The First: EVO Uprising (64 page)

“
Vincent, are you still with me?” she asked her personal A.I.

“
I am still functional, Ms. Dennison,” he responded through her bracer’s speaker system.

“
Can you patch into my daughter’s bracer,” she requested, “and then guide her to the location of the Eye of Ra?”

“
Yes I can,” Vincent confirmed.

“
Who?” a bewildered Kimberly asked.

“
Do it now,” she commanded him before turning to her daughter. “His name is the Eye of Ra. He won’t be too hard to spot. When you find him, tell him this.”

She quickly grabbed her daughter whispering in her ear. Kimberly’s eyes widened as she absorbed her mother’s instructions.

“
Do you understand?” Sophia looked her in the eyes.

“
Yes,” she rapidly nodded.

“
Put this in your ear.” Sophia pulled out the earpiece from Kimberly’s bracer attaching it to her right ear. “Vincent will tell you where to go. Once you find him, text me immediately. Now go. Go now!”

An explosion of rock and rubble announced that it was too late as a savagely enraged Peace torpedoed herself toward Kimberly. Seconds before contact she was intercepted furiously by Sophia sending them both crashing and rolling to the ground. She managed to get a mounting position straddling her while holding her arms down.

“
Go!” Sophia turned screaming at her daughter.

Kimberly shook herself from her frightened trance turning on her heels and, taking to the sky once again, flying as fast of her power could propel her.  

Sophia turned her attention back to Peace only to get a head removing eyebeam blast to the face. She screamed as it felt like she was being scalded by a blow torch. Powering through it, she took her right hand gripping it around Peace’s eyes to block the beams. Peace retaliated by rifling Sophia’s ribcages with machinegun body blows and then backhanding her off.

Sophia rolled off springing to her feet, while Peace performed another Kip Up landing on her feet.

She does not wait as she performed her version of a flash step darting over to her and executing a whirlwind legsweep to the back of her legs taking her feet from under her dropping her on her back again. Sophia then leapt into the air roaring as she delivered a trademark Bruce Lee double foot stomp.

Peace employing her flash step to roll out of the way within milliseconds of being stomped as she cratered the ground going a good fifteen feet down.

Sophia blasted her way out of her hole taking to the air as an oncoming semi-truck was javelined at her. She eradicated it with a low level energy blast from her hand unaware that it was just a diversion tactic used by Peace to slam into her propelling them both into sky at crushing speeds.

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Back in Washington, Shintobe’s body was brutally cannoned through a skyscraper. She would have stopped if the building she tore through was not sheared in half by Wendigo’s sonic blast sending her slamming violently into another building.

Dropping a good twenty feet, she was able to get her feet underneath her landing on them. The impact blew out her right knee in the process. She used her right-handed sword to keep herself propped up. Her left- handed sword lost during the first impact of the building as she clutched her ribcage on the right side. Her breathing was shallow and difficult signaling that her ribs were cracked. If she stayed put a couple more minutes they would heal along with her knee.

The trembling of the ground and vibrating of the windows to darkcore music meant she did not have a couple of more minutes. She quickly pulled up her mask revealing her lips spiting some blood on the concrete before pulling it back down again.   

 
Wendigo hovered ten feet from her with a sadistic Cheshire grin. She had been toying with her mouse, and now it was time to feast. With no striking distance and a bad wheel to run on, she prepared for the worse.

“
Your music sucks ass!” she yelled, gripping her sword.

Wendigo raised her left hand delivering the killing blow.

It was delayed by Kimberly plowing into her. Her sonic shielding was the only thing saving her from being broken in half as they cratered the streets of downtown DC. Now in the heart of Wendigo’s sonic output her body shook, as her vision became blurry, and her brain felt as if it was about to explode from her skull, while she held onto the front of Wendigo’s trench coat.

Wendigo screamed and howled fighting to get away as part of her headset slid from her skull greatly reducing the effect of her sonic powers. A dazed Kimberly realized that she was trying to protect her iPod Touch.

Fighting through the soundwaves that could pulverize a normal human’s bones to dust while turning their brain to goo and exploding their heart, she tore the Apple device from her grip. The sadistic Wendigo was reverted to a sobbing bawling child reaching for her iPod.

Kimberly crushed it in her hand stopping the music and her power. Wendigo collapsed onto the ground wailing hysterically. She curled up into a fetal ball clutching and clawing at her skull unable to be consoled.

Kimberly stumbled around getting her vision back as her body and insides stopped rattling. Shintobe almost healed limped over to her.

“
Thanks for saving my ass.” She placed a hand on her back. “You alright?”

Kimberly held a finger up as she turned and hurled up the remaining food in her system along with bile.     

“
Yeah, you’re alright,” she nodded.

“
Have… to… find… Eye… of Ra,” Kimberly groaned.

“
Don’t think he’ll be too hard to find,” Shintobe said.

Kimberly turned to where she pointed to see a purple and black fireball crashing two blocks up from them tearing up the street.

A rattled Revenant struggled to his feet as the Eye of Ra descended landing in the streets with a concrete cracking thud.

The second in command of the Zombie Nation wasted no time retaliating as he unleashed a stream of dark matter energy at the Egyptian demigod. Ra raised his staff absorbing it.

“
We should help him!” Kimberly prepared to take flight.

“
Hold on.” Shintobe placed a hand on her shoulder. “I think the big man wants to handle this little scuffle ‘hombre a niño.’”

“
But we don’t have time!” A frustrated Kimberly turned to her.

“
Trust me.” Shintobe gave her a pat. “I don’t think this will take long.”

