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Chapter 54 - Red HART, red deeds

Everyone was nervous about what would happen next. G-one gets up and begins to walk towards the door. Piyush grabs his arm and pulls him back.

Piyush: Hold it! Where do you think you are going?

G-one: To get my brother back.

Piyush: Alone, definitely not.

Lavangi: I want Akash and Moon back here, ASAP, do you two understand?

Piyush: You hear that!!

Nikita: I will accompany you too.

G-one: Don't. Only me and Piyush will be going. You stay here.

Nikita: Oh! Will me coming bother you both?

Piyush: Let's not do this right now. Just listen to G-one. We need someone capable to stay back, so, you and Ana look after the others while we are gone. Who knows if Ra-one stood someone else waiting to strike as we left.

Ana: What do you expect us to do against an abomination like that?

Piyush: The same thing you expect us to do.

They both begin dashing towards the door but are interrupted by Mia.

Mia: (holding Lily in her arms) Listen you two!

Both of them stop and look back at her.

Mia: (tearful) Bring both of them back.

G-one and Piyush hear that and start heading outside.

They stand on the street in front of the room.

Piyush: Well, how are we gonna find them? Should we go back to the college and look for clues there?

G-one: No, I have a better idea.

Piyush: You do? What is it?

G-one: Moon has my phone with her. I am synched with it. I am able to track the location of the devices I am synched with.

Piyush: Crazy sweet! Pinpoint their location then, hurry.

G-one: I will have to get to a higher location.

Piyush: Oh shit! Gotta look for a vantage point. Hold on (looks towards the sky).

The lights around them start to flicker. The light inside the room began to shiver as well. Everyone looks towards the flickering light.

Simar: What's happening to the light?

Lavangi: A voltage issue!!

Ana: Seems so.

Black out…

The girls panic… Soon the light returns.

Lavangi: Gave me a heart attack right there.

G-one standing outside noticed the black out and was looking towards the room. Piyush was looking towards the sky searching for a high point. Suddenly a wave of red light rippled through the sky followed by few more.

Piyush: Huh! What's that?

G-one: (quickly turns to look at them and sees a helicopter pass by over his head, followed by the light)

People in the city saw them too. The ripples of bright red circles waved through the dark sky and looked like fireworks.

A random kid looking out the window: (Pointing towards the sky) Ma, ma, look, look, the sky is all pretty.

His mother: (Comes to the window and looks towards the sky) What is it dear?

Their eyes gleamed red as the waves travelled through the sky. People who were looking at the ripples froze in their places.

G-one mesmerized by the light too, stared at the ripples for a brief moment when suddenly a skull popped up before his eyes, he crouched holding his head as he groaned in pain. Ra-one's deeds began to roll down before his eyes as he sat there grinding his teeth in pain.

Heavy duty electrical wires plugged into his neck, Ra-one lowers his arm holding his HART up in the air and puts it back to its original location.

Ra-one: (Rips the wires of his neck) This should prevent any interference to my work here.

As soon as G-one settled down, he felt a presence behind him. He quickly looks back and sees Piyush, frozen in his place, still looking towards the sky.

G-one: Piyush! Hey!

Piyush: (transforms into Ra-one)

G-one: (Surprised) What!? Ridiculous!!

Ra-one's voice echoes: Terminate any virus.

Piyush who has now transformed into Ra-one, looks down to his hands as red sparks surround them.

Piyush: (Turns his faceless head towards G-one instantly) Virus recognised!!

G-one stood there looking at him when suddenly Piyush vanished. G-one's eyes grew looking for him when a clothesline to his neck slammed him into the ground and sent him bouncing back to a distance. A grin appears on Piyush's disfigured face as G-one looks at him lying down. As Piyush takes a step forward, this time G-one vanishes.

HART: (announces) Acceleration!!

G-one appears on Piyush's face and stops his punch that was about to drive into Piyush's guts pushing the air around.

Lavangi: (Steps out) Something is going on outside. Did G-one and Piyush not leave yet? (Finds G-one and Ra-one standing face to face) Holy shit, another one.

Piyush stretches his both arms to G-one's face and starts building up an orb shot.

G-one: (Surprised)

He bends his neck backwards and dodges the shots. He flings his skull forward and smashes into Piyush's face and sends him stumbling back. He reaches for Piyush's head with his left hand but Piyush flicks it away using his right hand.

Piyush: Not so easy…..

G-one: Leave my brother right now.

