Chapter 20
Spawn was gobsmacked by this development, Haunt was the guy under the cloak, he must have been transported here, the gem in his chest must have been the destroyed red chaos emerald, but he then noticed a second different shaped emerald bellow the one in his chest, when did he get that?, when did he get those blue objects embedded in his ectoplasm skin?.
For those who aren't familiar with this character I shall elaborate for your sake. Haunt was a combination of two people, Daniel Kilgore and his brother Kurt Kilgore, the two were complete opposites, Daniel was a priest and Kurt was a soldier who died in action. However Kurt did not move on to judgement and instead came to his brother as a ghost. While protecting Kurt's girlfriend, Daniel accidentally gets knocked into Kurt and the two fused and become Haunt.
Daniels body gets covered in an ectoplasma like substance sort of like a symbiote from marvel but different, the two didn't get along at first but as time went on and the more they used their haunt form the closer they became. While Danial is the body of the haunt and the one covered in ectoplasm, Kurt is the one who provides battle skills and the ectoplasm itself. This ectoplasm allows them to form webs, tendrils and even bladed weapons all made out of ectoplasm. Of course they also have some marksman skills
Spawn and Haunt became good friends due to having similar situations, so Spawn was very naturally and seriously concerned. "Haunt! What happened to you?" Spawn asked, "we were knocked out don't know by who, but we were unable to separate" Haunt replied in both the voice of Kurt and Daniel, "we were experimented on, they attached odd objects onto us, they attached this cloak, it belonged to hellspawn who were killed in battle, then they put something inside us, part spirit part A.I that's all i know" the ectoplasma on Haunt seemed to be trying to return to its previous form and yet still stay in Haunt's natural form.
In short it looked like it was at war with itself, "they called us…. Necrohaunt", "Necrohaunt?" All thought as the pieces came together, "just like- NECRO COP!" "i think i know what your talking about" Spawn said bending down to help the two, Necrocop was a man made hellspawn using technology and part of Spawns own cloak, however it was destroyed by Spawn before it could learn all the hellspawn abilities ."they probably based you off the Necrocop project" Spawn told Haunt "i'm gonna have to rip the cloak-" but before there could be any ripping of cloaks, Haunt grabbed him by the throat and lifted him bodily from the ground.
His face and patterns had returned to what Spawn assumed to be his Necrohaunt face with the teeth showing, he growled a little bit like an animal or a ghoul, "haunt i really don't want to hurt you" Spawn said bringing back his rifle, bullets wouldn't do much against Haunt but it was better than nothing. Spawn back flipped and landed with rifle level, he fired a burst of bullets, non really doing any damage but still.
NecroHaunt formed nasty looking swords from his arms and charged at Spawn, Spawn sent out his chains while firing, Haunt grabbed the chains however and began sending electricity down them. The blue circles began to circle seemingly and generate electricity. That did explain their purpose plus the necrocop did have limited control over electricity, Spawn was electrocuted by who knows how many volts. NecroHaunt then swung Spawn around on the chains, breaking a couple of trees in the process before finally letting go and Spawn was sent head over hills into multiple trees.
Making comical holes in the shape of him, "ow" Spawn muttered then got up, still holding his rifle and fired a grenade from his grenade launcher while Haunt was running, the collision made a large explosion, sending Necrohaunt back a good few feet with a whole in his chest, however he healed himself by regenerating ectoplasm. "Haunt come on snap out of it" Spawn demanded as he used his ability to control plants and wrap multiple branches around Necrohaunt and tie him to a tree, some of the bark began to slither up his body to add an extra layer of constriction.
"That should hold you" Spawn growled mentally, "now to remove-" once again he was cut off, in more ways than one as it happened, he was literally cut in half horizontally from behind the the two halves of him were sent flying. Spawn rolled the top half of his body over in order to see who did it.
It was two of the agents of sin, Lust and Gluttony, Gluttony's demon was swallowing his legs, "Damn gonna have to regenerate" Spawn thought as his legs began to grow back at an accelerated rate, not even deadpool could regenerate as fast as him. "Glad to see your brutality hasn't stopped Spawn" Gluttony's host said as the demon returned to the body, "what the hell are you assholes doing here" Spawn demanded, "allow me to introduce us" Gluttony said, "i am Gluttony leader of the agents of sin and this is Lust" Lust showed Spawn her sharp claws which must have been what cut him in half.
"give us the chaos emerald" Lust offered, "and you can-" "no there is no bargaining with him" Gluttony said cutting Lust off to her slight surprise, "Al always liked to play hero and the patriote, in fact that is what got him into trouble and dead" Spawn became more and more uncomfortable. "How do you know that" Al asked and "how do you know my real name?" though he knew that most people that were involved in his business knew his name.
"Oh Al, Al, Al, you have no idea" Gluttony said as he began to take off his helmet. Spawn eyes widened and filled with horror as the face he saw made bad memories hit him like a ton of bricks. The face he saw was the face of his old boss and the one who had Chapel kill him.
