Amaro: You wanna know what's next? Here you go!
Amaro clenches his fist and it comes crashing down against Sigmond's face.
BOOM!
Another comes crashing!
BOOM!
Another punch from Amaro hits Sigmond drawing blood from his mouth.
He spits the blood out. Laughs and tells Amaro, "So this is what it feels like to taste the wrath of the golden dragon? I gotta say you truly live up to the hype! Hahaha haha!"
Amaro raises his fist to strike Sigmond once more until he feels his arm has been grabbed. It's Yafeu holding him back. Swiftly Amaro turns and tells the young Yafeu, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!"
Yafeu replies, "We'd need him sometime down the line."
Angrily Amaro replies, "For what!?"
Yafeu explains, "We don't fully know the capabilities of the virus within us. With this piece of crap being the creator of it. I just think it'd be better to keep him around in case something would happen to us sometime down the line."
Amaro turns his head to Yafeu's and tells him, "What?!... I'd shoot myself in the head if I started to slowly die or go crazy from what this monster put in me!!"
Yafeu answers Amaro by saying, "What about the ones who don't have that as an option? I probably don't, you and I know Bast doesn't." Amaro looks toward Bast she says, "D...Don't worry about me guys."
Amaro drops his fist and tells Bast, "No he's right. It's not just about you Bast. It's also about the others that have been injected. They deserve the right to try and live a normal life and need every source of information they can to try and obtain that."
Amaro looks to Yafeu and asks, "How will we get him to cooperate?" Yafeu tells Amaro, "I have a few ideas I can think of."
Out of nowhere, a loud gunshot is heard. Yafeu is shot behind the head. The bullet exits under his eye.
Everyone turns around and sees Sigmond holding a gun.
Bast and Amaro instantly rush toward Sigmond but his trigger finger is much quicker.
Sigmond lets off 5 more shots before he gets taken down by Bast and Amaro.
The bullets land on an enemy but NOT for its intended target. Nevin lunged in at the last second protecting the young Yafeu taking the 5 bullets to his back.
Horrified Yafeu looks up to his friend. Blood leaking out his mouth he laughs and tells Yafeu, "Hey kid you gotta watch your back..."
Yafeu hurries and commands the assistant droids to tend to his and Nevin's injuries.
Sigmond mocks his foes as he sees them bleed out, "Haha! My aim is off. If it wasn't for the blood dripping in my eyes I would've got you dead center in the brain. This gun right here looks pretty ordinary but it isn't."
Yafeu uses the machine virus coursing through his veins to heal him while also using the virus to stop the bleeding from Nevin.
Sigmond continues to taunt while everyone panics over Nevin.
"It can only shoot special bullets I crafted. You might get a kick from this Amaro. They're made of zhekumium, it's from your armor when we brought you in! Cough* I needed a deterrent in case one of you guys went rogue on me and this metal was perfect. You see what these bullets do is cancel out any regenerative cells in the targeted area by searing it shut. The metal evaporates the virus from the targeted area! Amazing right!? Cough* Haha what did your people believe zhekumium was again...? It was unbreakable scales from a dragon God that only your people knew how to craft into armor right? And you shouldn't craft this gift into weapons because that would be disrespectful to that dragon God? Hahaha! What a superstitious lot you guys were! Well look, I crafted a weapon from zhekumium. It wasn't easy. It took me a while to figure out but I molded the zhekumium from your helmet into 1,000 bullets. And look no deities are here to punish me! It might be blasphemous and a little impolite for me to gloat like this but the zhekumium gun was a success! Hahaha! Poor young Yafeu sorry I had to take your eye to see if this bad boy would work for me."
Amaro dashes toward Sigmond grabs him by the throat. Slams his head on the ground and tells him, "You're knocking on death's door. The only thing stopping you from meeting your maker is Yafeu's word. No Gods are here to punish you because I'm here to do it! You're not fit to face a god so they sent a DEVIL to do their work!"
All of a sudden a loud explosion gets the attention of everyone. Amaro looks up and screams, "NOOO!!!" Above them on a cliff sat Adira's castle. Its side was now blown to bits by an aircraft.
Everyone looks at the falling debris in horror with only Sigmond giving a smile of acceptance.
To Yafeu's shock, his arm glows a blue aura shooting out duplicates of the assistant droids. Going from 4 to 24. Yafeu screams, "Holy Sh**!**t!?!!"
