Chapter 162: Fusion and Fission
Rya
He'd seen the power of Fallout in the past, so he didn't waste his time.
"We have to keep him away from populated areas," he told Livia, and the two flew over New Rome to meet the approaching red comet. "When he's angry enough, he doesn't care about collateral damage anymore. Since we ruined his life's work, he will get a little ......"
"Is it unstable?" Livia ended his sentence with a soft chuckle. "That's horrible, Ryan."
"I'll save the best for later," the courier said.
The armored duo came into contact with radioactive fallout a few hundred meters above the bay of Naples. Dinamus's red genome emerges in all his shining glory, propelling himself through the sky by projecting two streams of crimson energy from his hands. Even though Ryan and Livia are wearing armor, this cyborg is much taller than them. They were like two American GIs facing a flying tank.
The fiery skull of "Radiation" watched the duo from behind its protective dome, his empty eyes burning with atomic rage.
"Get out of the way!" He shouted, and headed straight for the killing.
The missile launcher on his shoulder activated, firing a row at Ryan, who had reached him first.
The courier reacts by activating his energy, freezing 24 projectiles. He raised his hands and activated his handguard weapon. To his relief, they worked perfectly during the frozen time, unleashing two red shockwaves in the direction of the cyborgs. They detonated all the rockets in their path, hitting the radiation head-on.
When time returned, the impact and explosion pushed the astonished Alphonse Manada off the flight path, nearly causing him to fall into the Mediterranean Sea below. However, despite the lack of elegance and maneuverability of Ryan's jetpack, his approach managed to stabilize his course.
"This ...... Time to solidify...... The company's cyborg glared at Ryan. "You're Quicksave."
"There's a problem, tin cans." Ryan replied that he was trying to engage in close combat with the robot. "Are you a Cancer?"
Alphonse Manada didn't reply, but adjusted the direction of his flight and dodged Ryan. "I should have killed you a long time ago." The robot said, floating itself with one hand and pointing at Ryan with the other. "I'm here to correct this mistake!"
The messenger barely had time to blink, a dazzling red light lit up the sky, and a chill hit his chest
Time skipped and when time started again, Rya
It has moved to the left of the radiation. The surprised cyborg doesn't have time to react, as Livia engages him in hand-to-hand combat.
Eight elongated black tentacles protruded from behind her armor, each moving swiftly like a snake. They hit the radiator in the shoulder, tore the missile launcher integrated into his controls, and also hit him in the chest. Steel claws at the end of the artificial arm tear through the power robot's shield.
"What a waste," Livia said with a giggle. "Nuclear waste!"
Ryan wasn't sure if yes or laughed.
In response, the radiation activates the energy mini-gun on his right arm, forcing Ryan and Livia to fly away. "You can't beat me!" He roared angrily, as the messenger struggled to listen to him amid the sound of plasma bullets surging through the air. "I have survived Augustus!" You can't- - - - - - "
Explosions could be heard in the distance, directly from Dinams' headquarters.
The cyborg briefly interrupted his attack and glanced in its direction, his skull glowing with fear. Smoke billed from the rooftop, and Enrique's team destroyed the floor that housed Lab 66.
"No, no......" The shock of radiation turned into despair and panic. Nope!"
Instead of going on the attack, the robot flew straight to the power headquarters, desperately trying to save the day.
"Oh no, you don't know," Ryan said, and he immediately chased after him. Radiant fired at close range, sending him back and Livia activating her
When time resumed, Ryan's fist slammed into his glass-domed helmet.
The Courier is invisible in his girlfriend's time travel, making his attacks on radiation invulnerable. Each of them is powerful, but what about together?
As Livia said, invincible.
When he lost control of his flight, the radiating glass dome cracked. The robot did not land on the dy
AMIS controlled the zone, but fell into the Mediterranean. When Alphonse Manada crashed into the ocean, the surface of the water turned to steam and the red genome disappeared under the waves.
Although Ryan wants Dy
Amis wouldn't have waterlogged the suit, but he wasn't naïve enough to think the fight was over. "You think he likes sea mushrooms?" He asked his girlfriend, hovering over the water, waiting for the radiation to surface. An area hundreds of meters wide began to boil, but the courier could not identify the source.
"It's a question of concern," Livia replied, looking out to sea. She may be trying to find every possibility in order to determine the location of a nuclear catastrophe. The cooked fish begins to surface.
Nice reference, although Ryan wonders if a lot of people will get it. "Princess, did you know that I visited their particle accelerator?"
