A young dark haired figure struggled to gain freedom from the bindings that held him down to a cold, metallic table. His eyes darted around the unfamiliar room, searching for signs of anything or anyone he knew. It was then he saw it, the old man coming closer to him.
"Christ lad, quite a number was done on you it seems…" the voice spoke, the ugly old figure analyzing him closely.
"What's your name then?" He asked, the boy sweating bullets as he stumbled over his own words. "E-e-Eret… Eret Eretson." He says finally
"Eret… I'm Doctor Mildew, I'm here to help. It seems you and your parents were in a car crash, a very brutal one." The old man says as he picks up a clipboard and reads over the papers clipped onto it closely.
"A chemical plant. That's what your father drove into- a bit wild isn't it?" He asks, Eret struggling to breathe now as he felt the blood running down his lip from his nose once again. "Fourteen...such a young age for such a tragedy to strike…" the man began, feigning contempt for the teenager who laid before him.
"I'm sorry lad, your parents didn't make it. But you did, just barely. Seems you've become somewhat radioactive, hence the green glow to your veins."
"W-what? N-no…" Eret replied as he looked down his body, finding glowing neon green veins protruding all over his body. His body had been damaged fairly badly, his forearms torn apart to the point where the bone could just barely be seen.
His legs bled heavily, though he couldn't feel any of the pain from them. That was due to his spine having taken massive damage.
"You're lucky to be alive… you're paralyzed right now, but no worries. I'm going to fix that." Mildew replies as he slides a metal case onto the surgical table next to Eret, opening it up and pulling out a vial of green fluid with a syringe connected to it.
"This will serve as an anesthetic… side effects may vary.." he says, pushing it into the boys neck and receiving a loud scream of pain in response as the boys entire body began to glow a bright green.
"AHHHHHH!!!" his screams rung out and carried throughout the entire facility. Mildew cut into parts of his body in ways he'd never even thought of imagining, replacing bones, some that weren't even damaged, with metallic structures.
By the end of the week, Eret looked as good as new, the cybernetic enhancements to his body unable to be seen- unless by x-ray.
By x-ray, all that could be seen was a skeleton fully composed of metallic and bionic enhancements- His real skim having been replaced with a synthetic coating to shield the new additions to his body.
Eret moved and felt like trash, his new spine allowed him much more flexibility than it had before, but his anger had reached its peak.
He tried many times to end the old mans life, finding himself being unsuccessful due to a installation in his body that shut his whole skeletal system down, leaving him a victim to the old man's words.
"Worthless cur!!" He'd shouted. Three years had gone by and Eret had tried once again to end his life, only to be met with the floor and Mildew's size nine boot flying into his face, hitting with a loud thud as it met the metal skull.
"I brought you back into life! I fixed you, you were broken, a living microwave that couldn't even walk!! I FIXED YOU AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME!?!" The man shouts as the Seventeen year old grits his teeth, mumbling.
"Er… what was that? Speak up boy!!" Mildew yelled, Eret lifting his head.
"I said… you should've let me die… death would be preferable to being here with you people…". It seemed the young man had allowed a few stray tears to escape his eyes at the moment. "I would rather DIE than be this monster you've made me into...every day I live knowing that I'm not human, knowing that I should've died with my parents...knowing that you selfishly prolonged that and for WHAT?!? so you could have some sort of bionic errand boy?!" He shouts at Mildew, his arms slowly gaining motor function once again and pushing him into a front leaning rest position.
"I swear on my parents' graves...I will fucking murder you Mildew.. I will make you regret the day you did this to me. I will be your reckoning." Each word carried a cold and slightly sadistic tone behind them, Mildew left to watch with his mouth agape as Eret moved to his feet, and stumbled his way.
He pressed the button on the center of a small black control device, but got no effect. Eret reached out, snatching the old man by the throat and lifting him off of the floor.
"You did this...murdered me.. I could've died somewhat peacefully...but instead I lived to suffer a fate worse than death itself."
The pressure began to build around the man's throat, the ability to breathe becoming ever restricted as each second passed by.
"E-ret!" He tried to appeal to the young man as best he could, being met with eyes glowing bright green in return, Eret's palms flaring with the green energy again.
