Spells and Louds
Chapter 82: Shrike and Shock
(FutureTech HQ)
Martin, Victor and Penny are running diagnostics on the new hero attire of Linka, she is also there trying on the outfit.
Think of Linka wearing the same outfit as Overwatch hero Ana, only in Shrike mode. With the colors being white, grey and some blue along with the logo of FutureTech and the Terran Dominion. The face mask is the same as Shrike Ana only the screen changes when she's targeting anything as either a friendly or a hostile.
"Okay, seems like everything is in working order" said Martin.
"Let's see if the suit is fully functional with its capabilities" said Victor.
Linka nods and then faces the obstacles in front of herm though she did not come there without an audience.
Also there is Lincoln, Luna, Niel, Gwen, Courage, Leon and Sergei.
Penny then lowers a platform with Linka's weapon.
"Alright, I've done some calibrations to your FuTch-75 Biotic Sniper Rifle, it can now convert into a shotgun blasting Crossbow" said Penny. "You will be pleased with all of the modifications on it".
"Are you ready?" asked Martin from the other side of the glass.
Linka looks to the glass and sees her family proud of her, Lincoln gives her a thumbs up.
Linka then looks ahead and activates the mask. "Ready as I'll ever be!"
Victor pushes a switch and multiple prototype droids come out (their actually battle droids that Hollow salvaged and gave to FutureTech).
Linka runs to the sides and fires her sniper rifle to each of her targets, she then pulls out a stun grenade which causes the droids heads to spin out of control. She then changes her ammo rounds into shock bullets which stun a few of the droids giving her the opportunity to take them all out.
Linka leaps into the air and enters stealth mode, where she is now invisible. The droids look around for her, but instead they get stabbed by a small dagger.
Linka comes out of stealth and throws a smoke canister, the droids can't see but they get shot at point blank range when Linka converts her sniper rifle in to a Crossbow and they were right, it does have the same firepower of a shotgun.
She then spots the last droid to take out. A Droideka, it spots Linka, activates its personal shield generator and opens fire on her.
Linka takes cover behind an obstacle. She looks around and sees the other barricades in the area.
She throws out a smoke grenade which the Droideka transforms into a wheel and rolls in for a closer shot. But when it transforms back there is no one.
Suddenly it gets tangled by a net that activates an electric field destroying the Droideka's circuits.
Linka comes out of stealth, also she was clinging to the wall using her boots and gloves.
She lands onto the ground and walks towards the Droideka still struggling. She converts her sniper rifle into a crossbow and blasts the Droideka in the head.
Linka deactivates the mask and looks to her family. "So. How was that?" asked Linka.
They were all shocked at what she did and they gave her an applause.
Luna: Rock on man!
Neil: Damn Linka!
Gwen: We're so proud of you!
Leon: That was intense!
Sergei: And a little scary.
Lincoln: That's my gender bent sis!
Courage changes into a cheer leader and cheers her for her victory, which freaks everyone else at what he just did.
The doors open and Linka rejoins them. "Well, seems like this new look on me is turning out great" said Linka.
"Yup, you are improving with the suit" said Martin. "There's no need for any more alterations" said Victor.
"But, if there are any ideas you have in mind, don't be afraid to tell us and we'll think of something" said Penny.
"Thanks guys, this means a lot. Now I don't have to constantly need the Odin to be a hero" said Linka.
"Yeah! You can just use the big bad Ragna-Rock and Roll for emergencies, like invasions or wars" said Luna. "Like what I do with Lucius".
"By the way, have you thought of your hero name yet?" asked Lincoln.
Linka looks around and spots an image of a bird on the wall. The bird is a species known in Egypt.
Then she sees the color of her suit has some blue colors on it, well some blue colors.
Linka smiles and looks to them. "Azure Shrike!"
They all looked at each other and smiled. "Sounds like a cool name to me dude" said Luna.
"Like the Egyptian bird" said Leon. "Almost sounds like Azure Strike, but that works too" said Sergei.
"Freezer Burn and Azure Shrike! Does kinda have a good ring to it" said Lincoln.
When they all were about to leave and celebrate they all hear a loud thunder sound. They all look outside and see storm clouds were approaching.
"Well, this was unexpected" said Neil. "Looks like we won't be going home, until this storm passes" said Gwen.
