There are no rules to war
10 years ago when Cydonia wasn't blinded by the lights of luxury, the city was humble. Matter of fact it was once considered to be the capital of education. Scholars, Masters and Researchers are commonly seen - serving as the backbone of the city's success.
On a fine morning, vibrant pink hair runs down on the sheets of the bed like a blanket, as the sunlight hits her face from the window, she opens her eyes as the dust from the light can be seen slowly landing on her cheeks.
As she got up from bed, the strands near her face were frizzy as one of her hairs was stuck to her mouth. Her eyes still drooped as the crusties made it difficult for her to fully open her eyelids. A gentle knock from the door is sound, followed by a muffled voice.
"Dear mistress! Are you up?"
The pink haired girl wipes her hair from her face and says this while rubbing her eyes "Er- yeah! I'm up! I'm up!"
"You're strangely up early today mistress! Anyway, breakfast is ready at the dining hall.
As she gets herself dressed with her undergarments she heads to the dining hall skating along the floor boards with her socks as skates. Upon arriving at the gigantic dining table filled with a various selection of breakfast options. Though these options consisted of vegetables, rice, and some mystery vegan meat
"D-do we have anything else?" the little girl said nervously
"Deeply sorry little mistress, your mother requested a healthier option"
"MOM?!"
Her mother can be seen typing on a split keyboard as the laptop was sitting right in front of it. Whilst her meal was in the middle of the split, though due to the size of the laptop her face is hidden from the little girl's view "You cannot be having sweets or meat, it will ruin your figure from perfection"
She pouted while looking at the side, along with tugging her shirt down as she asked "Where's dad anyway? He hasn't come home in 3 days now"
The mom answered "It seems your father has better things to do than talk to his wife, but don't you worry, I can reserve another funhouse for you after you get ho-"
The girl immediately cutting her off "No, I don't wanna"
The mom raises her head as her eyes are peaking on the top of the laptop, you can see that she raises one brow while she answers "Fine, you have a photoshoot instead, and don't even contest; I've already scheduled it.
The girl's expression became even more depressed as the maid lays down her meal
Fast forward to her changing room, while she was already dressed with her school uniform, 3 maids were attempting to braid her hair as it spanned for about over 8 feet long
"M- mistress, have you ever thought of cutting your hair?"
The girl answered "What do you mean? It's already cut!" The maids looked at each other with confusion in their eyes, one of them implied
"But little mistress, your hair still spans longer than the height of a basketball player. It wouldn't hurt to at least cut it a few feet off"
"Yeah but, mommy wouldn't like it, she said that I should keep my hair long, so when they cut it, they can give it to other people to make them happy"
Three of the maids looked at each other with worry in their eyes as the eldest among them asked "Have you ever asked where your hair goes when your mummy and daddy give it to other people?"
The child answered "Daddy said people pay to get some of my hair because I'm the only person who has this kind of hair in the world, I once heard that my hair was 'big money' from one of his friends - that means beautiful right?"
"Err…" The maids look at each other with anxiety in their faces as one of them even lets out a silencing gesture, insisting to lie to the girl "Oh! Of course! How could we forget, your mother always wanted you to look perfect!"
Her face suddenly turned long as she muttered "Hehe yeah - perfect"
Fast forward outside of the mansion as the honking of the school bus can be heard, the little girl emerges from the giant doors as she rushes towards the gate, The braid is impossibly thick, rope-heavy, reaching past her knees; the braid lashes behind her like a furious pink whip, trying to yank her back through the giant front doors.
Her uniform skirt flaps, sneakers slap puddles, backpack bounces so hard the zipper sings.
The school bus honks like an angry goose, exhaust coughing blue into the warm air
Inside the bus: a wall of noise—gum snapping, tinny music leaking from earbuds, the sour ghost of someone's tuna sandwich, sweaty socks, and cheap cherry body spray.
