Unity by Carl Stubblefield (epub read online books TXT) 📕

a calculated amount of energy out of the air, the excess humidity transformed into a fog that revealed the wraiths in clear contrast. The extra moisture popped and cracked around the boss, and it bellowed in fury.

“Don’t let it touch you!” Tempest warned, stepping back while maintaining the fog, expanding it to the confines of wherever the wraiths tried to flee and hide.

Pulse began targeting one, and it froze and trembled while he overloaded the construct with energy. Aurora took flight and sent an ion storm into the midst of a cluster. Wraiths wailed as the energy ripped through them like a shotgun blast. The height made targeting easier and she strafed side to side, raining damage and preventing their advance past the boss.

Gus activated Wreckognize to see if he could get any information about the boss that would allow him to contribute.

Revenant (Electric Fulminant)

Revenants are reanimated supers who have been raised and programmed with a singular purpose. They cannot be reasoned with and have lost their humanity, acting as puppets to their creator, and retain some of their abilities from life.

HP:2460/2500

MP: 942/1200

Special skills: 1) Spawn: Conversion of biomass into wraiths.

2) Sap: Absorb MP by direct contact. When MP reaches 0, begins draining HP.

3) Sphere: Create targeting spheres that stun enemies.

Weaknesses: Unknown.

Wraith

Wraiths are constructs that attack any living thing. Their touch is paralytic and allows them to immobilize prey for consumption.

HP: 232/250

MP: 100/100

Special skills: 1) Death’s Door: Can absorb energy from an ally for self-healing.

2) Last Breath: Physical contact paralyzes all bodily functions of the target. If sustained can cause massive damage and even death.

Weaknesses: Susceptible to dissolution with energy overloads.

“Hold it down while I drain it!” Grimdark yelled and braced himself as he waited for his allies.

Dark cables snaked out of the metal armbands around BoJack’s forearms and he grappled the whip like arms and leg of the left side of the Revenant. The grapple spun around the twin arms, cinching them together. BoJack stomped and a metal band around his calves drove a hook into the ground. With a deft flip, he looped the cables underneath and leaned back, just in time for them to snap taut as the Revenant flailed. The surge pulled him forward like a bucking bronco but he was able to maintain his hold and dig in his heels.

Electricity coursed down the cables but was grounded by the hook as BoJack flashed a cocky smile at the Revenant. Another flip and the cables were securely anchored by the tension.

Distracted by BoJack, another super slid to the right. Anastasia placed her hands on the wall and swiped them left. The wall erupted, different materials flowing like vines and encircling the Revenant. Cement flowed like malleable clay and pooled around one of the mammoth feet, while wires and pipes slithered out and held the arms. The lithe super glanced and nodded to Grimdark, her long, shimmering white hair reflecting the electric blue energy and fanning out from the movement. More materials poured out of the gash and continued to bind the Revenant tighter.

Grimdark approached the monster and thrust his hands forward into its body and sunk them down to his wrists. Both began to bellow, a large maw opening in the torso of the monster, revealing the inside of the creature to be identical to the outside.

With his head thrown back, Grimdark’s eyes glowed with the same brilliant blue hue. Phosphorescent glowing blue tears dripped out of his eyes as he struggled with the creature. Both appeared to be trying to absorb the energy of the other. Blue light blazed and dimmed and Grimdark appeared to be slowly winning the tug-of-war.

Gus’ display flashed as a teammate began to lose MP and a prison icon appeared by the avatar of the super named Prime. This super was one of the more reclusive and Gus didn’t even know if they were male or female, as the individual rarely spoke, and always wore a helmet and androgynous body suit.

A wraith had appeared behind Prime with its claw-like hands around their helmet, talons encircling the entire visor like some macabre game of ‘Guess Who.’ The materials Anastasia used to bind the Revenant at first stopped moving, then began to degrade as it slipped and pulled two of its arms free. They contracted and hit Grimdark with a huge double-backhand, flinging him into Gus’ shield, where he slid to a seated position. Aurora screamed in anger and targeted the offending wraith, blowing off its head.

Gus winced at the hit. Grimdark looked groggy, shaking his head and failing at his attempts to get back on his feet. Gus looked back at the Revenant and saw that both of its arms reached for the cables as BoJack lost his grin. Splintering could be heard from around the hook as the monster redoubled its efforts to pull.

Without thinking, Gus dropped his shield and activated Amber. Twin gouts of material formed in front of his hands and splashed around the creature, intertwining with the wreckage and debris Anastasia had used to bind it, severely curtailing its ability to move as it had to lift everything attached to it as well as pull on the cables.

BoJack’s grin returned as he nodded to Gus. Mentally calling Jet to him, Gus ran toward the Revenant, reaching up without looking as Jet flew into his grasp. Finding a gap in the amber residue, he thrust the naginata into the blue coursing electricity and activated Vampire’s Kiss. The behemoth began to spasm as if in pain and visibly contracted.

The amber prison condensed as the Revenant shrunk and held fast to the receding figure as it began to congeal. There was a sudden loud pop, and the stench of ozone wafted through the room.

Inside of an igloo made of crispy amber reinforced with all sorts of materials lay the figure of a skinny boy. Gus guessed that he looked around fourteen years old. The room was uncomfortably quiet after the altercation, the wraiths having been dispatched by the other supers. Milky