41 Fight! 4 the Fourth
A/N: Just wait till next chapter, this map will get even harder to read lol
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Watching the chaos unfold around me, I can't help but gape in sheer 𝘢𝘸𝘦, even as I shake from excitement and honestly maybe a little bit of arousal at the same time.
The sight is just so 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵.
Never in my life, have I ever felt so fulfilled as I do right now, watching this display of... 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴~ and knowing that 𝘐 am the cause of it almost brings me to climax!~
𝘈𝘩𝘩𝘩𝘯𝘯~ 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰~
I can't help the soft whine that leaves my throat at the thought, but no, I'm not a player in this game, so even if I want to, it would ruin it if I joined in, like playing capture the flag and the flag suddenly pulls out a gun and shoots you in the back.
No, I can't ruin the game.
Instead, I will just do my best to enjoy it, something I find very easy to do.
While watching Bungee dance and weave his way through hordes of gangbangers is indeed an impressive sight, it simply lacks the...𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴 I'm looking for, the mayhem.
Same with on my other side, where Kitsune and some troopers are trading fire with with a bunch of them as if this is supposed to be trench warfare.
It totally ruins the game if they don't actually 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 you know? Just hiding behind cover and trading fire doesn't count.
At least those Argonauts know how to do it properly, standing out and facing the dastardly villains with bravery befitting their title.
Sucks for them that they're so bad at it though, because as much as Atalanta is kick ass with that bow of hers, she kind of falls apart in CQC, leaving her teammates to pick up the slack, which at least one of them is doing.
I honestly don't know which is who, but one of them is doing an amazing job of fighting Hermes with his staff, somehow keeping up with pure skill against an opponent much faster than him.
The other one meanwhile is working together with Atalanta against Bathory and somehow they are still getting their assess kicked.
Then again, I guess I can't be too harsh. It would be difficult to fight someone who can just straight up ignore any of your attacks.
But her weakness is pretty easy to figure out, so they must not be the brains of their group for the fight to still be ongoing.
Fortunately for my attention span, a sudden change brings about renewed interest as Dynamite makes his appearance, something that seems to spur the star of today's show into action as Tiamat finally comes out to play.
That is enough to bring the chaos of the battle to a whole new level as the ground and the walls and everything else suddenly starts coming to life, taking shape until I am surrounded not just by armoured trucks, but by an army of fake men.
𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵, is when the fighting picks up in earnest, as I watch Tiamat get engaged by the heavy hitters of the villains.
I almost let out a whistle after glancing around in appreciation of how scary the dragon lady is.
She's basically just fighting everyone herself, relegating the other heroes to support.
But as fun as that is, I do notice one thing that rather annoys me.
As much as everyone is fighting, no one is actually 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨.
It brings me back to a conversation I had with Jinx where he was explaining some of the finer details of how capes operate. A lot of what he said seemed pretty stupid to me, like the 'unwritten rules'.
Basically summed up as; don't target a capes families, don't unmask a cape and don't kill capes.
Apparently it's something about keeping things from escalating and reducing collateral, but to be honest I stopped paying attention pretty quickly.
But anyway, apparently capes tend to hold back a lot when they fight, like what's happening now, and I think that's boring.
Which is why, even if I didn't fully believe him at the time, I still made sure to make preparations in case the fight wasn't fun enough.
With that in mind, I bring one of my tails out, willing for it to be much smaller than it usually is, only moderately surprised when it comes out about half as wide as my leg.
I wasn't actually sure if I could do that or not, but it's nice to know I can.
I make it slide down my body, underneath my clothes until it hits the bottom of my pants. Here, I quickly look around to make sure no one is watching me and seeing that everyone in my immediate vicinity is otherwise occupied, I move.
My ribbon strikes down on my foot, cutting it in half and grabbing it in the same movement.
By the time I've dragged the cut off half to behind my back where my hands are tied, my foot has already grown back to full without blemish.
Fiddling around for a second, I find it difficult to navigate behind me at first, but quickly get the hang of it and start looking for my secret ingredient.
It is not difficult to find it, considering its solid glass material a stark contrast with my own squishy flesh.
After grabbing the little tube, I quickly stuff my foot in my mouth and swallow it down with only a couple of bites.
No reason to leave myself lying around after all.
Finally, after all of that, I have in my hands a vial filled with a compressed gas that mini James somehow cooked up that supposedly lowers the inhibitions of anyone it comes into contact with.
Of course, I made sure he made me an antidote first, though considering his specialty is 'anti-something' drugs, he insisted that I call the antidote an 'anti-anti-inhibitions' drug.
Shrugging my shoulders, I crush the vial in my grasp, allowing it to quickly spread through the air.
It's colourless, but not completely odourless, at least not to someone with enhanced senses like me anyway.
Obviously I wasn't expecting any immediate changes, so I went back to watching the Argonauts, though at this point it's more like I'm just watching Tiamat fight.
What was two villains beating up three heroes, has suddenly turned into three villains getting beaten around while three heroes take pot shots.