"You'd better be lucky...I need you alive.." he says, dropping the man to the floor. "But just know from here on out, I call the shots.." he says, turning away from the man. For the past three years he'd out up with him, finally able to break from the control of his programming.
"W-what?! Are you joking? There's nothing to even be do-"
"You run a science lab under the guise of a government hospital… I want to know who you work for. No one, does the things you do, without justifiable cause." Eret says, stopping and turning to face Mildew once more.
The old man stared at him, a grimace upon his face. His face was briefly stricken with fear as Eret's flashed with anger. "I can't reveal that...not yet at least.." he says, moving slowly to his feet and watching as Eret stormed over and grabbed him again.
"You'll tell me. Or I'll burn a hole into your FRICKIN HEAD!!" he shouts, the radioactive energy flowing in his eyes and his hand once again. Mildew chuckled "You can't….you need me. Remember?" He asks, Eret allowing his eyes to widen ever so slightly before slamming the man into the wall behind him and dropping him.
"Sadly. You're right...no one else knows how to keep my skeletal system in check...or how to update the system that keeps my heart pumping…" he sighs, turning and walking away as Mildew , in a dazed state, said.
"Maybe in three more years...I'll take ya to em...maybe.."
Eret stopped there, his head lifting slightly as he released a breath he'd held in.
(Detroit- Meadowgrove Cemetery)
The tall, leather jacket bearing form of Detective Haddock stood in the middle of a field of tombstones and statues, eyes fixated upon the large tombstone that stood six feet from him. A bouquet of flowers had been set there, replacing the old ones that had been lost to time.
He just stood there, eyes reading over the words over and over again. {Scott "Snotlout'' Jorgenson, friend, son, warrior to all.}
He smiled as he read this, remembering his funeral and the amount of people that had shown to pay their respects to Detroit's best high school quarterback. The smile faded soon after as he cleared his throat.
"Hey Snot...been a while." Hiccup begins, kneeling down before sitting onto the ground. "I miss you cuz….we all do." He took in a deep breath. "Been kinda lost without ya to be honest..haven't seen Franklin in years, God only knows what's going on with him. But I know he misses you too, wherever he is."
He sighs for a moment, struggling to find the proper words needed for the time being. It was hard, a struggle at its finest to say the least. "What more can I say that hasn't been said already? I wish I could've done something...helped you somehow… but I couldn't. I really and truly an sorry for that."
… I wish I could've done something to save you. I'm sorry for that." He says, running his fingers over the letters of the headstone.
A smirk crept onto his face. "Heather still missed you… everyday. Can't blame her ya know, I do too." He drew back, leaning back slightly and laying onto the grass, staring up st the blue sky above him.
"First Mom, then you. Now this thing with Dad and this Drago guy… things are tough right now. But I got some people, friends to help me through it." He says, sitting up to meet his cousins grave once again.
"Heather of course. I've got Astrid, from work. She's pretty cool, but of an anger issue though. I've been training a kid, Gustav. He reminds me so much of you, even was inspired by you. And then there's Eret, he's a bit shady but he recently told all of us exactly why he's doing what he is… so he's cool with me." He said with a nod as he gently hit onto his bottom lip and stood up.
"I've got a lot to do, and a long drive back to Dragon's Edge. God only knows what the DEPD is thinking right now, I haven't been in since the day before yesterday, made a pretty big arrest though." He turned away, assuring he had all of the items from his pockets still in place.
"There's this weird guy. He calls with crimes and stuff… and just leads me to them. I almost had him…. almost." He sighed at the thought of the Caller and began to walk away.
"See ya next time cuz." He says, approaching his car and eventually driving off. The detective, as clever as he was, didn't realize there were wires buried throughout the cemetery and running back to a terminal about 100 years away, cameras hidden throughout allowed a video feed to be sent through to a red hooded figure.
"Hmm…it's time." He said with a nod as he pushed away from the computer screen and rose to his feet, the orange eyes of his helmet glowing as he stared out of a window and began to walk off.
