S2 EP3: Till Death do You Part!
Sup, guys, coming to you after my first successful week as protector of Tetris Nova. Nothing really exciting happened in terms of crime fighting, just a few non-powered criminals and cases to deal with. I'm still wanted by the police and task force, unfortunately and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon. Normally, I wouldn't care, but the authorities have made the civilians think that I'm some kind of anarchist instead of a hero so that's something I have to deal with. As for my normal life, I've been adjusting pretty well. Kyrie and I are becoming pretty decent friends and CoCo and I are closer than ever before. Well, as close as you can be with someone who hates one side of you. Anyway, on with the story!
It was pretty late at night, around 3 AM, and everything was quiet on a 24-hour subway train. People were talking amongst themselves, others were on their phones, and others were complaining about their long shifts ahead of them. I was sitting in the back next to one of the windows, with a dark blue hoodie and sweats on. I had gone deep into the city for patrol and of course, my watch timed out so I was stuck taking the subway to get home. I had my hood over my head and my eyes closed, with my headphones blasting music into my ears.
Trey (thinking): "CoCo is gonna fucking kill me if I'm late to class again, tomorrow. Thankfully, I just have to ride these next two stops and I'm home free."
A few feet ahead in another part of the train, a young woman, looking around my age, was standing up, waiting to get off the train. She was holding onto one of the metal poles, looking at her phone. Behind her, a creepy looking guy was looking at her, along with his friend.
Creepy guy: "You see that, Nick? That's one fine piece of ass, right there." The other guy, Nick, looked at the woman, then chuckled.
Nick: "Get real, Judah, that bitch is way outta your league. You'd be lucky to have her spit in your direction." Judah scowled at him, then walked over to the woman.
Judah: "Hey babe, what's popping with you?" She looked at him, then turned back to her phone, obviously uninterested.
Woman: "No thanks, sir, not looking to be objectified tonight." Nick laughed and Judah gritted his teeth, getting closer to the woman.
Judah: "I didn't ask you all that, toots." His movement made her shift a little.
Woman: "Please, I just wanna get home." Judah smirked.
Judah: "And, you will. Right after I have some fun." He grabbed her thigh. She tried to struggle and looked around for help, only to see that nobody was in the train car except for Judah and Nick. She whimpered.
Woman: "Please..somebody help me."
Back in the car behind them, my eyes opened. I took my headphones out and stood up, making my way to the door that'd take me to the car in front of us. I looked through the little window and saw what was happening.
Trey: "So much for getting off after two stops." With my hood still on my head, my eyes glowed red and I made the mask part of my suit come on my face. I opened the door and stepped into the next car, "Dude, you've got half a second to step away from that lady before you're screaming like one."
Judah looked at me, then at Nick, then back at me.
Judah: "And, who're you supposed to fucking be?" I smirked.
Trey: "The name's Arsenal, grabby hands. Not that you'll remember that, you'll be too busy begging me to stop punching you in the face." Nick looked worried.
Nick: "I heard about this guy, Jude, he turns into these monster things. Maybe we should go." Judah scowled.
Judah: "Please, you really think this kid is the real Arsenal? The guy who took out Butler? He's just some kid playing pretend." He turned back and started feeling on the girl again. I shrugged.
Trey: "Alright, then." I turned on my Delta-X and scrolled through the holographic menu wheel until I found the form I wanted, then slammed down the core when it popped up. As my eyes glowed red, an aura of rocks appeared around me and started getting closer to my body until it had completely covered me in a rock cocoon. A second later, I burst out as Igneo.
Igneo: "You guys are in luck, I haven't used this form to stop a petty crime in a hot minute." I smirked and my eyes flashed red, sending a wave of fear through Judah and Nick.
Nick: "Oh, fuck this shit, I'm out!" He ran toward the back of the train car and used the door to switch cars. I resisted the urge to laugh.
Igneo: "So, no honor among idiots, eh?" I looked at the woman and nodded my head to the left, signaling for her to take off too. She wasted no time in doing as I told her, slipping out of Judah's grip and switching cars.
Judah: "I'll deal with that asshole later, right after I deal with you!" Before I could react, he vanished.
Igneo: "Well, that's special." He appeared behind me and kicked me in the back, making me stumble a little bit. I turned around and swung my fist at him, but he vanished again and reappeared a few feet back.
Judah: "Unlike that pussy, Nick, I'm not afraid of you, Arsenal. You wanna know why?" I shot rock balls at him, which hit him in the chest and knocked the wind out of him. I charged at him and slammed him into a pole.
Igneo: "Because you have great health insurance?" He yet again vanished and reappeared behind me, getting me in a chokehold.
Judah: "No, because I have powers too. You can call me Blink." He surprisingly flipped me over and slammed me onto the ground, then opened up a portal on the train ceiling that shot out machine gun rounds at me, crumbling me into pieces. I reformed and kicked him off me.
Igneo: "Okay, I'll admit you're more of a threat than I initially thought. But that doesn't change the fact that you're totally going down." I slapped my symbol and my body turned into water and splashed onto the ground before a bright hockey mask and gloves gathered it all up and formed the water into a humanoid shape that was kept in place by the mask and gloves.
Splashdown: "Haven't used this one in a super long time, you should seriously be honored, dude." I held up one hand and launched a water tendril at Blink, only for him to vanish again. He appeared behind me and tried to punch me but since my body was purely water, his fist went right through my chest. I swiveled my head around and if I had a mouth, I would have smirked.
Splashdown: "You look a little dirty, how about a refreshing shower" I pulled him through my body and he came out on the other side soaking wet. He opened up a portal, but I quickly shot two high pressure water blasts into it, pushing Blink back into one of the train seats.
Blink: "Wha? How did you..?"
Splashdown: "I figured your portals were linked to your body somehow and I was right. They aren't things you create, they're literal parts of you, which means whatever happens to your portals.." I continued to shoot water blasts into the portal, which in turn, blasted a continuous water blast into Blink's face, "Happens to you."
Blink was starting to pass out from lack of oxygen so I stopped firing and he closed the portal. I slapped my symbol and reverted to normal, now in full costume, then walked over to him.
Trey: "You're a waste of a gift, you know that." I lifted him up and turned my hand into a Diamondhead one, then created diamond handcuffs around his hands, "You've been given these awesome powers and instead of using them for good or hell, even to better your own life, you try and take advantage of an innocent woman. All quips aside, that's really lame." I turned my hand back to normal.
Blink: "Whatever." The train stopped and when the doors opened, dozens of task force operatives were there, aiming their weapons at us.
Task Force guy: "Hands on your head, Arsenal. This doesn't have to get messy." I rolled my eyes and kicked Blink toward them.
Blink: "Ow! Watch the face."
Trey: "I don't have time to deal with you losers, tonight. Take the REAL bad guy and call it a night, okay?" They aimed their weapons at me.
Task Force guy: "You are in no position to be giving orders, bio-terrorist." I sighed.
Trey: "Fine, whatever." I took a step toward them but instead of giving myself up, I turned my hands into Smoxe ones and dropped a huge smoke bomb. When it cleared, I was gone.
Task Force guy: "Damn it, not again."
Blink: "You guys should really see that coming." The task force grabbed him by his shirt and hauled him off toward their truck.
The next day, Mayor Lincoln was in his office along with Thea Nexus. He was sitting at his desk with her on his lap.
Thea: "I don't know how long I'll be able to keep this a secret, Lenard. My son is getting suspicious." Lincoln smirked at her, then kissed her.
Lincoln: "Don't worry, doll. We'll be able to fully showcase our...love, soon enough. Now, how are things at NexCorp?"
Thea: "Excellent, my dear. Our resources are that much closer to controlling the meta-gene and converting it into more of a liquefied form." Lincoln smiled.
Lincoln: "Good, good. I await your report." They both got up as his office door opened up and in came Hammerhead, along with an old black guy.
Hammerhead: "Boss, I did what you said and brought Allister King here." Lincoln nodded.
Lincoln: "Very good. Mr. King, how are you?" The old guy, King, raised his eyebrow.
King: "I would be much better if your bodyguard had not interrupted my work by bringing me to you. Now, what do you want?" Lincoln turned to Thea.
Lincoln: "This is your best guy?" She nodded.
