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Chapter 13

I smashed my foot into the ground to create a dust cloud then shot forward towards the flying suit. When I reached them I was swatted to the side. There was so much strength in that hit that I could feel it even through the suit. I was able to land on my feet a few meters away.

*Shit! I have to take at least one of them out!*

The dust cloud cleared when I was hit so we were visible to all. The picture of shadow had popped up online so some of the students recognized me. Sadly it was mostly the bandana guys and they looked relieved.

Bandana Guy:"Hey! Shadows here to help!"

I shot that guy with my stun gun.

Cyrus:"Like hell I'm here to help you guys!"

The flying suit zoomed towards me. I knew that grounding it was the first priority so I dashed towards it. I used a baseball slid to get under it and grabbed it by the ankles.

Heat Wave Activated

The metal around my grip started melting so I squeezed as hard as I could then slammed it into the ground. Before it could react I stomped on the thrusters I could see then placed both of my hands on it's head.

Heat Wave Activated

The mask barely started melting when my wrists were gripped and torn off it's face. I was then kicked into the air which caused me to shut my eyes. When I opened them a fire ball was headed towards me.

Scale Mode Activated

I took the fire ball, but no damage. I crashed into the seats in the arena and destroyed quite a few. For a second I was a little dizzy, but I recovered fast. I stood up and looked over to the flying suit. Wires had extended out of it's hands and attached to the destroyed thrusters. It was repairing itself. My suit obviously repaired a lot faster so I felt a little more confident.

*If the other three are like this one than I might be able to win.*

I leapt towards it while firing a few stun shots which didn't seem to do anything then rammed both of my feet into it's chest. I quickly put some distance between us and checked to see what damage I did. The wires had been smashed, but new ones appeared as it tried to stand up.

Invisibility Mode Activated

I was invisible, but since I didn't know what the suit could do I still kept my distance and tried to circle around behind it. It didn't seem to know where I was so I prepared for another attack. Just as I was about to lung forward something slammed into my back sending me flying. I smashed into a wall and was stuck in it.

Cyrus:"Fuck that hurt!"

The walls were made very sturdy so being driven into one meant there was a lot of force behind that hit. I couldn't move since my body and suit needed a few seconds to repair the massive damage. When that flying one turned me into a pile of mush my skin and bones were the only thing that needed fixing, but the suit takes a few for seconds. My mouth was overflowing with blood and all I could taste was a combination of iron from my blood and the dust that came off the wall. I strained my eyes that were covered in the blood flowing out of my head and tried to see what hit me. It was the big dark blue suit.

(In case you forgot what this suit looks like.)

Spoiler :

The third suit was still helping Alex fight the supreme, but it didn't look like they need each others help. The supreme was being pushed back easily and it looked like Alex was just playing with him.

Alex:"You're gonna die old man!"

Supreme:"What is that suit!?"

Alex:"The people who invented it never had a chance to name it, but simply put it's an anti-omega suit. These were made so that alphas could fight on even ground against an omega, but it looks like things aren't so even!"

Alex made two cuts across the supremes chest that sprayed out blood. The supreme had a healing power, but since Alex could cancel it he wasn't able to fix his injuries. He fell to his knees for a moment before jumping back up to continue the fight, but Alex already had his blades on the supremes throat. Neither of them moved.

Alex:"I want you to look into my eyes while I kill you."

Alex's helmet dematerialized and a crazed smile was shown.

Alex:"Goodbye!!"

Alex suddenly tensed up then fell to his knees unconscious.

A few seconds ago.....

I ripped my right hand out from the wall and pointed my finger at Alex who just placed his blades against the supremes throat.

Cyrus:"I'm gonna need your help supreme."

I fired a stun shot that hit Alex at the top of his spinal cord where it connected to the brainstem. I hoped this would kill him, but if it didn't I doubt he'll be up anytime soon. Even if he's healed it won't wake him up. He had fallen to the ground and wasn't moving. The supreme had jumped back, but still got a slight cut across his throat. It wasn't very deep so he was fine.

The three suits noticed this and all ran towards Alex. The supreme dashed away and grabbed Mia who had just been watching the entire time I was fighting. She hadn't tried to get up. The supreme was running for the exit with Mia in his arms and was met with very little resistance since most of the students were already dead and the suits were checking on Alex.

*Come on! I just saved you so you could help me with this fight not run away!*

I pulled the rest of my body out of the wall and stood there looking at the other suits. The flying one was still damaged, but able to fly again. The big one picked up Alex and they all three looked in the direction of the fleeing supreme who was now almost out the door then over to me. I waved then pointed my stun gun finger at them. Even if I shot it they wouldn't feel it with the suits on, but I wanted them to know I was still ready for a fight.

