Story of K: An Infinite Golden Light (Sci Fi Action) (Space Fiction) (Robot Fiction) (2 page)

Immeasurable Power

The Rotkennk twins and heralds of K'OS, K and Xen, were face
to face with a very powerful rogue Rotkennk in the vastness of space not too
far from the graveyard planet Robespierre. The three warriors were still,
but only briefly.

Without warning, the rogue Rotkennk, who styled himself Gold
and whose body was colored thusly, released a large golden energy orb composed
of unstable explosive particles. The orb began to quickly travel through
space and track K. K began evasive maneuvers as soon as he noticed the
attack. He flew towards the ball at high speeds and just as he was about
to make contact with the orb he rose and flew straight up, but the orb
continued to follow.

K continued to out speed the ball as he flew upwards.
When he created enough distance between himself and the threat he flipped
backwards and punted the globule while upside down. The golden orb flew
even faster now towards his brother.

The orb reached Xen in no time and the Rotkennk warrior
extended his shining circular blades in anticipation. He made the blades
spin in a fiery rotation at the end of the spinning device on his hand.
He smacked the ball full force with the flat of his blade and it
rebounded with quadruple the force back towards Gold. It tagged the rogue
Rotkennk hard and yet Gold was unaffected by it and simply absorbed the excess
energy.

Gold: "I hope that this isn't all the fabled Masked
Ones are capable of. You seem to be all flash and no substance."

Xen took to the offensive and attacked Gold with a few
acrobatic swipes of his blades. First horizontal then vertical then
vertical again then horizontals going outwards with both blades. Gold
managed to dodge all of Xen's attacks. Xen then banged his blades together
which shot a pressurized shockwave at Gold. Gold stood still smiling as
the attack crashed into him. Gold flicked a single finger at Xen and shot
a golden beam at him much faster than he could react to. Xen was rocketed away
into the nothingness of space. K noticed that his brother's hand was
bladeless as he shot right past him.

Xen: "Bingo."

The blade spun from behind Gold and hurtled towards him.
It bonked against Gold's thin energy aura and floated through space
listlessly. Xen recalled it with a mere thought and it was back on his
hand in no time. Gold, who was noticeably angry, retaliated.

While he was focused on Xen, K stealthily blasted him from
behind with a dark ray blast, energy capable of absorbing light particles.
Gold was caught off guard from the force of the blast, but quickly
righted himself.

Gold: "Of course, dark rays."

K: "One of the few energy sources capable of bypassing
your defenses, I suspect."

Gold simply smirked. Xen furiously spun forward
towards an off guard Gold and caught him straight in the face with a furiously
wound kick. Gold flew backwards and reactively activated his aura.
His body's nanomachines worked quickly to repair the damage and end his
dazed state.

Gold thought to himself,
I can't be so careless. My
aura always needs to be up at full power
.

Xen to K: "I should've gone for the killing blow and
cut his head off."

K to Xen: "It's better that you didn't. He's
Rotkennk after all."

Xen: "A hard head and a soft heart, our lord father
must be glad you're one of a kind."

Gold: "Both of you are fast, but I wonder if you can
dodge this?"

Sixteen tiny explosive orbs of golden energy appeared in
front of Gold in a four by four grid. The orbs glowed bright and grew
huge in no time before Gold fired major shots from them. The orbs shot
linear lasers that fired minigun style in K and Xen's direction.

Xen to K: "Wait a second, these are tracking us."

The brothers instinctively flew in opposite directions.

Gold thought to himself:
This is going to be harder than
I thought. These two are natural fighters. That strategy came to them without a
thought. It was instinctive.

Gold: "Smart, but I'm not finished yet."

Gold created another four by four grid in front of himself.

Gold: "You two are good, but not this good."

His grid then morphed into one that was much longer
horizontally. Gold counted out a grid of twenty by one hundred.
Again the orbs pulsed with golden energy and grew larger and larger.

Xen to K: "Oh no! Look at his power!"

K to Xen: "His energy must be limitless. Keep
moving!"

