For now anyway its working. Me carrying someone on my back. Im not sure how it might work with someone bigger but that kind of debate and questioning is due for another time. Maybe one where Im not being chased down while ferrying an innocent girl through the air would be better? I flap like if I do'nt I'll surely die, because while I might survive, I am definitely inclined to think that the girl wouldn't. She just seems like your normal human. Really who is gonna just lay down there and get kidnapped when they can do something about it? So yes I'm going with her being a member of the species H. sapiens.
The sky faring drones return, these guys are good at communication apparently. Because I haven't been in the air all that long, And I should probably land somewhere soon so that I can let this girl off and get the drones off of my back, but how do I do that? Where do I let her off? There's a chance, hell I'm certain that this is the part of town where she was snatched. Letting her down here was not a good option. Though I was just as certain that the drones might ignore the pedestrian on my back for some reason just to shoot me out of the sky or even say I was taking a human shield. But there has got to be some place I can let her off. I swing my arms back to hold onto her as I corkscrew to avoid some shots fired out way. This isn't the widest of streets so I have to move quick not to crash her against the brick wall. I spin around again and push off it with my hands and knees. They keep firing and it starts getting more than annoying or just troublesome because I'm trying to do a job.
I swoop down and land in an alley.
"Find a good place to hide. I'll be back for you." I say it as heroically and as confident as I can. Because I knew I could take these things in a fight. Well one for sure. But coming back to find her still there was the lack of confidence's origin. But I had a fight to engage in and a her to come back to in a minute. I had to get moving. So I leap into the air, wings now folded up and hidden. I leap between the outer walls of the building until Ive reached the roof of one, grasping onto the ledge with my clawed hands I then back flip to the roof behind me.
Landing on my feet I march towards the ledge the drones are coming from. I walk by a pipe of some sort jutting skyward from the roof, I snatch it out of the building and give it a twirl to get a feel for the weight of the thing. Its decently heavy, probably having a composition of mostly lead. I wait for the drones on the rooftop, I don't wait long at all not even appearing to near some kind of actual wait, they were right behind me so I get a chance to breath before I twirl the pole some more and send it flying through the air at a drone all in one fluid motion. They all come my way as I leap at them, just a leap, no wings no nothing, just me on a collision course with these things.
Its a challenge to try and move out of the way of their weapons fire but I manage to get nicked at best before I crash into one, redirecting its flight pattern to be more of a crash trajectory as I hang on for dear life, digging my claws in like a parasite. As we nearer the ground I use all the force I can combined with the momentum here in the air from the spinning we've been doing for o say two three seconds and throw up apart, trying to crash the drone into the ground. He's a big guy, maybe a good 5 inches taller than me and all I know for sure is last measure I was pushing 6'3''. It wasn't that far from tackling a living breathing entity, except it was cold titanium alloy instead of soft squishy flesh. It drove the elbow joint into my back. So, I punch it as hard as i can in the place where the ribs would be. I don't think Ive been hit like I just was very often, I could count the times on my first hand if I cared too.
we crash and I get on my feet fast as I can, there's still the other two and I know those are still in the air and if I had some kind of ESP power Id see it coming. But I do hear them coming, I leap, straight up, maybe 10 feet, curl into a ball and roll backwrds. I unravel as I come down behind the droves, grab an unoccupied table, rip the top from it and hurl it like a mighty discus or some kind. One gets caught off gaurd and it clears right through the neck. But the second once catches it and hurls it back by simply redirecting it, carrying all that momentum through.
"Crap." I throw myself into a sideways corkscrew over it and plant my feet down on it as I land. I think to myself, 'That was pretty cool', but don't have time to follow through with further analysis as the two left over drones are coming my way. I grab the stand to the table in a pace quickening move towards them, but just as the first one goes to block it I drop it and change the shape of my hand to a blade. It was like the turn off the lightsaber mid-strike trick. Not that I am a nerd like that...back to the fight! So I go to bring the point down in between the armor of the torso and the neck. On most organic entities who were not immortal this move would be certain death. And though I seem to have the shot, at the last moment he moves and I glance off his armor. He throw a punch into my face and for a second I'm dazed as my brains shake like a baby's rattle. And then he hits me hard before I find myself in the air going back. Landing on my feet I take off down the street as my head is killing me, so that they chase me, but I'm only setting up for something here. They fire what I can only guess in the moment is some kind of small missile. I grab the door off a beater car and spin around into a crouch using the door as a shield. I probably only prevented myself from being blown up though. I'm knocked back by the force of the blast as the warhead on the missile explodes. I land on my back and flip back up despite some soreness. I did not think these would be so hard to fight. I see the car door and I seem them coming. I make a dash for it, grabbing up the car part and giving it a hurl like I did the table top, but I followed it up with a stream of fire from my hands. Its hot and it is green and I have no idea if this will work but it is worth a shot.
They keep coming. I don't know the full extent of my powers, so I don't know if I can but I turn up the heat on the flames and project the stream onto only one at a time, at what temperature does titanium begin to melt again? Apparently hotter than my flames as they are now just glowing red and giving off massive amounts of heat.
