Twin flashes of light whisked away both Akash and Vadton.
I settled into my seat and put my empty plate down to the side. The al had been good, but this fight was going to be even better. I was hoping that I'd get to see Akash get genuinely pushed up to his limits.
The only ti I'd ever really seen that before was in his fights with , and then I hadn't really gotten the chance to observe and enjoy his fighting techniques because well I was the one that was fighting him.
Besides, we'd all co a long way since that first conflict back in the battle royale arena. I had no doubt that Akash was going to show us sothing truly special.
This fight was going to be difficult for Akash, and I knew it. Vadton was a terrifying individual. His technique of teleporting to his spear rapidly had proven to be incredibly effective, and the power that he leveraged with every single attack was incredibly brutal. I wasn't sure if even Akash's bulked up battle form would be able to sustain a hit from sothing like that.
"It's the first match of our semi finals, Akash Vs. Vadton!" Ca the ecstatic voice of Squadron Leader Belana from the comms system. "While our first matches were conducted in the standard battle arena, that was just to gather as much information as possible about our fighters. We will now be introducing a new battle arena, specifically attuned to both of these fighters strengths and weaknesses to give both of our Initiates the best chance to win!"
The white box of the battle arena flickered and warped.
Sohow I hadn't realised it at the ti, but just like the training room that Akash, Yr'Arl and I had fought in previously, the battle arena of the tournant was in fact a holo grid. That should have been obvious, yet in the excitent of the tournant, I had sohow missed it.
The flickering and warping got worse and worse, until eventually, with one final flicker everything stabilised. Akash's side of the field was, sowhat obviously, a densely populated forest. It would give him everything he needed to bulk up into his battle form, considering he had been able to use the hologramatic trees in our training fight.
Toward the centre of the battlefield, the trees thinned out to a plain grassy area, neutral ground.
I was surprised, however, by the side of the battlefield that belonged to Vadton.
As the grassy area moved into Vadton's side of the battlefield it broke off in craggy chunks, until there was no ground left at all. The battlefield ended in a cliff, completely open air. But as the battlefield opened up and beca more and more Vadton's territory, floating boulders that would be perfect for Vadton to teleport between with his spear.
It felt a little bit unfair, especially since Akash had never shown any propensity for taking flight.
BB said, defending them.
Then, he was likely to try and defend the Guard. I was sure that sowhere in his subroutines there was probably so code telling him to do exactly that. He was Guard technology after all.
That raised a question, if I were to leave the Guard with the rest of my team, would that an giving my BB up?
BB scoffed,
Too right, they could ask for BB back if they wanted, but there was no way that I was going to give him back without a fight.
"Let the first Semi-Final battle begin in Three Two One!" The voice of Belana cut out of my thoughts.
Instead of launching an imdiate attack, I could tell that Akash was taking things deadly seriously. Trees were disappearing into his body at a record rate, bulking him up into his stronger battle form in re monts.
Across the battlefield, Vadton rely waited, biding his ti.
I narrowed my eyes at the heavily armoured alien as he stood, arms crossed, with his spear jamd into the ground in front of him. That was when I saw it. A subtle flicker connecting his spear to the rest of his body.
Both of them were ramping up their power. Both of them were taking this seriously.
"You seem on edge, Jacob Lyre," Yr'Arl said.
I took the ti to glance at my alien friend. While I was sitting hunched forward, Yr'Arl was the picture of relaxation, still snacking on fish fingers sunk back into his beanbag-like chair.
"I'm not sure how you can be so relaxed when Akash is up against such a dangerous foe," I admitted.
Yr'Arl rolled his eyes at . "Co, Jacob Lyre, trust in your comrade. He will be with you in the battles to co, so you must trust in him."
As Akash bulked up even further, I knew that Yr'Arl was right.
It was all up to him now.
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