Gold fired the lasers from the grid, but to Xen's surprise
sent all the blasts at K. K managed to dodge the initial barrage with
ease. Another wave followed that one and K dodged nearly all of those blasts
until he missed a single one that hit his mask. The blast exploded on
impact and left K vulnerable for just a second which was enough for him to get
caught in the hellish barrage of blasts that remained.

What neither Gold nor K noticed was that Xen had surrounded
K with two of his hovering reflector blades. The blades moved with
blinding speed and kept most of the damage off of K. Xen kept two blades
hovering around himself as well.

Gold: "Very impressive. You'd be better off
protecting yourself. You can't keep you and your brother safe at this
rate."

Xen: "My focus is unwavering. I can keep my
brother and myself safe with no effort at all. You see, we were made for
this, for battle, for conquest. I have complete control over my skills.
You however do not and are much too overconfident. You don't even
know your limits. You're like a child with a new toy and it's not even
fully unwrapped."

Gold: "Strange expression Masked One. My skill
level is low, sure. But every second that I spend fighting against
opponents of your caliber gives me endless opportunities to learn. I'll
tell you this; I won't make the same mistake twice."

Xen: "We'll see. You're looking more green than
Gold to me."

Gold smiled and readied another assault. He knew he
needed to stay on the offensive if he had any hope for survival.

The Green One

The infinite black that men called space provided the
battlefield for this fight of kin. The Rotkennk space warriors and
brothers Anar K and Nexus, who forthwith shall be known as K and Xen
respectively, sought to capture their Rotkennk kin known as of this battle as
Gold. Tensions mounted as both sides prepared for their next move. All
the creatures communicated telepathically as space held no atmosphere to carry
their voices.

Gold: "Are you two now realizing how fruitless this is?
I only grow stronger by the minute. You soon won't be able to even
touch my radiance."

The lowborn Rotkennk was way too arrogant as K and Xen would
have it. But he did have a deadly point. Gold was definitely
gaining fighter's instincts as the battle continued. While not naturally
a fighter, his raw power had been enough to give the Masked Ones some trouble.

Xen: "Don't worry, we will finish this soon
rookie."

The brothers communicated between themselves on a separate
telepathic channel.

Xen to K: "We will have to kill him and now. What
he says is right."

K to Xen: "No. We have a chance to capture him.
He's kin and to have a Rotkennk with such potential...it would be a waste
to kill him."

Xen to K: "You're a fool. Can't you sense that he
hasn't weakened yet? Even with that impressively wasteful showing earlier
his energy levels are still the same. He's dangerous and becoming more
and more so.

K to Xen: "Capturing him isn't beyond us."

Xen to K: "I'll try once more, but after if I see
another opening I'm killing him so you better hope we can capture him before
then."

Gold studied both brothers.

Gold: "You two are very quiet now. I have only
just awakened to my vast powers and am a novice in telepathy, but I'll bet you
have a way of talking between just the two of you."

Gold's body glowed bright as sunlight and was getting
brighter and brighter by the second. He projected an aura that was
initially nearly form-fitting. The aura could be seen over his body, only
slightly though. He expanded the auras length, width, and height by a
great margin until it was a huge sphere. Gold started laughing madly from
his show of power. It felt good to the fledgling warrior to finally
loosen his restraints. K and Xen were forced to fly backwards a few miles
to not be engulfed by the burning aura.

Gold: "What do you think of my might Masked Ones?
Does it cause you fear?"

Xen: "I've already told you green lad, your tricks
aren't amusing. My brother and I have learned to control our stores of
energy long ago during our childhoods."

K: "What you are projecting now is wasteful. All
that energy would be put to much better use if Xen or I were wielding it."

Gold: "But you are not haha! I am the wielder of
all this magnificent power - me - a lowly Builder. That must anger K'OS'
favored sons to no end."

Xen: "I'd only be mad if I couldn't kill you, but
you're a boisterous fool so I'll have only joy when your head rolls."