I look around, these things just got more dangerous, I see a kid running towards a toy on the sidewalk, he must have already gotten away but forgot the toy and came back for it. I don't care if these things are targeting me, but with the destruction that can apparently cause I'm getting this kid out, don't even start on hm being out this late, I don't really care as long as he doesn't get blown up by these killer toasters.. I make a dash over for him, a leap grab roll later I'm shielding him from blast of another explosion, wings out and wrapped around him. I can feel the armor heat up and my wings burn to a degree.
"When I stand up, you run as fast as you can away from me okay?" I feel like I need to work on my voice, it must terrify little kids like this guy. But he nods his head regardless of the way I sound. I nod. I take a breath once I feel the moment is right and open up my wings.
"Run!" I spin around and grab a car, hurling it down the street in their direction. If they dodge it or not I don't know, but I don't just stand there to wait and see, I make a run down that way. They are still glowing hot, I must have superheated them or something. I grab onto one, ignore any and all pain related and hurl him . I don't aim I just throw. And then there's water everywhere. He took out a fire hydrant.
I watch him get up and notice he's been cooled off. Stopped glowing the steaming rising off of him. And then he took another hit from me and I think I crack his armor. The other guy is still there I know he is, and he's coming. But I just cracked the armor here with a punch. I deliver another one to his side, where the ribs just over the heart would be and break more armor. This is new, but now I know I can just break through his protective shielding here.
And so begins an assault I know would leave a human being with a gravel skeleton and pudding organs. But this isn't a human being so I have no moral qualms with unloading on it like this. In hindsight I will be probably calling his overkill though. But I'm grabbed off before I can really do anymore damage. It burns and it burns almost like hell, well not really. Because hell is....well hell. I swing my fist around to make contact with the face of the other drone, and its hot. I can feel the heat on my hand from the contact of the punch. When he connects with an uppercut I'm the one in the air again as I go back and through the jet spray of the hydrant. And that is when it hits me. Well the idea as well as a projectile. The robot before became brittle after he hit the water, which is not the warmest stuff Ive ever gotten wet with. Which means if I ca splash the last one standing then I can pummel him too. The projectile is just a mass of concrete that is bounced off my head and nearly knocks me on my ass. I shake off the dizzy and the daze that having such an impact would cause and set into action. Well it isn't much actual action but I grab another table, its one of those outdoor cafes, and I use the over turned table(in one piece) to try and force the water jet in the direction of the last drone standing. He moves though, perhaps thinking I'm trying to just knocked him over.
I spin and chuck the table. I am a little tired of this and there can only be more of them on the way here and I cannot take this fight getting any longer. I said I'd be right back. And this is not right back. The chair bounces off the drone, he's so close to cooled off by now he no longer glows. And then I have an idea. There's an opening between some of the armor in a place that is vital on the human anatomy, these things are like humans, being humanoid and what not. I make a run for it. Not for an escape, but for the drone. But first I grab something I can swing at him. I break a support rod off a street light, which doesn't remain very stable much after I take that support away and the light swings down with the burst of the bulb giving a flash.Then I make a run for it. I go to swing with all I've got for his head, but as he goes to block it I drop the weapon, pass my hand under and shape it into a blade, wedging it deep between the plates. What comes out is most definitely fuel. And fuel burns.
He throws me off and I let him, putting some space between us as he "bleeds out". Shaping my hand back I ignite them.Its burning just a few hundred degrees hotter for a few quick seconds from the fuel that had leaked onto my arm. Under my hood, in the darkness I smirk knowingly before I blast the drone with a fireball. Then all I have to do is watch him light up like a Christmas tree and explode, I have to shield my eyes from the blast and brace myself. Because as cool as it could look to just be standing there in the blast, I'm not immune to knock back and its really bright standing in an explosion. I bet you there will be people on the internet over analyzing any pictures and saying there's a dragon behind it.
After I gather the girl back up, she'd done as she was told and hid real well, I have to look before finding her in a dumpster actually. I set back to saving her, though this time I make a more agile move and start running rooftops.
I disregard any other options and make the decision to take this poor scared gal to the cops, they would know a good place to put her up. Of course the cops are government, and STRIKE is government. Really all I can hope for in dropping her off and watching to be sure she gets in alright is that I don't get spotted or anything.
There's a certain feeling when you've just something you know is outright good, despite what others will say. To be honest this is the up there with heroic things Ive done. The other being saving the world. But this was me on my own, in my city, doing some good. I mean beating crooks into unconsciousness was doing good sure but that was different, even though I did beat two crooks into a double KO. But this was less about beating up the bad guys and more getting someone safe. Which were usually one and the same. Regardless I guess this is just something I get for being able to do more than punch someone to help.
I let her off right outside the doors of the nearest NYPD station.
"Might want to stay out of that side of town." I say before I'm leaping straight into the air and take off again into the night air to find a roost to observe her and the door from. I did say I'd start doing things a little different right? Today was different. I even saved that kid in the street with the toy. But its I'm supposed to do right? Save people.
