Chapter 11: Fists of Legends

THe exciting conclusion to the most intense battle the warriors have fought so far...

Chapter 11: Fists of Legends

 

“Nefarious!” Black Lightn’ called. “I knew you’d show your cowardly face sooner or later.”

 

“Me, cowardly? I only thought to help the three destroy the people they hated most. They wanted you three dead and I let them handle things.”

 

“Enough talk, let’s just get this over with,” Shocker said standing up.

 

“Oh no Adam,” Nefarious replied. “I don’t think we’ve had enough yet. In fact, I’m here to make an alliance with you three.”

 

“Unless you join our side and protect these people, no!”

 

“Adam, Adam, Adam, you little fool,” Nefarious continued. “Why protect them? If they can’t defend themselves then it’s really their fault if they’re killed. Aren’t I right Matt?”

 

“That’s not how meant it,” Black Lightn’ said. “I meant that if people go starting trouble they deserve what punishment befalls them unless it should be one that would prevent them from doing anything to redeem themselves and make a good citizen of themselves. You can’t kill those who aren’t too much of a threat to let live.”

 

“Then why’d you kill Erif? Why’d you let your cousin kill Jack?”

 

“They were too much of a threat! There would be no way of containing them to keep them from harming others.”

 

“Were they? Or did you decide by your own justice that it’d be fair o kill them because they weren’t the best of people?”

 

“Shut up! I don’t need to explain myself to a villain like you! You’re next to be destroyed, you’ve tortured the earth long enough with your presence!”

 

“Me next? Then who? Your cousin because he doesn’t fight the same way you do? Or maybe a little girl on the street because she’s a girl and you’re not? When will it all end hero? How do you decide who gets to live?”

 

“Don’t listen to him Matt! He’s just trying to trick us!” Shocker said running forward to attack Nefarious.

 

“I already got that! And now he’s about to get a beating, double Hyper style!” Black Lightn’ and Shocker ran side by side as they charged up to deliver a double demolition attack. “Here we go,” they spoke in unison as they jumped up into the air with their right hands charged. “Super Shock, Twofold!” From the air they shot out two small sparks that reached Nefarious and exploded in a large bright flash.

 

Nefarious was blown into a wall behind him. Black Lightn’ rushed into the next room to continue fighting. He flew in and began punching Nefarious in the stomach but Nefarious grabbed his throat and tossed him across the room. Shocker flew into the room right over Black Lightn’ and tried to kick Nefarious But Nefarious ducked and grabbed his leg. He threw him forward into Black Lightn’ and they crashed through the wall back into the room they were previously in. “Do you see it now?” Nefarious asked. “You can’t defeat me. So just give up and join me.”

 

“N-never!” Shocker said standing up.

 

“I am invincible, you must realize that.”

 

“No way,” Black Lightn’ said rising up beside his cousin. “I’m a warrior, I’ll never back down! And besides I remember a certain look of fear upon your face when Zero first found the sword. You know you can’t beat us. You’re only lucky were not at full power right now! No problem though, it‘s only a matter of time before we defeat you anyways!"

 

“You brainless little fool. First I’ll crush your pride then I’ll crush you!” Nefarious sprang forward and shot out black energy blast at the two heroes. Black Lightn’ and Shocker jumped to the side to avoid the blasts but Nefarious caught hold of both of them when he stretched the blasts into hands and grabbed them. He threw them into each other and then slammed them into the ground. Then he used the energy to bash them over and over again.

 

A blast from Zero finally his torment. Zero struggled but he still walked into the room and stood next to his cousins. He even dared to go Hyper Warrior, knowing what kind of strain it’d put on his body. “Nefarious,” he said as Nefarious looked up to him. “ You won’t leave this battlefield. It all ends here.”

 

“So,” Nefarious said floating up. “A reunion of the weak. You three honestly think you can beat me? Pathetic.”

 

“I noticed that you keep on talking about how you're going to destroy us but every time we've fought you ran off. My guess is that you're too weak to finish us off."

 

"I wi-"

 

" I for one have had enough of this, I'm going to end it all here. I wasn't planning on killing you in the beginning but now, I'll be more than happy to end your sad little life."