K shot Xen a dirty look. Xen didn't miss it even though
they were separated by many miles, a testament to Rotkennk eyesight.

Gold began to try something new. While he was now used
to flaring his power aura outwards he now tried his hand at making that same
aura smaller and more condensed. It was a lot easier with less energy
particles to control, but with so much now he had trouble. He finally
succeeded, but not without a pained effort. The condensing had made the
aura stronger, a fact that hadn't escaped the Rotkennk brothers.

Gold: "Now I'm unstoppable! Come Masked
Ones...and burn."

K flew in closely and surrounded himself with a thickly
layered dark ray aura. Dark rays could absorb light and would provide K
with some protection from Gold’s light based attacks. The aura appeared
black and almost invisible in ordinary space, but when K approached Gold and
entered the territory of his aura K's own took on a purple hue. Gold now
strained himself producing more of his aura in order to push K backwards.
K's own aura thinned the closer he got to Gold until he made it close
enough to take a swipe at Gold's face with his claws. Gold managed to
produce enough energy to push K backwards and expel him out of his aura, but
not without a major effort. K quickly charged his dark ray aura and flew
upwards and entered Gold's aura from the top where it was weaker since Gold
pushed most of it to the front to expel K. K’s great speed and dark rays
allowed him to easily cut through Gold’s aura. He was above Gold in an
instant and punched him hard enough to send him flying outside of his own aura.
Gold's jaw was nearly dislocated, his nanomachines fed on his energy
reserves to repair the damage. K was left surrounded by the burning aura
as Gold condensed it in an effort to crush him, but he lacked the control he needed
to do it as fast as he wanted. He made the energy expand then condense,
but that made it move erratically and caused it to explode violently. The
explosion rippled throughout the area and its force had even pushed Gold back a
little.

He reactively surrounded his body with his golden aura, but
wasn't quite fast enough to avoid Xen's razor sharp blade. It caught him
dead in the chest and knocked him far and fast. His aura protected him
from most of the damage, but he still felt the pain of the blades weight
against him. He now had the sense and reaction to keep his aura about him
and closer to his body. He was surprised to find himself still in one
piece, but the blade had felt more like some weight than a cutting instrument.
He saw a flash and felt himself crash into something that was small and
circular at his back. Another of Xen's blades no doubt. Xen
appeared faster than he could react to and crashed into his sternum with a long
kick. Gold was smashed between the force of the kick and the weight of
Xen's blade. His aura had provided him minimal protection this time and
he and the blade went soaring until Xen recalled it and Gold with it.
This time Gold pushed the blade away with a flaring of his aura and sent
a small army of tiny golden energy globules at Xen while he attempted to
recover. He had to have launched thousands.

Xen prepared himself for the assault by detaching the four
of his reflective disc blades, one from each hand and foot. The
reflective discs hovered about him and he was glad to have them for this
battle. Like the rest of his body they were made of nanites that he could
control by mental will. He decreased the thickness of the blades with a
mere thought so that they could move unfettered. His mental state was the
most difficult to prepare as he'd have to be focused on each of the blades,
himself, and his opponent, but he was ready. He had trained to fight like
this for a long time as all sons of K'OS had.

Xen dodged and weaved through the globules and any that came
close were halted and reflected elsewhere by the discs that Xen controlled with
surgical precision. Then more came from the opposite direction.

Xen: "What in the world..."

Now attacked from two sides Xen had much more trouble.
One wrong move and he'd end up like K. When the barrage wouldn't
let up he recalled the discs to the tips of his hands and feet and used them to
deflect all incoming attacks at close range. He was successful for a time
until he found himself attacked on all sides.

Gold hadn't limited his attacks to Xen's flanks. He
placed golden grids on four sides around him and also above and below him.
Gold had effectively trapped Xen in a flaming golden prison where
explosive golden energy rained down from all sides. Xen resisted and
reflected for as long as he could, but it was too much. He was
overwhelmed and being blasted from all sides.

Gold was satisfied and smiled at his victory. It
wasn't every day when someone could claim to have defeated the Masked Ones.