Chapter 13

The six men of Deathmask’s unit separated and went into their own sectors to wreck havoc.

The boy had just entered his sector, while running as fast as he could when he heard a strange noise coming his way. The boy had hit a brick wall and fired upon it.

It did not break!

The boy used all sorts of explosives to destroy the wall.

There was not even a single scratch!

The noise coming from the direction that he had been coming from.

The boy spoke,”The noise is familiar, but I just can’t pin it down yet.”

The noise become louder and louder, until the source had came into view.

It was the biggest bulldozer that the lad had ever seen in his entire life. It was heavily armored on the front of the machine, along with the blood covered spikes that were paced on nearly all of the front of the machine.

The boy fired upon the machine to no such luck.

Next, he fired a laser bazooka at the bulldozer, which very little damage or no damage at all.

The boy thought, “Oh, Lord help me!”

A loudspeaker from the bulldozer boomed out,”Die, you Urano whore!”

The boy could not do anything but try to escape. But there was nowhere to go. The hallway was doorless and sealed off in all directions. If the spikes did not kill him then the sheer mass of the machine would do the job.

The bulldozer was almost upon the boy as he prepared for his incoming death.

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Back at the boy’s home, there was his parents, William and Susie were reading their well worn Bibles. They both felt a sense of dread over drift over them, like they had never felt before.

William spoke,”What could this feeling be? Let us pray, honey.”

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One hour transpired, and that feeling has still went away. It was stronger within their troubled spirits than when it had begun.

Susie yelled out,”Lord is our boy in trouble again?”

A vision overtook the couple and it showed the boy as they had last saw him trapped in a long stone tunnel with a large boulder racing his way!”

William scream out,”No Lord, please do not let it end this way! He is our only child!”

Susie was beyond words at this point.

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The boy was floating in an endless white void.

The lad spoke,”Am I dead?”

A voice spoke,”No, you are alive for now at least! But, you still in quite a pickle.”

The void was in zero gravity as the boy spun to find the source of the deep bass voice.

He was surprised by what he saw.

It was a large giant wearing a human skull as a helmet. He wearing battle worn leather pants, sleeveless vest and two bone covered boots. Spikes were on the shoulders, chest and knees of the dirty outfit. The uncovered arms was covered in innumerable scars and muscle striations. The monstrous giant was almost sixteen feet tall and over sixteen hundred pounds! This being made Joe look tiny by comparison.

The man spoke,”I do not mean to cause you to fear me by showing you my true appearance, because I can not reveal my alter ego at this time. I will help at this time if you choose to accept it. You can choose to see heaven if you wish, that is your choice to make.”

The boy spoke,”What are going to do with me?”

The giant spoke,”Let me show you something.”

A section of the void turned into a large checkered floor with a table with two masks upon it.

The boy raced over to the stretch of land and amazingly was under the control of gravity. The giant was standing on a solid ground as well.

The giant spoke,”These two masks represent my power, this was passed down among our race through out the eons.”

The boy spoke,”Our race? What do you mean by that?”

The giant spoke,”That is for another day, but look upon your choices. One mask is the conqueror mask, while the other is the Deathmask.”

The conqueror mask was a pure white mask with only two eye holes, while the Deathmask was

was silver colored and had the face of a human skeleton. At the corner of each side of it’s mouth was metal boar tusks.

The Deathmask was calling out to the boy in some weird sort of way.

The huge man spoke,”Try it on for size and see if it suits you!”

The Deathmask started to shake uncontrollably, as the boy tried to reach for the mask.

The mask lifted itself into the air and launched itself unto the boy’s face by it’s own volition.

The boy tried to rip the mask off but it would not come, no matter what he did to it.

The man laughed,”The Deathmask likes you! It has chosen you as it’s master.”

The boy yelled,”Get this blasted thing off of me!”

Unbeknownst to the boy, the man shook one of his index finger side to side.

“I am sorry that is impossible for me to do without killing you. Once the Deathmask or even the

conqueror mask has chosen it’s master they will not leave them, until they perish. I forced myself to become the two masks’ master. They fought me awfully hard but they soon relented to my power. The mask can decide to have more than one user at a time. The mask has given me in this waste of flesh all the power that it can give me, so it has moved on to you as it’s next master. It will give at first about twenty five times your normal power upwards to fifty at this time. Feel lucky that you will not die for at least a little bit longer!”

The giant laughed then turned into bones and disappeared.

The boy had no time to think about what happened to his mysterious savior.

The boy called out,”What is happening to me?”

