CHAPTER 68

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With the new skill that had been created out of nowhere telling me I was being watched, I started to move as I formulated a plan to capture Stryker and his colleagues.

According to my map, only one of the many red dots surrounding Stryker was on the move.

If I had to take a guess, that one moving enemy was Sabertooth.

The question now was how to deal with him; his regeneration was undoubtedly a problem.

"I suppose I could out-damage his regeneration," I muttered as I stopped moving in front of a clearing full of animals that looked at me in fright.

I had to admit, Africa was beautiful, the animals, the relatively clean air, the animals; it was really a shame I was always here for business, not for pleasure.

Taking a deep breath, I opened a portal to a place nearby the moving red dot, and after passing through the portal, took a seat on a rock, waiting for Sabertooth to arrive.

It was a shame, really, of all the enemies I ever expected to face; Sabertooth was one I didn't want to meet, not because I was scared or anything, but because he was one of my favorites.

"Well, fuck it." I chuckled, looking at my map, which said he was around a hundred and thirty meters away from me.

Meaning I had at best a minute or so before I had to face the guy. So, it was time to list my options. For an enemy like him, his regeneration was a problem, but if the movies were anything to go by, drowning him would work just fine.

But to drown him, I would have to immobilize him, maybe cut his arms and legs.

"There you are." Someone growled, that someone being Sabertooth. He sounded excited, thrilled to meet me, or rather to hunt me.

"I know where you are, hiding really makes no difference." I said, greeting the hiding beast with a smile as I stood up from the rock I had been sitting on.

"I suppose you are right." Sabertooth replied, jumping out of the shadows with a wild grin. [Sabertooth LV 161]

Well this is new, usually enemies are a few levels ahead of me, not on my level. "So, is there any way you would let me go and capture Stryker?"

Sabertooth snorted, baring his teeth at me in a rather animalistic way. "Time to die."

"I thought as much." I sighed, equipping my armor, similar level or not, I was not going to let the kitty cat scratch my body if I could do something about it.

With a roar and a wild grin, Sabertooth charged at me. As I stood in place with a defensive stance, which allowed me to parry the hunter's first blow with my right arm.

Surprised by the lack of damage with his attack, Sabertooth threw a flurry of attacks with his claws trying to rip my armor off, but with a bit of grace I took a step back blocking each and every single attack.

Countering by digging my claws into his abdomen.

Unmoved by his bleeding stomach, Sabertooth jumped above me after, landing behind me with a feral growl, as his injuries started to heal at an alarming rate, and in the blink of an eye, his injuries were no more.

"This will be fun." He grinned, licking some of the blood I had drawn from him from his bare fingers.

"Please don't make this sexual." I replied, weirded out by his rather explicit excitement about this fight.

Growling at my comment, Sabertooth ran at me on all fours, leaping mid way like a tiger to its prey.

But before he could reach me, I used my telekinesis to slam him to the ground, as I jumped above him digging my hands into his spine.

If there was something I had learned during my less than willing time on hydra was how the human body worked, and immortal or not, Sabertooth was a human, meaning the entire mobility of his immortal body depended on his little spine.

Hissing in pain, the Hunter made an attempt to throw me off him, but my grip on his spine and my telekinesis made it so it was impossible for him to move.

"Under normal circumstances, you would've probably won this match. But.." to make a point I cracked his spine, momentarily leaving him paralyzed. "These are not normal circumstances, are they?"

"I will kill you!" He roared, as I withdrew my bloodied hands from his spine.

"Maybe, but not today." I replied, opening a portal to one of my contain zones, which had been gracefully provided by SHIELD. "See ya later." I smiled, kicking the Hunter into his prison.

With Sabertooth out of the way, things were bound to be easier. "Let's see where the others are." I muttered looking at my map to see I was surrounded by three red dots.

"I told that animal to wait for us." I heard a rather femenine yet somewhat sadistic voice comment as she came into light. [Kimura LV 149]

"You know him, he rarely listens." Another femenine voice commented, as she came out of the shadows. [Copycat LV 148]

"We will punish Sabertooth later, for now. Let us capture this subject." This time the one who spoke was a man, an armored man. [Ajax LV 160]

"Hmm." I hummed, looking at the three, and then looking at the map, we all were a few miles away from Stryker, which meant… I had no need to fight them. "I just realized I do not need to fight your asses, so… bye~" I waved at them with a smile under my helmet as I opened a portal to where Stryker was, leaving the three hunters alone rushing but failing to stop me.

At the other side of the portal, I encountered Stryker sitting on a wooden chair with a wide welcoming smile on his face.

"I was waiting for you." He claimed, which made me feel uneasy.