Jason Wynn himself
His face was like the other satanist that i mentioned earlier but still recognizable, his cheek and lips skin were missing showing his teeth and jaw bones, his hair was black and in a ducktail, his skin however was pale like a corpse. "Jason!?" Spawn exclaimed, disbelief tearing him on an emotional level, "bu-y-your...dead" Spawn stammered slowly, "no shit sherlock" Jason said as he took out a cigarette, lighting it and putting it in between his showing teeth.
"How are you-?" Spawn asked unable to finish, "i'm not" Jason said "it's a simple ritual that puts the soul from hell back in it's rotting body, all the satanists have them", Lust meanwhile was putting something on the struggling Necrohaunts forehead, the creature thrashed violently for a moment then relaxed, Lust cut him out and they got beside Jason.
Spawn shook off the shock and got ready for battle, "then i guess i'll have to send you back to hell with me" Spawn said, reloading his rifle, Jason put his helmet back on and readied his own rifle. But then Lust was roughly knocked inside by an invisible force, Spawn was then knocked into another tree, which he was really getting sick of. They're gaze was now up and up above were 3 mobian birds, one was a green hawk, another was a pink swallow with white flare design trousers and a white tube top and a very bulky grey albatross. All wearing goggles or in the swallows case glasses and all of them flying on what appeared to be surfboards.
These were the Babylon Rogues themselves, Jet the hawk, Wave the swallow and Storm the albatross. "Rogues get the emeralds" Jet said, "sure Jet" Wave said, "you got it boss" Storm added. "You two take care of them, I'll deal with Simmons" Gluttony ordered, Lust and Necrohaunt nodded, "great now they have Haunt under control this day just keeps getting worse doesn't it" Spawn thought.
Then ducked from getting shot by 3 bursts from Gluttony's rifle, firing a burst of shots of his own, while jumping up and using his cloak to glide backwards and onto branch, he then summoned a series of roots to shoot up as spikes at Gluttony, who back flipped and landed on another tree and firing another burst of bullets at Spawn who ran along the branches of trees to avoid them.
The bark and leave of the trees were not so lucky, nether was a golden finish who had been living in the trees for who knows how long until now, Spawn then summoned a spear and threw it at Gluttony, however the blood on Gluttony' gloved arms flowed out and formed the claw his demon had and cut the spear to strips, then jumped down from the bark forming another claw in the other had. Spawn summoned a dual sword of it with his cloak and went close quarters.
Meanwhile the Rogue were having a run for their money, in more ways than one for they were thieves and that's all they were the never got involved in kidnapped or murdered or any other crime like that. Sometimes they were hired to steal for or from somebody, or they generally did it for themselves. Today however they were struggling, "wow Jet i'm starting to wonder if this is worth it" Wave said, concerned as she narrowly avoided one of Necrohants spikes that had electricity running through it.
"Off course it's worth it their Chaos emeralds" Jet retorted as he just about dodged Lust's sharp claws that extended to the length of shortswords, "but we need to up our game" he added drawing his weapons which were giant fans known as Bashosens and Wave got out a rather large wrench with a handle the length of a short spear hilt.
Storm got a punch to the side of Necrohaunts head as he flew by, Necrohaunt howled and sent a series of spikes shooting out from one arm as thick as the tree's around them. Wave slammed Lust with her wrench in her gut, however the demon's squid skin-like matter traveled up the wrench and grabbed hold of her body from the hands.
Wave's board flew on and rested down on the ground out of reach, Wave was held of the ground by Lust holding her by the lower arms, her wrench was at Lust's feet, the squid-skin like matter kept on crawling over Wave's body, starting on her breasts and down to her rear. Wave couldn't understand until he felt the feeling of being groped, "get off of me!" she yelled kicking Lust in the gut which did little.
"Hey" Jet called and slashed Lust's back using his Bashosens, making her Drop wave, she fell to the ground with a 'oof', then grabbed her wrench and swung it at Lust hitting her in the side and sent her into a tree, she remained imbedded in the tree for about a second then fell to the ground with wooden splinters poking out of her back. And Storm landing on her board first didn't help.
With Lust temporarily out of the picture the Babylon Rogues set their sights on Necrohaunt, or rather the Chaos emerald and other emerald in his chest, they circled around him, Necrohaunt looked to each of them as if waiting for them to strike. In the meantime he growled as he formed an ectoplasma blade from his arm, finally Necrohaunt strict by spinning around extending the arm blades out as he did so.
The Rogues were nearly cut in half and they would have been if Spawn hadn't thrown Wynn into Necrohaunt, knocking both over, the Babylon Rouge landed next to Spawn, "thanks for the save, not that we needed it" Jet said, "unless you don't wanna get plucked by them we have to work together" Spawn said, "and why should we work with you?" Jet asked. Wave had had enough of his arrogance and pulled his ear to make him listen, "Jet we almost died. I don't know how many times, this guy could help us take them out, then we get out of here before my Extreme gear or our lives are lost" she growled.