A strange energy is covering the boy’s entire body. His normal six foot four two hundred and forty pound changed to that of a nine foot, six hundred pound warrior. His body armor and weapons left

his muscled flesh and in it’s place was a metallic ninja garb that had a red outer lining. Under the red facade was black metal mesh to go along with black shoes and gloves. The boy’s entire head was covered with a tight red hood and the silver faced Deathmask.

The boy tried to fight the power but it grew harder and harder

A voice spoke,”Why do you fight my power? I had been used by men who had killed to have my help in battle. Yet, you fight me off like a parasite. Us masks were made to battle our slave owners who ruled over us, like gods among men. My last master even broke my will to get me to obey him, but you are different somehow. Exactly how, I do not know, but that is for us to figure out together. Just accept my help for now and I will destroy what dangers are in your way!”

The boy yelled,”Hey, if you shut up, I let you help me!”

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He was back where he was, like he was never left.

The Ibor driver spoke,”What the...”

The boy looked around his torso for his weapons, but they were gone to who knows where.

He spoke,”I am supposed to fight barehanded?”

A voice spoke,”Your hands will be plenty.”

The boy raced towards the speeding bulldozer and waved his hands in front of it.

The bulldozer stopped then flew into several slices of metal and human remains.

The boy spoke,”What on earth did that?”

The mask spoke,”We are now Deathmask!”

The boy accepted the title and climbed over the destroyed bulldozer and continued to destroy the rest of the sector’s known machines.

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Kill Joy was doing well in his sector as well and he destroyed the teleporters after he caused the Ibor troops to be called away to random locations far away from him.

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Bob was sniping soldiers, like a hunter lunched over a bathtub filled with wingless ducks. As he was able he destroyed all marked machines. Soon enough, he cleared the area.

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Billy was going mach two, as he speed around in circles around the enemy troopers He welded

double Uzis, while he shot all that entered his way. He completed his mission

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Pete fought in the shadows, killing troopers one after another until the Ibor forces turned on themselves. The stealth assassin smiled with glee as he looked upon the confusion that he had created.

He did not forget to complete his mission, but he still took his time to play with his foes just as a cat played with a mouse.

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Big did not decided to not use his weapons, but decided to use his limbs as weapons. He punched and kicked his way to victory.

Now all of the sectors that Kill joy had selected had lost all one hundred teleporters. This was

out of over three thousand teleporters that existed under the Ibor city. The war would go on, but the unit’s effort would help slowdown the enemies’ movement at least a little bit.

The boy, rather yet Deathmask raced to Kill Joy’s sector, since he knew that he had to protect the only combat medic that he had. He would require his comrades’ services later on.

Deathmask and Kill Joy were in eye shot of each other. Immediately the medic fired upon his friend in his new found garb.

Deathmask yelled out,”Stop, it is me! I may look different but I went to the academy together.

Kill Joy did not respond as he fired upon his friend.

Deathmask dodged the bullets moving at mach two or faster.

The boy tackled his friend and pinned him down on his stomach, with one arm being stretched

tightly upward in the air.

Kill Joy spoke,”Let me go you miserable demon!”

Deathmask did not want to kill his friend so he held down upon him tightly.

Deathmask spoke,”Paging Doctor Kill Joy! Paging Doctor Kill Joy! Your next victim, er patient

is waiting!”

Kill Joy spoke,”I may have my name known to the enemy, but that still does not prove anything!”

You remember how good it felt for us, when the Smith brothers to get their comeuppance!”

Kill Joy spoke,”Hey, it is you!”

Deathmask spoke,”It is me, Joy! I had made a big change, and it is puzzling to me as mach as it is for you.”

Kill Joy spoke,”I believe you, just let me go now before you break my arm.”

Joy was grabbing his arm to see if it was broke. It was not broken, just a little sore.

Deathmask spoke, “I do not know my own strength, after my power boost. You would not

believe what I had been through.”

Joy spoke,”I can only imagine.”

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Deathmask explained to his friend what he had been through.

The big four was already on top of the duo.

Billy, Bob, and Pete was going to attack Deathmask.

Big shouted,”Stop it! He is not an enemy!”

The trio stopped cold in their tracks.

Big had some pull over the others in the big four due to him being stronger than of the group combined.

Deathmask spoke in a machine like version of his normal voice.

Pete walked over to Deathmask and sized him up.

The assassin spoke,”I am still taller than you.”

Billy spoke,”It is the young officer that was with the medic?”

Big spoke,”It is him, I feel the same energy that I felt from the boy in the past, just much stronger this time.”

Deathmask spoke,”We do not have time to get you all up to speed for now. Just take, Big and I at face value for right now.”