Finally she steps inside the bus, she could hear the chaos of the kids' voices, but as she got up to its main floor, they suddenly stopped in deafening silence, one even muttered "oh it's the pink girl"
While she walked inside, everyone was staring at her massive vibrant pink braid, one of them even murmured 'do you think it's taller than your dad?","how much do you think it weighs?","what is she? some kind of princess?" even more whispers as she walks around.
Seats squeak as kids slide away, creating an empty halo around the only free spot; the braid pools on the grimy floor like spilled paint when she sits.
During the ride, one of the students peeked behind their seats looking at the pink haired girl. "Yo! Your hair looks craaaazy cool! You're the new girl right?"
She quietly nodded. Then another student popped out of the seat and frantically said "Hey look! I'm cool too y'know" He pulls out a spoon as he levitates it When he levitates it, the spoon wobbles like a drunk hummingbird; everyone oohes anyway.
Then, the pink-haired girl said
"I can do that too actually" she took the spoon mid-air, She lifts one finger; the spoon rips from his control to hers, spinning so fast it becomes a silver disc that hums and distorts the air, a girl's pigtails lift as if caught in an invisible wind tunnel. Then she grabbed it to stop it from spinning, but it was too fast, so it nicked the palm of her hand, drops of blood smear across the leather lining of the gray seats.
She hisses, more surprised than hurt, and bends to pick it up from the sticky floor.
In seconds
While the bus was crossing a concrete bridge, a loud bang followed by orange balls of fire bloomed beneath the bridge, greasy black smoke, turning morning into sudden sunset.
Concrete screams and tears like old bread; chunks the size of cars drop into the river. The bus loses its traction over ground, as tires screech - leaving marks on the asphalt
The kids start panicking, some of them are even trying to get out from the window
Driver immediately leaves from the bus, but it was too late - the bus was already falling mid-air
"Don't you guys have magnetic powers?! Make the bus float!" One of the students yelled at the both of them"
It was too late, it was only milliseconds away from hitting the ground
*CRASH*
The vehicle imploded under its own weight, as she opened her eyes: blood ran down from her forehead, all she could see was a blurry image of the corpses of her potential classmates, slumped over the cushioned chairs. She couldn't keep awake, as the vertigo overtook her and caused her to lose consciousness.
"Is the camera ready?"
*CRACK* A loud whip crack can be heard as it tore through the skin of her stomach, the pink haired girl violently awoken, screaming in agony as blood from her torn skin drizzled down to her legs
"Take it easy, we need this bitch alive"
The girl looks around, but sees nothing but darkness, she couldn't even make out the faces she's hearing. Only a harsh light hitting over her head, as she looks below she finds out that she's actually naked. On the ground she can see her long strands of hair scattered over the cold concrete floor. A faint reflection of light can be seen on the camera's lens.
"Princess Potpurri Puffins"
She tries to break off the chains, but it's obviously futile for its girth "Where am I? Please let me go, my stomach hurts really bad. And my head feels like it's spinning."
As she looks up the finds out that both of her wrists are cuffed leaving her whole body dangling in the air
"Don't leave me hanging now! I will do the asking here! So little Princess, I hope you're aware of your dad's little stunt"
The both of despite the girl not being able to see his face
"Alright pinky, cut the crap just tell us where your dad is and we'll let you go"
"I- I don't know where he is, he's been gone for three days!"
*CRACK* a whip crack can be heard from her back at it gashes her skin from behind, she screams in pain as tears start to run down her eyes along with her mascara. Her body quivers in pain alongside the audible shudder from her voice.
"Stop crying now, look at me!" The man speaking emerged from the darkness to the light, he quickly latches his fingers to her cheeks and squeezes it. "I said look at me!" The girl couldn't speak properly as her cries overwhelmed her speech, she gags with each pause as heavy breaths followed
"I- told you- I- don't know-!" She still proceeds to sob in pain, with each bated breath she began to vomit, the sweat and tears became indistinguishable to her face while the mascara ran down to her chin "Pleeeeaaase- I wanna- go home
*CRACK* she screams in pain as the vomit filled saliva sprayed out from her teeth, her whole body shudders under the pain as the blood ran down from her back all the way to her toes
"Ahh - please stop pleeaaaase! I'll tell you everything I know please! I- just let me go pleeeeease!"
