The Wild Pack

Issue #11 – The Attack – Part Two

Downtown – Vacant Lot

"I don't see anything?" Sasquatch said looking around.

Black Cat glanced around the vacant lot. Cyber-Worm had sent them here because he had come across information saying their mysterious foes would be striking here next. Cat had almost expected to find some building, device secret cult of hobos, anything but this. Just a lot filled with piles of dirt and trash surrounded by run down and abandoned buildings. There was absolutely nothing special about this place at all.

"Me either. I've a feeling that Mr. Worm doesn't quite have all the answers. I think we should head back and check out the job agency with the rest of the team," Asp said wanting to get away from this filthy pit.

"As much as I trust Cyber, even my nose isn't picking up anything but the trash," Sasquatch said scrunching up his nose.

"I don't know who put you two in charge but you're still rookies to this team and I'm not taking orders from an orange fur ball and a snake from the Serpent Society," Black Cat said glaring at the two.

"I'm no longer associated with them and you know it. I don't recall you being put in charge of this mission," Asp said beginning to take a defensive position.

"Ladies," Sasquatch began to say.

"I've been on this team since the beginning with Predator and that gives me seniority," Black Cat said.

"Actually, if you want to get technical, I've known Predator far longer than anyone on your team. We go way back and we've been at this far longer than any of you. Ever since our Alpha Flight days," Sasquatch chimed in.

"Alpha Flight? I thought I knew you from somewhere, you're Sasquatch as in Walter Langkowski," Black Cat smiled. "So who's Predator?"

"Sorry, he would like to keep that secret for personal reasons," Walter said swearing at himself for his slip.

"That's enough, Cat," Cyber-Worm's voice rang from within her ear piece.

"Well, if it isn't our mysterious leader now," Black Cat said mockingly. She knew, with his new network that he probably new her civilian identity, but now that she knew he was from Alpha Flight she found it not fair to not know his. Plus, the curiosity ate at her.

"We don't have time for this. Black Cat, you know as well as anyone that a person can reform from crime and attempt fresh start," Cyber-Work said.

Black Cat just smiled but she was boiling inside. She hated being brought down like that in front of others. She wasn't ashamed for her past but she has tried to put it behind her and not define her as a person. Like Asp, she had once been a criminal, but thanks to her Spidey-Crush she had joined the side of the angels. For Cybie, she would swallow her pride and get along. Why did she always fall for guys that were taken and never available to her?

"Cyber, we're not finding anything here," Sasquatch said changing the subject and getting them back on track.

"Keep a look out. They're sending someone there for something. I know I'm right about this," Cyber-Worm said rechecking his info he had retrieved.

"We'll keep looking boss and don't worry, we'll play nice," Black Cat said throwing a fake smile at Asp.

"Good to hear. If you still don't find anything in an hour, meet us near the Force Job Agency. My team's almost inside now and I'll be switching to radio silence. Once in, I'll have to devote all my time and resources to penetrating their systems and keep their defenses and alarms off the team," Cyber-Work said.

"Good luck," Walter and Felicia said at the same time.

"Same to you, Cyber –Worm out," Cyber-Worm said and signing off.

"So, what do you think they're after?" Asp said, asking no one in particular.

"Why you, of course. Falling right into our little trap," a voice said from atop a building.

The three members of Wild Pack looked up to see the three Jones Sisters, Gravity, Fire and Blast along with Deathlok, Paibok and the Hunter staring down at them. With a motion from Hunter, they advanced down upon the three with powers blazing.

"Kill them, but leave the Cat for me," Hunter said smiling right at Felicia.

Force Job Agency

"There's the place," Dragoness said as she and the new Predator glanced at the building from across the street.

"How're we going to get in?" Predator asked.

Jayson looked at the building and back at Dragoness. All his life he had watched and read stories about super heroes and now he was one. He still couldn't believe it. He was scared and excited all at the same time. If anything, he just hoped he could prove himself and not let the others down, especially Madison.

"Their alarm systems are pretty advanced," Cyber-Worm said over the radios in their ears.

"What do you suggest we do?" Dragoness asked.

"Predator, I want you to try something. Walk up to the door and phase out of your suit but not all the way. I want you to try and posses both your suit and the alarm on the door. In doing so, it will create a link form your suit to the alarm system that I can tap into. Once I do that I can shut off the alarms and get you guys inside," Cyber-Worm said.

Predator and Dragoness ran up to the building. Predator placed his hand near the keypad on the door and concentrated. He hoped this would work for he was still new to his powers. A weird sensation came over him as he felt himself leaving the suit. He stretched out his ghost like arm and touched the keypad on the door. Once he could feel the alarm he focused on possessing it. Soon he could feel himself between two laced, the suit and the building's alarm system.

