Shattering Humanity-Chapter 273: An Unbreakable Man Vs. An Indomitable Woman
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,
And with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.
In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. -Ephesians 6:12-17
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[Destroyed Sanpaku Entrance]
The purple eyes of the ever so compassionate young man glisten slightly brighter as he can finally see the aura surrounding his squadmate and his matching sad blue aura released from his IceEye.
A soft half smile takes over the red mohawked delinquent’s face while making eye contact with his confused and bewildered personal MMA trainer.
Zeke: "Are you good Bro?"
Jeremiah: "Zeke...What is that stuff moving around your body?"
His brown human eye and the symbiote look at his arms and the rest of his body covered in the temporary armor of universal energy.
Zeke: "I...
I have no idea but...
But I feel freaking awesome, Jeremiah!
I swear, after crawling out from underneath that rubble I’ve never felt so... so..."
He quickly remembers what they were trying to achieve in the first place and turns his vision over towards Shelly and Katsu.
The cunning fighter has her SanguineSoulSeiõrShield turned off but her death stare on 100%.
The young man, with his new asset to battle, smiles.
Zeke: "... Confident."
He holds his hand out as if awaiting to be handed something, and without looking at his pal Zeke tells him...
Zeke: "Aye Jeremiah, spot me one of your SunSwords, will ya?"
Getting up off the ground, using his cut hand, the personal trainer unsheathes one of his incredibly searing swords and underhand tosses it.
Catching it by the handle, into a short twirling display, smiling SeiõrShield covered Zeke finishes his showboating with a quick cut to the wind.
Zeke: "Well, well, well.
Seems like my IceEye and I have unlocked a new power to defeat you.
If you had a hard time keeping up with me before Tomboy, you sure as shit won’t be able to keep up now."
Katsu turns his back towards Shelly’s opponents to hide his uncontrollable grin.
Katsu(thinking): *I can’t hold it in!
He’s so freaking dumb.
This guy really thinks he’s discovered something special that Shelly hasn’t and he is still talking like he’s got the upper hand.
Not to mention she hasn’t even had Madame Fryer make an appearance.
Living bot.*
Pretending to be oblivious to her enemy’s new phase, Shelly sarcastically shields her eyes looking around the under water tunnel.
Shelly: "Huh?
I can’t see it..."
Jeremiah(thinking): *Wait, can she not see that aura around Zeke, like I couldn’t before he touched my shoulder?*
Shelly: "Well I don’t see it."
Katsu: "Don’t see what Shell?"
Shelly’s condescending tone and ’eh, whatever’ shrug lets her contending force know she isn’t intimidated by anything.
Shelly: "Nothinnng.
It’s just, the way he was talking, I thought his ’new ability’ could summon him some reliable back up or something?
Cuz I’m pretty sure that ability wouldn’t have helped him win either."
Katsu: "Hahah!"
Jeremiah and Zeke both give Below Sanpaku glares at the Above Sanpaku giving Izanagi Captains.
Jeremiah: "Just so you know Bro, I couldn’t see that blue energy you’re surrounded in until after you grabbed my shoulder.
It’s possible she might not be able to see your new upgrade either since she doesn’t have one of those alien eyes.
Now’s the perfect chance while you still have that ability active to catch her by surprise."
Zeke gets into a stance, ready to pounce but...
Shelly: "Hey wait, hold on a sec!
Time-out!"
Behind her Katsu admires her boldness and quick wit mind games.
Her out of place "time-out" surprises the two infiltrating soldiers, as she slowly and carefully arms her teeth with the 15 inch, 4lb(~1.8kgs), all black Seax.
Now accoutred with her toothed weapon, while chuckling and smile, the #1 fighter looks across at her opponents.
Shelly: "Okay, time in!"
On the word "in", she lets her golden pink Mach 2 SanguineSoulSeiõrShield BURST.
Both Zeke and Jeremiah notice the quick illumination of the tunnel but at over 1,534mph(2469kph) Shelly closes the distance between her and the ’Titan of Beasts’, shoulder tackling him a couple hundred yards back where the two HFF soldiers originally entered.
Zeke: "F-"
Before he knows it, Jeremiah is left all alone with Katsu in the tunnel.
At twice the speed of sound, the Squad 4 fighter has disappeared in front of his buddy.
Jeremiah: "Wha-!?
Where’d they go?!"
Smiling Katsu starts jogging over towards the remaining invader.
Jeremiah swallows his spit and unsheathes his 2nd and last remaining SunSword, as Katsu gets only 10 yards away.
Jeremiah: "I know I can take you on at least.
Or was that all a weak guy act when you two were at the Academy?"
Katsu doesn’t even acknowledge the sword pointed at him and he nonchalantly passes by the opposing soldier.
Jeremiah turns and watches, stunned from being ignored but deep down, relieved. Feeling a certain dangerous presence from the "terrorist" with a left eye symbiote.
