Editing City Series:Volume6e Chapter4 (section)

===Part 8===

Neue Schwarz moved as quickly as it could through the foggy city.

It had not yet activated its Ober Emblem.

It raced through the dark city with extra tanks on its back and a Word Rifle on its shoulder.

It faced a four-lane road with the city’s buildings on either side.

Its right hand held Gelegenheit and its left hand held a white sword. It had just raised the white sword to strike.

“You still alive back there!?” shouted Neue Schwarz, receiving responses from a few men inside the secondary cockpit on its back.

It had taken in five AIF soldiers to protect them from the high-speed combat. It looked out ahead after hearing their voices.

“Then we can leave the rest to the others while we make the second biggest commotion in the world!”

Two Heavy Barrels burst through the fog floating about 500 yards ahead.

After seeing their blue and red coloration, Neue Schwarz ran forward.

The two Barrels also moved closer.

A Heavy Barrel’s forward propulsion could easily surpass 50mph on the very first step.

They approached each other in a flash, tearing up the asphalt below their feet.

The red one moved out front with a shield at the ready and the blue one stayed behind with a rifle at the ready.

The black one responded by rushing straight toward them. Once they were less than 100 yards apart, it flapped its wings just once. The thrusters contained on those wings launched air backwards.

The explosion of air accelerated it forward. The blue one’s rifle fired along the path of its speed.

An 88mm bullet flew out, grazing the red one’s head on the way.

The black one swung its black sword as it ran.

<My Destiny has not yet reached its demise.>

The bullet passed by with a velocity of more than half a mile per second.

At a distance of about 30 yards, the black one had crouched low, placing the red one between it and the blue one’s line of fire.

As they got closer, the red one pulled a knife from behind its large shield.

Both sides continued forward, speeding up as they did.

Without warning, Neue Schwarz swung its white sword up from the bottom left.

“Nh!”

The red and blue ones both grunted and gently braked. The sword failed to find its mark and swished through empty air.

Neue Zinnobar moved in after the sword strike missed. It swung its knife diagonally up from its left in a mirror of the path the white sword had taken.

Neue Schwarz chose that moment to let go of the sword.

The thick double-edge blade drew an arc as it rotated toward the red Barrel’s neck. The large shield could not be moved into place in time.

“Kh,” groaned the blue and red Barrels before the blue one raised its voice. “Is that all you have!?”

Its rifle fired.

The bullet traveled over Neue Zinnobar’s head and struck the approaching sword.

With a clang like a bell breaking, the sword sliced through the foggy air and flew off into the sky.

Below the airborne white blade, Neue Blau fired its rifle some more.

Gunfire sounded repeatedly, but Neue Schwarz kept the momentum of its rightward sword strike to collapse its upper body to the right. It used its right toes as a pivot point to swing its left leg upwards.

Its black toes kicked up at the red shield.

The shield lifted upwards and one of the rifle bullets hit it on the inside.

The shield survived, but it triggered a shockwave on the back of the shield. The pressure first smashed Neue Zinnobar’s right arm and the primary armor on its torso and then it spread out as a white explosion.

A gut-shaking boom raced along the street, shattering the windows of all the buildings.

The glass shards sounded like spraying water as they scattered through the fog.

But all of that was launched skyward a moment later.

Powerful wind swept across the road, but just one thing was unaffected: Neue Schwarz which was crouched low directly below the shield at the center of the blast.

The shockwave inside the shield failed to hit the Heavy Barrel directly on the other side.

It slowly raised its wings within the rapid wind.

Then it flapped them.

“Ah,” it shouted while pouring all of its forward thrust into the left shoulder crashing into the red shield.

With a crash, Neue Zinnobar was pushed from the ground by its own shield and the knife fell from its left hand.

The defense field emitted by the red shield instantly reacted to the extreme mass slamming into it. Steam burst from the bottom of the shield, its surface grew red, and it emitted a launching force.

Neue Schwarz’s left shoulder armor groaned for a brief moment and then began to break away.

Behind airborne Neue Zinnobar, Neue Blau moved to support its red back.

The two-against-one contest was evenly matched while the shield’s red glow grew. The black shoulder armor briefly bent and gave one final resistance before shattering, but Neue Schwarz did not stop.

“You’re only the opening act, you third rates!”

Neue Scwharz flapped its wings.

The wind produced behind it was more like an explosion of heat and all three Barrels briefly came to a stop.

The equilibrium broke almost instantly, creating new movement.

“!?”

With confused shouts, the blue and red Heavy Barrels were blasted backwards.

The black one pursued them.

The red one held its shield up in a defensive stance.

Neue Scwharz did not stop.

It had already moved too close to swing Gelegenheit.

It raised its fists and threw a flurry of punches.

It took aim, swung its body, and started by targeting the head. Then the right shoulder, left shoulder, the thighs, and the center of the shield.

The red lion’s armor shattered, its Panzer Kleid shredded, and it pushed the blue one back.

The blue lion planted its feet firm while holding onto the red one.

Its feet tore through the asphalt as it tried to stop their movement.

It wasn’t enough. The black lion kept running and slammed its supersonic fist into the center of the shield.

It didn’t end there. The barrage continued, pushing further and further forward.

The shield’s glow had passed red, reached yellow, and was approaching white.

The steam coming from the bottom of the shield had lost its color, simply emitting a shimmering heat.

Neue Schwarz’s right knee tore through that shimmering to slam into the shield.

The striking ram extending from the top of the shin practically stabbed into the shield’s center, bending the shield.

Wind blew out and the blue and red Barrels were pushed even further back. Their sight devices focused on the black one’s right arm. It had opened the fist and pointed the open hand toward the sky.

Something fell into that black hand.

It was the sword Neue Blau had launched skyward with its earlier gunshot. The white sword spun on its way down and the black hand swung sideways to snatch its hilt out of the air and then swing the sword in a sweeping horizontal arc.

The thick blade sliced through the air and slashed the shield.

The destruction only took an instant.

With a loud clash of metal on metal, the sword completed its swing.

Neue Schwarz let the sword’s weight propel it into a spin. Once the inertial force had weakened enough, it attached the sword to its hip latch.

It fully opened its wings and dug its feet into the asphalt in preparation to leap.

The red and blue Heavy Barrels landed at the same time.

They smashed the pavement as their feet hit the ground and the red one’s shield had lost its light.

The shield had been split in two by a horizontal line down the center.

Neue Schwarz raised its wings while viewing the top half of the shield slide away along the cut.

“Consider it a favor I’m using your master’s sword. I’m not accepting any complaints.”

With that, its wings blasted air behind it.

It shot forward.

The blue and red Barrels turned around, trying to catch up.

It ignored them. The road was a straightaway and the bridge it needed to cross was just up ahead, so it only needed to face forward.

Neue Schwarz ran.