Tobi frosted his body over, as onlookers poured in taking photos and asking him tons of questions. He jumped back towards the water, while freezing a path up. Then used it as a launchpad to fly off. Keep away from the public as much as possible. Sarah had drilled that into them, before the mission.
"Sarah, what's the update?" He spoke into his comm, as he flew back into the city.
Sarah responded, in a not-too-thrilled voice. "Tobi you've got to hurry... Osei is not doing too well, against the both of them."
Tobi took a deep breath. "Tell him to hold on, I'm on my way. Send me the coordinates." He replied.
He looked at his arm, as his sleeve's nanites split apart revealing a screen and updating him with his brother's location. Tobi hurried, hoping he could make it on time.
Moments later at the main battle site...
He touched down in a clearing, descending on three figures below. He had avoided looking at the sky screen fearing the worst. Regardless, what he witnessed before him, made his blood boil and left him speechless.
Osei was on his knees, plagued by cuts and bruises, among the burn marks, that had singed his armour away. A bit further, were the two invaders, with Zaryon seemingly unharmed, and Kalista, slightly injured, and standing behind him. He noticed Zaryon, with his sword drawn, smirking and pointing it at Osei.
Tobi's mind went blank. He recalled a memory, where he was training with his brother and Osei had used a dirty tactic to beat him. As they took a break he spoke up, still bothered by it. "You know Osei means honourable, in Ghanaian."
Osei chuckled, seeing why his brother was still in a bad mood. "That's interesting... it also means honourable warrior in our culture and you can't be a warrior if you're dead."
Zaryon's voice snapped him back to reality. "Well, we've been waiting for you. Your bitch of an android has ruined my entire show!"
Tobi growled. "Let him go."
The ground broke up all around him in response to his anger, while static electricity crackled streaking through the air. Snow fell in their area, as thunder bellowed in the sky overhead. It was cold, but it seemed, as though Tobi was amidst a heatwave.
A mixture of purple and red marks snaked their way all over Tobi's body, pulsing like bloodshot veins. Kalista noticed the change happening on his body and whispered under her breath. "He's ascending."
Zaryon completely ignored Tobi's request and the phenomenon happening around him. Instead, he looked down at Osei, who was barely conscious. "Furthermore, this traitor did not bother reporting back that there was another Rennayan out here. One that could use more than one ability too..." He paused and looked back at Tobi.
Only thunder disturbed the silence, as the world continued to watch patiently, anxious of what was going to happen. "Or that my brother was dead. For that, he must die." Zaryon said, raising his sword. Flames raced over it, covering the blade, in a blazing inferno. Then he swung down at Osei's neck.
Within that moment, Tobi drew his sword and stepped hard. Leaving a crater as he leaped towards Zaryon and left cloud trails behind him. He swung back with his full might, covering his blade in burning hot flames and electricity.
The strike aimed for Zaryon's sword, but the attack whipped both the prince and Kalista flying back hundreds of meters away. Erasing the landscape, with a sea of flames and electric currents.
He dropped down hugging his brother. Then proceeded to heal him little by little, as much as he could, shuddering as he thought about the worst-case scenario.
Osei was fading in and out of consciousness, he had lost too much blood, however, he noticed his brother in front of him and gave him a faint smile. "What's with that look, little brother? It seems like, you've finally ascended too... What did you want to call it... 'First Gear?' After your favorite MC?" He struggled to laugh.
Tobi just begged his brother to rest, taking only a glance at his hands and noticing purple veins glowing and running over them.
Osei continued, ignoring his brother's offer to rest. "Now you can be just like him... You need to save us. You need to win. That girl, Kalista. She's not bad, but do what you must." He trailed off, falling unconscious.
By then three androids in blue and white, Beyond medic outfits, dropped down out of nowhere and landed nearby, with jet thrusters, cushioning their landing. They ran over to the brothers, as static itched Tobi's ear, allowing Sarah's voice to break through. "Leave Osei to the medics, we'll save him. Focus on the enemies at hand." She said, hoping he would listen.
Before Osei was taken away, he asked her a favour. "Can you leave one unit on standby, Sarah?" She was curious why, but agreed, leaving one hiding nearby.
Tobi stood up seeing Kalista, race back to him on a floating rock. She summoned over thirty golems rushing him, as she got closer. He responded by summoning double the amount. Letting both of their golems charge at each other and break each other apart.
Tobi then shaped his hand into a pistol. "Static: Burning Glock." He said as bullet-shaped flames, charged with thousands of volts, seemingly shot out of his fingers.
The first bullet grazed her right arm, while the rest missed as she swerved and dodged them in midair. "So you're the precious little thing that the royal family has been hiding out here, all of this time!" She yelled out, holding her arm.
