Revenant
Chapter three
The sun rose across the empty graveyard, it shone a quiet beam and chased the mist away. The sun then climbed up the large statues that were sybolised on memories of the past, one declared that family, friends and everybody else will never forget the people that were killed in the Dakota gang riots. The other, it was more fresh, this was because it was a statue of Static, the hero of Dakota. This symbolised how much the city relied on Static and they will never forget him.
All the early risers who were business people needing to start early at the office, milkmen doing their rounds, paperboys and papergirls delivering papers to the people on their routes around the city. There were no smiles among these people, what they said to each other sounded tired and full of mournful, even with Gear and Rubberband Man looking after the city with occasional help from the Justice League they were still depressed from the loss of the bright, cheerful, electrified, superhero teen.
Stretching up, he half reached for his glasses as the world was a blur to him. Yawning as he put his glasses on, the world became a little clearer to Richie's eyes. Moving the thin summer blanket away, he moved his legs so they were over the side of the bed. Running a hand through his hair so it laid flat, he rose up and got into his costume then the normal clothes placed over it. Backpack, his helmet and his blades were by the bedside cabnet, Backpack was plugged into the mains for an overnight recharge. Slipping his street shoes on, he left the room after unplugging Backpack, and mdae his way downstairs for breakfast.
Robert sat at the kitchen table drinking his cup of coffee while reading the newspaper. The television was switched on and was playing to itself for background noise, Sharon and Adam were still in bed as they both slept in when they could. Richie came in to the kitchen and helped himself to some coffee, "Morning Richie" Robert said, putting his newspaper down and saw Richie sit down at the table. "Morning Mr H, Sharon and Adam still in bed?" Richie asked after drinking some of his coffee. "Yes, they sleep in as much as they can because of Adam having a very busy life being more of a hero than a music writer, and you know how busy Sharon has become over the last few years" Robert said getting up and started work on getting breakfast for both of them.
"Yes it is depressing but it is her way to cope...better than the city..." Richie paused and sipped some of his coffee before continuing. "There are hardly any smiles anymore, I can see that they put on brave faces for Adam and myself but then if you look closely... you can see that they are stilll grieving" Richie held his cup in front of his and looked inside. Robert sighed, he knew the feeling of the city as they had come to him in the last three years for advice and to say that they are sorry for his loss. "I know Richie, I have to go soon as there are so many people waiting to see me and the finance report is due in soon" Robert said, buttering some bread as the bacon cooked in the frying pan. "I can help with the finance report if you want me to, all there is to do today is the morning patrol after breakfast, give the CCTV tape to Chief Barnsdale and the late night patrol" Richie said and finished his cup of coffee and then got up to get another.
The spirit appeared and sat on the draining board, watched Richie and Mr Hawkins have breakfast. 'They seem ok'
He then vanished and appeared at the Justice League Watch Tower. He was able to find Batman, Wonder Woman and Flash, 'No J'ohn' He thought and followed Batman to the transport that took him to the jail cells that held the two most evil villains the world had ever seen. 'I cannot believe that I am here to check on the very people that killed me'
Back Flash
A zap cap charged up the young electrified hero while his partner kept the metahumans occupied, they had together defeated Shiv, Puff and Onyx now all was left was Ebon and Hotstreak.
The four metahumans were tired but they were not going to give up. Gear was up in the air dodging Hotstreak's fiery attacks and Static and Ebon fought on the ground.
"Give it up hero! You're not going to win" Ebon sneered and tried to swallow Static into one of his shadow vortexs. Static backflipped out of the way and then tried to shock Ebon against the wall, but he missed. "Never Ebon! I'm taking you in!!" Stati said firing some of his electrical power to charge the light to temporary stun the shadow menace.
Above the superhero versus supervillain fight, Gear was tirelessly dodging Hotstreak's attacks then attacking back with his own attack of water caps. "Come on candle boy! You are running out of gas!" Gear taunted Hotstreak, watchingthe pyro-maniac tire each time he launched an attack. "Dream on point-dexter!" Hotstreak sneered. Gear threw another water zapcap which exploded on contact with Hotstreak and soaked the pyro-metahuman to the bone.
A bright light filled the room, Hotstreak and Gear were blinded and screams filled the air. The light quickly faded and revealed two dazed metahumans, Hotstreak soon fell to the floor as Gear crashed down on top of him. Rising slowly back to his feet, Gear blinked the spots out of his eyes and looked around for Static and Ebon. "Bro?" Gear called, as the spots in his vision disappeared and the warehouse came back into view. Ebon moaned nearby as the light knocked him unconsious, Gear frantically looked around for his partner. "Static?!?" Gear yelled, his voice full of panic and he moved over to the unconsious shadow metahuman.
A large shadow covered a section of the floor, Gear bit his lip and silently prayed that Static was not in there. Gear quickly did a calculation and threw one of his normal zap caps into the middle of the shadow. The cap exploded and made the large shadow puddle disperce to reveal a body.
As the shadow disperced, Static was revealed, Gear quickly rushed to his side and checked for signs of life. "Come on bro!" Gear said, breathing hard and he shook his partner hard hoping to stir him awake. Static did not wake. "Come on! You are not allowed to be dead!!" Gear said, tears forming in the corner of his eyes and his voice catching in his throat as he checked his partner's pulse. None...
Rage bubbled up in Gear's veins but somehow...someway he was able to control it and threw two of his devices at the unconsious metahumans then picked up Static's body. He did not hear the sirens approach outside the warehouse, all he could focus on was what the task was ahead. Rising to his feet, Gear carried his dead partner out of the warehouse and ignored the police, he took off to the sky and headed for the Hawkins residence.
End Back Flash
Gear flew from the gas station to the police station, Rubberband man underneath on the road. "Are you ok?" Rubberband man asked through their comm link. "Yeah... just thinking and remembering the past..." Gear said, keeping his voice steady. Backpack's alarm sounded, "The CCTV tape will have to wait! Puff and Carmadillo have broken out of the metahuman wing!" Gear said as numbers flew across his visor, then he changed direction towards the metahuman jail with Rubberband man following below.
To be continued!
Like to thank AndrewJamesWilliam and RaiAl for their help in some parts of this fic!
R&R please, no flames as black marshmallows will be thrown back at you!