A barrage of shock wave inducing exchanges began between them as Piyush threw punches and kicks to hit G-one while G-one kept dodging and deflecting the attacks and stopping his attacks right before making contact with Piyush. The air waves spread out of the exchanges enveloping the two in a blur transparent veil. Piyush deflected the hands of G-one reaching for his head as G-one deflected his attacks. Lavangi was watching from a distance and was scared by the scene before her. Not able to see G-one and Piyush now turned Ra-one, which she obviously didn't know, assuming Piyush went somewhere, she yelled for him.

Lavangi: (Yells) Piyush!!!!

Piyush stops and turns towards the sound even under the influence of the corruption. G-one takes the opportunity and hits his right knee, as Piyush crouches he does his magic on his head by putting his hand on Piyush's head. The blue sparks generate under his palm on contact with Piyush's head. Ra-one screams out and evaporates out of Piyush's body leaving an unconscious Piyush behind. G-one grabs Piyush before he could hit the ground. The helicopter returns and passes over his head. G-one's eyes follow the helicopter.

G-one: (Calls) Lavangi, help me out.

Lavangi: (comes running) No way, it was Piyush. Oh my god (grabs Piyush).

G-one: Take him back inside, quickly.

Lavangi: (Lifts Piyush up) Ok!

G-one: (Crouches and builds up spark around his shin)

Lavangi: And where are… you…

Before she could finish, G-one leaps up into the air, leaving Lavangi with a shock wave.

Lavangi: (Withstands the shock wave) Fine, do your thing, hehe. I will carry him inside (begins walking back towards the room). Oh my, I have Piyush so close to me. What should I do? What the hell is wrong with me?

G-one floating in the air looks around and sees thousands of Ra-one on the ground and some on the roof of a few buildings frozen and looking up towards the sky.

G-one: (Thinks) The light did it. It turned all of them into Ra-one. If they notice me they will attack me just like Piyush. I will have to find an alternative route towards my destination. (Sees the helicopter) That helicopter, maybe I can hitch a ride and scan for Moon's location. Should be high enough.

G-one hero drops on a roof and accelerates leaving a trail of sparks behind, jumps up and lands on another roof. He repeats the same, until he catches up to the helicopter. He jumps and grabs onto the frame below the helicopter. The helicopter shakes by the sudden weight addition.

Passenger: (tries to maintain balance) Wha.. What the hell was that?

G-one's eyes glow and he sees intense sparks gathering in the lower floors of a high rise building straight ahead.

G-one: Good, looks like the copter is headed that way.

G-one swings on the frame and propels himself inside the copter. The passenger inside panics and sticks on the surface behind.

Passenger: Good God!! Who are you?

G-one: (Sees the video camera beside him) A journalist?

Passenger: (Stutters) Ye…ye…yes.

G-one: Don't worry. I am not here to hijack you. Just drop me on the roof of the building ahead.

Passenger: How did you get here?

G-one: Forget that, since when journalists began to get helicopter rides in India?

Passenger: I…

An elbow comes at G-one's face from behind. G-one shields his face with his left arm but gets thrown towards the journalist. The journalist moved aside in panic.

G-one: Bitch!

Passenger: Mr Pilot, what's wrong?

The pilot transforms into Ra-one.

Passenger: Ahhh! What's happening to him?

G-one: Did you see a red light in the sky while coming this way?

Passenger: What red light?

G-one: Looks like you did not see it. But the pilot did.

The pilot, now turned Ra-one, gets up and leaves the copter controls and slips back to the passenger seat.

Passenger: Hold on, who is flying the copter?

G-one: Grab on to something, tight.

Ra-one throws a punch, G-one pushes the journalist away and punch connects with the surface behind. G-one grabs his arm, elbows on the joint and kicks him away. The copter began to sway. G-one reaches for the controls.

G-one: HART, do something.

HART: Searching for the piloting skill.

G-one reaches for the cyclic but gets a kick to his chin and rolls back.

Passenger: Oh god! You all right?

G-one: Stay back.

G-one puts his left hand on Ra-one's head and smashes it down as Ra-one tries to crawl up to G-one. G-one rolls over his back and grabs the parachute bag he saw earlier and throws it to the passenger.

Passenger: (Catches the bag).

G-one: Equip it, quick.

The passenger begins to wear the bag. Ra-one raises himself up, being in the top G-one gets thrown forward and breaks out the windshield. He locks on to Ra-one's using his legs and pulls himself back inside. He clings to his back and wraps his arm around his neck. Ra-one crashes into the left pilot door in order to get rid of G-one from his back. But G-one refuses to release him. Due to the crash, the copter shakes uncontrollably and the passenger stumbles out of it. G-one leaves Ra-one and lunges for the passenger. He lies flat on the copter floor and grabs the passenger's left hand as he hangs down the shaking plane.