(Warehouse)
Stormfly hovered over the ground, beams of electricity launching down into the floor of the training area as Windshear kept out of the way of each one, a blindfold wrapped tightly around her eyes.
A few feet away, Gustav who wore one of Hiccup's old stealth suits along with a blindfold, did the same. He wasn't nearly as precise or as quick as Windshear, but the boys reflexes and natural hearing capabilities had skyrocketed in his training.
Eret watched as they moved and began to fire bursts of energy off in several directions, keeping the power behind them to an extremely low level. They moved fast though, but these two beings seemed to be just as fast.
Until Gustav stumbles and took a shot to the chest, the padding in the suit shielding him as he was thrust back onto the floor with a soft "Oomf."
Windshear cartwheeled into a one handed hand stand, then brought her slender legs back to the floor as she removed the blindfold and looked over at the recovering boy.
"Ow… that was awesome!!" He shouted as he took off his blindfold as well, watching Astrid land nearby, wearing her blue and white tracksuit and no mask.
Heather allowed her crystal eyes to show clear as day as Eret walked over, helping the teen to his feet. "Kid you are really good at this."
"Hiccup says I'm determined!!" He shouts happily as he gives a thumbs up and a cocky grin, Eret chuckling to himself as he looked to Heather and Astrid . " I gotta agree." Heather says as she and Astrid walk over.
"Ya know I saw Hiccup moving some sulking and Kevlar in here recently. Might be for a certain someone's suit." Heather says as she ruffles Gustavo's hair, a goofy grin arising on his face.
"Really!?!? Yes!!" He shouted as the adults chuckled. It was a wonderful sight to them, to see a young man so skilled and so dedicated to what he was being trained for, so ready and willing.
Eret's smile fades into a grimace as a thought ran across his mind, Gustav's smile bringing up bad memories as he turned and walked away.
"I'm hungry." The radioactive man says as he approaches the computer and pulls up the Dragon Edge Pizzeria website. "Who wants pizza?" He asks as everyone raises their hands.
As they do, the lights suddenly shut off around them, Astrid sounding off with "Wasn't me that time."
The sound of metallic thudding alerted each of them, launching them into defensive and offensive stances immediately. Eret has noticed that the computer had been shut down as well, allowing his skin to glow a green tint to give some light.
Astrid chuckled at this "Oh I'm definitely calling you Nightlight now." She says, receiving a sigh in response.
"Better than Glowstick I suppose." He says as Heather walks towards the breaker box. She begins flipping the switches inside, and finding no reaction.
"Figures…" she says as she find her mask and draws out a razor sharp feather shaped projectile.
Astrid looked over, electricity crackling through her body as Gustav grabbed a pair of wooden practice sticks from a rack nearby.
"What's going on?" He asked, showing the slightest signs of panic.
Heather just stands there, a serious look planted upon her face as she activated her mask. "We're under attack." She says, watching as several canisters dropped down into the center of the training area, smoke bursting from them and surrounding them.
"Defensive maneuver four!!" She shouts as he leaps into the smoke and takes a stance, Astrid , Gustav and Eret doing the same and keeping a look out, their backs pressed to one another as they scanned the area.
Seeing through the smoke was impossible for everyone but Windshear, who moved them to rotate in a controlled motion, so her mask could pick up any potential threats from all around.
Soon she found one as a shot rang out and hit Eret in the left shoulder, the bullet melting upon contact with his skin but leaving a small bit of damage. "Ouch!!" He shouted as he launched an energy burst in the direction it had come from.
"He's messing with us, whoever he is." Windshear says, watching as a figure moved through the smoke. "Found him." She says, launching the Sharp Scale his way and grunting in anger as he swipes it aside with the barrel of his semi-automatic rifle, rushing their way.
"Ready...break!!" She shouts as Astrid takes flight, grabbing onto Windshear and lifting her up as Eret and Gustav turned on their heels, Eret sending out a minor level burst of energy in the form of an energy walk to hold the man back while Gustav rushed past the wall and lept into a spin kick, aiming towards his head as Astrid used her powers to force some wind into the area, clearing the smoke before dropping heather off next to the breaker box.
