We are Meant to be Predators
Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belong to DC comics and the WB Network. I own nothing from them. I do own: Lifightre/Liz Barry/Predator, Strike, Kane, Ben, Ray, Raine, Mike, Neja, Xyl, Hailen, Hanzar, and many others. I also own anything related to Quion.
Disclaimer #2: "Pollo Locco" Episode idea is from Dark Angel and I don't own anything from them. I'm just borrowing their idea to help my fanfic, since it has lots of similarities with my character's past including Max's past too. So don't kill me!
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In the busy afternoon in New Gotham, two happy couple is walking down the crowded sidewalk, its one of those afternoons when the city is packed with people, most of them it's for business or places they needed to be at. The couple is talking about their daily life, living in the city and their occupations, and so on. The man stopped walking and his wife turns around and stares at him.
"You okay?" as she asks her husband.
His eyes flipped over; to it was pure white and he immedienly drops dead onto the ground. She freezes and ran over to him.
"George!" She kneels down beside her husband and she cries out loudly, people just passes by, watching her weep to her dead husband. That's usual in New Gotham, people don't care what is happening to the person, so they don't want to get into the middle of the situation and deal with the issues. "Someone help me!" She looks up at the other passing people. "Don't just stand there! Call 911!" They ignored her, like she isn't really there.
Reese and Helena are walking down the street, talking. Helena stops talking and hear a woman crying. "Someone needs our help." She turns to her boyfriend and he nods his head and they ran across the street to get closer to the cry. They are pushing the travelers, since they are walking so darn slow!
Within seconds the two sees the woman crying over her dead husband. He takes out his cell phone out and calls the police station and the cop secretary answers. "Its Detective Reese, there is a crime scene, right in front of Jordon's Bakery. It maybe a murder scene or some form of heart attack. But I need the civilizans away from these scene, okay, thanks." He hangs up and he looks at the woman. "Ma'am, can I ask you some questions?" He takes out a small notepad out and a pen out.
"Yes, but why my husband died?"
"I would like to know, does he have any heart problems or some kind of health problems?"
"No, not at all, he is healthy as a horse," as she said it confused, not knowing why her husband died." He jots down in what she is telling him.
Reese's cell calls and he rolls his eyes, "Can you hold on for a second." The victim's wife nods her head. He hands the call, "Reese," a pause, "All the men are swamp with another crime scene?" He rolls his eyes. "Any backup?" He hangs up and he turns to Helena. "Helena, can you get Liz, since she is a former worker to the police department, but as a secretary, but she will know the drills."
"Okay." Helena runs off back to her apartment, since she is at there, she is doing a lot of writing in the plan to defeat the big bad.
Reese turns to the woman, "Sorry for the wait. Did your husband eaten anything before you got here?"
"No, we exited our home and we are going to a local restaurant, but I don't understand why he died. I want to know how!"
"I know ma'am, when my former worker comes by, she will help this homicide investigation and figure out how he died." He pauses and he can tell she going to say something to him.
"How can you say, he was murdered! There is no gun shot wound or stab wound!!" she cries out to him.
"Ma'am, there is no other explanation; I'm just doing my job." As he calmly tells her the truth.
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Helena walks into her apartment and sees Liz, sitting on the couch, writing notes. "Liz, you're going back to work."
She looks up at her cousin, like what the heck she is talking about. "Huh?" She looks at her, confused.
"Reese needs you, as a cop, now!" She goes over to her cousin and grabs her by the arm. Liz finally gets off the couch and follows her where the crime scene is at. The two exits the apartment. Liz had no clue why Reese needs her to be a cop, she doesn't work for them anymore, since that one year and a half ago incident that she accidentally killed a man, with her telekinesis and the entire cops saw her, maybe they didn't see her face well, because it was covered by the darkness, but Reese saw her, but soon he eventually found out she is Helena's cousin and also another crime fighter.
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Reese turns around and hears, Helena. He smiles and he turns his head and notices the crowd is getting lesser and lesser. 'Finally!' As he thought to himself. The two cousins walks over to Reese. "Liz, I want you to help me with this mystery with the death of George Summer."
"Okay." She looks at Reese, "Have any plastic gloves?" He nods and he reached into his pocket and takes it out and hands it to her. She takes it out of his hands and puts it on her hands. "Please move the wife aside, while I do the job."
Reese went over to her, "Please move."
"No! I can't leave him!" She doesn't want to budge.
"Reese, I will handle this," said Helena. She goes over to her, "Let's go to the coffee shop and I will get you something to drink. Don't worry, they will find out why he died and in heaven, your husband wants you to be happy and want you to come with me so they can track down the killer or whatever killed him."
"Okay." As she quietly agree with Helena. Helena leads the woman to the local coffee shop, just up the street.
Liz kneels beside the body and examines it, "So he didn't have any health or heart problems?"
Reese puts on extra white gloves on and went beside her. "No, but this doesn't make any sense." He pauses, "could a Metahuman kill him?" He pauses, "But impossible, then people would notice and stare, but times like this, they won't care, but they do if they see something abnormal, but this is complicated." He looks at his former co-worker and she doesn't say a thing. "Liz?"
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Young Liz is in the forest, chasing after an innocent man. She runs over the dead logs and leaps over the tall low branches. Her speed increases and increases and she sees a young boy and her kill lying on the ground, pinned by his foot. "Hanzar, what are you doing?"
He turns to Liz, "Watch this." He kneels down to one foot and swipes at the man and he opens his fist and a large blue crystalline ball is lying in the palm of his hands. "See this?"
