Chapter 11
"Do we have a deal, Feral? You have two minutes to give me an answer, then you will have ten to fix your shoulder." I take my gloves and jacket off and grit my teeth against the pain in my shoulder.
"You've got a deal, Voluptuous."
"Give any weapons you have other than the two blades to your group, wrist com as well." I give my blasters to Rocket, my blades to Drax, my staff to Groot, and my wrist com, jacket, and gloves to Mantis.
"This is stupid, kid."
"Most things I do are." Voluptuous slides a box over to me and I stop it with my boot.
"Put your arrow in it, close it, and give it to your group. Now." I do that and set it next to them, turning to look at him, only in a tank top, my leather pants, and boots now.
"Happy?" My shoulder had healed and I like that I healed way faster now. He motions to spin and I do, my arms out slightly. "Only got my knives. But, I'm still gonna kill all of your sorry asses." I walk away from the others a few steps and take my knives out easily, spinning them slightly. He snaps and the first soldier attacks me, having his blade instead of a blaster.
I dodge out of the way and move quickly to stab him in the back of the neck. The next one comes immediately and swings at me, fist colliding with my jaw. I stumble a couple of steps and look at them, tightening my grip on the handles of my blades. "Since when do we do love taps? Weak," I smirk and punch them in the face, making them fall to the floor. "You want them dead too?" They knock me to the floor and I plunge my blade in their throat before they can do anything. "Never mind." I see the next one coming and shove the body off of me, rolling to my feet quickly. "Back to back? Not very fair of you. But, what else would you do?"
"Stop talking and fight." They attack me and I plunge my knife in her chest, twisting it.
"Stop being so predictable with your attacks and you might've lived." I shove her off of my knife and the next person knocks me to the floor, my knives going sliding toward the others on my side.
"You are not allowed to use your blades any longer, Feral. They left your hands and are now useless to you," Voluptuous smirks and I growl as I throw the opponent off of me.
"Fine." I roll to my feet and slip into a partial survival mode, wanting to be aware of what was going on. "Bring it," I snarl and they attack me again. I grab them by their clothes and slam them to the floor, using their momentum to help me with that. I place my boot on their neck and twist my heel, snapping their neck to kill them. I turn to look at the other Kree and growl softly, eyes narrowed.
Another Kree gets shoved toward me and they attack after a moment. I fight them, killing them, and throw their dead body into the crowd of Kree.
The next person gets the drop on me and punches me in the face, knocking me onto the floor with a grunt. He kicks me in my stomach three times before Voluptuous snaps and he walks away. "One loss, Feral. Or you can just yield," He suggests with a smirk and I get onto one knee before I push myself back to my feet.
"Not so fast, dickhead. I ain't stopping until they're all dead or I'm dead. And, sorry to break it you, but I ain't dead yet. So, stop talking and let your cunt buckets fight," I growl as I shift into a comfortable fighting stance easily and he smirks, snapping. The guy charges me and I spin away from the attack, keeping my eyes on him. "Gotta try harder than that, asshole."
"Stop talking," He barks and attacks me again. I smirk and dodge his attack again.
"Missed me," I taunt and he lunges at me. I kick him in the face with a Chuck Norris kick and he falls to the floor before I kill him. "Who's next?" The next person comes forward and it was a big guy. "Now it's getting interesting," I smirk and he punches me hard enough to send me stumbling into the group of Kree behind me, who shove me back toward him promptly. "Now we're talking," I laugh and look him over as he stalks me in a circle, moving to keep him in my sights.
"Not much of a talker, are you?" He charges me and I roll out of the way, just barely avoiding him. "Guess not. You're fast for a big guy, though." He charges me again and I avoid him, bobbing and weaving away from his fists. "Wow, you really wanna hit me, don't you?" He swings at me with his right fist before swinging his left when I dodge his right and lands a solid punch to my skull, sending me to the floor before he pins me down with his foot between my shoulders.
Voluptuous snaps and he takes his foot off of my back, letting me up. I get to my knees and the room starts spinning, making me close my eyes. "Do you yield already?" I can hear the smirk in his voice and take a few quick breaths before pushing myself up to my feet, swaying slightly. I put a hand to my head where he hit me and come back with blood. "He is our strongest soldier. Usually one of his hits to the skull would kill. But, you are not a normal battle slave, are you, Feral?"
"I ain't a battle slave," I growl and wipe the blood away from my eyes, the room still spinning slightly. I shake my head slightly and look at the big guy, blinking a few times as I shift into a fighting stance. "Let's go, asshat." Voluptuous snaps and the big guy attacks me again.
I charge him and grab his head, using our combined momentum to fling my little bodyweight over his body as I also twist his head enough to snap his neck. I land in a crouch as his body falls and roll my head on my shoulder, taking a deep breath through my nose and mouth to ground myself as I stand. I wipe the blood away from my eyes again and could feel the wound healing painfully, gritting my teeth against it. "Would you care for a break?" I narrow my eyes at Voluptuous and he snaps, making the Kree who was coming forward step back again.
