Zenarchis sat up in his chair when two guards rushed into the room, one badly bleeding. "Sir, the battleship has dispatched a small force, roughly a dozen," the healthy guard panted. "Most importantly, some sort of metal beast is tearing through our defenses!"
Zenarchis quickly contacted Kerzach, Trinity, and O'Neil. "Dr. Zanasiu has arrived," he reported grimly.
"Excellent," purred Trinity. "I have a date with a certain vixen." She cut communication as she left her quarters.
"I'll go inform the backup troops," O'Neil replied. "In ten minutes I'll have them organized into a second line of defense,"
"Call them the third line," Zenarchis replied. "Our second line is a single individual, and he needs no support. Kerzach, meet me in my office, arm yourself."
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Shelton finished anchoring the battleship and ran up onto the main deck.
He spotted Aimee, Nixx and Zyanya standing over to the side. "Hey, you girls want to help out, or anything?" he asked. "We're fighting people on the docks."
"I think Zyanya and Nixx are already fighting each other," Aimee shrugged, not quite sure herself.
"What the hell!" Shelton glanced at the two females.
Nixx had Zyanya in a stranglehold, but Zyanya was trying to free herself with her hands. As he watched, she delivered a hard punch to Nixx's solar plexus, sending the girl rolling off her.
"Hey!" Shelton almost stepped forward, but when Nixx threatened Zyanya with a syringe he decided to moderate from a distance. "Can you two wait until after the mission? You're two of the best fighters we've got, we'd love your help."
"What exactly would we do?" Zyanya asked, glancing aside at Shelton for a second and raising an eyebrow in an expression of curiosity.
"Well, uh, James suggested I get some bodyguards," Shelton offered. "I'm going to be branching off from the others rather quickly."
"You probably should have some," Zyanya shrugged. "I mean, you're not exactly a hÈroe de acciÛn...you'll probably get yourself killed alone."
Shelton decided to simply take that statement at face vaue and move on. "Great, so, I've got your help?"
"Excuse me?" spoke Nixx. "I don't help anyone, I'm a lone wolf" She picked up a pebble and threw it into the ocean.
"You're so useless," Zyanya replied back, folding her arms at the girl in question and adding, "I bet I can kill more guards than you," in an attempt to get her to do what she wants, and to insult her as well.
Nixx clenched her fists and turned red, "I can kill twice as many guards as you" she vaulted off the side of the ship, landing on her feet after a backflip on the dock.
"No fair starting early!" spoke Zyanya, running after the girl.
"Where are you going?" Shelton protested. He sighed, and glanced at Aimee. "At least you're sane--"
"--Trinity!" Aimee cried out, catching a glance of her arch-nemesis peeking out of a doorway at the far end of the base. Trinity made eye contact with her, smiled, and closed the door behind her.
"Better keep up with me Shelton, cause I'm leaving!" she announced, diving off the side of the boat and grabbing Shelton's hand.
"Augh!" Shelton barely had time to gasp before her robotic grasp dragged him off the deck and into the water.
