EVO Universe 1: The First (42 page)

#3 grabbed the rotating barrel of the mini-gun crushing and stopping it cold, the bullets however still fed through the barrel causing the gun to explode in both the Shock Trooper’s and her face, the Shock Trooper barely survived the explosion due to his armor, while #3 stood without a scratch. As he tried to crawl away, she grabbed him by one of his legs, leaped into the air with him, and then came down smashing him into the concrete floor of the helipad like a child in the midst of a temper tantrum breaking a doll she did not like. She then chucked him over the helipad platform to his death if he was not dead already.

#1 went straight to the point as he walked through the bullets bouncing off him, snatched the mini-gun out of the Shock Trooper’s hands and tore it in two in front of him. The Shock Trooper then went for the automatic rifle on his back, but not before #1 grabbed him by the front of his armor and punched a whole literally through his chest.

He then pulled his arm out, and took the Shock Trooper’s body launching it with one arm taking out the one behind him still trying to take him out with his automatic rifle. #1 then leapt into the air and came down delivering a crushing stomp to the back of the third Shock Trooper breaking every bone is his upper torso for good measure killing him instantly.

#3 used her newfound speed to finesse her next kill by blitzing the last Shock Trooper who was now nervously firing away unable to hit her. She sped behind him getting him in a waist lock and German suplexed him skull first into the concrete; she does not let go as she rolled with him taking him up as his now limp and probably lifeless body dropped his rifle.

#3 lifted him high in the air into a reverse military press.

“I always wanted to do this…,” she said with a savage grin on her face.

She delivered a backbreaker snapping the Shock Trooper in half like a twig before rolling him off her knee.

The helipad became as silent as a grave yard with only the mountain wind blowing and the sound of a whimpering Ms. Barrett in hysterical shock still trying to press the code to activate the Nanites, still coming up with the same results; #1 walked up to her taking the tablet from out of her hand.

“I think you know by now…that’s not going to work darling,” #1 smiled, “Funny thing about this virus…it apparently kills anything it sees as a possible threat to the system…they were destroyed the minute we injected the blood into us.”

“Please….please….” Ms. Barrett broke down crying.

“It’s okay…it’s okay…I just need the tablet…” he calmly reassured her.

#1 walked away, giving Ms. Barrett some sense of relief, but not before, he delivered a vicious backhand to her upper body knocking her out of her flip-flops. The force of the blow sent her flying through the thick glass circular wall of the helipad at break neck speed where she fell several thousand feet hitting the hood of a transport vehicle below; the final resting place for now her lifeless body.

“But I don’t need you,” he sighed motioning to #3, “I got the data.”

The Director tried to slink away in the chaos, only to run into #3 now standing before him.

She latched onto his throat hoisting him high into the air, “God it’s going to take a while for me to get use to this…”

“How….how?” the Director Rosen gasped trying to breath.

“Arthur…Arthur…for all of your “see all, know all, two steps ahead” bullshit,” she pulled him closer whispering, “You still talk in your sleep. Sedatives also helped; guess where I put them?” she licked his ear.

“Hint…it wasn’t the wine glasses you were licking it off of. Then with the nice fancy training I was given, I was able to rummage through your computer as you undetected and found what I needed,” she rattled off, “Additional access codes, info on how the virus actually works. It was just a matter of timing…the original plan was to get you and Ms. Barrett in one of our usual play sessions tonight knowing you’d be in a celebrating mood. I’d kill you both…and shut down the Nanites via her tablet which the little bitch carries everywhere long enough for #1 to secretly breach the lab and get the samples.”

She shrugged a bit disappointed, “The ruckus Dennison made screwed up our plans which was kind of disappointing because I really wanted the chance to roll around in your blood, but made it easier for us to get to the blood samples when you had it transported here like I knew you would. With communication and surveillance down you have no idea where we were or what we were doing, luck was also on our side as the late Ms. Barrett was apparently too scared shitless about what was going on to check our whereabouts. You apparently didn’t care either as it was clear you were going to leave without us…you didn’t even notice #1 leaving the deck when all hell broke loose…so after we killed everyone bringing the samples here save for the doctor, we injected ourselves with the blood…it bonded with us in a matter of minutes. Then all we have to do was help each other shove our vanadium carbon fiber blades under each of our ribcages and the virus just went to work …it hurt…a lot…but as you can see totally worth it…apparently because we’re already enhanced everything just works faster…which is just dandy.”

“You have…no…idea…what…you…have…done…dead…dead man…” he uttered barely able to breathe as she applied more pressure to his throat.

“You became a dead man when you made me stand powerless watching as that bitch kill #4,” #3 gritted her teeth, “By the way…I may have been screwing you, but I was in love with him…lucky for me I also love #1.”

“We like keeping it in the family…” #1 shrugged.

“You think you’re any different than the pieces of shit you send us to kill? You sit in your high priced suit never getting your hands bloodied while people like me go bathing in it willingly; changing the world as you reap the reward,” she bared her fangs at the Director unmasking her rage and hatred, “It’s not fair…and it’s going to change.”

“That’s why we’re taking the blood, the good doctor who has nowhere to run!” She screamed for Dr. Zimmermann to hear, “and the child…we’re going to create a world where only the truly fit and worthy survives…”

#3 crushed and snapped the Director’s neck with her right bare hand before dropping him to the floor.

“A world where we crush people like you…underneath our
heels
,” she stomped on his skull crushing it like a melon while caving in the floor underneath her.

Some blood splattered up on her as an insane grin appeared on her face. She then looked up at Agent Slater with the little girl; Slater taking the hint that he was no match for the duo held his hands up with his gun dangling from his thumb and slowly backed away from the child.