Big spoke,”So, what do we do now? Should we do what we just did again?”

Deathmask spoke,”You are right Big, but we are going to do it at much bigger scale.”

Pete spoke,”Then let the havoc begin!”

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The group of six destroyed the entire southern quadrant of all troopers and teleporters. It greatly

help the fellow Urano soldiers above ground.

The unit found the main power center for the southern sector and they were all ready to destroy it.

Deathmask and Big led the way, Billy and Pete took the middle, and Bob and Kill joy took the

rear. The place was covered in enemy troopers.

The boy was slicing foes into tiny parts using the edges of his legs and arms. Big was punching holes through his enemies. Billy was shooting troopers in the weak spots of their armor. Pete was snapping the necks of his opponents. Kill Joy and Bob was using high explosives to blow up the troopers into oblivion.

Big ripped apart the main generator with his bare hands while the others in the unit destroyed the rest of the control patterns. This caused the computer systems to freeze up above ground. The sector went into back up power mode. This help the Urano forces in forces to get an even further lead against the Ibor in the southern sector.

As they were exiting the destroyed power center, they were attacked by elite troopers.

Deathmask shouted,”Men, prepare for battle.”

The rest of the men let out a loud battle cry.

There was five elite troopers to go against the five main fighters of the ill made unit. Kill Joy kept out of the way and kept with Bob in a supportive role.

The two different forces split up into five one on one battles.

Deathmask took on the nearest elite trooper.

The boy and the elite trooper raced down a long hallway at mach two. The two faced each other,

raring to go at each end of the hallway.

Now they raced towards each other, while throwing all sorts of punches at each other.

Deathmask and the trooper could not land a blow on each.

Hundreds of blows were getting flung every second, still no one had managed to force a strike

upon their opponent.

The duo started to speed up to mach three and blows were getting closer and closer to their target.

The fighters speed up to mach four were starting to nick each other. There was no major damage yet.

The foes were starting to get a hang on each other’s movements.

The trooper punched at Deathmask, but the blow did not go as intended.

Deathmask countered his foe by catching him into an armbar.

The pain was unbearable as the trooper had his arm snapped clean in two. The trooper hit Deathmask in his side under his armpit.

The boy grimaced in pain, but it did not last long.

Deathmask forced his hand through the head of the trooper and ripped out his brain. The boy was amazed at his newfound proficiency.

Deathmask went on to find where the secondary generator was. The unit would do all it could

to help the battle up top.

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Big was battling the largest of the elite troopers.

Joe spoke,”Let us cut all the formalities and fight at full power from the beginning!”

The trooper spoke,”So be it!”

The two giants locked up their hands into a test of strength.

Neither warrior was getting a significant advantage over the other. The two were pushing each other back and forward. The brutes were creating huge grooves in the hard concrete floor.

Big performed a belly to belly suplex and threw the trooper literally into the concrete floor.

The trooper was up to his waist inside the concrete floor. It would not be easy for the trooper to

escape the snare that he was in.

The trooper somehow ripped himself out of the hard floor just with his upper body strength.

The two warriors started to brawl with hard punches at each other’s helmeted faces.

No punches were pulled as they laid into each other, yet neither warrior was falling down

under all the mighty pressure.

The trooper punched Big in the head, which stunned the former world champion a bit.

Big countered the trooper with a head butt that rocked the trooper to his very core.

Joe then performed a powerful lariat to the foe’s chin.

Big knocked the elite trooper’s head off his shoulders

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Pete was hiding from his opponent until it was the right time to strike, yet an elite trooper was looking for him just the same.

The trooper yelled,”Come out, come out, wherever you are!”

Pete had to dodge a speeding dagger that was flying towards his head. He did not frustrated because he would not strike until he was truly ready to do so.

The elite trooper started to throw daggers endlessly in all directions in the area that the two of them were in.

Pete were barely dodging by a hair’s breath, which angered the trooper. He landed on the shoulders of the elite trooper as he rotated his entire body around his neck in a complete circle.

Pete yelled,”Phantom Rose” as he snapped the neck of his opposition.

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Billy was racing around his trooper at mach five, while still being able to stop at a dime. The two speedsters were firing assault rifles from each hand.

Yet, they were moving so quick that they still couldn’t land a shot on each other.

Billy ran in a circle around the trooper, until the area was surrounded by tall tornado.

The elite trooper was inside the eye of the tornado to avoid receiving damage.

Billy had his foe where he wanted him and filled the trooper with holes from his assault rifles.

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Bob was the only beside Joy(who was just fulling his role as a combat medic) to not take out an elite trooper.

