WHAT THE FUCK! How the HELL did I end up sleeping for more than two weeks!? Maxine didn't hesitate or think about the matter any longer. She knew that the date wasn't wrong and saldy she was aware that she couldn't spare the time to get a change of clothes. Swiftly she covers her body in her shadow essence forming her black essence armor over a few seconds. The inky black armor hugged her body like a second skin, but strangely let her hair hang freely somehow while protecting her scalp completely. She looked like she was wearing a full body, skin tight leather outfit. As she was in the process of forming her essence amor, a bone-white mask formed over her face. It only had a small protusion for her nose, but otherwise had no other discerning features aside from the eye holes. She wasn't bothered that it didn't have any holes for her to breathe through as she found that she could breathe even though it had none.
Maxine noticed the outer layer of small reptilian scales on her essence armor and immediately looked herself over. The scales were everywhere except for her hands and feet. She looked like a humanoid essence beast. Although it concerned her, she didn't have time for anything else and readied herself for what she needed to do.
After double checking that the items she needed were still in the armory, Maxine wasted no more time and burst out of her cocoon. Knocking over a few surprised soldiers in the process. She moved as fast as the confines of the corridors would allow as she made a break for the surface. She didn't even bother pressing the call button for the elevator and pulled apart the elevator doors with ease. She climbed up the elevator shaft to the surface and made her way to the armory. When she finally made it there, she finally realized she had made the whole trip in less than twenty seconds.
Maxine ripped the steel door off of it's hinges in her haste while surprising a very stocky man that was clearly the quartermaster and ran straight to the weapon that she needed. She picked up a 20mm anti-tank rifle that was almost as long as she was tall and loaded it with depleted uranium rounds in a blur of movement. She glanced at the larger 30mm anti-tank rifle, but it would limit her agility too much for her to fight the Terror Bear. As an added measure, Maxine grabbed a satchel and put extra ammo for her rifle and a few grenades in it. She slung the rifle over her shoulder and lashed it to her back with her essence. She turned around and ran past the stunned quartermaster as she headed towards the city at an ever increasing speed. Her speed was so great that she was actually having difficulty getting any grip and used her essence to make her stick to the ground. She pushed herself to even greater speeds and heard a sound that could only be called a sonic boom as she city approached quickly. Did I just do that? It didn't matter to Maxine, if she had or not. She had to find her mother and her friends. She needed to know they were safe before she tried to fight the Terror Bear.
Maxine checked the anti-rifle with her spiritual sense to make sure the sonic boom hadn't damaged it before she scanned into the distance. She ran towards where her mother worked and noted that there were very few people still in the city. The few that remained were hiding while Soldiers and police officers were gunning down groups of essence beasts that they came accross. Looks like McKenzy had called an evacuation order. Does that mean mom is safe? Maxine couldn't take that risk. When she found the office building that her mother worked in, she ran inside and headed straight for a group of survivors. Her appearance terrified them, but she didn't care as she asked if they had seen her mother. They didn't answer at first, but one of them in the back had said her mother hadn't shown up for work in several days. Did the general get my mom to safety? It would make sense if they ever hoped to keep me under control. But still, I better check my house first.
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Maxine bolted out of the building while killing every essence beast that dared get in her path with passing strike. She only diverted her course slightly to run past Emily's house and found it was empty before heading to her own house. No one was inside and there were no signs of blood either. Either her mother was safely with the military under heavy guard or she had gotten out of town soon enough. Maxine began to calm down at those thoughts.
She began to hear artillery firing in the distance. She scanned into that direction with her spiritual sense, but didn't find the cannons within her range. What she did find were groups of survivors running from essence beasts. She ran towards the closest group and saw essence beasts chasing after them. They were Copper-Fang Wolves and they were toying with the survivors like cats would with mice. Maxine's rage ignited and she charged right into them. The force of her charge threw the broken bodies of wolves into the air. Thankfully, none of them were stronger than the peak of copper stage. She started killing them as fast as she could. Each wolf didn't take more than a single hit to kill, so she made quick work of them. She stood there after kicking the last one violently and looked at the survivors, whom were staring at her in fear. She pointed towards the firing artillery cannons and said to go towards it for safety before she ran towards the next group. She saved three more groups before she made it to her destination. She only stopped to make sure that they headed towards the safety of the soldiers.
Maxine ran past the artillery cannons once she arrived and stopped on a small rise infront of them to get a good look at what they were shooting at. A few miles away there is a field of potholes where a grasslands used to be and in the middle of it were a large group of essence beasts ripping and tearing at something in the center. Huh? That's new. Maxine had never seen anything like that in the past when a horde charge at a human settlement. It quickly made sense when she saw a woman with red hair, one mile away from the essence beasts, emitting alot of essence. It was Amanda creating illusions in the minds of those simple creatures. However in the center of the swarm was a huge mound of black fur in the middle of a bloody mist. It was ripping the other essence beasts apart as if they were nothing. It was the Terror Bear and from the looks of it the essence beasts around it wouldn't last for much longer and neither would Amanda's essence.
Maxine felt hostility from behind her and glanced back. She felt a fear-driven shiver run up her spine when she saw it was a group of male soldiers aiming their weapons at her. She had to remind herself that her fear of men was irrational as she noted how much fear was in their eyes.. Her current appearance was the obvious cause. Although she couldn't help feeling embarressed under their stares. She was practically naked underneith her essence amor regardless of how she appeared to them.
"Don't worry about me, boys. I am here to kill that thing," Maxine said to them as she pointed at the Terror Bear and she reached back to get the anti-tank rifle ready. She didn't give them a chance to say anything as she ran full speed towards the Terror Bear and the quickly dwindling essence beasts around it.