Then Penny gets an idea and goes to Martin. "Father, how about you use your newest invention to send the storm away?" said Penny.
The Spellman's all look at them. "Okay McKenzie, What in god's name did you invent?" asked Neil.
Martin and Victor look at each other. "Well, the test runs have been working smooth" said Victor.
"And we were able to bring rain to the people in Africa and Asia" said Martin. "The heck with it, let's put it to another good use!"
"Okay, we're a little confused here. What are you guys talking about?!" asked Gwen.
"Follow us" said Martin. They all followed him, Victor and Penny into another room.
It was as large as the Chronosphere device's room. But inside was a large tower like structure with four smaller towers around it, there is some energy glowing and some cloud like images inside the main tower which is globe shaped.
"What is that thing?" asked Luna.
Martin and Victor set the coordinates and the meteorology systems into working order, they power up its main reactor and the device starts humming.
"So, what does this thing do?" asked Linka.
"Control the weather" said Victor. "I'm sorry what?!" said Neil in shock.
"Ladies and Gentleman, say hello to the Weather Control Device" replied Victor.
Martin and Victor look towards Penny. She smiles and gives them the thumbs up.
Martin and Victor look at each other and nod in agreement, they then flip the switch.
The machine starts to glow and shoots a purple beam into the sky.
(Rewind a few minutes ago)
Sam had just finished rehearsal with Chunk and some of the band mates.
Sam sends some text messages to Sam on what she is up to. "Wonder what my babe is doing now?" said Sam to herself.
Sam is wearing headphones which are attached to her iPod. She technically has no idea what was happening in the sky.
Just then a lightning bolt almost hits her, it strikes the road instead.
Sam jumps back from seeing the flash, she then removes her headphones and turns off her iPod.
"Whoa! What the heck?!" she then looks up and sees the massive storm clouds, they all make thunderous sounds as they fly above her.
Feeling cautious Sam heads to the nearest shelter, which was a bus stop. She then keeps all of her electronics offline and into her pockets.
"Oh jeez! Just gotta wait out this thunder storm, good thing lightning doesn't strike twice" Sam said to herself.
Just then she sees a purple beam hit the sky. All of the clouds start to disperse from the area, causing the sky to almost clear up.
Sam comes out of hiding and sighs in relief. "Thank goodness for that weird beam" said Sam.
Now Sam said that lightning doesn't strike twice, well in this case it might.
Before the storm breaks apart, it casts one last lightning strike, but it ricochets off an electric post, then hits a telephone post, then bounces onto a cell signal tower and then hits the ground underneath Sam.
Sam is shocked in place as more than five hundred thousand bolts of electricity is surged into her body.
Her phone drops and turns on from the lightning hit, it also hits camera mode and records.
Sam stays in place still getting electrocuted, then after fifty seconds of electrifying pain, she collapses onto the ground with her hair showing static signs.
The phone then hits send and shuts down.
(Back at FutureTech)
They finally shutdown the machine and close the ceiling doors.
"Says here that the storm did one more lightning strike before it dispersed" said Penny.
"Let's hope no one got hit by that loose strike" said Victor.
"So, this thing controls the weather?" asked Lincoln.
"Yeah, we've been using it to bring a few rain clouds to areas on earth that need the water" said Martin.
"But it can also be sued as a weapon, call it the lightning storm protocol if you may" replied Victor.
"That's the only thing it can do. Create small storms, no tornados, no monsoons no heavy kinds of natural disasters" said Penny.
"So, this can stop only rain and lightning storms?" asked Neil.
"To put it your way, yeah. That's about it" said Martin.
"Well, the storms gone, we should head back home now" said Gwen.
They all say their goodbye to Martin, Victor and Penny and head out. On the way Luna sees that she has a message on her phone.
A few text messages from her GF Sam. But then she sees a recorded video message. "Huh, must be a recording session of the rehearsal" said Luna.
But when she plays it, her expression changes to a deadpan one.
Neil and the others notice this before they all head into they're rides.
"Luna? Are you okay?" asked Lincoln.
Luna drops her phone and transforms into Luna Frost. She then creates an ice road and rides off.
"What the heck?!" said Neil.
"Luna! Where is she going?" said Lincoln.
Courage picks up the phone and sees the video, he screams and then hands it to Linka.