Seriously, being able to turn into steel doesn't do much against an army of golems, some of whom are also made from steel, though I will admit, it is very, very cathartic to watch Dynamite getting his ass kicked so thoroughly.
As for the other two, Hermes' speed doesn't really help him much when he's fighting against a hive mind of mannequins. I give him another twenty seconds before he's out.
Then there's Bathory. honestly, it just makes me even more disappointed in the Argonauts that even when she's not actually here, Tiamat could still figure out how to win, while also fighting how many other battles?
See, Bathory seems to have some kind of limit to how long she can be in her mist form, and the amount of time she has spend as mist has been going down with the fight, making me think it's a case of needing to breathe.
Thus, the obvious counter is to just keep the pressure up so that she has to stay as mist until she can't anymore, which Tiamat is doing just fine.
Right as it looks like the villains are about to be defeated, a series of piercing, agonised screams ring out, rapidly bringing my attention to my right side, where Kitsune is.
What I see makes my grin turn even more feral. I have no doubt that behind my mask my smile is wide enough to show far too many teeth.
I guess the drug is working.
I watch as Kitsune's fire tears through a crowd of men, reducing them to cinders or even better, leaving them alive but half melted to the ground.
It takes all of my willpower to not burst out into the mad cackling that I am desperate to release, something that gets even harder as a pair of people fly overhead.
Epic and Uncle Tom.
Watching Epic die was a little upsetting, because I did actually quite like him, but honestly that just makes this even funnier.
Think about it, I set all this up, fully intending for a lot of people to get hurt, and yet I end up hurting even myself, isn't that just hilarious?
My shoulders start shaking even harder as I desperately try to hold in my laughter.
Then, it becomes clear that the drug really is kicking in as Bungee goes and sticks ole Tom to the ground, following which Excalibur disengages from the monster cat and launches a beam of death at Tom.
Wait a minute.
You do realise that Tom is standing in between you and the ring of troopers, right Cali?
I fail to hold in a few chuckles as I am forced to wriggle to the side in order to avoid the tower of dark energy that engulfs Tommy boy and then proceeds to 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦 it's way through the formation of trucks, carving a straight line almost through it's centre.
Honestly, I wasn't actually expecting there to be friendly fire, not that I am complaining. I am certainly happy about this development.
As if Excalibur's attack was some kind of hidden signal, everyone seems to step up all at once.
I briefly spot Kitsune attacking Dovah and Merlin now that there aren't anymore normals in the way before my attention returns to my front as I see Cath's gigantic form crashing into the horde of golems around her boss.
However, that is about all the villains manage to accomplish as Tiamat's golems start shifting, their hands turning into claws and swords as their bodies stop seeming do humanoid, turning to efficiency over aesthetic as they change into killing machines that quickly dogpile the pair.
At the same time, off to the side I see Avalon kicking Eraser's ass, wailing on the man even after he falls to the ground, decorating his hands and the area around Eraser's face with tantalising blood.
Following the sound of another scream, and ignoring the way my head is snapping around like a kid in a candy store, I get to watch as Hermes is skewered by three spear like limbs, while Bathory seems to reform unconscious thanks to Tiamat's relentless barrage of attacks.
Unfortunately for her, Tiamat doesn't seem to much care about the fact that she is unconscious and proceeds to beat her into the ground anyway.
Damn, she really is just a one woman army.
Even with the strength both of them are capable of, Cath and Cu both fail utterly to even get close enough to hurt Tiamat, especially once the three other heroes around her join in.
Well, I think it's fair to say that this is a win for the heroes.
Heh, as if.
What is a good show without a plot twist at the end after all?
With that thought driving me, I carefully bite my tongue off and once it has regrown, I use my new tongue to search for the tube I had hidden inside of it.
After all, I was turning myself in to the heroes, they would obviously confiscate any of my stuff, so I had to figure out a way to sneak in my surprises, and I was pretty sure they checked the ole holes.
They didn't, but whatever, better to be safe than sorry.
With my regeneration, it was no problem to hide stuff inside of me, since I can just get it out like right now.
After a bit of struggling, I eventually point one end of the tube a little bit out of my mouth, and then I realise that my mask doesn't have a mouth hole.
𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩
Quickly bringing one of my tails back out, in it's miniature form again, I use it to lift my mask up a little, then I puff my cheeks and I 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸.
The needle inside of the tube flies straight and true, managing to hit the draconic woman in the thigh from where she stands, thirty feet away from me without her even realising it.
I wonder how this will change things.
Who knows, maybe the heroes can still pull through? They do have the numbers advantage now after all.
A moment passes and then without and warning whatsoever, each and every golem suddenly grumbles to the ground.
The battlefield stills as everyone looks at Tiamat in shock and confusion, though none look quite as confused or shocked as the woman herself.
There we go, that should even things out a little bit.
Was that a good use of my last 'fuck your powers' drug? Probably not, but I think it's worth it.
A good show is forever after all.
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A/N: He~llo! Dear readers!
I started writing this after being awake for 24+hours again, not really very happy with how it turned out but eh, what can you do.
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