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Chapter Six: Split Paths
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Jack looked into Ree’s eyes as the electricity arced up his legs and torso, shuddering by the power of it.
“You done? I want a piece of you now.” Jack raised his fists again, lurching towards him.
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Ree smiled. “Thought you’d never ask.” Ree picked up the heat from the ground and got into a fighting stance before superspeeding towards Jack.
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Jack tackled him just as Ree connected, the two smashing in mid-air and through glass, the two feeling the brisk air as they suddenly fell, having launched out of the building and began free-falling towards the ground, many stories below. As they fell, Jack aimed a punch at Ree, hitting him in the stomach as they grabbed onto each other while speeding towards the earth.
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Ree smiled at Jack. “That hurts, on the ground!” Ree hit Jack over the head and spread his wings, turning into a human glider.
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Apollo hit the slipdrive and the ship rocketed forwards in a sideways drift, instantly arriving at Chiron.
Apollo then opened the door and handed the kids to the police station at Kran. “Officer, these are for you. I have to go…friend probably jumping off a building with Ozymandias by now. Bye!”
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“What?!” <i>Jack shouted as Ree unfurled his metal wings, being yanked above while Jack continued to plummet, swiveling to view the ground as it sped up towards him.</i>
“Oh shit.” Jack muttered, immediately slamming into a parked hovercraft after with enough force to blow out all of the windows, crumpling the roof like tin foil. His arms were sprawled out of the wreck as it feebly rang a car theft alarm.
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Ree quickly shoved Jack off the car and tossed the remains of it aside, nulling the alarm. “You’re quite the noisy fighter. Let’s see if all that grunting pays off.”
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Jack hit the pavement, spitting blood. He staggered up, using the crumpled car to pull himself back into the air. He shook slightly as he wiped it off his face, grinning with a face full of bruises and shattered bones.
“Round two, fucker.” He grabbed Ree by the neck, slamming his knee into his head and punching him into a light pole. Jack danced around, spitting more blood as he tried to recover from the momentous fall.
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Ree yelled at his head was slammed against Jack’s knee. “I have glitches! ARRGH.” Ree quickly jerked his head to the side and charged at Jack before stopping halfway. He then took a deep breath and began blowing at Jack, a hurricane force emerging from his lungs through his mouth, centered at Jack’s chest at 400 miles per hour.
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Jack shouted in indignation as he went flying, crashing into the second story window of a building. He leaped back out, tackling Ree again and shoving his head into the hard cement pavement.
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Ree blindly tried to hit Jack as he constantly got his head beat before doing a headstand and kicking Jack across the face with his metal boot. “You’re good. Can’t shockwave this, however.”
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Jack stumbled back, shouting in pain and holding his bleeding nose.
“Wanna do a headstand, asshole?!” Jack kicked him squarely in the nuts as his legs were exposed upside down, slamming him to the ground.
“Bitch!”
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Ree spun around in a circle, launching off the wall and shoving Jack up the building. “OWWWW THAT’S MY GLITCHY SPOT!”
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Jack grabbed Ree’s leg, forcing him to stay in a headstand as he repeatedly stomped him in the crotch.
“That’s-for-dropping-me-through-a-skyscraper-mother-fucker!” He dropped him, staggering back, exhausted. He breathed heavily, looking at the sprawled over Ree.
“You…done yet?”
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Ree got up backwards, then turned to Jack. “You…just made a horrible mistake…” Ree began glitching again and again, his body catching fire and charging towards Jack, spreading the fire to his face and body. “This one, I like to call immolation!”
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