Chapter 10

The monsters followed the path the children too, much to their surprise though, the children appeared to have found their way out. "How did they know about the old train tunnel?" Sludge Jellyfish asked aloud.

"Doesn't matter, there will still be plenty to grab, they can't all disperse that quickly!" said the lizard monster.

Something didn't seem right about this, Sludge knew it too. But pressed on. They had over 100 children held captive that would have been more than enough for a small army to take over a few cities. He was so close. He couldn't stop now.

The monsters took the abandoned train station back up to the surface. Yet the moment they arrived, Melee was waiting for them.

"Oh, one, just one hero? What a shame…" said a lizard like monster.

Melee however wasn't scared. She stood rather oddly, merely staring at the small legion of monsters before her. With a crack of her knuckles she continued to glare right at them. "I am going to rip you all apart." She said slowly and calmly. "Then, I will feed you to my mate. And I will be certain he devours every scrap of your poor excuses of living flesh! Then, I will be sure that all who are involved in your little scheme are killed in the greatest of agony I can think of… I won't give them the satisfaction of death… I'll let Garou eat them alive!"

Her words were so startling; the monsters themselves were getting worried. She was too calm, too collected and began to walk towards them without any weapon in hand. "Is she insane?"

"She must be!"

"Who is that anyway?"

Melee smirked, then unleashed her battle cry.

"BBBBBRRRRAAAAWWWWLLLLLL!" she roared.

Her voice echoed in the city, some windows even shattered! As quickly as she appeared, Melee vanished before the eyes of the monsters.

"Where did she…" one monster lost its head.

Another found its left arm missing and right leg. She tore them apart limb by limb without them seeing where she was coming from! In mere minutes, she tore the legions to bits. The monsters remained alive but suffered. All where in pain except for Sludge Jellyfish. "What are you going to do to me? I can take a hit easily!" he taunted.

Melee turned to the mall and where all the windows had been broken, with a smile on her face she said. "You can take a hit, certainly… but how well can you come back together after being sliced?"

The creature's eyes widened as the shards of glass came flying at him. Melee twisted and turned the shards cutting into the monster until it was nothing more than diced meat! Still, she wasn't satisfied with her work. But that soon changed when the street up ahead just burst open.

Garou came flying out and landed with a powerful thud on the pavement. He saw the torn up monsters. "Ah… I see you decided to cut up my meals."

"Merely made them into bite size chunks." She said. "But they are all yours!"

He wasted little time. Garou devoured the legions but kept one alive. Sludge Jellyfish could pull himself back together again, he was nearly whole by the time Garou finished with the others. Just as he was about to slink away, Garou's tail snagged him. "Not so fast…" teased Garou. "You have some questions to answer!"

"Please, don't eat me! I beg of you! Don't eat me!"

"Depends, tell us what we want to know!" snapped Melee. "Where did you get the monster cells!"

Sludge trembled. "We found them, in city X. Next to a large mass of monster parts, it was producing the cells at a rapid pace. Somehow, they managed to slip up to the surface world and turned people into monsters!"

"Where is it located!" demanded Garou.

"It's moved!" Sludge proclaimed. "We went to get more cell if our plan worked this time around, but it was gone, I swear!"

Melee sneered at the monster. Garou's tail released it. "If I ever find you anywhere near my child or any one else's, one tentacle out of place… I will devour you!" warned Garou.

Sludge nodded and slipped into the sewers. When it was gone, Melee was rather surprised. "No? Not your type to eat?"

"He slips in and out of the sewers. I am not eating it if it does that often!"

Melee then became serious. "The kids…"

Garou patted his sides. "Right here. They are exhausted. I don't quite know what they did down there, but it bided everyone enough time to get out. Where are the kids we saw coming out?"

"Tatsumaki picked them up and took them back to their parents. We better check on Metal Bat and Zenko."