EVO Universe 1: The First (43 page)

Before she could finish her vulgar sentence, a calm and cold Sophia for the second time was already in her face, “No…fuck you…”

And just as D.E.A.D # 3 was not prepared to be flung through the facility like a pillow, she was not prepared for the lightning straight right punch to the chest that propelled her once again through the forest shattering more trees as she came crashing back down at the foot of Mount McLoughlin by the now abandoned security wall.

As she fought to her feet again fighting to breathe after that cannon shot punch, she saw a red, white and black blur coming at her with a speed that was literally uprooting trees. She barely covered up to defend as she was hit with a punch backed by a Mach 15 sonic boom knocking her through the security wall back into the facility obliterating everything in her path, and almost sending her out the other side of the mountain.

The impact ignited an array of explosions and caused a section of the facility to come down on itself with debris and smoke raining down everywhere some of it burying #3.

It was clear Sophia wanted to keep this battle at the mountain so no one else got hurt.

D.E.A.D # 3 managed break free of the rubble that fell on her as she clutched her chest spitting up blood, the fact that she was still up meant she was regenerating, but her body couldn’t keep up with the damage Sophia was dealing to her. The last punch felt as if she shattered her arms, it was also pretty clear that Sophia was also pulling her punches, she could have probably punched her head off if she wanted to.

She apparently wanted to drag this now one-sided fight out and make #3 suffer as she promised.

#3 would not go quietly into the night, as Sophia walked through the smoke and rubble coming for her, #3 snatched up the largest slab of concrete debris that had to weigh at least nearly eight tons. She swung for the hills hoping to knock Sophia into the next town or at least stagger her, but the slab just shattered on impact like glass hitting a tank.

“You wanna try again?” Sophia asked taunting her.

#3 growled taking what was left of the debris in her hands and waffled Sophia’s skull with it like something out of a wrestling show, but that piece just crumbled on impact against the immovable force.

She then took what was left of the debris that was now half her body and launched it with all of her might directly into Sophia’s face. It was like hitting her with soft newly fallen snow. Now covered in dirt, rubble, dust, and debris an unscathed Sophia opened her glowing blue piercing eyes to look into the soul of #3.

“Fuck you…” was the only answer that came from #3’s quivering lips.

“You said that already,” Sophia sighed, “Such a limited vocabulary you have...”

“So what now huh? This the reckoning?” #3 threw her hands up in ranting frustration, “Vengeance served cold and all that shit? You finally get your “Kill Bill” moment? Well then come on!”

“No…” Sophia said flat out to her.

“No?! What the fuck do you mean…“no”?” #3 demanded not loving being the one now toyed with.

“I’m not going to kill you for what you did to my husband…or for what you’ve done to me,” Sophia calmly explained to her, “I’m going to kill you because you came after my daughter…that…is the only reason…why you die today…”

#3 bowed her head and started to giggle as blood drooled from her mouth down the front of her bodysuit, her giggle turned into a maniacal laugh as she wiped tears from her eyes with her forearm. No one would know if tears were of fear or insanity. She became silent again; she let out a growl and rushed Sophia with all her might kicking up dust behind her, until a vicious boot to the gut by a much faster female titan upended her. Sophia did not stop there as she grabbed the front of her hair and knocked the taste out of her mouth with a thunderous right sending a couple of teeth flying. As she spun around, Sophia met her with another bone crushing right executing what could described as a “flash step” moving to the opposite side of her within milliseconds in order to greet her once again with another freight train of a punch.

#3 was near out on her feet after Sophia two brutal hits. She however was not finished with her yet as she caught her from falling, shoved her backwards, and proceeded to unleash an attack on her with moves straight out of a fighting video game…literally.

The former neurosurgeon who had not taken even a Tao Bo class in her life was taking the highly trained death squad assassin to school. She remembered and pulled from the countless kung fu movies she watched, and the weekend video game marathons she had with her husband while in college. That coupled with her unbelievable speed and strength made her an unstoppable combatant.

Sophia at this point was toying with her as she leaped into the air faking her with a 360-degree roundhouse kick setting her up for 360-degree legsweep sending her into a tailspin, but before #3 could hit the ground, Sophia would clobber her with an explosive spinning backhand fist swiping her out of mid-air. The force of the hit sent her crashing through several walls shaking the facility once again.

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Elsewhere in the facility, Mark staggered cradling Sophia’s daughter as he tried to make his way out almost nearing the bottom of the base.

“Sweet baby Jesus…I’m too old of this shit…” he groaned to himself.

Out of nowhere, Mark damn near had a heart attack as the screeching Spider Monkey belonging to the late Director Rosen jumped on top of him almost making him fall down the stairs. He was about to grab the animal and fling it away when Sophia’s daughter took the monkey in her arms cradling it as it clung onto her.

“You better be the last surprise in this goddamn place,” Mark shot the monkey named Cornelius a dirty look as he continued his way down the stairs.

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Back at the fight, as #3 staggered to her feet, Dennison the flying scud missile slammed right into her taking her for a ride. She took pleasure in putting her through additional wall after wall until they came exploding into the quad of the complex that was behind the now destroyed security wall.

Sophia was not done with her yet as she angled her trajectory dragging #3’s body across the hard concrete creating a shallow trench. Satisfied that she probably took half of #3’s skin off her back she then quickly took her up into the air, before spinning into a nosedive aiming for a rather large armored personnel vehicle below them. #3 fought to break free from Sophia’s iron grip with her own strength, but it was all for naught as the strongest of the two with the ability to achieve flight drilled them into the vehicle.

The brutal impact ignited the diesel within the vehicle causing an explosion sending flaming shrapnel everywhere. Some of it hit a nearby fuel supply causing a devastating chain reaction of explosions, which took out almost every vehicle in the vicinity and another part of the facility.