"What is it?" as she goes over to the young boy, amused by the clear crystalline ball. "It's pretty." As the ball sparkles in the light
"It's his soul, his life." He smiles at her, "Catch." He throws the crystalline ball to her and her automatic reactions, she grabs it, safely. "One thing cool, I can steal people's souls and whenever I feel like it, I crush it. BAM!" The loud word startles Liz and she drops the ball and lands onto the ground, shattering to millions of pieces. The man is now dead. "Pretty cool huh? When it breaks he dies." Liz and him smiled. "But I only do that to our enemies."
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"Liz!?" said Reese.
Nothing.
"LIZ!" As he said it one more time, to get her attention.
She turns to him, "Sorry." She gets back onto her feet, "I spaced out, sorry about that." He looks at her, like she knows something. "I'm going to find the killer."
"He was murdered? How do you know he was killed?" He gets up too and went in front of her.
"I just do." She takes the white gloves off and puts it in the trash can. He grabs her by the arm. "I'm sorry, that I'm not letting you on this, but this is MY problem."
"The killer is on the loose and you're not seeking my help? Why? Are you protecting the killer or something like that?" He can tell that she knows who the killer is and not telling him anything. "We can work together!" She stares at him. "Trust me." She looks away. "What are you not telling me, is the murderer a part of your Quion family?" She says nothing and can tell it was a yes. And she finally takes off away from Reese. "Bugger!" As he mumbles under his breath, that she isn't letting him onto the killer.
Liz runs down the street and she looks at her hands, then she touches it. Liz flashes back to Quion. She and few of her other siblings sees Hanzar holding the soul of one of the guards.
"Your not scared of Quion," said Liz as she looks up at Hanzar.
"He's never scared, he is standing up against them," said young Strike. "That is what we should do."
"The enemy shall die, maybe killing our enemies, built up our strengths, to fight off Quion and we can be free," said Hanzar.
The children heard a noise and they races back to their cots and lays down, pretending they are asleep. Hanzar made the crystalline ball to go back into the guard, which brings him back to life, in a somewhat way. A guard enters the barracks and sees the children sleeping and sees one of the guard, getting back onto his feet.
"You okay, sir?"
"I fainted." He looks at the other children, "I hope none of them, pulled a whammy on me." The guard smiled. "Whatever, let's go back to work." The guard nods and they left the room. But they stopped and heard a bed shaking; but they ignored what is happening, which is a young girl, having a seizure. They exit the room, not paying attention to the young child's health.
The other children gets off the bed and ran over to the young girl is having a seizure. They watch her, not knowing what to do.
"What do we do?" said Neja.
"We can't go get the guards, you know what they will do to her," said Xyl.
Young Liz sees a necklace on the ground and she picks it up, "Someone dropped this." She looks at the others and they smiled, thinking one of the guards dropped this. She goes over to the young girl's side and places the silver necklace onto the palm of her hands.
The girl felt the necklace in her hands and holds it tightly, she opens her eyes and her seizing stops. The children look amazed that she is okay, but how? "She's beautiful." She meant the angel on the necklace.
"She watching over us," said Hanzar. "She is the key to our success and she makes us stronger and helps us fight our demons."
"What if she fails?" said Liz.
"She never fails," as he looks at her and grins at her. "I steal people's souls, breaking them that make her stronger, only our enemies shall pay the price."
****End flash-back*****
The next day, in an abandon building, in the outskirts of New Gotham, Hanzar looks at the man in the reinforced cell. "It's time, my brother." He opens the door and the man walks out. "You know the drill." He hands him a crossbow. "Protect yourself and get yourself to the next town, she will make you stronger."
"Who?" In a confused look.
"Her, the angel, that watches over us and makes us stronger."
He looks at the young male, like he is joking, "Liar!" He raises the crossbow at him. "Get down on your knees! Do it!"
Hanzar looks at him and slashes at him, the male victim, felt something entering his body, he looks up and notices the male opens his fist, and there he sees a light blue crystalline clear ball in his hands. "Do you know what happens if I break this?" As he threatens the victim. He shook his head, "As a little warm up, I break you die"
The victim's eyes widen with fear and he bolts out of the building, running for his life. Hanzar puts the blue orb in his pocket and he chases after him. The man runs into near by woods and stops running, and listens to his natural surroundings. Hanzar runs into the woods, but walks a bit slowly, behind the thick bushes, he accidental steps on a twig.
The man heard the sound and he turns around and fires where the sound was at. Hanzar grabs the arrow, before it strikes him. He took a small sigh and he puts the arrow in his pocket. He reached into his right pocket and grabs the blue orb. He lifts it out of it and smiles. 'Game over' as he thought to himself. He breaks the orb with his bare hands and the victim drops dead onto the ground.
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Liz is in her apartment, thinking how she can track down Hanzar. Helena walks into the room and sees her on the couch. She can tell that yesterday, something bothered her, but she doesn't know what it is.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, as soon I figure out this dealio."
"The innocent male, from yesterday, was murdered, was he?" Liz nods her head at her cousin, "You didn't tell Reese who did it?" She says nothing. "Whoa, Liz, you gotta tell Reese, he can stop the killer, since he is a cop."
"Can't, Reese will get himself killed, not knowing what he is dealing with." She gets up off the couch and goes over to the window, looking out. "My brother killed him, all right." She turns to her cousin.
Helena interrupts Liz before she can say anything else. "What?" She thinks for a second, like wait this can't be happening.