The same guy that whipped her asks "I wanna know, has he said anything, or uttered some words on where he's going before he left? Or have you at least asked him before he left?"
Her heavy breaths began to calm down as she tries to compose herself to answer "All I heard from him is that- no, right before dad left, him- and mom had a fight, but- I don't think it's because he's mad at dad…"
She sniffs away her snot but then coughed it out along with a streak of blood in it, as she continued talking
"It's like mom was trying to keep him from doing something, then the night before he left, he dug a hole in the basement. We haven't seen or heard from him in 3 days"
The face she was looking at, he smiled as he said "Wow, that was all I needed to know. Alright big guy wrap it up! I'm gonna go meetup with the boys cause I'm gonna go rat hunting!"
"But boss, what about her?"
The boss looks back at him "You know what? Since you've been a big help why don't you keep her entertained!"
Both of them laughed maniacally, while the boss was leaving the room, once he opened the door, it revealed both of their silhouettes against the light, the boss was small, but the other guy was huge.
The door closes and it was back to darkness
She suddenly hears the movement of clothing all the while the girl nervously says "C- can I go home now?"
Then she hears a metal thud hit the ground, and some shoes flying over the side "Haaaaaa~ no way princess we're just getting started"
Emerging from the darkness, is a greasy obese man fully nude, covered in body hair yet has a big bald spot on the top of his head, most prominently a highly detailed tattoo of a goat head getting stabbed by a knife right between the horns plastered on his abdomen. The girl visibly physically recoiled at the disgusting sight of it.
"NO! Don't come any closer! I'm begging you!"
As he approaches her, he gropes her waist with his two hands, he lays his finger on her flog wounds, she feels his touch sting as she wails "Please stop it! It hurts please!" he clenches his grip even tighter as she screams "Please LET ME GOOOO!"
"Ohhh~ you're pretty soft for a skinny girl"
Then he proceeds to lick her from her stomach to her neck, he is licking the blood and the sweat all together, licking the smears clean. She could feel the tongue scraping her wounds as she gags. She began to squirm to break his grip off of her.
In a second he does let go, but also a second later he manages to grab her by the neck, as all of his fingers can wrap its whole girth. Tears run down her eyes, but she gasped as soon as she felt it
The tip was already touching the lips
He creepily whispered in her ear with a breath that smelled rotten "Haaaaa~ your skin is so smooth and soft, it's not fair! So you're gonna squeeze me so fucking dry!" he said as he licked her chest as his drool drooped down his chin.
Then he grunts as he pulls her body down harder. While her neck was getting squeezed, she begged
"Oh god please no! I'm 8 years old, please don't do this mister! PLEASE MOMMY! DADD-"
As soon as it was in, the room was struck with a deafening silence
Followed by a whimper, his rod was now drenched in blood as it bulged within her stomach - slamming into her insides rearranging her guts. He starts dragging her body up and down
Each pump inside causing a tear inside her
She couldn't scream, but as soon as his grip on her neck began to loosen, her eyes dilated and began to vomit again.
As soon as the puke splashes on both of their bodies, he regains his grasp on her neck on the left hand and pulls her hair on the left as each aggressive pump mixes her guts up - running out of air, her vision slowly becomes darker.
And darker
And darker
To the point where she could only make out a slit of blurry light
In the dark, the light indicator of the camera still blinking, recording everything
Fast forward 10 years back to the present
In the middle of all the chaos
Claire is getting choked out by the impostor that invaded the clinic
Her face is turning purple and her veins began to bulge on her head as she's running out of air
Suddenly the impostor gets tackled along with his grip gone from her neck.
Claire immediately gets up coughing, as the blue hue on her face began to fade away. The same guard from the command center came to Claire's aid by pulling her hand to help her get up. "Miss, are you okay?"
Claire wiped off the dust on her face but it only smeared it further making it look like she got slapped with a dirty hand "I'm fine we need to help Poppy!"