"I'm sure they're grateful for the exposure," she replied, then pointed to a spot on the left with her telescopic arm. "Here, Ryan."
The messenger fires a shock wave at the target, splashing in all directions. The water vibrates around the point of impact, but Ryan doesn't know if he's hit the radiation. "Why hasn't he shown up yet?" He asked his girlfriend. This man is as stoic as Leo Hargraves, and diving shouldn't cause any inconvenience.
"I'm ......" Livia froze, then quickly grabbed her boyfriend's arm. High!"
The two immediately flew out of the sea, and at that moment, a crimson light burst out from beneath the waves.
A catastrophic explosion spews tons of boiling water into the sky, like an undersea volcano erupting. Although Ryan and Livia fled to safety, a cloud of steam swallowed their vision, obscuring their sensors.
As they managed to escape, the two noticed a bright crimson light under the boiling waves...... A beam of light was moving towards the shores of New Rome.
"He's running at the bottom of the sea!" Livia warned. Ryan unleashed a shockwave from a light source above, splashing in all directions, but not even slowing the radiation down.
"Damn, he's using water as a shield!" No wonder the corpse has not yet appeared. "Where will he appear?"
"The ship has arrived at the cemetery," prophesied his beloved oracle, and the two flew at once. "He's undressing!"
, it's not the most ideal. The ship's graveyard was empty, even more so after the Shroud moved his base to the bunker, but they were only walking distance from the inhabited area.
His girlfriend apparently had the same idea. "Ryan, how quickly can you activate the Gravity Gun?"
"Almost immediately, but if I do, I'll send him to space," Ryan reminded her. "His brother will be upset."
"I'd rather put up with the black thorn
anger and don't want to see people die. This would have happened if he had been allowed to pass through the port. ”
"Did you see that?" She nodded coldly in response to his question. Damn it. Ryan immediately sent a distress signal to his allies on the ground, asking them to evacuate the local population.
The two of them reached the shore first and circled the shipyard between Rust Town and the Old Port. Only crabs perched on the wreckage of a rusty tanker on the beach, Sh
OUD's warehouses are already full of dust. After making sure that no one had accidentally entered the area, the couple waited for the radiation to reappear.
He did reappear.
By the time the radioactive fallout reaches the shallow waters, the sea water around the ship's graveyard has already begun to evaporate. A thick cloud of steam engulfs the wreck, and a glowing ghost emerges from the shadows of a supertanker. Alphonse Manada took off his control armor like a snake, revealing all his radiant glory. His body turned into a charred black skeleton, the flesh was a radioactive flame, and the smoke was a red flux particle.
"I recognize your power, Augustus." He looked up at Livia, and his voice sounded like a burning flame. "Is this a declaration of war?" Could it be that your father, old and cowardly, sent his daughter to war?"
"It's not about my father, it's about you," Livia replied, even as the temperature kept climbing. At the foot of Manada, the sand turned to glass. "It is not appropriate for you to laugh at my father, because you have committed the same sin. You have poisoned thousands of people. ”
This time, Alphonse Manada raised his right hand in anger. "I've saved thousands!" He roared, his fingers glittering like the sun. "I gave the people the right to defend themselves!"
A huge, house-sized red particle erupted from his palm. Rya
and Livia split in both directions, both to dodge attacks and distract Dy
amis VP's attention.
"The lab is gone, and the blood is destroyed!" Ryan argued, trying to divert attention from the insane nuclear apocalypse. "What else can you fight for?"
"Everything." Radiation replied, though he pointed the finger at Livia. Luckily, the Prophet used the super mobility of her armor to dodge the attack. "We have enough data to restart our copycat production elsewhere."
"We distributed a vaccine, Chernobir," Ryan replied, then froze time and let it continue, before he punched Alphonse Manada in the face. "It's all over!"
His fist hit "Radiant" in the chin.
The red genome didn't even back down. Ryan felt like he had hit a steel wall.
"Can you understand how strong I am?" Radiant hands rushed towards the Courier's armored fist with blinding speed, grabbing him before he could retreat. The red genome pulled Ryan closer, staring at the helmet's lens with his fiery eyes. "Do you think I'm wearing that armor to protect myself?"
Ryan defended his critical space with a blaster, but it turned out to be no more effective than a breeze. "Radiation" grabbed both of the Courier's wrists with his own hands and began to smash the glove with his sheer strength.