The one eyed sniper was in a shooting war with a slim sniper.

Bob thought,”I am about to burn up all of my rifles if I keep this up. My main rifle has only one more good shot before it blows up on me. I got to make it good or I am dead meat.”

Bob threw a grenade out in the middle of the floor, just to see what it might bring him.

Luckily, the trooper could be heard coughing from behind the smoke,

Bob shot dead center through the shroud of smoke, thus creating a further explosion, that created a massive smoke cloud.

Bob nervously checked the smoky area with a combat knife. His found his opponent to be in scattered shards of flesh and bones.

Bob spoke,”Good, he is mole food! I have got to find the back up generator, while my guns cool back down. I hope that I do not get any unwelcome company before then.”

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The six men searched the entire area several times over but they still could not find anything for all their effort.

The met back together in the center of the area to regroup.

Billy spoke,”Ether it is now here or it is extremely well hidden.”

Deathmask spoke,”That has to be what is going on with this blasted thing.”

Kill Joy spoke,”Those Ibors might be pulling power from the other three or more sectors for

now. I am not detecting any other power source in the sector. I do not know that any other secondary source of power in this sector will only last about one or two more days, counting what time has already transpired since we had started on our new found mission. At least, what my calculations had told me.”

Deathmask spoke,”Then we will have to destroy the other generators. But this time it will not

be as easy, since the enemy forces must know that something sinister is going down. We might have a slight lead but a cornered animal is at it’s most dangerous.”

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Back at William and Susie’s home, there was much fretting and worrying to be done.

Their son had not sent his monthly letter as they were used to.

Susie spoke,”The military blacks out most of his letters, now they take all of them away. It is not right, dad!”

William spoke,”Mom, we have to walk by faith and not by sight! You know that as well as I! He

is in God’s hands and we must trust in him that has given him to us in the first place. The boy has been given a task to do and he will come back to us once he has fulfilled His will.”

Susie spoke,”I know that the boy is trouble! I feel it within my very bones, since they ached everyday that he had been absent from our aging eyes. I know that the child loves his rastling and his fights, despite all the times we kept him from it. He was always rebellious when we tried to take it from him. But, he is still the little boy that I cared for and dotted upon.”

William broke out into laughter.

Susie spoke,”Dad, do not poke fun at my despair.”

William’s smile was erased from across his wrinkling face.

The preacher spoke,”I am just remembering the time where he tore down the old homestead down to the dirt in a mere twelve hours. I had never seen such a thing before or since.”

Susie laughed,”We never took his rastling away again after that. As long as everything else was inline, we let him be.”

William spoke with tender eyes,”I know that the Urano-Ibor war is reaching it’s most destructive period. I just hope that he is not among the combatants.”

Susie spoke,”What is the government thinking to drafting twelve years from across the land? What good will it be to send kids to die in foreign lands that they have no business being in the first place?”

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Back at the secret military base where Deathmask and so many others were trained at.

Hagotti was in his office standing with his back to his desk and Hemotto seating in one of the chairs at the front of the desk.

Hagotti spoke while still facing against the wall,”Have you ever thought of what made someone great above all others?”

Hemotto frowned as if he was bothered by a rambling lunatic.

“I had never thought of such things.”

Hagotti spoke while standing in the same position,”You were born into wealth and power, since you were a greenhorn. Yet, I was born among the poorest of the poorest and I am at the same rank as you, despite we both have the same rank.”

Hemotto spoke,”Are becoming sentimental after waxing poetic?”

Hagotti broke out into laughter.

“I have not lost my edge, instead I just have learned to find those that are great before they even know it themselves. I can’t explain how I know that but I just feel it. I know the desire to be the best even after all these years. I want to become greater, despite being a five star general in the army, navy and the air force. I am going to become five star general in both the marines and the coast guards as

well. That desire is something that you had never had and never will.”

Hemotto let out a huff and stormed out of the room.

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Deathmask and his motley crew were racing towards the eastern side of the Ibor city’s deep underground complex. They were trying to destroy all possible power sources and teleporters, so that they can keep the allied forces upside from having to face anymore reinforcements. They had destroyed one quarter of the city’s underground machinery.

Ibor Guards were waiting for the heroes with a blockade of riot shields at least one hundred warriors deep.

Mr Big led the way and ran over the enemy soldiers, like a semi truck running over a patch of watermelons. The rest of the group killed the remaining foes that managed to survive Big’s killing spree.

All that remained of the Ibor warriors was corpses and broken shards of metal.

