away with her thorned arm. He recovered, standing, with deep gashes in his light brown skin. As he stood, dirt quickly ran up his leg and across his wounds and as fast as they past the wounds were gone.
Tangerine jumped up from the floor with powered fists, her face covered in blood, which began to spark and wither away.
I struggled to stand back up. She ran at me and I dodged her orange strike. my back burned and I tried to ignore the pain. She swiped at my feet with her leg and I jumped over it. I swung my leg, mid-air, at her face but that was a big mistake. She drove her powered fist into my leg and I soared away, landing on my neck. the pain in them throbbed. She walked towards me and shot out small orange bullets. Just then Decibal jumped in front of their path and raised his palm against them, the air blurred infront of him, buzzing and rippling as the bullets disintegrated on collision.
Sting's blades fused together to make a longer, wider one. She swung it weightlessly at Sky. He intercepted it with his claws which harshly shattered away. She recovered and swung it again. It sent Sky backwards into the building, a deep gash in his side. He quickly stood back up and his flesh regenerated. The girl's green sword shifted into a little dagger which she duplicated in the other hand. A new sight, Sky twirled his hands and grabbed two ice blades from the air. Random debris on the floor whipped wildly around him and as Sting lashed at him she was attacked by them, forcing her back.
Pink and Dust double teamed Flor. Dust's body grew rock spikes on his back, elbows, and arms, sharp and deadly. Flor did almost the same, growing thorns all over her body and was quickly complimented by a long, thick, lavender, tentacle-like vines that sprouted from her back which were covered with thorns too. Then a long thicker one grew from her posterior, like a tail, no, it was a tail and it looked like it must have weighed a few tons. Pink quickly covered her in swarms of red locusts. She roared as they attacked her.
"Thanks, Decibel." I said and he winked at me.
The air infront of him cleared and he blasted a whole orchestra into her. She was ripped from the floor and thrown into the building, flying between Sky and Sting. Decibel helped me up.
"Are you ok?" He asked examining my injuries. "You should have a self healing power, all of us do." With all of the sound around us he was in perfect health.
"Yeah, I noticed." I replied thinking back on everything I've seen thinking of when I felt better, almost invincible. Then I realized! All the smashing and crashing I've endured with little notice was mostly done in the light. I looked towards the light pole that flickered next to the building. I stood in the dim region of the parking lot, the light pole my new target.
"I've got to get to that light pole, Decibel." I said as I started limping towards it. He put my arm around his shoulder and helped me to get to the pole.
Sting's daggers blended into a pistol that she held up to Sky. The debris around him zoomed faster, but left him safeless as it shifted away from him and engulfed her with an attack of it. She was pounded rapidly as her pale skin cracked, revealing glowing green energy behind it. She jumped around trying to get away from it but it followed her and pounded harder. She took a quick aim at Sky and shot a green bullet into his shoulder which quickly healed but he cried out in pain. the debris storm around Sting stopped and everything fell to the floor.
Dust had recently grew claws and now looked like a real "Dirt Devil." He tackled Flor to the floor and held her down, the red locusts flying away. As he held her down she began to sink into the floor until only her head was showing. She didn't stay burried for long as she bursted from the ground leaving an open crater in its place. she wrapped Dust in her vines and squeezed hard on him. His rock armor quaked under the pressure but stayed intacked. Pink willed the locusts to attack again but she shot out her petals and turned them into smoke. Then she slammed Dust into the ground which just made him stronger. He broke through the vines and slashed Flor in the face. She screamed in agony, her vines flailing around violently. Blood oozed from her wound. She looked around and pulled up a whole plant by its roots. She squeezed it and her face healed but the plant quickly withered.
I got under the light and I started to feel better, but something inside me seemed hungry for power. I pulled the energy from the light and in seconds I was back to health.
Tangerine pulled herself outside. Her body sparking in multiple places. I readied myself as she made her way towards me. I looked up to the light and wondered. I raised my hand up to it and just as I hoped the light lit up bright and spread farther across the parking lot. She tossed an orange orb and I dodged it. It exploded soomewhere behind me. Our eyes locked and she knew what I was thinking. Her fists were surrounded by an orange energy. Mine glowed in delineation, an outline. Decibel buzzed with excitement.
"Two against one," she said. "how fun!" She sprinted at us.
I jumped away and countered with a kick to her shoulder. She just wiped away the pain and tried another punch. This time Decibel countered with a sound wave. She slid back. we paused to catch our breath. then we dove back in fighting. I sunk my fist into her back across the parking lot with a punch.
Flor threw the plant away and lashed at Pink and Dust with her dangerous tail. She slammed it into their chests, ripping through Pink's shirt, and sending them over Sky and Sting. She grabbed Sky in her vines and threw him with Pink and Dust. Decibel and I helped them to their feet, their cuts quickly but slowly fading.
"There's no way to win, everyone is just healing." Sky said.
The three girls regrouped, panting.
"Well then we need to go." Decibel said and with that he blasted the girls down. With a strum of a guitar, a puff of smoke, a blast of Dust, a gust of cold air, and a blinding light we crammed into Decibel's car and soon we were on the road. The Darkness followed as we shot through towns and in a matter of minutes we were in San Diego, our final destination.
