Villain by Ivan Kal

Author:Ivan Kal [Kal, Ivan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-25T22:00:00+00:00

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Anessa acted immediately after she noticed the Enlightened attacking the fleet. She arrived in space and saw that it did not look like any of the Enlightened, but she could feel that it was Doranis. She had only a limited encounter with him once before, but it was unmistakable. He looked like a cross between a Shara Daim and some kind of scaly being, with four arms. She needed to act, to strike first, but standing so close to him, feeling his power, made her hesitate. When he asked her for her name, she answered, trying to buy time to think of a strategy. They had designed several ways of fighting the Enlightened, but already she knew that many wouldn’t work.

Instead she reached into her armor’s systems and triggered a program. Immediately, her suit’s systems and sensors connected to nearby ships, and she saw several Sovereigns and Titans alter course and head her way. Now she only needed to stall him until they arrived.

She nearly missed the attack. Doranis slammed a kinetic attack into her, with her just barely managing to deflect most of it. She was still sent flying. Then she sensed him appear next to her, all four of his arms glowing with eerie, dark blue energy. He stabbed down toward her chest and her eyes widened. She sent a kinetic blast at his face, and twisted in space. Two of his hands scored hits on her armor, cutting through it. She felt pain as crackling lines spread through the gashes he made. She didn’t know what that was, but if it had hit her directly, she would’ve died.

Her armor’s weapon systems roared to life, and back-mounted turrets rose over her shoulders, firing bolts of plasma at the Enlightened. She pulled the canister filled with gas and cracked it, using her power to create containment around it and beginning the process of splitting it in half. She exerted her will on one half, reversing the charges of the atoms inside. Doranis had tanked most of her plasma shots, but now they splashed on his shield. He pointed a hand in her direction and she felt him prepare an attack. Before he had a chance, she smashed the two sides of the opposing particles together. The anti-matter annihilation blossomed inside her containment and she guided it forward as a lance. Brilliant white light filled the space and she saw Doranis’s eyes widen. He didn’t try to defend against it, and instead he moved.

He was just a moment to slow.

Her visor protected her eyes from the brilliant light. Adrian had burned his eyes out when he’d used this attack. Hers was smaller, as she had less particles, but it was not at all less powerful. Doranis floated in space, one of his arms missing. He looked at it incredulously, and Anessa cursed. The first thing that they had agreed for fighting the Enlightened was to go all out from the start. Surprise them, and never give them a chance to strike.

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