But as soon as they looked at Poppy, despite her thin stature; she was wrestling with the impostor. But she was the one getting pinned.
He kept trying to punch her down on the face, but she managed to block 2 and dodge 3, then she punched him on the throat once, he wheezed as he recoiled, the both clinches broken, up but Poppy was still under, she saw the sheathed knife on his buckle - quickly swipes it and slits his throat open
Blood sprayed all over her face and her pajamas soaked with it. While the impostor's body drunkenly swayed and slumped over Poppy
"Pops, you alright?" Yelled Claire
Gassed-out; she lets go of the knife, as the impostor's body was still on top of her, she threw horn gestures with both of her hands as she raised it in the air and screams at the top of her lungs
"I AM THE CHOSEN ONE!" then she drops her hands on the floor as she pushes the impostor's corpse away, the guard tried to help along with Claire, though the guard uttered
"Sister Poppy, I need to tell you something"
She groaned "What is it?"
"I just recently checked outside, it seems that the prisoners are rioting in the main halls - prying open the main entrance outside"
"Well what're we waiting for? We need to check it now!" Claire and the guard proceeded to rush ahead. But they forgot one crucial detail.
"Er guys?!" Both of them looked at Poppy as she said "Man I'm gassed, Claire will you carry me?"
"Uhh… Yeah sur-"
Poppy proceeds to crawl with only her arms in breakneck speeds as she slithers her body around "AHH!" Both of the two girls standing got startled on how fast she can crawl.
"Don't do that again please" said Claire
The three of them rush towards the elevator, but while they're at it they see at least less than a hundred people clamoring to break open the main doorway of the church halls. Poppy sees this as she yelled "What the hell? How the fuck did it get this bad?"
The command center guard replied "Kremidal's been missing for 3 days as of today, without proper leadership; no one was there to overseer everything"
Poppy immediately followed up "Wait if Kremidal's not here, then who's the pontiff?!"
The guard answered with a straight face "Zephyr"
Poppy stretched her face down and exclaimed "Oh my god bruh, no fucking wonder this is becoming a shit show!"
However as they arrive to the elevator, the door's open and the shaft is cut, they see the pod disfigured all the way to the first floor, as shards of glass can be seen scattered there
"Shit, let's head to the command center!"
As they rush inside - Claire just stood there while the guard was scouring around the command board. At the back Poppy drops from Claire's shoulders and quickly crawls towards the computer chair, she grabs the mic, as he readies her finger to press announce.
Poppy asks "Sister, tell me who's occupying the main doorway?"
The guard replied "Err… Um- SSIA, DCD and DDD are handling it sister!"
Poppy grips her hair with both of her hands as she says "What the hell is SSIA doing there? Dang it! Open all communication devices for the officers!" she points at the comms board
The guard flips all the cases and flips all three buttons
Poppy pulls the mic closer to her as she broadcasts
"Calling the attention of all units, this Princess Pinky speaking! - SSIA keep an eye on all stations, make sure to skim through every worker, look for any tattoos that have any correlations to gangs and keep them contained!
DCD! Come with SSIA Look for any casualties, bring any injured persons affiliated to the church to external clinics immediately!
DDT! Deploy back-to-back phalanx positions, keep your eyes peeled for any outside forces attempting to breach, so stay in your positions!
Do you copy?!"
She ends the feed as they respond "YES PRINCESS PINKY MA'AM!" they all said in unison
Claire uttered "Princess Pinky?"
"Hehe that's just the codenames Kremidal gave us just in case stuff like this happens, oh that reminds me!" hastily starting the feed again
"Brothers and sisters! Have you eyeballed Baby Eagle in the squabble?"
"Baby Eagle?" Claire murmured
"That means Zephyr, he's a little bit of a dick, but you'll meet him later"
"Zephyr?"
"I know right? Why would you name your kid after a gale of wind?"