"Better hurry," Jayson whispered feeling the strain on his body.

Madison went to work the moment he felt the link establish. It took some fancy networking but he soon had the alarms off and the doors unlocked. He knew it wouldn't last so he encouraged them through quickly. Once inside, Dragoness placed a device on the keypad on the inner door. In a matter of moments, the device allowed Cyber-Worm to gain complete control over the alarm system and shut if off and disable the cameras till they were done.

"We did it," Predator sighed as he shifted back fully into the Predator suit.

"We don't have much time. Dragoness, find Miss White's office. Once inside you will place the flash drive into her computer and that should allow me to gain full access to their computer network and hopefully find the information we need," Cyber-Worm said.

Dragoness knew exactly where to go. In a matter of moments they had made it to her old boss's office. She tried the door and it was locked. She placed the tip of her finger on the keyhole and called forth her powers. After a brief bio-electric blast the door flew open. Dragoness ran in as Predator stepped in after her.

"We're inside," Dragoness said.

"Great work. Now place the flash drive into her PC," Cyber-Worm said.

Once Dragoness had turned on the computer and inserted the flash drive, Cyber-Worm went to work. There were a lot of firewalls and security measures in place and he would have to do a lot of fancy figure work to get past them all and find what he was looking for. He just hoped he could get it and get his team out before they got caught.

"I'm afraid that I'm going to have to ask you to step away from my desk," a lady said causing them to jump.

"Miss White?" Dragoness asked as she saw her old boss step through another doorway.

"You have to stall and buy me the time I need," Cyber-Worm said into the Wild Pack's ears.

"Shouldn't be hard to tie her up," Predator laughed.

"Oh, don't think I didn't come prepared," Miss White said as another figure stepped out from behind her and stepped toward Predator.

"Cutter, peel open that tin can. Oh, and don't think you're getting off that easy, girl," Miss White laughed as the area around her hands began to glow white with light.

Vacant Lot

Black Cat was bruised and bleeding. They were out numbered two to one and they were over whelmed. Sasquatch was barely avoiding the powerful blasts of Deathlok and Paibok while Gravity and Blast kept Asp on the defensive. Black Cat wasn't too worried about Fire, it was Hunter that was giving her a taste of bad luck. They needed to get the upper hand before it was too late.

"Give up, Cat. You can't win against the Hunter," Hunter smiled as he dashed and nicked Felicia again with his knife drawing blood.

"Never," Black Cat said growling. She just needed to get one scratch on him.

Just as Black Cat was ready to pounce, a thick fog appeared out of no where. Moments later, the ground began to shake causing everyone to lose there footing and the bad guys to become distracted. Before anyone could react, hundreds of rats crawled out of the trash and vacant lot and swarmed the villains. Black Cat wondered where their luck was coming from when she saw a familiar face atop a building.

"Black Crow, thought you were suppose to stay at the Art of the Crow shop incase they showed p there again?" Cat asked.

"I had a feeling I might be needed here. Hope you're not complaining?" Black Crow smiled as he leapt and landed next to her.

"Not at all. I can say we're al glad to see you," Sasquatch said.

"I wouldn't get to comfy. The rats are leaving," Asp said as the rats were soon gone from sight.

"Crow here isn't the only one that can talk to the animals," Hunter laughed as he had convinced the rats to leave.

"Let's finish this," Black Cat snarled as she leapt at Hunter.

"I'll handle the sisters," Black Crow said facing the three again.

"Big green guy is mine," Sasquatch said running at Paibok while Asp turned and faced Deathlok.

Deathlok aimed his gun at Asp and fired at the dancing lady. Asp dodged and laughed. The whole time she had been on the defense before she had actually been charging herself up and now she was at full power. She began to dance and then brought her hands together above her head. A powerful blast left her hands and hit Deathlok square in the chest.

Deathlok screamed as the blast rendered his human parts paralyzed and his robotic parts offline. It had been a long time since she had sent a blast that powerful. The good side of her was glad it didn't kill him, but feared she may have left him permanently immobile. The bad sighed of her shrugged and knew he had it coming.

Sasquatch dodged the freeze and electrical basts that Paibok threw at him. He reached the evil Skrull and slammed him to the ground. Paibok turned his skin to metal and sent a hard punch back at the orange beast. Walter hit the ground and rubbed his chin. This would be tougher than he thought. Sasquatch growled and pounced on the alien and body slammed him to the ground.

Paibok was getting angry and was ready to finish the beast off when a series of blasts hit him in the back. Asp didn't have a lot of power left but it was enough to hit him with a few blasts. It didn't paralyze him, but it was enough to slow him down and weaken his powers. Sasquatch nodded thanks and began to hit the green Skrull. Paibok had just about had enough. He had only agreed to this as a means of observing the humans.

