Lay-Low
1049 Words
The harnesses unbuckled themselves, allowing the team to safely fall.
Vanessa was laying god knows where when Hakim's hand lightly smacked her face, "We have to keep going".
She tried to raise up too quickly and fell over, "Okay... I think... we need to press pause".
"Bro, for real," said Jeff.
Jeff's door slammed open, and a hand dragged him out, "Get out"!
Hakim began squirming as Vanessa looked up at the yeller.
Andres poked his head in, "I said get out! Come on Vanessa! You're stronger than that"!
He opened a rear door and lifted her to her feet once she was out. Andres was suited in all black with a rifle in his left hand and a sword at his hip.
He easily began directing, ignoring their wounds, "Vanessa, get in the front! Jeff, stay behind me! Hakim, stay behind Vanessa and focus on finding traps"!
Before Vanessa could even pull her sword out, Andres was yelling, "Go"!
"What about that girl?" she asked.
Hakim answered, "She's dead! Just go"!
A light flashed from behind. Andres looked back at the man from earlier. His hands had a dark aura around them which contrasted the shining crystal above. The guy appeared to be some kind of emperor, decorated in thick gold armor.
Andres viewed down his scope and shot him multiple times while gliding towards him, "Hakim, keep watch! Jeff, get to firing! Vanessa, back up Hakim"!
White beams strung out of the crystal. They were pretty slow. Likewise, a barrier formed around the emperor.
Andres led them closer. His commands were loud and short. It felt like he literally controlled every 10 feet of travel.
The beaming lights got close a few times, but never hit. He made sure Jeff was still firing at the barrier while controlling the team. It cracked after a while.
"Vanessa, hit him with fire!" shouted Andres, "All you got girl"!
She was a little confused, yet didn't hesitate to charge her blade with fire. Red incantations surrounded her feet. Everyone felt her heat.
"We got a beam coming at us!" yelled Hakim.
Andres directed with his hands, "Jeff, keep shooting. Hakim, make sure you get Jeff out the way! Vanessa, you got this"!
The flames engulfing her sword blazed out as she drew it back. The light beam was only a few yards away. The barrier was near broken.
Vanessa swung her sword forward, releasing a s***h of flames that instantly grew to cover the entire area. The condensed flames blocked their vision from seeing the emperor.
However, there was a beam nearly hitting them.
Hakim grabbed Jeff's left shoulder, to run him out of the way, "Keep shooting"!
Meanwhile, Vanessa ran by their side, looking out for any other traps. As for Andres...
The barrier was hit hard by the flames, blocking his vision from accurately using his traps. Through the cracks, flames reached in to burn him.
The emperor sustained the burns. It was when one of Jeff's bullets finally broke through the barrier that he knew he was in serious trouble.
Andres burst the burning cracks as though it was mere glass. He swung his buttstock into the emperor's head before shooting him. Lastly, he decapitated him.
The crystal above shattered along with the barrier itself. All of the traps disappeared. Everyone watched as the flames withered away with Andres standing there, letting the shards bounce off his armor.
He walked over, keeping a look out for any other enemy.
Vanessa clapped, "Yaaay, we beat them".
"We need to find a healer," said Hakim.
Andres lifted his chin, "How many are there"?
Jeff shook his head, "Only three as far as we know".
Andres nodded, "Let's see if we can find a healer. Hakim, keep sensing out anybody nearby. We'll keep the same for-".
An odd spear-like weapon made of fire struck Andres' head. In his fall, he cast shield on the team. Many other flame formed spears struck against the shields.
A man with a pole ran at them. Each swing launched another pole with a rectangular blade at the end. Though it wasn't fatal due to Andres' shields, it still pushed Hakim and Vanessa away.
Jeff was scared of the odd pole weapons slamming into him. He couldn't bring himself to raise his weapon.
Once the near, he coated his pole in flame to create the square blade on it and dug into Jeff's shield.
With a c***k in his face and blood spilling out, Andres shot the man before he stuck Jeff with his banishing attack.
Bullets came like air into the man's body until Andres' mag was empty. Like before, once the man fell, he was decapitated.
Andres took a knee, "Get down. Everybody make a hasty circle".
He directed everybody into position to face outboard, "Stay alert. Catch your breathing. We're gonna have to take this slow".
Andres glanced at Hakim, "Sorry man. I should've sensed them out myself".
No matter how hard Andres sensed out, he could barely find anybody much less someone to pose a threat. The gauze he held on the cut on his face worked enough to hinder the bleeding.
15 minutes in, Jeff shook his head, "Yo-ho, this is wild".
Andres still couldn't sense anything. He could detect dead bodies, hamsters, and a few straggling players nearby. But no threats nor high power levels.
"I think that's it," he said standing up.
Andres shook his head, "We gonna need to lay low a bit and keep you out of the game unless we have a full squad, ya' know"?
"Any idea who it could be?" asked Hakim.
Andres shrugged his shoulders, "It's not the Sister nor El Chales I think. Let's get you out of the stadium and see what we can find".
Vanessa looked around at the destruction that was made of her hard work, "M-maybe we can get Logan to help".
Both Andres and Hakim shook their heads with Andres answering, "Nah. He's too busy handling stuff for June. We'll try to get him to help us next month or whenever".
Jeff nodded while calling a reality check, "Well, looks like I'm out for the month. Let me know what yall find".
Andres smiled, "Don't worry. We'll let you know when we get these guys banded".
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