Passenger: (hanging, terrified) Ahhh!

G-one: (Lying on the floor and holding the passenger) Don't worry, I got you.

Passenger: Help me, I don't wanna die.

G-one: I am going to pull you up.

As G-one tried to pull him up, Ra-one choked his neck from behind and began tightening his grip.

Passenger: (Looks at G-one) Oh no!

G-one: (Tries to speak) You know…how.. to use the parachute…right?

Passenger: Why are you asking me that?

G-one: Pull… the handle… on your left… side.. I am… gonna… drop… you now… I am…sorry (releases the passenger).

Passenger: (falls down yelling) Nooooo! (Opens the parachute and glides away).

G-one begins to have trouble maintaining consciousness.

Ra-one: Looks like turning human has made you weak, G-one. No more oxygen for you.

G-one raises his left hand and puts it on Ra-one's head in order to free the manipulation.

Ra-one: (Laughs) That's not gonna work. I am not a human.

G-one: (Endanger reaction) I see. Then no holding back.

G-one's consciousness returns along with sparks around his body and out of his eyes.

HART: Pilot skill downloaded. Establishing control.

The HART takes over the copter and flips it, throwing G-one and Ra-one to the flipped roof. Ra-one loses his grip. G-one grabs the seat when the copter flips back to the usual. Ra-one crashes down on the floor. The copter flies steadily. Ra-one begins to stand but his head is stomped down by G-one and then kicked away to the rear seats. Ra-one slowly gets back up, G-one punches his face, then smashes another punch into his guts. Ra-one retaliates with a right punch but G-one deflects it downward and continues with his punching series. Ra-one brings his palms closer and cooks an orb G-one notices and jumps back, Ra-one shoots the orb and G-one dodges it, the orb hits the controls behind, destroying it. The copter loses balance again and begins to sway.

HART: Control lost!

G-one: (looks back) Bitch!

Ra-one spear into G-one, G-one stumbles back and collides with the pilot seat behind. G-one pushes Ra-one back and then pulls Ra-one forward again and crashes his head into the pilot seat and then knees him in the head. Ra-one flips up and G-one Kicks him back into the back seat.

Ra-one: (Sitting on the backseat)

G-one: (Cooks up an orb that keeps getting bigger) Thankyou for the ride.

An explosion occurs inside the copter and it goes and crashes into one of the floors of the building where G-one saw the intense sparks. Ra-one, doing something downstairs with huge electric cables, notices the crash and goes up to check it out. He finds a destroyed helicopter burning.

Ra-one: The guest I was waiting for wasn't supposed to arrive like this. Who can this unfortunate being be?

G-one rises from the fire, clothes burning exposing his dark blue metal suit inside surrounded by sparks.

G-one: (Walks forward, removes the burning clothes off of him) Allow me to introduce myself.

Ra-one: G-one…

G-one: Where is my brother?

Ra-one: Oh! And I thought you were here to see me, G-one. We have a history after all.

G-one: I will make you history, today.

Ra-one: Why? Is it because I killed so many humans? Or that I took that friend of yours?

G-one: (stands in front of him) For both reasons. Now give me back my brother.

Ra-one: Defeat me and then I….

Before Ra-one could finish G-one kicks him, shooting him into the wall behind. Ra-one stuck into the wall, tries to step forward when G-one appears, grabs his face and smashes it back into the wall behind. He then punches in his stomach and then a side jab to his right cheek, throwing Ra-one away.

Ra-one: (Gets up after rolling to some distance, damages regenerate) Very hostile. Did you forget? I am supposed to be the villain here.

Ra-one vanishes and smashes a punch into G-one, he blocks it with both his hands but still gets blown away breaking through a wall into another room. He gets up when he is again welcomed by a kick from Ra-one which he deflects downward and goes for a punch to his face but Ra-one blocks the punch and smashes his face into G-one's. G-one stumbles back, Ra-one grabs G-one's one arm and swings him around, throwing him into another wall breaking through it again.

G-one: (getting up)

Ra-one: (slowly walking in) G-one, don't be like that. Here I powered up just to face you. Don't tell me that's all. Here I thought becoming human made you strong.

G-one begins throwing orbs in quick succession. Ra-one swiftly dodges all of them. Ra-one cooks up his red orb too and is ready to launch when G-one disappears from his vision. He was wondering where G-one went, when G-one appears to his left and blows Ra-one away with an orb. Ra-one flies away breaking through multiple walls. He gets up and sees an orb coming at his face.

