Chapter 52: Acid Rain
Ryan rushed to the server, dodging the swaying wires, shattering the surrounding glass windows. Outside, someone shot at the garage, and the bullet pierced the wall and damaged the computer inside.
"If it's the paparazzi," the courier complained, holding up his reel gun and pointing it at the ceiling, "it's my signature!"
He fired a shot, the projectile went through the roof, and the glass fragments formed a flying wall that covered the hole in the ceiling. However, acid rain soon corroded them, and the liquid fell on the server, causing an electrical fire.
A huge pile of wires stood on the roof, its vicious eyes glaring at the courier through one of the remaining openings.
Ryan blinked. "Aren't you brain dead, psychotic?"
"I told you." Psyshock replied, holding up his metal tentacles, an undercurrent of anger in the mechanical voice. From above, he looks like an alien metal squid. "I heal."
"Great, then I can kill you twice"
Ryan always sees the bright side of things.
The courier wanted to know who had helped him with the plastic surgery. The shape of the skull has changed slightly and has become thinner. Either the telepath's regeneration ability is not normal, or his energy set is not the same as the courier imagined.
In addition, his body has been Dy
AMIS was retracted for study. How did he run so fast and launch an ambush? Some things simply don't make sense.
In Rya
Before freezing time, Psyshock moved his head out of sight, making it difficult for the courier to target the mutant's only important area. The psychopath's backup has been shooting from the outside, providing suppressive fire, which also does not help. The invisible bastards did everything they could to create walls of glass to keep the rain and psychosis out, but silica didn't last long.
Deciding that he would rather risk acid rain than be blown out by the shockwave, he fired a few shots at the ceiling, dodging the icy bullets, and rushed out.
As far as he could see, toxic clouds had covered the sky, pouring acid rain on the ship's graveyard, corroding the metal shell. Much of the area has been reduced to ashes, most likely dried by atomic cats; Rya
Hopefully, this kitten will be able to resist any ally that Psyshock brings.
Two mechanical hounds were the source of the gunshots, one standing on the shell of the Airbus and the other on the ground. They have the shape of a dog, except for the eyes with glass visors, a machine gun on their backs, and ammunition boxes on their bellies. Dy
AMIS may use these drones to support private security, Rya
Suspect that the superpowers have invaded them.
When time returned, the courier felt acid raindrops on his clothes, eroding his hat and mask. Ryan's clothes barely protected him from the acid, and had begun to dissolve; Since he is not aware of any natural acids with these properties, the messenger guesses that this is a unique chemical composition that may come from the orange genome. For just a few minutes without a lid, he looks like a chunk of cheese.
Spectral Shock, standing on top of the garage, tries to chase him, only to be forced to back away from the glass spear aimed at his brain. A flying figure emerges from the workshop, attacking the psychopath with floating debris.
The Shroud took over the town of Psychic Shock, though the acid rain made it impossible for him to use invisibility. The poison corroded the vigilante's glass armor, making him visible to all. However, he can still control glass and silica from his machine, summoning a sharp catapult storm that keeps the psychopath busy. Psychoshock appears to be immune to acid rain and moves at high speed to dodge glass spears and blades.
At the same time, the drone's machine gun fires at Ryan, who takes aim at the machine gun on the ship's casing, pressing the trigger of his coil gun. The bullet, which was faster and more powerful than a normal bullet, went through the robot dog's face, came out of the butt, and blew a hole in its circuit.
The other jumps around and shoots at will. Ryan whistled, and his car rushed out of smoke and toward his position; The acid rain eroded the windows and damaged the paint, which scared the couriers greatly.
Still, the robot hound couldn't dodge Ryan's shots and the car. Plymouth crashed into it like a deer on the road, knocking the drone to pieces.
"Cats!" Ryan shouted, rushing to his car to hide from the rain. "Cats!"
A chill hit his spine as a raindrop suddenly turned into a grenade above his car.
Before Ryan could turn back, his magical Plymouth exploded in the flames and iron parts. "My car! The messenger shouted in horror. "No!"
"Got you, thief!"
A lady appeared in front of the courier, unaffected by the toxic rain. Her skin was bleached, her blonde hair was cut short, and her eyes were bloodshot and crimson. She wears a sleeveless white shirt and tight shorts; Ryan might say she's charming, if it weren't for the crazy sparkle of violence in her eyes.
