Alpha Agent: A Post Apocalyptic LitRPG

Dan gritted his teeth hard at seeing these two again. The two assholes who caused him the most pain and grief from his last mission. Both of them stood confidently. Their arms were to their sides, ready to instantly draw their weapons when the time came. These two were so confident that Kate made her request to Dan without a gun in her hand.

“No Kate. I don’t think I will,” Dan said to them. Just seeing these two in close proximity looking directly at him and his teammates and having to fake his tough guy act took a lot out of him. Dan clenched the handle of the container attempting to contain his anxiety.

“This isn’t the time for false bravado, Dan Orion,” Kate said coldly. The dead look in her eyes flooded Dan’s mind with memories of his fight with her during the high speed vehicle chase. “Your mission ends here. Drop the container and back away and maybe you might be taken in alive.”

“Yeah right,” Dan spat. “I’m sure Kodak treats their captured prisoners real well.” Dan lowered the container to free his other hand. “Well, I dropped the container, but there’s no way I’m backing away. If you want this precious prize back, you’ll have to take it from me bitch.”

Kate merely narrowed her gaze on him. It was the same as it was during the vehicle chase during his last mission. Kate had him dead to rights when she caught up to him and board the jeep Dan stole. She gave him a chance to live by simply surrendering himself to her. He responded by ripping one of her earrings off.

It didn’t work then, and it wouldn't work now. Dan wasn’t delusional, he knew his baseline stats didn’t improve significantly enough since their last encounter for him to take on both Kate and Adam in a fight at once. But he had one trump card that neither of these two would expect.

“You’re being foolish Dan,” Kate insisted. “Just give up.”

“Cut the act, you bitch. Stop pretending that you care so much about me. You proved through your actions that you’re a backstabber,” Dan yelled. He turned back to his two teammates. “Guys, stay out of this. We’re completing this mission and these two are just another obstacle.”

“Who are you calling obstacles kid?” Adam asked condescendingly.

“You got superhuman hearing right? Do I even need to elaborate?” Dan said. Even if he might die today, at least he’ll go down being a pain in the ass. “Leave my teammates out of this, I’ll take you both on. Let’s take the gloves off for this. I got some payback I owe you two clowns.”

Both Kate and Adam still maintained their ground in their respective positions. Kate simply looked at Dan with a frown while Adam began laughing obnoxiously. It seemed that ugly laughter was another trait a lot of Kodak agents shared.

“Just for that, you die first,” Adam declared. He spread his legs apart and presumably got ready for a fast charge.

Dan doubted that Li or Angie could hit Adam if the Kodak agent had any intention of ending this fight immediately. He wasn’t just playing with his food like their last battle. The container with the Arctic serums was at stake.

Dan didn’t move from his position either. Instead, he stared intensely at Adam, knowing exactly the technique he had lined up for his adversary. Summoning all the memories if his pain and losses caused by these two, the pressure behind Dan’s eyes gradually built up before he felt the hot substances running down his cheeks.

“What the—” Kate muttered. But she was too late.

A sharp pain pierced through Dan’s right eye and he abruptly stopped his glare ability. But by then, he got his desired effect. A few seconds earlier, Adam declared that Dan would be the first to die. But now, Adam was thrashing uncontrollably from flames summoned by Dan’s hatred and rage.

“Adam!” Kate shrieked. She tried rushing towards her boyfriend, but Dan fired a few silenced shots at the ground in front of her, halting her in her tracks.

“Just you and me now, bitch,” Dan said.

Knowing he needed every bit of power to take down Kate, Dan willed his second new power in his mind.

Berserk activated.

This power up was even more violent than his first instance. The red bioelectricity rippled throughout his torso and limbs. A few sparks shot out from his body. Dan could feel the hot blood pooling in his eyes and flowing down his cheeks. His armor suddenly felt tighter as his muscles bulged and ballooned in size to compensate for the power up. He could feel his neck pounding from the boosted blood flow throughout his body.

Dan’s strength ran rampant. He unwittingly crushed the silenced pistol in his hand into pieces.

“You want me Kate? You got me,” Dan said in a gutteral and raspy voice under the strain of his berserk state.

Adam staggered back and fell to his knees, still frantically flailing his body around to fan the flames spawned by Dan’s hatred.

Dan didn’t know how either of his teammates reacted to this violent transformation. He didn’t have the time to turn around to see their faces. He had to focus on his main opponent. Even his HUD offered him encouragement.

Updated Objective: Kick Kate Razor’s ass.

Kate stood in place as if her entire body was suddenly exposed to extreme cold. Dan still couldn’t quite move yet as his muscles still hadn’t finished growing and bulking in size. She finally gathered up some nerve and grabbed the handle of the machete off her back. Kate rushed directly at Dan with her machete pulled back, ready for a quick and decisive swing to end the fight.

As fast as she was, Dan saw the move coming. Actually, Kate appeared surprisingly slow to him as his enemy directly charged him. It didn’t take a genius for Dan to simply reach out with both hands and then grab hold of Kate’s wrists before she could land an attack on him.

Dan used all of his monstrous new found strength to keep Kate trapped in his grasp. He could feel his enemy attempting to overpower his strength with her own. But no such luck. Dan kept her at bay by gripping her wrists tightly, removing all of her leverage and the ability to land any strike with her machete.

The two agents were deadlocked. Even Dan was shocked. Somehow, this berserk transformation allowed him to match Kate’s raw physical strength. But even he knew this amazing strength wouldn’t last.

Dan was merely matching Kate’s strength, not overpowering her. The longer they remained stuck like this, the odds would stack against Dan. He could already feel his body paying the price for this amazing strength. His left bicep twitched and in that brief instant, his grip loosened and Kate’s strength brought the machete’s blade almost up to the tip of Dan’s nose.

Warning: Internal bleeding and organ damage detected. Damage to muscles and ligaments in arms and legs is imminent.

Dan stared into Kate’s eyes. Between the two, the distance was obstructed by a machete ready to cut Dan. He knew this struggle had to end soon.

In Dan’s bloodied peripheral vision, he watched as two impact grandes soared through the air and landed at Adam’s position, blowing him up while he was on fire.

“I will make sure Ben and Hailey get their justice for what you did, you fucking traitor,” Dan said.

“I did what I had to do back there,” Kate said. “I had no choice.”

“Fuck you,” Dan spat.

With victory being up in the air, Dan knew a one on one fight wouldn’t end well for him, even with his berserk state. He kept his grip on Kate as firm as possible while he glanced over his shoulder and looked back at his two teammates.

“I can’t keep this shit up!” Dan yelled. His left bicep continued twitching and sending laces of pain up to his shoulder. “Somebody shoot this bitch!”