"You heard me, Helena; he murdered them, plain and simple." She said it harshly to her.
Helena is surprised in what she just said and said it pretty harsh to her face, "But how do you know? That he killed that man, last night? There is no proof or excuse that he killed him."
"I just do." She stops talking and she sees Reese walking into the room, she rolls her eyes, like she wants to do this alone.
"Just to let you know, Liz, that the mysterious killer, didn't kill here first, the killer killed five in Boston, that fits the profile how a Metahuman can kill someone. Seven in Dallas and two in Atlanta. It what weird thing, an old male, that is described as Ray, someone you know at Quion, keeps on shutting down the investigation, each time the killer strikes another innocent lift and feels like your protecting the killer as well," said Reese.
"I'm not protecting him," she looks at Reese and Helena, "Stay out of my life, this is my business! I don't need anybody's help!" Liz storms out of the apartment. The two couple looked at each other, like what the heck she doesn't want any help, but when it comes to family, its a bit different towards Liz.
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Liz walks down the road and sees a statue of an angel in front of park, called Sanctuary Park. She looks up at the angel and she sees pieces of the blue orb, resting in front of the angel. She backs up and enters the park and takes a seat on the bench, watching the statue.
About few minutes later, she sees a young male, placing more orb pieces in front of the angel. She slowly gets off the bench and she exits the park and stands behind him. Hanzar sense someone is behind him and he turns around and he sees a young woman, easily recognizing her, "Liz." As he smiled as he sees her.
"Hanzar," she said to his face, "What are you doing?"
He smiled, he can tell she knows what she is doing, "you know the answer, sister." After standing for a few seconds he flash-like speed, passing her. Liz turns around and she chases after him with the same ability, and she sees him running into an alley, as soon she gets there, he is gone, nowhere in sight. She punches the side of the building, mad that he is gone and she has no idea where he can be at.
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At the police station, Reese is in his office, drinking a mug of coffee, he sees a young man walking into the office. "Can I help you?"
"Yes." Hanzar takes a seat in front of Reese's desk. "I killed, I took human life."
"Who did you murdered?" As he gets into what he has to say, maybe he is the real killer.
"Many, from a child to an adult, I'm trying to make her stronger." Tears streams down his face, "I failed, for the ones who already passed."
"Don't worry, I will help you." Reese slowly gets up and puts his hands onto his gun.
"Did she fail on you?" As he looks up at the detective.
"Who?" As he plays along with him.
"The angel, did she ever make you stronger?"
"Sometimes, but sometimes we puts ours lives into her hands and help us achieve our goals." He walks behind him, aiming at the gun at him, not going to shoot, but use it has a threat towards the criminal.
"Then you have nothing to be afraid of." Hanzar slowly gets up and flash- like speed over to Reese, pinning him on the wall, which caused him to drop his gun. "Your next." He punches Reese hard in the head, which caused him to knock out cold.
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Reese wakes up and finds himself in a cell in abandon building; he looks around, not knowing where he is. Hanzar opens the cell and throws him a gun, "Go on, your free to go." He grins at him evilly, "You know, since you're a cop, I figured that, you're the good guy and that is why I'm sparing your life." In his other hand, hiding behind his back, he is holding a blue orb in his hands. Reese checks the gun, "Don't worry, fresh bullets in the gun, go, you can go, you don't want to spend the rest of your life, living in a cage."
Reese nods in agreement and he quickly gets up and aims the gun at him, "Get down on your knees! Do it!! I'm not afraid to use this!"
"Put the gun down." He looks at him in the eyes and he shows him the orb, "Put the gun down or else." Reese looks at the orb, not knowing what that is. "This is your life, that contains everything that makes a living breathing person, but when I shatter this, its an instant death, victims always drops dead as soon I break this or make a crack in it." Reese drops the gun, as soon Hanzar finishes his sentence. "Be a good boy and sit over there" He points to the chair. Reese obeyed his orders and goes over to the chair and takes a seat. "Good, next day, your on your first mission, you fail, you die." He looks at him and grabs him, throwing him back into the cell and closes the reinforced door on him. "Stay put, I'm going out." Hanzar leaves and Reese watches him go, scared to death.
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Liz walks down the street and sees a lot of commotion what is happening at the police station, she sees one of the cops talking to another cop. She runs over and looks at the police officer, "What's going on?"
"Hey, Liz, long time no see," as he grins at her from head to toe.
"Yeah, same to you too, what the heck is going on?"
"Oh. Reese he has been kidnapped and our secretary was found dead."
'This is bad news, oh god!' "Whoa, scary to think about it" The cop turns back around to finish chatting with his fellow officers and Liz takes off, to find Hanzar and quick.
She runs down the street, thinking where Hanzar he can be at, she looks at the second tallest building in New Gotham and she can see a figure standing on top of it. Her eyes enhances and she sees Hanzar. She flash-like speed up to the building, "I hope I can jump THAT high." As she said to herself and she leaps into the air and with a success she made it safetly on top of the building. She walks behind Hanzar without making any sounds.
She flash-like speeds over to him and grabs him and throws him into the roof door and she melts the doorknob with her hands and made some kind of shackles that he can't go nowhere. "Where's Reese? Its over! Your killing spree is over!"
He looks up at her, "It is? Or you are just saying that, little sister? What are you going to do, inform your cop friends about me?" She doesn't say a thing, "That is what I though, that would be exposure for the rest of the Metahumans."
"Well, Hanzar, I can always turn you into Ray." She smiles at him.
"Liz, you wouldn't do that, that would be betrayel to your own brother?"
