Escalate

Soldiers

A fifteen year old was shoved to the ground as he hit his head against the cold tile floor as purple eyes turned bright red in rage looking at the security behind him.

"RAH!" He went to attack them but a steel wall was shut on it and reflected his glowing red fist and he flew to the floor with a slide.

"Let me out!" He screamed as he had a metal cuff around his bare ankle as he wore with the boxy feeling pants that ended below his knees and a tee shirt.

"Trial 734AX: begin" a voice over the speakers said and Akira looked over his shoulder seeing another meta human shoved into the trial room.

A pair of bright blue eyes full of determination stared back into his indigo ones.

"What the hell are you then?" Akira snarled at the boy before him as the tan boy stood into a fighting stance.

"Find out hot stuff," the boy smirked noticing the heated red fists Akira had and his irises faded into red.

Begin

A gust of air hit Akira as he suddenly saw the meta human gone and cried out when a bare foot hit his head and was knocked down.

"What? Didn't see that coming?" The teenager chuckled jogging behind him. He let out a scream ducking a fist full of fire.

"What? Didn't mean to fire you up," the teen smirked and was suddenly gone again but Akira grunted feeling his body lifted and slammed against the wall.

"do you always compensate something with jokes?" Akira snarled grabbing the teens shirt as it started to burn until it hit skin and the younger teen gasped letting go for Akira to dropped to his feet and swiped under him for the blue eyes meta human to fall on his back.

The blue eye teen rolled back before Akira could hit him with a fist full of fire but grunted when his foot kicked him in the chest for the other teen to be pinned to the ground with wide eyes when Akira was on him.

To the death. It was always battles to the death. This was it for the blue eyed boy. He stared up at the fire elemented indigo boy with wide eyes but looked at him a moment longer.

"Fuck..." he whispered as his heart stopped. He thought it was because of fear striking him.

Akira had his fist raised to succeed the trial but in the moment of hesitation the teen under him grabbed his shirt and slammed his forehead into him and kicked Akira off as he sped away.

"Shit," Akira held his mouth that now had a busted lip. The teen panted glaring darkly at the fellow meta human.

"I'm not going down without a fight," he spat and Akira stood straight and cracked his neck.

"I always like a challenge, got a name? I like to remember worthy opponents," Akira spat blood at the ground.

"The names Leandro, but you won't remember that when your dead," Leo snarled. Akira charged at him with a roar as Leo sped at him and flipped over the shorter boy and kicked his back.

Akira gasped awake as he grabbed someone's wrist and pulled his glowing red fist with bright red eyes as he was ready to attack.

"Take it easy kiddo," shiro smirked at him. Akira blinked seeing his brother like figure with his friends behind him, Allura, hunk and pidge.

"Y-you're all here," Akira sat ip as he was barely phased by the alcohol but Artemis was passed out snoring on the other side of the couch.

"Who's the drunk girl on your couch?" Pidge looked at Artemis confused as Akira stood up.

"Artemis, met her when I was in league of shadows," Akira stretched. "Can't handle the sake, good part of meta humans, alcohol gives me a buzz,"

"So Where was lance captured?" Allura brought up a hologram of the city on her phone like device sitting next to passed out Artemis and set the phone on the table.

"Across from the hotel the little league is staying at, this building, it's up for rent but is basically abandoned," Akira tapped the building and zoomed in.

"What if it's not abandoned," hunk piped up raising his hand.

"Wally and Artemis checked the whole building, there was no one," Akira crossed his arms.

"No not like that, I mean..." hunk trailed off bringing the building closer to look inside.

"What if it's owned by the organization, how is a single building abandoned in the city of Tokyo, it's unlikely," hunk double tapped on it and it brought up hidden tunnels under the building as the city expanded on the hologram map, the tunnels scattered around the city of Tokyo.

"They've been ready this whole time," shiro pursed his lips with a soft sigh.

"Do you think they've been onto us the whole time?" Allura asked softly pulling her knees to her chest. Akira put his hand on her shoulder with a gentle squeeze.

"We can't think about that, we need to get lance back," Akira nodded and she smiled softly holding his hand.

"We'll find Lotor too," he smiled gently at her.

Allura blushed lightly looking away with a gentle smile.

"So what does the justice league have to say?" Pidge asked shutting down the device and handed it back to Allura.

"They believe us for now, but lance and I agreed to go on trial for our crimes if.." Akira sighed trailing off.

"Your agreed to go on trial!?" Pidge practically screamed.

"Your a fucking moron," she scoffed.

"Keith you know you two won't get out like ever," hunk blinked surprised.

"They also agreed for us to have a fresh start, no crimes, we could use our real names again instead of nicknames and shit, I could be keith again all the time instead of fucking Akira, and I think we have a real chance," he inhaled deeply sitting on the coffee table as his friends looked at him wide eyes.

"Like you and Adam do," Akira looked at shiro calmly.

"Adam may know but we don't have it easy, we still travel, we have to separate, Akira it's a to good to be true deal," shiro tried to explain.

"Well the deal doesn't mean shit if lance is dead!" Akira snapped.

"Enough!" Allura stood quickly as her hands sparked pink as the table levitated for a moment with Akira on it but it fell back to the floor as he grunted at the slight impact.

"Enough of the fighting with each other when we should be out there fighting for our people! Lance is gone and we are wasting time! So enough bitching and get your heads out of your bloody asses!" She snarled at them all with disappointment in her sky blue eyes.

"This is where we need to be the monstrous soldiers those bloody scientists made us to be and to come after them like karma," Allura said sternly glaring at them all.

"So are we done?" She huffed putting her hands on her hips quirking a brow at the team.

"There's our princess," pidge smirked a little.

"Alluras right, we have a mission," shiro nodded as they all agreed.

"Hey... ow... what's going on?" Artemis sat ip confused as she blinked seeing the other meta humans.

"Oh, Artemis, this is the others, guys, this is Artemis," Akira rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly as Artemis was beyond confused now.

"When did they get here?!"