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The group had fought their way to one of the sector’s generators, but they had many heavy armored warriors waiting for them.

This surprised no one in the group.

Tanks appeared before the group.

Deathmask shouted,”Be careful, this tanks are no joke.”

The big four silently accepted the warning.

Mr Big spoke,”I can handle one of the tanks myself, so you all can team up among yourselves.”

Deathmask spoke,”The cannon has a delay between blasts and it is weak against attacks. I can probably take on one myself as well. Bob and Joy keep behind us since you two are not good at close range combat.”

Deathmask raced towards one of the tanks while dodging assault fire from the tank, until the tank was ready to fire.

He sliced the cannon in half mid blast, causing the tank to blow up into a ball of broken metal and burnt flesh.

Deathmask yelled out,”These suckers are easy as pie once you figure out how to destroy them!”

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Big fearlessly raced towards a nearby tank, while getting hit by assault fire.

The blasts can do little against the mighty giant as he neared the tank. He reached the tank and grabbed the tank by it’s long cannon.

He supplex the tank over his head, like it was a toy.

The tank was upside down, while preparing to fire it’s cannon at him.

Big bends the long cannon towards the body of the tank, like a clown bends a balloon into animal.

The tank blew itself up, as Big laughed with glee.

Big spoke,”And he is still undefeated!”

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Pete was in sight of a tank when it fired upon him, as he twisted his body out of the assault blasts.

The cannon fires and hits Pete square on!

The smokes clears and only a crater in the ground was left.

Inside the tank, the Ibor soldiers were laughing glee over killing Pete.

One of the soldiers speaks,”We got that lanky punk good! There is nothing left but a hole in the ground!”

A voice speaks,”What are you guys laughing about? That guy is one crafty booger!”

The tank crew all look for the origin of the voice.

It was Pete in the center of the tank safe and sound.

The assassin’s thin knife slits all the warriors neck in a furry of attacks.

Pete started to fool with the tank controls and soon figures them out.

He blew up neighboring tanks after another with excitement of a kid on Christmas morning.

Only two more tanks remained to be destroyed.

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Billy was running towards a tank and starts to race in a circle around the tank.

The tank was trying to spin the top of the cannon in attempt to aim at it’s target.

The tank crew could not even get close to getting a good hit at Billy.

The speedster ran so fast that he created a tornado that lifted the tank up into the air. He threw mines up into the tornado and attached itself to the tank’s underbelly.

Billy shouted,”Burn, baby, burn!”

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Bob was safely behind a chest high wall, as he sees the last tank coming towards him and Kill Joy.

The sharpshooter fired a sniper blast into the cannon barrel, thus blowing up the tank.

All of the tanks, except for the one that Pete was using, was destroyed.

Deathmask yelled,”Follow Pete’s lead and kill all of the leftovers!”

It was a massacre, just pure and simple.

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Next, came a group of mechs that dwarfed big by a few feet. The heavy machinery was humanoid in shape and weighed well over a ton a piece.

One of the mechs fired a large missile at Pete’s tank, while the assassin jumped out of the top of

the tank faster than he had ever moved before.

Pete ran over to his comrades like a four legged animal in a hurry.

“I can’t believe that they killed her, she was so cool!”

Big spoke,”Enough with the dramatics, we have work to do!”

Pete dusted himself off and he was ready to battle some more.

Bob fired at one of the mechs but it still kept coming their way.

The sniper spoke,”Cover me, while I search for some heavier fire power. It should not take me too long.”

Deathmask spoke,”Everybody fight as you see fit, but do not forget about our rear. We must protect them as good as we can!”

The boy and Mr. Big rushed towards the mechs.

Deathmask hit one of the mechs with his fists but it was for naught. His fist was screaming out with pain.

He thought,”That bloody hurts! These suckers are made of much tougher materials than the tanks were made of.”

He used his hand slices to cut the mech.

But it did not work!

The boy spoke,”Lord, I have no weapons! What so I need to do?”

A voice says,”Use your speed!”

Deathmask sped up to mach four and his body heated up due to his increased speed.

He sliced the mech into pieces, revealing the sliced remains of an Ibor soldiers.

Deathmask yelled out,”The mechs are weak to heat from high speed.”

Four more mechs encircled the boy.

He sliced the mechs, like a hot knife through butter.

Five mechs were battling Big and they were punching him on all sides. Mechs were too close to each other to fire projectiles.

Big couldn’t dodge all the blows, so he did not bother to even try. Joe was fast for his size, but he was not a speedster, like Deathmask or Billy was, so he decided to stick with what he was good at. He started to swing wildly in all directions as he possibly could. The former world champion was known for his toughness and sheer power. You could not go blow for blow with Joe, if you wanted to live very long.