"I suggest you take this opportunity to drink water and get your bearings," He says simply and I look at him. "I can not have my prime source of entertainment falling over due to exhaustion, now can I?"
"Knew there was some fucked up reason behind that." Rocket hands me a bottle and I look at him. "Thought you were against this?"
"I am. But, asshole over there has a point. Drink that." I take a drink and it burns on the way down.
"What the Hell was that?"
"Liquor."
"Oh, well in that case," I finish the bottle and he hands me one with water. "I think that big guy fractured my skull with that punch. Damn, hurts like Hell."
"You could always quit."
"No, I can't. It's not that easy. He'll find another way to get what he wants. Which is me either dead or as a battle slave again. And he'll probably kill the kids. I can't watch anyone else die, dude... Not when I can stop it..." He nods and I down the water. "Thanks, Rocket."
"Do me a favor, yeah?" I raise an eyebrow at him and he points at one of the bigger guys. "Kick his ass in particular. Don't ask why just do it." I nod and he takes the empty bottles, going back to the others.
"Take ass and kick names, Rogue," Mantis calls and I smile a bit.
"Oh, Feral," I look at Voluptuous and he smirks. "If you continue to lose with every other person you fight, I will start by killing the people you are with. Starting with the Terran that has yellow hair. And, if you do yield, I will kill everyone that is left for you to care about, starting with the Centaurian."
"Like fucking Hell you will, dickhead," I snarl and look at Pepper, seeing she looked startled before I turn to glare at him. "You ain't killing anybody else in my family. I ain't gonna allow it. Go ahead and fucking snap so I can kick their asses already."
"Very well." He snaps and the guy from earlier charges immediately. I watch him and avoid his grasp at the last second, observing how he moves. They all move similarly. Must be their training. This gives me an advantage. I have different methods because of the different people I trained with and the battle slaves I fought against. Voluptuous either doesn't realize this or he does and is using me to entertain himself because he knows I won't back down. Because my family's lives are on the line. Conniving and manipulative bastard.
The Kree punches me in the side after I dodge him again and I slam my elbow into his back before killing him. My side was screaming now and I look at his fists to see a sort of brass knuckles on them, lips curling into a snarl at seeing that. I use my boot to slide him into the Kree that was charging for me and she trips, landing at my feet. She looks up and I slam my boot into her face, killing her with blunt force trauma.
A ding goes off in my ear from my earpiece that connected to my wrist com and I roll my head on my shoulders to press it against my shoulder.
"Hey, sweet girl. A Kree leader called Voluptuous contacted me. They're looking for the life source I inherited from my Momma. They'll be finding it any day now and he suggested I leave a message for you. I just wanna tell you that I love you and to be careful when looking for the Kree that killed me. He also told me that... That they managed to get a pregnancy to go through for you... And that I have kids... There's a holopad in your Quarters for them to watch if you find them... Give them all my last name, please. And... And add Fletch to yours... Please... I love you, Rogue. I'll see you again in the stars. Just... Don't let it be too soon, OK?"
The video ends while I'm fighting and I clench my jaw, pissed off. I kill the Kree I'm fighting and start to charge for Voluptuous. A huge Kree soldier punches me in the face and sends me flying into my family. Stakar and Charlie catch me and I was seething. "Wha's the matta with ya, Kid?" I ignore Kraglin and charge the huge guy. He swings at me and I duck under his arm, dodging around him toward Voluptuous.
He points the blaster at a kid when I get within tackling distance of him and I freeze, looking at him as anger continues to boil inside of me. "I am going to assume that 33-4-17 took my advice to leave a message for you, yes?" I growl something softly and he raises an eyebrow at me. "What was that, Feral?"
"His name was Jay," I bark and he looks taken aback. "You want to stall being killed by using your soldiers as meat shields? Fine! But, count on this... You will be dead on the floor before I leave this shithole of a planet," I snarl and he watches me, keeping the blaster leveled on the kid.
"That is nice. Now, I suggest that you go back to what you are supposed to be doing before I kill this child." I slam my elbow into the throat of a Kree coming up behind me and turn to kill them, moving away from Voluptuous as I do. "This has become too easy for you and not much fun to watch." He snaps and two Kree soldiers attack me. A growl starts from the back of my throat as I bare my teeth at them, growl growing in volume, and they hesitate long enough for me to get the drop on one of them, knocking her to the floor.
I bury my nails into her throat and rip it out, despite a solid punch to the mouth from her, leaving her to bleed on the floor as I turn toward the other one. He watches me and takes out an electric stick, turning it on. I move off of the body and crouch slightly as I watch him closely. He moves closer and I lunge for him. He dodges out of the way and hits me across the back with the stick. I growl loudly and twist around to grab his arm. He grabs my arm and throws me against a wall, leaving a hole there. I grunt and get up, teeth still bared, before I charge him.