Debris comes crashing down above Yafeu and his group.
The 20 duplicate assistant droids are standing around the group with their hands up projecting force fields to protect them. Until Bast notices something.
Bast: Hey there's too much falling! Yafeu can you make more duplicates of the assistant droids!??!
Yafeu: I...I can't my body's getting worn out controlling the originals and duplicates. I'm trying to but I'm just not used to this virus yet!
Sigmond: Hahaha! My virus is meant to grow with your body. Like a soldier learning a new combat technique or training how to handle a new weapon. You won't instantly become great at it. It takes work! Look at you go though, You're already taking the machine virus to levels I would have never imagined at the start!... Oh, will you look at that? Brace yourself guys!
Bast, Yafeu, Amaro, and Nevin look to the ground. "It's beginning to break", Nevin tells his friends in a weak voice.
Yafeu screams commands to the original assistant droids, "GRAB A HOLD OF US! TRY AND KEEP DAMAGE TO A MINIMUM!"
The ground holding the cell breaks and everyone starts to fall to the bottom of the peak the jail cell rested on.
Crashing down the droids do their best to follow Yafeu's orders to protect his friends.
Once on the ground buried under tons of rubble Yafeu nervously looks to his friends. And thinks to himself, "What do I do?"
The duplicate droids force fields begin to show signs of weakening when they start to flicker like a dying light bulb. Yafeu mutters to himself, "N..no not now!"
Yafeu's vision begins to blur as he struggles to keep his friends protected. His face is strained with pain as his body maintains the force fields. The assistant droids continue the medical work for his friends. And Yafeu begins to tell himself, "I...I don't know how long I can Hold on..."
Before Yafeu can finish his thoughts he's interrupted by his shoulder being grabbed and a familiar voice gets his attention.
It's Nevin. He tells Yafeu, "Hey things are getting crazy. This isn't exactly how we wanted it to go huh?" Both on the ground with Nevin bleeding out Yafeu replies, "I don't think I could hold this for too long Nevin!" He replies with a smile and tells Yafeu, "Well why don't you try lightening your workload then?"
Yafeu: W..what do you mean?
Nevin: C'mon boy, out of all of us who looks like they're in the worst shape? I didn't even know a person could bleed out this much! You heard what Sigmond said!? This virus is meant to grow. It's kind of like practicing a skill, or a boy's strength growing into a man. I think you're doing too much to help us Yafeu. I don't mean that as a bad thing. That's all you've been doing since you got here. "Helping us", you helped the other children not go through Sigmond's Virus tests. Successfully stopping potential child deaths. Helped with me Amaro and Bast to add a 3rd virus wielder to the team. You're helping us now to stop a ton of bricks from falling on us!
Yafeu says in a serious tone to Nevin, "What are you trying to say?"
Nevin smiles at his friend and tells him, "Divert the droids who are focused on me to help your copies hold up the debris. I think your focus being fractioned off into 5 different tasks weakens the quality of whatever your virus is trying to create.
Nevin begins to stand with some of his wounds still unattended, he begins to bleed out. The stitches on his patched up wounds begin to break and bleed as well. Standing over Yafeu he helps hold up the "falling roof" of debris over their head and tells Yafeu, "In the meantime, I'll help you while the assistant droids patch you up."
Yafeu looks at his friend and is horrified at the state he's in. But he was right. The extra help holding the "roof added a much needed boost in strength for their force fields.
Yafeu begins to expand the force fields pushing some of the debris away. Yafeu grimaces in pain as he feels the weight of the debris move with his thoughts.
Nevin notices his struggle so he tells Yafeu, "Open a hole in the force field. Tell all assistant droids to push at the blocking debris and have them fly out carrying everyone.
Yafeu listens to Nevin. Then all assistant droids stack on each other's shoulders and the top droid begins to push. But the weight of the debris is too much for the droids system.
Being connected to the droids Yafeu feels this. He tells Nevin, "They can't push through!"
Nevin then tells Yafeu to have the copy droids from their side help. But Yafeu hesitates as he sees Nevin on the brink of being crushed. Nevin yells, "EITHER ONE OF US DIE OR ALL OF US!"
