"What do you think they are discussing in there?" Kamala asked Dante as they where two of the three Secret Warriors present at the HQ, Daisy being the other, and she could be found having a private meeting with Vixen.
"Hopefully a plan to save Gwen, and kick Imperious's ass." Dante said in a firm tone as he clenched a fist at the mention of the Dragon Emperor, which did not go unnoticed by Kamala.
"Either one works for me." Kamala said in her own firm tone, which earned a brief smile from Dante.
"Agreed." Dante said simply as he walked over to the couch in the rec room and took a seat. Kamala followed suit and took a seat next to him. Dante let out a sigh and turned to look at Kamala. "I'm really sorry I couldn't pull you out of that hell." Dante apologized in a defeated whisper, which earned a sympathetic look from Kamala.
"You can't blame yourself Dante, I'm certainly not." Kamala said with a small smile as she placed a hand on his shoulder, which made Dante sigh again.
"You where there for me when I had my powers stolen. Yet I ran like a coward when you needed me." Dante muttered in a defeated tone.
"I'm sure you had no choice." Kamala said quickly.
"Sure I did... we chose to run instead of completing the mission." Dante whispered again.
"If you hadn't run, you, America Chavez and I would all be trapped in that hell." Kamala said in a serious tone.
"I still think we should have stayed and fought–" Dante was cut off by Kamala.
"You made the right choice. Last thing I'd want is for you to suffer." Kamala said as her face began to blush, which earned one from Dante.
"I'm suffering right now." Dante whispered as he stood up from the couch and left the rec room, and headed out of the HQ...
-Meanwhile-
"Did your father ever mention anything about Imperious's realm?" Daisy asked Vixen.
"A few details of what the realm looks like. Beyond that nothing." Vixen answered Daisy's question.
"Could any of those details be useful to rescuing Gwen from Imperious?" Daisy inquired.
"Not really, sorry Daisy." Vixen apologized quickly.
"It was worth asking." Daisy said with a serious tone.
"I don't think it's wise to attack Imperious in his realm. Hundreds of Continuum warriors where killed in one attack by Imperious–" Vixen was interrupted by Daisy.
"How the hell did he do that?" Daisy asked quickly.
"The Infinity Stones." Vixen answered simply. "He has all the stones from his realm, so with a single roar he killed all but my father." Vixen said in a bitter tone.
"How did your father survive an attack from all the Infinity Stones?" Daisy asked in a curious tone. Vixen was about to answer when Kamala walked into the conference room.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, but I need to speak with you Daisy." Kamala requested of her leader.
"Vixen can you leave us for a minute?" Daisy asked Vixen, to which the yellow eyed girl nodded her head and silently stood up and left the conference room, the door shutting behind her.
"What's up Kamala?" Daisy asked as she stood up from her chair and stretched her legs.
"I hate to bother you with this... but I'm concerned about Dante." Kamala informed her leader.
"Why's that?" Daisy asked quickly.
"He feels guilty that he couldn't pull me out of my nightmare. Even though I told him not to blame himself, and that he made the right choice, he just stormed off to be by himself." Kamala informed her leader.
"I think the best thing you can do for him right now is to give him his space. I agree with you that he made the right decision. But he needs to realize it." Daisy said firmly, which earned a head nod from Kamala, who left the room and took a seat back on the couch.
-Meanwhile-
'That can't be good.' Dante muttered as he rounded a corner and saw smoke in the distance, fire trucks screaming by him on their way to the presumed fire. With a thought Dante activated his fire powers, which turned his clothes to ashes and left him in his 'Inferno' attire. With a thought he took flight and quickly flew to where the problem was...
"Get some water on the upper floors!" the fire chief shouted as his crew fought to contain the blaze in the multi-story building before it could spread to the neighboring buildings.
"Chief!" a firefighter yelled as he ran out of the flaming building. "We could hear screaming on the floor above us, but the fire and smoke are too heavy to get up the–"
"Leave that to me." an unknown voice informed the fire crew as they turned to face the voice and saw a young adult wearing a dark outfit with a red flame symbol on his chest.
"You are?" the chief asked.
