DANGS VS SENTINELS!

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“Can you fight?” Other-Dang queried, examining Dang with concern.

Dang nodded. “But only after a quick upgrade,” he said. He placed a hand on his doppelganger’s shoulder, on what he’d thought to be armor but now that they were right in front of each other, looked a lot like metal skin. He concentrated, focusing on the properties of what he was touching. Whatever this cybernetic skin was made out of, it was light years ahead of anything he’d ever seen, it didn’t even feel like it’d been made out of a real element.

It was different.

But that was good. Different was exactly what Dang needed right now if he was going to take down those irritating sentinels.

“Resonate,” he said, and an incredible jolt shot through him, staggering him backward and causing him to clutch his chest. He doubled over and groaned; his eyes wide with shock. The suit was very different. Resonating with it had been…weird.

It took him a few seconds to adjust after which he straightened up and drew a deep breath.

“You good?” Other-Dang asked him, appearing rather concerned. “What happened just now?”

“I’ll explain all of it to you once we’re done here,” Dang responded, feeling the weird new strength coursing through him, a strength completely unlike any he’d ever possessed. His fingertips tingled, as did his spine.

The sentinels moved a little closer and Dang moved closer to his doppelganger, the two of them standing back-to-back.

“Ready?” Other-Dang asked.

“Let’s end this.”

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“Target their heads or their cores,” Other-Dang instructed. “Those are their weak points. A strong enough hit targeted at those points should be enough to kill them.”

“You’ve fought them before?” Dang asked, arching one eyebrow over the other.

Other-Dang nodded.

“Alright then,” Dang sighed.

Dang morphed his ring into a Bō staff, spun it around then aimed it at the sentinels, sliding his feet across the ground as he adopted a battle stance. The sentinels charged and so did they.

Resonating with Other-Dang had made him stronger, quicker. When he smashed a fist into a sentinel’s chest, he actually punched straight through, sending sparks flying from the sentinel before hurling it at another.

Other-Dang though, was even quicker and stronger than he was, moving at speeds that created multiple after images, tearing through the remaining sentinels like they were nothing. As soon as the sentinels had been taken care of, there were more flashes of light and another horde of twelve poured out, charging right at the both of them.

Dang dodged blast after blast and ran right at the sentinels, parrying physical attacks with his Bō staff and retaliating with it. He swung the staff with full force at a sentinel’s neck, and separated it from the rest of its body in one go.

Three more charged at him but he cleverly weaved between them, while Other-Dang fired a scorching blast burning holes through all three of them simultaneously. The sentinels dropped to the ground; smoking holes in their chests.

Dang walked toward his doppelganger and the two of them exchanged a fist bump.

“You’re good,” Other-Dang acknowledged with a light smile on his face.

“And I’m not even going all out just yet,” Dang smirked, then turned his glance to the pile of sentinel bodies they’d dropped. “That all of them?”

Other-Dang was about to respond when Dang noticed one of the sentinels move. The sentinel launched a gold beam at them, one that Dang knew somehow was different from their previous attacks.

Other-Dang had been distracted and hadn’t seen the movement until it was too late. Dang reacted instinctively by pushing his doppelganger out of the way and shielding himself with his hands.

The beam hit him and sent a horrible burning sensation throughout his body, hitting all of his nerves like poison. He didn’t know how but the blast had burned straight past Resonate, it’d hit him properly, sent him hurtling through the air.

He slammed into something hard and dropped to the ground with a groan. He looked up to find that more of the sentinels were moving again–they hadn’t been destroyed just yet. He tried to move, tried to get back on his feet, but his body neglected to obey his commands.

And then everything went b—