Thea: "He is arguably the smartest mind in the whole division, I assure that he is the one to talk to."
Lincoln: "If you're sure." He turned to King, "Thea tells me you are close to reaching a breakthrough in terms of mass-producing the meta-gene, Mr. King."
King: "That is true, Mayor Lincoln. Unfortunately, I am under company oath to not reveal any information, I'm sorry."
Thea: "Allister, I assure you that it is alright." King shook his head.
King: "Sorry, Ms. Nexus. I know you are the boss but I have reason to believe that Mayor Lincoln doesn't have the best intentions for our research, so I have to refuse." Lincoln looked at Hammerhead, who nodded and grabbed King and pinned his arms behind his back.
King: "HEY! What is the meaning of this?!" Lincoln walked closer to him.
Lincoln: "It would be in your best interest to reconsider, Allister. I have been known to be very persuasive." King spit in his face.
King: "I am 75 years old, Mr. Mayor. Nothing you can say or do will scare me or get me to tell you anything." Lincoln wiped his face.
Lincoln: "Very well. Hammerhead, release the good man." Hammerhead did as he was told. Then Lincoln walked back over to Thea and kneeled down in front of her.
Thea: "Lenard, I mean, Mayor Lincoln what are you doing?" Lincoln smirked.
Lincoln: "Bettering our future. Thea Nexus, will you marry me?" Thea immediately looked happy.
Thea: "Oh yes, yes, a million times yes!" He put the ring on her finger and stood up to Thea hugging him. As she did, he smirked at King.
Lincoln: "Hammerhead, alert the media. I want everyone to know of our union."
Hammerhead: "Yes, sir. Come on, old man." He started pulling King out of the office.
King: "Ms. Nexus, please! You are making a huge mistake." Before Thea could respond, Hammerhead pulled King out of the office.
Thea: "So fiancee, when do you want to get married?"
Lincoln: "As soon as possible. No more time should be wasted when it comes to you, my dear." She smiled and hugged him.
Thea: "I love you, Lenard." He smirked to himself.
Lincoln: "I love you too."
Later that afternoon, I was in the student center, this huge building at the center of campus where students hung out. It had a few fast food kiosks, a game room, an eating area, and a lounge where chilling takes place. I was in the lounge by myself, chilling and scrolling down Instagram on my phone. Today I was wearing blue jeans with rips in them, black Nike slides, and a grey hoodie that was under a red and black checkered flannel. I also had on a black snapback, which I was wearing backwards.
I yawned.
Trey: "It's a really good thing that I don't need much sleep anymore or else these patrols and class would have me exhausted." I kept scrolling until I saw a picture of Logan and Ben. They were standing with who I'm guessing is the new mayor of Bellwood. Victor, Aubrie and Marian were also posing with them as the mayor handed both Ben and Logan keys to the city. The caption read "Special days always mean a lot more with family by your side."
I smiled.
Trey: "Good for you guys." I couldn't comment on the picture because earth still thinks I'm dead, which also means I couldn't like it. Instead, I sent Logan a DM that said I was proud of them. After a few more minutes of scrolling, I locked my phone and put it in my pocket, then just stared into space thinking.
I hadn't thought much about the others since I got to Tetris Nova, mostly because I was trying to start fresh and do my own thing but also because I figured they'd be better off if they didn't hear from me all the time. With me gone, both Ben and Logan get to be the heroes and have the recognition they honestly deserve. I'm also still feeling kinda guilty about letting the earth down, but I feel like I'm making up for that here. What happened to Charity is what I'm really feeling guilty about. I mean, I know it wasn't exactly my fault but I was supposed to be her rock and I failed her. I don't know if I'll ever see her again, but she is in my thoughts more than the others.
Kyrie: "TREY!" I was snapped out of my thoughts by him and CoCo clapping in my face. I shook my head and looked at him.
Trey: "Oh shit, hey guys. Didn't see you there." CoCo giggled.
CoCo: "Obviously. We were standing here, calling your name for the past 2 minutes. What the hell were you thinking about so hard?" I shrugged.
Trey: "Nothing important. What's up?"
Kyrie: "Nothing much, space case. Since CoCo here refused to go out with me.." He raised an eyebrow at her and she giggled, "We figured we'd come and find you."
CoCo: "You weren't at your house so we figured you'd be here. You're always somewhere by yourself." I shrugged.
Trey: "I'm into chilling by myself, nothing against you guys." They both nodded.
Kyrie: "So, you wanna come to Sonic with us? We figured you'd be done with classes."
CoCo: "And we wanted to catch you before you disappeared again." I rubbed the back of my neck.
Trey: "I like to, uh, sleep. But yeah, Sonic sounds fun, let's bounce." I stood up and followed them out the student center and we started walking down the street, heading toward the entertainment part of the city where all the stores and hangouts were.
CoCo: "So I noticed you were definitely late for class today, Trey. What happened?" I looked at her. I couldn't tell her the truth, obviously so I had to be a jerk.
Trey: "You see, I was doing this thing called minding my business. You should really try it sometime." Both her and Kyrie looked at me, shocked.
CoCo (mumbling): "Sorry." She doesn't know about my powers, so she has no idea I heard her with my enhanced hearing. I sighed. I didn't wanna be a dick but keeping her off my trail is the most important thing.
Kyrie: "Anyway, you finish decorating your crib yet, dude?" I nodded.
Trey: "Yeah, I actually finished before my 3 PM class, earlier today. It's looking fye as hell now."
CoCo: "Really? Well, we'll have to come and check it out." I nodded and smiled at her.
We walked into Sonic and sat at a booth, CoCo and I on one side and Kyrie on the other. A waitress rolled up on her skates.
Waitress: "What'll it be, guys?"
Trey: "I'll have a grilled cheese sandwich, chicken tenders, and a cherry limeade."
Kyrie: "Just some tater tots for me, please."
CoCo: "I'll have a hotdog."
Waitress: "Coming right up, guys." She skated off. We all pulled out our phones and it was a comfortable silence until CoCo scoffed.
Kyrie: "What's up?" She turned her phone around and showed it to us. It was a picture of me as Web Head, hanging upside down from one of my web lines and throwing up the peace sign at some cops and task force operatives that were trying to capture me. The caption read "Shape-shifting menace still at large."
I rolled my eyes.
Trey: "Menace? Shouldn't we take into account how many people Arsenal has helped before we go calling him names?"
CoCo: "Yeah sure, he REALLY helped my dad, didn't he?"
Kyrie: "To be fair, your dad was kind of a tool. Not to mention he would've tried to destroy the city, had Arsenal not stepped in." CoCo scowled at us and sat back in her seat.
CoCo: "You two defend Arsenal so much, I'm starting to think one of you is behind that mask." Kyrie chuckled but I nearly choked on my spit.
Trey: "Whaaaat? Come on, CC, that's ridiculous." Kyrie continued to chuckle.
Kyrie: "Yeah. From what you guys told me, Trey got his ass handed to him by your dad, the first day you guys met. Imagine him trying to take on a meta." CoCo laughed.
CoCo: "Yeah, he'd probably try to insult the meta into submission."
Kyrie: "Or read him his rights." They both laughed and I smiled to myself. Sure, they're making fun of me but they're just joking around. And this proves that they really have no idea that I'm Arsenal, which is perfect.
The waitress came back with our food and after she gave it to us, I immediately started chowing down. I took a bite out of my grilled cheese, then stuffed some tenders in my mouth, then swiped a few of Kyrie's tater tots, then washed it down with my cherry limeade.
Kyrie: "Whoa, you forget to go grocery shopping for your place, bro?" I chuckled and swallowed my drink.
Trey: "Sorry, I've just been really hungry lately. I don't know what's going on." Actually, I did. Right before I turned myself over to the Skrulls, the Plumbers ran some tests on me and discovered that due to me having over a million different types of DNA in my body, my metabolism is ultra super-charged. Meaning, I generally only have to sleep for about 3 hours and I eat A LOT.
CoCo: "You're just being a boy. You guys are animals when it comes to food." After she said that, she took a huge bite of her hotdog, spilling ketchup and mustard on the table. Kyrie and I looked at each other and laughed.
CoCo: "What?" Just then, a limo pulled up in front of the building. We looked out the window and saw the driver get out and walk in. He walked up to us when he spotted us.