 

"No one talks down on me like that!" Nefarious launched an unstoppable barrage of dark energy blasts at Black Lightn'. Moving quickly Black Lightn' ducked and dodged as the blast spiraled past him. He began to get tired of the routine and jumped to the side to shoot a blast of his own. Nefarious was struck and he fell to the ground. Zero began forming a large cloud of frost as Nefarious began to stand up. Quickly he released the frosty blast and it instantly froze Nefarious.

 

Shocker charged his hands and blasted out a large bolt of electricity toward Nefarious. Nefarious, however, was able to free himself from his ice prison and parry the blast away in time. He dashed forward and pulverized Shocker's stomach with a short salvo of uppercuts. Then he spun around and tried to kick Zero in the head. Zero ducked and tried to grab his leg but when he did Nefarious slammed him into the ground. Black Lightn' jumped forward and slammed his knee into Nefarious's face and then flipped over behind him and bashed his elbow into his neck.

 

Nefarious fell to the ground and Black Lightn' charged his hands to finish him off. But Nefarious rolled out of the way and swept Black Lightn' to the ground. Black Lightn' landed on his hands and flipped forward. While in midair Black Lightn' shot out an electric ball to stop Nefarious from attacking. Nefarious dodged and jumped to his feet. From the ground Zero made a small ice trap rise up and freeze him right in his tracks. Black Lightn' flipped over him and grabbed his arms. "Adam finish him off!" Black Lightn' yelled as he struggled to keep Nefarious under his control.

 

"I-I can't," Shocker replied. "It'll kill you too!"

 

"No it won't," Zero cut in. "I'll put up a protective shield to stop it from reaching him!"

 

"No," Shocker insisted. "It'll break the shield!"

 

"Just blast him Adam!" Black Lightn' yelled as Nefarious stomped on his feet to make him release him. "Do it now Adam!"

 

"Here goes! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Shocker formed a large blast of raw power. "Haaayaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" the blast grew and then faded away back into the air. "I-I can't do it."

 

"Excellent you weak little fool!" Nefarious said finally breaking free. He turned around and bashed Black Lightn' into the ground. A large blast of electricity whirled through the air right at his head. He spun around and tore it in half by smacking right through it. "You're weak. And you're such a fool."

 

“B.L!” Zero shouted as he ran towards him. Nefarious turned and tried to punch Zero but he managed to flip over and grab Black Lightn’ without receiving any damage. He tumbled to the ground and they both rolled away from Nefarious. “You alright?”

 

“This is a real nuisance,” Black Lightn’ replied. “I should have been able to destroy him by now!”

 

“Don’t you get it? We need teamwork to finish this! We can’t do it individually, after all we did make a team!”

 

“I’m not giving up!”

 

“Matt that wouldn’t be giving up, it’d be teaming up! I thought it wouldn’t be fair to fight in a group too but in this case we have to sacrifice our selfish pride and fight as a team!”

 

“Get out of my way,” Black Lightn’ said pushing Zero aside. He dashed forward to attack, heedless of Zero’s plea to team up. Nefarious smacked him aside and he skidded into the ground. As he came to a stop, Black Lightn’ jumped up and flew back to fight again. Zero shook his head in shame and decided to help Black Lightn’. Nefarious grabbed Black Lightn’s fist and began squeezing it as hard as he could. Zero flew over and tried to kick his head but Nefarious released Black Lightn’ and caught hold of Zero’s leg.

 

Nefarious slammed Zero into the ground back and forth as Black Lightn’ just sat there watching. That idiot, he thought to himself. I told him not to do that! This is so frustrating. Even being Hyper Warrior none of us can beat this guy. R.J talks about teamwork but it just isn’t, it isn’t fitting that I should rely on anyone besides myself and Allah (God). He looked up and saw Shocker trying to break Zero free of Nefarious’s firm grasp. What am I saying? They were obviously put here to help me, that’s it! This Allah’s way of helping me; through them of course. I know what to do now.

Black Lightn’ stood up and looked to Nefarious. “Alright you revolting crapbag,” he said charging his hands. “Now you’re about to die for real.”

 

“At whose hand?” Nefarious said as he threw Shocker and Zero aside. “Certainly not yours!”

