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Chapter 22 - Close Call

They stared in fear as the mysterious woman looks at them all. Her eyes gaze across the room before seeing Crystal. Crystal immediately goes invisible, and chokes the lady out. However, she elbowed Crystal to get her off, and in the process, planted something into her. Crystal felt a small poke, but disregarded it and shot a laser. The lady shot at Ron, but he caught the arrow. The woman calculated this, however, and activated the explosive arrow tip. Ron was blasted towards the wall, and the moment he hit the wall, another arrow pierced his stomach. He kneeled, and he was immediately frozen into a cold statue of himself. Crystal tried to stop her, but she, too, fell to the ground, completely paralyzed, and Kai shot the woman with a plasma ball to knock her down. She calculated a shot in those milliseconds that she had to evade the blast, but she chose to go for it. The blast was shot at with an arrow, and it completely disintegrated the blast and bounced off of Kai. It started to ricochet all over the walls, gaining speed with each bounce before piercing through the armor of Kai with it's momentum. The armor also froze, along with Kai himself. The brothers stay where they are, and Crystal blacks out.

The woman puts them all in her "Infi-Sack," a small sack that can infinitely expand internally and store anything. She puts an obsidian earring on her earlobe. "You've got her?" The boss asks. "I've got her and more." "Superb, Zayla. Return them to me in an hour, and your reward will be legendary." She said "Yes, sir," and takes out the earring from her earlobe. She threw a bunch of rocks in the air, and they floated, creating a walkway mid-air. She started to walk, and she stepped on cosmic energy, which made platforms. She eventually wound up at the boss' dungeon, where she opened the sack, and the three bodies dropped out. The boss raised his eyebrow, and looked at Zayla. "Who are they?" "I found them chatting with Crystal, so I decided to take them with me, as to not cause any trouble." He inspected Ron and Kai, and he noticed Ron's glove. "This is… the Xynolix glove!" Zayla stared at him, in confusion. "This is one of the two most powerful weapons in the universe! It used to belong to our god, before they flew off of his arms during The Divine War's final explosion, leaving the gloves to fall to our planet." Zayla seemed unbothered. "I don't care about the stupid glove. Just give me my reward." The boss huffed, and gave her a small chest. "Thank you, sir" said Zayla, and she opened it. She found 3 million charcs, the currency of this world, as well as a new bundle of arrows that could multiply mid-air. "Well, look at that, boss. You actually gave me something useful this time!" "You know your rewards are always bountiful. My most reliable hitman deserves no less." Ron and Kai began to rumble, and the ice began to crack. In mere seconds, ice shards and chunks flew across the room, and the two heroes were now free. They got up, and looked around for a moment, still waking up. "Who the heck is this guy?" Asked Ron. The boss stood up and pointed his pistol at them. An old pistol, almost like it was an artifact from a previous era. Ron pointed his finger gun at the boss, and he put the gun down, knowing how strong Ron's shot would be. "Let's make a deal, boy. See, I'm just a man who runs a little business, and I'd hate to hurt you. So, if you give me your glove, I'll leave you and your friend alone." The boss hoped that this would work, but obviously not. "First of all, my glove is literally a part of my arm, so I couldn't give it to you if I wanted to. Second of all, no." Said Ron. Kai whispered to Ron, saying "Dodge to your right." Ron complied, and an arrow whizzed past him and struck the boss in the torso. He screamed in agony, and Ron went to help him. "Ron, don't!" The boss went from screams to laughs, as he took out the arrow from his torso and hit a button that quickly ejected a rail gun from the ceiling. A ray of powerful light flashed across the room in an instant, and it almost shot Ron in the head. He evaded the blast with his high reaction speed, and Kai consumed the shot in his suit, which was one of the abilities that Q gave him. Kai converted it into an energy sword, and pointed it at the throat of the boss. Zayla kicked Kai down, disarming him and disintegrating the sword. She put her foot on his head and said "Don't. Move" through her teeth. Ron did a moonwalk and slowed down time. He took the rail gun off of the ceiling, took it far away, aimed it at the boss' heart, and activated it. As it charged up, he punched Zayla and took one of her tranquillizing arrows and stabbed her leg with it. He also blew a raspberry at the boss, and snapped in a snazzy manner, which resumed time. The boss' heart was now a hole in his torso, and Zayla got knocked off of Kai, collapsing.

Ron broke Crystal out of her icy prison via a shockwave, and she asked what happened. They explained it to her, and they walked away on the same rocks that Zayla walked on. They stopped at Crystal's castle, and the brothers said "Welcome to the team!" "Really? What did I do? You guys almost died byck there becaus of me, and you're recruiting me?" "Hey, you never know when you may need an alien to fight by your side!" Kai said in a confident manner. Crystal smiled, and thanked them enthusiastically. They left, and the brothers went back to the Star Shooter and brought Crystal with them to the I.H.G, or the Intergalactic Hero Group. She sat in the back of the ship, and they went to the planet of the I.H.G and dropped her off at H.Q to get her Earth hero license. They then went home and took off their hero suits and put on their casual clothes. "Man, was this a long two days." Said Ron. "I totally agree, we haven't slept in 36 hours. If it weren't for your fighter's spirit, we'd probably be asleep by now." Said Kai. They both fist-bumped, and flopped onto their beds, instantly falling asleep. One of their alarms went off, but they slept through it.

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