The Sparrow

Chapter Seven

The Proton Vault
Layla Lancaster

"Well this is just bad, this is just really bad. Max is going to lock me out of his Netflix account if we don't stop Blackheart" Cyblow mumbled.

"Seriously, that's what your worried about?" I asked glancing over to Cyblow who was pacing back and fourth.

"It's not just Netflix Layla he has it all! Sports, Disney Plus, Amazon all the good stuff!"

"Dawn? did you get anything out of the records yet?" Ex asked.

"Yeah Ex, reading them now, it appears that yeah, Blackheart moved something that would be about the size of this Super Cannon off world earlier today. Aboard his own personal ship the Kraken."

"Fuck" Ex mumbled.

"Do we still get paid if the Comet Force become ash? Because, I mean odds here are kinda shit" Locke spoke.

"hess fur ka" Magnum shrugged.

"Thank you Magnum" Locke spoke to his friend.

"Everyone just calm down, mission hasn't changed only the stakes have. We still need to prevent Blackheart from using his Cannon, we'll just have to locate Blackheart and his ship. If they left earlier today then there is a chance that they haven't gone far" Ex explained.

"What you think Blackheart and his crew stopped at the drive thru before going to kill billions or something?" Cyblow asked sarcastically.

Ex shrugged.

"Guys, getting a spike in heat signatures in there. You may have company" Dawn spoke.

"Alright, pack up guys let's get out of here" Ex ordered.

I turned back to the way we came into the facility to see two dozen guards all armed to the teeth pointing blasters at us, standing in front of them was Darwin Blackheart.

"Little late for that Exy boy" Cyblow mumbled loading his gun.

"Ex Talon. You and your team are finished with being a thorn in my side." Blackheart spoke firmly.

"We aren't giving you the crystal Blackheart" Ex spoke stepping in front of the rest of us.

"I wasn't asking" Blackheart spoke charging right at Ex, his two wrist blades extending as Ex pulled his duel sided knives from his back.

Cyblow fired a explosive round that blasted half of the guards behind Blackheart to ash as they rest took cover and continued to rain fire down on us. Cyblow grabbed me and pushed me behind cover. Locke, Zade and Magnum with me, all four of us shooting the guards, keeping there fire away from Ex.

"I can't hit Blackheart!" Locke shouted over the blaster fire.

Cyblow wasn't in cover, he jumped around and ducked the constant blaster fire, trying to get a good shot on Blackheart. Blackheart and Ex were in the middle of the battlefield in the Cannon bay. They were flipping over each other, parrying and dodging. Equally matched and neither of them able to actually get a cut on the other. Cyblow was also shooting at Blackheart, but Blackheart, while fighting Ex was still able to dodge Cyblow's attacks or deflect it off of his wrist blade.

Cyblow fired a shot right at Blackheart's chest, but Blackheart deflected it right at Ex, who then deflected it back at Blackheart, Blackheart turned to the left, the blaster shot flying right back behind him and hitting one of his own men in the skull.

"Your done Talon! Your weak! Your old and Your slow!" Blackheart shouted attacking faster and faster on Ex, Ex was no longer playing offensive, he was just barely holding back Blackheart's powerful strikes. Cyblow was still unloading onto Blackheart, but he was just to damn fast.