Big punched a huge hole clean through one of the mechs, killing the pilot inside the machine instantly.

The remaining mechs fired at Big with much desperation.

Big was covered in a mighty explosion and smoke.

The smoke clears and Big was gone.

One of the mechs looks up and sees the mighty Big up in the air with limbs spread out in four different directions.

Big lands on top of all four mechs knocking them down to the ground.

Joe grabs one of the mechs and snaps it cleanly in two.

One of the remaining mechs fires a laser, but Big used the torso of broken mech as a shield. The mech was destroyed by the blast.

The three remaining mech paused when they were understood that there had been friendly fire among themselves.

Big decided to prey upon their hesitation. He hit the three mechs squarely in the chests.

The three pilots were killed instantly.

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Pete created an optical illusion that caused the four mechs to fire upon each other. Each of the

four mechs thought that they were firing upon Pete.

All four mechs were destroyed by friendly fire.

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Billy had heard Deathmask’s advice and sped up to mach five. He fired at the mechs and filled them holes, like an Uzi shooting up a tin can.

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Kill Joy shouted,”I hoped that you are ready because we got company!”

Bob had his back to the action, while being behind a chest high wall.

He turned around to face the action as he pulled out a two large bazookas and fired upon the two mechs.

The mechs were destroyed by Bob’s attacks.

Bob reverted back to his original position and puts up one of his chubby thumbs up in victory.

Kill Joy could not help but laugh.

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The group raced towards the location of the nearby power generator by using the GPS in kill joy power suit.

The unit found another set of elite troopers guarding the power generator. There was ten troopers ready to battle them. It would be two on one this time.

Big went to fought the two biggest of the elite troopers. These two troopers each had a laser bazooka in each arm, preparing to fire upon the giant. The former champ was not frightened in the least.

The elite troopers fired upon Big but he jumped up into the air.

He flew down at the duo and performed a double flying lariat on them.

The two troopers were knocked down to the ground hard as Joe lands on the ground with a thud.

Big grabbed one of the troopers and placed him upon his comrade. He squeezed the two together and lifted them up into the air.

He leaped up into the air and did a double piledriver!

Both of the troopers were smashed into the concrete ground. The two troopers were killed instantly.

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Deathmask was fighting two elite troopers, like the one he fought before, just a little bit tougher this time.

The boy was racing with the two troopers, while going up to mach four.

The warrior could not get a clean hit on the duo, but the troopers were starting to get grazing hits on him.

The strikes were more insulting to Deathmask than they were painful.

Deathmask could move at mach one, while in his power suit. The deathmask allowed him to move at mach four or faster.

The boy sped up to mach five and sliced them to little pieces with his kicks.

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Pete was hiding from his foe as he usually did, until he was prepared to attack.

The elite troopers were firing upon everything in the area in the attempt to destroy Pete.

What the enemy troopers did not know that Pete was hiding at their very feet. He was hiding inside their shadows.

Pete stood behind one the troopers and grabbed him by the neck. He snapped the trooper’s neck, which caused the trooper to pull the trigger on his rifle.

The dying trooper killed his own comrade, while dying himself.

Eight of the ten troopers had been killed and only two troopers remained.

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Bob was running like a wild man, trying to lure the troopers away from Kill Joy.

The sniper was leaving behind small cloaked land mines behind him as he poorly ran for safety.

Before the troopers could land a shot on ether Bob or Kill Joy, they was blown up into an explosion of broken body parts and metal shards.

Bob and Kill Joy both smiled at the newfound victory.

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The six men ran up to the power generator and it’s controls that was at the end of the enormous hallway.

Deathmask spoke,”Men, you know what to do!”

The unit started to wreck the sector’s generator, as a tornado had hit it.

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The unit destroyed all the teleporters that were in the sector. The unit was starting to slow down, so they started to rest for about one hour in shifts. Then the group ate some of their rations, which was terrible to taste, but tasted good this day. It was a nice pick me up for the unit and they continued on with their mission.

Only the northern and western sectors remained untouched by the unit. Deathmask and the others decided to head north so they had to do the least backtracking.

Deathmask’s unit was traveling towards the northern sector as they could safely. The group was in long narrow, when they see a large metal bulldozer. The hallway closes behind the heroes and the bulldozer speeds towards the group.

Joe stands in front of the group with his arms blocking the way.

“This one is mine!”

The rest of the men gestured their hands at the machine in agreement to Big’s request.

Mr. Big waited until the bulldozer was almost on top of him.

