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Ashen Star Streak Lab. (Few hours before Stryder woke up)
Duncan walks into the lab, seeing his teammate Percy analyzing multiple destroyed robots. Percy had dirty blond hair with black dye at the bottom. His iris eyes were sky blue with black pupils. He wore a gray shirt with dark gray linings, dark gray pants and dark gray and yellow high tops. He had wings, but they looked more cybernetic and non-bird-like.
“Yo Percy, what's the news you wanted me to see?” Duncan said, getting Percy’s attention. Without a word, Percy showed Duncan the destroyed robots that attacked Downtown Aivel.
“This is what I wanted to show you. I’ve been looking up the codes and seeing where I can find them.”
Duncan looked at the screen lost and confused. “So I'm basically looking at numbers and crap.”
“NO! What you're looking at my friend, is the source, and I found the source.” Percy said as he showed a picture of a flying warship with robots flying towards it on the big screen.
“Sorry I’m late Percy, went to visit Stryder.” The two turned around, seeing a girl walking in. Her eyes were the same as Stryder’s, but her hair was a dark yellowish brown mix with caramel hair color, with honey-brown dyed hair color at the bottom. She wore a black jacket, with a white crop top shirt underneath, light blue shorts with long fishnet leggings underneath and stylish long pink and white running shoes and white gloves.
“What are you doing here, Strella? Shouldn’t you be with your new teammate?” Duncan asked.
“I was called by Percy to come here, and since Stacy is giving Zuri a tour, I had nothing else better to do.” Strella chuckled.
“Fair.” Duncan nodded.
“So, is this where the robots are coming from?” Strella asked, looking at the screen.
“Yes, and I got permission from Pavel to let you go and attack, Strella.” Both Duncan and Strella looked surprised at Percy's answer.
“Hold up, She gets to go? Why not me!?”
“Because me and you are not fully healed yet. And one of our co-leaders needs to stay and lead the guild while Master Pavel and Maggie are gone. Stryder is still out and LaTroy is going to be back late. We need somebody in charge just in case something bad happens in Aivel or the guild.
Duncan sighed, knowing Percy was right. “Fine. I’ll stay.” Duncan left the lab slightly disappointed.
“Sweet, It’s about time I got some action in.” Strella quickly dialed Zuri and Stacy's number multiple times, but neither of them answered.
“Want me to call them while you go?” Percy asked, handing Strella the location of the ship.
“Sadly yes.” Strella runs out of the lab with Percy giving the two girls a call and voicemail.
Inside top of the warship
Strella lands inside of the warship and scans the area. “If I’m correct, the boss man should not be too far from here.” She quickly scans, seeing weak robots on the ship.
Strella quickly ran towards the control room, kicking down the door. A man turns around with a mechanical sword and a golden ring in hand. “That’s not very nice.”
“Your one to talk, sending an army of robots to attack Downtown Aivel.” Strella scans the man and his sword and ring. The man and the mechanical sword Magic Energy were decent, she couldn’t even scan the golden ring.
“Oh, we have a survivor looking for revenge?” The man teased, pointing his mechanical blade at Strella.
“No, but I’m here to stop you before you pull another stunt like that again.”
The man chuckles as he closes his eyes. “OK, then tell me your name before we begin.”
“Strella, Strella Bazin. What’s yours?” Strella was on guard as the man opened his eyes.
“The name is Argo, Lord Argo, and your defeat has come!!” Argo rushed towards Strella, swinging his sword sideways at her. Strella jumps behind him, dodging the slash, but immediately gets kicked to the wall before landing.
Strella immediately lands on her feet and dodges Argo multiple sword slashes. “Your fast, but how fast are you compared to THIS!” Argo starts to swings faster, but Strella rolls behind him, punching him to a wall.
Argo quickly recovers as he and Strella launche toward each other. Strella tries to punch Argo, but he uses his blade to stop it. He leaps forward, kicking Strella multiple times. He tries to kick her harder, but Strella grabs his left leg and pulls him closer to punch her in the face.
Argo gets hit to the ground and bounces up to meet a double fist to the gut, sending him backwards to a wall.
