Field Training Part 2 (06/02/2022)

Imperialist slowly advances towards Specter and keeps her stance. “By the way, your ability works against me. I’m still human. Just mutated,” Imperialist informs Specter. Specter looks at her and responds with, “Stop talking and fucking fight.” Imperialist rolls her eyes and creates a flash of light from her hand and quickly sets herself up behind Specter. She does a low sweep, but doesn’t connect as Specter makes her leg phase through them.

Specter gives off a tired groan and levitates forward leaving the grass razor sharp and shoots out at Imperialist. She backs away and looks at the grass while quickly taking off her boot. The boot then closes up instantly with a loud clap. “That was close,” she comments. She also takes off her green jacket and gives it to Hellscream. She runs back to Specter and fakes them out by creating a wall of fire in front of her. Specter gives a confused look at the wall of fire then sees her jump out the wall. She touches Specter for a split moment before phasing through them. “What the fuck?” Specter asks themselves. They move back a bit, feeling the phase through. Imperialist circles back around, now floating in the air and kicks Specter in the back of the head with her left heel. Specter reels forward, still stunned.

They snap out of it and throw a few punches at Imperialist, to which she dodges gracefully at. She stares Specter down as she deflects their assault. She grabs their arm and puts her other palm on their chest. She swipes her leg and knocks them down to the ground and pins them. Specter tries to phase through but finds they can’t. “Why the fuck can you touch me?!” Specter yells. Hellscream comes up to them, his lower body in smoke and starts counting down. Specter struggles more and tries to use their free hand to escape by touching the grass, hoping it would shoot out to attack Imperialist. It turns razor sharp, but it doesn’t do anything else other than that. Imperialist sighs and waits for Hellscream to reach 10 and then lets go. She finally answers, “My boot. You used your ability on it. When I touched it to take it off I got a bit of your power. Just enough to touch you. The more I could interact with you, the more of your ability I could use. Also why the grass didn’t shoot out to hurt me like last time. You really hate people huh. I could feel the hatred with your ability.”

“Fuck people.”

“You won’t become an issue in the future will you?”

“Depends.”

“I hope not.”

Hellscream chimes in, “Well, that was fun to watch! You guys need anything? A drink? A snack?” Imperialist responds, “I’ll take a chocolate bar, thank you.” Hellscream nods and quickly floats towards the aircraft. Imperialist helps Specter up and looks at them more while holding their arm. “You’re what stands between the Syndicate and your universe’s subjugation. They’re ruthless. And if they find out how to contain you again, they *will* torture you. Just like Murietta said, find ways to adapt. If you want, you can take that hatred for humans and come with us on missions to get rid of Syndicate bases. More help is always nice.” Imperialist lets go and looks out into the mountains that span for miles. “Just think on it. The Group would be a huge help. I know you got your own problems, but I feel like eventually, the Syndicate will finally make their move in a big way. By that time, I hope they’re weak enough for us to make them retreat. Hey, maybe we’ll even see that scumbag Levi.” She looks over and releases the ability on her boot and puts it back on.

Specter looks away and scoffs. Imperialist smiles a bit and walks away to the aircraft. “We’re going to go make rounds around the planet, and then we’ll be off. You know where to find us,” she calls to both Reptile and Specter. The three Seraphim members get into the aircraft, with Hellscream waving from the cockpit. It takes off gently and leaves the two alone on the mountain. It travels towards the horizon where a gigantic spatial base floats over the planet. The base has a Syndicate emblem on it. It makes a loud creaking noise, and adjusts its wings and flaps. It can be heard across the entire Unified Frontier, as people below in the mountains look up with concerned eyes.