"So what exactly was that?" Lorella asked, returning back to her usual tone of voice.
"What? You or me talking with Eric?"
"... Both I suppose."
Otis sighed before saying. "I simply acted on instinct. Char is a teammate of ours and with her powers as a Conduit, they are dangerous, especially on themselves."
Lorella's eyes slanted slightly. "You should have let Eric do it."
"He was too slow." Otis said defensively. Lorella's eyes fired up again. "And that's one of your annoying quanlities."
Otis stopped and frowned at Lorella. "Annoying? You find me annoying?"
"Yes. Multiple times when you joke around."
"Hey, I'm just trying to relief some tension, nothing wrong with that." Lorella grunted as Otis sighed.
"Yeah, says Miss Automatron." Lorella punched Otis in the gut as his armor caved in alittle.
"The hell was that for?"
"Insulting me." Otis scratched his head again as the voices amplified for a second then settled back down. The rest of the Vanguards felt the spike as well as shadows manifested in the corners of their eyes.
"Char... Goddamn it, control that power of yours!" Charlotte looked defensively at everybody else.
"What?! I didn't do anything!"
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As the sun instantly disappeared in the artificial skies, the zombies once again emerged from the buildings, wielding guns, blades and even light armor.
Charlotte and Co slowly raised their weapons as they realized that even with superior firepower, they were outmatched. The streets soon started to flood with infected, as the voices intensified the closer they got. The Vanguards closed themselves back-to-back watching the zombies moves.
"... There's only way of this." Eric concluded as he lowered his weapons.
"Yeah, and what is that?"
"A mass combination gravitron wave." Lorella concluded.
Charlotte and Otis' eyes widened. "You know that.."
"It's that or we die." Eric growled as he closed his eyes, concentrating. Otis and Lorella started concentrating as well as Charlotte hesitantly looked around.
Is... Is this real or..? As the Vanguard's concentrated, the voices in the background grew more almost forming words as.
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Just as the zombies were a few feet away from the Vanguards, the massive gravitron wave was unleashed. At first it was subtle, a heat wave looking image appeared around them as the tallest of buildings started creaking as the ground rumbled. The zombies all stopped in their place, looking around as something started happening. Just then, a crater instantly appeared, spreading to a four block radius around them as metal, brick and mortar crumbled and snapped like things in a category six tornado. Concrete and trees from the cities gardens were uprooted and imploded upon themselves, leaving nothing as zombie bodies vaporized.
But just as the gravitron wave was unleashed, a cry of the damned reverberated in their heads as the zombies cried out in terror as their bodies were reduced to nothing by the intense gravitron wave. Recoiling back, the Vanguards fell to their knees as the cries increased by the hundreds as the destruction spread to four blocks... five blocks... As more zombie people cried out as their lives were snuffed out.
By the time the Vanguard's dared to open their eyes, their deed was done. A seven block radius. From their little circle of four people, a crater at least three stories down was carved into the artificial earth as Otis furiously shoved Eric almost making him fall off the platform.
"You... Your fucking orders! I told you they weren't animals!"
"Fuck you Otis! As if we knew any better!"
"Yeah right we did! Those voices were heard... They were these fucking people! They were still goddamned alive!"
"And I choose to ignore it! It's my orders. I lived it with!"
The two started charging at each other's throats as Lorella and Charlotte crawled over to the side of the platform and collectively threw up as the platform, unable to share the weight distribution, snapped off and plunged into the crater. All four Vanguards rolled off the sliding platform as their bodies tumbled, leaving large gashes on their armor and heads as they continued the plummet down.
Bouncing off the last solid ground at the bottom, the four of them slowly got up, coughing and hacking.
"This... This isn't over yet." Otis growled.
"Yeah... It's mutual." Eric grinned back as Charlotte and Lorella punched both men.
"Get up. We still have this mission to complete."
"And that mission is..?" Both Eric and Otis rolled their hands at the girls. Charlotte opened her mouth, but couldn't find the words as Lorella said.
"Get evac from this Research Colony. And help."
Spitting out blood and pus from their mouth, the men got up and slowly started to strip away their forearm's armor. "This is just a dead weight now..."
