The Red Muscle Ch7 progress 3 (Patreon)

Pages have been coming along, half of them are inked and shouldn't be too long before it's all done! for now, here is the last pages in thumbnail form.

the fight continues, scarlet is being chased through the cubicles and hits the other end of the room. as she panics on which way to go, she crumples as Ula narrowly misses a punch and crushes a printer.

Ula grabs Scarlet by the neck and is threatening to kill her when Scarlet elbows the printer behind her at full strength, causing it to explode. As this fight is happening, we see Ricki finally reaching where her tracker says Scarlet is, wondering where she's ended up.

As Ricki heads inside, business fish are all running out of the building in terror. She wonders what's happening and upon entering further, she sees Scarlet on the floor. Ricki is shocked and concerned and Scarlet is shocked to see her. Before they can talk, Ula grabs Ricki and angrily questions who she is.

Scarlet yells out and climbs off the floor to do a running kick to Ula, sending her flying through the office wall out of the room.

Scarlet goes to Ricki to check if she's ok and Ricki is so ecstatic about Scarlet doing such a cool kick and being able to fight. Scarlet doesn't really know what to say to that, so as she helps Ricki up, she tells her she needs to get out of here. Ricki doesn't want to leave without her, and the two are interrupted with Ula screaming in anger in the distance. Scarlet tells Ricki to hide, which she agrees to do, and Ula comes back in, looking more menacing and feral, having a minor physical transformation of sorts.

Ula charges as Scarlet who is not prepared for her ferocity, slashing her left and right and yanking her to the floor by her hair. As Scarlet lays on the floor, she questions if she can even be a hero and thinks she's going to die here.

When Ricki went to go hide, she sees Flip Flops curled up under the windows of the meeting room directly behind the fight. She asks him if he can explain what's going on, and he says that Ula has lost all control trying to get revenge on Scarlet. He points out that she's just destroying everything around her without a care and he never would have expected her to act like this. Ricki thinks she can do something to help, turning up the strength on Scarlet's gloves.

Ula is towering over Scarlet and slashes her across the stomach, and Scarlet kicks Ula down and gives her a powerful punch to the face.

Ula gets punched through the ceiling off to somewhere far away. Scarlet falls to the ground and onto her back with steam coming off of her suit, looking at her fist which is now exposed from her punch. Ricki comes out to check on scarlet who doesn't know exactly what happened. Ricki explains she boosted her gloves, and apologizes for all of the trouble shes caused since she showed up yesterday. She addresses the issue with Edgar and lets Scarlet know she's not trying to get in the way.

Scarlet is just puzzled about this information she's receiving. Ricki continues that she's so hyped from seeing Scarlet in action with the suit her and Edgar have taken this far together. She goes on to ask for how to get in shape and have a body like Scarlet. Scarlet in her delirious state is starting to give advice and she knocks out. Ricki lifts her up and puts her on her back, asking Flip Flops for the tablet. She piggybacks Scarlet out of the office to take her home.

That's the end of chapter 7! There was going to be more, but this storyline has gotten so long that it ended up becoming 3 chapters instead of my planned 1. I knew that I haven't had a fight scene in a while and wanted to do a much more involved one that all the previous ones, just to get some practice with choreographing a fight. The next chapter is going to be a lot of talking and lead us into a chunk of more Edgar-involved chapters. Hopefully the chapters after this will be out sooner, chapter 7 got delayed quite a lot from trying to work on so many other things at the same time. The final chapter will be out hopefully by end of July, hope you check it out when it's all done!