Driver: "Master Nexus, your mother requires your attendance at home." Kyrie nodded.
Kyrie: "Okay, Norman. I wonder what she wants." I looked at CoCo.
Trey: "What the hell is this? Is Ky rich?" She looked at me like I was insane.
CoCo: "Is he rich? Dude, he's Kyrie NEXUS. As in, his mom is the CEO and founder of NexCorp." My eyes got wide.
Trey: "Whoa." Kyrie laughed.
Kyrie: "Sorry for not telling you, man. I kinda thought you already knew." I shrugged.
Trey: "It's all good, I'm a bit oblivious to stuff, sometimes." They both nodded in agreement.
Norman: "Sorry to interrupt, Master Nexus, but your mother made it very clear to get you home, ASAP." Kyrie nodded again.
Kyrie: "Hey, you guys wanna come? I'm sure mom wouldn't mind a few guests."
Trey: "That sounds awesome! I'm totally in." CoCo shook her head.
CoCo: "Sorry, guys, I've got this quiz tomorrow and I HAVE to get an A so I gotta go study. Rain check, Ky?" He nodded and smiled at her.
Kyrie: "Oh yeah, for sure. Good luck. Trey, meet us in the limo after you're done." I nodded and after he hugged CoCo, he and Norman went out to the limo.
Trey: "Since when have you ever had to study for a quiz? You told me you were easily passing your classes." She looked down and played with a piece of her braid.
CoCo: "I..don't have to study, actually. I was just using that as an excuse to not tag along to Kyrie's house." I raised an eyebrow.
Trey: "Why? He have billionaire rats?" She shook her head.
CoCo: "No, Trey. It's...I think Kyrie likes me." I laughed.
Trey: "Gee, what was your first clue? He asks you out like 20 times a day."
CoCo: "No no, Trey, I think he really likes me. You don't know this but Ky is known as a huge flirt, which is why most girls don't take his advances seriously. But before we found you at the student center, he was saying all these things to me and I think he may actually want me." I just stared at her.
Trey: "Shit, CC. Well, I've had to reject a few people before, I can give you some pointers." She shook her head.
CoCo: "But...what if I don't want to reject him." That sent a little pain sensation through my heart. I looked at her and she looked back at me.
Trey: "But-" I was cut off by Norman honking the horn. Kyrie popped his head out of the window.
Kyrie: "Hurry up, slowpoke!" I nodded at him, then turned back to CoCo.
Trey: "I'll holler at you later, CC." I started to walk off but she grabbed my arm.
CoCo: "Trey, please don't say anything to Ky, okay? I don't want him to know I like him and found out he's just being his flirty self." I managed a small smile.
Trey: "Trust me, I'm really good at keeping secrets. Later, CC."
CoCo: "See ya, hero boy." I walked outside and hopped in the back of the limo. We drove off after a few minutes.
Kyrie: "So, what were you and CoCo talking about, if you don't mind me asking." I looked up from my phone to see him looking at me.
Trey: "Me and CC? Nothing, we were just talking about who's gonna pay for the food. You know, since we're not all super rich." I shot him a fake glare and he laughed. Well technically, I have a high-tech organization funding me but he doesn't need to know about that.
Kyrie: "Oh okay, just wondering. Hey, you two don't have anything...popping, do you?" My eyes got wide. There's no way he knows I like her.
I quickly fixed my face and smirked at him.
Trey: "Popping? Well she made me some popcorn when I was at her house, the other day. Does that count?" Ky rolled his eyes.
Kyrie: "No, smart ass, I mean is there something going on between you two?" I gave him the 'Are you serious?' look, hoping he'd buy it.
Trey: "Something going on between me and CC? That's wild as hell. Why do you ask?" He shrugged.
Kyrie: "I mean, we're all just becoming friends and I don't want there to be any conflicts between us."
Trey: "Why would there be any conflicts?" I dreaded his answer.
Kyrie: "Because...I think she's really cool, Trey. Before you came along, I was crushing on her big time but I thought she was this loner until we all became friends." I nodded, kinda hurt now.
Trey: "I..see."
Kyrie: "Yeah, man. I've flirted with a lot of girls but she's always been the one I really wanted and if there's nothing going on with you guys, I'm gonna pursue her." I thought about his words. Yeah, I like CoCo but I can't honestly say that we'd have a normal relationship with me being Arsenal and all. I can't date her or even pursue her when I have this huge secret that I'm keeping from her and Kyrie can give her a simpler life than I can.
I smiled at him.
Trey: "Hey man, if you really like her and she likes you too, I wish you guys the best. You guys are my friends." He smiled real big and hugged me.
Kyrie: "Thanks, dude. And don't worry, CoCo and I's relationship won't make our friendship awkward." I smiled and nodded, then turned and looked out the window.
Well, this sucks.
...
The limo pulled up to a huge building and when we got out, I saw it was actually the Queen building, the high-profile and apparently super expensive penthouse building.
I chuckled.
Trey: "Of course you'd live here, dude." He shrugged.
Kyrie: "Only the best for the coolest dude in the city." I smirked at him as the two of us and Norman walked inside.
Trey: "But I don't even live here." Kyrie rolled his eyes.
Kyrie: "Clever." After walking into the elevator and going up about 15 floors, we got off and Ky pulled out the key to their place, opening it.
Kyrie: "Well?" His place was pretty awesome. The living room was the size of my entire apartment, there were spiral stairs that lead to some kind of upper level, a huge kitchen area and the most awesome thing, a HUGE glass door that lead out to a HUGE balcony.
I looked back at him and shrugged.
Trey: "Pretty swanky. But I've seen better, my boy." He threw a paper ball at my head and we laughed.
Voice: "Hello, boys." Ky and I looked up at the upper level and saw a tall guy with grey skin and a business suit.
Kyrie: "Mayor Lincoln, how are you?" My eyes got wide and I looked at him, my mind going back to what Vulcan and those cops were saying about Mayor Lincoln. I hadn't had the chance to actually see what he looked like.
Mayor Lincoln: "The same as always, Kyrie. Who's your friend?" He came down the stairs and stood in front of us.
Trey: "U-um, Trey Sergauson, Sir." He nodded and smiled at me.
Mayor Lincoln: "Nice to meet you, Trey." He held out his hand for a handshake and I accepted, still skeptical.
Kyrie: "So not that it isn't cool to see you, Mr. Mayor, but what are you doing here?" A lady suddenly came out of the kitchen and stood next to Mayor Lincoln.
Lady: "That's why I wanted you to come home, dear. Hi Trey, I'm Thea Nexus, Kyrie's mother." I smiled at her and we shook hands.
Trey: "Nice to meet you, Ms. Nexus."
Kyrie: "Anyway Mom, what's this all about?" Her and Mayor Lincoln looked at each other.
Thea: "Kyrie, I know you've been having a tough time lately since your dad and I split up." I looked at Kyrie.
Trey: "You have? You never mention it." He shrugged.
Kyrie: "I don't like being a downer about stuff now hush. Go ahead, Mom." I chuckled and put my hands up in defeat.
Thea: "Thank ya, honey. Now, that being said, I also know you've been wanting me to get back out there and find someone that makes me happy." My eyes got wide.
Trey: "Oh, no way." The smirk on Mayor Lincoln's face said it all. Kyrie looked at me, then at Thea and Mayor Lincoln, who were now holding hands.
Kyrie: "Wait, the mayor?! You're dating the mayor?!" He looked pretty pissed off now.
Thea: "We're also getting married." I was pretty shocked now.
Trey: "Whoa, plot twist." Kyrie glared at me and I cleared my throat. Then he turned back to his mom and Mayor Lincoln.
Kyrie: "Mom, when I said find someone that makes you happy, I meant someone that's actually good for you. Do you know the things people say about this this guy?!"
Thea: "Kyrie David Nexus, you will not disrespect Mayor Lincoln in my home. Now, apologize!"
Mayor Lincoln: "It's fine, my dear. I knew he would react this way, unfortunately."
I suddenly felt an aura that felt like it was coming in fast.
Trey (mumbling): "Oh no."
Kyrie: "Mom, I can't believe you would agree to marry him without even considering my feelings."
Mayor Lincoln: "Your mother and I feel that I would be a great influence on you as you navigate through your early adult life, Kyrie." Thea nodded.
