The First: EVO Uprising (47 page)

With will and adrenaline pushing him, his new form allowed him to get to her before she got to Rogers, blindsiding her with a powerful flying shoulder charge that even she could not see or block.

The energy charged strike detonated like a micro supernova tearing through the base, knocking everyone off their feet while sending the mystery woman tearing through the other side of the base.

Adrian, Angie, and Jennifer all huddled together on the ground to cover a badly-injured Rosann from the explosion.  

A groaning, yet still alive, Abe caught in the middle of the blast fought to his feet. Smoke wafted from his body from first degree burns that quickly healed via his regenerative abilities. Through his blurry vision that slowly cleared up, Oliver, still crackling in his blue and white electrical plasma form, stood defensively facing the direction he believed he knocked their powerful intruder.

“
She’s not dead.” Oliver glanced his way.

“
Then let’s get the hell out…”Abe commanded.

“
It’s too late. I can feel her, she’s coming,” Oliver shot back, “you guys got to run now! I’ll buy us sometime!”

Abe was about to admonish Oliver, ordering him to screw the heroics and get his ass in gear with the rest of them, until he heard the rumbling starting to get closer.

“
Go Sergeant! Go!” Oliver frantically screamed. “I’ll be right behind you! Go!”

Rogers reluctantly nodded as he motioned to Adrian, who was cradling his sister in his arms, to start running. Both men reluctantly turned back giving their team member one final hard look before running to the central command with the android sisters following.  

Oliver stood trembling, not just because he felt the pain from his possible fractured arm which was caused while knocking the female powerhouse across the base, but because fear was swimming around in his gut. His chances of walking away from this were greatly against him, but he had to hold the line for his team to escape and survive to fight another day.

As he predicted, she returned in a matter of seconds. He wasted no words as he focused drawing power from the base again to reach his deep blue hue form again. Her obnoxious smile unsettled him as he unleashed a barrage of streaming bolts at her.

She covered up, weathering through heat ten times hotter than the sun, before bolting. Oliver’s hat trick was unsuccessful the second time around. Not only was his most powerful shots ineffective against her, she was terrifyingly faster than him.

Oliver found himself once again in the grip of another woman, and the motherly aura he felt from Sophia was nowhere in the woman with the eerie yellow glowing eyes. She creeped him out as she appeared to be checking him out.

“
My… you’re cute,” she savagely grinned.

“
And you’re an ugly ass…” he uttered.

The pressure she applied to his throat silenced him, sending him into a gagging fit.

“
Please baby, that’s the anger and adrenaline talking,” she scoffed. “I know I look hot.”

“
If you’re going to kill me,” he said, “then… do it.”

“
Kill the tough talk, handsome.” She narrowed her eyes. “No one is anxious to die… especially you.”

Her free hand began to crackle and snap as the power within her seeped from her pores, forming a ball of energy within her hand. She aimed it in the direction the rest of the Regulators fled to.

“
No,” Oliver groaned, struggling.  “What are you doing? No!”

“
Proving a point,” she smirked.

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Erica spun around to the opening of the central command doors. Rogers stormed in with Adrian holding his sister and the android twins.

“
Where’s Oliver?” she frantically looked around.

“
Buying us time,” Rogers said.

“
What?” she yelled back. “You left him?”

“
He stayed so we could live!” he shot back. “Did you reach Dennison?”

“
We had to do some rerouting after that last blast,” Erica reported, “we’re attempting to connect now!”

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Thousands of miles away, Sophia was in cruise mode two miles off from her island. Her little joy flight had expelled the anger and frustration within her after her encounter with her younger sister, Gemma.

Her thoughts right now were on Kimberly and spending the rest of the day with her. She’d break the news to her over dinner about how happy and excited her grandmother was to find out about her and that she would be seeing her grandparents for the first time tomorrow as well as spending the weekend with them.

She began making plans in her head to take her back to the states to do some shopping early tomorrow, so she would have some presentable clothing that she could pick out herself.  

“
Excuse me, Ms. Dennison.” Vincent came in through her earpiece breaking her train of thought. “Ms. Champion is hailing you. It appears to be urgent.”

“
Put her on,” she answered.

“
Sophia!” Erica screamed.

Her distressed voice rattled her, forcing her out of midflight. She regained her bearings and came to an instant hover in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

“
What is it? What’s going on?” she asked frantically.

 “
Tell me you have some long lost sister with your exact powers!” she yelled into the earpiece.

Her words brought a gruesome shiver to her entire body.

“
No… I do not,” she answered nervously.

“
Then you need to get here fast!” she shrieked, “because there is a white clone of you tearing the Ranch apart! She also broke out…”

 “
Another massive power buildup,” Maxine announced, “trajectory is aimed in our direction!”

“
Drop us, Maxine! Drop us now!” Erica screamed.

Abe did not have the chance to ask what she meant by drop as the entire central command went into a freefall descent. Seconds after it dropped, Oliver screamed as he watched the woman once again unleash a powerful Earth-shaking blast that ripped through the base atomizing everything in its path including the main door to the central command. Had it still been there everything and everyone within it would have been vaporized to less than ash.

A thunderous booming sound shot through the earpiece causing Sophia to jolt. The line became silent.

