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Magnetic Attraction
Chapter 16: Leviathan 3

-VB-

One hit. That was all it took to leave me physically incapable of fighting him upfront. I’ve been arrogant. How the hell did I think that I could kill Leviathan?

I watched the tidal wave roar towards the coastline, and knew that I didn’t have time to think of a plan to stop it or stop Leviathan before it hit.

I couldn’t fight anymore…

…

Could I?

I looked at the iron platform that I used right now to carry me in the air.

I stared at it and the reflection it gave off of me.

I … didn’t have to actually move my body, did I?

Now, there was a thought…

-VB-

Alexandria grimaced as the one parahuman they expected to have done some more damage to Leviathan backed off after taking a single hit from the Endbringer. He too was not the parahuman they were looking for.

Winds hissed and roared as she flew at supersonic speeds right up to Leviathan’s face and slammed into it. The Endbringer reeled back only a bit.

Her eyes narrowed as she just confirmed a horrible fact that Eisenfeld had exposed with his stunts: the Endbringers were holding back.

She gritted her teeth. In the last Endbringer fight, a charge like this from her would have “pushed” all Endbringers back by at least a half a dozen yards, and yet Leviathan, the supposedly “weakest” of the three, only reeled its head back against her attack.

It grabbed her and she growled before punching its fingers. It did nothing but crack the surface.

Then it pulled her beneath the waters.

She choked and gargled, only to find herself gasping for air high up in the air next to Eidolon.

“Careful,” he said.

“Yeah.”

And then she saw Eisenfeld again.

This time, he was at the heart of a metallic monstrosity of wires and iron beams. His body was … wrapped with metal chains and wires. What was he trying to do?

The Endbringer saw him and turned to face him again.

Alexandria grimaced. It was clear who the target was in this attack. It also meant that keeping Eisenfeld alive was a good thing for humanity if Endbringers, the harbingers of humanity’s destruction, wanted him dead.

“Eisenfeld is the target,” she grunted as Eidolon allowed her to fly on her own power. “We need to keep him alive.”

“But how? He’s suicidal if you can see it. Can’t take a hit for a damn but he’s going up against Leviathan anyways.”

“You know how the naturals are,” she hummed before diving back in to take advantage of the opening Eisenfeld made.

To her surprise, Eisenfeld went for a new attack. His “threads” of hyper-dense iron came all at once and wrapped themselves around Leviathan’s ankles. The first thread broke, but when there were nine threads and then fifteen and finally nearly thirty threads, Leviathan couldn’t break out of them easily. Oh, they snapped one by one as Leviathan kept exerting more force, but Eisefeld just pulled up more and more iron from everywhere around him, made more of his threads that even she knew she wouldn’t be able to break out of easily, and continued to wrap them up to replace the breaking threads.

The broken threads would also just stretch themselves - no doubt losing some of its density for that stunt - to form new less effective bindings.

However, with nearly a hundred such threads?

Leviathan couldn’t move its feet anymore.

That’s when she slammed into its back.

It went down crashing into the flooded street, only to pull up the water around it and shoot it at her as a hydrojet.

She flew out of its way before she noticed something.

A hole at where a human tailbone would be. It was nearly imperceptible, but …

Her eyes widened as some of Eisenfeld’s threads stabbed into it, making it larger.

Other Brutes jumped at Leviathan to hold it down, Blasters avoided shooting at its legs, and Shakers bore down with their esoteric effects, but all Alexandria saw was that hole that had penetrated deeper into Leviathan than any other attacks she’s seen so far.

She dove for it.

Leviathan saw her.

In an instant, it grabbed the ground with its claws, slammed its tail into the ground hard enough to make nearby buildings fall down, and bounced away from the recoil of its tail slam.

She curved in the air, just missing the ground and chased.

That was its weak point!

She wasn’t going to lose it now!

“There’s a hole at the tail bone!” she shouted into the comm. “SHOOT IT!”

Legend appeared in a blitz of light above them all, and fired from his hands.

The cascade of lights slammed into Leviathan, and the Endbringer screeched.

It wasn’t enough.

It was never enough.

It finally broke through all of its bindings and jumped high into the air-

-Straight at Eisenfeld.

Eidolon appeared before the ferrokinetic.

And punched. The air rippled before exploding. The mere pressure of it flattened all houses underneath him and Eisenfeld. Any other parahumans near them flew away like ragdolls.

Leviathan ragdolled from the attack and then slammed down into the ground. IT quickly got back up and spared one last glance at them all. With its last attack failed, it turned tail and ran for the ocean.

In seconds, it was back in the ocean.

And the tidal wave came slamming into the city.

-VB-

So last two chapters were all just action. How did you all like it? Good, bad? 1/10? 5/10? 10/10?! 

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