Yafeu snaps out of his hesitation and the copy droids begin to help and reveal something new about Yafeu's new powers from the machine virus. The copies liquefy into a gel-like form. Encasing themselves onto Sigmond's assistant droids. Wires appear within the gel and attach themselves to the encased droids.
Fumes of smoke shoot out signifying the strength increase of this "Super droid" and with Yafeu behind the wheel, the super droid pushes the debris off the force field creating an exit for Yafeu and his group.
The assistant droids and copies all separate and return to holding the force field up.
Bast exits first.
Amaro follows next while he drags Sigmond behind him.
Yafeu stands on his feet and tells Nevin, "Parting the force field was a brilliant idea man. Holding up all that weight to? Man, we were like a dynamic duo......."
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" ... "
Yafeu falls flat face first due to exhaustion. This makes the copy droids shut down crushing them slowly 1 by 1 and shuts off the assistant droids instantly adding more strain to Nevin's body, but he ignore the pain and yells to Amaro, "SAVE THE DAMN KID!"
Without hesitation, he jumps in and picks up Yafeu.
Trembling underneath the weight the two giants slowly grow smaller as the castle walls weight slowly buries itself onto the planet's surface.
Nevin is the first to speak he tells his once rival turned friend, "Pretty funny seeing him beat us two but what wears him out is this huh?" Nevin smiles as he accepts his fate and tells Amaro, "Make sure that boy masters that power. You as well my friend."
Amaro Nods to him and says, "I will."
Next in a booming voice Nevin tells Amaro, "NOW GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE THIS PLACE FALLS ON YOU TWO!!"
Amaro makes a quick run towards the exit. 1 by 1 the copy droids vanish in thin air or get crushed by the falling debris.
A scream of pain echoes behind Amaro. As the booms of brick crush Nevin. In fear of breaking the final promise of helping Yafeu master his power. Amaro does not look back. He pushes forward with all his might. And makes it outside the fallen rubble just in time.
Covered in blood and sweat Amaro stares at the rubble in tears. Bast walks toward Amaro to comfort him. Both in tears, a laugh is heard from Sigmond. He says, "Oh my, that was pretty eventful. And look we have guests"
Amaro and Bast look up and see the townspeople gathered together.
With no time to mourn Bast wipes the tears from her eyes and speaks first telling them, "Hey in case you guys haven't noticed there's a war going on! What the hell are you guys doing just standing around here looking at us!?"
A young boy steps forward and says, "W..We thought Amaro, Yafeu, and Nevin might've needed our help!" Then a young girl steps forward presumably the boy's sister she explains, "We..we all thought the gladiators could have used our help. And they would be the best leaders to help us survive..."
Amaro looks toward Bast confused he tells her, "Gladiators?"
She replies to Amaro saying, "They never looked at you guys like prisoners. Through your tales of bravery and battles in front of crowds you were heroes to them."
Amaro dwells over that statement and notices the explosions and gunfire have stopped he asks the two children, "What happened to the empress and her enemies?" An older man steps forward this time and tells Amaro, "She fled off this land. Her enemies followed." Amaro grits his teeth then replies, "What direction?"
Bast interrupts Amaro telling him, "We can't just leave all these people here?!"
He tells her, "I can't stay! After what the empress did to me and my comrades I have no interest in leading anyone anymore! I just can't."
Bast then says, "I can lead, I was the closest to the empress anyway. Once Yafeu wakes up he can help train these people to defend their lands."
Amaro looks at the two young warriors and says, "I'll stay to help. I made a promise to Nevin that I'll help Yafeu master the machine virus. I'll do that and give any piece of advice that might help you two with this cursed country. After that, I'll hunt down the empress."
Bast looks to Amaro and agrees.
They lay Yafeu down then walk toward the townspeople ready to explain the next step of their plan in restoring the express's lands.
Present day.
Bast: Then long story short Amaro, your brother, and I helped rebuild Avalon the best we can. They planned to make Amaro the King but he was focused on hunting down Adira and the crown went to your brother. Shortly after that, the robot population was shipped here. We ended up being overcrowded fighting against each other. Now we're doing the best we can with what we have because we got outlawed to go offshore. All because no one could tell which one of us from Avalon was a follower of Adira.
Bast puts her hand over her forehead and sighs.
Sarah says to her, "...You said, Avalon?"
She replies, "Yeah that's what this place was called when Adira docked hership on its shores."
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