Tobi stopped firing and responded. "If you're Rennayan, why are you fighting for the enemy?"
Kalista smirked. "It's not like I have a choice... See this?" She pointed at her bracelet. "It explodes if I ever disobey an order. Your family failed us and all of the people of Rennaya!" She was furious, seeing how easy a life he must have lived.
A gigantic golem, twenty feet tall, rapidly grew out of the ground. Metal flung towards it, reinforcing it as armour. She snarled at him. "King Zenu should have at least shared this place with the people, maybe we could have had a fighting chance... What can you even do alone?!" She yelled, releasing the golem after him.
Tobi glanced from her to the charging golem. It was crushing, all of the other golems beneath it, as it made its way towards him. He raised his hand as a fireball manifested and hovered while condensing a few times. Then with a resounding boom, he launched it at the giant's head, erasing it off clean, with a small explosion.
It staggered back as Tobi followed up by leaping onto the neck of the giant statue, amid the smoke. Then surprised Kalista by leaping off the giant and charging straight at her, destroying the rest of the golem, under his feet.
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Kalista was taken aback by, her golem being defeated so easily. She backed up while forming a floating stone wall between herself and him as he closed the distance.
He touched the wall, pouring energy into it as it began to freeze up. "Static: Shock Dome." An ice dome enclosed her with the wall as the origin, trapping her inside, as thousands of volts tased her, and knocked her out in moments.
He descended with the dome, melting it apart to reveal her unconscious. "Sarah." He said softly, as he glanced down at Kalista, fast asleep.
The medic robot she had hidden, came quickly to pick her up. She placed her in restraints and flew her to a nearby shuttle.
Tobi turned around, feeling an angry outpour of energy behind him. The prince stood there, furious. Part of his face and body was still having difficulty reforming. The tension escalated, as sparks flew with random objects from their surroundings. The ground between them caught fire, as they both stared each other down.
"Who are you?" Zaryon demanded, trying to keep his tone under control.
"My name is Tobi and you're right, I am half Rennayan... I'm also the one that defeated Kairon." He replied, with one hand on his sword hilt, and slowly began flanking him
Zaryon snarled, as he began to build up energy in anger, but slowly calmed his mood down. "The Legendary Rennayan... So you've been hiding here all this time... Father will be pleased when I bring you back with me. Even though you've taken out my army, this world is weak, I can conquer it all on my own!"
Tobi chuckled. "Aww, you wanna make your dad proud. You see Kairon had the same motivs, but he wasn't able to pull it off was he?" He said, attempting to aggravate the prince.
Suddenly, bullets flew overhead and a tank blast went off. All projectiles were directed at Zaryon, but Tobi jumped back to avoid being hit. He raised a dome, shielding him from the incoming strike.
It was the American army. No attacks on the homeland were going to be tolerated. Several snipers made their marks from a distance, followed by two drones flying overhead, dropping missiles before circling off.
Zaryon raised a dome-like barrier made out of flames blocking most of the incoming fire. He shot back several concentrated bullets of fire, exiting the flame barrier, and taking out the snipers hundreds of meters away, along with each of the drones, before lining up a second round
Just when he thought it was over, two helicopters flew overhead spraying machine gun fire on him relentlessly. The bullets bounced off, leaving small dents, healing almost instantly.
Disappointed, the prince flew up, catching one of the rotors with his bare hands, and broke it off. Then jumped, engulfing the helicopter in a blaze of fire, as it crashed into the ground. He flew to the next one, unsheathing his sword in an arc of fire and sliced it in half. Killing the squad inside, as their helicopter caught fire.
Zaryon turned his attention to the two squads below, with tanks, still firing at him. His life force continued to drain, but in tiny amounts, as his body regenerated. However, he was starting to get annoyed.
Tobi had been watching through a small slit, protected by a clear ice lens, horrified by the destruction.
Zaryon placed his hand forward, aiming for his assailants. A massive pressurized ball of fire, two-thirds of his size, burned with intense heat, condensing once and growing back to its original size. Then he dropped it at an incredible speed.
Tobi broke out of his dome, racing as fast he could, and placed both his hands on the ground. "Frost: Ice Dome!" He visualized it, as fast as he could.
The ball of fire seemed like a descending star to the soldiers, with some praying knowing it was the end. Suddenly a massive dome of dirt, reinforced with ice grew out of the ground and shielded them from a fiery death.
The explosion was massive, sending violent tremors through the dome, as the soldiers braced for impact. Tobi made a back entrance for them to evacuate, as the dome started to crack and collapse within.
