Sucker For Pain
"Damn it... Annie! Get out of the way!!"
Hughie yelled and darted around, desperately dodging the combined attack of several Superman.
But Starlight had no time to pay any attention to Hughie.
After joining the Seven, she also participated in several real battles, and her perception was obviously much sharper than Hughie's when facing life and death.
"Whoosh--"
A sharp whistling sound suddenly pierced the air.
Starlight sensed something was wrong. He pushed off the slippery mud with his feet and fell backward quickly.
One second.
A blur of light brushed past her ear, and a few strands of golden hair on her forehead were neatly cut off, the hair flying in a whirl.
Having dodged the attack, Starlight quickly turned around.
The attacker was a male Superman whose entire body was grayish-white, with the ulna bones of his two forearms protruding directly from his skin.
The bone spurs, stuck to the surface, trembled with each movement of the man.
Seeing that his attack had missed, the man's expression hardened.
Immediately afterwards, his leg muscles swelled up, and using the recoil force, he stomped down hard on Annie's face.
"Fuck..."
Annie slammed her palms against the ground in the mud, a golden light flashing in her eyes.
Then, using the momentum, she twisted her body, sprang into the air, and her two long legs came together in mid-air.
It clamped tightly around the man's neck like an iron clamp.
Immediately afterwards, Starlight gritted her teeth.
The muscles in the lower back tensed instantly, and the legs twisted sharply to the side.
"Crack!"
With a sharp crack, she snapped the man's neck.
But Starlight wasn't reassured, so she used the momentum to flip over and pin the limp "corpse" to the ground.
He then spread his fingers wide, pressing his palm firmly against the other person's unfocused pupils and blank expression.
A golden light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and then he mobilized his electrical energy, pressing it down hard into his palm!
"Sizzle--Bang!"
A dull thud followed, and only a small orange-gold spark ignited in the palm of his hand, charring the man's face black.
Immediately, a feeling of emptiness and weakness washed over my fingertips.
Too weak...
Vought was indeed wary of their group and had taken many precautions.
Apart from the electricity used for media broadcasting, all other equipment on the field was powered off, preventing her from drawing any power.
"Those damn bitches..."
Annie gasped for breath, flicked the blood and foam off her face, and looked up ahead.
The South Lawn of the White House has long been in a terrible state of disrepair.
The shattered, ornate fence lay haphazardly on the turf, and acrid black smoke billowed along the dilapidated tree-lined path.
Outside the blasted openings, there were more than a dozen Superman of various shapes, all injected with V2.
They mechanically advanced, stepping over the bones and blood beneath their feet.
Directly in front, the marble wall was smashed to pieces with a loud bang.
Amidst the smoke and dust, a colossal body nearly three meters tall turned toward the direction of the Starlight, and charged forward violently, accompanied by the sinking and trembling of the ground.
at the same time.
In the ruins on the right, a gaunt man with a face full of pustules suddenly straightened up despite the stray bullets flying around him.
The skin and flesh around the neck swelled up like an inflated balloon, forming a deformed fleshy sac.
The scalding acid churned violently deep in her throat, and she opened her mouth and sprayed it directly at Annie's head.
"Pfft!"
The next second, a stream of green, putrid liquid billowing with thick smoke flew straight towards them.
Seeing this, Starlight used the force of the electric current in his palm to push backward to one side.
"Sizzle--"
The missed acid splashed onto the SUV door, instantly melting a large hole in the thick armor plate.
Meanwhile, atop the broken marble column in front, an African American woman was squatting, her arms slowly extended to the sides.
Then, both mouths opened.
"Buzz--"
The air rippled violently, and the invisible sound waves materialized and crashed into her eardrums.
Immediately afterwards, a violent resonance exploded deep within my mind, and a strong sense of dizziness surged up rapidly.
Then comes the disordered vision following the imbalance.
The broken walls and ruins kept swaying in my sight, overlapping like blurry images, making me dizzy.
Starlight clenched her teeth tightly, forcing back the acid that was about to rise in her throat.
Then he suddenly grabbed a nearby utility pole, panting heavily.
Without external power supply, she lost her main offensive means and could only rely on her meager skills and abilities to hold on.
To make matters worse, her internal energy reserves were almost depleted... If this continued, she would really die here.
" Frenchie! Where the hell have you been?!"
Thinking of this, Starlight yanked the wireless earphone off her ear, braced herself, and roared into the microphone.
"I can't hold on much longer! The power grid here is completely rotten... Can you hear me?! Frenchie!!"
The radio was filled with nothing but piercing white noise and the hum of an overloaded engine.
And then there's Frenchie's hysterical French curses:
"Putain de merde! (What the hell!) Hang in there, little star! I can drive faster than Notre-Dame de Paris was on fire!"
I'm breaking through the checkpoint! These damn roadblocks are all fucking concrete blocks! Give me one minute... no, thirty seconds!!
