Showdown of the Beasts
Missing Persons Report:
Waylon Jones. Born and raised in Gotham, fled to NYC at age 25. Medical status: Alive, Condition: Psychotic, Wanted: Dead.
Aleksei Sytsevich. Born in Russia, came overseas to take part in criminal activity. Medical status: Alive, Condition: Stable, Wanted: Alive(PRISONER ESCAPE)
Act 1
New York city, a city of dreams. One man is pursuing his dream. Down on the streets police sirens and crashed squad cars lay, destruction everywhere, paper bills floating in the wind. In the center of the street, Rhino stands. In all his glory, the armoured beast is a tank, filled to the teeth, with guns and rockets. He is a walking metal rhinoceros. He stands across from a blockade of cops, and Spider-Man. Rhino getting ready for a fight lowers his mechanical horn, and goes on all fours as he charges at the web slinger. Spidey webs a pothole and swings it around and slams it against Rhino's horn, sending him askew. Rhino stops and fires two missiles and Spider-Man. He dodges both. Using a fire hydrant, he uppercuts Rhino, sending the metal beast falling backwards. Then spidey webs Rhino just before he can fall and he pulls him into the water, that's shooting high into the air from the missing hydrant. The water jets slam against the Rhino, but he is too powerful, he doesn't
even flinch as he is being covered in water. He grabs Spidey and throws him straight through the brick wall of the bank. Rhino now charges again at spidey this time landing his attack and impaling Spider-Man's shoulder. Then, Rhino steps back and readys his guns to finish off the web crawler. With Spider-Man lying near dead on the ground, Rhino Gets an inner call from Harry Osborn, "DO NOT KILL SPIDER-MAN!" yells Osborn, "You leave him for me, That was the deal". Rhino, then lowers his weapons and turns around to run away, his mission completed. He runs down the street straight through the blockade of cops, smashing their cars all over, he then takes a missile and shoots it into the ground, creating a hole into the sewer. He jumps in and runs down into the sewer, making sure he won't be caught.
Act 2
Rhino ran down the sewer tunnels, on all fours he splashed through the murking water as he made his way back to Oscorp. He ran into a huge opening, where he stopped to take in what he was seeing. Blood filled these waters, bones with torn flesh still on them float by his feet, he was looking at carnage. There were body parts everywhere. There were four standard sewer tunnels leading out the room, and a fifth, that was dark, and filled with the floating skulls of all the victims. This frightened Rhino, as he had never seen this amount of brutal gore. As he slowly walked further into the big room, he noticed blood painted on the walls, they weren't just splattered, it was pictures of Crocodiles and of fighting, but there was a sentence that was written, it wrote,"King of the Sewer".
Rhino laughed at this, he knew he could take anyone who dwell in a sewer. Just then, he heard a quiet growl, coming from the dark hallway. He opened up his turrets on his paws, and said "Come out, come out, whoever you are?", mocking the growl. Just then two red eyes peered out at him. And suddenly a huge 8-foot tall creature jumped out and attacked him, roaring as he attacked. The two got into a fight and The creature started ripping off metal plates from Rhino's exterior, and pulled him into the water, Rhino started shooting and the bullets ricocheted all over the room. Some hitting Rhino and bouncing off and some hitting the creature making him step back and stand tall, roaring in pain. Rhino took the opportunity to send a fist into it`s chest, sending him into a wall. Rhino then picked up the creature and tossed him through the roof of the sewer. The creature slammed against the road, cars swerving around the creature and some even hitting it. Bouncing off to the side, he looked around in disarray. As Rhino burst through knocking the beast back a step. The two stared each other down as Rhino saw what he was up against, It was a giant half man half Crocodile, with a mouth full of razor sharp teeth and a sharp scaled back and tail. His hands were huge and could crush a human with ease, there were bandages made up from cloth on his wrists. This was the King of the Sewer, this was Killer Croc.
