19 - Silver
"Why would I?" Dante choked on his words as a arm lifted him up from the ground by his neck…
"You tell me or I will not hesitate to break both of your legs and leave you out cold."
"Ohh scary…"
"Alright alright… let me down.."
Feeling his feet touch the ground, Dante used his cybernetics to slow time down, dodging under her arm that was still extended, before rounding back using that arm to get her in a neck hold with one arm…
The other producing a chip..
"Here you…" Dante's face received a full blown punch from the front… shutting him up for a bit…
"I am already starting to hate you."
"Oh… alright." Dante didn't mind it to much, not knowing much about the woman before him other than some minor information he had found online…
"What are you going to do with those blueprints.." They were relatively advanced and would be a valuable target for those willing to go through the trouble…
"Use them to win this war.." nodding Dante's curiosity wasn't satiated..
"Ah.. of course…and what then."
"none of your concern.."
"Ah… and you are going to keep that data secure.."
"It would have been."
"You think I will spill those secrets?" Dante acted offended, tacking her doubts as a great insult..
"Why wouldn't you… you are American yes?"
"What makes you say that?"
"You are annoying." Dante's mouth hanged agape for a second…
"Wow… a quick one to judge.." They had only met a little while ago, and Silver had already made a profile of him in her mind…
"Am I wrong?"
"Not entirely… but back to the real matter… the tech is yours, although you shouldn't be surprised if I use it a little." The designs were still useful to someone like Dante, even if in comparison to some other tech it was outdated…
"Why would you give it to me."
"What do you think I gain from military blueprints and energy weapons?"
"Money."
"Are you offering me money?" Money was always welcome, even if he didn't need it…
"So you would sell it!"
"What.. no.. I am just looking earn a little to invest.." his future knowledge was enough to give him a good life… even if he still hadn't started the process yet..
"Invest?"
"Leader!" A soldier rushed into the tent, seemingly stressed over something..
"What!"
"The artifacts and historic items inside of the castle aren't there anymore."
"Where did they go!" Silver seemed enraged by the situation
"North mam."
"How far are they?"
"The tracks seemed little more than a day old."
"That means.."
"Yes mam."
"What does it mean.."
"That they are escaping into Latveria." Making a quick search, Dante found that Latveria was a small nation north of Symkaria…
"Aren't your countries allies.."
"Yes but their ruler will not tolerate any action taken on their land… when they cross the borders they will most likely be immediately destroyed.."
"I can handle it if you would want.."
"And how would you do that?"
"Magic… now where are they at the moment.."
"They are just short of five miles away from the border."
"Could you point or.." Dante began to search for any satellite he could use to look for any car, wanting to narrow down it a little more than north and less than five miles..
"They were last spotted right here." Dante looked at the road locating it the orbital map before creating a mental image in his mind…
"Lets see.." a portal slowly opened in the corner of the room, to both amazement from silver and astonishment from the soldier..
"Shall I go alone or will you accompany me?" Tacking a look at the portal silver seemed to hesitate for a moment before turning her attention to the soldier…
"Ill be back." Letting her step through the portal, Dante followed behind… standing both safely located on the other side, before closing the portal..
"They should be here any moment now…"
"I see them.."
"Hey Silver… was the map you showed me up to date?"
"It should be.."
"Well it appears Latveria doesn't think the same.." Dante could see robots flying their way… and from what he could gather they weren't going to be friendly..
"They might be send out in advance…"
"No I'm.."
"Either way I deal with the car…. You make sure no one gets to me.."
"Sure I mean.." The robots were still out of range for Dante to do anything drastic… he could start shooting… although that likely wouldn't be to affective… waiting for them to get closer and unleashing a couple of daemons in their system seemed like the easiest solution… even if not the most fun..
Silver sprinted down the hill they were standing on, making her way towards the path of the vehicle…
Dante stood there unsure of what the best coarse of action was… if he waited for them than the conflict might result in damage to the surroundings… but going to far ahead would leave him and Silver without any options to aid one another…
Decided to go at least a little bit further into Latveria, Dante climbed a nearby hill...
"Alright then.." The bots were beginning to get into range… with the first system burnout already being deployed on the bot leading the charge… the daemons slowly spreading to those around the first, causing a wide arrange of problems, but not damaging them enough to cause them to fall…
His cyberdeck was already beginning to get heated due to the range at which he used the daemons, leaving him with less potent options even with them getting closer to him…
A couple of short circuits later and Dante was officially at his limits, with four slightly damaged bots still flying without any major problems…
The bots split up, using ranged energy attacks to try and tire him down…
Using his own magic Dante crudely made some magic bolts, missing most but destroying one bot and damaging another…
The damaged one fell down… coming into melee range for Dante who swiftly took it out… leaving him battling the remaining two as more bots were already on their, eventually noticing that their energy output was becoming a bit weak due to them staying in the air…
Quickly taking out the remaining two Dante began to go through their lifeless bodies, collecting any and all useful parts to craft himself an energy weapon connected to three energy cores…
With the energy output being concentrated into singular blast Dante was able to successfully take down the new wave of bots… at the same time breaching their system in case more showed up….