Before disappearing deeper in the tunnels shadows, Katsu stops without turning around.
Katsu: "If I were you, I’d leave as quickly as possible.
In the most commonly repeated cycles you get shot in the back of the head or paralyzed from a broken vertebrae by one of my men, and this whole situation blows up larger than needs to be."
Jeremiah: "...’Cycles’?
What are you talking about?
Where are you going?!"
Katsu: "I’m going outside to witness greatness.
Like I said, you can either start walking this way and watch your boy get mopped up, or you can get shot by an overzealous bafoon in less than 45 seconds.
Just consider your current stretch of life as a blessing."
{Rewind 120 Seconds}
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Shelly: "Okay, time in!"
On "in", she lets her golden pink Mach 2 SanguineSoulSeiõrShield BURST, illuminating the tunnel and at over 1,534mph(2469kph) she closes the distance between her and the ’Titan of Beasts’, shoulder tackling him.
Zeke: "F-"
With his IceEye at 2nd Stage, all the kinetic energy from the Mach 2 tackle travels through Zeke’s muscles and nerves, all the way to his right eye symbiote.
No longer as deep within Inner Sanpaku, the HFF soldier bounces once off the pavement on his side but quickly pops back to his feet on the sliding recovery.
Zeke(thinking): *What the Hell was that?!
Does she have this ability too?
But her’s looked...*
His brown human eye next to his symbiote frantically tries to spot the gold and pink glowing Valkyrie descendant.
What he doesn’t realize is she is right behind him.
Zeke’s symbiote takes control and makes the now less confident soldier swipe at the air behind him.
Zeke: "So, I guess you have this ability to surround yourself with a weird aura too, huh?"
He shouts his discrepancies to Shelly without being able to see her.
Clenching his jaw, using his free fist, the trained MMA fighter punches the cement wall out of frustration, cracking it.
Zeke: "Ya know, you really are an annoying bitch!
Do you know that?!
It’s always the over achievers like you who make the regular people of the world lose their hope in ever succeeding!
If everyone did just enough or a little extra, everyone would be able to see their dreams.
But you!
People like you who were probably born into a loving two parent home, with endless support towards your happiness.
People like you can’t just let someone whose had to go through their teens sneaking into friends house, just to have a place to stay.
Nobody can have any glory or pride without you feeling the need to outshine them both figuratively and literally!"
Out of his own control, Zeke’s SeiõrShield coated body ducks a wind splitting, aerial side kick from Shelly.
He retaliates by stabbing upwards with the point of the hot blade, Shelly twists her SanguineSoulSeiõrShield coated upper body, and connects the tooth gripped Seax with her opponent’s hot, upward rising blade creating sparks.
The two fighters disconnect their weapons but the separation doesn’t last long.
The two fighters seem to turn into a streak of golden pink and a streak of sad blue that bounce off the walls as well as each other.
Each time the two fighting streaks collide, sparks fly due to their blades.
The exit to outside can be seen from where the two gladiators stop their ridiculous fighting speed and take a moment for a breather...well Zeke does.
Not only because of her Valkyrie warrior lineage, but also because of her unmatched work ethic and commitment to training, Shelly has barely broken a sweat. Smooth and steady breaths continue to flow in and out her nose while her competition is sucking wind.
Shelly doesn’t give him the chance.
Her after image disappears, and Zeke is unprepared for a kick to his sword gripping hand.
The unsuspecting soldier, with a loose grip around his only weapon, gets disarmed and then the mechanical kinetic energy created by a spinning kick to the chest travels directly to his IceEye.
Because of that factor, Zeke’s body gets hit with a direct hit by Shelly’s relentless physical force, but he doesn’t go anywhere, catching Shelly off guard.
She isn’t able to swing her kick fully through and Zeke catches her right ankle with perfect Taekwondo precision between his arm and ribs.
Shelly prevents herself from falling with the other leg, but the taller, trained MMA fighter knowing how to take down, brings her captured leg above her waist in an attempt to drive her to the ground.
HOWEVER, the prey immediately becomes the hunter once the indomitable woman uses her caught right foot to hook Zeke’s back and pulls him towards her left rising knee, directly landing under his chin.
HOWEVER, once again, the kinetic energy from the booming blow impacted to the unbreakable man, travels directly to Zeke’s symbiote and he smiles.
Zeke: "You can have all this back, Tomboy!"
He releases the pulsing wave of Seiõr and visible kinetic energy from his symbiote and Shelly attempts to cut it down, but her SanguineSoulSeiõrShield covered blade bounces of the projectile Seiõr wave and hits Shelly with the combined strength of all her attacks stored in his eye.
The force sends her crashing through the cement ceiling of the underwater tunnel’s dry entrance, into Outer Sanpaku.