"I can't even last ten seconds!!"
Starlight screamed and delivered a backhand side kick, sending a charging Superman flying. He clutched his head in pain with one hand.
At the same time, the "Acid" Superman plan had failed, seized the opportunity when Starlight was off guard, and his throat tightened.
"Sizzle--"
The thick, dark green acid burst through the air once more, spraying directly at Starlight's face.
" Annie... watch out!"
Hughie had just emerged from the encirclement of several Superman when he sensed the danger on Starlight's side.
He suddenly leaped out from behind an overturned special operations SUV and dashed to Starlight's side as fast as he could.
He grabbed a riot shield that had been blown away and used it to block the attack.
"Sizzle--!!"
Acrid white smoke burst forth instantly.
The alloy shield was instantly punctured upon contact with the dark green strong acid.
Like butter melting in hot water, it dented and seeped through the edge of the shield, splashing onto Hughie's clothes.
"Damn it... it hurts so damn much!!"
A few drops of acid seeped through his clothes and onto Hughie's arm.
Hughie screamed in pain, then grabbed handfuls of dirt from the ground and smeared it on his sore spot.
" Hughie!!"
Starlight's eyes widened in fury. He rushed forward and kicked the nearly melted piece of scrap metal away.
Then he used both hands to protect Hughie tightly.
Are you alright?
Hughie looked rather grim, but he forced a wry smile and shook his head.
"It's nothing... it just felt like I was stung by a two-pound fat wasp."
"Phew... It's good that you're alright, Hughie. Listen to me."
Annie knelt on the ground, her expression serious.
"If Frenchie doesn't bring the power back by now, take me to another location immediately. I need to find a power source as soon as possible."
"But if I teleport people, all our clothes will disappear..."
" Hughie! It's just a few ounces of meat, so what if we look... If we don't go, we'll both die here! You have to listen to me now!"
Hughie looked at the resolute Starlight, sniffed, and could only nod helplessly.
"I... I understand."
"But you'll have to stay close to me later, I don't want you to be seen naked."
Although his legs were still trembling, his right hand had already gripped Starlight's wrist tightly.
Hughie's skin, faint blue electrical arcs were visible.
"Boom!!"
The heavy outer bunker exploded completely with a deafening roar.
The nearly three-meter-tall behemoth charged wildly through a hail of bullets.
He smashed the concrete walls and steel bars along the way to Smash.
A strong wind whipped up thick smoke and dust, rushing towards us.
In the blink of an eye, that mountain of flesh pressed down to within ten meters of the two of them.
Amidst the flying debris, dozens of Superman suddenly emerged from the surrounding smoke.
They quickly closed in from the flanks, subtly forming an encirclement.
Seeing this, Annie sensed something was wrong and quickly grabbed her side.
" Hughie! Now! Hold on to me!!"
"Should we wait a little longer? Frenchie might be ready by now..."
Hughie's eyes widened, and blue arcs of electricity surged beneath his skin, indicating he was about to activate his ability.
at the same time.
Forty-eight meters in a straight line from the east lawn of the White House, in a hidden back alley.
"Squeak---Crunch!!"
With a screech of brakes.
A van riddled with bullet holes and its windshield shattered into a spiderweb pattern swerved violently.
With tremendous inertia, it crashed through the brick wall and became firmly stuck in the gap.
Not long after, the driver's side door was kicked open by a military boot covered in black engine oil.
Frenchie tumbled and rolled off the car.
He had a wet cigarette dangling from his mouth, and his face was covered in soot.
" God help me... 48.5 meters! Just within the 50-meter threshold!"
Frenchie looked down at the portable electromagnetic field measuring device strapped to his left forearm.
"Merci mon Dieu! I knew my geometry studies weren't in vain! A 50-meter absorption radius... just right!"
Prior to this, Frenchie had conducted detailed tests on the absorption mechanism of Starlight photons in the basement.
He discovered that the absorption mechanism of Starlight is affected by the inverse square law, which has significant limitations.
With her body as the core, a radius of fifty meters constitutes an absolutely spherical critical zone.
Once this range is exceeded, the rate at which electrical energy is dissipated in the air will plummet exponentially.
But if you force the threshold into this range, she becomes a human electro-pump with an extremely high conversion rate!
Thinking of this, Frenchie spat out the rotten cigarette butt from his mouth and stumbled toward the back of the van.
"Click!"
With a forceful tug, the two heavy rear iron doors of the van were flung open.
Inside the dimly lit carriage, a massive array of self-made capacitors gradually came into view.
Dozens of high-voltage copper core cables, as thick as a baby's arm, were intricately tangled inside the carriage.
The pale blue coolant surged and vaporized wildly in the transparent high-pressure hose, making a loud "gurgling" sound.
"Huff... huff..."
Frenchie, panting heavily, pulled a heavy wrench from his waist.
