Chapter 94: Sky Fight (2/2)

Aldrich shi+fted near to Crow's head and thrust out his ar strike crashed against it with a thunderous roar The lightning fizzled out as it hit the energy resistant barrier, dealing e

"Brace for irip and hunkered down Crow s apart several jellyfish The air turned immediately heavy, dark, and full of static as Cro past the storht up

A few arcs of electricity shot out at Aldrich, but again, he absorbed them with his barrier

Within a few seconds, Crow had pushed through to the other side of the clouds Here, above the clouds, Aldrich could now clearly see the vast amount of jellyfish needed to make this storm

There must have been over a thousand of theh each other in a coanic network of circuits

The jellyfish glowed blue in color, but once Aldrich flew above thery alert red That hen they began to fire lightning bolts en masse at Aldrich

Up here, all alone, Aldrich had becoainst which they could all focus their firepower against

"Higher!" said Aldrich Even if his barrier was energy resistant, he could not just stand there and tank the full force of a bioelectric stor and ducking to dodge countless streaks of lightning A few did hit Crow, but he was durable enough that they did not deal significant da factor of his own

Eventually, Aldrich was high up enough that the jellyfish stopped targeting Aldrich This was high enough in the atmosphere where even the cloud cover below looked tiny There was no rain here, nor were there strong winds

It was strangely cal in the artificial storm below

"Can you breathe?" said Aldrich to Spybird

"Have augood," said Spybird He i it up to the sleek rectangular signal generator A blinking red light at the end of the generator turned blue "Connection established Alove off his left hand, and his stubby fingers snapped back at their knuckles, revealing wires laden inside his digits They snaked out like they had ed his consciousness with the tech

The cylindrical goggles on Spybird's eyes clicked and clacked and glowed blue

"Connected?" said Aldrich

"Da But…," Spybird's face set like stone "You will not like news"

"Just tell ? Or will I be dealing with this disaster myself?"

"Neo-York, Neo-San Francisco, Neo-Miaer attack All S class and A class heroes routed to them Panopticon drones also busy with them Haven, well, is not even on news Too little a city for news to care about All there is on net is disaster about bigger cities

Official AA and Panopticon stance is that Haven and many other tier 3 cities are lost All valuable citizens have been evacuated, but many still left behind Some smaller news corps covered Haven until storm cut theo All the corporate suits in Haven Center long gone in their jets, but everyone else from other, poorer districts have er, there are sentry guns, and strong forcefield

They man those defenses now, but they are holed up Soon, will die"

Spybird shook his head "Poor bastards All their lives, they probably fantasize about living in City Center with all the big buildings and rich corporate Suits But now, city center will be their coffin Ironic, no?"

"And the two A rank heroes stationed here?" said Aldrich He understood now that establishi+ng a Net connection to see as co to help, to see what data the Panopticon and AA had about the attack, to see how ain information - all of that was ihly abandoned There was no news or information about it It was doomed

"Hat Trick and Seismic Hat Trick has fled," said Spybird "Seiso, but since then, nobody knows"

"I see," said Aldrich… "Then looks like this city truly is our responsibility and ours only"