"Maybe he want you stop killing, then again, he won't mind at all, then again he probably wants to know what the heck went wrong with you and why you are killing like a lunatic."
"Nothing is wrong with me," he looks up at her, "I'm doing what we are meant to do, as killers as predators, that is what we are meant to be."
She doesn't say something about his comment, "Where's Reese!?" She quickly changes the subject, because she is hiding about something what he just said.
"Since this is none of my business. You are one of the few warriors that can possibly understand me, in what I'm doing, Strike, Xyl, Neja, and the rest of brady bunch doesn't even understand, that is when you come in."
"That part I don't understand, I don't do that anymore, I realize that killing is wrong and the worst experience I ever had, I changed, I became a good guy that help others in need."
"Come on Liz! Don't tell me that you forgotten about that day in Quion, it was the most funniest experience you ever had!" As he trying to knock that killer instinct back into her.
She flashes back when she was running after this innocent teen, along with Hanzar at her side. "Beileve me, I tried." Except she can't forgot about that day.
"Because you can't hide yourself as a Predator, and you want to know why you can't forget that you are a Predator." He pauses, "Gee, I heard of that name, that seems familiar, Predator, hey that's you, told you so! That is where your crime fighting name originate."
She doesn't say a thing, but he is right, that is where her name originated from. That is why she never told her cousin and the rest of the people at the big clock where her crime fighting name originated from.
She flashes back at the woods and she runs over logs to get to the kid. "What the matter, you don't want to remember the past?"
"I don't want to remember!" she cried out to him.
"Is it because it still haunts you?" He smiles. "You even scared all the children, guards, and Ray to death in what did, it was the most beautiful thing I encountered."
"Shut up!"
"You are a Predator! You always meant to be a predator and you can't hide from it!"
"Shut up!"
"Don't you ever wanted why you don't sleep, not because of the nightmares, because it gives you that feeling you want to kill again."
"Shut up!" She punches him hard in the face and blood leaks out of his mouth. The reason she did that, because its all true, everything he said to her. But her past and him won't change her a bit, because she is stronger and not even close to become a killer again.
A few hours past, while Liz watches him on the roof, he is smiling and staring off to space. "Tell me, Hanzar, why are you killing, not because we are natural born killers."
"I'm doing for her."
"The Angel? But we made that up when we were children, that was the only thing that kept us close towards a good guy." Except for her, because she is the worst warrior ever at Quion, because she is very lethal and also a killing machine, doing what comes natural.
"She's real, don't ever say that."
"Then why she didn't make us stronger? Why she didn't make Gylinder stronger?"
"I wasn't strong enough to save her."
"But we got out, didn't we? Or it was luck? Tell me." He says nothing. "Is that why you keep on killing and giving the broken spheres to make her stronger?"
"Shut up!" Tears streams down his face.
"You're the real monster, than me!"
"Shut up! I'm doing what I was meant to be doing," he starts to cry, he knows this is wrong in what he is doing and he made the blue orb back into Reese's body. "Fine I will bring you to Reese." Liz smiled at him, he somewhat smiles, but that quickly fades away.
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Liz and Hanzar walks into the building and she opens the door, "Reese, are you okay?" He nods his head. Hanzar grabs Liz from behind and throws her into a steel pipe. "Reese run!" as it comes out sloppy.
"You heard the woman."
Reese eyes widen and runs out of the abandon building. Hanzar runs after him, to finish off the kill. About few minutes later, Liz gets back onto her knees and runs out the building as well, to get Reese before its too late. Within minutes she sees Hanzar chocking Reese. "Let go of him!"
"No, this is your kill!" He releases him and he scrambles to get away from him.
"Reese run!" Reese starts to take off and Hanzar runs over to him, Liz flash-like speed and kicks him onto the ground. Reese runs off and heads to the clock tower to inform the birds. Hanzar leaps onto his feet and the two circles to each other. They begin to throw several punches and kicks at each other, blocking each attack. He sharply kicks her and she lands hard onto a telephone pool. He runs over to her to kick her again and she quickly grabs his left leg and breaks it. Hanzar tips onto the ground, moaning in pain and he is unsuccessful to get away, including sitting up. Liz gets back onto her feet and she kneels besides her brother and she helps him up. The two looks at each other and can hear hummers nearby. Quion must of found them, probably because the recent death of the man he killed, is probably a trace where they can pinpoint him.
"Don't let leave me here," he cried sofetly to her.
"I can't, we will be caught in a matter of minutes."
"I know." He makes a face at her.
She looks at him and her face falls. "I can't." He nods his head. "I'm sorry, its not me."
"Please, I don't want to go back there, you know what they will do to me or make me worse than I am, right now." Tears streams down his face, including her as well.
She doesn't want him a worst Metahuman killer and she has no choice, she places her hands onto his neck, "God, please ever forgive me." She snaps his neck and places his head onto the ground. Liz bursts into tears and she slowly gets up, hearing the hummer sounds and she heads back to her apartment.
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Liz is lying on her bed, trying not to cry and her cousin is sitting beside her, comforting her, tears still stream down her eyes. "I'm sorry." Helena doesn't know what to say. "But I can say, he is in a happy place and you had no choice, don't worry in what you did, there was no other option, but he wanted to die, probably he killed so much and he doesn't want to go there, but don't cry for weeks, you should be stronger, with an upcoming battle ahead." She gets off the bed and looks back and exits the room. Liz breaks into tears and puts the pillow over her head.