Then, looking at the behemoth of electricity he had built with his own hands, he grinned:
"In such a short time..."
He ripped off his goggles and put them on his face, then, wearing insulated gloves, gripped the two exposed, giant pure copper terminals tightly.
Between the pillars, blinding white arcs of electricity, as thick as a finger, flickered and crackled, ionizing the air and sending chills down one's spine.
"Since we can't make delicate little gadgets..."
Frenchie took a deep breath, his eyes instantly turning extremely ferocious, and a wide grin spread across his face.
"Then why not... just go for the big prize?!"
The moment the words fell!
Frenchie used all his strength, his veins bulging.
"Zzz—Boom!"
The two pure copper terminals were violently struck together!
In an instant, millions of volts of current surged forth, then transformed into a tangible, transparent electromagnetic ring that radiated outwards!
The images overlap.
Forty-eight meters away.
Hughie gripped Annie's wrist with his left hand, and deep within his pupils, the blue light of spatial leaps was accumulating to the point of exploding.
Right in front of them, the behemoth had already raised its massive fist, unleashing a violent gust of wind, and was about to slam it down!
Death was just half a second away.
Just as Hughie was about to activate the teleportation—
"Buzz----!!!"
Time seemed to slow down in that instant.
The Starlight in his eyes froze in that instant.
Within her perception, the previously dry and desolate electric field suddenly tore open a gap, allowing lightning to surge into the pool.
A massive, terrifying torrent of electrical charge surged into the electric field like a burst dam, then violently flooded her limbs and bones.
"Aaaaaaahh...
A cry of pain, a sharp rebuke.
The charging process reached its extreme overload value in an instant!
"Boom!!"
Two dazzling, pure golden beams of light burst forth from the depths of Starlight's eyes.
The light was as intense as the sun, and as fierce as a raging fire.
The golden light slammed into the face of the behemoth like a giant sword.
The blinding white light instantly shattered his vision; the hardened stratum corneum charred and cracked under the extreme temperature, sending up pungent blue smoke.
The next second, the massive body staggered backward out of control, the behemoth covered its face with both hands, and let out a heart-wrenching roar of pain.
But this is just the beginning!
The violent electric current generated an extremely terrifying electromagnetic spin effect within the Starlight's body.
Her limbs instantly became physiologically rigid due to the large electric current passing through them.
Supported by both the strong Lorentz force and the antimagnetic repulsion force.
Transforming into the stiff posture of Jesus' crucifixion, enveloped in golden arcs of lightning, his feet left the ground, he floated straight up!
Five meters, ten meters, twenty meters!
The entire ruins of the White House were illuminated in that moment!
Everyone present subconsciously looked up at the girl in mid-air whose body was covered in liquid golden lightning.
In mid-air.
Starlight's eyelids trembled slightly, and her golden eyes flashed.
She discovered that the oppressive constraint seemed to have disappeared...
Her limbs, which had been stiff from spasms, suddenly stretched outwards against the azure sky!
"BOOM!!!"
A pure gold lightning Stormfront, over fifty meters in diameter, centered on Annie's body.
It exploded outwards in a spherical shape in all directions without any restraint!
The golden electric current, like a wildly dancing python, instantly ionized and ignited the nitrogen and oxygen in the air.
Dozens of arrogant Superman, before the golden Stormfront that seemed like divine punishment, scattered and flew about like leaves in a whirlwind, screaming in agony.
"This is..."
Starlight took a deep breath, suddenly shuddered in mid-air, arched his spine, and stomped his feet hard in the void!
"Smack!!"
A blinding golden arc exploded in the air.
Instead of falling, she used the recoil to propel herself upwards like a golden arrow shooting into the sky.
It rises sharply towards the higher sky!
A significant leap forward!
Immediately afterward, as she ascended to a height of 100 meters, Annie suddenly spun around in the wind and swung her arms backward.
Immediately afterwards, the immense energy within his body exploded outwards from his toes a second time.
Double jump!
(A tribute to the original work: a double jump)
"Boom!"
A second golden sonic boom cloud exploded in mid-air!
After flying to a certain height, she hovered in mid-air, lowered her head slightly, and slowly clasped her hands together in front of her chest.
Countless thick, arm-sized bolts of golden lightning converged from her palms, arms, and shoulders.
Soon, a golden ball of electricity, over three meters in diameter and radiating terrifying energy, compressed between her hands and took shape.
With just a period of energy storage, the electric ball can grow larger.
However, just as the Starlight condensed into an electric sphere, a strange chill suddenly ran through me.
She looked around warily, and soon spotted a blur of something flying Speed toward her.
She looked closer, puzzled.
The man was wearing an old-fashioned leather jacket, had short blond hair, and wasn't wearing any protective gear.
Is this a way of looking down on her?
Or are they here to die?
It just flew straight towards her with its flesh and blood?