Chapter 9

After running towards Eron, the person throws him against the wall of a house and kicks him, throwing him away.

Hey woman, you too?

With great difficulty opening her eyes, she opens them and sees who is with her. And scared, she replies that she is fine.

Don't worry, I'm helping you. There's a boy who asked me to help you, and he's fine right now. Don't worry, just stay here and don't leave for anything, okay? Look, here are some foods to keep you strong, and there's also water.

-Thank you… Thank you, is the boy you're talking about Angel?

That's right, he's a very smart and strong boy too. He's doing everything he can to help you and the citizens of this city.

-Yeah, I know that, I hope he's okay.

He is, don't worry, now if you'll excuse me I have something to take care of.

Far away Eron rises from the rubble and cleans his armor.

_At least someone to give me some fun, I couldn't stand fighting weak people anymore. Show me what you've got.

The two then begin to approach each other. Eron tries to land a punch but fails miserably, the person's speed is greater than Eron's. The person then counters with a punch to the jaw, which launches him upwards. Eron then realizes this will not be an easy fight. Eron then, while in the air, prepares to use his weapon, to finish the man once and for all. As the person approaches Eron, he uses his sword to cut him, but the person dodges and delivers a downward kick, throwing Eron to the ground with all his might.

Eron begins to spit blood, in disbelief, and becomes even angrier, because in his entire life no one had ever taken a drop of blood from him. He looks down on his opponent, refusing to remain in that position of inferiority. Then, in a fit of rage, he charges at the person who was calm and carrying on the fight without any problem.

Calm down, buddy, there's no need to get so mad.

_WELL YOU DAMN GUY, SHUT YOUR MOUTH WHO ARE YOU

DO YOU THINK IT IS?

Who did I think I am? That's easy, I'm the one who's going to bring about your downfall. (Smile)

After Eron hears this, he becomes even angrier and begins to use his sword in a monstrous way unlike anything seen before. The stranger realizes the situation and begins to get serious, because he realizes that now Eron is on another level for a human, and for him, Eron is no ordinary human.

_I AM ERON CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD OF GIDEON THE GREAT, NOBODY IS A MATCH FOR ME AND NOBODY CAN STOP ME, I AM INVINCIBLE!

Eron, in a lion-like tone, charges forward with uncontrolled force, full of bloodlust. The stranger strikes Eron's chest, but it has no effect. When he looks at Eron, he thrusts his sword into him with all his might, but misses, hitting the ground, and this makes the whole place shake. The woman is desperate because the house where he is, is about to collapse. The stranger then runs to her to save her, but it is too late and the house ends up collapsing with her inside.

The stranger stands perplexed, staring at the house as the woman's blood drips out. He feels sad for not having helped the woman and sad for not having kept his promise to Angel. A memory comes to him, the same vision he sees of the woman crushed by the house, he sees of someone in his memory. Eron then takes advantage of his distraction and attacks him from behind with his sword, slashing downward. The stranger then holds the sword with two fingers and says he's tired of him, breaking it. When Eron looks at the sword, he realizes it's rusty, and then he remembers what Becca had told him.

_So you were the one who released that intruder…

Before Eron could finish his sentence, he was hit by a raster that made him lose his balance, then the stranger put his hand on the chest of the armor, making it rust and with all his anger and hatred, he closed his right hand and delivered a fatal blow to Eron's chest, breaking all his armor and throwing him against the wall. Eron was left without understanding anything and started talking to him.

_YOU WILL NEVER DEFEAT MY I….

In a fit of rage, the stranger cuts off Eron's head, ending the battle. After Eron's defeat, the stranger goes to Angel to check on him. Upon arriving, he sees Angel with his back to Becca, who is on the ground. However, he notices something strange and rushes to get Angel out of that situation. After the explosion, the stranger leaves Angel in a safe place. He realizes that Angel is unconscious, and when he sees the gunshots on Angel's body, he notices that a stone scale is growing on Angel. He then uses one of his abilities to heal him and remove it.