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Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belong to DC comics and the WB Network. I own nothing from them. I do own: Lifightre/Liz Barry/Predator, Strike, Kane, Ben, Ray, Raine, Mike, Neja, Xyl, Hailen, Hanzar, and many others. I also own anything related to Quion.
Disclaimer #2: "Pollo Locco" Episode idea is from Dark Angel and I don't own anything from them. I'm just borrowing their idea to help my fanfic, since it has lots of similarities with my character's past including Max's past too. So don't kill me!
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In the busy afternoon in New Gotham, two happy couple is walking down the crowded sidewalk, its one of those afternoons when the city is packed with people, most of them it's for business or places they needed to be at. The couple is talking about their daily life, living in the city and their occupations, and so on. The man stopped walking and his wife turns around and stares at him.
"You okay?" as she asks her husband.
His eyes flipped over; to it was pure white and he immedienly drops dead onto the ground. She freezes and ran over to him.
"George!" She kneels down beside her husband and she cries out loudly, people just passes by, watching her weep to her dead husband. That's usual in New Gotham, people don't care what is happening to the person, so they don't want to get into the middle of the situation and deal with the issues. "Someone help me!" She looks up at the other passing people. "Don't just stand there! Call 911!" They ignored her, like she isn't really there.
Reese and Helena are walking down the street, talking. Helena stops talking and hear a woman crying. "Someone needs our help." She turns to her boyfriend and he nods his head and they ran across the street to get closer to the cry. They are pushing the travelers, since they are walking so darn slow!
Within seconds the two sees the woman crying over her dead husband. He takes out his cell phone out and calls the police station and the cop secretary answers. "Its Detective Reese, there is a crime scene, right in front of Jordon's Bakery. It maybe a murder scene or some form of heart attack. But I need the civilizans away from these scene, okay, thanks." He hangs up and he looks at the woman. "Ma'am, can I ask you some questions?" He takes out a small notepad out and a pen out.
"Yes, but why my husband died?"
"I would like to know, does he have any heart problems or some kind of health problems?"
"No, not at all, he is healthy as a horse," as she said it confused, not knowing why her husband died." He jots down in what she is telling him.
Reese's cell calls and he rolls his eyes, "Can you hold on for a second." The victim's wife nods her head. He hands the call, "Reese," a pause, "All the men are swamp with another crime scene?" He rolls his eyes. "Any backup?" He hangs up and he turns to Helena. "Helena, can you get Liz, since she is a former worker to the police department, but as a secretary, but she will know the drills."
"Okay." Helena runs off back to her apartment, since she is at there, she is doing a lot of writing in the plan to defeat the big bad.
Reese turns to the woman, "Sorry for the wait. Did your husband eaten anything before you got here?"
"No, we exited our home and we are going to a local restaurant, but I don't understand why he died. I want to know how!"
"I know ma'am, when my former worker comes by, she will help this homicide investigation and figure out how he died." He pauses and he can tell she going to say something to him.
"How can you say, he was murdered! There is no gun shot wound or stab wound!!" she cries out to him.
"Ma'am, there is no other explanation; I'm just doing my job." As he calmly tells her the truth.
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Helena walks into her apartment and sees Liz, sitting on the couch, writing notes. "Liz, you're going back to work."
She looks up at her cousin, like what the heck she is talking about. "Huh?" She looks at her, confused.
"Reese needs you, as a cop, now!" She goes over to her cousin and grabs her by the arm. Liz finally gets off the couch and follows her where the crime scene is at. The two exits the apartment. Liz had no clue why Reese needs her to be a cop, she doesn't work for them anymore, since that one year and a half ago incident that she accidentally killed a man, with her telekinesis and the entire cops saw her, maybe they didn't see her face well, because it was covered by the darkness, but Reese saw her, but soon he eventually found out she is Helena's cousin and also another crime fighter.
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Reese turns around and hears, Helena. He smiles and he turns his head and notices the crowd is getting lesser and lesser. 'Finally!' As he thought to himself. The two cousins walks over to Reese. "Liz, I want you to help me with this mystery with the death of George Summer."
"Okay." She looks at Reese, "Have any plastic gloves?" He nods and he reached into his pocket and takes it out and hands it to her. She takes it out of his hands and puts it on her hands. "Please move the wife aside, while I do the job."
Reese went over to her, "Please move."
"No! I can't leave him!" She doesn't want to budge.
"Reese, I will handle this," said Helena. She goes over to her, "Let's go to the coffee shop and I will get you something to drink. Don't worry, they will find out why he died and in heaven, your husband wants you to be happy and want you to come with me so they can track down the killer or whatever killed him."
"Okay." As she quietly agree with Helena. Helena leads the woman to the local coffee shop, just up the street.
Liz kneels beside the body and examines it, "So he didn't have any health or heart problems?"
Reese puts on extra white gloves on and went beside her. "No, but this doesn't make any sense." He pauses, "could a Metahuman kill him?" He pauses, "But impossible, then people would notice and stare, but times like this, they won't care, but they do if they see something abnormal, but this is complicated." He looks at his former co-worker and she doesn't say a thing. "Liz?"
*******************Flash-back***************************
Young Liz is in the forest, chasing after an innocent man. She runs over the dead logs and leaps over the tall low branches. Her speed increases and increases and she sees a young boy and her kill lying on the ground, pinned by his foot. "Hanzar, what are you doing?"
He turns to Liz, "Watch this." He kneels down to one foot and swipes at the man and he opens his fist and a large blue crystalline ball is lying in the palm of his hands. "See this?"