“I don’t want any part of this,” swallowed Agent Slater, “You can take the little brat and…”

Before he can finish his sentence the ground exploded behind him as a hand grabbed him by the back of the neck and flung him like a ragdoll several feet at great speed hitting the top entranceway of the helipad, he fell hitting the concrete in a painful and awkward way. The little girl quietly turned looking up to see her mother standing tall with her dreadlocks covering her face which forced #3 and #1 to back up a bit taking defensive stances now. The metal ports on her bodysuit either melted off or absorbed into her body revealing not a mark on her where the Iridium spike syringes pierced her.

As Agent Slater weakly attempted to struggle to his feet, Mark finally showed up pulling out his side arm that he acquired and lit him up with two shots to the chest and one to the skull thus ending Agent Slater.

“I told you…no one points a gun at me and gets away with it…,” Mark said fulfilling his promise.

“You’re late….” Sophia said not looking at him.

“Yeah well…place is a rat’s maze…had to get past the rats…” he explained.

“Take my daughter and go…,” she ordered him.

“What about…?” he motioned to the remaining D.E.A.D #1 and #3.

“Don’t worry about them,” she said with no hesitation, “They belong to me now…go…”

Mark nodded as he picked the little girl up. Without even knowing him she putted her arms around his neck resting her head on his shoulder which took his aback for a second, he speed walked off the helipad back whence he came from. The little girl raised her head a bit watching Sophia who continued to stare #3 and #1 down. Armitage found the emergency stairs he originally came through taking them back downstairs hoping they lead all the way to the bottom and out.

“One down…one more to go…” Sophia addressed #3.

“There’s two of us bitch, much stronger than when you first came here,” #3 warned her, “And if you chose to fight with us, we’re only going to get stronger…so why don’t we just call this even…I took something from you…you took something from me…walk away, and let bygones be bygones…what do you say?”

“Things will never be even between us, and you’ll never be stronger…than me…” Sophia informed her.

“Cocky little slash aren’t ya,” cackled #3 mocking her, “What are you, over nine thousand now?!”

“You know in the movies… in the final scene…when the good guy and bad guy fight,” asked Sophia with her eyes closed, ”Bad guy gets the upper hand during most of the fight…but the good guy finds a way in the last minute to win…”

“This ain’t a movie…” #3 scowled reminding her.

Sophia finally opened her eyes to reveal them no longer normal at all; it appeared as if her irises and pupils were completely gone as her eyes glowed a deep blue color from the raw energy surging behind them, “You’re so damn right about that…”

Before they could even react she was face to face with #3, only a trail of red, white and black with blue energy signature from her eyes revealed how she got from point “a” to point “b”; she was now doing what John Wesley Shipp needed special effects to do.

In one motion, she grabbed D.E.A.D # 3 by the front of her bodysuit hoisting her into the air. With a spin, she flung her effortlessly into the helicopter sending her and it through an unscathed portion of the circular glass of the helipad, revealing a still cowering Dr. Zimmermann almost crushed. A stunned D.E.A.D # 1 reacted too slow as Sophia zipped now standing before him with her hand inches from his face as a blue ball of pure energy charged in the palm of her hand the size of a baseball and equal to the intensity within her eyes. It was like falling into the deadly charm of a cobra.

“Now…you die…,”are the final words #1 heard from her.

The sound of the blast was almost pure white noise, while the blast radius of the energy forming in her palm went from the size of a baseball to the height and width of a freight train. It engulfed everything in its path including #1 and his screams. The blast tore through the facility and the mountain escaping to the outside where it went god knows where before dissipating; not even ashes was left of #1; while two other explosions rocked the facility.

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One was the helicopter falling to its destruction taking out any and everything in its path in the process, which were several more levels of the facility not touched by Sophia.

The other was #3 hurled at a velocity equivalent to a railgun, sending her out the side of the mountain like a missile projectile into the Oregon air.

She screamed her lungs out while throwing a couple of curse words in as she fell like a meteorite into the forest of the Sky Lakes Wilderness hitting with a thunderous impact of a wrecking ball destroying several ancient trees in the area while creating several human size craters before finally stopping. As she tried to rise, she collapsed onto her knees battered and bloodied, her regenerative healing not working fast enough to repair the damage done.

As she tried to fight to her feet once again, she heard the sound of a sonic boom exploding out of the mountain. She beheld the sight of an airborne Sophia flying out of the hole she created while blasting #1 to atoms, it was clearly not one of her regular super leaps as she hovered in midair due to the energy she was dispersing at the bottom of her feet.

She soared down to where #3 landed stopping again hovering in mid-air, she then slowly lowered herself to Earth sending dirt and debris flying everywhere as a battered and enraged #3 stood still defiant. When she was low enough to the ground, she dispersed the energy, which gave her flight landing gently on the ground so that she could stand toe to toe with the last of the D.E.A.D.

“How…?” #3 demanded to know in disbelief at what she saw even though she had seen everything.

“The energy from the reactor that was being used to kill me...somehow it siphoned into me like a charger to a car battery,” Sophia confirmed, “Apparently my body likes it. So much, it involuntarily blew me out of the pod taking half the mountain to get to the reactor, which was below me. Cells just went to town taking the rest of the energy. That’s why there was no fall out…as for now being the “fastest woman live” and the “up up and away” I forgot to mention that I also have the ability to not only remember, but physically duplicate moves from anyone or thing I’ve ever seen in my life real or unreal, … movies…television…video games…just with a thought.”

“If you think you can scare me…?” #3 bared her teeth trembling with a mixture of rage and fear.

“I don’t really give a shit if you’re afraid of me or not,” Sophia laughed cutting her off without a care in the world, “I just know I’m going to beat you to death with my bare hands….”

“Fuck…,” was #3’s verbal answer to everything.