Enforcers - Chapter 175

Age 1991

Max frowned slightly as he looker out towards the window. “Ahh… Hero’s pretty far away.”

“What?” Irene asked turning to look at the powerful recruit.

“He’s activated his borrowed Mantra…”

“His what?”

“Borrowed Mantra,” Max announced as he smirked. “I figured it out. Hero isn’t able to unlock his own Mantra, but he still has that power within him. By latching onto someone else’s Mantra he can pull off a small piece of their Aura. Then he feeds that tiny piece his own power allowing it to expand around his body. This allows him to use someone else’s Mantra but it has a small flaw… For one it takes a massive amount of energy as he is constantly having to feed it his own Mantra. And two since it isn’t his Mantra it is only as strong as the person who activates it. For example, if he did this with a Captain he would have the power of a Captain, but if he did this with any random person it really wouldn’t be that good… It’s basically a budget Mantra!”

“I see… Is assume this is how you plan on having all of use activate Mantra?” Irene asked.

“That’s right!” Max announced as his own Mantra began to crackle. “Grab on everyone! I’m going to allow you to feed off of my power! Like a newborn baby feasting on its mother for the first time.”

“Never word it like that again…” Everyone in the room said.

Mr. Snow smirked as flakes of snow began to drip off of him. “This is getting interesting…” He smirked. “Go on! Power them up. Show me this skill.”

“Well get ready,” Max announced. “The battle starts here!”

Meanwhile…

‘Boom!’

The smoke settled slowly showing a heavily beat up Okane as he let out a grunt. “Shit… Now that he has Mantra… That damn freaks attacks actually hurt…”

“I’m going to defeat you!” Hero announced charging forward.

“I won’t lose!” Okane roared.

“Wow, those two really don’t like each other…” Shelly muttered.

Hero slammed his fist into the blade of Okane as the two clashed kicking up a wave of dirt and dust. Several blades of bone stabbed out of Hero’s wrist as a wave of wind began to slice through the city.

Okane ducked down just in time as a wind blade sliced the building behind him in half.

He brought his own blade up slicing into Hero’s shoulder. White liquid sprayed out as steam rose off of the wound and the cut sealed shut. More steam began to pour out as the pipe fired it out melting the stone around them.

“That’s new…” Okane muttered.

“Yeah I’ve done some self-improvements.” Hero bragged. “I’m a Seraphin so I have three Attributes. Each one is a body based one. And working together they truly do become a massive force. I use the Monsterfication to make the bones in my body. The living nano to move the bones around and stab them outside of my body. I also use the living nanos healing process. As you may have noticed when they heal they create intense steam. I combine that steam with my balloon powers to compress it down then fire it out of a tiny hole in the bone pipes. And boom! Wind blade!”

He swung his hand out slicing another building in half.

“Too bad you have no self-control…” Shelly muttered.

Okane slammed his hands down sending out a wave of coins to the two of them.

Shelly stepped forward bringing her arms up as pink flames fired out melting the coins.

“Chemical flames.” She bragged. “They don’t burn. Rather they transmute. Anything these flames touch is broken down into pure oxygen and gasoline allowing it to spread faster and faster. They don’t burn an object they eat it.”

Thsbflamss took shape forming several flaming arrows that fired down. Okane flipped back as several coins fired up blocking the attacks.

He whipped out a black credit card and sliced it through the air sending out a wave of wind that Hero blocked with a bone shield.

“I’ll spend two hundred million Bells on Speed,” Okane announced as his Attribute took affect.

In a blast, he fired forward slamming his elbow into Shelly’s stomach and throwing her back.

Hero whipped out with his hand as a bone whip suddenly appeared wrapping around the man’s leg. He inhailed as his other arm began to inflate and it got bigger. Then using the whip he pulled Okane towards him. “Big Arm Strike!” He announced smashing his giant fist into the man as his whip dragged him into the punch.

Okane was smashed into the ground as the city shook.

He growled slicing the whip off of him as he stumbled back to his feet.

Hero’s arms began to get longer and buffer as the bone formed around his fists becoming bone knuckle dusters. Large spikes formed on them as pipes fired out of his elbows. The wind fired out launching his arms forward at a rapid speed.

Okane raised his arm up as the coins formed a large shield that began to block all of Hero’s punches while Shelly suddenly appeared on his other side firing out a wave of pink fire fists. A second coin shield appeared and blocked that but both punches began to wear on the two shields as Okane gritted his teeth and stood his ground.

Then…

“Stop!”

Everyone froze as they turned to look over to Heather who had managed to sit up.

“Stop fighting…” She cried out. “Please… My father isn’t… Hero, you’re making a mistake.”

“I make a lot of mistakes.” Hero admitted nodding his head. “But this is not one of them.”

“You’re right. I’m evil.” Okane said simply. “I’m working for two Organizations. But right now all I care about is getting my daughter to safety. And if you two are going to stay in my way…”

“…What do you think?” Shelly asked.

“He’s telling the truth.” Hero sighed as his arms turned back to normal. “Ahh, whatever. I didn’t have a grudge against you anyways. It’s that fire guy I was worried about.”

“Yes, I can be rather dangerous.” A voice commented. There was a bright orange flash as a beam of fire exploded through Okane’s chest blowing a hole through the man. Okane stood there for a moment before slowly starting down at the hole.

“Heather… I… Hero, please. Save-” He fell forward collapsing into the snow as a silence filled the air.

“Looks like I finally managed to catch up.” Kaen slowly dropped down as the fire began to surround him…