Ancestor in the Woods by Jerry | World Anvil

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Fri 17th Sep 2021 01:25

Ancestor in the Woods

by Jerry J. Vahn

After our rescue mission, off we went to try to retrieve one of the ancestors that had been stolen.
 
What started off as a nice walk in the woods turned horribly wrong.
 
We caught up with the two that had been at every site where an ancestor was stolen. They had open bed truck that had been transporting a box that had apparently been holding the ancestor. As you can see, we got there just a couple of moments too late.
 
Max and Nemesis let us know that there appeared to be some sort of energy source on the wrists of the two, so, I liberated it from them. I'm not exactly sure how I did it, but, the 'watches' came right off. I'll let the other main tech guys look them over, and see what they are, and how we might be able to counter act them in the future. They at least hide your real form, because after I took the watches off of them, they appeared as samurai, similar to the Oni ones we meet earlier.
 
They suddenly decided to run away. Ghost captured one of them, and Nemesis went after the other after Sandcrab tagged it with a tracer. Nemesis could have easily caught her, but just followed along behind to let it think it got away.
 
Well, we waited too long again, the ancestor began to grow, pushing us back. Max tried to englobe it, and that slowed it down a bit, but it finally broke out of his shield.
 
It's a good thing that we had come to a stop behind a bolder, as the ancestor decided to explode. When we looked again, there in the air sat a golden form sitting in the, I think it was the lotus position, humming. Around it was this field of glowing energy that also had different type of debris floating around in it.
 
He said something about destroying the Destroyer. We hoped that he was talking about the Dr. D, but there wasn't any way to be sure. The ancestor was doing a lot damage himself. When he emerged, we could feel the damage he did for miles around.
 
I had no idea what I could do. The guy was up in the air, about 45 feet in the air, I'm stuck to the ground and only about 3 feet tall. I can reach somethings, but that is way to high for me.
 
Ghost flies at him, and comes to a complete stop and is getting pounded by the debris. I don't think I've ever seen her just flat out stopped before.
 
The ancestor just ignored us, and started moving towards Millennium City. We spread out to start moving people out his way.
 
Sandcrab found a river with a power line near it. He came up with a plan to try to slow the ancestor down. The ancestor appeared to be made of gold. Gold is one of the best conductors in the world as we know it, so why not try to electrocute him.
 
So, because we have been working in the new 'danger room' at the base, we tried to do our best to hit the ancestor at the same time.
 
Ghost shoves a rock down on him, Nemesis and Wild thing work together to hit him with another rock. Sandcrab sets off the electrical line, Max and I throw lightning at him.
 
So, teamwork is a good thing. All of the attacks do damage to the ancestor. It begins to shrink. We were going to try and put it back into it's box, so, yea, run and get it.
 
Within just under a second, I return with the box and toss it up to Ghost who is able to get the ancestor back in the box.
 
Wham slam, thank you ma'am.... Now, it's time to get the flock out of here......
 
The trip back to the base was heartbreaking. The devastation from the Ancestor's emergence was horrific. I had to slow down and stopped to help where ever I could. I'm not super strong, but, I am smaller than most, so I could get into spots that I wouldn't normally been able to.
 
Strange, the small spaces didn't affect me as much as they use to. I'm not sure if I am getting over it, or I just pushed it aside to help out those who were in need. I don't think those images will ever leave my memory. I just hope that I was able to be a help to those in need. People like me use to be called superheroes. I just have abilities above the normal. Those without any extra powers that were helping people, those are the real heroes.
 
I don't know if anyone who saw what I was doing reported anything or not. I just hope that I haven't put the rest of the New Champions in extra danger, but I couldn't go though those areas without helping. That is why I created this suit.
 
We have got to stop all of this. We must get rid of Dr. Destroyer, but, this was too high a price to pay, much too high. We must get the other ancestors back, and to their clans.
 
Maybe, we need to start being a bit more 'open' with what we are doing, so that those without hope, can start to hope again.
 
I can only hope that we are soon able to come up with a way to take Destroyer down, and help make the world a better place for all.