Flying suit:"Honestly I'm surprised you helped them SHADOW! You picked the wrong side!"

The voice was quite feminine and sounded kind of cute. In a mocking tone I replied.

Cyrus:"That's just adorable! Is the little girl trying to sound threatening!"

Flying suit:"Next time I'll personally rip your head off!"

Wires came out of the flying suit and attached to the other two then it shot up into the air while dragging them along. It flew away at an incredible speed. I let out a big sigh.

Cyrus:"Now what should I do?"

*I revealed that I was shadow so I'll probably be hunted down and I still haven't found any information on the lab attack from seven years ago. *

Thinking about the lab reminded me of the email I found last night that talked about something happening today. If that was connected to this attack than maybe Alex has some information.

I decided on my next target and since he was currently unconscious I thought now would be a good time to go after him. My suit wirelessly connected to the power grid. I couldn't do anything except monitor it which was all I needed. If they deactivate their suits in the city to hide somewhere then the pulse it emits will be picked up as a disturbance. I leapt up through the hole in the arena and landed in the roof. I saw which direction they went so I ran that way too.

I connected to radio waves so I could listen for any reports about them. The suit would sort through all the information so I added monitoring the texts sent between phones by hacking all phone towers. I was jumping from building to building and quite a few people noticed me. The suit was flooded with messages it collected, but all of them seemed to be about me. I kept running hoping to catch up. The power grid finally picked up a disturbance that was a short distance away from my current location.

I took a look at the address and started in that direction. It turned out to be one of the safe houses created by the supreme.

Cyrus:"I guess they think the supreme wouldn't look for them here."

It was a simple house with one floor. I already knew that it had extra space underground that was reinforced to keep people out, but that wouldn't matter since I had all the security codes. I stayed invisible and entered through the front door. No one was there to greet me so I assumed they had already gone to a lower level. I quickly found the door to the basement and opened it then descended into the darkness which wasn't very dark thanks to the suits night vision. After a while of searching I finally found the hidden door.

I needed more than just security codes to get in, but having them made things a lot easier. Wires extended out from my suit and touched the door. There was a small light and a piece slid up revealing a screen. The wires touched the screen and it came on. I wasn't sure exactly what the suit was doing, but I did see a lot of windows open up on the screen.

The suit has a small amount of intelligence and I can understand what it's thinking most of the time, but I always leave stuff like this to my suit without trying to understand what it's doing. Since the suit uses my brain as it's storage device all it's coding and stored knowledge is actually somewhere in my mind. When it needs information I can actually feel it pulling that information out of my brain which gives me a slight itch on my scalp. I could feel it pulling the codes stored in my memory to help hack in.

After a while the wires retracted and I knew it had finished hacking. On the screen I could see all the cameras located inside this safe houses lower floors. There was a camera on me, but it wasn't hard to swap out the footage. Luckily no one inside was in the monitor room so I was able to change it before being noticed.

They were all inside. Alex was the only one still wearing his suit since it wasn't deactivated before he fell unconscious. He was lying on a bed alone in a small room. I saw two males and one female who were discussing something. Sadly I didn't have audio so I had no idea what they were talking about. Something about them seemed a little familiar to me then I noticed it. The girl had orange hair, one of the guys had green hair and the last one had blonde hair.

Cyrus:"Wait! Is that.."

Before I could finish my sentence a voice came from behind me which caused me to spin around.

Vincent:"What are you doing here?"

Vincent was standing alone. I still had my suit on and I wasn't sure if he knew I was Cyrus yet. Since he and his sister are SSS they weren't required to be at the arena with the rest of the students. The two of them had to wait until it was the stronger students turn to fight.

Vincent:"The supreme told me who you are under that mask. I thought we were going to be friends Cyrus."

Cyrus:"Guess that's not going to happen. Where's your sister?"

Vincent:"There was an attack by the rebels on the other side of town so we split up. I saw you leaving the arena first so I got to be the one to confront you."

Cyrus:"Listen we really shouldn't fight here."

Vincent seemed to ignore me.

Vincent:"I didn't want to violate a friends privacy so I never used my ability, but I guess it's a good thing I already collected your DNA or else I wouldn't be able to use it."

His face started to melt along with the rest of his skin. I could see something under his skin and when it was finally visible I sighed and said sarcastically to myself.

*This is going to be........interesting.*

I saw my own face. He had completely changed into me.

Vincent:"Hmmmm. Interesting memories."

Cyrus:"You stole my memories and my face?"

Vincent:"I am everything that makes you who you are. Activate."

A suit that looked exactly like mine materialized around Vincent.

Cyrus:"Shit. I didn't expect that."Back to Main Page