Both Astra and Rhoda have reached an incredible speed of rotation, with a loud metallic clashing sound. Their HELL-blades hit each other and, just as Astra has suspected all along, the blades didn’t release an explosion of energy. When they finally stopped spinning, she realised something. The blades are pulsating with energy. The one in her hand begins to vibrate and as the alien spiders get closer and closer to them, she noticed the blades glowing brighter and brighter. “I understand what is going on, I think. Whoever made these must have made them with the ability to store the energy generated when they clash. I can feel this one is full of massive energy.” Astra remarked and started inspecting the buttons on the handle of the blade. “I have always wondered what these other buttons do, it is time I test them out, so step back into the base!” She shouted at Rhoda. She pointed the blade at the group of crawlers and pressed the second button located on her index finger. Immediatel
Astra and Rhoda headed straight to the training room in the military unit together with Carter. They met the rest of the alpha team members at the entrance, waiting for them. They went straight in. the training equipment of the room had been removed and replaced with target practice dolls kept at different pars of the room. The two HELL-blades have been kept on a table by the right corner of the room, which has an anti blast shield in front of it. Carter walked to the table and sat behind the blast shield. “Come and pick your blades.” He said. Astra walked to the table and reached for her hands to pick the single blade. She stopped halfway and turned around to look at Carter. “I would like to go back to using the twin blades. I think they may be more efficient for me.” She said. In response, Carter’s face brightened up with a smile that tells Astra he has already figured what she is trying to do. She reached out and picked the blades, strapping the battery pod on her back and turn
Carter approached her one step at a time, walking over pieces of equipment that the massive energy wave has scattered around the floor. He collected the two blades from her hands and examine them carefully. “I don’t understand what is going on here. If the battery pod is no longer connected to the blade, how is it possible that they are still active and, even better, glowing white?” Asked Carter with clear confusion on his face. Astra smiled and picked up a little piece of the green crystal bits on the floor in front of them. She approached him and brought the crystal close to the surface of her blade. He quickly withdraws back and shouted, “Are you out of your goddamn mind? That would create another explosion.” “I can now see the reason why you couldn’t figure how the blades are still powered despite the battery pod being removed. The energy source that we need to power it is right in front of your eyes, but you are too afraid of it to harness it.” Said Astra. As if possessed by
“So you are saying we each get our own super weapons?” Asked Kate. “Yes, but only if you consent to partake in the dangerous missions that he will be tasking us with. Humanity is on the brink of literal extinction. Everything is on the line.” Astra answered. A few minutes later, a group of six soldiers walked into the training room and stood by the large patch of the letter ‘X’ that has been welded into the walls of the room. They turned around and saw Astra standing, with the two Japanese Katana swords on her back. They approached her and stood. Jamie suddenly stood at attention, raised his right hand and saluted them. “private Jamie, Sir, it is an honor to be in your company.” He said, and they started laughing at him. “It is okay private, Carter said that we will be working together from now on. We will be in your care.” A woman with a crew cut hair style said. She turned around where the rest of the five soldiers who came with her and stand behind her said. “Is that the girl
As soon as they flew through the door, they were confronted by man and women looking weak and starving. Some of them were wearing dirty military uniforms and some weren’t, but all of them held guns and were pointing them at Astra and her colleagues. “Drop your guns and get down from the flying board or we will not show any mercy to you useless pirates!” one of the men barely shouted at them. “Do we have to kill those too because I will if they have done anything to Eric?” she said, pulling out her gun. “Wait, I think he just called us pirates. There may be a misunderstanding here.” Rhoda said. Astra lowered her flying blade so that she could see eye to eye with the man in the middle of the crowd talking. The rest of the people were covering him so that he wouldn’t stand out, but Astra noticed a few more things. She turned off her hover blade and put back her gun into the gun holder on her waist. “These people are soldiers.” She turned back and said to her team, then turned back to
Elena and the rest of the emerald ghosts pulled out their weapons as well. Rhoda pulled her HELL-whip out, she activated it and it instantly started glowing green. “What the hell are these? Ehemmm. I mean, what on earth are these weapons, Ma’am?” Marcia asked. Astra laughed at the man, who was obviously confused and said. “These are humanity’s chance of taking back our home from these mindless monsters, the only weapons that can kill the aliens.” “We need to get moving out right now. The more time we waste, the more the chances that we may lose Eric. Open the door for me. I will enter the outer part and take care of the cannibal pirates there so we can get out of here.” Elena said. Astra tuned off her blades and put them back on their case. She walked to where Elena was standing next to Eric, who was on the floor passed out and said. “give us some of your guns. We cannot waste our green tipped bullets on these excuses of human beings that will rather cannibalize other humans.” S
Elena was frozen in amazement of the scale that Astra has unleashed, she has heard the rumors about a newbie who uses some super powerful weapon that tore through the amour protection of the training room wall and quiet light she saw the patch on the wall, but this is different. She never expected that the girl on the floor in front of her can unleash an attack that can wipe out an army battalion. “This girl is a weapon of mass destruction herself. And to think that she is the only person in the entire world who has authority over the weapons.” She thought and rushed to where Astra was on the floor. She picked her up in her arms and picked the HELL-blades which have already deactivated. Khan flew to them and dialed his smart watch, calling the phantom cruiser to come pick them up. As soon as the call goes through, the thundering sounds of the booster rocket engines flying the gigantic ship boomed all over the place. From the side, it descended from the clouds and lowered a large rect
Astra quickly stopped spinning and sat next to Elena, raising her and resting her head on her lap. “Is she going to be alright? Should I call the ambulance unit?” captain Andrew asked. “No, I just knocked her unconscious, she is perfectly fine. Just give her a minute and she will wake up just like that.” Astra said. The rest of the team gathered around and sat on the bare floor with the two of them. “I am never going to duel Astra, there is just no winning fights against her. One chop and she is down. Oh my God.” Jamie said and the rest of the team murmured in agreement. “I really didn’t do much, if he has tried harder that she did, I might actually be the one on the floor right now. Plus I am telling you that after waking up, I feel like my strength has doubled or something, I feel really light on my feet.” she said. “Thanks to you Eric is still alive, if you were not there to do whatever it is that you do, I don’t know what would have happened to us, none of us or the weapons we