The others were starting to get a little worried about Joe’s inaction.

Finally, Big punches the bulldozer cleanly, which shatters the machine into rumble.

The others gasped out in surprise over the massive power of Joe.

The bulldozer driver was sitting on the ground with the controls still in his hands. The driver pissed his pants, when he looks up at Joe. The Ibor soldier pulls out a hand gun at Joe.

Big only laughs.

The man sees the rest of the unit standing behind Joe.

The driver puts the gun to his head and blows his own brains out.

The unit runs past the fallen driver and continue on their mission.

#

The unit destroyed all the northern sector’s teleporters. Then they heading to were the generator was supposed to be at.

They entered the large room when large mounted floor guns fire upon the unit.

The six men scattered like cockroaches to avoid the heavy gunfire.

Bob destroyed one of the guns with a powerful rifle blast.

Pete used one of his tricks to confuse the gunner with an illusion. This caused the gunner to destroyed his nearby comrades.

Big ripped a metal pillar out of the nearby wall and throws it at the nearest gunner.

The giant destroys the gunner one after another.

Billy and Deathmask raced towards the remaining gunners and killed the warriors controlling the guns.

The group marches forward when the ceiling opens.

Spinning flying disks had appeared out of the ceiling and come racing towards the heroes.

Bob gets cut on his back by one of the flying disks and fell to the ground with a thud.

Joy races to the sniper and shoots the disk out of the air. Joy then puts the arm of Bob over his shoulder and runs like hell.

Pete was cut by two disks on his already scarred back. He was clearly hurt by the disks, but he knew that he defend himself.

The assassin pulled out a hand gun and fired upon the two disks, as they were flying towards him.

He was successful in destroying his mechanical attackers.

Big jumped in front of twenty disks as the machines pierce his back. He smashes his back unto

the ground, thus destroying the spinning disks.

Deathmask was destroying the few remaining disks from hitting his comrades more than they already was.

One of the spinning disks entered the officer's blind spot to the side of him and flies down on his left trap muscle.

The disk cuts down through Deathmask's collarbone.

The boy screams out in horror.

Deathmask punches through one of the blades and grabs the remains of the disk.

He yanks it out of his flesh as a mist of blood sprays up into the air.

Deathmask punched the center of the disk into little bits.

Billy was racing away from some of the disks when the ceiling opens up and a laser fires upon the floor near Billy.

The speedster did not see the hole in the ground while destroying some of the disks.

Billy trips into upon his stomach and lands into the giant hole.

A disk cuts his exposed back cleanly.

Billy flipped unto his back and then back to his feet.

He fired dead center at the disks, destroying it instantly.

The unit finished the rest of the machines, but the unit was heavily damaged.

Kill Joy lead the way to an abandoned supply closet.

The combat medic had his work cut for him, since Big and Deathmask refused to be treated until the others had been treated.

Pete, Bob, and Billy had no complaints to being treated first.

Deathmask was treated next and then finally Big.

The men lucked out with the fact that were in a food supply area with a small kitchen.

Big volunteered to cook his infamous suicide chili.

The group was too hungry to question the name of the food, as they all eat the bowls clean.

Big laughed as the rest of the men are crying, spitting, and pouring out snot into a nearby trashcan.

Joe ate out of the remains of the huge pot, like it was nothing to him.

#

The men rest for over a day in shifts.

Deathmask woke up in a huff as he started to pace with his left arm still in a sling.

Kill Joy walked over to the shirtless normal form.

The medic spoke,”What are you doing? You are going to open up your wounds, if you keep it up. You got to calm down.”

Deathmask looked at his friend with a crazy look in his eyes.

The warrior spoke,”We got to return to combat before...”

Joy spoke,”We are equal rank, but are in different fields of authority. In combat you are charge, but when it comes to medical issues I am in charge. You are not fit for combat and you know it as well

as I.”

Deathmask smiled and returned back to where he was resting.

Big set up on his butt and spoke,”While we are resting, you want to hear how I knew who Deathmask was, even while transformed?”

All eyes were now upon Mr Big, eagerly awaiting for the answer.

Joe spoke,”You all know that I am famous or rather yet, infamous in wrestling and mma. I did come out of the ghettos, such as some you have as well. My origin story was for real and not a gimmick in anyway.”

“The man who trained me to greatest champion in the Urano ghettos was a man, known only as

Coach J. He could had been a billionaire several times over by his fighting knowledge, yet money or fame meant nothing to him. He never was seen to train any other person openly as he did with me. He made my jaw drop one day, due to what he revealed to me in secret.”