After a few hours, Angel wakes up and realizes his wounds have healed. He wonders who did it, but with no time to waste, he goes after Gideon to put an end to it all. Angel finds a note on the ground that says, "Meet me at the church at the top of the city," Gideon. Angel wastes no time heading to the church. On the way, he sees several of the soldiers lying on the ground and wonders if it was Gideon who did it all. Upon reaching the top of the city, he looks down at the city and sees the city completely destroyed, the destruction of his fight with Becca, and wonders how that person and woman are doing.

Angel then keeps his focus again and enters the church where Gideon is waiting for him, upon entering he sees several statues of Gideon and suddenly a voice appears in the middle of that silence, Angel then prepares himself and becomes totally focused.

"Congratulations, you got what you wanted. You helped a woman who was trapped, you managed to escape that useless woman's laboratory, you finished off my offering, and you even defeated that idiot. And now you're here with me. Come on, tell me, what else do you want?"

-I want you to free these innocent people.

_I free? Hahaha don't make me laugh boy.

-If you don't do it, I'll have to do it myself.

_Do you really think you can fight me? You're nothing but a stupid boy.

-I've faced worse things, you can be sure of that.

_Do you think you're some kind of hero or something? Boy, understand, I have more power than you, and more influence too.

As Gideon speaks, he gets up from his chair and tells him that he made the worst decision of his life by entering that city, because from now on, Gideon will not have the slightest pity for him. When Gideon stands up, he reveals himself. Gideon is a small child; Angel was confused and thought Gideon would be bigger because of his organization's name.

-Wait, are you Gideon? I thought you were a little older, because of the name of your organization. Gideon the Great.

_Everyone said the same thing: size doesn't matter. What matters is the damage I can do, and many of my opponents underestimated me because I'm small.

Gideon then uses his statues to attack Angel. His statues are alive because Gideon makes his offerings. With each offering he makes, another statue comes to life and can be used as a weapon. Gideon has five of these statues: one carrying a sword, another an axe, another a hammer, another a bow and arrow, and finally one carrying an instrument.

Angel, without thinking, goes after Gideon, because he thinks that if he defeats him first, the statues will stop and the fight will end faster. However, when he goes after Gideon, the statue with the bow shoots an arrow between him and Gideon, preventing him from continuing. Gideon does nothing, just sits and watches the battle unfold.

Angel, with no choice, starts going towards the statue with his bow to finish it off first. The statue shoots in his direction and he dodges it, however, when he goes to attack with his pressure glove with the stone's energy, he realizes that he hasn't made a single scratch on the statue. And then the hammer statue hits him, throwing him to the ground.

_Hahahaha did you really think that this rotten stone would have any effect against my statues? You came completely unprepared, boy, what a shame this is your last time.

After Gideon gives a hand signal to finish Angel off, he gets up from the ground, dodging the hammer's impact. Angel then tries to disarm the statue to try and get the hammer, but the sword statue ends up stopping Angel. And then the statue of the instrument increases the pressure in the room, leaving Angel lying on the floor helpless. But something happens, to Gideon's surprise and Angel's luck, something causes the church ceiling to be cut off completely, removing the entire top of the church and illuminating everything inside.

Angel then realizes that the statue's effect has stopped. Angel then gets up using 60% of his boot's speed and 70% of his pressure gloves. He went all out against the statues, first against the instrument statue, and with a punch, he realized that the statues were weakened by sunlight. Angel then uses his glove to completely destroy one of the five statues, then goes after the sword statue that wasn't moving. Gideon desperately screams for the statues to move again, but to no avail. Angel then destroys the statue's head, using the sword of the last statue, he cuts off the head of the hammer statue and finally finishes off the bow statue.