"What is it?" as she goes over to the young boy, amused by the clear crystalline ball. "It's pretty." As the ball sparkles in the light
"It's his soul, his life." He smiles at her, "Catch." He throws the crystalline ball to her and her automatic reactions, she grabs it, safely. "One thing cool, I can steal people's souls and whenever I feel like it, I crush it. BAM!" The loud word startles Liz and she drops the ball and lands onto the ground, shattering to millions of pieces. The man is now dead. "Pretty cool huh? When it breaks he dies." Liz and him smiled. "But I only do that to our enemies."
************End Flash-back*****************
"Liz!?" said Reese.
Nothing.
"LIZ!" As he said it one more time, to get her attention.
She turns to him, "Sorry." She gets back onto her feet, "I spaced out, sorry about that." He looks at her, like she knows something. "I'm going to find the killer."
"He was murdered? How do you know he was killed?" He gets up too and went in front of her.
"I just do." She takes the white gloves off and puts it in the trash can. He grabs her by the arm. "I'm sorry, that I'm not letting you on this, but this is MY problem."
"The killer is on the loose and you're not seeking my help? Why? Are you protecting the killer or something like that?" He can tell that she knows who the killer is and not telling him anything. "We can work together!" She stares at him. "Trust me." She looks away. "What are you not telling me, is the murderer a part of your Quion family?" She says nothing and can tell it was a yes. And she finally takes off away from Reese. "Bugger!" As he mumbles under his breath, that she isn't letting him onto the killer.
Liz runs down the street and she looks at her hands, then she touches it. Liz flashes back to Quion. She and few of her other siblings sees Hanzar holding the soul of one of the guards.
"Your not scared of Quion," said Liz as she looks up at Hanzar.
"He's never scared, he is standing up against them," said young Strike. "That is what we should do."
"The enemy shall die, maybe killing our enemies, built up our strengths, to fight off Quion and we can be free," said Hanzar.
The children heard a noise and they races back to their cots and lays down, pretending they are asleep. Hanzar made the crystalline ball to go back into the guard, which brings him back to life, in a somewhat way. A guard enters the barracks and sees the children sleeping and sees one of the guard, getting back onto his feet.
"You okay, sir?"
"I fainted." He looks at the other children, "I hope none of them, pulled a whammy on me." The guard smiled. "Whatever, let's go back to work." The guard nods and they left the room. But they stopped and heard a bed shaking; but they ignored what is happening, which is a young girl, having a seizure. They exit the room, not paying attention to the young child's health.
The other children gets off the bed and ran over to the young girl is having a seizure. They watch her, not knowing what to do.
"What do we do?" said Neja.
"We can't go get the guards, you know what they will do to her," said Xyl.
Young Liz sees a necklace on the ground and she picks it up, "Someone dropped this." She looks at the others and they smiled, thinking one of the guards dropped this. She goes over to the young girl's side and places the silver necklace onto the palm of her hands.
The girl felt the necklace in her hands and holds it tightly, she opens her eyes and her seizing stops. The children look amazed that she is okay, but how? "She's beautiful." She meant the angel on the necklace.
"She watching over us," said Hanzar. "She is the key to our success and she makes us stronger and helps us fight our demons."
"What if she fails?" said Liz.
"She never fails," as he looks at her and grins at her. "I steal people's souls, breaking them that make her stronger, only our enemies shall pay the price."
****End flash-back*****
The next day, in an abandon building, in the outskirts of New Gotham, Hanzar looks at the man in the reinforced cell. "It's time, my brother." He opens the door and the man walks out. "You know the drill." He hands him a crossbow. "Protect yourself and get yourself to the next town, she will make you stronger."
"Who?" In a confused look.
"Her, the angel, that watches over us and makes us stronger."
He looks at the young male, like he is joking, "Liar!" He raises the crossbow at him. "Get down on your knees! Do it!"
Hanzar looks at him and slashes at him, the male victim, felt something entering his body, he looks up and notices the male opens his fist, and there he sees a light blue crystalline clear ball in his hands. "Do you know what happens if I break this?" As he threatens the victim. He shook his head, "As a little warm up, I break you die"
The victim's eyes widen with fear and he bolts out of the building, running for his life. Hanzar puts the blue orb in his pocket and he chases after him. The man runs into near by woods and stops running, and listens to his natural surroundings. Hanzar runs into the woods, but walks a bit slowly, behind the thick bushes, he accidental steps on a twig.
The man heard the sound and he turns around and fires where the sound was at. Hanzar grabs the arrow, before it strikes him. He took a small sigh and he puts the arrow in his pocket. He reached into his right pocket and grabs the blue orb. He lifts it out of it and smiles. 'Game over' as he thought to himself. He breaks the orb with his bare hands and the victim drops dead onto the ground.
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Liz is in her apartment, thinking how she can track down Hanzar. Helena walks into the room and sees her on the couch. She can tell that yesterday, something bothered her, but she doesn't know what it is.
"You okay?"
"Yeah, as soon I figure out this dealio."
"The innocent male, from yesterday, was murdered, was he?" Liz nods her head at her cousin, "You didn't tell Reese who did it?" She says nothing. "Whoa, Liz, you gotta tell Reese, he can stop the killer, since he is a cop."
"Can't, Reese will get himself killed, not knowing what he is dealing with." She gets up off the couch and goes over to the window, looking out. "My brother killed him, all right." She turns to her cousin.
Helena interrupts Liz before she can say anything else. "What?" She thinks for a second, like wait this can't be happening.
