Chapter 6: Techno Beast vs the Scarlet Huntress
As the battle for Amity Park raged on against spirit and flesh, Nikolai Technus and his two lieutenants watched from a distant hill as their horde fought against the halfas and humans. Observing his horde of the dead, he noted each and every area he could and saw that the battle was split in 3. On the east side of the city, the Phantom and his love were holding their ground alongside their friend. In the center of the city, the police were holding out but wavering against the ecto-beasts around City Hall. A little way past City Hall were the Fenton's taking down as many ghosts and monsters that came their way. Smiling with wicked glee he turned to one of his lieutenants and said, "Go send the beasts a little treat, I think a small push should help them end this quicker."
"Yes sir!" saluted the Lieutenant as he ran off to do as he was told.
At City Hall
Captain Matthews stood his ground with his men as they shot down as many of the ghostly monsters as they could but they were delaying the inevitable. Their ammo was running out, even though they had plenty of other anti-paranormal weapons in their care, they were for close quarter combat and near absolutely none of his men had any experience fighting the dead. But the Cap held his own encouraging his men to fight onward by jokingly saying, "Come on you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" instilled with bravado his men held onward in City Hall. As time went by Captain Matthews called his SWAT team to him as he formed a plan to start turning the tide on the ghostly beasts. Arming themselves with a few more from their arsenal, they charged forward into the ectoplasmic ranks cutting them down with ectoranium powered swords and ecto-bullets weakening the enemy till they were finally turning the tide for the battle for City Hall. Surging forward him and his men pushed them back as far as they could till the ecto-beasts were off City Hall grounds. We just might survive all this thought Captain Matthews.
Elsewhere
Valerie soared the air on her board, hunting down any straggling ghost that wasn't in the thick of the fight. Picking them off till there were none left, turning her board around she headed back to the city. Turning on her Com-link she spoke "Hey guys I finished picking up the scraps, what's your status?"
"Holding our own over on the East against the ghostly baddies here so far." said Tucker
"Same on our part as well but were trying to make our way to Captain Matthews and his team they were in a bit of trouble holding off the scumbag monsters at City Hall." States Dani as she decimates a ghost with a ray from her hand.
"You guys just focus on aiding Danny and them, I'll help Captain Matthews alright?" said Valerie
"Got it." said Dani
"Alright but be careful ok? Knowing Technus he might have something up his sleeve." said Tucker
"Careful Tuck, you sound as if you care about me." teased Valerie.
"I'm just concerned for your safety as a friend." Tucker frantically says before Sam decides to say "You can flirt with Valerie later Tuck, now do you mind helping me shoot these bastards while we're still alive."
"I'M NOT FLIRTING!", shouts Tucker as Valerie turns of her Com-link to aid Captain Matthews.
Meanwhile
Technus' Lieutenant grabbed the little treat that Technus told him to get and signaled the closest ecto-beasts nearby, not a few moments later 10 of the monsters came to him. Looking at the treat, which turns out was a techno slab, he tossed it on the closet of the monsters, blowing a variety of signals the monsters merged together. The lieutenant walked forward and pressed a button on the center of the slab, the lieutenant walked away as the slab grew on the monster transforming it even more.
With a sinister grin, the lieutenant walked back to Technus and saluted him, without turning his head he asked "Is my pet ready?"
"Yes, it is sir." said the Lieutenant
"Good now do as you were trained to do."
"With pleasure sir." the lieutenant said as he walked back to the beast and while it wasn't looking he flew into the beast transforming it more as it thrashed around till it suddenly stopped. Getting up to full height, the beast let loose a mighty roar, shaking the trees and hills and onward to City Hall.
"What was that?!" said one of the officers
"Did you fellas feel that?"
"What're we going to do? We're barely getting by as it is with these things!" said another
"I'll tell you what we're going to do, we're going to hold our own till help arrives but until then we're going to fight these things with everything we got." said Captain Matthews.
Encouraged by their Captain, they fought on not knowing the danger coming their way. A few minutes later as Valerie was flying toward City Hall, the scanners in her helmet picked up ectoplasmic signatures coming from the west of the town. Looking at the info from her helmet, the ectoplasmic signatures reached a category 5, not really high on the ghostly power scale but not very low either and it was heading its way to City Hall. From what she knew, Captain Matthews and his officers were barely holding out as it is. With a sense of greater urgency, she sped off towards City Hall turning on her Com-link she contacted the Captain.
"What is it?" asked the Captain
"You need to pull back your men to a safer position Captain." And before he could asked she explained, "I just got ectoplasmic signatures that are a category 5, your men are in danger so fall back."
"We can't." Grimly stated the Captain.
"Why not?!" Asked Valerie.
"Because we pushed these ugly buggers as far as we could to the point where if we so much as move, they'll overrun us all."
"Not on my watch Captain I'll be there soon." Stated Valerie.
Blasting off towards City Hall with all speed, she made it to see that both officer and ghost were nearly spent. Swooping down with two ectoplasmic rifles in hand she mowed down the rest of the monsters, making every shot count. Turning back to the officers she said, "Fall back into a safer position we got a category 5 bogie coming this way."