"On the day I took the elixir, I destroyed a city," said Alphonse Manada, as the light around him became more and more intense. The sensors of Saturn's armor quickly issue heat and radiation warnings, and the orange flux spreads through the shield to increase its resistance. "Erase it off the map. I can't control my abilities, I've killed thousands. Even now, I have to restrain myself from burning the city to ashes. ”
"No, you madman!" Livia tries to save her boyfriend from above, using her telescopic tentacles to restrain the crazy corpse. Their steel was weaker than Saturn's armor, and it melted before they could touch him. "There are thousands of people living nearby!"
"I swear these people's deaths will not be in vain," Radiant said hoarsely, his face dazzling. "I will not stop fighting for the good of all, no matter what I am facing. Whatever I have to do. ”
Ryan realizes in horror that he's about to blow himself up as the red flux around the radiation turns into a cloud.
The Courier puts all available energy in the jetpack and pushes Alphonse Manada backwards, trying to keep the living bomb as far away as possible from New Rome. The clouds turned blind, and Ryan felt a shiver run down his spine
After the time gap, the explosions continued.
In Ryan's opinion, he was engulfed in flames on all sides. Despite the fact that the protection of the improved Saturn's armor was designed to resist Augustus' attacks, the Courier still felt it bent under the sheer force of the explosion. Some of the heat bypassed the orange flux-powered steel around the chest, burning the skin underneath. Ryan bumped into something hard, his head down, his vision blurred.
When the flames were extinguished and the Courier was able to see again, he found himself in the center of a huge crater.
Alphonse Manada destroyed the entire cemetery, destroyed the nearest tanker, turned the entire beach into molten sand, evaporated all the water nearby. The warehouses of the shroud were blown away, and the hull of a ship was blown closer than fifty meters from the shore. Ryan heard sirens and private security sirens coming from the Old Port, and the blast wave shattered all the glass windows in a large area. A huge column of smoke rose a few meters away from the courier, darkening the sky.
At the edge of the crater, Ryan notices Livia's armored hand sticking out of the molten glass.
At this moment, the courier's brain stops thinking, and his body begins to drive itself. "Livia!" Ryan scrambled to his feet, the servo of his armor creaking on his knees. He immediately tried to fly towards her, but the explosion damaged his jetpack.
He froze when he noticed movement in the column of smoke.
"Still alive?" Alphonse Manada, though his fiery glow had dimmed, emerged from the smoke unscathed. In this moment, he looks very much like a demon rising from the depths of hell. "I'm going to kill Vulcan, too, to make sure she never makes this armor again."
"What did you do?" Ryan hissed, trying to hear what he was saying. His ears drooped and were blindfolded.
Alphonse shrugged. "What's the use of seeing the future if you can't avoid it?"
Livia's abilities are limited for the duration. The madman's explosion lasted at least half a minute, making it impossible for her to escape from the blast.
No.
She could have escaped, but she couldn't see Ryan. I can't guarantee that he will survive.
She was left for him.
Without the intangibility of timestamps, the Saturn armor would not have survived the explosion. Even now, the explosion has destroyed the paint and most of the external shielding, exposing the circuitry under the metal plates.
Ryan's fists clenched, and a wave of green Flux flooded his vision. The pain from the burned skin was gone, his ears were back to working properly, and the secondary system of his armor restored his flesh. Although the courier wanted to get to his girlfriend right away, Fallout apparently wouldn't let him do so.
"You're probably going to blow up the whole area," Ryan angrily accused the cop while striking a fighting stance.
"I'd rather burn half the city than give you an inch of land." Alphonse replied coldly, his left hand glowing with red Flux. "Once you're dead too, I'll dissect your sister and make her cough up her precious blood and repair the damage you've done."
If it weren't for Livia's situation, let Rya
If you want to see the body die, then this sentence will decide his fate.
With a roar, Afterdust rushed towards the courier, aiming his left hand at his chest. He will tear open the remnants of Saturn's armor and then burn the organs underneath.
"Do you know what your mom and a nuclear reactor have in common?" Ryan asked, just as he activated his powers.
Darkness enveloped the Messenger's hands, and time froze like a crawl, engulfing the red flux particles, like a black hole devouring light.
"I can't get in without protection."
Ryan's right hand touched Radiant's left hand, and the black flux disintegrated the corpse's fingers, palms, and entire forearm.
When time started again, Alphonse Manada didn't immediately notice what was happening, until the pain manifested itself. When he suddenly noticed the damage, the dust let out a roar. His fiery gaze dimmed as he looked at his severed arm. "W-what?
