Chapter Seventeen
Virgil focused hard on trying to find Richie from his place at the clock tower but couldn't find him anywhere, but felt something push him back hard against the clockface winding him.
'What was that?' He thought to himself shaking off the chills of darkness.
"Honey, be careful! It's a evil being... a fallen angel with dark powers" Jean's voice echoed in his mind.
"Thanks Moms" Virgil muttered and focused on the docks feeling that the darkness was the strongest there but he arrived to only be grabbed by his wings and thrown through a nearby building.
"What's the matter hero? Don't like being dead?" A dark voice growled keeping his tight hold on Virgil's wings as he tried to break free as pain shot along them and along his shoulders.
"What about you Jacob? Miss your brother?" Virgil asked through gritted teeth and sent a strong charge through his wings hoping to shock the dark angel off him.
Jacob pulled his hands back and scowled at the african american angel in front of him. "How did you know that?" He asked not lowering his shadowy disguise.
"Just say a hero's instinct, all that time I spent near Francis gave me a nose for trouble... yeah and my death" Virgil said with his hands powered up but not with the electrical powers but an unknown pulse of invinisble energy.
"Makes it all better for me! But what about your friend?" Jacob asked with a sneer powering up himself and could see the warehouse that had changed his opponent's destiny.
"What did you do to him?" Virgil growled, an unseen wind picked up making his purple wings rustle in it.
"Now now, I'm sure that he's having his own fun" Jacob said with a cold laugh and vanished from Virgil's sight, making him edgy but remained in his battle stance.
'Always hated this part' Virgil thought to himself focusing hard on the area around him hoping to sense the dark being and hope to catch him.
The wind blew along between the warehouses and security offices, making them creak and groan while the wind whistled and howled as it travelled along its chosen path.
Ducking down Virgil felt a pulse of energy fly by, barely missing him feeling it brush close before hitting a dumpster covering the area in garbage. 'Why is it always dumpsters' He thought to himself, rolling back up onto his feet only to be knocked off them by an explosion on the other side of the docks.
The source of the explosion was an abandoned office building, it collapsed and produced a large dust cloud covering the whole immediate area.
Using that distraction, Virgil took off into the sky but was soon grabbed and thrown into the abadoned warehouse with his aura of energy smashing the double wooden doors. 'Damn him!' He thought feeling his temper slip and gained himself enough to teleport back outside and up onto the roof of the warehouse where not only did he find Jacob but an unknown enemy, throwing a cherry bomb between his hands.
"Well damn is right" Virgil muttered watching the two villains in front of him while below his feet Richie was doing the same, still wearing his black costume.
"Ooh look at this Ebon, looks like Brain boy decided to drop in for some fun" Hotstreak sneered powering up his hands once more as Ebon moved out from the shadows.
"Gone through a make over, dressed for his own funeral" Ebon replied with a smile in his voice as he shifted to his human form instead of blending in with the few shadows that were in the warehouse.
"Well felt that green really wasn't my colour, so had enough of the league's hospitatily have you?" Gear asked feeling Backpack sneek back into reunite itself with him.
"Well the watch tower needed remodelling so thought we come and pay a old friend a visit" Hotstreak said with a grin and threw a few fireballs for Gear to use his powers to re-direct them into a nearby wall.
"Looks like he has gone through a change too there" Ebon said not sounding suprised seeing the fireballs had hit the wall though the walls failed to catch fire.
"Yeah well been busy, can't say the same for you! But thanks for dropping by" Gear said feeling Backpack attach to his back and closed his eyes as the warehouse filled with light and screams.
"So they let you swear, naughty little angel" Dr Plum taunted, Jacob laughed darkly.
"Well you know what I think, metahuman first!" Virgil said with a shrug before firing a double beam of purople electrical energy at the two villians, stunning them as the energy travelled through their bodies.
"Shockingly enough" Virgil said holding onto the power for as long as he could, but unseen to him Dr Plum's hand moved to his belt and unclipped it making it fall to the ground.
Jacob focused and pulled out the pins in the small grenades that hung to the belt, Virgil caught the movement but before he call back his power the grenades blew up fueled by Virgil's electromagnetic powers. It engulfed the whole roof of the warehouse making the whole area shake from the impact of the explosion.
"So long hero!" Dr Plum called over the explosion before his voice was engulfed in it.
To be continued