Deathmask spoke,”What did he tell you that day?”

Big breaks out into laughter.

Billy asked,”What was so surprising that you are laughing about it.”

Joe spoke,”He told me that he was an alien from another planet.”

Pete spoke,”Are you jiving me?”

Big spoke,”When have you know me to tell tales? You know that better than anybody here.”

Pete accepted the answer with a wicked grin.

#

There so much silence over the last few minutes that you could heard a pin drop to the floor.

Joe spoke,”It is breathtaking isn’t it?”

The rest of the unit did nothing but eagerly awaited the man’s next words.

Big continued,”I did not know what to believe at first. So, I asked my Grandma to come with

me for one of my shows. It took me a while to get her to come, since she could not bear to see me fight.

While I was four years old, I killed my parents’ killers with my bare hands. It scared her something fierce. As champion, I had my own dressing room, but I rarely used it. I wanted to dress with the other athletes, to show the others that I was one of the boys, just as they were. I had grandma with me that day, we sat alone in my dressing room. She had a lot of discernment when it came to dealing with people. I had to know to deal with Coach J and boy did she tell me the answer.”

Pete spoke,”What on Rindat happened?”

Big spoke,”She fainted as soon as she laid eyes upon him! If I had not been there, Grandma would have fallen into the floor. It took me a long to get her to respond to anything for over one hour.

Once I got her to speak she started to sweat like a street walker in church. She asked me to why a monster had entered the room. She saw the old coach not as a man, but as a hideous monster. It took me forever to get her to calm down after her fright. That day I knew that Master J was for real.”

“Later that week, I asked Coach J, to why he had trained me. He said that he did it all that he could help the future of his race. He also told that I was of his race as well.”

The whole group was in disbelief of what they were being told.

Big continued,”Coach J said that they are three main types based on their fighting types. The first type was the huge brawler type, such as myself. This type was said to be the most common. The second type was less common than the first type and it is a smaller technician based fighter. The rarest type was the third type that the combination of the first two types. This type was the best of both worlds and he called it the emperor class. Coach J said that there has been only two emperors in the last two thousand years.”

Coach J said that he had an emperor candidate that he had found on his home world. But most importantly he said that was a four type that was emerging that could fix the weakness that his race was

supposed to have. I once asked him to show me his true power and I was helpless before him!”

The rest of the men’s eyes about jump out of their heads. Big was a monster among men, yet he could not defeat this old coach.

Deathmask asked,”Where do I fit in all of this?”

Joe spoke,”I was getting there my skull faced friend. Coach J said that the first person in the race to be of the fourth type would be a man wearing a silver faced mask and red ninja garb.”

All eyes were upon Deathmask as if he had a turd hanging out of his mouth.

Deathmask spoke,”So, you are saying that I am a rare space alien?”

Joe speaks,”Once you transformed, did you feel stronger faster, stronger, and tougher?”

Deathmask spoke,”All that you said has come true, but what does it mean?”

Joe spoke,”That much, I don’t know my comrade, but I know that we got to survive this war. I don’t agree with this war, but we have no choice but to fight in it nonetheless.”

Deathmask did not know what to think, but he felt that Joe had been honest with him. It was a lot to take in all at once, yet he had always felt that he was like other people in his life. He could never

pin it down before this day. He never guess that he would be told that he was alien prototype. It did not help that everybody but Big was looking at him, like he was an animal in the front window of the pet store.

#

It had been a couple days, since Deathmask’s unit had last seen combat and Kill Joy had just finished given the five men a medical check.

The medic spoke,”Against my better judgment you are all ready to go. I am amazed at Big’s and

especially yours, Deathmask. I used nanotech on you all, yet you had healed extremely quickly.”

The whole group shouted with glee.

Mr Big spoke,”Our race has ungodly healing ability which I know to be true. Some gangbangers shot holes through me, until I was road kill. Yet, here I stand before you all. I assume that

Deathmask would have a similar ability to do so.”

Before they could respond, a loud siren went off.

The unit rushed out of the supply room, as lasers came out of the ceiling.

The beams carved the floor, like a turkey being cut with a curving knife.

Bob shot all the laser cannons off the ceiling.

Deathmask shouted,”We will not taken so easily this time!”

Spinning blades come out of the floor and come rushing towards the duo.

The unit shoots at the blades one after another, unit they are all destroyed.

#

The men ran towards the generator room and start to bang on the machines when Deathmask screamed,”It is a bomb!”

The panel on the generator had a timer and it was counting down!

The whole room exploded, shaking the city above ground.

What has happen to the heroes? Are they dead?