Rewriting Seven Years

12. Funeral

Zip dodged the attack, he was sly and fast. Makurow had never fought against Zip so everything was new about that fight. Zip slid around Makurow, reaching for a welding helmet by a workbench. He placed it over his head.

"Game on!" Zip yelled.

Makurow swung his sword wildly, trying to hit the fly in the room. Zip was untouchable, after each swing he retaliated and bashed Makurow with his hammer. Makurow became irritated. His swings became more inaccurate. Zip continued bashing Makurow freely. The sound of dense metal chimed against solid titanium. Makurow was skinned in the legs and arms. Zip and Nexus had chipped away his soft outer layer and left him with skinny bones. It became harder for Makurow to hold his sword and the gun strapped to his wrist loosened.

Makurow fired at Zip. Zip once again dodged each attack. A burning rage built up in Makurow. Electricity flowed rapidly through his bones. His bare bones shun brighter than they ever were. Makurow let out a war cry. His body created an electric nova all around him. Lightning bolts chained to electronics and metal scattered around. An electric bolt chained to Zip's helmet, passing through the vertical holes, burning Zip's face. He grabbed his face in pain and stumbled to the console. He looked lost.

Makurow swung at blind Zip, Soldier stepped to help, blocking the sword. Nexus and Sergeant jumped in and escorted Zip out of the building through the broken glass. They came out of nowhere.

"So this is why you call them heroes?" Makurow asked Zip.

"Goodbye Maker." Zip pressed a button on the console. A bunker opened up in the background. A contraption bigger than the base arose from the ground below them.

"What is that?"

"Were taking to the sky with Hero Base Beta." Zip said as Nexus and Sergeant escorted him out.

"Makurow," Soldier spoke out, "try to stop us now—you can't fly."

Makurow angrily tried to pass Soldier, but he pushed him back with his shield. Zip entered into the Hero Base Beta. It had three compartments, the main compartment in the middle, with all the engines inside and the command centre at the top, five stories high. The left compartment was the same size as the middle, but had one less level and was adjacent to it, making a 'L' shape, it also had an open space like a runway on top. The right compartment was a tall thin cylindrical building, going higher than the middle compartment and carried a bigger engine under it.

Zip managed to reach the top quickly with Nexus and Sergeant.

"How did you make that so quickly?" Makurow asked Soldier angrily.

"We had an extra core that happened to be as smart as a supercomputer," Soldier explained, keeping his distance. "So we hooked him up to an extra computer and he invented a safer more efficient Hero Base." Makurow became angrier as Soldier spoke.

"I will take you down no matter where you stand." Makurow threw his sword, from his chest, at Soldier.

Soldier moved fast, pressing his shield against the flying knife. Makurow charged at Soldier as he was distracted keeping his arms low. He let electric tendrils flow from his fingertips, engulfing Soldier in power voltage. Soldier's body crumpled to the floor.

"Nothing will stand in my way," Makurow spoke down to Soldier defeated.

Makurow picked up his sword and leaped through the window. The sky station prepared to take off, the engines started up and fire burned below. Lava surrounded both Hero Bases. Heat caused sweat to glisten off Makurow regenerating skin. His skin was nearly fully revived. Zip sent Sergeant down to slow Makurow. There was no way Makurow could stop them when they were so close to escaping. Sergeant jumped off sixty-six feet in the air. He pressed his heels into the ground letting his gravitational boots suppress the landing force.