Sentinel/Daniel Carter
The information flashed in my mind. And keeping up with the information I continued fighting the Human Defense Corps as they are calling themselves now. Never saying a word to Daud, and trying to keep my mind blank in case he could read my thoughts, not entirely sure If I had to allow him to hear my thoughts or not. We may have all been played. But the organization he built, breaking from mine, provided Lex with everything he needed to go through with this. And besides that, there is still the fact a so far unknown number of Infinite Justice members lay dead at the feet of the organization he built, even if he no longer controls it. Such actions are not so easily forgotten, once you realize you have a common enemy. But, I am also not blind, we do need to work together now, as Luthor is a threat to all of us and the world. But had Daud not come to his senses, realizing he was no longer steering his own ship, he would still be in orbit commanding a war against us. Only realizing his balls were in a vice did he come here and desire to work together. I slammed the heads of two Defense Corps soldiers together. Seeing how chaotic the battle had gotten, the 'normals' turning against metas. Former UC metas fighting alongside Infinite Justice members who just minutes ago they were trying to kill.
The world is upside down.
Luthor. President of the United States of America. Did Daud never have a contingency plan in case Luthor attempted to nationalize the UC? None of this matters now. Daud is right on one count, we were all played. But Luthors plans, at least as they are, could not have happened without Daud's ultra corps. I replayed all the information in my head that Daud showed me. Luthor really was a genius. Ascending to President, giving sanction to UC. Using Daud's weapon against him, while hurting IJ in the media. Knowing Daud's reaction would spark enough anger to plant seeds of war. Allow it to weaken both sides, and then activate his own personnel army and mop up the stragglers.
And then he rules the world.
Finished replaying the information in my head. I was surrounded by one, three, eight, twelve, seventeen...twenty one. Twenty One armed men. They moved in from all directions, quickly tightening the noose around me. And all of them armed with the most advanced human weapons. Two from my left flank fired, predicting the attack, I sidestepped and forced the rifle from one, cracking him across the head with it, sending him out cold. Then pulling a riot grenade from the other one, and kicking him back into four of his comrades. Where the non lethal riot grenade went off. Greatly disorienting the group of five. Where with great speed, fueled by the tiny bit of speed force I subdued them.
Six down.
Another soldier fired a round from behind me, aiming for my head. And with my helmet off, would be a lethal blow. Ducking backwards, the shot missed and I launched myself into a back flip, and landed on his shoulders. Swinging myself down I drug him to the earth with me and placed him in a sleeper hold. Sending him under. Then retaliating against three others who tried to use melee weapons against me. One attacked each side of me, with large bo staffs and another in front with a razor shard sword. Catching the bo staffs, one with each hand. I stopped the two flanking attacks. And leaped up into a drop kick planting my foot into the face of the sword armed adversary, then dragging the other two down to the earth I took a new count.
Ten down.
Seven more charged me, each one an expert in hand to hand fighting. In the epicenter of their attack. I countered flurries of punches and kicks. Deflecting attack and with the boost from Daud wearing out, the soldiers seemed to be taking an upper hand. Put, countering one I shifted him around, and used him as a shield. Where his ally placed a hard kick into him, rather than me. I let him drop down and the caught the foot of the man who delivered the kick, twisting it around, he quickly hit the grass beneath us. Two more attacked me from behind, and flipping over them, I smacked their heads together and then kicked two more at the same time as I fell to the ground again. Leaving only one left. Grasping a pebble, I threw a rock at the rifle of the man as he aimed at me, and hit the gun with such force as to knock it away and then deliver a fierce punch to the head. Dropping him too.
Seventeen Down.
Just four left. But these were keeping distance, and all of them had their weapons trained on me. Locking eyes with them, I waited for an opening. Just before they open fire. I dashed at a fallen weapon and grasped it, switching it to a non lethal mode and fired the non lethal energy blast at the soldiers. Using the last bit of speed force energy to slow time down just a bit, long enough to shoot blasts that would collide mid air with their own blasts. And follow up with blasts that hit each one square in the chest. Knocking them out.
Twenty one down, all alive.
I concluded, pacing over to my helmet in a near leisurely way. As if a battle was not being fought around me, and picking it up, rotated it in my hands. Then, replaced it on my head. My HUD flashed bright red, signalling an incoming threat, and a nav point guiding my eyes to a rapidly approaching and low flying helicopter gunship. Twin cannons blazing as it chewed into our ranks. And coming ever closer to me. Using my own strength, and charging in it's direction, as if I was playing chicken, it's cannons refocused and began to chew the ground ahead of me, rapidly coming closer to me. I at the last second jumped aside, and sprinted up a tree, and then jumping off of it and grabbing hold of the landing rails and spinning myself up and locking my legs around the pilot, pulled him out and dropped him roughly twenty feet to the ground, far enough to break a few bones but not kill. Placing myself into the pilot's seat, the panicked co-pilot leaped from the craft, landing in a rough bush beneath us. Locking the controls of the craft, and pointing it in a empty direction where it would crash. I let myself jump from the chopper and landed behind Daud, and placed myself in a back-to-back position with him.
Fists up to keep up the fight.
Briefly forgetting all of our rivalries and history, I actually began to smirk a little bit.
"Twenty three and thats just since you arrived. Feels just like old times." I informed him of my count so far. As we both continued the fight in our improvised alliance.
