Chapter Twenty Two: The Warehouse
"That's not the troll," Penny muttered, and the mysterious assassin jumped forward. They wore a black skin tight suit with blue lines down the front seams. They were a little taller than Margo, about Violet's height, but their gender and any other identifying features were concealed by their steel face mask.
Violet made a forcefield that the assassin slammed into and rolled away, avoiding the pulsing energy sticks. One hit from those would definitely take her down.
More lights went up along the sides of the warehouse, revealing more minions, dressed in black with their eyes hidden by identical glowly blue goggles. When the girls scattered to avoid the assassin, the enemies along the sides pulled out small tasers.
A third light came on above the catwalk, and a man wearing a blue super suit grinned evilly. Violet bit her bottom lip and growled.
"Great," Tip signed, Penny interpreting. "They have a super,"
A taller, beefier man stepped out from the shadows behind He-lectrix, his blue suit broken up by the silver K on his chest.
"No." Violet muttered. "They have two,"
"You think this isn't connected to the night now?" Margo whispered.
"Krushauer, He-lectrix, get in here!" The assassin growled, voice decidedly male. He then leapt at Spec, knocking her back. Phantom moved to help her teammate, but she wasn't fast enough.
"On it Tortazo!" The skinny super yelled, and fired two bolts of lightning at the girls. The lightning hit the ground in front of Violet's feet, distracting her.
The hypnotized minions on the bottom level suddenly lunged at Tip and Penny. The girls started to fight them hand to hand, careful to avoid the tasers. Bolt leapt up and buried his teeth in one of the men's arms, but the man didn't even scream. There were too many of them for the duo to get a leg up, but they were still holding their own.
Violet yelped and put a force field around herself to keep He-lectrix's lightning away. It worked, but every shock of the bolts hitting the field traveled back into her arms and through her body.
Tortazo had knocked Margo down, then managed to pin her to the ground. The brunette whipped around, struggling against his hold. Glaring, she tried to mind control him and convince him to move, but the assassin only laughed.
"You'll have to try harder than that, Senorita," He tapped the side of his metal mask. Margo growled and continued to struggle, avoiding the electric batons as he dangled them close to her.
Violet tried to move in to help her teammate, but tripped as another lightning bolt rippled through the shield. Krushauer took the advantage, focusing his power on her force field and forcibly shrinking it around her.
She started to scream as pain rushed into her body from all angles. Penny and Tip's heads whipped towards her, terrified at the sound.
Tip used her sonic scream at the villain, throwing the huge super backwards and releasing his hold on her leader. He-lectrix growled and threw a bolt at her in return.
Tortazo deactivated one of his batons and tipped Margo's head back with it. Her eyes widened in fear, and although his mask didn't show it, his voice gave away his smirk.
"You are not going to win Senorita," He practically purred, leaning further into her.
Violet tripped again, putting up another shield just in time before He-lectrix hit her with a bolt. She screamed again, curling into a ball. With all the electricity, the warehouse lights had started to go out and buzz dangerously.
Suddenly, sunlight shot through the room as the main door was forced open. There was a familiar pop as Wilbur teleported onto the catwalk and punched He-lectrix in the face. The other super reeled back, and Violet let down her shield, breathing out heavily.
Dash ran around Tip and Penny, whipping them out of the attack zone and back towards Violet before helping her up. Edith was close behind, throwing her entire body into Tortazo and knocking him off of Margo.
"Don't touch my sister!" She yelled. The assassin growled and reactivated his batons, ready for a fight.
Suddenly, the hypnotized minions slumped to the ground, the blue light dying from their goggles. Now outnumbered, Kaushauer and He-lectrix started to run.
"Tortazo, let's go!" The lightning super yelled, and the assassin growled again before dodging past Edith.
"You got lucky this time," He spat, then ran towards the others. They ran through a door, but before the others could follow, Krushauer had closed the entrance off.
"How's it looking, Baymax?" Hiro asked.
"She had sustained significant nerve damage from electrocution," The robot said as Violet groaned. "But it is gone now,"
"Rapunzel healed me," Violet muttered. "I'm just sore now,"
"Right!" Hiro muttered, smacking his forehead. "I need to update our powers into his systems,"
"You can do that later," Helen Parr said. "Now, I think we need to know what happened girls,"
"It was a trap," Violet muttered. "The troll disappeared as soon as we were inside that warehouse,"
"They were waiting," Penny added. "Two supers and an assassin - Tortazo,"
"The supers?" Hiccup asked.
"He-lectrix and Krushuaer," Violet said. "They weren't trained. They just threw the raw power at us,"
"And Tip already told us about the hypnotized minions," Hiccup mused. "That's what concerns me,"
"Tortazo sounds spanish," Gru said.
"He had an accent," Margo confirmed. "Definitely a spanish one. He kept calling me senorita,"
"El Macho was the only good spanish villain with decent tech in the past twenty years," Bob Parr recalled.
"But 'e died in a volcano fifteen years ago," Gru said.
"That doesn't always guarantee death," Rapunzel muttered, shooting a look at Jack.
"Tha' bridge rescue worked well, almost too well," Merida muttered, examining the footage they'd gathered. "It was probably a trap, someone wanted those girls alone,"
"We gathered the hypnotized fighters and brought them back here, but they aren't talking," Jack said. The teens looked confused, sharing glances among themselves. "But Riley can tell if they're lying, and none of them had any idea what they were doing,"
"Except for the leader," Riley said. "He knows something,"
"I'll try to heal the others and we can let them go," Rapunzel said. "And we can keep working on the leader,"
When the rest of the team nodded, the blonde looked back at the diagrams and reports pulled up throughout the briefing room.
"There is definitely something else happening here,"
Authors Notes: I meant to update during the actual day, I swear! Its just a little hard to do when you work a 23/6 job... which I am highly enjoying, don't get me wrong. It just wasn't supposed to be this chaotic.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed the chapter! This is a pretty good fight scene - AND we got new characters!