"Man! You scream louder than a banshee" said Neil. But then they see the shocked look on Linka's face.
"Linka? Sweetie, whats wrong?" asked Gwen.
Linka takes the phone and heads back inside FutureTech. The others were confused, but they also follow her.
Meanwhile. Luna is now inbound to the location of Sam, she then spots a scorched location with some destroyed electric lines.
"Hang on Sam!" said Luna as she rides on her ice road.
She then spots something blonde haired trying to get up. "SAM!" she jumps off her ice road and lands onto the ground and runs towards Sam.
Luna approaches Sam and catches her before she collapses to the ground again.
Something was wrong with Sam, her hair kept changing from blonde to electric blue and she was giving off some static sounds.
"L-Lu-na" said Sam weakly. Her skin was starting to change to pale every time she tried to speak.
"Just hang in there Sammy, you're gonna be okay!" said Luna with tears in her eyes.
Sam suddenly feels an immense amount of pain and every electric post in the area starts to spark.
"I'm scared, w-what's happening?" said Sam with a scared and yet weak tone.
Luna can only wipe a small tear away from Sam's face. Even though she was making small electric currents, Luna didn't care. In fact it didn't even hurt her.
Then a Medivac Dropship arrives.
Neil, Leon, Sergei, Gwen, Lincoln, Linka and Courage jump off the Dropship.
Courage is wearing a doctor's outfit and tries to approach Sam. But when he approaches her and touches her skin he gets a massive electric shock, they all cover their eyes from the light coming from Courage.
When the light clears all they see is a black scorched Courage with a dazed smile on his face and his signature laugh.
Linka picks up Courage and cradles him. Martin comes down with Penny, they scan Sam.
"She has some kind of electrical anomaly inside of her" said Penny. "This is complicated, we need something to carry her without causing any harm to us" replied Martin.
Sergei gets an idea, he summons his thunder crimson hammer and wraps it in a cloth. The then attaches the other end of the cloth to a steel pole. It made some sort of stretcher.
Since Sergei is almost immune to electrical currents which is why he has the hammer. He places Sam on the cloth and carries one end of the make shift stretcher with Luna on the other end.
They place her in the Medivac and fly off towards FutureTech.
(A few minutes later)
Sam starts to open her eyes, she looks around and sees she's in some kind of lab/hospital.
She then feels something holding her hadn while asleep. Next to her was Luna, all tuckered out and still holding Sam's hand.
Sam smiles and gently strokes Luna's Pixie cut hair. But this causes Luna to wake up and see Sam.
"Sam!" Luna hugs her tightly. Sam also responds with her own hug.
Then the doors open and they see the rest of the Spellman family along with Martin, Victor and Penny.
"Thank goodness you're okay kid" said Neil.
"You had us all worried" said Gwen.
"We saw the video" said Linka.
"How the heck did you survive that hit?!" said Lincoln.
"You could've been fried" said Leon. Luna looks at him angrily. "What?" asked Leon.
Sam looks at her hands. "I-I don't know how I survived that lightning bolt" said Sam.
Martin then scans her. "Seems like you're DNA has been mutated by the hit, you now bare the ability to manipulate yourself and anything around you using electrical currents, whether it be alternate or direct" said Martin.
They all look at him confused. "I understood that" said Penny.
"It means she has electric powers" said Victor.
"What?!" they all say in shock.
"I have powers?!" said Sam. Then a light bulb explodes on Penny's head. "I did not feel that at all" said Penny.
"B-But how?" said Luna.
Martin scratches his head. "No clue, this one is tough to figure out and I doubt the weather storm device had anything to do with it" said Martin.
"It's not designed to alter lightning in that state, just to make sure it's controlled" said Victor.
"Perhaps a chain reaction from the environment caused this" said Penny.
Then Sam realizes. "You mean, like if the lightning hits multiple different things?" said Sam.
They all look at her in confusion. "Because that's what happened before I was struck" said Sam.
"That is something we need to look upon" said Victor.
"I contacted your dad, he was worried, but I told him you were going to be fine" said Neil.
Sam sighs in relief. "Thanks, the last thing I need is my dad coming here and-" they then hear some security guards being overpowered from outside and a man yelling at them to let him through.