She went to work on the box as Astrid gathered the smoke and sent it out of the warehouse through the ventilations, giving Eret and Gustav a bit more of a clear battlefield. Eret's glowing body continued to offer some light for the attacking Gustav, who found his kick had missed and his leg had been grabbed.
He was launched across the room , only to land onto his palms and launch to his feet, grabbing his wooden kali sticks and preparing for more.
Eret looked to him for a moment, seeing the boy visibly shaking in the face of this threat. As he returned his attention to the attacker, he was met with a large fist barreling into his face and sending him stumbling back. His body flowed brighter as it released a small burst of energy which sent the attacker back, on his own accord.
He avoided the burst and rushed Eret's way, leaping into a mid air tuck and bringing a kick down into the shoulder he'd shot at earlier.
Eret grunted as he reached for the shoulder, being kicked in the back and stumbling forward afterwards. "I'm getting annoyed here!" He shouts as the lights finally come back on, Astrid looking his way and smirking.
"I'll tag in then." She says as he launches a small bolt of lightning towards the attacker, who was revealed to be wearing red and black including a red helmet which had an orange glow to its features and a red hood.
The figure went into a backflip and avoided it, launching both hands to his thighs and drawing his twin handguns as he landed onto his feet and opening fire on the airborne Astrid.
The bullets launched her way and would have been strucken with lightning- had they remained whole. Instead they broke apart and the pieces scattered, a thing wire net forming from the pieces and wrapping around her.
She looked at it in surprise as she struggled to release herself, finding that her body was becoming weaker and weaker.
"How in the hell!?!" Eret wondered as he saw this, another kick hitting him again- the base of his neck being struck with a large amount of force and sending him to the floor.
He rebounded from that instantly.
"Metallic skeletal system, gonna take a lot more than that." He commented as the attacker stood still, placing his hands guns away and drawing out his katana.
"I think I have a fix for that." He says as he rushes towards Eret, aiming to slice into the man's neck. As the sword neared him, it was blocked by a piece of wood, Gustav's stick stopping the attack before the other swung at the mans helmet and smacked him in the center of it.
"Lesson One: Weakness. Search for any structural weakness. Your helmet is made of a lightweight material, it can block a bullet but after that it's done for." The teen noted as he ricocheted one of the kali sticks off of the floor, leading it to crash into the left plexiglass eye of the man's helmet.
He lurched back slightly, a small crack appearing in the glass as he glared at the boy and grabbed the stick, breaking it in half.
"Hmph...you're smart kid. He made a good call with you." He says as he rushes his way and swings the Karan at his head, Gustav ducking before delivering a swift palm strike to his sternum that led to him brushing it off and slapping him to the floor.
"Gotta be a bit more observant though. Zylon fiber is a hell of a material." The man says as he looks down at Gustav, who looks up and gives a smirk to him. The man looks at him with a questioning look.
"Maybe you should be a bit of observant yourself pal." He says, the man looking down to his sternum and finding a small metallic disk on the spot he'd hit. "What the-"
A small explosion went off, sending the man flying back about twenty feet and onto his back, grunting in pain as he slowly rose to his feet.
When he arose, he found himself surrounded the heroes now, each one ready to attack. "Alright...guess I wasn't as prepared for this as I thought. Got what I needed though." He says, dropping another smoke canister which quickly filled the room.
Heather snapped to attention and scanned the smoke with her mask, finding no trace of the man anymore. "Damn!" she swore as each hero looked to one another, the smoke soon clearing out.
Astrid's eyes narrowed at the now clear room. "We need to tell Hiccup about this."
(Newport City)
The man they'd just spoken of what preoccupied, his black gloved fist flying into the face of a man who made an attempt on him with a broken bottle. As the man stumbled to the floor, Night Fury lurched back and delivered a sharp elbow to another man's chest, bringing him to his knees for a knee to the face to finish him off.
As he watched this, two more men rushed his way. The sound of an object zipping past him alerted him momentarily, and he watched as the two men were soon caught into a small whirlwind and thrown about.
Night Fury turned around, finding a dark blue and red suited figure stalking his way, a dark blue uniform fitting her body with a red mask covering her eyes, showing only blue lenses.
