-1Shaddow Of The Scourge chapter 10
Last time on Shaddow of the Scourge
Kat tracked Punisher and persuaded him to help her take down the Scourges and avenge her dad and know they have a fix on the location.
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Kat sighed as she flew over the outskirts, she had been flying for over an hour and has not seen Punisher, just then she saw Punisher's battle van parked outside an old abandoned gas station, she landed alongside the van and Punisher opened the door and came out.
"What took you so long?" Punisher asked.
"Sorry had trouble finding the van, so lead me to the HQ."
"We're here." Punisher said plainly pointing to the gas station.
"You have GOT to be kidding."
"All my leads pointed to this gas station, if you don't trust me than go ahead and look for another abandoned gas station."
Kat sighed realising that their wasn't another gas station for miles.
"Point taken."
Punisher and Kat entered the gas station, much to Kat's surprise their was a man behind the counter.
"Password?" The man said not bothering to look up, Kat ordered her tail to suspend the man in midair and it did just that and the man's eyes widened when he realised who it was.
"Let us in the HQ or get a truckload of bullet holes all over your body." Punisher said threatingly.
"Never."
"How about I melt your facial features of your face instead?" Kat replied taking flight.
"Okay, okay you made your point, let me go and I'll activate the lift that will take you to the HQ."
"You herd him American Dragon." Kat nodded and tossed him back behind the desk, the man pressed a button behind the desk and a row of non alcoholic beer disappeared revealing a lift. Punisher entered the lift and Kat turned to the man.
"Do yourself a favour and change your pants." Kat said plainly before entering the lift, the man looked down and realised that there was a large puddle around his groin area.
"Great."
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The lift doors closed and the lift began descending towards the base, after five minutes of enduring elevator music Punisher shot out the speaker.
"Thanks, one more minute of listening to that crap and I would've ripped it off with my tail."
"No problem, by the way why do you always take flight before breathing fire?"
"Simple I can't breath fire without taking flight first."
Punisher nodded in understanding, the lift doors opened revealing over 200 Scourge agents.
"Maybe the Avengers would've been a better choice."
"Maybe you should shut up and start fighting." Punisher replied opening fire with two machine guns, when he ran out of bullets only a hundred remained.
"Nice." Kat replied and flew forward torching a few Scourge Agents with her flames, Punisher changed guns two a twelve gage shotgun and fired taking a Scourge agent down.
Then the battle began.
Kat used her tail to suffocate three agents whilst keeping a firm grip on the agent that framed her for murder.
"This is for turning half the Superhero community against me."
Kat punched her breaking her nose.
"This is for turning the cops against me."
Kat kicked her in the ribs 9 times breaking each rib.
"And this is for forcing me to hospitalise a fellow Superhero."
Kat tossed her broken body in the air and she took flight, she then put her out of her misery by slicing her in half with her razor sharp wings.
"That felt good." Kat muttered as she landed, suddenly one of Punisher's stray bullets hit her in the arm, thankfully by then all the agents where dead.
"That didn't feel good." Kat muttered, Punisher acted quickly and removed the bullet with a knife and bandaged it with a piece off cloth.
"Come on, there's probably more down the hall." Punisher said plainly, she took flight and followed her, Punisher gunned down a few scientists working for the organisation and a couple of sleeping agents.
"How could they sleep through that?" Kat wondered.
"My guess is that that room we where in is soundproof."
"Probably."
Kat followed Punisher into the next room, it was the master's room and she expected to see Target their as well, however all that was in there was a few Scourge Agents.
"Where's your leader?"
"Gone, along with Target and I don't know where they are." A Scourge Agent replied.
"Great." Kat muttered as she watched Punisher gun down the remaining agents.
"Don't worry Kat, you'll get them someday." Punisher replied.
"Wait how did you find my real name?" Kat asked.
"You know that Earpiece I gave ya? It contained a microscopic tracer, it was pretty easy to figure out once a realised you live in the Shung Mansion, sorry if I invaded your privacy but I wanted to make sure I knew who I was dealing with."
"No problem."
"So, are ya going to continue your superhero career?"
"Of course, I'll never rest until I find Target and send him to prison."
"Good, let's go."
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The man that was in charge of letting Scourge Agents downstairs was a nervous wreck, he had no idea what the superheroes where doing to the Scourge Agents, the left came up and a bloodstained Punisher and Kat emerged, Punisher finished off the man and they flew out, Kat dropped Punisher alongside the battle Van.
"Do me a favour Frank, never mention this to any other Superheroes I only killed those agents because it was personal."
"No problem, wait how did you figure out my real name."
"Easy, I have access to the Avenger's files thanks to my friendship with Iron Man."
Punisher nodded and drove off, Kat flew home happy that the Scourges where out of business.
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High Raise Skyscraper, Downtown Manhattan
19:00
Target watched the battle between the Scourges, American Dragon and Punisher via a security camera which he could access through his laptop , when the battle ended he turned it off and entered an office.
"Julius, I regret to inform you that the Scourge Organisation has been liquidated." The man sitting behind the desk turned around revealing an Justin Hammer look-alike accept he had one green eye and one blue eye.
"Never mind, it did it's job in eliminating criminals that wouldn't work for me, tell me who put it out of business?
"American Dragon and Punisher."
"I won't bother with Punisher since he kills criminals however American Dragon will be our focus for know." Julius said with an evil smile.
Next time on Shaddow Of The Scourge
In the aftermath of the attack on the Scourges a friend of Kat's finds out her identity and decides to help her in her battle against crime.
Footnotes:
Julius and Target will become reacuring villains