Thea: "Yeah. Son, if you get to know him you would see that he isn't the worst man on the planet." The aura was incredibly close now.
Voice: "I BEG TO DIFFER!" Suddenly the glass door shattered to pieces. We all turned around to see a guy that was bright yellow like the sun. He had red eyes and was wearing an orange and black jumpsuit.
Yellow guy: "Mayor Lincoln, just the con artist I wanted to see." He suddenly burst forward and grabbed Mayor Lincoln, pushing Kyrie, Thea and I back. I went flying into the staircase, dazed.
Thea: "NO, leave him alone!" The yellow guy smirked at her.
Yellow guy: "Sorry, Ms. Nexus, looks like you'll be a widow before you're even married." He rocketed off the balcony with Mayor Lincoln. I rubbed my head.
Trey: "Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck." I got up and ran through the busted door, looking over the balcony. There was a trail of fire leading in the direction that the yellow guy flew off with Mayor Lincoln. Then I ran back over to Kyrie and his mom, who was completely hysterical at this point.
Thea: "*Sob* He took him! What are we gonna do?!"
Kyrie: "Everything is gonna be okay, Mom. I promise." I looked back at the balcony. I needed to get after the yellow guy before he hurt Mayor Lincoln. I pulled Kyrie away from his mom.
Trey: "Ky, listen to me, take your mother and call the police. I'm going to...stay here and investigate."
Kyrie: "Trey, is this really a time to flaunt your law enforcement major?" I rolled my eyes.
Trey: "Just go!" He nodded, then took his mom and left the place. After I was sure they were gone, I turned back toward the balcony with my eyes glowing red. I started running, activating my Delta-X as I did, "Come on, Jetray!" I slammed it down right as I jumped off the balcony.
As I fell, bandages appeared out of my skin and wrapped around my body, transforming me into Under-Wraps.
Under-Wraps: "Not the time for mis-transformation, watch!" I shot out my bandages and used them to slingshot me into the air. I sailed through the air and landed on a rooftop then front-flipped off of it and shot out two more bandages to swing on.
With the yellow guy and Mayor Lincoln, they were flying through the city, Lincoln struggling to get free.
Mayor Lincoln: "What is the meaning of this, meta?!" The meta smirked.
Yellow guy: "My employer feels it would be in the best interest of everyone if you don't get married." I suddenly swung right next to him.
Under-Wraps: "Really? You got any exes that still have feelings for ya, Mayor? If so, you sure know how to pick em."
Mayor Lincoln and Yellow guy: "Arsenal!" I nodded.
Under-Wraps: "Yeah, and on behalf of every emasculating action like ever, please hand me that grown men."
Mayor Lincoln: "So I go from one meta to another? I'm starting to realize why gentlemen don't get married." I glared at him."
Under-Wraps: "Hey Junior, how bout you keep quiet and let mommy and daddy talk for a while, huh?" I made a bandage pop up behind them and snatch Mayor Lincoln away from the meta.
Yellow guy: "WHAT?!" I smirked, then slapped my symbol and became Gax, slamming him over the head. We both went tumbling out of the air, landing on the main street of the city.
Yellow guy: "You do not know what you are interfering with, Arsenal. This is big boy stuff." I rolled my eyes slapped my symbol again. My skin turned a light blue as my shirt disappeared and my hair grew down my back. Joggers with the symbol on the waist appeared and my eyes shined red.
Trey: "Hmm, Tundra. And I know exactly what's going on, Sunspot. You're trying to kill the mayor and despite the fact that he may or may not be evil, I can't let you do that."
Sunspot: "I am not your pet to name, Arsenal. And if you insist on getting in the way..." He powered up fire in his hands, "You'll have to be disposed of as well." He shot flamethrowers at me but I punched right through them as I charged at him. I nailed him in the jaw but my hand started to melt because his face was so hot. I jumped back and let my hand regenerate, then shot an ice blast at Sunspot, knocking him back into a pole, which he melted through on contact.
Tundra: "Sheesh, how hot are you?"
Sunspot: "I'm running off solar energy, I could be as hot as the sun if I wanted!" I rocketed at me but I jumped up and grabbed onto a pole, making him fly right past me and into a wall. I smirked.
Tundra: "Maybe instead of super-villain, you should be a crash test dummy. You're actually good at that." He pulled himself out of the wall and glared at me, fire blazing around his body. He rocketed at me again, grabbing me and slamming me into another building. He breathed a flamethrower at me, burning my face, then picked me up by my throat, preparing to slam me into the ground. Before he could, I shot ice in his eyes so he couldn't see, then used my feet and kicked him away from me. He slammed into the wall and I flew back and landed on the street, no problem. He got the ice out of his eyes and shot fireballs at me, but I countered them all with ice shards, then launched a huge ice beam from both my hands. Sunspot dodged it and powered up even more, making the street start to melt.
Tundra: "Hold up, birthday candle, you're melting the street." I started shooting ice beams at the street to cool it down, but Sunspot tackled me down.
Sunspot: "The boss didn't say anything about bringing in the vigilante, but he might give me a bonus." I rolled my eyes and opened my mouth wide, releasing an ice blast that froze his entire head. I kicked him off me, then slapped my symbol and became Water Hazard.
Water Hazard: "Sorry, no bonus for you. First, let me cool you down." I blasted him with two water blasts from both my hands, knocking him to the street and putting out his fire. I ran at him and slapped my symbol again. I became Heatblast and landed on top of him.
Heatblast: "Next, let me absorb some of your dormant fire so you have nothing to spark." I placed my hand on him, absorbing some of his fire. Instead of powering down, he smirked and blasted me off him. I flew back and skidded along the street.
Sunspot: "You weren't listening, hero. I'm running off of solar energy and unless you can turn off the sun, you can't stop me." I gritted my teeth and slapped my symbol, charging out of the flash of light as Eye Guy. Suddenly, my arms were pulled back by ropes of some kind.
Eye Guy: "What the hell?"
Voice: "You won't even get a chance to try, freak boy."
Other voice: "That's right, Arsenal. Our employer is paying big money to get this job done and you're not getting in our way." I looked at him. He was wearing a black combat suit with a black bandanna covering his face and goggles covering his eyes.
Eye Guy: "And who are you, the rodeo clown?" He chuckled.
Goggles guy: "The name's Multiplex, hero. The gentleman restraining you is Arachnid." I turned my head to look behind me, seeing a guy with a suit that resembled Scarlet Spider's from the comics.
Sunspot: "We're the Enforcers. And this is where you meet your end, hero." I smirked and shook my head.
Eye Guy: "The only thing that's ending is this lame ass meet and greet." I used all my strength and pulled on the webs that Arachnid was using to restrain me, pulling him forward and slamming him in front of me. I slapped my symbol, making diamonds encase my body, transforming me into Diamondhead. Sunspot shot fireballs at me, but I turned my arm into a shard and deflected them, then made diamond pillars come up from the ground and launched them at him. Arachnid shot a web at the pillars and flung them back at me, but I ran around them and charged at Arachnid. I swung at him, but he flipped over me, used a web to pull himself back to me, then kicked me in the back of the head. I stumbled forward, where Sunspot slammed a huge fireball into my face. I flew into a building.
Diamondhead: "This isn't going well. I should have enough juice for one more transformation, though." I slapped my symbol and charged out of the building as Goku. Arachnid shot web lines at me, but I flew around them and nailed him in the stomach, knocking him back into a car.
Goku: "Ever heard the itsy bitsy spider song, bro?" I smirked at him, only to be pushed down the street by a fire hand from Sunspot. I rolled my eyes and punched it, making it go away, then shot energy balls at him. He blocked them but looked up in time to see that I had launched a car at him. It slammed into him and knocked him out cold. I rubbed the back of my neck.
Goku: "My bad dude, probably should've put my blinker on." I turned and raised my eyebrow at Multiplex, "So, what can you do?"
He smirked and pulled out a plasma bazooka.
Multiplex: "This." I resisted the urge to laugh.
Goku: "Seriously, one weapon?" He suddenly glowed purple and split up into 8 of himself, "Well, shit."
They all fired their blasters at me, nailing me and slamming me into a pole.