Ra-one: (Smiles devilishly) This is what I was talking about.

He dodges the orb but G-one appears after that and punches him down followed by a kick to his chest throwing him away again through another wall. G-one shoots two Orbs towards him and dashes towards Ra-one. Ra-one counters the orbs by throwing his own, creating shock waves. G-one comes flying, cooking an orb from above and slams him into the floor cracking it and then proceeds to stomp on Ra-one's head.

G-one: Where is my brother?

Ra-one: (stomped upon) I have someone else too, don't you care about her.

G-one: Don't you tell me who to care about, piece of digital garbage.

Ra-one: (stands up throwing off G-one, his flat face regenerates back, laughs) Piece of digital garbage!? Calling me that like you are not one.

G-one: (flips back, crouched, then stands up) Cause I am not. You are. You are not supposed to exist.

Ra-one: Neither of us is.

G-one:(Slowly steps forward) I am a human. I am to live.

Ra-one: Good for you lucky boy. What do you think I was trying to do all this time? So many failed experiments. So much time wasted.

G-one: (Angry, eyes sharped) Time? And life? That doesn't count?

Ra-one: Why would a soulless entity like me be worried about life? Are you an idiot?

Suddenly G-one's blue aura shoots upward into the ceiling shining blindly.

HART: Level 2 adrenaline, charged.

G-one: (Speaking through the aura, dark figure only white eyes visible) I see. Soulless, that's what you are. But I see you are missing your HART. How will I kill you now?

Ra-one: My HART is currently busy. I don't need my HART to kill you.

G-one: (Aura subsides, steps forward into the vision) Easy to say when you are literally invincible.

Ra-one: (Red aura shoots up into the ceiling) My level 2 should prove it true then.

Both lunge at each other. Each hits the other's face with a punch and gets thrown away in the opposite directions breaking through walls.

Ra-one: (Gets up) This building has too many walls.

G-one pops out breaking through a wall and punches him away from the side.

Ra-one: (Rolls and stands) Clever.

G-one jumps in with a punch to his face, he blocks with his left hand and goes to punch with his right to G-one's guts, G-one raises his knee and blocks it, and then shoots the same leg into the knee of Ra-one and breaks it clean lowering Ra-one and then sends him breaking through the ceiling with an uppercut by his left hand. Ra-one goes through one and then smashes into another ceiling and bounces off it to the side. He then waits for G-one to follow through the ceiling hole, but G-one surprises him with a kick on his back, launching him for a rolling spree.

Ra-one: (stops rolling, gets up) You took the stairs. Does the human brain come with that calculative ability? Oh, now I want to be a human more.

G-one: (Appears at Ra-one's face with a punch) You wish.

Ra-one dodges the punch and gives a left hook at G-one's right abdomen. G-one steps back and retaliates with a left high kick, Ra-one bent backward dodging it, and dodging another kick from G-one simultaneously. G-one bends lower and swings in a hook towards Ra-one's guts, Ra-one dodges and responds with high-low punch, G-one lands on his hands and kicks on Ra-one's left leg breaking his balance and increasing the connection time between his punch, he falls on his butt and grabs the punch and flings Ra-one over himself. Ra-one rolls back up. G-one spins up, and goes for a left jab, Ra-one grabs G-one's punch again with his left hand, G-one starts cooking an orb in his right hand.

Ra-one: (Holding G-one's punch) Oh, just with one hand now, I see, perks of level 2. But (cooking an orb in his right palm too), did you forget I am at level 2 as well.

Both throw their orbs at each other's face and both dodge it by tilting their head to the side. Both jump backwards as their missed orb shots pierce through multiple walls leaving giant holes with melting edges. Both stand at their places, cooking orbs in their two hands, ready to throw at each other. The dodge ball of orbs begins as both of them throw orbs at each other and dodge them at the same time. The missing orbs, instead, destroyed the structure it collided with. Realising the attack to be futile, G-one rushes through the onslaught dodging the orbs in an attempt to close the distance. Ra-one keeps launching his orbs towards G-one, G-one drops down at the last moment as Ra-one watched him, he cooks up an orb with both hands and quickly launches it straight up towards Ra-one's chin, Ra-one bends backwards a little and dodges the orb, G-one takes the opportunity and kicks in his guts, then grabs his head and drives his knee into Ra-one's face. Ra-one stumbles back, G-one builds up sparks around his right forearm as he pulls it back and then shoots it into Ra-one's chest blowing him away.