Gideon is speechless, how could anyone defeat his strongest weapons? With no choice, Gideon activates his armor made by Becca, which gives him the ability to fly and release poison gas bombs. He then flies towards Angel, but Angel ends up grabbing him by the leg and throwing him against the wall. Gideon is quick, deactivating his wings to avoid breaking them, and activating them again. This time, Gideon flies as high as possible and from there, launches his poison gas at Angel. But what he didn't know was that Angel was raised in a city with the most polluted air on earth, and didn't expect him to be wearing a gas mask. Angel then jumps on top of Gideon with his boots and throws him into the church.

There they fight together with the poisonous gas, Angel then applies a blow to Gideon that makes him be thrown against the wall and at the same moment he is thrown out of the church, Angel makes a sequence of blows to Gideon, he remembers each one that suffered at his hand, remembers the workers and the woman, Angel then with all this in his mind, he uses 100% of his full pressure glove, and with a blow to finish Gideon he hits right in the stomach finishing Gideon and leaving him unconscious.

After a difficult battle, Angel passes out from exhaustion. After a day of being unconscious, Angel wakes up and the person with him is an unknown person, who is happy that he is okay and that he defeated Gideon.

Wow man, you're awake, thank goodness. You defeated Gideon, congratulations.

-It was a tough battle, you see, he had some statues as weapons and they were very strong.

And how did you defeat them?

-I don't know what happened, but I just remember that the top of the church was completely cut off. Then, after that, the statues weakened and it was easy to destroy them. Now, I don't know who did that.

No Angel.

-Talk to me.

So, you know that woman I said I was going to protect?

-I don't know how she is? Is she okay?

Angel notices that the person has been silent and becomes worried.

-So, what happened to her?

The guy I was fighting ended up sticking his sword in the ground, which caused an earthquake where we were. Then the house I left her in ended up collapsing, and I couldn't save her. Forgive me.

After Angel heard this, he became very sad. Angel then put his hand on the person's shoulder and said that they must be in a better place now and told the person not to worry. After this conversation, Angel stayed in the city for a few months helping people rebuild their homes and deal with the bodies left in the streets. A few weeks later, those people surprised Angel by building a statue of the woman in the city center, along with the woman saying, "Our eternal gratitude." Angel was very happy to see it, and that same night they celebrated. The mysterious person had left a message for Angel saying that they would be out of town because they had an appointment elsewhere. That same night, someone came to Angel asking to talk, and he explained everything that was happening right now. His name is Zabi and he is a former member of Blood, but nowadays he no longer works for either organization.

He tells Angel to be careful, because now an organization worse than Gideon's is after Angel after discovering that their target was defeated by Angel. Zabi explains to Angel that Gideon had been wanted by this organization for six years. After Gideon's parents killed a member of that organization, they began their revenge. They managed to kill Gideon's parents, but they wanted to end Gideon, but they never found him. Zabi tells Angel to be careful, because he doesn't know where this organization might be, or where it operates.

Meanwhile elsewhere.

_REPORT, THAT BASTARD GIDEON HAS BEEN ARRESTED, THIS IS THE PHOTO OF THE CRIMINAL, I WANT HIS HEAD ON MY DESK. THE REWARD IS NOW WORTH TWICE THAT OF GIDEON. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW, SORRY, BRING ANGEL'S HEAD.

First member of the organization.

_Look, it seems like Gideon wasn't that strong, right?

Second member of the organization.

_Angel is your name? Mmm…

Third member of the organization.

_Gideon, you bastard, I should have finished you off.

Fourth member of the organization.

_Look love, you think he's strong.

_We'll have to find out together, right?

Fifth member of the organization.

_Damn, I'll have to finish this later.

Sixth member of the organization.

_Oops, a new message, "bring me Angel's head." Angel? (Giggle) This is going to be fun. (Smile)

And here we end the prologue of Angel The Mechanical Engineer, I sincerely thank everyone who read and followed this far, it was many years of procrastination, but I finally brought the end to the prologue of the series. That's right, you didn't read it wrong, PROLOGUE. This wasn't even the 1st season, but I'll do my best to bring you a complete season, share it with your friends, and let's go because Angel's adventure has only just begun.