“ No time for games. ” Argo smirks as his sword and the golden ring glows as he runs faster, surprising Strella. He spins multiple times as he hits Strella with his blade before kicking her out through the window.
“AHHHH!!” Strella, falling down towards the ocean at high speed, bracing herself for a wet splash, but was quickly grabbed, now suddenly flying back up to the airship. “What the?”
“Strella!!” Strella looked up, seeing a familiar girl with the same hair color as her with white angel wings carrying over her. She was wearing a pink crop top jacket with a yellow hoodie, black shirt and shorts with sky blue linings, sky blue shoes and white gloves.
“Stacy.” Stacy smiled back at her as she landed on top of the ship’s balcony, dropping Strella on her feet. “Where’s Zuri?” Strella asked, looking around her surroundings.
“I dropped her off here, I guess she went inside to have some fun.”
“I see, well. Thanks for the save, sis. Glad I can have a sister to watch my back.”
“Well, someone has to. How are you going to look after mine if you're in the ocean.” Stacy teased, causing Strella to laugh.
“Don’t forget, this girl can swim.” A loud explosion and energy blaster could be heard nearby. “Now, lets watch her back before she somehow sinks all of us in.”
The two sisters rush off, falling the trails of destroyed robots and energy shots on the grounds and walls. While running, the ships’ cannon started firing at them. Stacy cast a light barrier deflecting the canons. “You go on and catch up to Zuri, I’ll handle this.” Stacy flies up, getting all of the cannon’s attention as Strella quickly dashes off to where Zuri is.
“This is getting frustrating fast.” Stacy dodges multiple cannons, with a few laser cannons being fired every often. She puts her hands together as she summons multiple light arrows and fires at the cannons, destroying them all.
Strella
Strella continues running down the inside the ship, seeing more and more destroyed robots and energy shots. “She must be having fun.” Another loud explosion happens nearby, but it was louder than the first one. “Looks like I’m getting closer.” She runs towards the explosion, somewhat hearing more noises with grunts.
“Eat this!!!” A girl shouted, shooting multiple energy blasters at the robot with a sword. The robot deflected some of the blast while getting hit with the rest of it. “Damn.” The girl had a reddish brown hair color with her iris being a deep violet color with white pupils. She wore a gray jacket zipped up a quarter of the way, with pinkish red linings, a white shirt underneath the jacket, black pants with a belt with pouches on them and dark gray shoes with minor colors of pinkish red and white gloves.
The robot slashes at the girl, but she dodges and punches it backwards multiple times. The robot activates its booster, pushing the girl away from as she falls backwards. It charged its sword, but was punched through a wall by Strella, who quickly came running up from behind.
“Sup Zuri, you looked like you were having fun.” Strella teased, lifting Zuri up back on her feet.
“And here I thought you wanted to take a swim,” Zuri remarked.
“Maybe, next time with cute boys to watch,” Strella said with a small devious smirk.
The robot burst through the wall, getting both of the girls’ attention. “Time for round tw-” Before Zuri could finish, the robot burst through another wall flying away. “Wh-what the!?” Zuri shouted, as she and Strella were caught off guard.
“We need to follow him, now. I have a plan.” Strella runs off texting Stacy, with Zuri following closely behind.
Argo
Argo, looking at his new window, noticed a light was coming at him real fast. He pulls out his sword and cuts it into two as the light blows up behind him.
“Impressive, I can see why your M.E is decently high,” Stacy said.
“Decently high you say, thats a lot of praise coming from Bazin.” Argo said, glaring at Stacy. “I was going to say you look different, but something tells me your not even the same person.”
“Wow, your smarter than you look.” Stacy shoots multiple light arrows at Argo, but he dodges and swats most of them away with ease.
“It’s a shame, you have all that M.E, but you use it so sloppily.”
“Did I?” A loud explosion appeared behind Argo, with a flying robot heading straight towards Argo. Argo jumps above it, buts gets hit to the ground by Strella and Zuri.
“Not a bad plan, Strella. Now it’s time to start the main event.”
Argo gets up with his sword in hand as it starts to glow again, along with the golden ring. “Brace yourself girls, he’s going serious.”