His cyberdeck was almost fully back to normal, with it having gained back more than enough to be used again… Something that was needed as two more squads of bots came from either side of him…
Quickly gathering more materials, Dante connected more energy cores to it, overcharging it to a point where he doubted it would last much longer…
Firing an overcharged shot, Dante witnessed it tear through the bots, the energy bolt quicky fading into the distance afterwards…
Dante couldn't help but get exited seeing the power he held in his hands, quickly charging one shot after the other… sadly the weapons wasn't stable enough to keep up at the pace Dante was going… quickly overheating before one of the damaged energy cores exploded, the explosion pushing him off the hill and into the tree's below…
Getting back up Dante shook his head… the explosion having disorientated him, not to mention tearing the clothes he had… leaving halve of his chest without anything to cover it…
"Damn it." The bots flew to his position… flying low over the treeline to try and spot him…
Dante thought about leaving, fleeing while he was still hidden, but felt like that wouldn't be fun…
Climbing one of the nearby tree's Dante jumped up, using one of the bots to get back on top of the hill…
Dante didn't use his cyberdeck in stead opting to use some conjured magic bolts, taking aim, careful this time as to not waste energy… Dante was about to released the magic before feeling a metal hand wrap around his neck…
"You dare to trespass on Latverian soil and destroy my doom bots.." Dante couldn't turn to look at the person.. his neck firmly being in their grasp..
"I couldn't get a visa at the border."
"You dare to make jokes in the precents of doom." Dante could feel energy building up inside the gauntlet behind his neck…
His attempt to get out of the situation foiled by the person slamming Dante into the ground…
An explosion pushed him further into it as a shock rang through Dante's body…
The vibration of steps could be heard fading as the person slowly walked away… likely thinking Dante to be dead…
Slowly rising from the ground, Dante saw the person for the first time… a metal suit with green robes flowing into a cape that shrouded his back…
Similarly to him, the suit contained both magic and technology… inciting a keen interest in Dante….
"Leaving so soon?" Dante made the fact he was still alive known, at the same time using his cyberdeck to shut down major parts of the suit, leaving the person inside without much of his arsenal…
"You should have just stayed down.." the suits movements didn't seem to be affected by anything Dante did, likely because of the movement being supported by mostly magic…
He raised his hand ready to fire another shot at Dante before noticing it didn't work, a crucial error that Dante used to get close to him… beginning to use his cyberware to its fullest potential as he let energy course through his punches, both leaving electrical sparks flying out as well as magical strands seeping though…
His punches connected one after the other, pushing the person back with each hit…
"Come on… at least make it a good fight.." Dante continued to hit the armour, creating dents in the plates, leaving perfectly sized fist marks on top of the previously clean metal…
"Why should I entertain you?" One of the bots flew into Dante, knocking him away from the person… as they slowly reinitiated their armour… the bots tacking over the fighting as more had seemingly snuck up on Dante while he wasn't paying attention..
The energy Dante had stored up in his body was unleashed, sending out a small electrical pulse that took down the bots in the area around him… leaving him free to continue to peruse his target..
"You are foolish if you think that will be enough." Dante was hit by another green bolt of magic, damaging him while at the same time fuelling his own magic…
"You are the fool if you think you can't be beaten." Boosting himself with a blast of power, Dante launched himself forwards…
"I know my limits… you don't even cause me to work up a sweat." Dr doom dodged to the side, letting Dante fly by only to be surprised by Dante using his legs to jump back in the air…
Receiving a hit that removed the mask that covered her face….
"You're a woman?" He was a little surprised, remembering doctor Doom as a man…
"I am Doom!" She launched Dante into the ground, beginning to blast him with one magic bolt after another before…
Dante's energy reserves just kept growing as he received hit after hit… its damage still effecting his body, preventing him from doing much as the onslaught continued…
After a solid minute the barrage finally stopped, leaving Dante's chest exposed as his clothes and part of his flesh had burned away, leaving him coughing…
"Surrender and I might spare your life.."
Dante raised his arms, feeling them slowly mend as he moved them. "I think I may well accept that offer.."