The Eye of Ra waded through Revenant’s energy attacks advancing toward him with purpose. The dark matter wielder realizing that his streams and volleys were ineffective against him switched to channeling dark solid constructs. By focusing he created two ginormous fists which mimicked the physical movements of his own hands.

This show of power did not halt the Eye of Ra’s forward motion. Revenant roared as he threw a right haymaker that tore through the street heading straight for him. Ra responded meeting the blow head on with a cosmic charged right fist shattering the construct. It sent a shockwave which shattered windows and sent parked cars flying into store fronts. He continued to advance.

“
Stay back!” Revenant frantically yelled.

This time he dropped his right constructed fist for a hammer blow. Using his staff, he created his own solid gold construct of an ancient Egyptian shield to both block and destroy his second attack on impact. His continued advancement broke Revenant’s nerve.

His first thought was to flee as he took to the skies, but a faster and stronger demigod also took flight getting face to face with him twenty feet up. With a backhand fist to the face, he swatted Revenant out of the sky dropping him awkwardly onto the hood and windshield of a Toyota RAV 4.

“
Ooooh! He brought out the Egyptian pimp hand!” Shintobe cringed.

Kimberly quickly turned wondering who was this energetic and extremely vocal woman under the mask as they watched the one-sided beating taking place.

Revenant slowly rolled off of the damaged mini SUV as the Eye of Ra returned to Earth shaking the ground now towering over him. He held a hand up attempting to reason with him.

“
Now… now.” Revenant displayed a twitching smile. “No need for any further violence. You’ve proven your point exponentially, dear sir. I surrender.”

“
You must be punished for your crimes,” Ra’s voice calmly boomed from underneath his mask.

“
Yes… I imagine I should be punished for my crimes,” Revenant nodded in agreement, “but not today!”

He lashed out with one final act of defiance touching the breastplate of his armor with his hand to absorb its properties and destroy it. Instead the armor temporarily changed to the black and purple color scheme of the dark matter energy he wielded before reverting back to gold.

“
I… don’t… understand.” He fell back against the vehicle. “I have the power to absorb matter itself… I wield the darkest of powers…”

“
But I wield the most oldest,” Ra answered, “one that gave birth to the universe itself.”

Before Revenant could truly plead for his life, the long metallic scorpion tail attached to the back of the Eye of Ra’s helmet coiled up and struck him deep in his right side taking him three inches off the ground before releasing him.

Revenant dropped to his knees and hand while clutching his right side going into convulsions with drool pouring from his mouth. The black and purple glowing hue in his eyes slowly disappeared turning to his normal light blue eyes.

“
What… did… you… do… to me,” he said while scrapping the ground.

“
I manipulated your DNA,” the Eye of Ra retorted, “sealing your power to absorb matter. And now for your crimes against humanity. I banish you to quadrant 674910.”

“
Where… is that?” he gasped.

“
You pride yourself as an agent of hell,” he replied. “Allow me to reassure you that what awaits you in quadrant 674910 will make your romances of hell seem like a heavenly paradise. The beings there have ways of keeping you alive for centuries as they fulfill their curiosity slowly figuring out what you are. My advice to you the second you hit the ground… is to run, hide, and pray not to be found.”

The Eye of Ra’s staff lit up creating a portal that opened up underneath a screaming Revenant falling into the unknown. Kimberly covered up her ears to shut it out. The portal sealed with the dimming of the staff.

“
Now that’s gangsta,” Shintobe nodded with approval.

 
Kimberly cautiously walked over to him as the face plate to his helmet slowly retracted revealing his warm dark face and piercing white eyes void of irises. He turned to face her, startling her enough to jumped back one step.

“
My mom… needs your help,” she swallowed. “She said you’d know what to do.”

He nodded, ready to give assistance.  

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Sophia stood up in the middle of downtown Mexico City. Around her once again was destruction, screaming, and people running. It was the apparent theme of the entire day.

“
Run! Get far away from here!” she yelled in Spanish.

She remembered Peace taking her high into the sky after she threw the truck using it as a decoy. Before they got too high Sophia rung her bell with three stiff elbows to the back and side of her skull. She then slipped out of her grip and turned the tables on her taking her downward at tremendous speeds. Nothing in their way stood standing, or was unscathed when they hit.

“
All I wanted was a husband, two point three kids, a house, and a Pug named Puddles,” Sophia sadly shook her head. “Now this is my life.”

She had to stop this mass destruction world tour as quickly as possible. She prayed that Kimberly found the Eye of Ra in order to help her put an end to this. First she had to find Peace, who she lost in the impact.

“
Where are you, you bitch?” she screamed at the top of her lungs.

Her answer came from a war cry and a bomb dropping kind of sound. Instead of dashing out of the way, she threw her forearms up to take a double forearm axhandle strike meant to split her head open. The ground cratered on impact. Sophia roared back wrapping her arms around Peace’s waist like a python and detonated an overhead belly to belly suplex hurling her through the front window of a small local bar.

She charged into the bar after her only to get the literal bar thrown at her. With a back hand she swatted it out of the way giving Peace the opening she needed to deliver a charging shoulder tackle sending them both into an old car, turning it into a boomerang while putting it halfway through the front window of a restaurant on the other side.  

Refusing to let up herself, Sophia battered her back with a series of elbows. Tired of getting her back pulverized, Peace shot up knocking her arm away and smacked her with a right cross staggering her. Peace then threw a left which she blocked with a right forearm. Sophia’s bell still rung as she fought back cracking her nose with a vicious headbutt and then caving-in her chest with a dropkick putting her through the wall of a building across the street.