Chapter 5: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
“I can’t believe this! Those two wall-jump out of here and leave me to fall to my death!”
Gaffit was most displeased. The Two Kunoichi used their ninja capabilities to jump from wall to wall to get out of the fissure, but they forgot about Gaffit.
Suddenly, Rae appeared beside him, grabbed his shirt, and with a shout of “Double Substitution!” Gaffit and Rae both appeared at the edge of the fissure.
“Well then, what’s next? I’ve got plenty of ideas for a counter-attack…”
“I think we have bigger problems now, Gaffit,” Michal said, gazing towards the sky. “Look! A missile!”
“Hmm… And by the looks of things,” Gaffit threw on his binocugoggles. “It’s a nuke… We’re doomed.”
“Don’t say that! I’m sure you could come up with something!” Rae said encouragingly, despite knowing all hope was lost. “You’re the legendary Gaffit, inventor extraordinaire!”
“I know what to do,” Gaffit said, staring at the ground. “It’s just that if I do what I think I should do, Edge is destroyed anyway. We’re really between a rock and hard place here. Either course of action would be detrimental to the city of Edge… The nuclear energy of that nuke, knowing Judg, would definitely be enough for the Atomic transformation…”
“Huh?” they both said in unison.
“Sigh… I’ve got this thing inside me, right?” Gaffit began to explain. “And it protects me from nuclear radiation, even absorbs it.”
“So what’s so bad about that?” Michal pondered.
“Well, if I absorb to much radiation, that thing takes over. He’s called Atomic, and he may very well be the most powerful creature in the universe. And even better, he’s got a bit of a reputation for killing planets. He destroyed over 9000 galaxies before I captured him… What I’m basically saying is, if I absorb that nuke, Atomic will kill us all.”
“Well…” Rae whispered. “That pretty much sucks!”
“Tell me about it.”
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“Ok, so is everything ready?”
“Yeah, my sealing jitsu is prepared,” Rae replied. “The second you absorb that nuke, Atomic dies and you’re back to normal.”
“Perfect. And Michal, what about you?”
“I’m ready to launch the Spirit Sever. Atomic will never be resurrect by anything, ever.”
“Good. Alright, I’m going in.”
“Gaffit, you sure you wanna do this?” ToolBox asked. “I mean, there is a 32.33 %, repeating of course, chance that you’ll die.”
“It’s time I purged this demon from me,” Gaffit said with resolve. “He’s been haunting by dreams and stuffing my nightmares for long enough…”
“Very well, sir.”
Gaffit fired up his repaired jet-pack. He set it on a crash course with the missile.
“ToolBox, how long?
“30 seconds, sir.”
“Perfect.”
“Sir… Let’s say this doesn’t work…”
“It will work, ToolBox. If I don’t make it, tell Dolores… I’ve always hated her and regret going on a date with her.”
“Right, sir. 5 seconds… 4… 3… Good luck!”
Gaffit fired a Razor Laser right at the war head. The bomb exploded instantly, sending 15,000 kilotons of nuclear energy into the air around Gaffit. All of this rebounded moments before reaching its critical, and flew into the body of the scientist. Suddenly, something within him awakened. As if he had been slumbering all this time, and that bomb was his alarm clock. Something was different. Atomic had awakened.
“Mmhahaaha…”
“Final Sealing!”
“Spirit Sever!”
Two ethereal blades flew from the hands of the two kunoichi, both of them hitting Atomic dead on. However, the spirit sever hit first. Atomic was not killed. Only weakened. The Final Sealing prevented his power from ever being restored. He still had more power than most in the city of Edge, even the world. And now he was free, Gaffit lying dormant within him.
Michal stood there, munching Pocky.
“Man did we screw up.”
“Yeah.”
The Pocky was a special request.
And I know this one's a little short. The next few chapters probably will be. I'm deciding if I should have a time-skip or not. I probably won't, but anything could happen in my crazy mind. Also, I'm not particularly happen with this one, but I'll make up for it.
On a side note... *shotys Dmax in the ehad*