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Chapter 10: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The Sanctum-1932-Day

Peter: The league of what?

The Shadow moves to a small cabinet and takes out a bottle of American bourbon and pours himself a glass.

Shadow: Believe it or not Parker, this has not been the first time that the world has required the skills of unique individuals.

Swift Cloud: Is that true?

Shadow: indeed, the last time was in 1899, a madman created an armament of advanced weaponry and attempted instigating war in Europe so that he could profit from the arms race of his weapons.

Peter: Wait! Are you saying that this dude basically tried to start the First World War, 15 years early?

Shadow: Yes, and he would have succeeded had it not been for the League.

Swift Cloud: Wait! What do you mean FIRST?

AH, maybe shouldn't have said that.

Peter: Sorry, slip of the tongue, I meant The Great War.

Shadow: What he means is that due to the situation in Germany, a second war is inevitable. But that's out of our control.

Peter: But I never knew there were people like...well...us way back then.

Shadow: Of course, this was all hushed up, few records even exist but from what my agents have collected, the original league consisted of a Hunter, a Pirate, a detective, a Vampire, an Immortal, an Invisible Thief, a Shape Shifter, and an American Spy. And if what you told me is true? Then this Goblin is far more dangerous than any single person can handle and with the resources and personal at his disposal, a new league must be formed.

Peter: But who? There aren't any heroes I can think of who can help us.

Shadow: For your information, I always suspected that there are others like you and me in this world. And I took it upon myself to investigate rumors and stories of such people. Here are those I could find.

The Shadow takes out from under his cloak what looked like a bunch of dossiers and places them on the coffee table. Both Peter and Swift Cloud begin to examine them.

Swift Cloud: Phuwwee! Look at this one, master of disguise, hypnotist, and arsenal of gadgetry, funny lookin one thou: calls himself "The Clock".

Peter: Seriously? The Clock? And check this one out "The Spirit": detective skills, evidence of superhuman "longevity" whatever that means.

Swift Cloud: How About this one?" Mandrake the magician": hypnotist, psychic and telekinetic powers, can turn invisible, shape shift, and teleport periodically. Err do we need another one of you Shadow?

Peter: Look, this is an interesting idea, but none of these guys have what it takes to help us, we need some heavy hitters, people who can go up against the Goblin, I'm talking super strength, laser eyes, not gadgets and magic tricks.

Shadow: Which is why, I've already selected our potential candidates.

Swift Cloud: Who?

Shadow: They should be here shortly, in fact?

The door to the study opens, a young man in his mid-twenties walks though, wearing a brown leather jacket and jodhpurs, carrying what looks like a large case.

?: Err... hi.

Shadow: Ah Mr Secord, glad you accepted my invitation. Peter? Jackie? This is Cliff Secord... The Rocketeer.

Peter: The Rocketeer?

Cliff: Look I didn't come up with it?

Swift Cloud: So what can you do Mr Secord?

Shadow: Mr Secord here is a highly skilled racing pilot and Barnstormer, not to mention an above average marksman.

Peter: A Barnstormer? Seriously! We need heroes not some show jockey.

Cliff: You listen hear kid, I was at home with my girl back in L.A, when suddenly I get contacted by two shady guys, telling me to come to New York at once, because I'm needed for some league or something. I thought it was some kind of show...clearly I was mistaken.

As Cliff turns to leave The Shadow examines his glass.

Shadow: Shadow: You were scared weren't you, as you rescued your friend from that airfield incident?

Cliff stops and turns to face The Shadow.

Cliff: What did you say?

Shadow: And when your wife was kidnapped by Hydra, you stopped at nothing to save her, but you were scared too then?

Cliff: How...?

Shadow: You have courage Cliff, courage rarely seen in this time, and we... no the world needs that courage now. To help us face the darkness that is to come.

The room was quiet for a moment. Peter and Jackie look from The Shadow to Cliff.

Cliff: This isn't about a show is it?

Shadow: No Cliff, this is not a show. Wait for a bit longer and all will be made clear.

Cliff stands there for a minute, then walks to behind one of the armchairs, put down the case and moves to lean on the nearby bookcase.

The Shadow turns round and moves towards the fire place and activates a hidden switch. The lights are dimmed and the large painting above the fire place suddenly turns blank. At the back of the room a small hatch opens and a stream of light lands over the now blank painting.

Peter: Cool you have your own movie theatre! Only hope it's not 3D.

Swift Cloud: 3D Darlin?

Peter: Err! Hey Shadow! Didn't you say there was another one coming?

Shadow: Yes, apparently he is running late.

The door is slowly opened; everyone turns to see who it is.

A man is standing in the archway; he is wearing a fedora hat, a large trench coat, gloves and a mask that covers his entire face, not to mention his colour scheme is entirely... Green.

?: Am I late?

Shadow: Yes you are Hornet, take a seat. Now that we are all here, we can begin.

Cliff: So now can you tell me why I'm here?

Shadow: Of course, we have been brought together, some by chance, others by design to answer a very serious threat that has emerged. A threat that only we here can fight, The Rocketeer, Swift Cloud, Spiderman and The Green Hornet

Green Hornet: I must ask Shadow, how did you know where to contact me?

Shadow: (Chuckles) The Shadow Knows!

Green Hornet: (sighs) Of course.