A man in a cowboy like attire comes in and sees Sam. "Sam! Darling what happened to you?" said Peter. (From my story A Sparking Relationship and Yes man alternate)
"Dad!" Sam is about to hug her dad, but then Peter gets hit by the electric shock and is knocked onto a medicine cabinet.
Peter shakes it off and looks at Sam. "Well, that happened".
Sam runs to her dad and helps him up, then she hugs him. "Dad! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to shock you" said Sam with some tears.
Peter returns the hug and calms her down. "Hey now, don't you go crying on me" said Peter. "I'm fine, not that shaken but fine".
He then looks at everyone else. And then to Neil. "It's good to see you too Spellman" said Peter.
"Peterson Sharp. The roadie of the band Kiss. Oh wait, formerly the roadie" said Neil jokingly.
Peter chuckles as well. "Yeah, that's me".
Sam breaks the hug and looks to her dad in confusion. "That's a story for another time. but right now I wanna know what the ding dang firepower is going on with my little girl?" asked Peter with concern.
They then explain to him about Sam now possessing Electric powers. Peter sits down and rubs his temples.
"So, my future little Rockstar, is now a super powered human. Of electricity?" said Peter.
Luna approaches him. "Sir, yes. It is true. I'm sorry we weren't fast enough to save her" said Luna.
Peter smiles at Luna. "Don't go beatin' yourself over that now. None of you knew that was gonna happen".
Peter then walks towards his daughter and hugs her. "I'm just so glad you're okay" said Peter with some tears. Sam hugs him back and also cries.
He then looks at all of them. "Thank you, for helping her out of that mess" said Peter.
"Sam is also family, if her and Luna are a thing, then she's family" said Gwen.
"Which means your family to, old friend" said Neil. Peter and Neil shake hands.
"Dang right" said Peter. They all look at Neil and Peter confused. "It's a long story, for next time" they both say in unison.
"Okay, we should probably run some tests to see what you're capable of" said Victor.
"But, since it's getting late. I suggest we do it tomorrow" said Penny.
"And thank goodness it's Friday" said Victor.
Sam looks at her dad with a look he understands. "Okay darlin' you can do some hero trainin' stuff tomorrow. But I wanna be there too" replied Peter.
(The next day)
The Spellman's, Lori, Lisa, Martin, Victor, Penny, Dana, Becky and Peter are now at the Spellman's house backyard.
Sam is now standing by herself facing multiple training dummies. Only these ones have been upgraded to move. They're actually battle droid Assassins.
"Alright, you sure you wanna give this a shot? We could do this some other time" said Victor.
Sam looks to them with a serious look. Luna and Peter understood what that meant. "If she says she can do this, then I believe her" said Luna.
"So let's see what my little rocker can do man" said Peter.
Martin pushes a button and the assassin droids awaken. They arms their blasters and open fire.
In a freeze frame motion Sam closes her eyes. In her thoughts she remembers seeing all of the others focusing their powers and hers was no different from theirs, all it takes is control over the mind and emotions.
Sam opens her eyes which are now changed to a glowing blue color. The blasts from the droids are being absorbed by her.
Then a flow or electricity engulfs Sam. After the light fades Sam was now different.
Her skin is now pale white, like Luna when she's Luna Frost, her blonde hair is now replaced by electric blue, but her blue streak is still there.
Sam is now wearing a black long-sleeved Leotard with some jacket style collar on the neck, her chest area has a lightning bolt shape revealing a little bit of skin. Her upper thighs are exposed and she's wearing black knee high boots. Her earrings are also changed into lightning shaped as well.
"I am Sam. But now I'm LiveWire!" said Sam. She then summons a lightning bolt that transforms into a naginata.
"Wow! Too early for a costume change" said Becky. "And she already came up with her name" said Dana.
Luna's jaw drops from seeing her girlfriend's new form. Peter is shocked (not literally) from what Sam had just turn into.
Sam then surges forward and strikes three droids with her naginata. She then throws it to another droid, impaling it to the ground.
Sam warps through the dirt as a bolt of electricity and appears behind a droid, where she continues to punch it several times. She then grabs the head and electrocutes it. Making the droids head explode.
Sam then flies into the sky and blasts the ground with electric bolts from her hands, destroying the rest of the droids.