"I'm done here," Paibok said as he threw Sasquatch off and shifted form and took flight blasting up and into space unknown.

"Coward," Gravity shouted as she saw the green alien fly off.

"We don't need him to take care of these freaks," Blast said sending a blast at Black Crow.

Black Crow dodged the blast and turned to Gravity. He knew he had to take her down first. He called forth his powers and became a lightening bolt and flew at the girl. Before he hit her he shifted back so the impact would be minimum. Black Crow landed on his feet to see the impact affect Gravity enough to knock her unconscious. He then turned to face a wave of fire coming his way.

Black Crow leapt up and out of the way. He then reached behind him and suddenly had a spear in his hands. He swung it in time to deflect a blast from Blast and send it at Fire, knocking her out. He then threw the spear at Blast. As she sent a blast to protect herself, feather knives appeared in Crow's hands and found their way into the girl's body causing her to fall asleep from the knives tips.

"Three more down," Asp commented as her and Sasquatch approached Black Crow as he tied and bound the three girls.

"Better check on Cat," Black Crow said.

"Give up?" Hunter smiled.

"Never," Cat said as she jabbed inward and scratched the man on his cheek.

"Hardly a scratch," Hunter laughed grabbing her and throwing her backwards.

"It's all I needed," Black Cat smiled as she called forth her powers.

"For what?" Hunter asked as he suddenly felt off.

"My secret mutant power," Black Cat laughed as she sent bad luck his way.

Hunter snarled and leapt at the Black Cat. Out of no where he tripped over something and hit the ground. Black Cat was on him and putting him in a sleeper hold. She knew luck would only go so far and had to take him out fast. She started to pull out her rope when Hunter pulled free.

"We'll meet again when luck is on my side," Hunter said as he quickly dashed into the night.

"He got away," Black Cat swore.

"Don't worry, we have four of them. That's all that matter," Black Crow said as they all made sure their prisoners wouldn't get away before the authorities arrived.

Force Job Agency

Dragoness kept sending off her bio-electricity, but Miss White's white light powers seemed to draw and absorb her power. She didn't know what to do. White just stood there laughing. Dragoness was getting angry but was then distracted when she heard Predator scream. She looked over to see Cutter slice both his bladed arms threw Predators suit of armor.

Predator screamed in pure agony. Even though he wasn't really being cut, he could still feel the pain. The suit fell into two pieces as Jayson became solid next to it. Cutter smiled and advanced on him. With the suit out of play he had no way to defend himself. He closed his eyes and prayed.

"What?" Dragoness asked as the sight of the young kid.

Dragoness shouldn't believe it. Predator couldn't be more than eighteen. She thought he was older than her. She shook her head. She had to act fast or he would be killed. She called for her powers and sent her dragon's breath. The bio-electricity hit Cutter sending him to the ground in convulsions. He was soon out like a light, but that left Dragoness wide open. A white blast hit her in the back sending her crashing into the wall.

"Time to turn this computer off," White said as she moved toward her computer.

"Without the suit I've no way to contact Cyber-Worm. Going to have to risk it and stop her," Jayson said as he ran at the PC, calling forth his power and possessed the PC.

Just as White touched it Jayson took control. The PC shorted out and exploded in White's face burning her hands and face. She screamed as he became solid again. He quickly grabbed a large book and hit her over the head knocking her out. He then turned to check on Dragoness who was just getting to her feet.

"Good work," Dragoness said.

"Yeah, but I destroyed the PC," Jayson said.

"That's okay. Cybie was still able to get a bunch of files. He was only able to send documentation to the local and national authorities on White and Force Job Agency and her hired help. We may have not been able to put away the big cheese but at least this place and Miss White and her goons will be shut down permanently," Dragoness said.

"You better get out of there. The cops will be there soon. Word is that the others went into a trap. Seems I was setup, but the others won and have four waiting for the authorities as well," Cyber-Worm said.

Dragoness helped Jayson gather up what was left of the Predator suit and bolted out of the building. Cyber-Worm was glad they were able to shut down the Agency proving they were hiring the villains, but he knew that with the files he got that this was only the tip of the iceberg. He had to get to work and fast.

Art of the Crow

Surrender Monkey stepped over the unconscious Mr. Giles. He had timed it just right to knock the man out and gain entrance into the shop. At the last minute, Miss White had sent him another job so he left the others and came here. He had been instructed to place a device here in the basement of the shop as well as other key places throughout the city.

He made his way into the basement. It had been a long night but this was the last stop and the last device. He placed it on the ground and turned it on. He wasn't sure what these were for but he had the feeling that it was time to leave Bergsville for good.

Next: Issue #12 – Epilogue

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