By the way, she also has a bloody butcher knife in her right hand. Don't forget that.
"I guess it's acid rain, right?" Ryan asked before the start time stopped. As he did, the same tension spread through his spine.
When he entered the frozen time, everything was tainted by a violet, and the woman was gone. Was she teleported away?
As the acidic water eroded his clothes and reached the skin underneath, the pain spread through his body. While outraged by the destruction of his car, the courier decided to hide in the shadows of a ship's hull to escape the downpour.
The second time it started again, and again, a nervous rush down his spine
Ryan coughed in pain, and a butcher knife stabbed him in the hand, slitting his fingers, and his coil gun fell to the ground. Blood flowed through his right hand, and he was able to concentrate despite experiencing more severe cases.
"You can see it too......" Acid Rain giggled, blocking his way towards the husks. Purple world. ”
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Oooh.
"That place between two moments and two angles, is heaven! She giggled, holding her head in her hands, as if controlled by ecstatic desire. "Great!" My brain is shining beautifully!"
"Alright, ma'am, my mission is done." Ryan said, searching for a bullet in his trench coat. Before he could take the bomb out of the warehouse, the agile killer teleported to the courier and kicked it away. Before the courier could return the favor, she disappeared immediately.
Before she reappears and flees, Ryan senses ...... He couldn't describe it, a gut feeling. The same feeling as when his own abilities were activated.
Not only can she summon acid rain, but she can also swap places with raindrops, which makes her teleportation range impressive. The purple genome is combined with the orange genome. She and Ryan have the same source of power.
Their power interferes with each other enough for each other to feel each other's activation.
The problem is that while the courier only needs a thought to activate his time stop, it only takes a fraction of a second for it to take effect. If she could sense its activation, Acid Rain would have a short time to react before the temporal anomaly appeared.
Not only is her reflexes superhuman, but she is also faster than him. Ryan guesses that makes sense. His time stoppage affected the entire observable universe, and her teleportation only switched two objects within a short radius.
Ryan found a counter.
"Oh my God, there's a huge balance problem in this city!" He grumbled, then ducked into the shadows of a shell. He should have expected the superpowered to send a bombshell after him considering all the headaches he's given them in this reboot, but damn it, that girl hit hard!" Cat! Cat, where are you?!"
The rain was pouring down, and he could hear nothing, see nothing. Even Sh
The battle between oud and Psyshock also turns into a distant background echo.
"I'll catch him first," Acid Rain said with a smile, appearing on the wreckage of an Airbus with a machine gun. She could see Ryan clearly. "Disemboweling him like a fish"
She fires at Ryan, forcing the Courier to hide. He tried to aim a throwing knife at her face, but she teleported before the weapon could be attached.
"Send me!" The madwoman roared as she reappeared near where Ryan was, dagger in both hands, her eyes lost in a frenzy of madness, "Send me there, you thief!" Do you think you can take it all to yourself, you poor little bastard? Do you think you can take this beautiful world from me! You selfish little devil, you violated my rights!"
Ryan stopped time for a second, and before time stopped, the woman vanished. He immediately stopped this effect within two seconds and decided to stick to short bursts as a defense.
The woman reappeared, aiming for his chest, but this time he was a step ahead of her. When she stabbed Ryan in the stomach with a dagger, Ryan grazed her left shoulder with his own knife, nearly slashing her neck. She showed extreme agility comparable to his, backflipping to safety and standing in the rain while the courier stood safely under the rusty shell.
Ryan examines the wound and realizes that it is impossible for him to remove the blade without bleeding. The situation is not good; He had only one hand left, but it was more wounded than her. To make matters worse, the acid drops didn't seem to splash on her, and she was impeccably dressed even in the pouring rain.
"Ah......h Ah, it's so warm...... So warm......"
She......
She likes to be hurt.
"I greet the chef," Ryan said with a blank face. "Would I suggest you add some fava beans to your drink?"
The madwoman didn't reply, but let out a wild laugh. "I'm going to hurt you for it!" She roared, her expression both angry and happy. "Oh yes, you're going to scream!" I'm going to stab you to death until you scream, you little pig!"
When Ryan started the time to stop, she immediately disappeared from his sight, perhaps returning to the safe house to get her weapon. The Courier doesn't mind dying right now, as it takes an Augustian cycle for him to run to Ryan perfectly, but he'd rather die with dignity than die from it...... This discount clown!
