Pinner had been observing the situation for a while. When he first came across Kai and his group, he could tell they were strong Altereds, able to deal with what was thrown at them, and meaning the Zodiacs had to get involved.
Still, at least the Altered around them could be of some use to taking these guys down, making it easier for Pinner, Berry, and Lena.
However, when they caught up to them a second time, he could tell just at a glance they were stronger than he thought. Working together, they were receiving some type of boost, and even with the three Zodiacs joining in, it would be a tough battle.
So Pinner had made the executive choice at that moment to split all of them up. He used his powers to carefully place several of his explosive blue fur balls all around the highway. He had done so in such a way while they were in the middle of the fight that chaos would arise.
They all blew up at once, and the highway was seen collapsing and cracking. Everyone around them fell, including those in the One Gang, cars, vehicles, and a lot more.
In the explosive chaos, even the Howler members weren’t quite sure what had happened.
Olivia felt a heavy object on top of her. When she opened her eyes, she noticed that an entire car had fallen on top of her. With her strength though, she was able to push it to the side.
As she moved out and stood up, her uniform was cut open and she had a small scratch across her stomach, but it was already healing.
“I wish Pinner would tell us his plans ahead of time, you know. I only didn’t get hurt because he’s done this stupid stuff before.”
Olivia was looking at the woman talking, from her recollection it was the one known as Berry with the round pigtails on top of her head. Around them was rubble and various other cars.
Several of the One Gang members were dead. Debris had fallen on them in the wrong place, or cars completely crushed them, and she couldn’t clearly see others in the area.
Just then, another piece of rubble started to fall from above. It was ready to land on Berry, but as it got in her way, she lifted her hand up and punched the large piece of rubble.
It exploded at that moment, and pieces went flying all over to the side. Berry stood there with her fist, covered in a strange blue scaling.
“Do you know why the three of us Zodiacs traveled together and were sent on this mission?” Berry said as she blew her fist, and smoke went off to the side. “Because all of our Altered forms, the beasts we were based on, have an explosive property to our power.”
“No matter what, we were stopping you from getting to that arena, and I’m going to enjoy blowing you up into pieces.”
Olivia started to twist her neck to one side, cracking the bones, and then clicked it to the other.
“You damn slut,” Olivia said. “If you were one of the workers in my shops, your looks would receive zero customers… you’re not even worth trying to make money from.” Olivia smiled as she got out her whip and slammed it onto the ground.
Elsewhere, the others were in a similar situation. The area they had fallen from had cleared. It looked as if the rubble was purposely exploded in a way that would make it so the majority stopped and made a type of barrier to split up the group.
However, for the two of them, they had fallen together and were back to back.
“I’m wondering if we were the lucky ones or unlucky ones in this situation,” Park chuckled.
Towards his back, around four of the Altered had survived the fall from the One Gang. They were all in their Altered forms and staring at them. It was a lot less than what he was fighting against before, but now they didn’t have the help of the entire group, and he was worried about what was behind him.
“We don’t know the situation the others are in, we are in this one alone,” Marie answered as she looked ahead at Lena who had transformed. Two large horns appeared out of her head with a spiky tail.
The area was quite cramped for them, with piled up cars behind, and just a moment ago swinging her tail, a large explosion went off forcefully pushing the cars back.
The tail had incredible power, and the explosion looked quite deadly. Marie was used to having someone by her side, but in this situation, she was now the one that needed to look out for her younger colleague.
“I’ll deal with the Zodiac member, you just cover my back.”
Lastly, there was one member who hadn’t been hurt at all from the rubble, and that was Kai, who had fallen and he and Pinner were now all alone.
“You did all of this just to split us up, a split-second decision,” Kai mentioned and looked to the side, blood trailing out of the rubble. “But one that cost you many of your men.”
“Sacrifice is needed in these situations, you should know that,” Pinner said. “Besides, I could tell that you were the one that was calling all the shots and making all the decisions, the others must be quite useless without you.”
“And now that you’re alone, in a small area like this, it will be harder for you to run in your wolf form.”
Kai smiled, as he walked forward at the same time his grey fur started to cover his body, and his eyes began to glow slightly blue.
“You have no idea what our gang has been through. If I was worried for them over this, I would have never brought them along with me in the first place!”
Pinner threw one of the strange hair spiked balls at Kai, and in an instant Kai caught it with his bare hand. Before it could even light up, Kai then hurled it back, throwing it right at Pinner, hitting him in the face and exploding.
“I’m going to enjoy ripping you apart!”
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