CHAPTER 20

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We arrived at where Magneto's source had seen Jean, and immediately I summoned my dagger from the inventory. Around, the air was cold, winter-like almost, with a chill that permeated the air in a grim tone, sending shivers down everyone's spine. The streets were busy as always, but even then, they were abnormally silent, as if sound itself knew what was about to happen.

"Erik, you don't have to do this…" I heard Raven say, as she came into view, "We don't have to hurt her…"

Magneto looked at her, amused, "I am not here to hurt her Raven, but to ensure she doesn't bring forth the end of our time,"

"You recruited him?" Scott hissed.

"With Charles not being able to do anything, he is the best... I mean, what is Charles supposed to do? Roll over them with his wheelchair until they surrender?" I rolled my eyes.

"Who are you talking about?" Charles, who was just now coming into view asked.

"The aliens that want to use Jean for their nefarious purposes," I replied.

"Charles… Now step aside, and let us deal with this," Erik said, floating towards where Jean was.

"If Jean is being used, we must save her…" Beast said, as I walked besides Magneto.

"Ready?" Erik asked.

"Yep," I nodded.

With a move of his hand, the doors of the house opened wide, as he floated inside the apartment. "Jean," Erik called.

"Erik," Jean greeted, her tone unusually cold. [Jean Grey LV 291]

"Hi," I waved at her, getting only a cold glance from her part, "Fair enough,"

"You fear me… everyone does…" Jean said, walking towards Magneto, as Vuk came into view, walking behind her. [Vuk LV 147]

"They fear what they don't understand," Vuk whispered into her ear, "They fear progress, they fear what you are capable of… and want to suppress you, like Charles did… like he wanted to do," at the end he pointed at me.

"And you want to use her power to rebuild your extinct race here on earth…" I shot back, getting a surprised glare from Vuk, "Yes, I know… I know how you are manipulating her… and how you plan to steal her power, to kill all life on this planet, and… then terraform it to revive your race…"

"Jones," Vuk's face was blank, unexpressive,  and even then I knew she was angry, that much I could tell.

"Yes?" Jones the other D'Bari in charge came into view, [Gvyn LV 95]

"Deal with him," Vuk ordered, and Jones or rather Gvyn nodded.

A ninety five, well… ain't this gonna be hard, "Let's go Gvyn," I winked at the alien, getting once again a surprised look from both D'Bari.

"Jean… would you do the honors?" Vuk smiled as Jean nodded.

"Yes…" Jean muttered, and with a move of her hand, she blasted me out of the building into the park in front of it, all while I heard Gyvn said he would be back.

"Are you okay?" Ororo, who was outside, nearby where I landed, asked.

"Yes, but you should go with Charles and the rest to help them…" I said, grabbing the hand she was offering me.

"Are you ready to die, human?" And there he was... my my personal E.T.

"Who is he?" Ororo asked, her hands charging with lightning.

"My battle," I replied, patting her on the back, "You help them with the others… he's not the only one…"

Concerned, she looked at me, biting her lower lip, "Will you be okay?"

"Yes," I nodded, smiling at her.

"Then kick his ass!" Ororo smiled, flying into the house, leaving me alone with Gvyn.

"You are a fool…" Gvyn started, "A fool I have to eliminate…"

"E.T." I boomed at my foe, interrupting him, "Let's save the monologues… and end this? Shall we?"

"You are right…. Talking with you is a waste of my time, but still… I can't help but wonder why do you know so much about our plans..." The Alien replied "I suppose I will find out when I break you down...humans tend to be honest when they scream in pain..." 

I snorted, almost chuckling at the Alien's bravado. Yes it was true he was more than a few levels ahead of me, but I had experience, if Hydra had taught me something, it was how to kill people stronger than me, let's see how it applies to Aliens, "Very well then," I chuckled, "Shall we?"

Suddenly, the Alien moved, quickly closing the gap between us, darting at me like a predator to its prey, sending a punch to my chest. He was surprisingly slower than me, and that was something I was going to exploit. With a smile I caught the Alien's punch as it arrived, throwing him into the ground.

But as he landed on the ground, he threw me against a tree with a telekinetic push, enough to lift my body from the ground, but not enough to hold me down for long.

"After Jean, your telekinesis feels like a party trick," I chuckled, as both I and him circled one another, inspecting each other out, trying to find a way to end this. 

"Then… I'll kill you with my bare hands," Transforming his hand into a sword like appendage, he took a step forward.

"Ok," I sighed, dagger at hand, while summoning my gun from my inventory, to add some range to my situation.

"Die…" Gvyn hissed, swinging his arm around. At the predictability of his attack, I ducked under the blade, shooting at him a few times. The bullets seemed to hurt him, but HP wise didn't do much, one round of six bullets had barely taken 1% of his HP.

"Your human weapons are useless," Gvyn hissed, swinging his arm in a horizontal manner, to which I once again dodged, jumping to the side.

"How about this then?" I smiled, blasting him with a mana arrow at point blank range.

This time, the attack had actually done some damage, and Gvyn was furious at that, "I will end you…" faster than I could react, he pulled me closer with his telekinetic push, and pierced me with his sword-like arm.

Understandably, I roared in pain. Streams of blood dripping from my wound. "I AM TIRED OF BEING IMPALED!" I roared, this time in anger, breaking his sword like arm in two with a focused strike.

"Blunt attacks of this caliber will never work on me. Give up now, accept death…" Gvyn stated, his arm already back in one piece.

Grabbing a pot from my inventory to heal the damage I had received, I growled, give up? Accept death, fuck that, I had no intention of quitting. "You are clearly stronger than me, but I am more flexible…" I declared, jumping into the air with my telekinesis, charging as much mana as I could in my hands, I wanted to blast him with a powerful mana arrow, and keep doing that while I levitated above his range, but something else happened. Just as I was about to blast the bastard for impaling me, my skill evolved, apparently overcharging the skill with mana had created a new version of it. 

[A current skill has evolved thanks to an specific action]

[Mana Arrow LV 24 > Mana Arrows LV 25]

[Mana Arrows - LV 25 = Focusing your energy, you fire between one and six mana arrows at your enemies. Cost 380 MP x Arrow, Cost = 380MP - 2280MP. Damage based on INT and level of skill * 1.5 * # of arrows. Damage = INT * skill level = (165 * 25) * 1.5 * # of arrows = 6187.5 - 37125]

"Hahahahahahahah, yes!" I roared, this time in delight, I loved my power... especially now that I was blasting my six arrows at the alien, whose eyes widened in shock. 

His HP already on the 80% he stood up, growling. "I will end you!"

Smiling, and looking at my mana, I got into position…. Already making calculation's how much damage I would have to deal before killing him. "Bring it on, E.T!"