12. Sonic hull

The ripple of the sonic waves released from the monster destroyed the Shop's wall and sent Popey flying. A part of popey's body was disintegrated. No, to be precise the sonic boom contracted his muscles and tore them resulting in the loss of his arm.

And for Vader, he was in a startle and stunned. His limbs didn't react for a few seconds and when he snapped back to reality he noticed that he had been pushed a pace away from his previous position.

"Ahh! My arm... My Arm! It's gone!"

Popey was scream in agony while Vader just watched him with a disheartened expression.

His pupils dilated and his heartbeat wilder as his body began to sweat. He was frightened, Frightened to make a move.

"Vader! Vader! Look at me Youngman!" Popey said crawling towards him.

Just a few minutes ago everything was going quite well, disregarding the intrusion of the beast that happened at the border of Terra.

"Mr.Popey please stay there!"

Vader yelled after peering at the beast that commenced to move out of the area.

"Vader...Please protect my family."

Popey said grabbing Vader's foot while looking at him with his welled-up eyes.

"Please stop! You'll be alright."

Vader said turned his head towards the suit and rushed towards it.

Abruptly the ground shook again as a ripple effect to the sonic booms the Monster released. When he slightly peeked out he saw a wounded woman fighting along with a Youngman.

Both were beyond the reach of help. However, there were a few police officers and members of some task force who were pulling its agro to distract it from attacking the wounded couple.

It was Vader's ex and her boyfriend. Those two were certainly tattered and would go down and any given moment. The beast had made to run rampant into the city by the rich of the north at least that what was it seemed like since there were people blocking the northern direction.

It was wounded too since there were several cuts on its back. Vader didn't worry about them at that moment he wanted to protect Popey and his family including himself.

<HMLBS has been equipped>

Upon looking at the message he clicked the buttons under his wrist and slowly he felt the internals of the helmet lighting up.

<HMLBS power source has been established>

He made a pistol but it wasn't clearly powerful enough to hunt the monster nor did he have time to construct one. He just wore his suit and stood inside the shop while watching the fight.

It was heavier than he expected but lighter than any other armor one could buy in the weaponry Terra. Though the design was plain he had indeed engineered it with intricate power supplying paths. The only feature that suit had was quick propulsion which he haven't tested yet.

The Propulsion system wasn't made with coding but it wholly relies on motions. It wasn't coded nor placed with motion detectors to manually operate. The internal circuits were made with a few gear parts that activate according to the movements of his wrist.

As he twisted his arm his wrist blades emerged out. Those were about twelve inches long similar to a short sword. Though they weren't sharp they could help in combat or crucial moments.

The Scavengers and the police slowly began to push the monster towards the shop once again. The streets and lanes were burning. People were screaming in agony. The area was in total chaos.

Vader wasn't obliged to help any of those in fact he couldn't even overcome the fear of facing the beast.

<Mechanical Sagacity activated>

His survivals instincts automatically activated his ability and following the message another blue window popped up.

<Eyes of discernment activated>

Mostly this shouldn't be working at that moment his mind intimated him to activate it. The result of activating made him speechless. It was like his mind already had perception over the ability even though he has yet to pioneer.

<Detected the weak points of the sonic Hull>

The eyes of discernment showed weak points of the beast in gold similar to how it directed him towards the elements that were available to construct the suit. This just meant that he can indeed fight opponents far stronger than himself.

'Sonic hull is its name?'

The beast's eyes locked on to the scrap shop and Vader since they caught its eye. It was as though the beast sensed his eyes scanning through its weakness. It quickly opened its mouth and released the ball of a sonic boom. At that moment Vader was stunned. The speed of the ball that's approaching him was so fast that he couldn't react.

"For fuck sake!"

He cursed and upthrusted his wrist.

The next second his suit dashed forward. The only problem is he fell forward unable to balance the quick thrust of propulsion emitted out of his boots. Yet, he was fortunate enough to escape the sonic boom. If the ball touched him he might be sent flying and would have got his bones broken after getting his suit shattered.

He unsheathed the sword momentarily as the monster approached him. He didn't test drive nor practice using the suit as such he was clearly at a disadvantage.

Boom!

The sonic ball once again entered the shop and exploded.

Popey who helped might have died but it was plausible. When he turned around he noticed that the whole street was beyond resurrection. The shops and houses were demolished. Few of the scavengers and police approached the beast and swung their swords while Vader just watched lying on the floor.

"Stand up."

One of the street folk approached him and helped Vader to raise his body.

"Are you a scavenger young man? Could you help my daughter that's stuck inside that building?"

He said and pointed at one of the demolished houses.

The house was next to the beast and he was clearly able to see a girl crying stuck under the concrete roof. He looked at the old man who helped him and looked at the young girl.

He didn't understand why he sought him instead of others around. He wasn't able to refuse his request nor accept. Popey's shop was destroyed and within a few more blows his house behind the shop will be destroyed.

Some have to fight it and he was certainly inferior to Nanorians when it comes to fights. A direct blow would kill him and he was yet to fully take control over his suit.

"Fuck me!"

He cursed and once again thrust his suit using the propulsion shot. Unlike last time he made a forward dash however he controlled balance as much as possible. Yet he stumbled.

He raised his body and once again tried again.

Meanwhile, the scavengers continued to battle against the beast.

Its belly glowed in gold akin to the joints of its limbs and back. Those were the soft spots that were exposed and not covered by hard skin and some of the places were already wounded.

'I'll just save the girl and leave'

He gritted his teeth and once again raised his body.

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Author's note: Wasn't in sync when I was writing this chap and I know I could have finished it within this chap but, I still have to finish this story I am building in my outline so, let's move slow for a while until reaching the good part.

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