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
He picked up going after The Warden. The guard behind him shook."Shoot him." Maks saw the German Shepherd barking and it turned to bite him in the crotch."Aye!" Maks drew energy from the guards. They fainted."And no killing. We just need to bust out of here." The place was dark and Metallie grabbed a torch. Elektra spread electricity through the metal walls. "The screaming is dat a way." She pointed and Maks ran leading them on. He thought Elektra killed them but he sighed when they groaned staying down."So why did you help me?""That's what heroes do.""A hero breaks two criminals out of a high security prison? Please don't tell me that I've been in jail for too long.""I made a deal with Elektra. It's the least I could do." Maks said."I doubt it but...you do you anyways." She outran them and he closed his eyes.She opened the ceiling and Elektra gave her a boost. She jumped out and created two walls to cover them from the shots. "Wait, I can control metal."Their bullets st
Artemis glanced at BlackJack. "Hey, do you have anything that belongs to Maks?" Harley paled. She got his shirt and Artemis shook her head. She approached Blackjack slowly. He sniffed his shirt."Fetch."His ears perked and Sam screamed when he vanished. Darragh gasped when he reappeared with Maks holding on to Metallie by the neck.Metallie tried to fight BlackJack crying.Darragh paled. "Oh god no."Metallie glanced at Darragh and Artemis. She cleared her throat."Hi, I'm Natalie and this is my best friend Helen." She pointed brushing her eyes."Are you crying?" Sam said."No, there's dog spit on my face.""Haiiiiii." Elektra smiled waving. "What a sweet puppy! I wanna squeeze him so bad." She scratched his ears. "Made some friends?""For now." He flicked slobber out of his face."You broke them out of prison?" Artemis said to him. "It was necessary.""I'm gonna have to contact Chande." She said.Elektra drained the electricity out of her phone. "Excuse me? We had a deal and we c
The whole thing blew up in my face. My brother died of a strange illness and I hated myself. I vowed never to live in poverty anyway. Besides honest work never got me anywhere. Always got in trouble, didn't have a problem with duping anyone. Until I met your sister Rosie, she was the most beautiful thing I ever seen. I loved her more than life itself. She taught me about charity and such, almost forgot I was supposed to be selling her eye out of her head to her."He pulled out a black fang necklace on his neck. "I joined the assassins. She said I could make good use of my powers fighting. First I thought it was a load of bull. Never worked so hard for so much sterling in my entire life. I still wanted more though, lost money as soon as I gained it. Ghost came in and things were starting to take an ugly turn. Roseline asked me to terminate him whilst I received the biggest news of me life. He asked me to kill her for a whopping sum of money. The most fish I caught in me entire life. I
"Listen, we need to keep our head in the game. Forget everything else and let's just keep moving.""I have a question for you, how come you know so much about the prophecy even though you haven't read the book before, hmm?"Metallie said.Maks feigned a smile. "Pandora recited it to me. Everytime I fought escape animals and took out their energy, she became clearer, more lucid to me, even my AI was corrupted. She would read it to me every night. I had to do it to fight Ares but now we're dealing with her.""She's still talking to you, isn't she? How are we supposed to trust you as our leader? For all we know, she might still be using either you or Harley like puppets to lure us into a trap." Metallie said folding her arms by the corner.He softened afraid again, it only took the mask to cover it up. He supposed his time was up."How do we know she's using us?" Harley said unsure about moving forward now."She wants us to come forward. But we need to be super aware of our weaknesses and
"I do but it's not my destiny to defeat Pandora. Sadly.""You're not the greatest?""Nope." He shrugged indifferently. "You are."He paled. He wasn't even an A-level awakener. "How so? I can't be the greatest."Ares wrote in mid air using light on his finger. "Maks. The Greatest. Anderson. Son of Andrew or Man. Whatever. It's you. He said....They gazed at him like he had just lost touch with reality. He hoped so too but the answer was clear. Maybe Ares was just playing with his mind."No, that's not possible.""I thought Ares was only trying to kill you because he disapproved of us." Harley said.He smiled sadly at her. "Me too, but like he said. Nothing personal_" He muffled when Harley cried holding on to him as tightly as possible. He couldn't even give her an assurance as much as he wanted to."I'm sorry, Jack." Darragh said sadly."It has to be this way." He said."You're insane!" Sam roared."No, I'm not, it's not really a coincidence either. I have to accept my fate. I have t
"I do but it's not my destiny to defeat Pandora. Sadly.""You're not the greatest?""Nope." He shrugged indifferently. "You are."He paled. He wasn't even an A-level awakener. "How so? I can't be the greatest."Ares wrote in mid air using light on his finger. "Maks. The Greatest. Anderson. Son of Andrew or Man. Whatever. It's you. He said....They gazed at him like he had just lost touch with reality. He hoped so too but the answer was clear. Maybe Ares was just playing with his mind."No, that's not possible.""I thought Ares was only trying to kill you because he disapproved of us." Harley said.He smiled sadly at her. "Me too, but like he said. Nothing personal_" He muffled when Harley cried holding on to him as tightly as possible. He couldn't even give her an assurance as much as he wanted to."I'm sorry, Jack." Darragh said sadly."It has to be this way." He said."You're insane!" Sam roared."No, I'm not, it's not really a coincidence either. I have to accept my fate. I have t