Enter The Ninjaverse

CHAPTER 26

"You won't get away from me!" Skylar shouted, raising her palm. Violent crackles of electricity shot from her hand, lighting the area blue as they soared straight into the bikes of one of the Raiders. The bike violently sparked and burst, sending its pilot into the sky. When the Raider landed, it immediately scrambled to start running away.

"Oh no you don't!" Skylar went to race after him, but the sound of more Raiders rushing at her stayed her pursuit. She let out a 'tssk' and then leapt backwards through the air. When she landed, she thrust both of her hands forwards and then pulled them back, causing the earth underneath them to jerk upwards and toss two Raiders towards her. They both met her fists to their faces, crumpling them to the ground.

The errant driver quickly rushed towards another bike that had been abandoned in the battle. Skylar's patrol had intercepted them in the middle of a raid on a small outpost in the middle of Wind Tribe territory. Of the fifty or so Raiders in the initial group, all but ten of them were downed. The pilot, seeing that this was going to meet the fate of the other groups, rapidly moved to the bike to retreat.

"You're finished!" Alacr shouted, closing his eyes and bending forward into a running stance, "Speed of Steel...!"

Alacr activated his speed elemental power, causing his body to go soaring straight towards through the air. When he reached the fleeing driver, he drew his blade. The next time that anyone could see him, he had his blade fully drawn and out behind him. He stood up, reaching to slide the sword back down into its holster. When he finished, the Raider burst apart at the middle, causing half chopped up snakes to go flying.

"...Flash." Alacr finished.

"You can't just do that, Alacr!" Ray shouted, "Charged Sword, Skyward Strike!"

Ray was standing nearly ten feet away. He raised his sword up to the sky, the jagged length sparkling with electricity that caused the blade's steel to look almost like it was made of crystal. He shouted and thrust the sword towards the ground. From the sky above the fallen snakes, lightning shot straight down to cut into the ground, shocking the remaining snakes. Those that weren't killed immediately on impact rapidly retreated, too broken to fight back.

"Haaaauuhhh!" Nubit, her arms made of metal, launched forward and grabbed the helmet and shoulder of one of the raiders. The snakes inside attempted to hold themselves together, but Nubit forced her arms apart by sheer strength. The helmet ripped in half, and the few snakes inside began to bundle up and launch towards Nubit's face.

"Slow!" A woman, dressed in glistening pauldrons over black leather armor with a blue mark on the back of her hand, thrust said hand forward. The snakes inside the armor were caught in the slowed time field. The woman thrust her long locks of blue hair backwards, letting out a grunt as she looked to Nubit. Nubit, understanding quickly, brought her hands forward and rapidly smashed the snakes in the air with metal fists.

As the snakes fell, there was a moment of silence. Skylar, standing over her two defeated Raiders, looked across the battlefield. The bikes were either empty or broken; it seemed lightning had a way of making them not want to go anymore. There were no more Raiders standing, and those on the ground were beaten so badly it would be impossible for them to do anything more to them. She let out a long huff and looked across to the field.

"Is that all of them?" Alacr asked, turning about while his white, knightly robes flared out behind him.

"Heh... if there are, I vote we let Ray deal with them," Nubit panted, removing the metal from her body and tightening her cloth straps around her chest.

"Hey!" Ray protested, "I did just as much as you did, Nubit!"

"You sure?" Nubit blinked, "I'm pretty sure that Dorian did even more work than you did."