Show of Strength

TIME : 8:16PM

LOCATION : OUTSKIRTS OF CALOS CITY

A vehicle is seen leaving Calos city through a secret passageway, Ilara is seen at the helm of the vehicle, driving.

"Where exactly are we going??"

Rani asks Sai.

"We can't stay in the city at this point, the cops will be looking for us everywhere now so we have to go somewhere outside their jurisdiction, after that we'll be able to sneak back into the city and look for clues regarding the exchange coming up soon."

Sai replies.

"But do you guys actually have another place outside the city??"

Dan questions passively.

"Well something like that, my dad has a few places out of town, so we are gonna stay at one of them for the time being."

Ilara replies as she begins to make a turn but then something unexpected happens.

Something large collides with the vehicle and causes it to tumble which then made it end up in deep in a forest. Dan, Ilara, Sai and Rani crawl out from under the wrecks of the mauled vehicle.

"Get Jace out immediately."

Rani yells after which Dan tries to open up the bonnet of the vehicle but a shock wave pushes them away.

"what the hell was that??"

Sai asks has he begins to get to his feet, the earth beneath them begins to shudder as footsteps are heard coming towards them.

Dan and Ilara adjusts their stance and looks ahead in the direction the sound of the footsteps where coming from.

Lo and behold, Armstrong walked towards them with intent in his eyes, he had assumed his fourth path form and looked even bigger and more muscular than when he fought with Dan.

"Armstrong."

Dan calls out with anger.

"I'll kill you for what you did."

Armstrong shudders with laughter.

"Come at me if you dare."

He says menacingly.

"Tetsu Kuchiku-kan ( iron destroyer)."

Dan yells out with his palms joined together as the parts from the vehicle come together to form an impressive suit of armor around him, Sai and Ilara step back due to the gust of wind that was emitted by Dan's transformation.

Dan rushes towards Armstrong and collide fists with him causing an intense shock wave in the vicinity.

"That's one of Cheng's top dogs, why would he come himself to such a place??.... How did he even find us??"

Sai asks as he watches on the battle that had ensued, Ilara looks back at Rani and catches her trying to sneak off.

"Where the hell do you think you're going??"

Rani stops in her tracks and turns around to face Ilara.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know this was what was going to happen."

Sai turns back upon hearing Rani speak.

"What did you do??"

Rani looks away for a moment.

"They were the ones that paid me to enable you guys escape because they were trying to locate Jace, I'm sorry, they threatened me, I didn't know what else to do."

Ilara shakes her head in disappointment.

"I always knew there was something shady about you, after this is finished then we'll talk."

Ilara and Sai turn back to watch the fight between Armstrong and Dan which was going rather badly for Dan.

"You should help him, I'll get Jace."

Ilara says after which she rushes to the wreckage to help Jace out, Sai closes his eyes for a split second and let's out a deep breath.

"Let's do this."

Dan delivers a barrage of blows to Armstrong but Armstrong blocks his attack and lands a single punch which sends Dan flying a long distance, clearing some trees has he flew past, Armstrong rushes towards him with killer intent, Dan gathers himself and begins to pick up fallen trees to hurl at Armstrong but Armstrong clears them aside like as though they were toothpicks, Armstrong reaches his target and delivers a punch that's blocked by Dan, pushing him back while the resulting shock wave cleared the trees around them.

Armstrong continues to attack with blows and kicks with Dan keeping up with his assault, Armstrong's attacks prove rather lethal has he makes several dents on Dan's armor.

"Darn it."

Dan was vexed over fact that he hadn't been able to land a significant blow on Armstrong.

Armstrong tries to knock Dan down but creates a crater in the process has Dan had shifted out of harms way, Sai steps in to assist has he attempts to distract Armstrong with a cheap shot to his thigh, Armstrong reacts to Sai by trying to kick him but Sai backs away swiftly allowing Dan an opening to strike with a massive blow to Armstrong's abdominal region which affected Armstrong albeit with little impact.

Armstrong chuckles at Dan's weak effort and uses his back hand to smack Dan deeper into the forest which also ended up clearing more trees with his back, Sai sees this and is taken aback by Armstrong's sheer brute strength.

"Do you see now that you have no chance of defeating me."

Armstrong says with a proud look on his face.

"Trying to match him blow for blow is pointless, we might need a plan."

Sai mutters to himself, he doesn't spend too much time to his thoughts as he sees Armstrong charging towards him

"Shit."

Sai side steps and narrowly misses being mauled by Armstrong, Armstrong uses his back hand to hit Sai, which sent him flying through a couple of trees, Sai gets up to his feet and adjusts his shoulder with pain in his expression.

Armstrong smirks a bit before pounding his fist furiously into the ground causing a direct shock wave that impacted Sai, who stood over twenty three meters from him and caused him to smash into another tree, Armstrong walks towards Sai but then he is halted by a loud voice, turning around he sees Dan at a distance with a silvery aura being emitted from him.

"Tetsu no shutsugen : sen no tanken( iron emergence : a thousand daggers)."

Dan yells out, a silver like aura is emitted from his being forming over a thousand sharp projectiles with lengths of twenty centimeters, Armstrong sees this and let's out a burly laugh before rushing at him with full force.

"Die!!!"

Dan screams out as he let's the projectiles fly at full speed, breaking the sound barrier in the process, Armstrong doesn't flinch and keeps up his charge towards Dan.

The projectiles make contact with their intended target but seem to not cause much damage has Armstrong continues his charge, Dan sees this and is immediately gripped with terror at Armstrong's durability, Armstrong's body is riddled with marks which meant that the projectiles had cut him but he did not seem to care much as he charged with murderous intent.