Lucky Strike (Super Harem #1) - Catherine Banks Page 0,16

Woman and I looked at each other for a second before running out after him.

As soon as we left the safety of the building and stepped out into the open, a blast of wind knocked us back.

Crystal Woman and I dug our heels in, and I grasped one of her hands to keep us from getting separated.

Hurricane and the creature battled hand to hand with spurts of wind tossed at each other.

Just to the left of the creature were three humans tied up and cowering on the ground.

“Help Hurricane, and I’ll get the civilians to safety,” she barked.

Without hesitation, I ran to the right and started hitting the creature with my lightning while she ran left.

The creature turned to face me, its eyes narrowed, and before I could suck in a breath, it pounced on me.

Opening its mouth, the creature revealed dozens of serrated teeth, resembling shark teeth.

I expected it to roar or bite me, but not what happened next.

“You will leave the Hero Association or I will destroy town,” a human male voice said out of the creature’s mouth.

Before I could process what had happened, Hurricane hit the creature with a bolt of lightning.

The creature screamed, rolled off of me, and turned towards Hurricane.

This creature had spoken, but the voice was not its own. Someone was controlling it.

I stood and used my powers on the creature again, hitting it in the same smoking and burnt spot Hurricane had.

The flesh peeled back to reveal metal ribs.

“It’s part robot!” I yelled.

Hurricane smiled, raised his hand over his head, and a huge ice storm formed above him.

The creature turned to me. “You will leave.”

“I don’t do booty calls,” I said with a smirk.

Hurricane gripped the ice spear, jumped, and stabbed the creature through the top of its skull.

The body fell and did not move again.

How was a partial robotic creature able to use elemental powers?

Hurricane jerked his spear out and tossed it aside.

Before he could do anything else, I rushed forward to look inside the skull.

A gooey brain with tiny metal wiring crisscrossing it was inside a bone skull.

“Can I borrow your phone?” I asked Hurricane.

He handed it to me.

I quickly took pictures of the brain and then some of the exposed metal ribs. When we got back, I would send them to Transistor. Something strange was going on and I didn’t like it. Not one bit.

“It spoke to you,” Hurricane whispered. “What did it say?”

“I got the civilians to safety.” Crystal Woman said as she ran up.

I stood and smiled at her. “Great. We killed the creature. So, now what?”

Hurricane’s brows furrowed as he stood. Would he press me to answer him? I didn’t want to. For some reason, I felt like I needed to keep what the creature said secret. At least from the Hero Association and anyone I wasn’t sure of their loyalties.

Crystal Woman used her phone to call into the HA and relayed our status.

The dispatcher became frantic, I could hear it even over eight feet away from her.

Crystal Woman’s eyes widened, her head whipped to the left, and she yelled, “Incoming!”

I expected to find another creature or two.

My expectations were exceeded.

Four more creatures charged us.

Cobalt ran from behind us, coming to Crystal Woman’s side just as the first creature reached us. “What’s going on?” he asked while fighting one of them.

Hurricane and I teamed up, going two on one against the next creature, but quickly had to separate when the others reached us.

“The creatures all left the other areas and ran here,” Crystal Woman yelled. “Backup is on the way.”

Backup was on the way, but we’d had our hands full with one.

Four creatures was too many.

I aimed my lightning for their heads, hoping to fry the electrodes on their brains.

The creatures darted erratically between us, and before any of us realized what was happening, I’d been singled out and surrounded.

They turned to face me, mouths open and then leapt as one, jaws snapping, teeth tearing into my skin.

I cried out in pain, zapping them as fast and as hard as I could.

My team members yelled my name, and the creatures’ bodies jerked as they were attacked, but they didn’t divert their attention from me.

To my right was a power box—I didn’t know if it would work, but I stretched out my hand and tried to draw the power to me. If I could power up just a bit, I could possibly break free.

Darkness began clouding my vision on the sides while sparks of white danced across it.

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