Chapter 17

After resting for a while, Jayna stood up and attached her katanas behind her, ready to leave since after all, she had just earned her victory in a dire battle. Before she could make a full step, she sensed an ominous and subtle force of energy coming from an opposite direction. The tensed feeling got stronger as a figure slowly approached her and said.

“Out of all the members of the Thunder Squad, there's only three who've mastered their abilities to some certain stage that they're able to access what is know as PRIME FORM, and unfortunately for you, I'm one of them”. She turned and caught the sight of a familiar face. It was non other than PERCY.

“Prime form, release”.

His voice alone sounded deadlier and sinister than anything she had ever encountered. Even Ego didn't look at her or appear to be that dangerous. For the first time, it was almost as though Jayna was struck with the feeling of fear, as this man, to her own scaling would defeat her previous opponent almost without lifting a single finger.

A sudden chill filled the air, one that made her feel like she was being watched from every single corner, easily making her blind spot defenseless. Knowing what she was up against, she displayed more alertness. Her steps were more composed, even her heartbeat and pulses were at her full awareness.

This is no small threat, she imagined.

She slowly pulled out her katanas while closely watching what was happening in front of her. He hasn't made any move which felt most satisfying for her at that moment. She made a stance that was very efficient for offense and defense, leaving her less opened.

“She'll die” a voice muttered.

An object was shot from an unknown location which moved with incredible speed. Though she was able to nimbly dodge it due to her already activated alertness, she felt the shooter wasn't aiming for her considering the accuracy and speed at which it moved. It was clear to Jayna that the shooter's aim was the threat that was right in front of her, knowing fully well that Jayna would easily dodge it. But as expected, Percy blocked it without moving a muscle. It almost seemed like it was deflected before it touched him, but this threat wasn't invulnerable. Jayna knew that first hand.

She already deduced the shooter's location by tracing it's trajectory point. He proved her right that he wasn't invulnerable as he turned to catch the one that was shot at him from behind.

“You can come out now” her voice echoed as she uttered.

The figure landed to reveal itself as a female wearing a mask. On her hand was a sophisticated looking bow while on her back were arrows of different shapes and sizes.

“An archer?” she said inaudibly. “Who are you?”.

“I'm surprised you were able to detect me all by yourself. My name is Arya and I'm from the academy just like you. I must say, for an Abnormal, you pack a lot of skills. But you can't defeat this guy alone, you'll get yourself killed”.

“Why are you here?” Jayna asked.

“To hunt down and kill Ego!” A deadly expression made it's way to her face while she uttered those words, one that made Jayna question if she was looking directly at a mirror. “We are gonna have to work together, try not hold me back will you”

“From what you just said about my skills and from the fight you saw earlier, I'm sure you know that I'm gonna make you loose your mind just by trying to keep up with me” Jayna replied as she stood beside Arya while maintaining a firm grip on her sword.

“Oh is that so?”. Said Arya.

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Meanwhile, the sage was seen flying across the street before hitting a wall with Kyle running after him as their fist collided and the two started rapidly exchanging fists. Kyle held his punch then landed two consecutive blows on his face, swung him by a wall then finally landed a powerful kick which sent him through the wall. Kyle boldly went in then came out flying after receiving a punch which sent him crashing on a car.

He wasn't given the chance to recover before Sage effortlessly lifted a damaged car, ripped it in two and threw one at Kyle then swung the other one like a bat and slammed it on him while he was still down. He immediately stood back up after pushing away the scrap pieces aside and blasted Sage with a powerful beam from a cannon which he got from using the Dawn Breaker he was given and then Sage suddenly vanished from the blast.

After seeing the level of damage it caused, he smiled and said “Whoa that was awesome, but I'm gonna need my trusty bat for this”.

The fight was over, or so he thought. A thud was heard from amidst a pile of wreckage and it continued to get louder and louder and louder. Kyle turned to see the Sage forcefully breaking out of the wreckage then approaching him while bleeding from several cuts which all soon started to heal gradually.

“You can't beat me, especially now that I have this” Kyle uttered while showing him his bat.

Sage was fully healed but his intent hadn't changed. If anything, he wanted to end Kyle even more “I don't plan to, what I plan to do is kill you”. While slowly approaching Kyle, he picked up a rock and threw it at him as he smashed it into pieces with his bat. “I commend your skills for having lasted this long and pushing me this far, I haven't done this in a very long time. However, the opponent I'm facing is no ordinary one, that I'm now well aware of. So I'll fight you using my true strength, but I won't use it in full or that would cause far more destruction and draw plenty of attention. So even against a pest like you, I'll be moderate.”

“What are you talking about?”

Whaaaat he actually mentioned killing me this time, some things do change. So what's he up to?!

“You'll see. Partial release, Prime Form at 10%” Sage chanted.

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Nollan attacked the professor with a huge burst of electricity which he deflected with a force field, he then sent it back with a push force he released from his hands.

Nollan said “That power of yours never seizes to amaze me, but there's only so much it can do”.

Ryan's ability is of a very rare kind as only a select few have possessed it since the beginning of time. It is an ability which involves the simple push experienced in magnets, but he isn't able to pull things to him. Though it sounds useless in a dire battle, but Ryan has mastered this ability of his to unimaginable levels as he has proven his skills and mastery by performing several feats with them. Though gifted with superhuman strength, he is also able to land very powerful punches that exceeds his normal capabilities by simply gathering energy in his fist, added to his already gifted physical strength and pushing away his opponents, making it seem like he is able to land those devastating blows using only his physical strength. He is also able to activate a magnetic force field around him which helps him repel any external attacks, It also grants him more mobility than most others even while in mid air. One that is very mysterious is his special connection to the electromagnetic field which even he hasn't mastered yet. All these and many more capabilities is what makes him an ultimately powerful superhuman.

“I haven't even started yet” Ryan said as he rubbed off the blood on his face.