Multiplex: "It would be wise of you to stay down, boy. You don't know who you're messing with." I glared at him and tried to get up, but my symbol made the time out noise and I reverted to normal, in full costume.
Multiplex: "Looks like you're done. I have to take care of my incompetent cohorts so we'll get Mayor Lincoln next time. Don't get in our way." He walked over to Sunspot and Arachnid then pressed a button, warping away. I stood up, rubbing my head.
Trey: "Well that sucked." I jumped up and turned my hand into a Web Head one, then used a web line to pull myself up to the building where I left Mayor Lincoln. He was lying on the rooftop, still wrapped up in bandages. I chuckled.
Trey: "Hey, I came up here to get you but it looks like you're pretty tied up at the moment." He glared at me.
Mayor Lincoln: "Get me out of this, meta."
Trey: "Fine, fine. You should buy a sense of humor though, moneybags." I ripped the bandages off him and helped him up.
Mayor Lincoln: "Now, what was that abomination doing after me?!" I rolled my eyes under my mask.
Trey: "There were three of them, actually. Apparently, they were paid to take you out so your marriage to Ms. Nexus, which they um, just told me about, won't happen." He started pacing back and forth.
Mayor Lincoln: "This is a problem, indeed. I need a new plan of action." I raised my hand.
Trey: "Here's an idea, cancel the wedding."
Mayor Lincoln: "No, you imbecile. I have too much riding on this to cancel it just because a few metas threatened me. I am still here, aren't I?"
Trey: "Yeah, because of me. If I hadn't shown up, you'd have a hell pf a sunburn right now." He thought about what I said, then looked at me.
Mayor Lincoln: "That's it!"
Trey: "What, you remember the name of that plastic surgeon?" He rolled his eyes.
Mayor Lincoln: "No. I have decided to enlist your services, Arsenal." I crossed my arms and smirked.
Trey: "Oh, really?"
Mayor Lincoln: "Quite. You get those three meta-humans off my back and I'll pay you quite handsomely. Who knows, this may lead to permanent employment." I faked an excited look.
Trey: "Golly Gee, so I'll get to learn how to be a cocksmoker? Oh boy!" I turned to leave, "Keep your money, dude. I'll watch out for the Enforcers but I'm not doing it for you." I grew an Astrodactyl jetpack and blasted off.
Mayor Lincoln: "You don't have to, Arsenal, I already have you right where I want you."
Meanwhile, at a NexCorp laboratory, King was working on something at his desk. Suddenly, the Enforcers warped in.
King: "Well? Did you get rid of Lincoln?" Multiplex shook his head.
Multiplex: "We couldn't, Sir, we were too busy dealing with that masked vigilante freak who turns into those things." King raised an eyebrow.
King: "Arsenal was there, eh? Lincoln must have hired him as a bodyguard, there's no other way he could've known you all were after him."
Arachnid: "What do we do, Sir? Arsenal's bound to show up again, we'll never get to Lincoln." King thought about it for a second.
King: "Patience is the answer, my friends. Lay off of Lincoln until the day of the wedding, that'll create a scene that would put a lot of people in danger. If Arsenal is as much of a hero as he wants everyone to believe, he will be more focused on saving the civilians than protecting Lincoln.
Sunspot: "Good idea, Sir." King smirked.
King: "What do you expect, I am a genius."
I walked up the stairs to CoCo's apartment the next day and knocked on the door. After a few seconds, she opened it.
CoCo: "Trey, you're okay!" She immediately hugged me. Of course, I hugged back.
Trey: "Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?" We walked into the living room, where Kyrie was sitting, looking depressed.
Kyrie: "Because you totally disappeared, Trey. After I took my mom to call the task force, I came back to check on you and you were gone." I scratched my head.
Trey: "Yeah, I...followed them on foot to see if I could keep an eye on them so I could report it to the task force."
CoCo: "Did you keep an eye on them?" I sighed.
Trey: "No, they got away."
Kyrie: "Then what you did was completely fucking pointless, wasn't it?" He stood up and covered his face with his hands. I sighed again.
CoCo: "Don't mind him, Trey, he's just worried."
Trey: "About Mayor Lincoln? But they found him and besides, you don't even like him."
Kyrie: "Doesn't mean I want him to die, dude. But I'm talking about my mom. Those metas are after Lincoln and she refuses to stay away from him. I don't know what I'm going to do without my mom." He buried his hands in his face again and CoCo went over and hugged him from behind. I sighed.
I couldn't think about Kyrie and CoCo right now, I had to stop the Enforcers from killing Mayor Lincoln, now more than ever. I don't particularly care much for Lincoln and I'm pretty sure he's evil as fuck, but he's still a person and I can't let him die. I also can't let Kyrie lose him mom, I know what that's like.
I shook myself out of my thoughts and looked over at Kyrie and CoCo. She was up against the wall and he was whispering something in her hear. I rolled my eyes.
Trey: "Ahem." They looked back at me, blushing, "Sorry to interrupt whatever the hell is going on here, but what happens now? Your mom and Mayor Lincoln still getting married?" I already knew the answer but I had to make it look good.
Kyrie nodded.
Kyrie: "Unfortunately. I was just asking CoCo here to be my date." I chuckled.
Trey: "Can't get enough of rejection, huh, homie?" CoCo cleared her throat.
CoCo: "Actually...I said yes." I stared at her.
Trey: "Oh..That's awesome, guys. So you're giving each other a chance."
Kyrie: "Nothing's official yet, man, but hopefully CoCo will see that I'm the one for her after this date at the wedding." He smiled at her and she blushed, but then looked at me.
CoCo: "We don't want to hurt you, Trey so if there's anything you want to tell either of us, now would be the time." She had a serious, almost expecting look on her face.
Trey (thinking): "She's waiting for me to tell her I like her too. But I can't. I can't do that to Kyrie and besides, she wouldn't be safe dating me." I shook my head and said, "Nope, nothing I can think of. You guys have fun at the wedding."
Kyrie: "Of course you're invited too, dude. I feel like you and I are becoming real bros." I smiled, genuinely.
Trey: "Yeah, me too." We walked up to each other and bro-hugged, "So, when is the wedding?"
Kyrie: "Next week, Mom and Mayor Lincoln don't want to wait any longer to 'profess their love' or whatever." I nodded.
Trey: "Cool, I'll buy a tuxedo." I turned to leave but then thought of something and turned back to them, "Hey, doesn't NexCorp have a DNA division?"
Kyrie: "Uh, yeah. Nobody really knows what goes on there, though. It's uber secret." I nodded.
Trey: "And your mom, she's the big boss of everything, right? Even all the divisions?" Kyrie nodded.
Kyrie: "Yeah, she is the founder. What are you getting at, Trey?" I quickly shrugged.
Trey: "Nothing, just asking. Anyway, movies tonight?" They both nodded.
CoCo: "Yep, just like we planned." I nodded.
Trey: "Cool, cool. I'll see you guys then." I turned towards the door, my eyes glowing red as I left.
...
Meanwhile, Lincoln was in his penthouse, having a meal. He was surrounded by security guards.
Guard: "Everything alright, Sir?"
Lincoln: "Everything is great, I assure you. You may leave." The guard nodded and he and the rest of the guards left the room, Lincoln turning to watch them leave. When he turned back around, I was sitting across from him at the table, in full costume. My mask was pulled up to reveal my mouth because I was eating Lincoln's food.
Trey: "You know, you may be a dick, but you know how to pick your chefs. This is fucking delicious." Lincoln didn't even look surprised.
Lincoln: "Young man, you have a lot of growing up to do."
Trey: "Says the dude who has his butler put his pants on for him." He sighed.
Lincoln: "What can I do for you, Arsenal?" I finished up the food and burped, then pulled my mask down.
Trey: "Well, besides giving me the recipe for that meatloaf, you can confirm a theory that I have. You see, up until now I figured that the Enforcers were hired by some guy who didn't want you to marry a woman that he loves. Jealousy, you feel me?"
Lincoln: "I suppose."
Trey: "Well, thanks to my good ol' Arsey brain, I have come up with a different conclusion. You don't love Ms. Nexus, do you?" He smirked.
Lincoln: "What would give you that idea, boy?"
Trey: "Oh nothing, just the fact that Ms. Nexus happens to be the founder and head of a billion dollar company that JUST SO HAPPENS to have a super secret DNA division. So, when I put two and two together, it equals you being fucking busted."