Jet knew she was right, "fine we'll work with you but we're getting that emerald" Jet said pointing a finger at Spawn, "and you better give it to the boss or else" Storm said daringly, "you can keep it and with pleasure" Spawn said tossing the emerald into Storms hand to the Rogues surprise, "all it's been to me is a pain in the ass so keep the fucking trinket".
A bullet then hit him in the knee, he staggered a little but didn't fall over, Gluttony had apparently recovered and had fired a shot at Spawn's leg, Necrohaunt seemed to once again be at war with himself. Clutching his head in pain as the ectoplasma on his face shifted, "Danny and Kurt are fighting back against whatever is inside them" Spawn realised.
"That Emerald is mine, give it or you die" Wynn warned, putting away the rifle and forming demon claws out of blood from his hands. "Where did those come from" Storm asked bewildered, "from his own blood that's where" Spawn answered, Wave actually felt a little sick at the sight, and the sight of Simmon's kneecap healing didn't make it any better. "Well what are waiting for boss" Storm asked impatiently, "just be careful" Spawn growled as he got out his rifle and fired at Gluttony, Gluttony however was fast and dodged the bullets while getting closer, he slashed with his claws. Spawn recoiled to dodge, the Rogues got back on their boards and once again began to circle Jason Wynn and Spawn.
Jason however was familiar with this tactic, these mobians were more like normal animals then they believed, Spawn charged axe drawn, however Lust had recovered and impaled him with her clawed nails, twisted and tore a good chunk of his chest out, Spawn fell to his knees and Wynn kicked him down to the ground.
"Why you little" Jet said slashing at Gluttony's back with his Bashosens, Wave then tried hitting him over the head with her wrench but Gluttony caught them with his giant claws and threw it and her aside, breathy summoning the demon head to devour her extreme gear board. Storm then sent a punch at the blood demon's jaw, "that was for messing with us Rogues" Storm said as he continued to punch Gluttony.
Jason had to respect him for his loyalty to his team and his strength, Jason couldn't find an opening to recover, then as he was punched repeatedly he saw that Necrohaunt had recovered and pinned Jet to a tree by impaling an ectoplasma spike in his shoulder. Spawn was still on the floor, possibly in temporary shock from the attack Lust gave him. Lust was now giving Wave the final punch while lifting bodily, "is he seriously lifting her up from the breast" Jason thought.
He may have been a criminal businessman in life but he was no pervert. "Had enough yet, punk?" Storm asked at the seemingly defeated Gluttony. But what happened next changed things for everyone present. Gluttony grabbed Storm with the demon claws and then the demon head formed and closed it's jaws over Stormes head and his teeth sunk into his neck and jerked backwards.
Spawn could only watch as the dead Albatross fell to the ground as his head was consumed, "Storm" Jet and Wave cried tears in their eyes. "You'll… die for this...Wynn" Spawn spat as his chest began to heal at his will the pain keeping him down. "Well then Simmons until next time" Jason said, pressing a wrist mounted button and grabbing the chaos emerald from Storm. A pink rimmed portal appeared and Lust, necrohaunt and Gluttony went through as it closed,
Spawn chest healed over after a moment and he was able to stand up, he pulled out the ectoplasm dagger that was in Jet's shoulder, Jet then ran over to Storm Wave leaned over his shoulder and when she saw the corpse all she could do was cry into Jet who hugged her back not able to take his eyes away from Storm.
Spawn's heart couldn't stay in one piece at the sight, thieves they may have been, but he had been a former assassin, and neither meant that one couldn't love, "i'm sorry" Spawn said softly to the remaining Rogues. Al dug a grave next to his, put Storm's body in and marked a piece of bark with 'Storm the albatross'. Wave was clearly heartbroken, Jet wasn't faring much better either.
"I was never religious" Jet said eventually wiping a tear from his eye, "but i pray that his soul enters heaven", "i promise i'll make sure of that" Spawn said, Jet looked at him, at first he wanted to ask how, but reconsidered and instead ask, "and if he isn't?", "then i'll chase his soul out of hell" Spawn replied. He then looked at the grave and seemed to go over the emotional edge, "Damn it why can't anyone live for once?!" he half shouted, half cried out, punching the earth.
"Hey we'll be heading to green hills" Wave said, "while you were...well me and Wave are gonna join the resistance, make something good out of it", Spawn looked at them and stood up, "i'm coming with you, i'll be joining as well" he said, "and i promise you another thing, Wynn is going to die, and this time i'm gonna make sure he stays in hell" and in Spawns mind he was thinking of the worst fate he wanted that man to be in. whatever he was going to suffer, it was going to be to good for him.