Act 3
Rhino wasted no time and opened his turrets and started to unload at Croc. Croc acted quickly and grabbed a car off the street and used it as a shield as he slowly moved towards Rhino. Croc then threw the car at Rhino and body slammed him down. Croc ripped the front horn off Rhino, and started to claw and bite his way through the thick glass to get to the Aleksei. He was almost there as Rhino was pinned and he couldn't fight back, he tried to swing punches but they weren't strong enough. Croc shattered the glass and went for the killing blow, he was shot with darts and being tazed down. Croc stood up and off Rhino, and let out a loud roar as more tranq darts and taser bolts hit him. Rhino now free of Croc got up and took off down the street, as two squad cars chased him. Croc was now the center of attention and he was surrounded by cops. He had nowhere to run and he could feel himself starting to go to sleep. He tried to make an exit but he had been shot too many times, he fell to the ground, unconscious.
Rhino now being chased down the street, half of his systems down, was able to fire two missiles, they aimed and hit both cops chasing him, they exploded killing the officers. Rhino now finally made it back to Oscorp.
Killer Croc woke up in chains, he had no idea where he was. It was dark and cold, he was restricted, he had a muzzle on, he knew he was back in prison. Croc was furious, he knew Rhino put him here, and he knew he was going to kill him. Croc was being sentenced to death, and was to be executed immediately. A platoon of guards going to bring Croc to execution walked down the dark, wet and cold hallway. They could hear Crocs breathing, his growls, but they were not scared. They all burst into Crocs cell, guns raised. But Croc was
gone, only two bloody chain cuffs, and two severed crocodile hands remain, the claws bigger than the men's hands. They heard Crocs subtle laughter and growls, as he jumped and attacked them one at a time, pulling their corpses into the dark abyss. Croc was able to number them down under ten, as they now formed a circle formation, all the gun lights on and their trigger fingers ready. Croc leapt from the shadows and tore through two men, then he slashed another soldier's face and jumped at a fourth guy. Before the soldiers knew what was happening they had lost half their remaining unit. The four men started to open fire on Croc and he was forced to fall back into the darkness.
The troops all went to escape the cell as Croc attacked them again, taking down two soldiers with a tail swipe and stabbing through a third with his new grown claws. The last soldier ran down the dark hallway, the overhead lights flickering, as he was in such a panic he forgot to lock the cell. Croc stepped out of his cell and the soldier saw the giant figure standing under the flickering light. Blood dripped from his mouth and claws as he slowly made his way to the soldier, gaining speed rapidly. The soldier froze in fear as Croc came closer, he was out of ammo. Croc stopped before him, the soldier trembling in fear, "Please, I, I have a family" The soldier begged. Croc licked the mans face with his long tongue covering his face in slime, Croc looked him in the eye, and smiled, "you can be my guide outta here" said Croc, the man thanked Croc as he was shaking frantically, then Croc shoulder checked him as he walk past him. They approached the elevator up to the surface. As Croc turned to look at the soldier, he was still fear stricken, and Croc said "Nah, No one survises me", and he ripped the man's head off as he screamed.
Croc then took the stairs up to the surface. Back in the blood filled cell one soldier grasped onto his last breath. He grabbed his walkie,
"Prisoner escape! Prisoner number 525, I repeat, Prisoner escape!" he said, as he died on the cold cell floor.
Act 4
Rhino Returned to Oscorp, battered from his battle with Croc, wires stuck out from his metallic shell, the small glass area under the horn was shattered, and his iconic horn, ripped off, gone. Aleksei climbed out of the mech as it went into the workshop for repairs, he was met by Harry Osborn. "You survived" said Harry, "You're damn right!" Alexsei replied in his thick Russian accent. "What was that thing that attacked you?" asked Harry, "It was some sort of Crocodile, man, thing. I don't care, because I'm going to kill it" said Alexsei. "Leave it for Kraven, he can deal with it," Harry said back, "We don't need any more distractions from our plan". Harry added. "No! First Spider-man now this, No! Let me do something" Alexsei said. "Fine, but you better kill it. You have two days or I'll send Kraven to deal with it, Understand?" Harry said. "Understood, i'll finish off that Croc, and then we`ll get the six together" Alexsei replied.