Good, now that they’re free I can attack, Black Lightn’ thought to himself. He shot out the blast in a continuous flow of electric energy. The blast hit Nefarious’s chest but didn’t have an effect. Black Lightn’ knew that would be the case but he continued blasting until Shocker and Zero stood up. They looked over at him and he prepared for another blast. “Get ready!” he said to Nefarious. He looked to the other heroes and nodded his head just before shooting Nefarious. Once more he blasted Nefarious but to no effect.

 

Catching the hint, Zero stood beside him and prepared a blast of snow and ice spikes. “Here it comes,” he shouted as he added his blast to the flow. Now the attack began to become a threat to Nefarious. But still, they needed more strength. So Shocker rushed forward and made the blast a trio with his ‘Static Cannon’ attack. “It all ends here!” he shouted while forcing out all his energy.

Now Nefarious was frightened. Even he could not stand the force of an attack of that magnitude. He had but one defense for the attack. He jumped back and created a shield of energy to withhold the blast. Unfortunately, it was just strong enough to block the attack. But the warriors weren’t giving up. They continued to let the energy flow from their bodies.

 

The two forces struggled to overpower the other as the battle raged on. Nefarious soon gained the upper hand and began pushing back to the heroes. The heroes gave every once of energy they could but Nefarious kept on pushing. Shocker had used so much of his energy that he even transformed back into his regular state. Yet and still, he pressed his attack.

 

Nefarious inched closer and closer, and the effort of the heroes was not enough to destroy his shield. His shield was just too strong because it matched the exact power of the attacks in opposite, much to the annoyance of the warriors who knew that if it could break through the shield it could destroy Nefarious. Next in line to power down was Zero. His energy faded away until he was barely contributing to the spiraling blast.

 

Just as the heroes were about to give up hope, a blast of ear piercing sound waves came forth and struck the shield. By creating the exact same frequency the blast mixed in and busted into the air. With the shield down, the warriors put all of their energy forward. Another blast of energy was sent forth and spiraled right into the ultimate attack. The immense force rushed through and upon impact completely vanquished Nefarious. Along with Nefarious, the dark clouds began to vanish because their source was diminished.

 

Their clothes torn and burnt, Shocker, Zero, and Black Lightn’ all fell back onto the ground with smiles on their faces. They had finally won; it was all over. The fight was over and not a soul around regretted it. “We- we won,” Shocker said almost as in disbelief.

 

“Wooooooooooooooooooooyyyeaaaah!” Zero shouted as he sat up. “We finally did it! The Legendary Warriors have ended it all!”

 

“He never stood a chance against all four of us,” another young boy added. He stood just about as tall as Shocker and wore a suit similar to his except with blue instead of yellow and with gray instead of black (other than the mask, that was black too.) He had short black hair like Matt and he had a small muscular form. His skin color was a bit darker than Matt’s but not really dark. He stood over the heroes with a smile on his face as well.

 

“Wh-who the heck are you?” Shocker asked as he painfully sat up.

 

“Me?” the boy asked as if he didn’t know he was being questioned. “I’m Thunder.”

 

“No, I mean without the costume? Who are you for real?"

 

“Ask Matt,” Thunder replied.

 

“How does he know your name B.L? Do you know this clown?”

 

“Clown?” Thunder asked angrily. “Try guy who just saved your sorry butt again!”

 

“Again? But th-that m-m-m-means…no, no you’re..”

 

“That’s right, Ryan Kabooma, the latest and greatest addition to the Legendary Warriors.”

 

“B-but how? How’d you get your-your powers?” Zero asked finally sitting up.

 

“Never mind that for now,” Black Lightn’ cut in. “It’s late, we need to go somewhere and rest where we won’t be bothered in our sleep by nosey citizens.”

 

“Oh, let’s go to the hangout!” Thunder replied.

 

“You told him about the hangout?” Shocker queried.

 

“I told you, wait until we get there,” Black Lightn’ replied. So without a word more, the heroes all headed to their hangout. So quickly they’d came to the town for the final battle and they just left it in rubble. Nefarious was destroyed in the process they used to make the mess that sat about. Buildings were crushed, roads were wrecked, cars were destroyed, and streetlights lie broken in the street, making for a dark environment. In fact, were it not for the small energy fields Shocker and Black Lightn’ created the heroes would surely have gotten lost. Still, the heroes pressed on with blood dripping from fists of legends…