"You heard me, Helena; he murdered them, plain and simple." She said it harshly to her.
Helena is surprised in what she just said and said it pretty harsh to her face, "But how do you know? That he killed that man, last night? There is no proof or excuse that he killed him."
"I just do." She stops talking and she sees Reese walking into the room, she rolls her eyes, like she wants to do this alone.
"Just to let you know, Liz, that the mysterious killer, didn't kill here first, the killer killed five in Boston, that fits the profile how a Metahuman can kill someone. Seven in Dallas and two in Atlanta. It what weird thing, an old male, that is described as Ray, someone you know at Quion, keeps on shutting down the investigation, each time the killer strikes another innocent lift and feels like your protecting the killer as well," said Reese.
"I'm not protecting him," she looks at Reese and Helena, "Stay out of my life, this is my business! I don't need anybody's help!" Liz storms out of the apartment. The two couple looked at each other, like what the heck she doesn't want any help, but when it comes to family, its a bit different towards Liz.
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Liz walks down the road and sees a statue of an angel in front of park, called Sanctuary Park. She looks up at the angel and she sees pieces of the blue orb, resting in front of the angel. She backs up and enters the park and takes a seat on the bench, watching the statue.
About few minutes later, she sees a young male, placing more orb pieces in front of the angel. She slowly gets off the bench and she exits the park and stands behind him. Hanzar sense someone is behind him and he turns around and he sees a young woman, easily recognizing her, "Liz." As he smiled as he sees her.
"Hanzar," she said to his face, "What are you doing?"
He smiled, he can tell she knows what she is doing, "you know the answer, sister." After standing for a few seconds he flash-like speed, passing her. Liz turns around and she chases after him with the same ability, and she sees him running into an alley, as soon she gets there, he is gone, nowhere in sight. She punches the side of the building, mad that he is gone and she has no idea where he can be at.
**********
At the police station, Reese is in his office, drinking a mug of coffee, he sees a young man walking into the office. "Can I help you?"
"Yes." Hanzar takes a seat in front of Reese's desk. "I killed, I took human life."
"Who did you murdered?" As he gets into what he has to say, maybe he is the real killer.
"Many, from a child to an adult, I'm trying to make her stronger." Tears streams down his face, "I failed, for the ones who already passed."
"Don't worry, I will help you." Reese slowly gets up and puts his hands onto his gun.
"Did she fail on you?" As he looks up at the detective.
"Who?" As he plays along with him.
"The angel, did she ever make you stronger?"
"Sometimes, but sometimes we puts ours lives into her hands and help us achieve our goals." He walks behind him, aiming at the gun at him, not going to shoot, but use it has a threat towards the criminal.
"Then you have nothing to be afraid of." Hanzar slowly gets up and flash- like speed over to Reese, pinning him on the wall, which caused him to drop his gun. "Your next." He punches Reese hard in the head, which caused him to knock out cold.
**********
Reese wakes up and finds himself in a cell in abandon building; he looks around, not knowing where he is. Hanzar opens the cell and throws him a gun, "Go on, your free to go." He grins at him evilly, "You know, since you're a cop, I figured that, you're the good guy and that is why I'm sparing your life." In his other hand, hiding behind his back, he is holding a blue orb in his hands. Reese checks the gun, "Don't worry, fresh bullets in the gun, go, you can go, you don't want to spend the rest of your life, living in a cage."
Reese nods in agreement and he quickly gets up and aims the gun at him, "Get down on your knees! Do it!! I'm not afraid to use this!"
"Put the gun down." He looks at him in the eyes and he shows him the orb, "Put the gun down or else." Reese looks at the orb, not knowing what that is. "This is your life, that contains everything that makes a living breathing person, but when I shatter this, its an instant death, victims always drops dead as soon I break this or make a crack in it." Reese drops the gun, as soon Hanzar finishes his sentence. "Be a good boy and sit over there" He points to the chair. Reese obeyed his orders and goes over to the chair and takes a seat. "Good, next day, your on your first mission, you fail, you die." He looks at him and grabs him, throwing him back into the cell and closes the reinforced door on him. "Stay put, I'm going out." Hanzar leaves and Reese watches him go, scared to death.
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Liz walks down the street and sees a lot of commotion what is happening at the police station, she sees one of the cops talking to another cop. She runs over and looks at the police officer, "What's going on?"
"Hey, Liz, long time no see," as he grins at her from head to toe.
"Yeah, same to you too, what the heck is going on?"
"Oh. Reese he has been kidnapped and our secretary was found dead."
'This is bad news, oh god!' "Whoa, scary to think about it" The cop turns back around to finish chatting with his fellow officers and Liz takes off, to find Hanzar and quick.
She runs down the street, thinking where Hanzar he can be at, she looks at the second tallest building in New Gotham and she can see a figure standing on top of it. Her eyes enhances and she sees Hanzar. She flash-like speed up to the building, "I hope I can jump THAT high." As she said to herself and she leaps into the air and with a success she made it safetly on top of the building. She walks behind Hanzar without making any sounds.
She flash-like speeds over to him and grabs him and throws him into the roof door and she melts the doorknob with her hands and made some kind of shackles that he can't go nowhere. "Where's Reese? Its over! Your killing spree is over!"
He looks up at her, "It is? Or you are just saying that, little sister? What are you going to do, inform your cop friends about me?" She doesn't say a thing, "That is what I though, that would be exposure for the rest of the Metahumans."
"Well, Hanzar, I can always turn you into Ray." She smiles at him.
