Chapter 98: Frozen Weakness
__________ POV Geten__________
I walked out of the room, I did that to wait for the crowd of clones to thin out.
I wasn't expecting it to be done so quickly, but this is Beru after all. He is known mostly for his strength. His past doesn't matter to me, but I will prove that I am stronger than him now.
Even If I have to risk my life while doing so, I will show him that my Meta Ability is much stronger than his...
__________ POV Narration__________
Geten walked in front of Beru, staring him in the eyes.
He didn't know what to expect, but he knew that Beru wasn't going to be an easy fight. So he was going to treat it seriously.
But nothing could've prepared him for what was to come.
As soon as he took a step to freeze the floor. He heard something strange. A thud, something heavy falling on the floor.
With the corner of his eye, he could see Beru just casually passing him by. Looking down, he could see that he was missing a hand. He immediately started clutching his stump as he screamed in pain.
Beru just whistled as he continued walking out. But Geten wasn't done, he quickly got over the shock of losing an arm.
He immediately started trying to turn around, wanting to take the insectoid hero by surprise. Only to slip and fall.
He directed his gaze at his legs, they were clearly cut from his knees. He had been standing on his already dismembered legs unknowingly.
Suddenly, Beru stopped. He looked at his hand, the claw he had used to slice up Geten was bloody.
"Huh? You're not a clone?" He asked as he turned around. He also took a lick of the blood out of instinct.
He could see the villain screaming on the ground, in a puddle of his own blood.
He tilted his head in confusion. 'Shit, I thought he was just a clone... I wouldn't have been this brutal if I knew he was the original... Well, I doubt I'll lose too much reputation for this. It's considered a dire situation after all. Plenty of heroes have killed on the job before.'
Geten just grunted when hearing Beru, his only thoughts were. 'I was careless! I underestimated him too much, if I don't hit him with my strongest then I will definitely get captured here!'
He quickly rose his wounds closed, then he made himself prosthetic legs out of ice and shakily got up.
He moved his arm around, he quickly formed a dragon out of ice cubes, while looking at Beru with anger.
"DIE!" He shouted as he sent the massive dragon ice construct hurtling towards Beru. The insectoid just sighed while shaking his head.
'Villains never learn man... They just never know when to sit down... Welp, I guess I can do a charitable act and remind him that sleeping on the floor is sometimes more comfortable than dying. '
Beru instantly exhaled some mist, around his body, a dragon made out of fire started twirling around. It was small, but its rotation speed was great.
Beru used High Spec, and concentrated, he could see the things around him moving so slowly, the dragon was advancing towards him so slowly that it almost made him yawn.
He quickly started speeding up the dragon around him, slowly but surely, it reached a speed that Beru found satisfactory.
During its last rotation, it slingshot itself towards Geten and his dragon. It greatly expanded in the process, becoming twice as large as Geten's.
Beru turned off High Spec and just watched the clash happen in real-time, the two dragons collided. The wave of steam that released for the collision made Geten shoot backwards, Beru himself just stood still as a statue while watching his fire completely engulf Geten's special attack.
The ice quickly started melting, turning into water, then into steam. The dragon that was built out of fire quickly advanced, losing its form and just turning into a high pressured stream of fire.
Geten, in a panic, erected dozens of ice walls in front of him, trying his best to block the attack. But all of the ice melted as soon as it came in contact with the flames.
Beru was contemplating whether or not to let the villain turn to ash. After a few milliseconds of deliberation, he decided that letting the villain die would be counter-productive.
He didn't know if he could find anyone else that he could interrogate about the group that kept harassing Japan with clones.
Geten watched as the flames approached him to his ice walls. He gritted his teeth and closed his eyes as the flames came closer and closer to burning him alive.
At that moment, he regretted ever attempting something so foolish. He regretted not properly looking into Beru beforehand.
He regretted that his obsessive desire for power had guided him to his death. He regretted that, even with all of the time he had spent training, he was still so weak. But it was far too late for revelations.
At least that was what he thought.
As soon as he closed his eyes, a purple mist enveloped his body and warped the fire from around him outside. It formed a perfect shield that teleported all of the fire away from his body.
But the sheer temperature left him with a few burns. In the end, he collapsed on the floor after Beru's fire attack had ended. Beru took a few steps towards him, checked on him, just to make sure he would survive.
He then warped out of the building and looked around.
There were still numerous clones running around, some of them were dragging along Nomus, throwing the poor experiments into the vans then turning around to grab more.
Beru quickly jumped into the fray, just in his appearance, he directed dozens of clones that were carrying Nomus.
He then released a screech, the sound was so powerful that it made the clones stop to cover their ears almost instantly. The ones closest to Beru just turned into mush at that sound.
'What other attacks do I have to take care of these clones? Well, I guess I could try out my new quirk..." He put both of his hands on the ground. Around him, everything was quickly covered in a layer of ice.
Including the cars and the clones. Even the Nomus, Beru didn't really have enough control to not hurt them yet.
But he did warp all of the Nomus back into the laboratory. So, most of them just ended up with a frozen limb or two.
Beru looked around the outside of the building. He could see the bodies of all of the guards that were either burned or frozen to death, crushed, impaled.
Beru just sighed at the sight of their bodies. He slowly turned back to the building.
He proceeds to do his job as a hero, helping the rest of the surviving people inside that research centre, warping them to either hospitals or the police respectively.
The authorities also arrived on the scene. They were extremely happy to apprehend the unconscious Geten, although the villain was quickly sent to a hospital to avoid his death.
Beru then decided to walk outside, his job was mostly done.
But the second he stepped foot outside, he could see countless camera flashes and he heard many shutter sounds.
He looked at the reporters, all of them were standing in the icy landscape he had created outside, without a care in the world.
"Sir Beru! Would you like to give us a statement about this organisation that you just faced?" One of the reporters made her way towards Beru and asked him that question. Many followed after her and asked differing questions about the villains, the casualties.
They all had one thing in common, they were interested in reporting on the situation. Beru responded to them the best he could. If he just ignored them he would seem rude. It was his fault that he walked outside anyway.
He had hoped that the media wouldn't get there so quickly. He wanted to see if he could melt the ice around the building before he left.
Now he was thinking of what walls to bang his head on to get the questions over with faster(time passes faster when you're knocked out).
However, not all questions were friendly. One reporter seemed to be quite confrontational actually. He was trying his best to provoke a reaction out of Beru.
"And where were you when the attack started and all of the hard-working guards were unfortunately killed?" The middle-aged man with a bald spot in the middle of his head just got ignored at first.
But then some other reporters started asking similar questions, seemingly stirred by the balding man.
Beru was on the verge of rolling his eyes at them. He didn't even know what response they were expecting. But, it grew to the point where he couldn't really ignore the question anymore.
"So, where were you?" Asked one of the reporters, repeating what the others said like a choir boy during a sermon.
"That's a stupid question that you guys are stupid for asking~ At this point~ Why not blame all the heroes that never even appeared?~ I just happened to pass by at this time~ That's it~" Beru waved the angry gasps and the responses he got as he looked around the field.
He checked on all of the frozen clones, making sure that all of them had turned to liquid before starting to melt all of the ice.
The reporters cleared the field after seeing that he was working, they didn't want to stand in front of his fire after all.
After he was finished, he just warped away. Leaving Geten with the police and the reporters with a lot of things to write about.
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