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Voltage Rising

Dust City A place completely isolated from the rest of the world, a technologically advanced bastion where every corner is controlled by five different corporations. Among these five, one stands out as the strongest—Ark. The corporation that created the Cyphers, beings that are simultaneously more and less than humans, creatures that mock evolution itself with their existence. They propelled Ark to the top of the corporate ladder. But now, their glory days are over, and their past continues to haunt them. Jin, the first spark. A Cypher with control over electricity itself. His whole life, he was hunted for this power. His whole life was filled with the misery caused by the corporations, but now that he is free... He won’t be hiding any longer, and those who try to capture him will face the power of lightning head-on.

Velstad · Sci-fi
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96 Chs

Monsters (4)

Clad in white coats and masks, the speed type Cyphers rushed at Jin with their knives in hand, they were nothing but a blur to the onlookers as they appeared before Jin in a single second.

Yet Jin did not fear a bit as he began to emit a small current around his body, he himself becoming a blur as well clad in lightning as the there began to brawl.

Those standing on the rooftops could not even see what was going on between the three of them as they were just too fast.

But even still, speed wasn't the only thing Jin had with him, his strikes were destructive as his lightning clad hands punching one of the cyphers sent him hurling down from the rooftop with staggering speed.

Rotating his body just after that with the same speed, Jin delivered a roundhouse kick on the other Cypher with the same speed and an even more destructive power behind it, instantly taking the cypher arm.

His left arm was completely severed from the rest of his body, leaving him with a completely missing right arm, his knife was left flying as well.

"Arghhh." Scremed the Cypher in pain as he gritted his teeth, he could not do anything, not even brace himself for the next strike from Jin as his ice cold blood red eyes stared at him from behind the stag mask.

The last thing the Cypher saw before his life came at an abrupt and.

Jin clad his finger in lighting and formed them into somewhat of a sharp claw and pierced the chest of the Cypher, grabbing his heart inside his chest and with one swift motion, pulling out of his body.

The Cypher had no words to say, only a weak painful whimper as he fall backwards with his chest ripped open.

'Okay, these two are down.' Thought Jin as he took a deep breath, the stench of blood hitting his nostrils, but he pushed the disgust back, even as he stared at his now bloody hands, another disgusting sight.

'I'm going to puke…' He fought the urge as well as he could while walking to his hunting riffle and the earpiece that he placed on the rooftop just beside the rifle.

"What do you think, how do you feel?" Asked Thirteen the moment Jin placed back the earpiece into his ear.

"I feel somewhat slow but it's getting better." Answered Jin while stretching his limbs, ignoring the eyes almost piercing holes into him on the rooftops.

With a friendly wave of his right hand, Jin picked up the hunting rifle and took position once more, with only five more bullets left in his rifle.

Controlling his breathing once again, there were way more eyes on him than before as they knew of his presence, bullets began to fly straight at him, but he controlled his breathing and remained deathly calm.

Thanks to him being behind cover, the bullets could not reach their target, and there was another reason, Jin saw the bullets flying at him in a way different speed.

They were slow, slow enough for Jin to know exactly when would they reach him, his mind was under a state of speed thanks to his electric powers, he sped up his mind, making the world appear in a slow state.

Just like that, another four shots of his rifle echoed in the battlefield, but it's voice did not get drowned in the others this time, the battlefield got way quieter as the numbers dwelled.

With those four shots, another four Genesis soldiers died in a single moment with their brains splashed on the cold concrete.

The first to react was the red haired woman on the terrorists side, she got up from th ground while still being somewhat dazed from an explosion going off nex to her, sending her hurling to the ground.

"Don't falter, there is no more of their soldiers left!" Shouted the leader, trying to gather the remining terrorists there.

"Kill the freaks!" Shotued the leader one last time, her gun raised at the sky then aimed directly at the remaining four Cyphers.

Their guns began to loudly crackle, bullets remaining down at the cyphers, but their skin was far from weak as the bullets dealt no real damage to them.

'Even the weakling is putting up with the bullets, what the hell did Genesis do to these freaks?" Wondered Jin as he saw the Cyphers brush off the bullets that would normally kill someone instantly.

This time, Jin put back his riffle to his back and directly jumped off of the building down at the ground, just standing beside the terrorists and facing the remaining Cyphers.

"Who… are you?" Asked the red haired woman through her ragged breathing as she was still exhausted.

Jin remained silent for a long while, only turning his gaze at the leader, the blood red orb like eyes of the stag mask burned with intense flames.

"Someone with the same enemy as you." Answered Jin, his voice was modified by the effects of the stag mast, making it sound like a demon straight out of hell, something that complimented his look.

"You look scary Jin, don't scare the poor guys." Chuckled THirteen in his ear, something at almost made Jin laugh out loud as well, but he held back the urge.

"Well, in that case, the enemy of my enemy is my friend." Said the terrorist leader.

Now that Jin stood beside her, he knew how did she looked, she had hazel eyes and her nose was hidden away by the bandana, but Jin could obviusly see that the leader had a charming look to her face and her eyes seemed to pierce into his soul and the soul of those that she led into battle— into death.

"I guess so." Anwsered Jin halfhartedly, his low deformed voice reverberating around them, making him look like a demon offering an accord.

Without a single word, Jin began to speed up, controlling the lightning currents around himself, his speed took another turn as he rushed straight at the Cypehrs before him.

The weakling was the first to act with the strenght tiypes behind him closely, in their hands two large hammers with strange red energy pulsating with terryfing energy.

'I think I can handle them without going overboard again.' Thought Jin, pulling his electric handgun and knife.

"Come at me, freaks." Said calmly Jin, his voice echoing in the now deathly silent battlefield, their blood was flowing on the ground making it into a disgusting scene, something that bothered Jin to no end.

He stood silently on the same place, wiating for the Cyphers to attack him while holding his handgun and pistol on the side.

But before they could retaliate, the giant neon signs on the walls began to change their colors, displaying something unexpected. 

Another monstrous face emerged, resembling Jin but with stag-like features, as if a terror from the darkest depths of the forest had materialized. 

Green leaves adorned its neck area, and its eyes glowed under the black light. 

"Nice to meet you all." Said the stag like figure, his face showing on all the neon signs covering every wall and house.

"Genesis… that's going to be the first corporation to fall."