Harry walked off, scratching his neck. Aleksei headed into the workshop, where the Rhino mech was getting heavily worked on. New, better armour and thicker bulletproof glass shield, more ammo for his guns and even a special retractable spear filled with poison was added on its forearm. And a new horn was placed on the head of this mechanical beast.
Croc reached the surface level. Him now fueled with hatred and fully aware, he went ablaze, murdering every officer and official in his way. Utilizing his jaws filled with rows of razor sharp teeth, his giant hands with claws that could tear through steel, and his nasty tail swipe that could break a person's legs with one swipe. And with his great agility the officers were no match, even when they knew he was coming. Croc continued to kill everyone inside, they tried to fight back, but Croc was too agile, jumping around and only taking a few bullets. Croc then saw an escape and jumped out a window and ran down the street, seeing a man hole he stomped on it crushing it, he crawled down into the sewers, "I'm coming for you Rhino" he muttered.
Act 5
Croc splashed through the sewer tunnels, he knew them like the back of his hand,he had lived in them for years. He passed by garbage and old clothes, he passed on through his lair, bolting by quickly as there still remained a hole above it. As night drew nearer Croc knew where he was headed, Oscorp. As he made his way to fight Rhino, Croc had nightmares of past trauma, especially his childhood. How he was bullied, beaten, disowned, and cast out by society. Croc often had the same recurring nightmare, of the day his life was ruined. A young Waylon Jones, only six years old, had a normal childhood growing up just outside Gotham city. Waylon loved to play outside and was a very active boy, he had many friends both in school and in his neighborhood. But on his seventh Birthday everything changed, Waylon grew up under his father, his mother dying in childbirth. Unknown to him or his family he had a rare condition, which would start showing signs at a young age. On Waylon's birthday he woke up bright and early. He woke up feeling different than before, he didn't know what it was, he noticed the skin on his chest looked a little green, and when he felt it was hard and scaly. He thought he must've spilt paint on himself at school, and he went on to clean it and when it didn't wash off he didn't really care, because it was his birthday. And he went on with his day. Over the course of the next year Waylon underwent many changes, his nails grew at an accelerated rate, turning sharp and yellow. He grew 3 feet and his skin slowly grew hard and turned green, and his face was the worst. Losing all the human features that made him such a lovable little boy, turning his eyes red and his teeth sharp and pointed. His mouth even came out like the snout of a crocodile. He was scared and ashamed, but had no one to talk to as his father beat him to assure he was more powerful than his son. At school he was bullied, called names and even beaten by his once friends. His teachers made him learn outside, segregated from the rest of his class. His life was ruined, he hated himself. He looked like and was treated like a monster, so, the scared boy, not knowing what to do, became a monster. He stopped going to school, his father abandoned him, he started to live in the sewers as he continued to grow and get a hatred towards society, he hunted all his food, mainly cats, birds and small critters, and when he got old enough he started going after larger prey, deer, dogs and even humans. He had fully embraced himself as the Killer Croc, forged through pain and shame.
Act 6
Croc made his way to Oscorp through the sewers, He entered the building by blasting through the bathroom floor. He crawled out and laughed demonically, growling and snarling his way to the door. He was filled with hate, a mass murderer, ready to kill.
Aleksei headed to the workshop, to get in Rhino to go find Croc. But just then the building's alarm system went off, securing all exits and all the buildings light went off, and the emergency blinking red and white lights came on. Police and authorities rushed to the scene, as Aleksei now rushed to get in the suit. Just as he got to the workshop Croc jumped out at him, Aleksei dropped to the floor sending Croc flying into the wall behind him. Aleksei drew his pistol and unloaded on the crater where Croc landed, then ran and hopped into the Rhino suit. Croc raised, his mouth oozing out blood, from him killing all the repairmen and scientists on his way to fight Rhino, and now the new and improved Rhino stood, all systems online. The two beasts stared each other down, each ready to kill the other.