Smoke and fire roared and bellowed everywhere, out of nowhere smoking debris was flung from the wreckage of the initial crash site; it was #3 bouncing off the pavement before rolling to a painful rest.

“Oh…oh god….” #3 groaned in now agonizing pain.

Out of the flames and wreckage strolled Sophia casually swatting flames off her now slightly torn and burnt skintight plug suit, which appeared to be extremely durable despite the punishment it endured.

“Oh…you calling for God now…you think he’s listening?” Sophia inquisitively asked.

For the first time #3 stumbled backwards holding her hand up in a begging gesture with true fear in her eyes, “Wait…wait! You don’t understand! It was…”

“Your job! Was that what you were going to say?!” Sophia screamed at her, the first real sign of emotion she emitted since her third resurrection, “You gonna tell me you were just following orders?! Or maybe you wanna tell me about how ya daddy beat the shit out of your momma, and molested you! How you had such a hard life! Go ahead! I dare you to tell me that no matter what I do it won’t bring my husband or my life back! That it won’t erase the four years of hell I had to endure because of you!! And then…you not only threatened my kid…murdered my best friend…You spit on me!!”

Her eyes grew brighter and more intense with rage.

#3 just stood there looking at her, realizing that this was what it meant about “fate being sealed”. She imagined that this was how her victims looked when they begged for her mercy and found none. How many cried, sobbed, and whimpered through their words as they attempted to bargain for their lives. Lives she thought as worthless, puny…easily extinguished and forgotten about. Killing was erotic pleasure for her. She happily bathed in the blood of the innocent as well as the guilty with no regrets. Here she now stood attempting to reason with one who she had inflicted the greatest offense.

One who she had just told in intricate detail less than an hour or so ago, how she took great pleasure in obliterating her life. It did not matter if she confessed that she did not kill her best friend the now late Charles Hampton; the other evidence was too overwhelming. Sophia had already tried and convicted her. This was now her long walk. No appeal in the world would change her fate.

“What?!” Sophia roared loud enough to emit a low-level sonic boom with just her vocals, shattering every glass within her vicinity, while causing a mini avalanche on the mountain base.

#3 looked dead at the unstoppable force in front of her, now void of all reasoning, and hated her for making her beg for her life.

“Well…since you’re not willing to listen to reason…,” #3 stomped the ground in defiance creating a crater under her foot as she brought her hands up getting into a stance ready to bang, if she was going to get the beating of her life, she might as well get it fighting back.

Sophia got into her own stance as well; she looked like a seasoned combatant as she etched closer to #3 ready to strike. Out of nowhere, she channeled some of the pure raw energy now stored in the cells of her body into her fists causing them to glow as she clutched them; the intensity of the heat faintly burnt the sleeves to her plug suit.

#3 could feel the heat from her fists, and just shook her head in disbelief thinking she was in some crazy anime movie.

“Just don’t hit me in the nos…” #3 was about to request.

BLAM!

Before she could finish her sentence, Sophia faked her out blasting her in the face. Not with her fists, but with intense blue atomic eye beams, scorching her face and nearly blinding her. #3 screamed in agonizing pain unable to touch her now smoldering face.

“That’s…for Charlie,” Sophia bared her teeth.

“Awwwwww….u fuckin…biter…,” #3 seethed trembling as her face healed from the first-degree burns she received.

She roared throwing a fury of combinations, which Sophia easily blocked. #3 appeared to be throwing faster powerful strikes. She appeared to be matching Sophia’s speed, close to finding an opening, until Sophia showed her the difference between the two of them. She may not be the first, but she was still the most powerful as she effortlessly powered through #3’s combinations battering her with shockwave shaking blows. Her hands where like lightning twin pistons as she threw every punching combination she had ever seen within less of seconds targeting #3’s ribs, sternum, abdomen, as well as her left and right jaw bone and nose.

#3 swung for the hills in desperation only for Sophia to catch her right haymaker. The impact of the punch sent a massive shockwave through the facility collapsing already weakened structures. It still proved ineffective against Dennison’s near god-like strength.

Sophia snarled as she doubled her over with a body blow to the gut. She then grabbed the front of her bodysuit leaping into the air with her, and then hurled her into the skies of Oregon. Sophia exploded into to the air going after her; actually, she flew past a screaming #3 waiting to set her up, and delivered an Earth shaking right cross sending her spiraling back down to Earth. Sophia then dived back down to Earth with thrusters on full blast straight for #3. #3 crashed back down into the facility creating a colossal crater, while emitting shockwaves once again creating tremendous structural damage.

There would be no rest for the wicked this day as a roaring Sophia would pull out of her dive but continue to fall looking to deliver a diving knee crashing down on top of #3 widening the crater causing a second more devastating shockwave. It not only caused untold mass destruction but also caused a minor earthquake shaking the mountain, and majority of Jackson County up pass Klamath.

Mark barely made it out the door into the hell outside where he dodged flying chunks of debris the size of cars while cradling Sophia’s daughter. Behind him, half the facility and mountain collapsed in on itself no longer capable of withstanding the brutality unleashed on it by Sophia’s raw strength and power.

As he staggered over to the ballpark size crater, he witnesses Sophia standing over a beaten and broken #3 literally choking on her own blood.

“Hey…you bleeding on yourself.” Sophia said to get her dazed attention, “Wanna see something cool?”

Sophia raised her hand into the air. With a thought, she commanded her body to channel the raw energy within her into a sphere in the palm of her hand once again, this time making it grow. #3 just looked up at her in disbelief; she knew she was doing it for the crack she made earlier. Of all this ways to go, this bitch was about to kill her with a one handed Spirit Bomb.