Lincoln: "Mr. Arsenal, I have no idea what you are talking about. I am an upstanding citizen who just wants to marry the woman I love, how dare you come in here and accuse me of...marrying Thea for control of the company? Is that what you are implying?" I shrugged.
Trey: "A little bit. You see, stone face, I have reason to believe that not only are you incredibly crooked but you're also some kind of crime boss."
Lincoln: "And what evidence do you have that proves this, young man? Butler, a known psychopath? He's hardly a reliable source." I scowled under my mask and turned on my watch, slapping down the core and transforming into Shocksquatch. I jumped up on the table.
Shocksquatch: "You might have everybody else fooled, pebble breath, but I have experience with corporate guys being evil. I don't know what type of person you are exactly, but I know it isn't good." He glared at me.
Lincoln: "You wanna know what kind of person I am, boy? I am the type of person with many resources. Resources that I can and will use to figure out who you are, under that mask and beneath whatever power you have that lets you change form like you do. And when I figure that out, I am going to become the type of person that comes into your personal life and ruins it. Matter of fact, I'm going to find out where you live and come show you exactly who I am." I glared at him too.
Shocksquatch: "Are you hitting on me?"
Lincoln: "Get out of my home, Arsenal. I won't ask you again." I shrugged and slapped my symbol, turning into HyperZoom.
HyperZoom: "If you insist. We should glare at each other menacingly more often, Mayor Asshat. I'll see you later." I charged up and blasted through his glass door.
Lincoln: "He has no idea." He tried to get up and noticed he couldn't. He looked down and shook his head, "He glued my feet to the floor."
A week later, it was time for the wedding and we were all at Kyrie's house getting ready. Kyrie and CoCo were in his huge room, waiting for me. Kyrie had on a simple black tuxedo and small diamond earrings in his ears. CoCo had on a black strapless dress with black heels and some lipgloss. She was also wearing a black headband and her braids were down.
Kyrie: "You, um, you look beautiful, CoCo." She blushed.
CoCo: "Thank you, Kyrie. You look great too." He smiled and nodded. At that moment, I walked in. I was wearing a simple black suit and tie with the suit jacket open. I also had earrings on and my hair was re-braided to sit was two braids on either side of my head instead of my usual three.
Trey: "You guys ready?" They looked at each other and smirked.
CoCo: "Look at you, Mr. Sergauson, so dapper!"
Kyrie: "Hell yeah, looking like a little edible pop tart with your cute ass." I chuckled.
Trey: "Aw shucks guys, you're making me blush. You guys look good too." They thanked me and I continued, "Norman said we're leaving for the church in 5 minutes so you two do whatever pre-date stuff that you have to, within that time, kay?" They both blushed and nodded and I left the room, chuckling.
Voice: "I'm telling you, the boss doesn't want any guns at this wedding." I raised an eyebrow and turned my hands and feet into Web Head ones, then quietly climbed up the wall and up to the ceiling. I crawled up the ceiling until I was directly above the person who was talking on the phone, Mayor Lincoln's bodyguard. I think his name was Hammerhead.
Hammerhead: "Yeah, he said something about special protection. Hopefully he knows what he's doing, who knows what'd happen to the business if he were to die."
Trey (thinking): "The business? Something tells me he isn't talking about his position as mayor." I picked up a door opening with my enhanced hearing and quickly pulled myself out of the room with a web line before the person entered.
Mayor Lincoln: "Are all my affairs in order, Hammerhead?" He nodded.
Hammerhead: "Yes, Sir. I have made sure there are no type of weapons or employees at the wedding that weren't invited." Lincoln nodded.
Mayor Lincoln: "Good. The last thing we'd want are.." He paused and looked up at the ceiling where I had been before, "Unwanted guests." They walked out the door and closed it, revealing that I was sticking to the other side. I jumped off and turned my limbs back to normal, then smirked.
Trey: "And Logan said I was no good at recon." I left the room too and went into Kyrie's living room, where everyone was preparing to go.
CoCo: "You alright, Trey?" I nodded.
Trey: "Yeah, I'm good. Who's ready for a wedding?"
...
We arrived at the church and after pushing past the swarm of reporters outside, Kyrie, CoCo and I were with Kyrie's mom in one of the dressing rooms. She was fully dressed in her wedding dress and makeup and looked really beautiful.
CoCo: "You look beautiful, Ms. Nexus."
Ms. Nexus: "Thank you, CoCo. And thank you for coming, I'm glad my Kyrie has found someone that makes him happy." I looked down a little and the others blushed.
Kyrie: "Mom. We're not together, yet. It's just a date." His mom rolled her eyes, smiling.
Trey: "So, are you nervous about getting married, Ms. Nexus?" She smiled at me.
Ms. Nexus: "Not at all, actually. I know that Lenard isn't the most publicly liked person, but I see a person that nobody else does. He is the most sweet, caring, spontaneous person I've ever known."
CoCo: "That is so adorable. Right, Ky?" He didn't answer because he was too busy staring at her.
Kyrie: "Oh, um, yeah. But, are you sure about this, Mom? He has metas that are trying to kill him."
Ms. Nexus: "I'm sure, honey. I know it's a risk but I always believed that there is someone out there for everyone and I believe that Lenard is that person for me." I smiled sadly at her. She's no doubt in love with Lincoln but I'd bet my comic book collection that Lincoln is only marrying her to gain access to the company.
I was about to say something, but an old black guy popped his head into the room.
Old guy: "It's time, Ms. Nexus." She nodded.
Ms. Nexus: "Thank you, Allister. I appreciate yo coming, I know how much you were against this whole thing." At her words, I looked at Allister, suspicious.
Allister: "Although I am still very much convinced that Mayor Lincoln is marrying you for all the wrong reasons, I cannot stop you. Hopefully, everything goes according to plan." He left the room, leaving me incredibly suspicious. I turned to Ms. Nexus.
Trey: "Hey, who was that?"
Ms. Nexus: "That was Allister King, one of the smartest minds at NexCorp. He is the one in charge of our DNA division." I nodded at her and she continued, "Now, you all get to your seats. I'm about to get married."
We all nodded and left the room, heading toward the chapel.
Trey: "So you're all good with this, Ky? You were all pissed about your mom marrying Lincoln when she told you." He shrugged.
Kyrie: "Yeah, I know. But now I know how happy he makes her, who am I to stand in the way of that? He seems to really love her."
CoCo: "That's real sweet of you, dude. I'm proud." She intertwined their fingers and walked closer together. I put my hands in my pockets and looked at the ground. Hopefully shit doesn't hit the fan and this all goes smoothly.
We walked inside the main chapel are and took our seats. I was sitting at the end, CoCo next to me and Kyrie to her right. They were still holding hands.
Trey: "Hey, maybe you guys should be up there, too." They both blushed.
Kyrie and CoCo: "Shut up." Suddenly, the piano player started playing and the door opened, revealing Mayor Lincoln and Hammerhead. They both had on tuxedos. As they walked past our section, Lincoln smirked at Kyrie.
Lincoln: "I am very happy that this is happening."
Kyrie: "Yeah...me too." They shook hands and Lincoln walked over to the stage, stepping onto it. Next, Ms. Nexus and her friends walked down the aisle. She smiled at us and we smiled back. She stepped onto the stage with Lincoln and smiled at him.
Lincoln: "You look beautiful, Thea." She blushed.
Ms. Nexus: "And you look like the man of my dreams." I rolled my eyes but suddenly got a familiar feeling.
Trey (mumbling): "Here? Seriously?" The others noticed my expression.
CoCo: "You alright, Trey?"
Kyrie: "Yeah, you look kinda on edge." I nodded at them.
Trey: "Yeah, everything's peachy. Weddings are just kinda boring." I continued to look around and they looked at each other.
CoCo: "Trey, we know something's up." I looked at her.
Trey: "You do?"
Kyrie: "We're sorry that we came to the wedding as a couple and left you to third-wheel. That was inconsiderate." I wanted to laugh out loud, not because what he said was funny but because I thought they were going to say they knew something about what's really going on.
Trey: "Oh...yeah, it's going to take some getting used to. But.." I looked at CoCo, kinda sad, "If this makes both of you happy, who am I to stand in the way?" She smiled at me.