He glared back up at Zaryon, who descended, glaring back at him. "Why do you protect them, when you have so much power? You can rule them by my side. What do you say?... I'll forgive you for my brother's death." He said looking earnestly at Tobi for a moment.
"People like you make me sick. None of you children of Atlas value human life do you?" He replied in disgust.
Zaryon didn't take any offence. "From the moment we are born, we are only allowed to have what we can take. To truly get a father's affection, we have to be in the top ten. Which means absorbing enough life to be able to challenge them."
Tobi shook his head. "That's a terrible childhood, doesn't excuse any of your actions though."
Zaryon laughed. "I don't look for forgiveness, as long as I can show Father, that I too can become closer to God." Then he lunged at Tobi.
Tobi parried his strike and summoned a golem to grab him from the back, however with quick instincts Zaryon turned his hands backwards and burned the golem away behind him. Tobi was shocked, he didn't expect the prince to be able to foresee his moves. That's when it struck him. 'They must be able to see the energy circuits, as well.'
He manifested an armour of electricity trying to match the speeds of Zaryon's next incoming strikes and was forced to cover his hands with dirt, as the impacts were already causing tremendous pain and calluses. He jumped back into the air, making some distance. 'This one is tough,' he realized. He would definitely need a new strategy.
He raised one hand towards Zaryon, as hundreds of fireballs manifested in the sky around him. Each of the flames charged with thousands of volts.
Zaryon looked at the incoming barrage, smirked then started running away, as the balls of fire sailed after him, and homed in on him. He zig-zagged around, hovering low and dodging each fireball, leaving them to explode all over the field. Then jumped into the air, dodging the last few, before returning twice as many fireballs back at him.
Tobi, flew higher to avoid as many as he could, however, they began tailing him as well, as Zaryon flanked to get closer. He manifested a gigantic ice dome in midair shielding him from the remaining barrage. People around the world watched feeling relieved to still see the dome, still floating as the smoke cleared.
In moments, Zaryon appeared above it, raising his sword high above his head and engulfing it with the hottest flames he could produce, turning the blade red-hot. Then he cut down, slicing an arc of fire through the dome-like butter. Nearly scorching the ground kilometres below them.
However, Tobi was no longer there. With quick thinking, he melted out an opening, while simultaneously frosting his hands and gathering up as much fire and electricity into a sphere, as fast as possible.
He focused on finding Zaryon through his energy signature. The moment Zaryon was above him, he pushed himself out by protruding a wall of ice within his dome, launching him into a perfect point-blank position. "Ignite: Static Shock." He yelled at the top of his lungs.
The blast, caught Zaryon by surprise. Dropping his sword, he instinctively created the biggest flame barrier he could create, as he was pushed back. It wasn't enough.
He was going to burn up or be launched into space if he did nothing and Tobi wasn't letting up. Zaryon ran through all of the options he could think of to get out of this. Even though his brain was ten times faster than a human's, he could only think of one solution. Copy exactly what Tobi did.
He blasted himself out of his barrier. All within 0.5 seconds
Tobi dropped his hands, as an explosion erupted within the line of fire. Thinking that the prince had met his end. He focused trying to sense if there was anything left of him, as he drew his sword.
In a blur, Zaryon kicked Tobi down from the sky. Reinforcing himself with flames to increase his power. He was charred, with burn marks slowly healing back, all over his body, along with one arm missing.
Tobi broke his fall with flames under his feet, then healed himself, as dust and dirt kicked up around him. However, once again, Zaryon appeared before him in a blur, this time behind him. Trying not to miss this chance.
Tobi tried to dodge in time, not noticing his sword had been stolen earlier. His arm flew, and blood sprayed out of the cut, clean through the bone.
He yelled out in immense pain and instinctively summoned a massive golem, twenty feet tall between the both of them, then raised a massive ice wall. He couldn't believe how careless he had been.
The pain was agonizing, but he quickly took out a small knife, from his belt, heated it, and cauterized the wound. He was starting to feel dizzy and nauseous but proceeded to frost up the wound, which healed up slowly.
It was then that he remembered Sarah packing him an adrenaline booster. A drug she produced to ignore all pain while on the field, in emergencies. She packed it with nanites, which would slowly treat your wounds to a certain degree but delayed almost twice the amount of pain for half an hour. It was meant only meant to be used once, as a last resort.
He plunged the syringe into an opening the armour made him as a rush of energy and adrenaline raced down his spine like never before. He got up, calming his mind and steeling his anger. An arm made out of ice and stones, formed together to make him a new left arm. He took a deep breath. Then brought down the wall.
His golem had been defeated, he had felt it earlier. Its remains stood like a statue, with its head and arm destroyed. Zaryon himself was standing near its foot, with Tobi's arm and munching away.