Augmented Souls Chapter 8
#8 of Augmented Souls
A lot can happen in under 48 hours. A person's life can go from fine, to absolutely destroyed. A person could meet the love of their life. A person could end another person's life. In Hengsha, all of those things are likely to happen if you're augmented and in the territory of the harvesters. Watch a desperate battle unfold as a lucario fights for his life, and something more.
There was no time to think. Jiao heard him telling her to run, and that is exactly what she did. She ran straight into a small shop as she heard nothing but bullets flying.
The lucario pulled the trigger quickly, each 10mm round striking the hard metal face plate protecting the nidoking's brain. He quickly emptied the magazine as the barrels of the nidoking's gun began spinning up. "Fuck me!" He quickly yelled as he ran towards what looked like some kind of antiques shop. There was a huge glass window showing all the different antiques. He lept towards the window, shattering the glass with his elbow as he heard a shower of bullets zipping by, one grazing his tail. The other arm covered his face as he felt the glass shattering over his body, his skin resisting the small scratches the shards would've left behind. His feet made contact with the wooden floor, and as soon as they did, he looked around. To the left of him, about ten feet away, there were ornaments. In front of him, there was a massive table filled with even more pointless ornaments and trinkets. In a case to the right of him, there was a bunch of expensive looking swords hidden away behind glass. He didn't get time to look around though. Soon, he heard the barrels of that gun spinning up behind him.
"I've got him." The nidoking said, seemingly speaking to no one, but it was clear that he in fact had an infolink. Who he was speaking to was unclear however.
Cheng spun around as a glowing aura sphere formed in his right paw. Using his momentum, he flinged the explosive ball of aura straight at the nidoking's large gun. "Fuck off!" He yelled out as the sphere made contact with the guns many barrels, bending them, causing the bullets to spray wildly, hitting absolutely everything but what they were pointed at. Cheng flinched as he felt pieces of pottery hitting the side of his face. For a moment, he thought it was a bullet striking his head. The gun only fired nine more bullets before the gun totally malfunctioned. It wasn't firing anymore.
"Mother fucker!" The nidoking yelled so loudly as he quickly held his gun above his head, and threw it right at the lucario.
Cheng quickly ducked under the useless broken rifle, only to see a flash of light. The nidoking tensed up slightly, smoke beginning to roll off his body as he looked back to the jolteon that just sent a bolt of electricity through him. The lucario took this chance to grab a large shard of glass. He then jumped right onto his back, yanking the nidoking's head back to plunge the shard right into his unprotected neck. Cheng's shoulder was killing him, hanging onto the nidoking like this, but he pushed past the pain to try and end this quickly. The nidoking tried to shake the lucario off, causing Cheng's legs to swing into some of the broken ornaments. "Piece of fucking shit!" Cheng shouted.
Jiao looked on in shock as the nidoking slammed his back into the glass case protecting the swords nearby. "Cheng! Get off him!" She screamed as she got ready to launch another attack. She couldn't send her attack while Cheng was still on the nidoking, the electricity would flow through his body too.
Cheng let go, but almost as soon as he did, the nidoking spun around to throw a punch at his head. The lucario quickly lept back just in time to see Jiao sending another bolt of electricity right into the nidoking. He watched as blood spurted from his neck, and even more smoke poured off his body. Strange grunting sounds escaped the nidoking before he fell to his hands and knees. "You're going to die." Cheng told the nidoking very bluntly. "I told you, one day someone harder than you is going to fuck you up..."
Jiao looked very confused for a moment. "You know this guy?" She asked him as she watched the nidoking choke on his own blood. She might have felt sorry for him if he didn't try to kill them both.
"I know him, he always said one day, he would be the one chopping me up. Saw him in nearly every shitty bar and club I went to. Here I thought he was just an alcoholic with a big mouth, he must be higher up in the harvester's ranks than I thought. He probably told the harvesters where I lived... I never did keep a low profile." Cheng now knew who to blame for telling the harvesters where he lived. He guessed he should've known the nidoking would tell them where he lived. That didn't matter anymore though, what mattered is that all those augmentations couldn't save the nidoking from a sharp piece of glass severing the artery in his neck. Cheng watched as the nidoking slowly died, face down in a puddle of his own blood. "Let's go, before more harvesters come to check out the noise."
Jiao nodded as she saw Cheng jump out of the ruined antiques shop. Together, they ran down the streets of Hengsha. They weren't far from the docks. If all went well, they would be on that ship and on their way to Shanghai within a few hours.
Author's note: So close to safety, but who knows if they will actually make it there before the harvesters catch up with them. Thank you all for reading! This story is pretty close to being finished now. In fact, the next chapter will be the last! And it will be the longest chapter in this story! I was gonna make this entire thing a one shot, but figured it would end up getting a little too long to be called a one shot. Besides, this way I can dish out pieces of the story before I have even finished it in order to see if people like it, or even read it. XD Big thank you to Zarf and BigBoss once again for editing this! :) Oh, and thank you to you, for reading this far!