Suddenly one of the guards answered on the feed "This is SSIA personnel; Baby Eagle is last seen in the elevator, after that we just heard a loud crash"
The command center guard said "Oh crap, maybe the reason why the-"
She's immediately cut off by Poppy as she said "Mavis is the name right?" the command center guard nodded in agreement "Sister Mavis I'm gonna need you to stay here, I'll be giving orders on the field, I'm gonna need you to watch our back through the CCTVs while we head downstairs. Are we clear sister Mavis?"
"Ma'am! Yes! Ma'am!"
Poppy turns the chair towards Claire and as she raises her arms towards her, she says with a high-pitched voice "Uppies! <3"
Claire snickers and turns her back against Poppy - Claire squatting down as Poppy grabs and hangs onto her shoulders, before she could climb Claire exclaimed "Wait! I have an idea" she started stripping down her pants then Poppy exclaims
"Woah! Watch it! Your butt cheeks almost grazed my face"
"Sorry, it's just really hard to move in these pajamas" She proceeds to tear parts of her pantaloons "Pops, turn you back against me" as she turns around Claire hands her the cloth as she said
"Wrap it around your waist" as she does, she hands the other end of the cloth to Claire, she tightened the cloth and stood up
"Ho yeah! Ready for back to back action!"
But Poppy tapped her shoulders as she said "Um… Sorry to burst your bubble but-" As Claire looked behind she noticed that Poppy's legs are dragging on the ground due to how short Claire is, Poppy said
"Ugh - Sister Mavis, a little help please"
Claire loosens the tie as Mavis lifts Poppy's body up just for the tie to position on Poppy's hips, then Claire tightens the knot as Claire exclaims "Gross! We're like some kind of conjoined twins!"
"You can still kick, right? Be my legs, I'll handle the rest - you do know how to dodge yeah?"
Claire scoffs "Heh, hundred bucks if I even get the slightest graze?"
Poppy exclaims "You're on!"
Mavis informs the both of them with urgency in her voice "Sister it seems that the riot is overpowering baby eagle, he's gonna need some extra hands to throw"
Poppy's face looked hesitant, even neglectful "Nahhh… I'm good"
Mavis locked eyes with her eyebrows, glaring her down while pouting
Poppy exclaims "FINE! I'll save his sorry ass! C'mon mount! Let us charge in the heat of battle!" she smacks Claire's butt like a horse
"Neigh!"
Fast-forward to the path towards uhh… somewhere I guess
"Wait Pops where are we going?" asked Claire while she was running
"We're heading to the fire exit, Imma tell you which direction, if they get too close Imma need you to throw hands!
Claire asked while panting "Well watch my back, they could be creeping from behind"
Poppy shouts "Left!" Claire stops on a dime then turns left, but as soon as she took a few steps one the people from the mob stops her on their tracks, then another one from behind sprints towards them.
Claire charges forward, the man attempts to swing on her, but she pivots and throws a knee to his stomach then pushes him aside as he falls from the balcony, the one behind was catching up to them.
But Poppy revealed that she's actually been carrying throwing knives strapped onto her thighs, grabs one each in between her fingers and lobs them towards the man's face. Each one sticking to his face - he didn't even flinch!
"Your toothpicks are nothing to me!" he yelled
"I hope you like them flavored then!" Poppy yells as she points with finger-guns with both of her hands, then her thumb does a hammer-slamming motion and the knives explode on his face.
His head obliterated as his body drunkenly waddles aside falling towards the balcony as well
"Claire left again!"
She pivots to the right as her sneakers screech like a jet. She sees the glowing, green fire exit sign "Pops I see the sign!" The door stopped her in her tracks, she tries turning the door knob but it's no use. "Pops, it's locked!"
"Shit hang on, lemme radio the access from Mavis!" But suddenly Poppy noticed that Claire's body tilted backwards, then hears a loud metallic bang, almost half of the mob noticed the sound, as one of them shouts
"They're calling for backup! Go upstairs!"
The fire exit was open as Poppy asked "Yo what did you do?"
Claire shouted behind her while she's climbing down the stairs "I kicked it down!"
Poppy looks from behind as she exclaims "But only Kremidal is able to kick those things down!"