Ryan rummaged through his trench coat and pulled out the stuffed animal. It seemed so small in his hands, yet so dangerous.
"I want you to know this," said the courier, time restarting, trying to flip the hidden switch on the toy's back. "You forced me to do this. You forced me to do it—"
Another psychological signal followed, and a grenade popped out in front of him.
Two words come to mind.
“Meep Meep——“
Ryan's eyesight turned white, his hearing became deaf, and he hit his back on the ground. He felt the stuffed animal slip through his fingers, far away from him.
When he regained his sight and his ears were able to understand speech, he lay helpless on the ground, half of his body burned and the rest bleeding. Acid rain towered over him like an angel of death.
"I'm going to stab you to death," she said with an angry look on her face. "Then I'm going to go into your bowels. I'm sure you put the map of the purple world there. Yes, you thief, I know. Your intestines will look tender and beautiful. ”
This woman has serious problems.
Ryan sighed and tried to utter his famous last words when Acid Rain took his eyes off him and turned to the shore. "Who are you?" She hissed. "Another thief? How many of you-"
A high-pressure stream of water aimed at the psychopath, and she teleported away before it hit her.
Ryan frowned in confusion as he heard heavy footsteps on the ground, strong enough to drown out the sound of the downpour. A large thing emerged from the sea and moved towards the shore.
Although Ryan's vision was starting to blur, he could see it approaching. A tall bronze alloy statue, holding some kind of something. The man looked like a hybrid of a diver's suit and high-grade armor, smaller than the Vulcan, but as thick as a tank and painted crimson. An opening in its helmet cast a light like a beacon, looking down on Ryan and illuminating him.
When he recognized the design, his eyes widened behind the mask.
"Ran?"
The Iron Giant didn't answer, but the Courier couldn't see who was inside due to the lighthouse's visor, but he immediately recognized her posture. The way she moved and carried her weapon, the slight attention of the Titans when they saw him......
It's her. She's out of prison, free, and alive and well! Ryan's heart was filled with happiness.
Maybe she had been there, watching him from afar.
"Mine!" The acid rain roared, teleporting so fast in an instant, she seemed to appear in more than a dozen places at the same time. "My, my!" I'm full of contempt! Contempt and anger!"
"Lan, don't!" Ryan pleaded as the Bronze Giant, aware of the danger, raised his weapon. "Go away!"
Too late.
When Acid Rain finishes her teleportation attack, she replaces multiple raindrops with grenades. Bombs rained down on the two men, powerful enough to destroy entire city blocks.
Ryan hastily activates his time stop, trying to drag Ryan away or remove the bomb. But his body collapsed under the pressure of the injury, and his face hit the bloody sand.
"Ran!"
Time starts anew, and the cycle ends in a catastrophic explosion.
May 8, 2020 is the seventh time? Eighth?
Ryan has lost count, but as usual, he started the day by driving into the back of a ghoul.
"You guys," Ryan sighed and climbed out of his car, at which point Re
Chaos erupted at ESCO's bar. "You guys are bastards, you know?" I hope you can. ”
Since they insist on making his life difficult, this time the courier will reward them tenfold in return.
"My name is security!" Re
Esco complained behind the bar while the bar's patrons watched. The ghoul was dizzy from the blow and was trying to get up.
After seeing Ryan again, Ryan calmly and hopefully grabbed the fist brother and put on his gloves. "But I'm an optimist, and since this is supposed to be the perfect trip for me, I think we can let the past pass," he said jokingly as he approached the ghoul. "Start over, play tennis, and even become friends!" Would you like to be my ghoul friend?"
"Who the hell are you—"
Ryan punched him hard in the stomach and fell to his knees.
"I think we'll do it the anime way." Ryan grabbed the ghoul by the head with his fist brother and pulled him closer. The psychopath's eyes widened in bewilderment. "If I beat you, you'll get Stockholm syndrome, and then you'll be my Robin!" Quick save and ghoul wonder! We'll have merchandise, comics, TV shows, sitcoms, and pointless spin-offs! Everything that makes life worth living! We will always be together!"
The people in the bar looked at Ryan like he was crazy.
"Our faces will appear on every fast food!" McDonald's, KFC, Burger King! We're going to have a happy meal, ghoul! Free children's meal!"
The ghoul stared at him, fear in his eyes.
"It's a brand new series!"