Ra-one: (slams his left fist in the ground in anger) Damn it, how is he still overpowering me? I am… I am…

G-one shoots in through the broken wall, Ra-one quickly dodges him and G-one crashes into the wall behind cracking it. 

G-one: (Pulls his fist out of the crack and turns towards Ra-one) Better get your HART in the game, or you are gonna get pulverised. 

Ra-one: (Starts walking towards the right) Tell me, G-one. How did you get to be this strong? Is it because of you becoming a human, having a soul? 

G-one: (starts moving to his right as well) You know the answer. That's what you have been working for all this time. To acquire a human body, but shame, you will never get a soul. 

Ra-one: How so? You got one. Why can't I? 

G-one: I did not get one. I already had a soul. I was born. 

Ra-one: Born out of a game. 

G-one: The same game you were born out of. But I chose to save people, so I became a human. 

Ra-one: Hah! No way, you need a human body to be a human. You were just coded to be nice, I was not.

G-one: Every human is coded to be nice, that's why you never can be one. 

Ra-one: We will see about that. 

They both lunge at each other again, G-one blocks first and then second arm swing of Ra-one then hits Ra-one's chin with his elbow sending a ripple through his face. Ra-one shoots a spin kick with red sparks around the shin, G-one blocks it with both hands but still gets pushed back to a distance. Ra-one flips over the head of G-one, grabs his face, lands back and pulls G-one by his neck over his head and slams him on the ground. Ra-one cooks up an orb and shoots at G-one lying below, but G-one rolls away and does a leg sweep and hits Ra-one's leg from the side. Ra-one bends when G-one grabs his right arm and pulls him down towards the right slamming his head on his right knee crouching down then drops an elbow on his neck breaking it, then throws him away. Ra-one gets up with his head hanging, pulls it back and adjusts it on his neck. 

Ra-one: (Fixing his neck) Ah! I see where your friend learned this. 

G-one: What do you mean?

Ra-one: You see, before I took him, we had a little, say skirmish. And your friend pulled a similar move, not exact, but kind of similar. So you taught him how to fight. I have been loaded with every martial arts style. But not with the one you created. That's why I can't predict your move. 

G-one: Mine is not very flashy as others, just a simple style, to hold my ground. 

Ra-one: Isn't that what every other is supposed to be for as well? 

G-one: Guess so. Ok, we are talking too much. Let's finish this level.

G-one jumps towards Ra-one, Ra-one swings an elbow turning 360°, G-one blocks it, then comes another elbow from another side, blocks it too, a back kick, G-one steps back and grabs the foot, pulls Ra-one back, Ra-one falls face first, G-one drags him to a distance, Ra-one digs his fingers into the ground, still G-one drags him behind. Ra-one pulls his trapped leg forward and uses his other leg to push G-one back. 

Ra-one: (Springs up, red sparks begin gathering around his arms and legs) I have had enough as well. Time to disappear. 

G-one: (Gathers sparks around his limbs as well) For you. 

Both accelerate and close in. Ra-one wrapped in red sparks, goes for a right punch, G-one wrapped in blue sparks, ducks and hits his guts, Ra-one swings his left arm, G-one blocks it with both hands and then digs his left elbow into Ra-one's face. Ra-one raises his left leg for a kick, G-one pushes it down using both his hands and then again digs his left elbow in his face. Ra-one stumbles back swinging his arms when G-one grabs his right arm, pulls him over his back and slams him into the ground. G-one goes to stomp his head but Ra-one flips and grabs his foot and pushes it back, however, G-one's strength won and he pushed it down anyway but Ra-one slipped his head away letting G-one's foot dig into the floor making a deep crack. Ra-one attacks with a punch from the side, G-one steps back, dodges it and kicks his right knee, bending him down and then dropping an elbow on his head further pushing him down. Every blow produced a shockwave. G-one pulls back his right arm again wrapped in sparks crouching down and then uppercuts into Ra-one's chin burying him in the ceiling. Ra-one stuck there slowly peeling off of it to fall down, but G-one was cooking a huge orb using both his hands crouching down. 

Ra-one: (Slowly falling down) Oh boy! 

G-one shoots the orb sending Ra-one breaking through the roof into the sky. G-one crouches building up his jump with sparkling shins and then launches through the hole and shoots above the floating Ra-one, he flips and points his right fist towards Ra-one who watched him as he floated in the air ready to fall back down. G-one pulls his fist back with sparks and drills it down in Ra-one's guts and drives him back in like a rocket breaking through the remaining floors. As they crashed into the ground floor creating a huge wave, G-one bounces away about 20 feet while Ra-one lay in the cracked floor under him. 

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