But then they hear the gallops of the prisoners climbing towards them, with each second their steps go louder as Claire shouts "Er- Poppy we've got company up front!"
Poppy hands out the throwing knives from her thigh and hands it to Claire from the back "Here take these! Just throw them to the farthest guy, if you can throw some hands I'd happily let you - it doesn't matter if you miss em' I'll handle the rest!"
Claire bounces the first knife on the ceiling and it hits the top of the bald head of one of them, Poppy uses her fingers to blow it up.
One of them got pushed by the explosion - immediately charging at Claire, she blocks the overhead punch - spins behind to deliver a thunderous side kick hitting him clean on the chin
Poppy sees this and is in utter awe.
As the man's body rolled down on the staircase, some other goons followed yet some of them tripped on the rolling body.
Claire; having the opportunity to throw 2 knives, both of them are body shots, but one of them got close to Claire. So she kicks them down with a teep, but they grab her leg at the last moment.
She loses her balance as she falls on her back, but Poppy was able to break the fall with her arms; sweat drips from her nose and chin as she's barely holding the both of them together as her arms are shaking.
Claire asks from behind "You good!?"
Poppy replied as groaned "Argh! How the hell are you heavier than me?!"
Claire bucks her legs towards the guy that pulled her, Poppy snaps her elbows closed thus launching themselves forward, knocking the mob like bowling pins.
Most of them are still conscious, Claire sprints over their heads, each step has her sneakers smack on their heads, as each step is made an audible sound of pain can be heard, sone of them even tries to reach for her legs again, "Hah! Pops, a little help!"
"I gotchu homie!" but Poppy just stops them by stabbing right into their hands followed by a blood curdling scream of a man.
Aggressively - while Claire is sprinting, Poppy throws her seemingly endless knives on the piles of breathing bodies on the staircase. Finally Claire has landed at the bottom of the stairs, as she lands dust can be seen brushed from the side as her sneakers screeched so loud it can be heard in the whole grand hall.
"Yo C! 'You might wanna cover your ears" she says as she points both of her finger-guns at the staircase as she says quietly "Kaboom…" half of the flight of stairs explodes as red orbs of fire engulfed the whole area, but Poppy also noticed that the explosion is crawling close towards them, then she yells "Run C!"
"Wha- what's happening?" As soon as Claire turns around, she sees the fire just a yard away, her eyes dilate as she quickly turns around and starts running like there's no tomorrow "GO GO GO!" Yelled Poppy
Within seconds Claire unties the pajamas that wraps them together then proceeds to lift Poppy's whole body over her head, Poppy nervously asks "wait what are you doing?"
"Imma need you to roll Pops!"
"Wai- wai- wai- WAIT!" Claire spun around grabbing Poppy from the waist as she threw her whole body out of the exit room. As her body was flung through the exit door, she landed then rolled around the rubble. In a brief moment Poppy lifts herself up with her arms, her expression changed with panic in her eyes as she looks behind and yells "Claire! Where are you! Cla- oh there you are" She found her further away from her, indicating the explosion flung her father than Poppy.
Quickly she crawls to her safety "Claire! Wake up!"Suddenly someone pulled her hair from behind, then pulled her body close to his body, choking her with his arm in the process. She kept elbowing the man on the sides, but that did nothing but tighten his grasp.
She kept stabbing him, but it seemed to barely do damage, but then she sees a group close in on Claire - with bated breath Poppy yells "No! Stay away from her!" veins on her forehead began to bulge as her face was turning purple.
But suddenly a steel pole came vertically rolling rapidly in a curve towards Claire. It split the crowd that was closing in on her, thus shifting the focus on the steel pole, as it ounces off the wall, it ricochets back like a bullet.
Suddenly the grip on Poppy's body began to loosen, only to reveal that there's a hole punched through the guys head like a cookie cutter. He drops Poppy's body along with him. As she looks behind, she sees Zephyr standing all while his left leg is soaked in blood visible through his pants as he exclaimed
"Didn't Kremidal tell you to stay in your rooms!?"
Poppy claps back with "Aren't you supposed to be an acting leader while he's gone!?"
