Better Safe... I

"Target status?" Delta looked over at the woman holding the now unconscious man in her arms.

"Unconscious?" Delta shrugged his shoulders and turned to catch Zero's head shaking irritatedly.

"I meant how long does he have." Zero growled through the grinding of teeth.

"The cut was shallow, but seeing as he has no enhancements... I'd say another forty minutes tops." The woman flinched at Delta's words clutching her partner closer.

"Did ya hear that? Forty minutes? Now you can hand him over and I end it quick..." Zero picked up the orange blade swinging the leftover blood off of it.

"Or would you rather he slowly bleed out in agon-" Zero's sentence cut short as a devastating blow connected at blinding speed to the chin. Zero's head rocked back as their body departed from the earth careening towards the rooftop of another stall, their lower half catching it sending Zero into a tumble across clattering Japanese tiles. Flipping to re-orientate just in time to catch another blow by the cerulean twin with the side of the blade.

"You're being pushed back." Delta flickers in next to Zero. The twin stood upon the blade, Zero noticed her slender like frame was also almost weightless, Zero swung the blade and caught air. With a quick and fluid spin in the air, the twin dodges the swipe to land a clean blow to Zero's head. Sent back hovering inches above the rooftop, Zero caught the sight of the endless night again before landing roughly into a tumble.

"She's fast ay? But you've noticed, right? extremely light almost like getting hit with a high-speed rolled-up newspaper haha." Delta flickered back in as Zero got to one knee from the tumble, leaning in slightly to rest on Zero's head. The twin reaches the runners starting pose as the blue glow begins again from the spoilers on her body.

"Not helping." Zero bucks delta off as the twin disappears from vision leaving a blueish streak in her wake. The twin propelled herself through the air as if landing on invisible walls, a flurry of blows from every cardinal direction assaulted Zero, every blow being precisely parried, a silent focus fell as the number of blows increased steadily.

"Your reaction time may hold out without enhancement, but this one... She's going to test your endurance." Delta paced around the vicious circle of violence taking place in front of him, closely examining each opponent's movements...

Zero was slipping, tiny slips that cost a half-blow landing or graze ripping at the yukata. "Even if you aren't entirely human Red, you have your limits." Delta looked down his nose at Zero watching the fatigue creep.

"Utilize one of your enhancements" Delta says peering down and leaning in watching intently.

"No."

"Pride and hesitation is death for the death dealer, use your enhancements."

Tiles began to slip underneath Zero, the force of the blows now cracking and destroying the surrounding rooftop as the twin raises their speed.

"So you just plan on letting her kick the shit out of you?"

The barrage has been a series of kicks and punches so far, that have been enhanced by accelerating the limbs quickly enough to produce devastating blows with such a light frame.

"No!" Zero buckled wasting the breath to answer the question.

The twin aimed for the opening kicking the hilt of the blade and sending Zero's arms upward into the air leaving them exposed. The twin's leg caught blue flames as she readied to kick Zero with a final blow.

"Fine die to your limits, nice knowing you Red."

Zero let their body fall forward towards the kick dodging slightly to the left and bringing the blade down on the knee of the leg severing everything from below it.

"Fuck!"

Zero spun around quickly to catch the cyborg's arm cleaving through it before she could recover.

"My."

Another quick sweeping blow and another limb lost. The second leg and final limb jumped to life as the twin quickly tried to end the uninvited pruning she has been receiving. Propelled by the leg into a spinning roundhouse kick that proved futile as it landed in the palm of Zero's hand.

"Enhancements!" A roar from Zero erupted as their other hand gripped the twin's face slamming them firmly into the roof. Stepping on the twin's chest Zero pulls at the remaining limb, the sound of synthetic tissue and muscle snapping was drowned out by screams of agony as Zero threw the remaining limb off the edge of the building.

"A little overkill, don't you think?" Delta stood over the groaning body as Zero drenched in synth blood turned to head back to the street.

"Not dead, not over - please spare Mrs. Mia and Mr. Toshi..." The strong voice from a throttled body, but unbroken soul yanked at Zero's attention. The twin lost consciousness as Zero turns and jumps back to the street, where the red and green twin sat protecting Mia.

The amber liquid had filled the vascular system of the vermilion twin, the heat from the body was accompanied by tiny spurts of steam from her mouth. "So Nia is dead?" The soft voice came from the fairy-like figure above. Zero was shocked twice now the twins had shown concern for others, they looked so heavily worked on that Zero assumed they were androids.

"So you guys are humans... And I'm assuming Nia was the blue one earlier? Not dead, just heavily damaged." Tense expressions melted slightly at Zero's words, but guards immediately returned when realizing the attacker was the messenger.

"I didn't kill her. Not because I couldn't, but because they're not here marked for death today." Zero readied into a stance with the blade.

"Good bluff!" Delta appeared in front of Zero, but it seemed only they saw him.

" So step aside and let me do my job." The Red twin clenched and ground her teeth at what she heard.

"That job has a name and people who care for him, one of them being me Sia Nakamore, and you won't be touching him." The twin took a low fighting stance and prepared for her aggressor.

Zero sheathes the blade fully and gets into a drawing stance. "Names Zero." A single movement was all that was needed for Zero to reach Mia. "First target Male Toshi Yamada death imminent." Before Sia could react a red blur passed her by "Second target Mia Yashida, pending." A quick unsheathing of the blade into an ascending strike came barreling at Mia who still clung to an incapacitated Toshi.