Chapter 16.
WORLD 2.
Inside a medium sized attic with a small brown bed by a corner with hanging bulbs unlit with dust, spruce wood, framing and cupboards, the Secondary Dean, dressed in a black combat suit and holding a big Bertha faced Farouk in the dark and still aired place during the late night.
He was draped in a sleek noir toned track suit with the hoodie below his neck, moving lips as the moon light chipped in from a window on him.
"So what you want me to do is to kill Stephen!"
"No of course not…" The woman chuckled. "We're not gonna get our hands that dirty… simply find him and hopefully with my help, you'll be able to stop that monster and take back what's yours with Victor… I know you deserve a place by his side after how he and everyone else treated you honey."
She stepped to the man, her hand on his cheek as the lady inched her face to his.
"Don't let this slip, okay? He's your step brother after all, so I shall expect no emotional bridges between you that are obviously false."
Her oval browned eyes twinkled gently as she smiled grimly. "He tried to hurt Colonel too. He wanted to end 'him'... I'm not gonna let that happen too."
She then pecked him on the cheek, before the camera's angle changed, backing from them.
So the chapter begins. What else could be the objective?
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WORLD 2.
"BOOM!"
Later, huge trailers exploded, blasting fire everywhere in the open asphalt floored parking lot area near an ocean bank at night.
From the source of impact, giant water waves cut through rushed, slicing big green, 12 feet lizard-like muscular creatures.
Approaching from there was Farouk! His eyes glowed amber as a giant battle axe came a mile away, chopping his arm. By the next second, it grew back before Stephen stepped forth from shadows where the weapon flew from.
With eyes sky blue, he clenched his fist with a big black gauntlet, alongside a matching flame on it, before a sharp punch, then - KPOOM! A massive shock of air surged, pushing Farouk back as he tumbled and crashed far from where he stood.
As he got up, Stephen posed atop a huge mound of earth risen with rocks beneath him, circling Farouk.
A blue fire ball flashed in hand as he glared.
"I've grown sick of it, Farouk… I really have." He harked, flexing arms. "And I'm not gonna let you mess up my plans to save me from World 1."
But the man just emanated a wave of water fast at him while he rose an oval dome of earth, holding hard impact as Farouk gritted.
He kept pushing a rapid and violent infinite blast of a water wall at Stephen. "You can as well keep being the self centred bully you've always been." Farouk hearsed. "But I'm gonna show you who's boss, like a freaking under-dog."
"KA-SPLOOSH!"
***
WORLD 1.
"KPOOM!"
Back at a huge, dark and unpainted concrete floored place in the spot lit dark, Gloria, in minimal special forces military gear pinned down Hammer in the same attire to the ground on her back.
With legs up in the air, time seemed to slow as Hammer grinned broadly, flashing teeth. As Gloria scowled shortly, her fierce frown loosened as her eyes did, gazing at the beast of a girl.
Instantly, flashbacks sparked, showing the subdued strapped to a hospital bed screaming with blue veins glowing from the arms with men in white coats around. Amber light flashed as her worried face flickered on-screen. The voices that rang. From her stares, they must have harked.
Meanwhile, she levitated from the ground, before Hammer turned her over, hard on Gloria's back.
As the victor cackled with her head high, she then landed blows on the fallen's face quickly, before biting sharply on her shoulder while Gloria wailed.
On release, Hammer laughed some more before a piercing shot followed. As she stopped with her eyes raised, the winner dropped forward.
"THUD!"
At that a quick transition occurred as the secondary dean's face dropped to the asphalt covered surface in the night.
Above her, Stephen from World 2 and Rusty, both in combat armour stood as the boy raised his hand.
"So what's your take on the experiments?"
"Not much, I guess." Rusty scratched his chin. "The good thing is though, or at least I hope to come to pass, is that Gloria survives the injuries H.Q has reported to me which Hammer gave her… Farouk would've been next, but to speed things up, Cindy will have to join."
"Yeahhh… about Watcher… does he really deserve all that?"
"I don't know what you feel about Watcher, but I tell you this… he is not worth it… I will still be abducting more people and younglings to be experimenting and he's no exception."
He stamped his foot. "Drats, the timer went out, but he teleporting mine is jammed."
"Don't worry, I think Victor is bringing back up from space." Stephen wiped his face. "But what's your deal? This seems personal to you… That's not how it's meant to be."
"Whatever." Rusty hissed, backing away. "What would you know about being out run by a girl?"
More like having platonic feelings for Hammer. .. dude you gotta stop playing.
"And you need to face it." Rusty pointed. "Farouk is nothing for you."
"Yeah, yeah." Stephen nodded. He then stared into the horizon.
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WORLD 1.
Meanwhile, across a huge meadow-like area with long blades of blue grasses coated around beneath the night sky, Victor, in a bionic metal white suit with dark green linings glowing like lava lamps, approached a horde of 10 soldiers at a stone throw distance from him.
They wore the same gear, but with orange coloured linings. In an instant, the wave rushed to him as big emerald like matching blades chucked out from bands as Victor did the same, before-.
"SLASH!"
Body parts flew as his arms dashed through them. During this, the moment seemed to slow down for him, as flashbacks of Griffin's death sparked with white vignettes, before a blow leaving a head dropping in green blood.
Victor glared cooly at the fallen, slipping his helm off before his beep then a buzz.
"Rusty here… The teleportation drill didn't work.. Unfortunately, the secondary dean managed to stop it before it could even begin the main process."
"That's no biggie." Victor hissed. "I'm already on my home planet. "I'm gonna take my loving wife to run the kingdom with me along with all the kaiju from the tournament I have acquired as well."
He thumped a metal staff in the ground.
"A show down for Earth and this book will come."
"With Stella as the new Lillian and Gold and Chigozie ceasing to exist."