Guardian Alliance Book #1

57. The Crafty Race

"Sigma can I push the button?!" Swift

"Not yet." Sigma

Sigma forces Baroque back but Baroque keeps to his feet.

"Dam! I need to get the proper hang of this power! That's the only reason why you can push me back!!" Baroque

"Rah rah rah excuses here excuses there. Did you come here to complain? Or did you come here to fight?" Sigma

"Grrrrr! Damned human... Don't get so arrogant!" Baroque

Baroque would then stick out his hands to have his arms out at a horizontal at his side. A single blade begins to grow out of each palm, once the handle of each blade shows he would clench his hand, wield his blades and immediately rushes after Sigma. Once he got close enough to Sigma Baroque continuously swings his blades in a mad frenzy and at a high speed. Sigma keeps his calm composure and with some fancy footwork he avoids each strike.

"Hold still!" Baroque

"Yeah right." Sigma says then sheathes both of his blades.

"How about now?!" Swift

"Hold that thought." Sigma

Sigma quickly leaps backwards enough out of Baroque's onslaught, lands on his feet and places each hand on the handle of both of his swords.

"Demonic Gate: X...." Sigma says as he crouches forward.

Baroque gets with in striking distance, as the first swing comes close for Sigma Baroque blinks and finds that Sigma has vanished from his sight.

"Huh?" Baroque

"Factor." Sigma

Baroque hears Sigma's voice behind of him and also feels a sudden rush of pain in the form of an x across his body witch causes him to stop his assault. Baroque looks down to his body to see that what he feels is exactly spot on. 2 large gaps in the form of an x along his body are clearly shown. Baroque's body reacts a moment later by quickly repairing the damage done to him.

"Impressive healing factor you have there." Sigma

Baroque turns his head to see Sigma with his back turned to him.

"Why you....!!" Baroque would say then instantly feel the same pain from Sigma's last attack.

"Looks like you haven't fully healed yet... Maybe your healing isn't as it's cracked up to be?" Sigma

Baroque doesn't respond right away rather he begins to think to himself.

"No way! My body heals completely no matter how serious the injury.... So why do I still feel the effects of that attack?! It doesn't make any sense!!" Baroque says through his thoughts.

Over to where Swift and the other Baroque are, their fight turned into a game of cat and mouse. Swift performs a continuation of flips avoiding Baroque's morphed metal claw hand assault.

"Hold still!" Baroque

"Pff! Yeah right!" Swift says then leaps back to create some distance.

Baroque morphs his lower half into liquid metal and quickly propels himself up after Swift.

"Now?!" Swift

Sigma looks over at Swift and notices that her situation is getting dire.

"Go for it!" Sigma

"Yaaay!" Swift yells as she lifts her left arm and presses a button on her wrist watch.

"Perimeter security online. Warning. Unknown meta life forms detected. Taking defensive measures." An automated voice would say from Swift's wrist watch.