He swings the stick and I slide underneath his arm to behind him, hitting him in the back of what could be like his knees. He falls to his knees and I take the stick the beat him death with it.
Blaster fire goes off and fire explodes in my shoulder, making me drop the stick before I turn to look at Voluptuous. He lowers the blaster and was staring at me calmly. "I recall saying the only weapons you could use were of no use to you." I pant through grit teeth at the pain in my shoulder, the exhaustion starting to set in again, and the anger deep in my soul, which was the only reason I was still fighting. "The offer to yield is still viable, Feral."
I spit blood onto the floor and shift into a comfortable fighting stance, growling at the pain in my shoulder as I raise my fist. "Ain't happening." I bend my four fingers slightly and he snaps before two more Kree soldiers step forward to fight me. My eyes flit between them to watch their movements and one of them lunges for me, landing a hit from their electric stick to my leg as I dodge. I punch them in the face to knock them to the floor and the other one grabs my shoulder, digging their fingers into the blaster wound.
"Does that feel similar to how my sister felt when you ripped her throat out?" He snarls in my ear and I grit my teeth tightly against the pain, swinging my elbow back blindly only to have it caught as he pulls my injured shoulder out of its socket. "We have been watching you fight and have gathered enough data to know how you fight, Slave." The other one gets up and lands a punch to my jaw before Voluptuous snaps.
They both back up while the one holding me throws me to the floor and I catch myself, blood pooling like crazy in my mouth. I push myself to my feet and can't move my right arm, which is the one that I throw a majority of my punches with. "Do you wish to yield?" I shove my shoulder back in its socket and roll it slightly as I turn to look at the two of them.
"Well, Slave?" I spit blood into both of their faces and grin with bloodied teeth.
"Let's fight," I smirk and Voluptuous snaps, leading them both to attack me again. I avoid their attacks and the right one grabs me by the throat. He squeezes and I grab his arm, slamming the heel of my hand into the joint that's kinda his elbow. He drops me and I slam the heel of my hand up into his jaw then into his throat, breaking his breathing part of his throat so that he dies slowly. The other one attacks me and tries to bite my neck, not having any weapons of use.
I grab his head and twist it to snap his neck, letting his body fall to the floor next to the one struggling for breath. I take pity and snap his neck too, looking at the huge guy that Rocket pointed to who was the last person left. "This oughta be good." I wipe a hand across my mouth and look at him. Voluptuous snaps and he attacks, moving quickly. "Well, damn," I scoff and spin out of the way to avoid him.
He grabs my leg and breaks it easily, making me growl loudly through grit teeth. He lets my leg go and watches me as I set it so it can heal. "OK... That's fine," I mutter and shift into a fighting stance while he just watches me like I was an interesting bug that he was trying to understand why it did what it did.
"This is our best Battle Slave turned Soldier. It is such a shame that you never got to fight him in a more... Professional setting. Fight." The guy charges me and I decide to slide between his legs to give myself more time to think of a way to defeat him.
"Bigger they are, harder they fall," I smirk slightly and whistle sharply. He turns to me and I smirk more. "Come at me, you giant oaf!" He charges and I move to behind a small pile of bodies. "Yeah! Come get me, you dumb cunt!" He growls and charges me faster.
He doesn't see the pile and trips, landing on his face. It's to survive... It's to survive... You have to kill him to survive and save your family... It's for the greater good... I slam the heel of my boot into his head and he grabs my ankle, throwing me into a wall. I grunt and clamber to my feet as he charges me again. I roll out of the way quickly and he turns to watch me while I look at him closely. He looks so damned familiar...
I hold my hands up slightly at him and he narrows his eyes at me while I start making gestures with my hands, my back to Voluptuous so that he can't see them. "What the Hell is she doing?" Charlie scoffs and I ignore him, looking at the big guy.
"She is using sign language," Krugarr explains and I do the gestures again.
'Aren't you tired of fighting?' He nods and I nod a bit back. 'If you come with me, you'll be free of him. No more fighting for your life. No more being reminded of being a slave. If you want to come with me, the next attack, punch me in the face. If not, punch me in the stomach. If you punch me in the face, you'll have to go down when I attack you next. If you punch me in the stomach, I have to keep my family safe. Do you understand?" He nods again and I barely nod back, shifting into a fighting stance.
He attacks and punches me in the face, knocking me to the floor before he barely backs up. I roll to my feet quickly and attack him, knocking him to the floor before acting as if I killed him. "Stay down and act dead," I whisper and he doesn't move, breathing carefully so his chest doesn't rise or fall much.
I stand and he stays down.