Zephyr looks behind him as he witnesses the stairs and fire exit completely obliterated. He slowly looks at Poppy while saying
"What… the FUCK did you do!?"
"What? Did you think I was just gonna let the two of us die?"
"You didn't have to destroy a *voice crack* quarter of the church!?"
"I don't know, maybe that's a valid response when a whole mob is charging at you!"
"GIRLS!" the both of them suddenly stopped fighting to stare at Claire
"You two are fighting like pussies when we've got bigger fish to fry!"
They realize that the whole mob is closing in on them, suddenly Zephyr's radio receives a feed
"Baby eagle! Come in - Baby Eagle this is DDT! Leader speaking"
Zephyr picks it up as he responded "Baby Eagle's occupied"
"Sir we need some assistance sir! we're being overwhelmed on both ends, there's a gigantic iron man ravaging the front!"
Zephyr speaks on the radio closer as he yells "Stop him at all costs we-" Poppy suddenly swiped his radio "Don't try and fight them, if you think you can't hold them off it's best for you guys to retreat!"
Zephyr swipes back his radio and yells "What do you think you're doing!?"
Poppy responded "We can't afford to lose any more men! Besides, they're already charging in the hole we punched!"
Zephyr sternly pointed at Poppy "That was- You caused those holes in the 1st place!" Suddenly one of the guys from the mob tries to suckerpunch Zephyr - he catches the punch as the knuckles smacking on his hand can be heard throughout the hall. He looks at the guy straight to his eyes and says
"I think you all need to be reminded why you're prisoners here, and why you're locked in here with us"
He grabs the guy's two fingers and breaks it sideways, the guy screams as Poppy throws a knife to his face to blow up his head, looks at Poppy and shouts "Ugh! Gross! You could've at least given a head's up!", Zephyr pulls out the same steel bar that went flying earlier and uses his kinetic energy to slam the bar straight into the guys stomach, slicing his body in half with sheer blunt force.
"It's a hundred of us and only 3 of them! KILL THEM!"
Poppy shouts at Zephyr asking "Yo pontiff!" Zephyr darts his eyes towards her
"Baby Eagle - permission to inflict collateral damage!"
"Duck for cover then!" Zephyr slams the tip of the metal rod on the concrete floor, sending a shockwave throughout the entire hall, metal shards scattered around them, as it hits every single prisoner that surrounds them. Then he shouts "Princess Pinky -
Permission granted!"
Poppy lets out a shit faced grin, then punches the ground, in a few seconds nothing happens as everyone including her team stared in silence as one of the mob mutters "Uhh… Nothing's ha" - then KABOOM!
All together, the prisoners' bodies explode into a ground-beef. The explosion is so strong that only fire and red mist of blood surrounds the 3 of them - they briefly lose their sense of hearing. While they were briefly deaf, Claire noticed the rubble on the ground shaking; for every second it seemed the quake was getting stronger and stronger.
The radio from Poppy statics-out as the voice of Mavis can be heard while the line is choppy "S- Sister!-- something's disrupting —- I need to warn you —- All DDT personnel are… —- Town level threat is coming —-" Then the radio cuts off
As the rest of them noticed, loud footsteps can be heard outside. Then suddenly it got silent… then BOOM! A cloud of dust exploded from the grand entrance, within the cloud the church doors suddenly came out flying. The giant doors flew like they weighed noting - moving in an arc, but as it's about to land the girls noticed that it was about to hit them
Zephyr sprints forward somersaulting over the two girls and splits the flying door in half by using his shoe with an axe kick, ricocheting the two pieces aside. Claire looks at him, and notices that one of his feet is smoking and his shoe is gone - He looks back at them to say "Hey Phoenix!" - Claire looks up - "That's your name right? You okay?"
Claire nodded yes, but seconds after; the quaking footsteps continue, a gigantic shadow looms toward them, only for the dust cloud to reveal a gigantic armored being.
A flash of red can be seen on the helmet's visor as vocoded words can be heard
"The GOAT is here!"