"Knew I'd find you eventually." He commented as he approached the dirty blonde haired woman, who gently arched her back to remain loose and crossed her arms.
"What do you want?" She asks, a smirk playing upon her face. He cast a glance off to the side, looking at the unconscious men inside of the bar. "To talk...somewhere a bit more private maybe."
The woman flung herself onto a rooftop, climbing up and firmly planting her black rubber soled boots onto the roof, awaiting Night Fury's ascent. As the two positioned themselves upon the roof, the woman looked out at the beautiful city she'd been sworn to.
"Ya know, there's a lot of super powered beings showing up lately. Might be time to expand." Night Fury says with a small grin as the Runner looks at him, pulling the hair tie free from her head and allowing her shoulder length blonde hair to spread
She was much shorter than Night Fury, standing at 5'4 compared to his 6' figure. She looked up to him, literally. "Yeah, not gonna happen Hiccup." She replies, deactivating her voice modifier.
Night Fury gives a shrug at this "It was worth a shot Cami." He says as he approaches the edge of the roof and takes a seat, legs dangling over the side. "But I'm here to ask for your help in something."
Cami lifted a well trimmed eyebrow upon hearing this. "And what , does the great Night Fury want from little old me? I'm just a feeble track star playing dress up." She said in a somewhat playful tone as she smoothly went into a hand stand, on one hand, on the edge of the roof.
"You're the Typhoon of Newport. How'd u like to be The Typhoon of the World?" He asks, laying down on the edge. Cami merely gave him a glance as she sat down finally.
"Um...just the Typhoon is fine." She replies, slightly confused by his wording. He sits up , looking at her.
"I want you to join you team." He says finally, smiling as he sees the smile quickly burst onto her face. " A team?! Like a legit superhero team like the Avengers or the Justice League?!?!" She asks, her body visibly vibrating as she hears this.
"Yes, but real!" He replies with a gleeful shout as Camicazi takes off, moving just over 12,000 mps and circles the whole building before returning to her position.
"That sounds AWESOME! I'M IN!!" She says with a shout of joy as she leaps to her feet. "Let'sgoletsgoletsgo!!!" She says as Night Fury gets to his feet, pressing a button on his gauntlet which alerts his Nightcycle to pull up in the street below.
"I'll lead the way." He says, turning and somersaulting off of the roof, Cami's arms falling to her sides. "But you're so slow." She said, stretching her arms in the sleeveless suit she wore and adjusting the dark red gloves that went up to her elbows a bit before taking off behind the man's motorcycle.
(Warehouse-Later)
Gustav watched as Eret swept away a large amount of scrap metal and dust into a trash bag, tying it up to be disposed of. "Man...how did that guy know where we were?!" Astrid shouts as a burst of wind escapes from area surrounding her.
Heather sighs as she watches this, looking to the computer. "The computer is still down somehow… not only that, but he saw our faces, he knows who we are."
Eret heads out the backdoor momentarily, dumping the trash bag before returning. "Yup, which means we're gonna have to work hard as hell to find out who he was and what he wanted..apart from us dead." He says as Gustav begins to hang upside from the rail on the staircase that led to the training area.
"Who knows? Maybe he wanted us alive." He suggests, to which Eret replies with an eye roll and walks towards the boy. "If he wanted us alive, he wouldn't have used live rounds I'm sure." He says, clutching his shoulder.
"Okay, that's fair." Gustav replies. Heather looks over at the two with a strange expression fixed upon her face. She seemed to be lost in her thoughts for a moment, fishing for the right thing to say in the moment- but there was so much rushing through st once it was hard to pick and choose. Finally she spoke up after much deliberation.
"He seemed to really want you Eret." She says, gaining the man's attention.
"Yeah, want me dead." He replies as Astrid walks over. "Aw, poor Glowstick has a hit out on him." She says, earning a look of disapproval from the radioactive man.
"Not...funny." he replies as he turns his attention back to Heather. "But you're right...it's rather strange honestly." He says as he begins to pace, Gustav lifting himself back onto his feet and backflipping over the railing to land next to them.
"I say we try to hunt him down!" He says, a bit too excited by the thought of it. The older heroes looked at him, then at one another, before giving a shrug.