"Give me an inch, and I'll grab your arm." Ryan said coldly, then raised his hand like a karate split, and time froze again. "When you gain power, you destroy a city."
His blackened palm struck Alphonse in the right shoulder like a scythe, severing his entire arm.
"I destroyed time."
As time passed, the radioactive fallout let out a scream of pain, and his severed right arm collapsed into a layer of harmless red particles. Ryan suspects that, like sunshine, this nuclear catastrophe has a solid core somewhere.
The time traveler only needs to peel his skin like an apple until he finds it.
"How? Even Augustus ...... "Now armless Radiant took a step back, his horrible jaw twisted into a new expression.
Fear.
"Get down on your knees, or I'll cut off your legs too." Ryan warned. "I swear not to kill you, but you don't want to know what I can put you through."
He gritted his teeth and looked at his severed arm. His stump glowed crimson, but his arm did not regenerate. "Good." The rest of his body lit up again, he said.
"That's enough." A familiar voice came from above the heads of the two warriors.
With the emergence of a new duo, the light in Fallout is gone.
Wynne held Enrique, who had taken off his mask, like a bride with a flushed face, and flew over the cemetery. She slowly landed on the glass floor, and then asked her boyfriend to stand and walk.
"We'll take over," Enrique told Ryan. As he spoke, huge roots emerged from the rim of the crater and gently dug Livia out from under the debris. "She needs immediate medical attention."
"If she's dead, he'll follow," Ryan warned, pointing to the radiation.
"I know," Enrique said with a sigh. "But let me try."
Rya
Glaring at the radiation, he decided that Livia's life was more important. The messenger left his brothers and sisters in Canada and Wyve
to deal with things while Root gently puts his girlfriend on the ground.
Thankfully, she's a decent distance from the center of the explosion, and the quality of the armor on her body is top-notch. The flames scorched the shield, but Ryan could hear her breathing underneath.
"Livia?" Ryan immediately took off Livia's helmet and let her blonde hair flow out.
"I'm ......" Livia's eyes blinked, she couldn't look directly at Rya
。 She must have had a concussion. "I'm all right......"
No, she's not.
But she was still alive, and Ryan immediately administered first aid to her.
At the same time, the temperature of the radiation had dropped to the heat of summer, and his red flux particles turned into a faint glow around his bones. "Enrique?" When he realizes that his brother and bodyguards will not do anything to stop Ryan, Alphonse Manada realizes the truth. "What did you do?"
"This is what I should have done years ago," Enrique replied calmly. "The father was arrested for human trafficking with the Superpowers, and Freddie Sabino was permanently destroyed. It was arranged by his daughter. ”
"Radiation's" jaw bites so hard that Ryan wonders if it will shatter. "You made her do it?!"
"I did."
"You're doing this behind my back!" The dust roared and pounced on his brother, and smoke rose from beneath his feet. Although Ryan rested Levia's head on his lap, he glanced in the direction of the Manada brothers to prevent it from degenerating.
Although Enrique is calm on the surface, the roses on his clothes have lost a few petals. "Just like you used to. It's not a pleasant thing to do, you'll agree. ”
"Why?" Alphonse's voice changed from anger to sadness. "Why betray our dreams?"
The Congressional Budget Office replied, "I betrayed our dreams by not exposing the counterfeits." "I let my conscience go down and let things get worse. But in moderation. I want to take a firm stand. ”
"It's not too late," Radiation said, in complete denial. "We left knockoffs in Spain and Sicily. With Tylenol's help, we can reproduce—"
"We don't do anything," Enrique said. "I've ordered these caches to be destroyed, Dr. Stich's vaccine will make the useless ones you hide."
"Carnival?" Radiation" looked up at the half-unconscious Livia in shock. "Impossible...... They will never work with her. ”
"We are working together on this case," Mr. Wywen said, frowning angrily. "Can't you see that this was crazy from the beginning?"
"A better world will not emerge, as long as their kind," Alphonse glared at the wounded Livia, "holding all the power. When someone can summon lightning and others can't, the world becomes unjust! We will only be equal if everyone is the genome!"
"It's a guy who sells fakes, and sells them for 50,000 euros a bottle." Ryan replied coldly, not even glancing at the police. Livia struggled to form a smile on her lips as her boyfriend stroked her cheek.
"That moment will come automatically," Enrique said. "I've looked at the data. Normal and genomic children always have superpowers. In time, everyone will have them. ”
"In time, but Augustus is here now." Alphonse shook his head. "We must fight him with all the weapons at our disposal."
