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
"My mother is Gemma Meyers...a mortal."They frowned at Darragh and Harley."And My father is Christopher Meyers, also a mortal. I died years ago because my wife and son plotted to get rid of me. I knew Pandora just when we were just students, we trained together. Pandora plotted to make the world safer FOR monsters. The humans were a menace to her but I thought the monsters were menaces as well. We saw things differently and I wanted them gone. They weren't as many as before.""So what caused the monster population to deplete? Besides our efforts.""Pandora and I go way back as partners. We had our differences and we battled. She was not as powerful as me though.I died and a deity named Fei Long gave me another chance."Maks's eyes paled."To end Pandora's reign. I was reborn a god. She is my mother. I grew thirsty for vengeance and killed my wife and son. I realised that I had committed a grave mistake. She didn't know my weakness, so she took advantage of me by turning my wife an
Maks rushed away from danger. He picked up speed and took a car. "He's escaping!" An assassin said and Harley glanced at Maks running away from them. He stopped and the awakeners shook their heads at him. Artemis's eyes tilted."You want me to lead you?" Their eyes were trained on him in wait."Yeah?" He psyched himself up and he trodded back. "Why would Fei do such a thing?" He cleaned his ear. "Okay, so we're going after Pan, right?"One of them coughed. "We're gonna call up the rest of the assassins. First we spy on the monsters and see if they have a pattern. If so, they report back to us and then we close in on their main flanks.The rest of the team with more firepower will open attacks on them. We're going to disorient Pandora for a while so she thinks we're declaring a war. She'll be too busy dealing with the strongest ones.We'll sneak in through a loophole on their blindspot and we...hit Pan as hard as we can.""Sounds like a plan but if we fail?""I don't know but
The place around her cratered. She jumped and faced the metallic men with skewers for arms. She tried to escape and one stepped on her and she shut her eyes. Keisha's eyes watered watching it stab her."Bo!""Keisha, stay in the air!" Artemis said.Keisha felt responsible for her, she was like her little sister and she dived, landed to melt down the death metal men. The temperatures rose and she screamed heavily rotiserating them. Going into her full Phoenix form. She knelt down beside Bo crying. Bo was far too gone to heal.Some mud monsters approached her and a monster sprayed goop on her. Her fire went out and she drowned in mud. No matter how she struggled. She couldn't muster the power to dry it out. Harley screamed as they closed in on her and the mud pile rose. She stayed low shaking.The flame will be doused and will burn all who dare to walk on her street.Harley frowned. She was only trying to keep her away.The other projectiles rained hail and light on the monsters atta