NOVEL NEXT Chapter 48: The Exit
The Man:
Raven's demonic minions firing their dark spells, I push everyone behind me and spread out my arms. Acting as a shield, I protect all the people and even Kara from the minions' dark spells. Despite screaming as the dark spells burn me, I still stand my ground. I refuse to fall over and let any of these people get hit.
"Hold on," Kara yells, jumping into the air. Flying and then hovering, Kara uses her laser visions and knocks them back. The minions see Kara and change target. They're now shooting at Kara. However, the second they forget about me, I turn around and throw kunai at all of them.
Hitting them directly in the head and chest, my kunai then explodes, knocking the rest of them back.
The children scream as the minions fall back. Kara lands in front of me and hits me in the arm.
"Relax," I yell, "They're not humans! They're demonic minions. Summoned by Raven."
"Raven's minions," Kara repeats before pulling back her head. "Wait, Barry mentioned something about these. Those are the demonic minions!"
"Yeah," I say, turning my head when I hear the sound of bones cracking. Turning around, we all watch as the demonic minions quickly push themselves up. Their arms and backs are bent in impossible ways and their heads are twisted beyond just a head snap but despite all of this, they can still fight. All they need is a few minutes to realign everything.
"Go," I shout, pulling out my twin swords. "They want me, they'll get me. Kara. Go with Lady Shiva and the people. Get them to that tunnel and out of here!"
"I'm not going to leave--", Kara says but I cut her off.
"Kara, these people need protection. They need you! I can handle myself just fine. Just go now!"
I see Kara opening her mouth, about to say something but I run off. As expected, the demonic minions ignore Kara and the people completely. They chase after me and leave the people alone.
Running down the street, away from the tunnel Lady Shiva mentioned, I turn back to see some of the minions stop and disappear into the ground. They turn into red shadows that move across the street. The shadows moving faster than me, the minions begin to reappear. However, before their bodies can fully materialize, I jump and stab the red shadows. The demons scream as they shiver and shrink away.
"Back down you go," I say, pulling out my swords. As I pull out my swords, I hear footsteps quickly approaching and turn around. The first of many, this minion throws his fist forward, his sharp black claws more than ready to cut me.
Blocking his claw, I swing my sword, slicing the minion's throat. Chocking and gasping, this minion steps back while holding his throat. Stepping back and trying to recover from a slit throat, two more minions take his place.
They throw and swing their claws, coming at me from every direction but I manage to block all their attacks. Ducking underneath a swing, I spin around and slice the minions' knees. Screaming as the minions drop onto their knees, I quickly stand back up and stab both in the heads.
Pulling out my swords, I think back to what I remember about these minions.
"They're like batteries. They can recover from any wounds as long as they have enough power! However, if I can damage them enough, they'll run out of power and be forced back down!"
I tell myself this as the two minions I stabbed fall back. Their faces are healing but as they heal, they shake and turn into blurs. Judging from how blurry they are, it means my attacks are causing a lot of damage.
"These two can't have much power left," I say. Sensing incoming dangers, I look up and see the rest of the minions charging. Altogether, they shoot out their hands and fire bolts of dark magic at me. About to bring up my swords and block them, I sense more dangers, this time coming from behind. I turn around only to have minions jump out from the shadow and lunge at me. They lunge at me and wrap their arms around me, forcing my arms down.
I can't do anything as the bolts of dark magic hit me.
Supergirl:
Everyone screams when they hear a massive explosion. Turning my head, I see a burst of black smoke shooting into the air.
"That's where The Man was running," I think. I want to fly over to him. I want to make sure he's okay. Despite everything he said and did, I still don't want to lose him. "The Insurgency needs him."
As much as I want to leave, I know I can't. I turn around and see all the people. The explosion scared them. They drop to their knees and group together. About to say something, I hear cracking and look up. Another part of the ceiling is breaking off and falling toward us, the biggest piece yet.
"Nooo," I yell, shooting up into the air. Catching the part of the ceiling, it takes almost everything I have to keep it from crushing the people. Screaming as I keep it up, I look at the people below.
"Go! Run! Get away!"
The people waste no time and start running. The parents pick up their kids and run as fast as they can. As soon as they're all gone, I drop down and the giant piece of ceiling crushes me.
"Ahh," I moan. Pushing my way through all the broken pieces, I punch through the last layer before erupting from the pile. Crawling out, I try to stand up but somehow, my legs feel weak and I fall over. However, before I can hit the broken pieces, someone catches me.
"Are you okay," someone asks. Rubbing the dust from my eyes, I see the same father from before; the one with the daughter, the one that yelled at me and The Man.
"I'm fine," I say, pushing myself up. "Are you okay? And everyone else?"
"Yeah," the father answers. "We're all okay. Come on! The exit tunnel is this way."
Running down the rock pile, the father picks up his daughter and altogether, the three of us head for the tunnel. More and more pieces falling off, I use my laser vision to destroy all of them.
It takes much more time than I like but finally, we all reach what looks like a large metal gate. The gate is circular and rusted. It looks built into the wall.
Pushing his way to the front, the father gently places his daughter down and starts tapping on a keypad.
"Come on, come on," he says before slamming his hand down. "Dammit! I don't know the passcode!"
"There's a passcode?"
"Yes. Black Mask and his team installed a passcode here. I guess he wanted to make sure no one would ever go outside without his permission, or something like that!"
The father turns around and yells at the crowd.
"Hey! Hey! Does anyone know the passcode! Anyone?"
"What about Lady Shiva," someone in the crowd answers.
"Yeah," someone else goes on. "Lady Shiva should know the code!"
"Wake up," someone screams. "Come on! Wake up!"
I follow the screaming and see a man shaking Lady Shiva.
"Wake up," a man yells. "Come on! Come on! The code! What's the code!"
"She's out cold," one of the women holding her shouts. "She can't answer you!"
Still shaking Lady Shiva, we all stop when we hear a familiar roaring.
"Oh no," I say, jumping and flying into the air. Once in the air, I see a bunch of demonic minions with glowing hands approaching the people. They have us trapped.
"Where is the man with the sunglasses," one of the minions says as he steps toward the crying people. With his hands already risen, the minion fires off a beam.
Without even thinking about it, I fly down and get in between the minions and the people. Screaming as the magic hits me, burning me, I drop to my knees. Holding my burning chest, I look up at the minion as he approaches me. Grabbing me by the throat and lifting me up, the minion places his glowing hand near me.
"Where is the man in the sunglasses," the minion asks again.
I keep my mouth shut. I refuse to tell this monster anything.
The minion throws his hand forward, but before he can punch me, someone runs into us and knocks us over.
"Ahh," I cry, rubbing my head while pushing myself up. "Who was that? What the--"
I rub my eyes to make sure I'm not seeing things. Unfortunately, I'm not. It wasn't a person who saved me. It was a black skeleton.
A bunch of black skeletons are attacking the minions. The minions are shooting the skeletons with their magical beams but the skeletons are quickly putting themselves back together. Once they're back together, the skeletons go back to punch and throwing the minions.
"It's Black Mask," one of the fathers shouts. "He saw us in trouble and he's saving us! He's saving u--Ahhh!"
Before he can finish, one of the black skeletons grabs the father by the back. He raises him into the air before throwing him down and stepping on him.
The people all scream and run away. Seeing this, both the minions and skeletons start chasing after them. I try to help everyone but skeletons stomp on me.