Cliff: Wait! You're THE Shadow?

Peter: Is the any other?

Cliff: no, it's just I've only heard rumours; I never thought he actually existed.

Shadow: And I Don't! Now as I was saying.

A slide appears on the blank painting, it shows a picture of the Coney Island Carnival.

Shadow: a few days ago, Spiderman and I went to investigate the abandoned carnival at Coney Island. There we discovered something terrifying. An unknown character named Norman Osborn had taken over some of the local gangs and started using this location as a recruitment centre for his operations, hundreds of thugs and lowlifes answered his call.

Green Hornet: What's so terrifying about that? Crime lord's rise and fall each day, there are many in L.A.

Peter: Osborn is no ordinary Crime lord.

Shadow: I have no picture to show you, so maybe Spiderman can enlighten you.

Peter: Norman Osborn is a rich business man turned Super Villain. He has a genius level intellect, a scientist, technical master... and he's psychotic.

Swift Cloud: Do you know him?

Peter: All too well. You could say I helped create him.

Cliff: Create him?

Peter: You see my blood has... unique quality's, he was hoping to harness my powers as a weapon, but ended up being injected with an augmented version of my D.N.A by an employee of his. It changed him, mutated his body and mind into a monster that he now goes by the name of The Goblin.

Green Hornet: My God!

Peter: He's now bent on absolute power and world domination.

Shadow: And he is already planning something big. While investigating the carnival, we discovered clues to his plan.

The slides changes to show the map of Mexico.

Shadow: This map shows location to, what our friend Swift Cloud has discovered to be Mayan ruins. According to my agents, The Goblin has relocated most of his forces to some of them. But for what purpose, we don't yet know.

Peter: Bronzium!

Cliff: What?

Peter: The coin that we found at the carnival, the agent you sent me to see, he said that it was made of pure Bronzium. It's an extremely rare metal that the Mayans curvetted. Goblin is gathering Bronzium from those ruins.

Cliff: How many Ruins are we talking here?

Shadow: According to this map, 6 ruins are marked.

Swift Cloud: Phuwwwweeee! That's a lot of treasure he's digging for. He could buy the whole country with that.

Peter: Trust me, He's not after their value, it's much worse than that.

The whole room goes silent for a moment.

Shadow: Maybe you should give your report now Spiderman.

Peter gets up of his armchair and turns to face this team of heroes who have no idea what they're in for. The slide changes to a picture of the Bronzium coin.

Peter: You see, Bronzium is incredibly unstable at its molecular level, radioactive even and subject to constant expansion and contraction of the molecular bonds-constant electrical tension is about all that holds it together. But if those bonds were ever breached by an implosion, the molecules would fly apart, creating an explosion.

Green Hornet: So he's building a bomb?

Peter: Not just any bomb, an Implosive, explosive, sub-molecular device... an Atomic Bomb.

Cliff: Hey, That's catchy.

Everyone slowly turns to him with an eyebrow raised.

Cliff: What it is!

Shadow: How powerful is this atomic bomb?

Peter: It depends on how much Bronzium he's using, anything up to 50 megatons.

Green Hornet: Dear God!

Swift Cloud: Is that Big?

Shadow: Yes Swift Cloud... very big.

Green Hornet: No one should have such a weapon; he could destroy the world with this.

Peter: I don't believe that's what he intends to do.

Shadow: Why?

Peter: He's more of a dominating, power hungry villain, he wants to rule not destroy, and remember the venom we found?

Swift Cloud: What's venom?

The slide changes to a picture of a glass beaker with a sample of venom in it.

Peter: Venom is a creation of The Goblin. It's a symbiotic parasite, created from my D.N.A that latches on to a host body, turning the host into monsters.

Swift Cloud: Mon...Monsters?

Peter: It's a horrible sight, I've experienced it myself, you lose all control and all sense of yourself. It turns you into a savage, destructive abomination... Jackie, are you ok?

Peter could see that her face is as white as a sheet, with her mouth hanging open. Realizing what she's doing, she regains herself.

Swift Cloud: I'm alright darlin, sweet of you to ask.

Cliff: So this Goblin is trying to build an "atomic" bomb and experimenting with monsters. Why?

Shadow: We don't know yet, so we must find out the world is at stake.

Peter: Look guys, The Goblin is unlike anything you've seen before. So if you think you can't handle it and want to back out now...

Swift Cloud gets up sharply off her armchair.

Swift Cloud: Now just hold up a minute darlin, what makes you think we can't handle it?

Peter: It's not that...

Green Hornet: Then what is it? (Getting up too) We don't have powers, so this fight is too tough for us?

Peter: No!

Cliff: Just because some of us don't have powers, doesn't mean we are powerless!

Peter: I just meant...

Shadow: Spiderman... not all heroes have powers.

Peter: I know that.

Cliff: And if this Goblin is as dangerous as you claim.

Green Hornet: And the world needs our help.

Swift Cloud: Then darlin... we'll be there.

Wow... just...wow...I mean...WOW!

Peter: Alright then let's do this! League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... Assemble!

Swift Cloud: AND Women!

Cliff:...League of what?

We really have to come up with a better name!

A/N: at long last the League is formed, are they up to the challenge of facing the Goblin? And don't worry there are still a few more members to join up.

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