When she lands down she teleports to a droid that is about to get up. She garbs its arm and twists it. She then breaks its leg and kicks it to the wall.
Sam warps to the droid on the wall and presses her foot on its chest and crushes its circuits. Sam grabs the head with both her hands and sends more than five hundred volts into the droid, making it explode.
She then walks towards the others, but not without summoning an electric whip and grabbing another droid before it fires. She then pulls it towards her and kicks it in the head, making the head fly off.
Sam makes the whip and naginata disappear and looks to the others, she then powers down to normal Sam Sharp.
"So, how was that?" asked Sam.
They all remain in complete silence. Then they clap and cheer for her.
"My lord! You were killing them out there!" said Peter. "Thanks dad" said Sam.
"You just flew and laid waste to them!" said Neil.
"That was literally awesome!" said Lori.
"And the name! It totes suits you, so did the outfit!" said Leni.
Sam smiles and gets an idea, she then changes back to her hero attire. "You mean this thing?"
"Dang! That is pretty cool" said Sunset.
Luna approaches Sam and hugs her. Sam hugs as well. When they part the hug, they look into each other's eyes and kiss, though this was more of a make out kiss.
Martin and Victor stayed in awkward silence from this. "This is very awkward" said Penny.
Neil and Peter cough to get their attention. The two super hero girls break the kiss and look lovingly into each other's eyes.
"You were smokin' out there Sammy, or should I say Livewire" said Luna. She then notices something from Sam's chest. "And it looks like the laws of physics is making things weird, kinda like me".
Sam also notices her chest. "Yeah, this is something I wanna know too" said Sam. Peter pinches the bridge on his nose. "You're not yet sixteen and your already growing up" said Peter.
"Dad!" said Sam jokingly. "Sorry, sorry. I'm just so dang proud that you get to be a superhero next to your Luna" said Peter.
Neil and the others approach Sam. They all power up into the Royal Defenders. "Welcome to the team, Livewire" said Lincoln.
Sam felt happy. "Well, it sure does feel awesome to be part of one".
Just then they hear another emergency message from FutureTech. They all look towards Martin and Victor.
"It's not us, we are not doing this" said Martin. "But someone at FutureTech is" said Victor.
"We should get going, it could be the guardian" said Leon. They all nodded and went to their cars.
Before Sam goes with them, her dad hugs her one more time. "This could be your first mission darlin'" said Peter.
Sam returns the hug "I'll be safe dad. I have a team with me" replied Sam.
They break the hug and look at each other. "Your mom would be so proud of you" said Peter.
Sam feels like crying, but she toughens up. "Yeah, she would".
Peter smiles. "Now, go on, get outta here! Show them villains how you shock and awe!" said Peter.
"I will make them shocked out of their mind!" said Sam. She then runs towards Luna's car and they drive off to FutureTech.
Peter just watches as Sam runs off with her new team and whatever new hero life she's gonna get.
Peter then looks to his motorbike. 'At least she didn't inherit the curse I have' Peter looks to his fingerless gloved hand, it turns into fire with some boney parts. 'This curse has to stay with me, I promised to keep it that way'
Peter then gets on his bike and drives back home. 'Maybe someday. I'll tell her'.
(FutureTech HQ)
They all head into the warehouse and spot the Guardian with Pyrrha, and Optimus Prime?
"Whoa! What is happening here?" asked Victor.
Gyro and Pyrrha notice Sam was different. "I'm gonna ask about her next time. But right now, we have a world to assists" said Gyro.
"What is this world about? And why is Knight Optimus Prime here?" said Lincoln.
"Let's just say, there is another world that bares the same trait as mine" replied Optimus.
"So, it's a transformers world" said Linka.
"Indeed, but there is a slight problem" said Pyrrha. "And what is that?" asked Neil.
"Have you ever heard of MECH?" said Gyro.
To be continued …
I would like to thank Czar Joseph for the idea of Linka's superhero attire and hero name, it was about time she became an official team member. And now Sam is part of the Defenders, her outfit idea came from a Deviantart by Parasomnico and it looks like they're about to venture into a Transformers world, but which one?
Peter is an OC of mine from my Yes Man alternate ending story and he's also in my story of A Sparking Relationship. I decided to give him a role in Spells and Louds and make him the father of Sam, but the curse he bares is for next time. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.