Shaddow of the Scourge chapter 4
Last time on Shaddow Of The Scourge
The world first laid eyes upon Kat's secret identity but little did she knew that a Scourge Agent was watching and know she faces her first Superhuman battle.
Shout outs:
Ray Battlemonger: Glad you liked the past three chapters
Shung Family Mansion just outside of New York
18:30
Kat landed on the balcony in her room. She was tired after taking down those bank robbers and just wanted to rest, unfortunately for her she would have to wait in order to get some rest.
"Kat." A mechanical voice called, she turned around to see Iron Man. "I take Mom told you about my new powers." "Yeah and she's asked me to keep an eye on you during your early stages, this business can be rough." "So can High School but they don't exactly condone violence." "Touché" "If you don't mind I want to rest before I go out on patrol again" Iron Man nodded and flew off, Kat took off her mask and collapsed on her bed.
"Great, a superhuman baby sitter, how can this get worse?" Kat thought as she fell asleep.
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J3 Communications HQ
19:00
"What do you mean there's no one who knows who this new Super powered vigilante is?" J. Jonah Jameson, the former owner of the Daily Bugle and life time Spider-Man hater and current owner f J3 communications yelled at one of his reporters. "What I mean is that when I interviewed the gang leader he said he didn't get the Superhero's name." The reporter replied hiding the urge to punch Jameson as he blew a puff off smoke in his face.
"That girl wasn't a hero, hero's are the men and women that are actually PAID to take down punks like the gang leader and until you find out who she is I'm cutting your pay in half." Reluctantly sighing, the reporter left the office, Jameson stood up and looked out the window which gave him a great view of the city. "I'll bring that girl down if it takes the rest of my life."
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Queens, New York.
21:00
Kat had woken up 30 minutes earlier and was out on patrol again, she had tracked the little remembered villain known as the Walrus to this particular street taking Iron Man's advice to start with some C - List villain and all though technically Walrus was more of a Z list villain she decided to stop the man who once bragged that he had the strength of a Walrus only to get laughed at by Spider-Man, just then she herd the sound of a Machine gun being fired nearby and turned the corner to see the same man from the rooftop standing over the dead body off the Walrus carrying a compact Machine Gun, it didn't take long for her to find out what had happened.
"HEY!" Kat yelled at the man, she melted his gun with her flames and landed. "May I help you child?" "You can help me by turning yourself in whoever you are." "The name is Target, so called because I never miss and if you want to send me to death row your going to have to beat me in battle."
Kat responded by flying forward and trying to punch Target but she missed and Target responded by kicking her away. "Amateur." Target muttered as he turned to walk away but Kat took flight and breathed fire at him hoping to take him down,. "That had to be it." However when the flames cleared Target emerged unhurt. "Fool, my armour is fire proof, nothing you can do can stop me." With that Target began brutally beating Kat, after five minutes however he was hit by one of Iron Man's repulser blast.
"Mind your own business shellhead." Target yelled as he got up from the repulser blast. "Buddy this IS my business, live with it." Target grumbled and ran down an alleyway, when Kat flew in to track him all she could see was a hobo, giving up she flew off, unknown to her the hobo touched his left wrist and turned into Target. "We will meet again American Dragon, bet on it." With that Target disappeared into the night.
Next time on Shaddow Of The Scourge.
A Scourge agent has framed Kat for the latest assasionation, can she clear her name?
Footnotes
Sorry for the sloppiness when it came to Kat's battle with Target but the next battle will be better.
J3 communications was featured on Spider-Man The Animated Series.
Jameson sold the Bugle to Puma after revealing his involvment in the creation of the Scorpion.
Quick run down of Target's powers, Super strengh, agility and endurance, fire and bullet proof costume, an exelant marksmen and an expert in Martial Arts.