Maks tried everything he could. "Pan, where are you? Where am I supposed to get an explanation?" He meditated and woman in a flowing white dress emerged from the darkness. Her eyes looked sunken and her inky black hair was foggy."Listen, Sentinel wants my side of the story and it better be convincing." He didn't know if he should trust her either. She was going to kill him too.Pan Bandura lifted her hand. "Years ago, I proposed a treaty of peace with Ares in order to keep monsters at bay from humans and Ares thought going to war with me was the best solution. In fact he banished many souls into the spirit world. To gain more power. The null void where they could not reincarnate. I was rendered powerless and kept prisoner for many years. He was senile, even his family acknowledged that. But he was too powerful. He fought many awakeners to the last. Slaughtered many against his vision and till today. He is the reason why a few monsters and demons roam freely. He is a menace to the nam
She gave him a spinning kick and Maks rammed her into the water. She was drenched. She felt her the dampness behind her mask, it was turning soggy. "Well played.""Would you settle down and listen to me?""No, you're lying, you just wanna use me like the rest of the awakeners. That's what he said...I'm glad his eyes are open to the real world." She rammed him into a portal. He shouted coming out of another and she turned to punch him. He groaned and she rushed to shove him down to a puddle in the ground."Ah!" She yawned when he fell through two portals parallel to each other. Up and down, up and down. Maks flew out of the loop when he was fed up and he leaped over her.He stayed airborne. Out of her reach."Coward!" She said although her eyes were constricted. He noticed when he flew her away from Ares reach to speak to her."He's keeping you in the dark. If Ares's eyes were open then he wouldn't keep you away from the world. He would let you explore it for yourself.""Gah! Do you t
Sentinel felt two claws on her shoulders. She screamed when a bat man hissed swooping up with her. "PROVIDENCE." It said in a gravelly voice. She kicked out and gazed fearfully at the rooftops. She couldn't let it let her drop but she couldn't let it take her away either. She struggled."Claws off." She blew up in flames and it screeched blowing up in flames too.She dropped from the sky and screamed. Maks saw her plumetting and a bat man grabbed him. They surrounded him until he shrugged them off. "Sentinel!"She tumbled in the sky and her eyes stung with tears. She jump-started her fists with fire. "Come on, a confidence boost is all you need." Maks tried to reach her and her fists and legs blew up in flames. She glided towards a tank and landed on the body. She gasped holding on to the sides. Her dark hair drifted in the wind and she gazed down at the rooftops and other houses. She could have gone splat in a matter of minutes. "Oh god.""Can you come down?" "No thanks, I'll
Maks paused, was he being too hard on Rex? He put that to the back of his mind and he checked on his suit. A burned black imprint was on his chest like an emblem."Don't worry, we can replace that. You sure you don't want to be wired?" Artemis asked holding her box. "Whatever, I appreciate that you're letting me handle this.""I appreciate how things are coming together so smoothly. Just don't get carried away. She's your enemy, don't go all out on her until the time's right.""Yeah. That." He said tugging his collar."I trust you, Maks, don't fail me."She hugged him quickly and left.Maks left and he met with Sentinel sitting on a boulder overlooking a grass field.The stars were out and they went to battle monsters. Grass spirits that didn't take to being stomped on.Maks went out for weeks on end and he expected a beatdown but Sentinel was more interested with monsters. He kept absorbing their powers and they sat back."How do you keep up with you know? Ares."She frowned. "I do
He scoffed moving away from her. "How did this all start? Tell me.""My father Eric Johnstone, an archeologist always went to work, he left me at home and the time he made that video of me with Kujo was the last time he really paid attention to me. He went to work looking for something and my mother tormented me emotionally. She blamed me for things I couldn't even control, that I was the reason why dad neglected her. I was six years old, I was in the middle of it all, I didn't know anything. My mother abused me, I ran away before she got physical.I was in the neighbourhood out at night all alone. Some guys were looking to take advantage of me and there was a man in the shadows. He hurt them before my very eyes and he helped me. He promised that I wouldn't go back to my old life. He trained me and I only got better. I promised that I wouldn't be that clingy little girl anymore.""That's sweet and all but you can't trust him.""The man who took me under his wing. Is that the person
She turned when his shadow enlarged over them. "Ares, you son of a bitch.""Don't talk to me in that language." He turned his silver devil ring."How dare you talk to me that way after what you've done? You lied to me.""You don't understand." Ares said."No, I really do. I'm not a child anymore. You're a criminal, you locked him up without fair trial and I want to know why." She pulled out her sword."It's getting worse. Stay away from these two. They're a liability.""No, you are! Maks helped me open my eyes. Why were you keeping me, why!?""I'm doing this to protect you." He said with difficulty."You can't even say it with a straight face. It's over, the jig is up.""This is for your own good. They can't be in the same room together.""Shut up!" She said swinging her sword and Ares tried to kill Maks who took up the gorilla aura and he rammed him into the bars.Eric was frantic. "Don't hurt her, please! She's coming...don't!" He clutched his head and he cried out in an unholy voic
Artemis landed the helicopter safely on the helipad. "Didn't know you could fly a helicopter, mot." Darragh said on his headache."You didn't ask. We have to find Maks.""Bullocks." He said. "Supposed you coulda parked properly."...Harley tried to use her portal powers. They completely backfired. She groaned. "Don't try so hard." Eric said sipping tea. Maks was awfully quiet. All he wanted was more security but now he just let lose who may have been the smartest villain he had ever faced. "I led you to Ares's dungeon. I thought Pan was a good person." It was obvious he had poor judgement when it came to who people are."There were two sides to the story.""The funny part was that she never actually lied to me. I was intrigued by that. I appreciate honesty."He didn't know if he was still deluded. But deep down he did respect Pandora."Ares may have been mad but he was not stupid. He was keeping the peace." Eric said."Two vessels cannot meet. Else the journey will be complete.
Artemis frowned, he was willing to look the other way for her unless Ares came after him, then he would do what was necessary. It didn't matter, Maks was an individual outside The Syndicate and he had a right to choose. ..."The Greatest Son of Man must fall to Save All." Maks said."Ares is likely the most powerful son of man.""Ares's father was mortal, he said his mother was a god. But he gained his god-level powers by working." She said."That doesn't make any sense. Why would he level up when he's already a god? Wouldn't that make him a demigod?""I don't know.""We can ask Ares ourselves." Maks said."Are you serious? The Syndicate wants his head. He's the only hope humanity has now that Pandora is free." She said to him."He must fall which means he has to be taken in."Maks said.She was keeping him in where might be the most horrendous place in the world to keep him from staying in prison. Harley had to be one of the most inconsiderate persons in the planet and she couldn't s