“
Erica? Erica!” she frantically screamed.

She exploded across the sky flying at supersonic speeds in the direction of the Ranch. The nausea of fear pushed her to fly even faster as she raced to California. She prayed Lady Tech was wrong. She prayed that the dead had not risen.

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The elevator converted central command continued to plummet down the cylindrical shaft as everyone human and non-human clung onto something to prevent from hitting the roof. Adrian, still in a transformed metal state, held onto his sister, while Angie, stooped down, magnetically locked her feet into the floor holding onto him.

“
Nearing two mile mark in twenty seconds. Preparing to slow down,” Maxine reported. “I am also detecting falling rock debris within shaft.”

The electro-magnetic stabilizers located on the four sides became brakes, slowing the drop of the central command down the cylindrical shaft. Falling boulders and rubble caught up to it violently slamming against the roof. The center violently shook as tons of debris piled up on the top of the roof compromising its descent.

“
Electro-magnetic stabilizer one is no longer functioning,” Maxine relayed. “Stabilizer three functioning at twenty percent. Please brace for possible impact.”

The central command slammed violently into the ground jolting everyone. Their troubles were not over as they hit the floor covering their heads. Parts of the shaft along with boulders, rock, and dirt rained down in the tons burying the central command. Everything went black for a second before the red emergency lights booted up.

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Back up top, Oliver continued to groan and struggle in the grip of the blonde dreadlocked woman as the three formally captured members of the Zombie Nation surrounded him.

“
I’ll kill you!” he whimpered, clawing the air to get to her. “You bitch! I’ll kill you!”

She increased her grip on his throat making his body stiffen up as he struggled to breathe. With a slight flex of her arm, her hand began to glow siphoning energy from him through the pores of her skin. Her eyes glowed brighter as she nourished enough energy to drain him down to his blue and white form.  

“
No need to get uppity baby. You will be joining your team very soon.”

She pulled him closer to whisper in his ear.

“
Do you know why energy wielders like you die when you drain them of all their power?” she softly asked.

He groaned to break free of her iron grip knowing what was coming next.

“
It’s because the power within you is the same energy that allows you to function and live,” she smirked. “The electricity running through your nervous system and brain is all the same. So when that is drained… all brain function and vital organ slowly shut down. I understand it’s a very terrifying way for your type to die.”

She flexed her arm a bit tighter, causing her hand to glow brighter. Oliver frantically yelled, struggling to break free as the power within him was painfully being ripped away from him and into her.

She was right, he did not want to die. He did not want to leave this world, his family, his new family. Most importantly, he did not want to leave her. He had so much to say, so much to tell her, and this woman was taking it all away from him with a smile.

His plasma form went from bluish-white to his regular white form before disappearing. As his breathing became difficult due to his lungs failing, his eyes began to flicker as he weakly struggled to break free. Even his falling tears did not sway her from taking his life as she looked him dead in the eyes.

His eyes went cold, his body limp, as she squeezed every spark of power out of him until there was just a shell to release.

No one even winced as his body hit the floor.

Her eye shined brighter from the power she absorbed from a lifeless Oliver. She looked intoxicated as she glanced at her glowing hand crackling with a red electrical discharge before powering it down.

“
She’ll be here any minute, so I will go up first to distract her,” she commanded. “Asses back to the base, and wait there till I return. Understood?”

They all nodded as she took off flying back up through the massive tunnel that she made to the top. The Draugr and Nachzehrer used their powerful legs to leap to the surface, while the Ghoul used his speed to run pass them all the way back to the top. They all waited inside what was left of the hanger as the mysterious blonde powerhouse was the first to exit as planned.

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Sophia’s heart quickened as she flew up to see the black smoke wafting from the obliterated hanger. She touched down throwing off the backpack her mother gave her as someone emerged from it.

The blood in her veins began to burn as the woman got closer and closer. Her eyes and hair were indeed different, she looked much stronger, but there was no mistaking that obnoxious sadistic smile as she confidently swaggered over to her.

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I know! I know!” #3 grinned throwing her hands up. “For a woman who was suppose to die screaming, I look damn good, right?”

Her whole world became white as she detonated the air around her taking flight. An inaudible sound of blind rage emitted from her lips sent animals within earshot running for cover as she propelled herself toward the woman she knew as #3. Surprisingly, #3 stood her ground as she prepared to take a hit equivalent to ten thousand exajoules of force.

The impact unleashed a sonic boom sound similar to a mini-nuke as Sophia struck #3 with a flying shoulder tackle taking both of them airborne. The speed she was moving at was beyond Mach 20.  Blinded by rage, she lost track of direction.  Her focus was set on putting #3 through the largest structure within her vicinity, which at her current speed took her halfway around the world and straight toward the Matterhorn.

In one strike, the most renowned mountain bordering Switzerland and Italy was shattered. Massive chunks of mountain rained down while causing an avalanche obliterating everything in its path.

The ride did not stop as a reckless Sophia sent them crashing into the  heart of the Forest Fun Park bringing down trees with zip lines and other structures. Visitors and tourists ran and screamed searching for safety, while those within the aerial tramways, bawled and cried clinging onto whatever they could grab to hold onto including one another as it swayed back and forth.