Plasmid

Finals

Emily's breaths drew faster and faster. She grit her teeth as her muscles tensed. "Good job," Geothos commented. "You managed to block my punch. Now, what's your next move?"
She glared at him. She pushed his arms away and punched him directly in the face. Geothos faltered back and placed a hand on his nose. It was bleeding. "Alright," he said. "You are strong enough. Now, for the driving portion of the test."
"Driving?" She asked, dubiously.
"The Armor," Geothos explained. "You're finally going to put it on. We've already had it fitted for you. It's in the corner of the room." Emily walked to the box in the corner of the room and took out the armor. "The gauntlets harvest the electric potential in your body," Geothos explained further. "And use it to heat the gas in the air. This turns it into plasma. The helmet keeps you from dying out in space and the suit has a built in oxygen conversion unit. The device on the boots has three settings. One for staying on the ground, one for getting off the ground, and the last one helps you travel the cosmos faster. You can change them with by thinking about it since the helmet has an electrical impulse connection with your mind." While Geothos was explaining the armor, Emily put it on. It was skin tight and the edges touching her skin were cold, as metal would be. She clutched at nothing and began to hear the air into plasma. Realizing she was still in the ship, she cooled it back to air. "There's one more thing that comes with the armor," Geothos had been droning on. "There're powerful beings on every world and sometimes the inhabitants of those worlds could never comprehend such a being. With the suit comes discretion. You wouldn't want to scare the earthlings into an existential crisis, so we protect from a distance. But sometimes that just isn't possible. The early humans had contact with my mentor after we fought." Emily looked up. "You fought your mentor?" She asked.
Geothos went on. "Yes, when the humans were just starting to form civilizations, I was there. I was what they considered to be a god. But it was empty. I was lonely. I only had six friends, each more narcissistic than the last, and when Torjack rained hellfire from the heavens, I was there to stop him. Well, there are no heavens. You'll see, when you die. I've met the guy in charge there. He's not a pleasant fellow."
"They're all dead, though, right? So, I won't have to deal with them?"
Geothos looked down. "I'll tell you later. It's time for a test drive."
Geothos told Emily to go the edge of the Milky Way and back. She could take her time if needed but she'd only be holding up her training. So, she left.
She soared across the stars as smooth as possible. She couldn't help but gaze at the same stars she'd gazed at before, but now she was in the stars. Not literally, but I assume the armor could take it. Her mind couldn't help but drift into the meaninglessness of it. Sure, the universe was beautiful but what was she really going to be protecting? Was it to preserve the already limited life span of a dying world? She had been distracted in her own head and then it her head. She had grazed an asteroid. It was barreling away towards a pretty blue and green planet. Earth! Earth was in danger! She had to save it.
"Houston, we have a problem. Asteroid headed to Earth. I'm taking her out, now." Emily quickly engaged the asteroid. "Alright, I'm on it, what now? Can I just heat it up and destroy it?"
"NO!" Geothos's voice boomed over the com. "Don't do that I'm on my way."
Emily wanted to listen but the asteroid was close to impact with Earth, so she started heating it. Geothos saw and remotely deactivated the gauntlets. The asteroid fast approached the atmosphere.
Emily realized that the gauntlets weren't destroying the asteroid so she hopped in front of the asteroid and kicked it back into space, cracking it. Emily, distracted by the asteroid, didn't realize she was still falling. She slowed down just in time to save herself a severe injury but not quite in time to avoid the impact. She crashed into the ground, and lied there for a while.
"Emily? Emily! Are you okay? Get up." Geothos repeatedly flicked Emily's helmet. "I'm up, I'm up. Is everyone okay?" She asked.
He smiled. "Yes, you'll serve well as protector of the realm." Emily nodded her head at this, groaned in pain, and lied back down in the dirt.
The cracked asteroid, still in Earth's orbit, began to break open. "Why didn't you want me to burn it up?" Emily asked Geothos. "Also, you didn't make it in time to stop the meteor so if I hadn't done anything, they'd all be dead." Geothos looked down at her. "If you'd burned it up, you'd have released a plague on this world. One which may never would have been sto-"
Geothos was cut off by a punch to the gut, by a grey humanoid larger than Geothos. He coughed out blood. The humanoid picked him up and threw him into the sky. He turned to Emily and laughed at her. He kicked at her but she caught it, slightly stumbling but then firmly grasping his foot. She threw him miles away in the same direction he'd throw Geothos.
She flew after them to discover that their fight in progress had nearly leveled a nearby city. Geothos and the humanoid continued to fight. The humanoid punched Geothos in the face and threw him into Emily incapacitating her, but not knocking her out. Geothos and the being kept fighting and the being kept the upper hand. He punched Geothos in the face, knocking him down. Geothos held up a hand and began to shoot plasma but the being caught it. He threw it away as if it were a tennis ball. "This," he began. "Is the protector of the universe? Pathetic." He punched a hole through Geothos's chest. Geothos screamed in agony. His gauntlet lit up and he shot a beam at Emily. Not plasma, but raw energy and electric potential. Then, the being dropped him, and he died on the ground.