Nuvia: I'll admit, this was a little more of a handful than I expected.
Raine: ...Yeah, true.
Nuvia: What's wrong?
Alma: (It's gotten quiet. I hope they're alright.)
Raine: Let's just...go back to report that Tremaine Black is...dead. And that we got a bonus body on top of that.
Alma: (No! That can't be!) You couldn't have killed them!
Nuvia: I can hear that girl again.
Raine: Nevermind her. She's in that dome. Since she cannot interfere, we can let her go.
Nuvia: No, she's seen too much.
Raine: We are not to kill humans!
Nuvia: You were first to claim that you would kill her! So don't give me that! Besides...aren't we humans too!? So what difference will it make if I end her now!?
Raine: Brago...you will NOT touch her!
Nuvia: Why even defend her!? Why defend humans at all!? They're the reason we are doing this! She's one of them, so who cares if you share blood!
Raine: Her and I do share blood...but you and I chose the path we are currently on, for our own reasons.
Nuvia: Well I don't care about your reasons. I'm going to crush her. No witnesses.
(Nuvia raises her hand toward the dome, but before she could do anything, flames rush out and consume an area of 500 ft.)
Nuvia: What the- argh!
(Both Raine and Nuvia's legs become covered in burns, even though Raine tried to compensate with her water, but it evaporated almost too quickly, leaving moderate damage.)
Micheal: Oh yea, come back time!
(The cart he is under begins to dissolve. As it dissolves, it converges into Micheal's hand which he reveals to be holding a wrench. He then augments the wrench with the metal from the cart and makes it 6 ft in length, 6 in. in width.)
Micheal: Something I failed to tell you, with a lack of trying, is that I have complete dominance over metal. It cannot affect me in any way. And being able to break it down to molecular levels allows me to mix metals together in ways a simple human cannot and produce newer, stronger metal alloys. For example, this wrench.
(The edges of the wrench sharpened.)
Micheal: *Grinning* I didn't just make it bigger and sharper. It's a composite of steel and titanium. So all the flexibility and sturdiness of both.
Nuvia: I liked you better when I thought you were dead. Your face annoys me.
(The fire finally halts and the ground is completely scorched.)
Trey: Totally forgot that Micheal's here too. I hope he's ok from the flames. I tried to control the temp to not have...friendly fire. But I guess in that sense, it is friendly fire?
Raine: *Aggressively* Enough. How are you still alive?
Trey: Does it matter? Or did you miss me? You are pretty cute. I wouldn't mind-.
Raine: *Blushing incredibly hard* I said enough! This is serious!
Trey: I evaporated most of the water you so forcibly placed in me. The concussive force of your hits still knocked me out though. Buuuut, I was able to take and pass a test. So, *twirling fingers* optimism, optimism.
Raine: Passed a test for what?
Trey: It's not the ability I wanted, but it's useful. Blew my mind because...I thought I learned all my darkness abilities.
(Trey suddenly vanishes in a puff of black smoke.)
Raine: (Where?)
(Trey drops down behind her from above. He surrounds his fist in flames and uppercuts her lower back, lifting her up into the air.)
Raine: Argh! How did you-!?
Trey: Void step. It's like my flash flare, but for night purposes. You see, What you didn't know is that my fire and darkness mirror each other. A move I can do with fire will have a dark counterpart and vice versa. I've never shared that with anyone before today. And no one's ever really seen me use darkness either. Also...
(Trey disappears leaving two rapid sonic booms.)
Raine: (Mach 2?? When could he have learned that!?)
Trey: I love showing the fruits of my rigorous training! Lotus fist!
(Trey spins rapidly while his fists are ablaze. He then slams them into Raine. She hits the ground covered in first degree burns.)
Raine: (He keeps burning me. Even if it's just first degree, he shouldn't be able to burn me at all. I have a high moisture content as well as the water I collect from outside my body. Yet, he keeps extinguishing my water faster than I can extinguish his flames. But...I feel...happy. Is it because he's still alive?) Even so, I won't lose to you!
Nuvia: Raine! I'll back you up!
Micheal: Excuse me? And how exactly do you plan to do that, when little ol' me is right here?
Nuvia: Screw you buddy.
Micheal: Now, now.
(Micheal vanishes at mach 2 and immediately grabs her face. In that instant, what look like tiny specs start to gather from the ground to her head, and a thin film of metal forms over her.)
Micheal: Metal is my domain, and metal is everywhere whether it be large or small deposits, or even greatly scattered. That makes any battlefield my domain.
(Her body by the end of his sentence is covered in metal. He shoves her back and claps his hands together.)
Micheal: It was fun teasing you, letting you believe you had a chance in the first place. But if all you're going to do with your power is move objects by changing their gravity, you'll never move forward.
Nuvia: I said screw-!!
Micheal: Iron maiden.
(Specs rise from the ground and meld together to form two spiked, concave walls on both sides of her that then slam together, shattering the metal she was covered in and causes a large amount of concussive force and thoroughly knocks her unconscious.)
Trey: Let's combine these flames in my right hand with the darkness that clouds my left.
(He clasps the two closed hands together and the elements resonate. He places his hands over his mouth.)
Trey: Black flame hellion!
(Dozens of black fireballs launch towards Raine.)
Raine: Not this time!
(She surrounds her hands and feet in water and streams of water flow around her. In a flash, she uses palm strikes and kicks to deflect each fireball. One fireball is deflected into the dome Alma was in and melts the top. Each fireball that is deflected left minor burns and causes Raine to replace any water lost after each hit.)
Alma: I'm free! *Gasp*
Raine: No matter what, fire should never overcome water!
(She rushes Trey and is able to deliver a series of palm strikes all over Trey's body and causes heavy physical damage. Unable to react, Trey suffers from his ribs cracking, spine flexing and strikes to the soft areas that harbor vital organs. Raine's assault ends with her stopping in front of him. She places her hand over his face.)
Raine: Let me see you resist this! Suffer 200 lbs of water pressure! Aqua artillery!
(Heavy water bursts forth consuming his head and shoulders with high pressure water.)
Alma: Stop it Raine!
(Alma starts to run forward. Raine looks over at her and sees Alma abruptly halt in her tracks. She then notices the water beginning to boil.)
Raine: Why is the water turning hot??
(Trey starts fighting the water pressure by spewing hot flames at an incredible pace.)
Raine: I-impossible!!
Trey: Dragon fire!!!
(The flames quickly evaporate and beat out the water then scorch Raine's left arm. She falls to her knees, holding her arm and writhing in pain. Trey pulls out his knife and augments it.)
Alma: Wait! Wait!
Trey: Alma...leave.
Alma: No, she's-!
Trey: Right now, Alma!!
Alma: She's my sister!!
Trey: Your-?
(Water then erupts like a geyser from under Trey and Micheal. As they dodge, Raine takes Nuvia and escapes. Micheal and Alma walk over to Trey.)
Trey: That...was your sister? (She...was pretty cute...and strong. And more importantly, I almost killed her in front of Alma. This just became too complicated.)
Alma: It was...but I didn't...I didn't expect that this would be what she's been doing...(Why Raine? Was this really what you decided to do when you left??)
To Be Continued…
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Collaborator Arc 1: Fade To Begin
Fantasy10% of Earth's population are infected with mysterious parasites that grant them power. In a dream like state, they manifest as mythical creatures of old. Join Tremaine and his friends as they go through their journey as one of the 10% and deal with...