Rhino got things started by firing two light missiles at Croc, he dodged one with a jump and grabbed an old metal scrap from the old Rhino to block the second missile. Croc then tossed the part aside and charged at Rhino, tackling him through the wall and into the large open lobby of Oscorp. The room was dark and flashed with red and white lights and lightning from the brewing storm outside in the night sky. Rhino got to his feet quicker than Croc and utilized his wrist turrets, firing into Croc. Croc used his arm to block most of the bullets, then threw the reception desk into Rhino, sending him flying towards the door. Croc muttered "come get me Rhino" as he laughed. Rhino replied "I'll crush you! I will kill you Croc!" as Croc took off scaling the inside of the tall building, bursting through the glass wall near the top of the building.
Rhino wasted no time heading to the giant elevator that was meant to transport heavy items, he took it to the roof. Rhino arrived at the roof and rain bounced off his metal shell, lighting and thunder crashed overhead, there was no sign of Croc. But Rhino could feel his presence. Rhino engaged his turrets and slowly walked forward, looking for Croc. As he walked Croc was hiding behind him up above the elevator doors, waiting to attack. Croc waited until Rhino got far enough away from the wall that he couldn't turn back, then Croc jumped out to attack. Croc landed on Rhinos back and immediately went to bite and claw his way through the armour, but Rhino was ready as he tossed Croc over his shoulder. As Croc fell to the ground he managed to tear both of Rhino's turrets off of his mechanized wrists. Rhino took a step back and summoned his spear, filled with enough poison to kill an elephant. Croc raised from the ground, and let out a growl as he extended his claws out at Rhino. Rhino charged towards Croc swinging and missing with the spear, Croc slashed off a chunk of armour as he jumped to the side to dodge Rhinos attack. Then with Rhino's back turned Croc jumped on his back, biting at the
metal horn and ripping away from the metal shell, Rhino jerked around sending Croc flying off his back. Rhino lowered his horn, and charged at Croc, leading head first. Croc tried to jump away but Rhino's horn stabbed through Crocs shoulder, pinning the crocodilian to the wall. Rhino then took out his spear to inject it into Croc, he pushed it into Croc but Croc caught it, and tried to stop it from going in, using all his remaining strength Croc couldn't hold for very much longer. Rhino uses all this mechanical strength to try to drive the poison spear into his enemy. Croc finally gave out and the spear drove into his stomach, Croc let out a roar, as the poison emptied the spear. Rhino stood back, and looked at Croc, he was dying, slowly. Rhino opened up his cockpit, to say his final words to Croc. "you were no match for me, you freak!" said Aleksei, Croc was too weakened to respond. As right then Harry Osborn, arrived on the roof, "well done Aleksei, or should I say, Rhino, looks like you delivered, good work". Aleksei turned to face Harry in celebration. As Croc then jumped onto his back, again, this time he ripped the horn off and he drove the spear straight through Aleksei`s face, Croc then ripped apart the Rhino suit laying waste to it. He stared into Harry's eyes as he pulled the mechanized suit away to the ledge as tossed it off the tower. Harry rushed into the elevator, Croc chased him down but was too late, Harry got away. Croc looked at his shoulder and stomach wounds, the poison won't affect him as his bile and blood is already made up of poison. And the poison used had a similar make up to the poison inside him. Croc laughed at the thought of it, but he knew he must retreat or he would die of blood loss. He ran over the edge of the building, dug a claw into the side of the building and scaled the building. When he reached the bottom he ran down the street and back into the sewers.
Harry took the elevator down to his office, picked up his phone and made a call, "Tell Kraven I want that Crocs head, and I'm willing to pay for it".
Showdown of the Beasts
By: Owen Desrosiers