"I think we should wait for Hiccup." Astrid says, getting a nod from the other two.
"Agreed." Eret says as he walks back over to the spot he's come to call his own, the workout bench and lays back onto it.
As this happens, the door slides open and Hiccup walks in, dressed in a black Nirvana tee shirt, some black jeans, converse, his dark brown leather jacket and his hands in his pockets.
"This is the Safehouse." He says, showing it to Camicazi who'd come in a shoulder length white blouse, a dark blue skirt and some blue flat shoes.
"And this is your team right?" She asks as she walks into the Safehouse, waving to everyone. "Hi! I'm Cami!!" She shouts , watching as Heather approached with a smile and scooped the shorter woman up into a hug.
"It's so good to see you again!!" She exclaims as Cami hugs back "You too Heather!" she exclaims with just as much excitement as the rest of the group approaches.
"Everyone this is Camicazi Bogburn, aka the Typhoon." Hiccup syas with a smile as he looks at his allies, then back to the overly excited Cami, who gave a big smile to each of them.
"Hi!!" She said, jumping slightly.
"Cami, this is Astrid, aka Stormfly. Gustav, aka Fanghook, Eret, aka...Eret-"
"Glowstick." Astrid cut in, Hiccup nodding as Eret shook his head rapidly.
"Glowstick." Hiccup said, causing Eret to sigh. "Just call me Nightlight..it's better…" he says, in utter defeat.
"Nightlight it is. " Hiccup says with a smile as Cami takes off in a blur of color, circling around each of the members of the group before coming back to Hiccup's side.
"Guys , Cami has been one of my best friends since I was little. We started out together, and now we're gonna be on this team hunting Drago together." Hiccup says, slowly noticing a faint smell of gunpowder, and a strong smoke.
"What uh...what happened here?" He asks as he walks towards the training area, getting down on one knee and running his fingers across the floor. "Smoke was released here. Heavy footstomps… like a chase." He turned his head, noticing the burn marks left from the lightning.
"Astrid was on the attack, and these are deeper and singed worse than her training attacks." He stood up, looking a few feet away. He noticed an even smaller detail, his enhanced senses revealing more than was shown.
"Someone was sent flying from this spot." He says, pointing to the faintest boot print, then across the room. "Had some form of armoring on, that left some small skidmarks from where he slid across the floor." He arose to his feet once more, looking to his friends.
"What happened?" He asks, noticing the odd looks they gave one another as Astrid stepped forward. "Someone attacked us. Shut down the lights, dropped some smoke and came at us with a Semi-automatic, handguns and a katana."
Hiccup's eyes widened slightly. "Any idea who it was?" He asks as they shake their heads.
"Muscular build, about five foot ten." Eret notes "Swung his sword with precision. Had damn good aim even in the dark."
"He wore a helmet too, the eyes and the design around them glowed orange." Gustav says as he approaches his mentor. "I managed to crack the glass in one of the lenses on it." He reaches into a pouch on his belt, showing the few shards he'd collected.
Hiccup nodded at this. "Take it to the research area. We can scan over and break down the compound, see where it's manufactured, maybe get a lead." He says, watching as Gustav nods and rushes off.
Cami let's out a faux cough. "Man, first day and the teams already been attacked? And I missed it?! No fair!" She says with a huff as she crosses her arms, Astrid smiling as she wraps an arm around her shoulder.
"Trust me, there's definitely more to come. Cause when we find this guy." She then notioned, slamming her fist into her open palm.
Cami smirked. "I like you Stormfly, got a feeling we're gonna make great friends." She then looked to Hiccup. "Now about that name."
Hiccup grimaced slightly "Is this really the best time?" He asks, Cami appearing behind him a second later. "Yes. When the team gets attacked, that's when it really starts to come together!!" She exclaims, Hiccup's mouth forming a straight line as a small sigh was released.
"Fine, we'll name ourselves..any suggestions?"
"The Revengers!" Shouted Gustav
"The Troop!" Came Eret as he walked to the workout area
"Nothing." Astrid said with a shrug as Heather walked past her.