Kyrie: "Awesome." We turned back to the wedding and saw that Lincoln and Ms. Nexus were done exchanging vows.
Pastor: "Now, if anyone here has a reason that these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold you peace." The auras suddenly started to feel really close and at that moment, the ceiling burst open and the Enforcers all came down.
Sunspot: "Yes, we have a very good reason."
Arachnid: "The groom is marked for death!" He leaped up and shot a web line at Lincoln, pulling him into his arms. My eyes got wide.
Trey: "Shit, meet fan." Multiplex split up into 5 of himself and they all pulled out machine guns. The wedding guests all tried to run, but the clones closed all the doors.
Multiplex: "Sorry, but nobody leaves. Can't have one of you calling the task force, now can I?" A lady tried to get up from her seat, but Sunspot shot a fireball at her, knocking her back. I gritted my teeth. I needed to go hero, but I couldn't let the others or anyone else know who I am.
Hammerhead: "Put him down, freak!" He charged at Arachnid head-first, slamming him back into a wall and making him drop Lincoln. Ms. Nexus ran over to him and helped him up.
Ms. Nexus: "Are you alright, honey?"
Lincoln: "I'm fine. We need to get out of here before-" He was suddenly roundhouse kicked in the head by Multiplex.
Multiplex: "Your bodyguard made a huge mistake. At first, we only wanted you. But now, she and everybody else here dies too. Off them, boys!" One of his clones aimed his gun at one of the bridesmaids and fired. My eyes glowed red and turned into Godspeed ones, making everything slow down.
Trey: "Whoa, this is new." I turned to look at Kyrie and CoCo, seeing them hiding under the seats together, not paying attention to me. Making sure I was moving so fast that nobody saw me, I turned my legs and hands into Godspeed ones, then zoomed over and stood in front of the bridesmaid. I caught one of the bullets with one hand, another bullet with another hand, then dropped them, spun around and caught another bullet, throwing it back into the gun. It exploded, knocking the clone back.
I smirked and did a little shimmy to celebrate, then zoomed back over to the others, making my limbs and eyes normal. The clone I knocked back rubbed his head and looked around.
Multiplex clone: "Yo, Arsenal's here!" The Enforcers looked around.
Sunspot: "Really? Where is he?"
Multiplex clone: "Hell if I know! Something just swooped in and fucked my shit up, had to be Arsenal." Multiplex smirked.
Multiplex: "Alright, do-gooder, we know you're here. Now you have two options, either face us now and everybody lives except you and Lincoln OR you stay in hiding and all of these people die..." He looked over at CoCo and smirked, then grabbed her, "Starting with this pretty young lady."
Kyrie: "No! Leave her alone!" He ran at Multiplex, but Arachnid spartan kicked him in the face, knocking him out cold.
CoCo: "KYRIE!" She struggled against Multiplex's grip, to no avail.
Ms. Nexus: "My baby! Please, why are you doing this?!"
Sunspot: "You have our generous employer to thank for all of this, lady. He wanted-" Allister suddenly stood up and cut him off.
King: "I'll take it from here, Sunspot. Thea, we could've had something special." I furrowed my eyebrows.
Trey (mumbling): "What?"
Ms. Nexus: "What?!"
King: "Thea, I have been in love with you since you hired me back in 2010. I am an old, intelligent man that simply wanted to show you the wonders of the world. But NO! You chose to marry a man that doesn't even love you!" I looked around and noticed everyone was distracted, meaning it was time to go hero. I quickly and quietly crawled to the back of the chapel, behind all the seats.
Lincoln: "Old man, you have no right to-" He was hit in the face by the back of Multiplex's gun.
Multiplex: "Shut the hell up. Killing you will be doing everybody a favor, Mr. Mayor."
King: "Oh, how right you are, Multiplex. Thea, if you can't see that Lincoln is using you then I'll make sure you can't marry him at all! Sunspot, light this place up." Sunspot started to power up and aimed a flamethrower at Lincoln, but I popped up from behind the chairs in full costume with two Freakazoid hands. I had a fire extinguisher.
Trey: "Hold on, pyro. You guys definitely should have held your peace." I fired the fire extinguisher at Sunspot, putting out his fire and blasting him back into the podium. I dropped the fire extinguisher and made my hands into Web Head ones, then shot out a web line at CoCo and pulled her to me.
Trey: "You okay?" She pushed me back a little, looking pissed.
CoCo: "This changes nothing, criminal. For all I know, you're on the same side as those other metas!" She ran over to check on Kyrie.
Trey: "Nice to see she doesn't hold a grudge." I turned back to the Enforcers, "Alright, Three Stooges, I've been wanting to kick your asses for about a week now, so let's get it."
Arachnid: "Boss?"
King: "Take care of Arsenal, then take care of Lincoln. Thea, you're coming with me." He grabbed her by the wrist and started pulling her out. I tried to stop them, but Arachnid pulled me back with a web line, swinging me at Multiplex, who roundhouse kicked me into a seat. Sunspot shot a fireball at me, but I vaulted over the seat before it hit me, then activated the Delta-X and slammed it. After a flash of red light, I shot star bolts at them as OmniFire. They dodged them, giving me chance to fly over and grab Lincoln.
OmniFire: "We have got to stop meeting like this." I flew him up and placed him on the upper level of the chapel, "Stay here, okay, pickle puss?" He rolled his eyes and I flew back down to the Enforcers, punching Multiplex in the face. He recovered and pulled out an energy blaster, firing a series of plasma balls at me. I dodged all of them and held my hands up to fire star bolts, but Arachnid covered them with webbing, giving Sunspot a chance to send a huge fireball into my chest. I flew back and slammed into the back wall, where Arachnid pummeled me with a series of web balls. My eyes glowed green and I used star bolt energy to rip my hands out of the webbing, then slapped my symbol and became Ironheart, rocketing myself at Arachnid. He flipped over me and shot a web line to pull me back to him, but I turned around and blasted him in the face with repulsor beams, making him stumble a bit. While he was disoriented, I delivered two swift punches to both sides of his face, grabbed his head and kneed him the nose, then nailed him with another repulsor beam. He flew back and slammed into the wall, where I slapped my symbol and became Web Head and stuck him to the wall with webs.
Web Head: "Oh, the irony." I felt a tingle in my hand and leaned my head to the side, letting a fireball fly past me. I turned around and used a web line to fling the podium at Sunspot, who powered up and burned right through it.
Sunspot: "That the best you got?" I shrugged.
Web Head: "Just wanted you to make a speech, sheesh." I shot two web lines at the ceiling and pulled myself up, then started shooting web balls at Sunspot. He burned through some of them and shot a fireball at me, but I shot a web line and pulled myself away.
Sunspot: "Solar powered, remember? Your plan to smother my flame won't work." I smirked and jumped down, landing in front of him.
Web Head: "You know, I totally forgot you were powered by exposure to sunlight. Thanks." I slapped my symbol.
Suddenly, the entire room was covered in thick darkness, although we could all still see.
Multiplex: "What?" I levitated out of the shadows as Metrion.
Metrion: "Like what I've done with the place?"
Sunspot: "What did you do?!" I smirked.
Metrion: "Your powers run off exposure to the sun. I simply covered the room in darkness, so bye bye sun." Sunspot tried to power up, but could only manage a small flame.
Sunspot: "Well it didn't work, Arsenal. I can still FLAME ON!" He shot a flamethrower at me but I rolled my eyes and easily deflected it with a black shield, then held up one hand and wrapped him up in black energy, trapping him.
Metrion: "Candle, consider yourself blown out." My symbol made the time out noise and I reverted to normal, in full costume. The darkness faded away, returning to room to normal. Suddenly, Multiplex's clones surrounded me, all aiming their weapons at me.
Multiplex: "Forget about me, boy?" One of the clones blasted me into another clone, who kicked me in the stomach. I fell to the ground, where the real Multiplex blasted me in the face.
Multiplex: "Four against one, Arsenal, those aren't the best odds for you." I smirked under my mask.
Trey: "Dude, I love these kinda odds." I turned my hands into Jet Stream ones and spun around, blowing air at all the clones and knocking them all away from me except for the real Multiplex. The clones immediately got up like nothing had happened.
