The Metal Condition
Chapter 52: The Wolf: Carving the path to peace
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As Lisa's army or Proxies began to charge towards us I raised one of my wings to give the command to attack, but before I could even give the order the first few rows of the attackers were completely destroyed by a large wave of blue transparent swords, much like Luna would use. They just kept rapidly shooting into the monsters bodies, causing them to collapse as corpses on the ground. When the barrage ended I looked to my side, not finding Metal who was there only a second before.
I looked up and saw him with multiple lunar blades circling him as he glared down at the Proxies. He then grabbed two of them in his hands and the others disappeared. If that was the extent that he could use a copied ability to, I could wonder what he would be capable of if he were to copy my shouts.
“You take care of the Proxies…” Metal began as he sighted his target. “...I'm going straight for Lisa.”
“I hope you have a plan for when you get in there, I don't want to end up fighting you as well.”
He just glanced at me for a second before shaking his head. “Just focus on the enemy, if I can't get her to see reason I have a backup plan.”
“And that is?” I asked. If we were going to work together, I needed to know what he was planning.
“You'll find out if it comes to that.” He merely stated as he landed and began walking towards the army with the blades in his hands.
I just shook my head and roared, signaling my Proxies to charge.
I looked to Lisa who had her eyes on Metal as he approached, both staring each other dead in the eye with a certain determination and understanding, as if they were talking just by looking at each other.
As the Proxies clashed around us Metal merely smacked one away with a backhand and kept his pace. I took to the skies and charged a large group of the growing number of Lisa's minions and blasted them with a large breath of fire.
A few jumped up behind me and bit down on my wings, causing me to fall to the ground. Before they could begin tearing at my flesh I turned my head around and used a shout to force them off.
”FUS RO DAH!”
As they flew off from the force of the shout I spat out multiple fireballs which followed them before landing a hit. I grunted in pain as one of the Proxies jumped onto my back and stabbed its claw straight through my scales. I turned my head around to attack only for another Proxie to shot a beam of dark energy into my mouth, causing an explosion.
As I stumbled the army of creatures began to pile onto me. My own Proxies were busy with the others and two Proxies holding my mouth open prevented me from shouting. As I struggled i saw a bright red light shining through the gaps in between monsters.
“CHAOS...BLAST!!!”
The Proxies were incinerated by a wave of red chaos energy. I looked up to see Metal floating above me in the centre of the wave.
“Get up, we’re losing too many of our Proxies, see what you can do to try to even the odds while I make a break for Lisa.” He instructed before shooting off in the direction of the slenderwoman.
“Alright, I’ll see what I can do!” I called back before taking to the skies.
{Metals POV}
I came to a halt as a large Proxie blocked my path to Lisa. It lunged forward to try and trap me in its jaw, instead it received a fist going mach two to the face, knocking its head clean off.
I threw a blade behind me to stab a Proxie that tried to sneak up on me before moving my head to the side to avoid a tendril being shot at me. I grabbed the outstretched tendril in my hand and curdled into my spindash. The Proxie was repeatedly slammed into the ground as I spun in place with the tendril in my grasp.
I unfurled myself and began to spin the Proxie around, knocking down multiple other monsters in the process before launching it into the air and blasting it with a chest beam.
I turned to lock eyes with Lisa again, who just smirked and snapped her fingers, causing a horde of huge Proxies to appear around her, all looking at me.
“Why don't I give you the challenge you deserve? After all, if we're going to be spending eternity together I need to know that you can fight a real battle.” She said sadistically with a seductive tone.
I shook my head to free myself of whatever kind of spell she was trying to cast. “I've been fighting God-like beings all day today, what's a swarm of cannon fodder?”
“Good question.” She giggled before flicking a tendril, causing all the larger Proxies to begin charging me.
As they got closer and closer I shut my eyes and readied my fists. As the one at the front of the horde was about to strike me I spoke two words. “Chaos Control.” Time completely stopped around me, everything and everyone frozen in place.
I quickly sped about the large Proxies and planted explosive dummy rings on each of them. I then went back to my original place and readied one of the rings in my hand to start the chain reaction.
As I deactivated Chaos Control everything slowly began to turn to normal. As the Proxie was just about to touch me I threw the ring at his face. It exploded on impact, causing his to explode as well, which in turn caused a chain reaction.
Soon a path was cleared to Lisa who was looking at my unimpressed. “Chaos Control...really? What kind of guy cheats like that?”
"I prefer to get things done quickly." I responded simply as I continued walking towards her. “You know for someone who wants to turn me to the darkness you seem more keen on destroying me rather than bringing me to your side.”
“You can't blame a girl for wanting to have a little fun before things got serious can you? Besides, it looks to me as if you're giving yourself up?” She began to walk forward, two Proxjes close behind her.
“Yeah, it's pretty useless to try and fight at this point, you'll just keep spawning these things, we'll tire out eventually. Plus, I'm wanting a little revenge on the multiverse for everything it has taken from both of us.” I answered as I reached her. She looked down at me with those empty eyes, I could feel her smirk.
“Well, this certainly makes things easier for me. Now...come here you, I'm making you mine right here, right now.” She leaned down and grabbed me by the torso, bringing me up to eye level. She stared at me for awhile before gently placing her lips on mine, staring to link our minds together.
’Gotcha.’ As we began to enter each other's minds, I pushed her out of mine and forced myself into hers. It was time to break her out of this nightmare, and I swear to whatever God is watching this that if there is another damn villain or possession after this I'm tearing this wired to shreds.
She tried to stop me but failed, I had ceased control. Her Proxies ignored everything, not getting any commands from their master, so they just went on to fight the other Proxies and Auldin.
’Hang in there Lisa, I'm coming for you, I'll fix this.’ With one final push I was able to reach into her mind fully. Now, just to find her in this corrupted labyrinth.
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