"The Vikings?" She suggested, not sounding very sure herself.
Cami shook her head at each suggestion and pulled out her phone, rushing over to the computer and reactivating it with ease, then synching her phone with it's speakers. "Let's put on some thinking music, shall we?" She asks , getting a collective nod from the others.
The first song that belted out of the speakers was Fall Out Boy's Immortals. As the song played on, Hiccup smirked.
"The Immortals.." he said, Cami pausing the song and giving a thumbs up. "I take partial credit for that! Also that one is awesome!" She says, performing a cartwheel at the speed of sound.
"Immortals sounds cool." Astrid says as she walks over to a training dummy, Heather following with a thumbs up.
"Immortals?! Yes!" Gustav exclaims as he looks at the now rebooted computer and tries to load an online game on it. Hiccup smiles. "Alright. Then we're the Immortals.." he says, walking to the research area.
He pulled up the results of the scan, the smile remaining. "And we've got our first lead.. Ingerman Adhesives and Shielding company."
He turns to his friends, ready to go. "Let's move out."
The factory was dark, desolate and cold even. Night Fury landed on a metal overpass in the center of the floor looking down at several machines rigged for the creation of plastics, glasses and certain fibers, his mask was in a deep scan sequence.
He stopped, locking onto one of the open crates below. He lunged over the side railing and glided his way down to the center of the floor, landing in a kneeling stance before arising and walking to the crate he'd locked onto.
"Found the material. Form of new plexiglass, Ingerman is the first company to manufacture it. So this is where he got it. We just need a list of previous buy-" he's cut off as an explosion goes off from the next room.
He turns towards the area, seeing a hole having been blow into the wall and nothing but flames through the hole. He could make out a dark figure through the flames. Orange eyes stared back at him before stalking away- Night Fury immediately giving chase.
As he lept through the flames, he rushed towards the figure , noting his athletic physique and his speed . He was fast, but Night Fury was faster. He picked up speed, watching as the man did the same. It was a valiant effort, but a failed one. Night Fury tackled the man through the wooden door before them, both of them rolling out into the sidewalk as the flames behind them begin to engulf part of the building.
Night Fury wound up on top, lifting a fist to the helmet wearing man. "Stand down!" He shouted as the man chuckled.
"You think you have the upper hand I'll bet...still so gullible." He says, Night Fury looking on in confusion, that is until his body seized up. A small disk had been stamped onto his arm
{Bastard! He nailed me when we crashed into the street..} he thought as he fell to the sidewalk , the controlled shock targeting his enhanced muscles, weakening him further.
As his body seized, his senses were thrown off wildly. He could barely hear, his sight became blurry and his sense of smell weakened. His mouth opened wide, as he attempted to breathe and gather himself, failing miserably.
In his stunned state, his hearing began to increase just to put him through more pain- the sirens of the DEPD and the fire department blared loudly as they neared the location. They were just around the corner, he could tell as the sounds pierced his ears.
"It was good seeing ya, but I got places to be and people to kill." The man says, turning and rushing off from the scene. A few seconds after , he heard a sharp beeping and the disk fell off of his body and onto the ground.But then it was already too late, his healing ability was finally free to flourish, bringing him back to his feet just in time for the sirens to reach his location.
He panted slightly, watching as the police pulled to a stop, each officer bursting from their vehicles and aiming their weapons at him. Night Fury hunched over slightly, still recuperating whilst holding up a hand.
"He went that way!" He shouted as the officers kept their weapons trained on him.
"Hit the ground!!" One of them shouted, much to his dismay. "Dude I did not do this!" He shouts at the man, but the officer ignored his plea.
He sighed "Look I'm sorry but I can't do this.." he says, throwing down a smoke pellets and grappling away in the midst of their confusion.
He stood upon a roof now, watching as the officer who was seemingly in charge rushed to his vehicle. VIA his now repaired hearing, he could hear clear as day.
"This is Officer Hogun, putting out a warrant for the arrest of the Night Fury.. bastard set Ingerman's building ablaxe and took off."
And yet another sigh was released as he heard the report. Now he had to deal with this too. Great, as if his life wasn't hectic enough as is.