"Name's Inferno, and I'm resistant to fire." Inferno informed the two firefighters. "What floor are the people trapped on?" Inferno asked the man who had ran out of the building.
"Seventh floor. Whatever your planning on doing, do it fast. At the rate the building could come down in minutes." the fireman informed Inferno, who nodded his head and took flight. Inferno flew at the building and entered through a broken window.
"Where are you?" Dante yelled as he began walking from room to room, the heat having no effect on him. He rounded a corner and saw what appeared to be a woman wearing a cloak with her back turned to him. Dante quickly walked up to the woman and reached a hand towards the woman's shoulder... only for the woman to turn around and with a shrill scream was revealed to be a skeletal looking monster, who kicked Dante in the stomach and sent him flying backwards through a crumbling wall.
"The hero types are easy to lure out." the skeletal monster said in a mocking tone as Dante quickly got back up to his feet.
"Wraith!" Dante hissed.
"Surprised you know my name, Dante. Since we have not been introduced." Wraith said in a sincere tone.
"I saw you in Kamala's nightmare!" Dante hissed as he clenched his fists.
"Ah yes, my masters plan worked to perfection." Wraith continued to mock Dante.
"You and Imperious will pay for what you did to her!" Dante hissed as he took up a combat stance.
"I suppose you will be the one to make us pay?" Wraith inquired in that still mocking tone. Dante responded by igniting his fists.
"That answer your question?" Dante hissed as his eyes now glowed with fire. Wraith did not answer as he tossed his cloak to the side to reveal purple and golden armor, and a holstered sword, which Wraith unsheathed, revealing a sword with a pure black blade.
"Come forward Dante, take your revenge." Wraith hissed in an enticing tone as he raised his word in a defensive stance. Dante made the first move by throwing a fastball fireball at Wraith, who raised his sword and knocked the fireball to the side, which made Wraith laugh evilly.
"That all you got, boy?" Wraith taunted the Inhuman Secret Warrior, who snarled and launched streams of fire from his fists, which made Wraith jump and somersault into the air and slash at Dante. Wraith's attack was true as his sword landed a slash into Dante's chest, which made the Secret Warrior stumble backwards and grunt in pain.
"That all you got?" Dante hissed despite the pain as he started lobbing fireball after fireball at Wraith, who began ducking and weaving around the incoming attacks, before slashing Dante's right shoulder, which made him grunt in pain again and clutch his now bleeding shoulder.
"Hardly, as unlike you I enjoy causing pain and suffering, in fact... I want to see you suffer more." Wraith taunted as he rushed forward an impaled Dante's other shoulder which made him drop to a knee and scream in pain and rage as Wraith slowly began twisting his blade inside Dante's shoulder. "You now only feel a fraction of the pain that your beloved felt–"
"Shut up!" Dante roared as he launched a stream of flames from his foot which engulfed Wraith, which made the skeletal warrior stumble backwards. When the fire was don engulfing him Wraith began to laugh.
"Impressive, you managed to catch me off guard." Wraith admitted in a sincere tone. "But not impressive enough!" Wraith hissed as he delivered a deep slash to Dante's gut, causing Dante to spit blood out of his mouth. "Surrender!" Wraith hissed darkly.
"Screw you!" Dante hissed as she spat blood into Wraith's face as he powered up a desperation move. With a roar Dante's entire body was engulfed in flames as he basically turned into a living fireball as he expelled the most powerful attack he had ever attempted and the fire once again engulfed Wraith as the fire quickly engulfed the entire floor.
The fire melted the remaining support beams and caused the entire building to groan as the building started to come down, which Wraith and Dante quickly noticed. Both took immediate action as Wraith opened a portal and jumped into it, while Dante shakily got to his feet and was barely able to fly out of the building's shattered window he had entered through. However due to his injuries he crash landed on the street right next to the firefighters who had ran away from the collapsing building.
"What the hell?" The fire chief asked as he and his men ran up to the injured Inhuman, who had passed out from pain. "Get the paramedics over here right now!" the chief ordered as his fellow firefighters quickly ran over to the paramedics who had arrived on scene.
To Be Continued...
