“Collide”

"I am your ruler, or at least I can be, but I need your help."

The woman upon the balcony continued speaking on, Reece travelling through the crowd to grt a closer look, unable to identify who the woman is.

"Your current leader is a joke! This city has came to it's worst once that fraud came along, they haven't ruled this city at all, their title is a mere lie."

"You all need a new ruler.. a ruler who can take responsibility. You need a ruler who can speak in bold letters I can be just that."

The woman put her hand to her chest, as Reece finally made it theough the crowd, looking up at the balcony, the feint vision of black and maroon filling her eyes, before her sight became clear.

"I am Morell, and I shall be the next ruler!"

Reece's eyes widened, her fists clenching. The crowd all murmured to eachother, before some began yelling out.

"Why should you be ruler!? Nobody even knows who you are!"

This riled the crowd up, many people making arguments and plain insults towards Morell.

"Yeah, who died and made you leader!?"

One man threw a can at Morell, as in a sudden flash, the clan was sliced in half, Morell appearing into the crowd, past the man who's head would be sliced off from his upper lip.

The crowd went silent, as Morell flicked the blood off her knife, standing beside Reece, who was absolutely shocked, slowly turning her face towards Morell.

The crowd backed away from Morell, giving her dome space as she placed her knife back in her holster.

"A leader needs to be strong, if you'd like to object that means you're up to challenge me, sonat objections?"

More murming in the crowd formed, many people shaking their head no, all scared as some were even crying.

"Good."

Morell pointed her megaphone up to the sky, yeling out so everyone could hear her.

"There is a threat to the city, and possibly more. A man is running around building up energy, and on e he reaches a certain amount the entirely city will be nuked.."

She then pointed her finger out to the crowd, her megaphone lowering to her mouth.

"I require your help to stop this threat. I am not forcing you, but it's either some die or all do. I'm looking for the strongest, don't join if you believe you'll be a deadweight."

The crowd was shocked to this information, the majority backing out, some running away and panicking, as only a handful of people remained.

"I hope you know that few, or all of you will die in this mission, that will be a risk you'll have to take. We'll begin searching immediately."

Morell looked around at the remaining people, them all either being muscular, or appearing unique in their own ways, before her eyes made it to Reece, who was frozen in place.

"Ah- Reece.."

She attempted to reach Reece, though that only caused her to run off, grabbing Bennett by the risk as she did.

Morell watched her run off with a frown, looking down at her hand, before regaining her composure, beginning to walk off.

"Alright, everyone follow me, we'll need to find this man as fast as we can.."

Reece ran off through the streets, dragging Bennet behind her, though he eventually tugged her back, stopping her in her tracks as she hid her face in her arm.

"Eh.. Reece, what's wrong? You seem, bothered. I'm sure the city won't be nuked..! This is probably just some war propaganda..!"

Reece looked to Bennett, tears in her eyes as she held onto his hand.

"Bennett, just days before I came across you, I was apart of a little trio.. One died, and I argued with the other, that other was the woman just there."

She looked up at him with a serious look on her face.

"She was my original candidate for the new ruler, but, I just got so mad.. and when she gave me a reality check, I ran off, far away.."

Bennett looked at her with a frown, wiping her tears as he patted her on the back.

"Well, why'd you run away again? You afraid that she'll hate you now? You need to apologize, and regain your little friend."

Reece seemed hesitant to the idea, looking down as she thought to herself, before nodding as she ran back to where Morell was headed, Bennett being pulled from behind.

"If this ends bad I'll tear your arm off..!"

Bennett was being flailed around in the wind by his arm, trying to reach for her hand with his other.

"You're already going to, slow down..!"

Reece spotted Morell and her group from afar, as they were travelling up a mountain, Reece and Bennett following from behind.

"I wonder why they're headed up there..?"

Reece caught up to them, as they were standing in front of a transmission tower, the group approaching it as Morell stood from behind.

Reece was just about to tap on Morell's shpulder, before a lighting bolt struck down at the tower, the group completely fried as Reece and Bennett were knocked back, Morell standing her ground.

Faust was now standing forth, his body consisting of far more energy before, as he stared down at Morell, punching towards her.

She quickly spun aroud, avoiding the punch as she pulled out her knife, a black energy inbuing into it as she then ran forth, running her blade through Faust's arm, as this time it actually managed to slice him, Faust left in shock as he retreated his arm, swinging his other arm down to send down a bolt of lightning.

Morell raised her knife, the lightning bolt being absorbed into it as she the thrusted her knife forth, piercing Faust in the chest as the lightning bolt shot right through.

Faust held his hand over his chest, a chuckle heard.

"You've improved, but you'll still only fail."

He stomped down, the ground cracking as Morell was thrown off balance. He then formed a white hole in his hand, sending it into Morell.

Reece quickly dashed forth, reaching out in the way of the attack, as a blinding light formed, them sll closing their eyes.

Once the blindness ended, the three, Morell, Reece, and Bennett stood in a spatial domain, Faust standing faced aside from them, cracking his knuckles as his energy was at it's peak, light shining out his eyes as his body carried a white aura.

"This'll end here." -To Be Continued…