"Liz, you wouldn't do that, that would be betrayel to your own brother?"
"Maybe he want you stop killing, then again, he won't mind at all, then again he probably wants to know what the heck went wrong with you and why you are killing like a lunatic."
"Nothing is wrong with me," he looks up at her, "I'm doing what we are meant to do, as killers as predators, that is what we are meant to be."
She doesn't say something about his comment, "Where's Reese!?" She quickly changes the subject, because she is hiding about something what he just said.
"Since this is none of my business. You are one of the few warriors that can possibly understand me, in what I'm doing, Strike, Xyl, Neja, and the rest of brady bunch doesn't even understand, that is when you come in."
"That part I don't understand, I don't do that anymore, I realize that killing is wrong and the worst experience I ever had, I changed, I became a good guy that help others in need."
"Come on Liz! Don't tell me that you forgotten about that day in Quion, it was the most funniest experience you ever had!" As he trying to knock that killer instinct back into her.
She flashes back when she was running after this innocent teen, along with Hanzar at her side. "Beileve me, I tried." Except she can't forgot about that day.
"Because you can't hide yourself as a Predator, and you want to know why you can't forget that you are a Predator." He pauses, "Gee, I heard of that name, that seems familiar, Predator, hey that's you, told you so! That is where your crime fighting name originate."
She doesn't say a thing, but he is right, that is where her name originated from. That is why she never told her cousin and the rest of the people at the big clock where her crime fighting name originated from.
She flashes back at the woods and she runs over logs to get to the kid. "What the matter, you don't want to remember the past?"
"I don't want to remember!" she cried out to him.
"Is it because it still haunts you?" He smiles. "You even scared all the children, guards, and Ray to death in what did, it was the most beautiful thing I encountered."
"Shut up!"
"You are a Predator! You always meant to be a predator and you can't hide from it!"
"Shut up!"
"Don't you ever wanted why you don't sleep, not because of the nightmares, because it gives you that feeling you want to kill again."
"Shut up!" She punches him hard in the face and blood leaks out of his mouth. The reason she did that, because its all true, everything he said to her. But her past and him won't change her a bit, because she is stronger and not even close to become a killer again.
A few hours past, while Liz watches him on the roof, he is smiling and staring off to space. "Tell me, Hanzar, why are you killing, not because we are natural born killers."
"I'm doing for her."
"The Angel? But we made that up when we were children, that was the only thing that kept us close towards a good guy." Except for her, because she is the worst warrior ever at Quion, because she is very lethal and also a killing machine, doing what comes natural.
"She's real, don't ever say that."
"Then why she didn't make us stronger? Why she didn't make Gylinder stronger?"
"I wasn't strong enough to save her."
"But we got out, didn't we? Or it was luck? Tell me." He says nothing. "Is that why you keep on killing and giving the broken spheres to make her stronger?"
"Shut up!" Tears streams down his face.
"You're the real monster, than me!"
"Shut up! I'm doing what I was meant to be doing," he starts to cry, he knows this is wrong in what he is doing and he made the blue orb back into Reese's body. "Fine I will bring you to Reese." Liz smiled at him, he somewhat smiles, but that quickly fades away.
**********
Liz and Hanzar walks into the building and she opens the door, "Reese, are you okay?" He nods his head. Hanzar grabs Liz from behind and throws her into a steel pipe. "Reese run!" as it comes out sloppy.
"You heard the woman."
Reese eyes widen and runs out of the abandon building. Hanzar runs after him, to finish off the kill. About few minutes later, Liz gets back onto her knees and runs out the building as well, to get Reese before its too late. Within minutes she sees Hanzar chocking Reese. "Let go of him!"
"No, this is your kill!" He releases him and he scrambles to get away from him.
"Reese run!" Reese starts to take off and Hanzar runs over to him, Liz flash-like speed and kicks him onto the ground. Reese runs off and heads to the clock tower to inform the birds. Hanzar leaps onto his feet and the two circles to each other. They begin to throw several punches and kicks at each other, blocking each attack. He sharply kicks her and she lands hard onto a telephone pool. He runs over to her to kick her again and she quickly grabs his left leg and breaks it. Hanzar tips onto the ground, moaning in pain and he is unsuccessful to get away, including sitting up. Liz gets back onto her feet and she kneels besides her brother and she helps him up. The two looks at each other and can hear hummers nearby. Quion must of found them, probably because the recent death of the man he killed, is probably a trace where they can pinpoint him.
"Don't let leave me here," he cried sofetly to her.
"I can't, we will be caught in a matter of minutes."
"I know." He makes a face at her.
She looks at him and her face falls. "I can't." He nods his head. "I'm sorry, its not me."
"Please, I don't want to go back there, you know what they will do to me or make me worse than I am, right now." Tears streams down his face, including her as well.
She doesn't want him a worst Metahuman killer and she has no choice, she places her hands onto his neck, "God, please ever forgive me." She snaps his neck and places his head onto the ground. Liz bursts into tears and she slowly gets up, hearing the hummer sounds and she heads back to her apartment.
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Liz is lying on her bed, trying not to cry and her cousin is sitting beside her, comforting her, tears still stream down her eyes. "I'm sorry." Helena doesn't know what to say. "But I can say, he is in a happy place and you had no choice, don't worry in what you did, there was no other option, but he wanted to die, probably he killed so much and he doesn't want to go there, but don't cry for weeks, you should be stronger, with an upcoming battle ahead." She gets off the bed and looks back and exits the room. Liz breaks into tears and puts the pillow over her head.
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