Multiplex: "Wanna try that again?" I rolled my eyes and turned my hand into a Snot Rocket one then threw a booger ball at his face. He wiped it off in disgust but the weird thing is, the clones wiped their faces too like they had something on them. I thought about it for a second, then smirked.
Trey: "Your clones have no mind of their own without you, do they?" He started looking nervous.
Multiplex: "Wha-what are you talking about, Arsenal?" I cracked my knuckles and started walking toward him, but his clones formed a wall in front of me.
Multiplex clone: "You're not getting to him without going through us!" I raised an eyebrow under my mask.
Trey (thinking): "These clones don't feel pain without Multiplex feeling pain, so I can smack them around all I want and they still won't move. I have to take out Multiplex to stop them but I can't get to him if they don't move.." I looked at them, noticing they were standing with their legs open. My eyes got wide and I said, "Oh this is gonna be so fye if I can pull it off."
Multiplex: "What?" I turned my right hand into a Blackout one, then powered up an electric ball in my hand. He laughed, "Hitting them with that will do no good." I smirked and aimed, then threw the electric ball, expertly bouncing it between the clone's legs and nailing Multiplex in the face. He fell to the ground, electrocuted.
Trey: "And that, ladies and gentlemen, is called a nutmeg." I took a bow and the civilians cheered. I turned my hands into Gravattack ones and used them to levitate Lincoln down, then turned my hands back to normal.
Trey: "Am I good or am I good?" Lincoln rolled his eyes.
Lincoln: "You have done good work, Arsenal." Kyrie and CoCo came over, both looking pissed.
Kyrie: "Good work?! GOOD WORK?! You let my mom get kidnapped by that old guy and you're taking bows?!" I chuckled.
Trey: "Your mom is fine."
Kyrie and CoCo: "HUH?!" I whistled and the chapel door opened, revealing a Ditto clone with Ms. Nexus and a tied up King. As soon as the clone saw me, the symbol on his chest made the time out noise and he flew over, merging back into my body.
Trey: "As soon as I started fighting Multiplex, I secretly sent a Ditto out to go save Ms. Nexus. My clones can shape-shift like I can, but they get weaker as time goes on, not to mention it drains the hell outta me. Now I'll ask again, am I good or am I good?" Ms. Nexus ran over and hugged Kyrie, then Lincoln.
Ms. Nexus: "Honey, I'm so glad you're okay!"
Lincoln: "So am I, my dear. Now we can go on with the wedding."
Ms. Nexus: "Actually, maybe it's best if we don't get married right now. I love you with all my heart but I feel we should stay engaged, at least until everything calms down a bit."
Lincoln: "What?"
Trey: "And that's my cue to leave, I have a wedding gift to return." I pulled my mask up a little and stuck my tongue out at Lincoln, then turned my legs into XLR8 ones, then zoomed out of the room. After that, I grew a Big Chill cloak and phased back into the room, then made the cloak and my suit go away. I popped out from behind a table like I'd been hiding there.
Trey: "Hey guys, some wedding, huh?"
Kyrie and CoCo: "Trey!" They both ran over and CoCo hugged me.
Kyrie: "Where the hell were you while all the action was going down?" I chuckled, nervously.
Trey: "I get pretty squeamish around meta-humans so I ducked off under the table." They looked at each other and laughed.
CoCo: "Seriously? How are you gonna be a cop if you hide while everything is going down. Even Kyrie and I stayed put and the two of us almost died." Kyrie looked at her.
Kyrie: "Speaking of that, CoCo. Seeing you almost get killed by that meta made me really think about what I want. At first I was skeptical about being exclusive with you but now I've made up my mind. Arcola Butler, I don't ever want to lose you, will you be my girlfriend?" My heart broke when I saw the huge smile on CoCo's face.
CoCo: "Of course I will!" She jumped into his arms and kissed him. I took this opportunity to walk out of the chapel.
Later that night, I was in my apartment eating cheesecake, like I always do after a super-villain battle. I was still wearing my suit but I had un-buttoned the shirt and took the tie and blazer off.
Trey: "Well, look on the bright side, Arsey. You beat the bad guys and saved the mayor, who is definitely a bad guy. Today was a win, despite the lame ass heartbreak." Suddenly, a floating ball with a projector floated next to me.
Ball: "Video transmission for Trey Sergauson, activating retina scan now." He floated up to my face and scanned my eyes, "Retina scanned. Starting transmission."
The ball projected a figure onto the floor and it was revealed to be..
Trey: "LOGAN?!" He smiled.
Logan: "Sup, man. Did you finally figure out how to look older?" I wanted to hug him but he was obviously a hologram.
Trey: "What? How? I thought you hated me." He shook his head.
Logan: "I could never really hate you, Treez, you're my brother. But Fury reached out to us and told us what you were doing for the people on Tetris Nova. That guy is a dick." I smiled.
Trey: "I know, right! So he let you send a video sphere?" He nodded and looked at my outfit.
Logan: "Looking spiffy, bro. Funeral?" I shook my head.
Trey: "Wedding. Long story. How are the others?"
Logan: "Ben is good, he's enjoying the fame that comes from being a famous superhero. He misses you, though. He and Aubrie are still going strong." I smiled, happy for him, "Marian is good too. Matt visited yesterday, he and Essence are doing great. Victor had a birthday the other day, he's 4 now. He's starting to get really good with his powers but you and I both know how good he'll be." I nodded, remembering that we met an older Victor from the future.
Trey: "Any news on Charity?" He shook his head, sadly.
Logan: "Azmuth and I have been working on a way to wake her up but so far, nothing. I'll keep you posted, though." I sighed, but smiled at him.
Trey: "So these talks will be regular, then?" He smiled too.
Logan: "Hell yeah! I wanna hear about your adventures now that you're solo again and the others and I are dying to tell you about what happened while you were gone." I nodded.
Trey: "Can't wait." Logan raised an eyebrow at me.
Logan: "What's up, dude? I can tell something's wrong."
Trey: "I'm cool. It's just.." I proceeded to tell him all about CoCo and Kyrie.
Logan: "Don't worry about that, dude. You did the right thing, considering you're keeping your identity secret."
Trey: "Yeah, I guess."
Logan: "Hey. Buck up, you dork, there's definitely someone out there for you." I laughed.
Trey: "Oh yeah? Who?
...
Meanwhile in a dark alley, deep in the city, a girl that looked around my age was sitting on the ground. She had dark black hair, a shirt that was dirty and looked too big for her and wasn't wearing shoes. She had her face in her hands until a man walked past. He stopped when he saw her.
Man: "Hey. are you okay, sweetie?" The girl sobbed.
Girl: "My...my leg. I hurt it."
Man: "Oh, I'm so sorry. Look, there's a hospital right around the corner. Do you want me to carry you?" The girl nodded and the man stooped down to pick her up.
As soon as she got on his back, the girl's face turned demonic and she snarled, biting into his neck. The man screamed and yelled, trying to get her off but she seemingly had superhuman strength. She drained all the blood from his body, then snapped his neck. She looked up, blood all around her mouth and her eyes glowing like a cat's. With that, she ran off at inhuman speed.
The end.
Well, that took longer than a month. I wanna apologize for taking so long with this but I obviously have other responsibilities with college and basketball so I hope you all understand. I'm going to try and make these episodes around 10-15,000 words instead of the usual 5-6,000 because they'll most likely take longer to release but also because I want the storylines to be more fleshed out. As for the events in this episode, I always intended for CoCo to be with Kyrie as it adds more hardship for Trey. No worries though, he'll get the girlfriend that I mentioned but probably not for a few chapters. Who is the mysterious murderer girl? You'll just have to wait and see. I also decided to include some episodes here and there that show Ben and Logan's adventures while Trey was in his 3 year sleep. I came to the conclusion that I haven't really done Ben that much justice since he got his watch and I honestly missed writing him and the others so those flashback episodes will come every once and awhile. One more thing, I just want to say Happy belated New Year, Christmas (or any other holiday if you don't celebrate it) and MLK day to all my friends and readers. I didn't post on those days so I'm saying it now. I actually turned 19 on Christmas so Happy Birthday to me. There weren't any reviews that needed answering this time, but if you wanna ask questions, I will answer them after every episode. That's it guys, see you next time! Peace!