"The end does not justify the means, Al," Enrique replied. "I understand now. The despicable means you use will discredit the good things we are pursuing. I sent you a report on blood instability—"
"We can fix this," Fallout argued. "We've got a team of talents—"
"You can't clone me anymore." Whiwen said in a dangerous tone. "If it were up to me, I would put you in the same cell as your father. Both of you make me sick. ”
"Do you think I like it?" Alphonse replied angrily. "When you were playing the hero in front of the camera, I was fighting in Malta against the army of Augustus. Without these counterfeits, we can't expect to challenge his forces head-on!"
Blackthorn Lee sighed. "Brother, you've sacrificed so much for this project, you won't even think about better options."
"Nope." The radiating skull shimmered bright red. "Get out of the way, brother. If we catch Augustus's daughter, maybe we can save this. ”
"No," Blackthorn replied calmly.
Enrique ...... "The voice of the living meltman turned into a threat." One-step! Side!"
In response, Enrique pointed to his forehead.
"Then kill me." He whispered.
This makes Wyve
Retreated, and the radiation paused. Ryan checked that his gravity gun was still working, and when the sensors in Saturn's armor confirmed that they were correct, he immediately activated the gravity gun.
"Brother, you don't know what you're talking about," Radiation said, surprised by people's reactions. He must have expected his brotherhood to agree with his plan, not to be outright against it.
"I know I'm not going to budge in this matter." Enrique kept pointing his index finger at his forehead, his gaze as firm as steel. "If you want to go on like this, Al, you're going to have to kill me. If you want to have full control over Dy
amis and recreate that damn project, you're going to have to step on my corpse. ”
"You're crazy." Influence said. "For the love of the mother who gave birth to us—"
"No," Enrique replied gently but firmly. Behind him, Wywen looked at him with renewed respect. "Al, when we were children, before the elixir came along...... You tell me that we are going against the world. I'll never forget. Unlike our father, deep down, I know you are well-intentioned. ”
"Then you know that my reasons are justified," Alphonse replied.
"Yes, but not the way. But there is still hope for you. Enrique held out his hand to his brother. I hope that together we will move towards a brighter future, towards a world governed by the rule of law, not by strength or money. Together with our allies and geniuses, we can find a better and healthier way for people to be empowered to protect themselves. We can even pull Augustus off the throne. As long as we put our minds together, we can do anything. ”
A heavy silence ensued, which felt heavier than a mountain. Both brothers faced each other in silence, neither willing to act. Wyve
Nervous, Rya
Be ready to fire at any time.
"Please," Enrique pleaded.
Since there are no facial expressions, Rya
Can't guess what's going on in the radiation head. Most likely, he suddenly realized how much he was going to sacrifice for his dream and whether it was worth it.
Continuing down this path would mean losing his brother, but Alphonse Manada never flinched from the atrocities by seeing his vision come true. As his jaw tightened and loosened, Ryan remembered something very important about his Canadian brother.
"It's all about dreams," Radiation said, his body releasing a cloud of red Flux.
He never knew when to stop.
Ryan tries to freeze time to attack, but someone gets a head start.
A "click" echoes behind Fallout. Before the living melter could look back, a black orb suddenly appeared behind him.
An unseen force pulled the former cyborg towards the device, next to a shard of glass that was very close to him. Wynne had to grab Enrique's shoulder to stop him from joining his brother as the radiating spine hit the black ball.
The black object immediately rushed into the sky at a dizzying speed, taking Alphonse Manada with it. By the time a nuclear catastrophe understands what happened, it will be too late; In the blink of an eye, he disappeared behind the clouds. Ryan looked up at the red flashes and explosions in the sky, each farther than the other.
The Shroud lifts his veil of invisibility, a layer of glass that covers a high-tech rifle. Dy
Amis's gravity gun.
Alphonse Manada, who had financed this weapon to defeat Augustus, was now a victim of it.
"I'm sorry, Enrique," Wyvin said, trying to comfort her manager. "I'm so sorry."
"It's a must," said the officer, sighing sadly, his eyes dragging behind his brother's comet's tail.
"Is A alright?" Sh
oud asked Rya
, glancing at Livia with sincere concern. "I've called Stitch for reinforcements."
"I'm ......," Livia narrowed. I'm fine......"
"You need to rest," Ryan replied. As a genome, her enhanced metabolism avoided her brain damage, but she needed time to recover. His gaze turned to the island of Ischia in the distance.
They had cured one poison of New Rome, but another remained.