Gathering their wounded and anything else they could carry they pulled back to City Hall. Valerie looked around to assess the situation, as she was doing so Captain Matthews pulled her to the side to speak with her.
"Why are we here, we should be getting ready for the ghost that's coming." said Valerie.
"I want to know what took you so long kid, we're getting ripped apart over here holding on as best as we can to try win this fight and all of a sudden you show up to finally help us." retorted Captain Matthews.
"I was busy taking out stragglers that were trying to wreak havoc on the city while the rest were fighting you guys. I came here to help you guys, because by the look of things you guys won't survive another assault." spat Valerie.
And she was right, from the assault they sustained heavy losses to the point where only a handful of the SWAT team was capable of fighting along with two handfuls of police officers. If Valerie hadn't arrived at the time they all would have been killed. Captain Matthews nodded his head to her in understanding, thinking over what happened during the battle. He saw Valerie pick apart each and every one of the monsters as if they were nothing but daises.
"So, this category 5 ghost that's coming our way, it can't be more difficult than those things that we fought right?"
"I wish it wasn't, but those monsters you fought were Category 1, this thing that's coming our way would have killed you all within minutes if it came before those beasts." Valerie said in a cold tone.
Eyes widening in disbelief, Captain Matthews said "Then what are we going to do now? We are to hold City Hall till help arrives. Not that you haven't helped us but you can't possibly hold your our against the thing that's coming."
Before Valerie could speak, a loud boom was heard outside City Hall. Captain and huntress ran to the window to see what could cause such destruction. In the far distance, in the dust and smoke of a recently destroyed building, a figure could be seen. As the dust settled and the smoke lessened they saw something that they never saw before. A metallic creature that looked as if it were the mix between a Triceratops and a wolf, with three horns on its head a jaw full of canines it made a stunning shock to them all as it looked towards City Hall. Having the building in its sights as it got ready to charge, Valerie seeing what it was going to do, she got her hover board and leapt out the window. In a complete smooth motion, she got on her board as the ground came towards her and rocketed off towards the Techno Beast.
I can't let that thing destroy City Hall and kill them, I'm the only one able to help Captain Matthews and his team. It all comes down to me killing this techno freak and making sure everyone is safe.
Seeing its challenger coming towards it the Techno Beast roared defiantly at Valerie as it charged towards her. Valerie activated her blasters and opened fire on the Techno Beast, its metallic hide gaining nothing but dents and scratches. It leapt to her hoping to swallow her whole, but being a small target had its advantages. Moving out of the way, the Techno Beast only bite down on empty air, seeing her chance she amped up her blasters to the fullest. Shooting the abomination till she made it yowl in pain, the Techno Beast had enough of the red pest attacking it as it open its jaws letting loose a Ghost ray hoping to incinerate Valerie. The ray was coming towards her so fast that she barely made it out of the way in one piece. But as she flew towards her foe, she saw that her board was damaged on one of its boosters. Quickly she activated a self-destruct sequence on her board, hoping to end the Techno Beast in more move.
"You shouldn't with the Scarlet Huntress monster!" shouted Valerie as she jump off her board as it flew towards the Techno Beasts' jaws. Activating another sequence, her boots activated thrusters to keep her in the air as her board entered the jaws of the beast. And not a second after, red glow came from the beast as it was going to meet its doom.
NO, I CAN'T FAIL LORD TECHNUS I CAN'T NO NO NO thought the beast as a spectral figure escaped it. That figure was none other than Technus' Lieutenant as escaped his obliteration, or so he thought as the Scarlet Huntress tackled him to the ground as the Techno Beast met its end in an explosive way to oblivion. The lieutenant tried as he might to escape Valerie, but was met with a punch to the face, followed by a few swift jabs to his midsection and a roundhouse to his jaw. As he tried to get to his feet but stop as a spear was right above his throat.
"If you know what's good for you, you better start talking and fast I don't have all day." said Valerie.
"Okay, okay I'll talk. I'm the second lieutenant to Technus my mission is make sure that the Phantom is dead." said the Lieutenant.
"No shit but why now, and I know for damn sure Technus doesn't usually play with others. Now answer me or kill you here and now." said Valerie as she was losing her patience.
"Because the Phantom is to be crowned king of the ghosts, and what you have faced was only a fraction to come. Technus is one of the few Generals that you are facing, and by days end none of you will survive." he stated before he was impaled straight through the throat. With grim satisfaction, Valerie pulled out her spear to let the lieutenant choke on his own ectoplasm.
"Not while I have any say in it." said Valerie as she walked away from her opponent activating her Com-link she called ask if they needed any help.
"Piece of cake these guys are nothing compared to what we faced before." said Dani proudly.
"We could use the help though if there's nothing on your end cause it's not dimming down over here." said Tucker.
"I'll be there soon, I just finished cleaning up over here at City Hall. We got a lot of people hurt over here." said Valerie
Silence was met after what she said, a few moments later she heard Tucker reply "Understood, get here as fast as you can though we could use it."
"Okay I'm on my way." Valerie said as she blasted off towards the east side of the city to aid her friends.