Argo rushes towards Zuri, ready to swing his sword, but Strella intercepts it. She tries to kick him, but Argo powers on through as he rushes towards Zuri. Zuri catches it, struggling to push it back. Stacy shoots another light arrow, forcing Argo back. Strella completely follows up and kicks him multiple times before punching him into a wall.
“I see, this is going to be more taxing than I thought,” Argo said as he got back up on his feet.
Argo swings his sword upwards, sending out a large energy wave at the two girls. Strella and Zuri both jump to the side, dodging the blast. But, Zuri immediately gets pinned to the window. Argo lifts his sword up but gets kicked out of the window by Strella. “Payback!!”
Stacy traps Argo in a light barrier as she throws multiple light arrows at the barrier. Argo swaps away most of the light arrows while getting hit with a few. Stacy’s barrier depletes, causing him to land on the ship’s balcony. “ I need to get out of here pronto. ” Argo looks up, seeing the girls now landing on the balcony.
“OK Argo, just give it up and end it.” Strella said, causing Argo to burst out laughing.
“Oh I'm going to end it all right.”
Argo leaps up in the air, once again his blade and ring glow. But this time it glows brighter and stronger. Strella looked up as her eyes widened. She saw his bones were mechanical like his blade. “Stacy!! Get us out of here!!” Argo swings his blade in an x sign, creating two sword beams.
Stacy grabs Strella and Zuri and flies out of the ship as the two sword beams hit the ship, cutting the ship into chunks of pieces, with its robots as well. They try to sense through the smoke, with Strella also looking through the smoke. But Argo left with no trace in sight.
“I can’t sense him. Did he die?” Stacy asked as she flew them to the closest land.
“No, he’s alive. He knew what he was doing and that was his last resort.” Strella sighed, knowing that the mission was a failure.
“Guess we gotta report a failed mission.” Zuri said, looking the pieces that were floating in the ocean.
Ashen Star Streak Guild Hall
Duncan, sitting at a table drinking a glass of wine. Percy walks to his table with a tray of a burger and apple juice in hand. “You know, as much as you, Salvia and Stacy being around me and Stryder and Sasha. I sometimes forget that y’all under 18.”
“And I’m not planning on drinking anytime soon.” Percy said, before taking a bite of his burger.
“Hey, I don’t drink that much!”
“I’m not talking about you, but them.” Percy pointed at a few customers who were drunk and passed out. “Pavel really needs to add rules for drunk people.”
Duncan silently nodded as his teammate remarked. He continues looking around the guild, now seeing Strella and her teammates walking in the building. “You Percy, Strellas here.”
Percy looked up from his food, seeing the girls walking towards the table. “Y’all back, did the mission go well?”
“It was until the bastard decided to pull a suicide to escape.” Strella said, pulling an empty chair across from her.
“So I guess we’re back to square one then.” Duncan said, taking another sip of his wine. He noticed Zuri was glaring at him, but he looked back Strella, who now had a fries and drink along with Stacy.
“Did Stryder wake up yet?” Stacy asked, looking around, not seeing Stryder.
“Oh him, he woke up and left to train with Salvia about half an hour ago.” Duncan answered.
“Of course he did.” Strella mumbled. “Anyway, this is our new teammate and new member of the guild, Zuri.”
“Hello, I’m Percy.”
“And as you can see, I’m Duncan.” Duncan looked at Zuri in the eyes, with Zuri doing the same.
The rest could feel an awkward, with Strella also feeling a tense stare between the two. “Hey Stacy, you don’t mind showing me where I will stay again?”
“Sure.” Stacy walked upstairs with Zuri following her.
“What was that about, y’all know each other or something?” Percy asked, noticing Duncan glaring at Zuri while she was leaving.
“No we don’t, but her eyes.” Duncan paused, noticing the Strella and Percy staring at each other. “Sorry, about the awkwardness.” Duncan got up as he walked out the guild.
“Well that was weird, hey Percy, can someone have bones that’s mechanical?” Percy looked at Strella confused, before Strella laughed it off. “Sorry, just had a weird train of thought.”
Percy watches Strella leave as he sits there confused. “Why is everyone being weird today!!!”