Luna was riding off on an ice slide, and Color Fire was soaring like a falcon as they were making their way to the Wernicke corporate building in the city of Detroit. Luna was more than happy to find Charleston Wernicke, along with Chris Walker, and put a stop to their evil ways, and supposed inhumane experiments. While Color Fire was going to enjoy exposing political corruption to the world by fighting off any type of security force that Wernicke would hire with his boatload of money, given the fact that he was a senator and a congressman.
"I hope we can fight them all, Luna." Mason remarked.
"Yeah, me too! I want to make sure that Walker gets What's coming to 'em." indeed, Luna was back with a vengeance (almost, considering the fact that she still had a broken arm on her body.) Suddenlu, her stomach was growling, telling her that she wants some food to eat off of. "Uh-oh, my stomach's killing me."
"You're hungry?" Mason asked.
"Yeah but, I don't want to think about eating at a time like this. There's a couple of bad guys we need to fight. Now's not a good time to Eat some grub."
""Well, are you sure you want to come along on this, Luna?" Mason asked her. "I know you want to stop Wernicke and his evil company, but, you're arm's still broken."
"Don't worry, dude. I will he just fine. And besides, if we combine ourselves together, we will have a better chance at stopping Wernicke and Walker, and stop their experiments. This kind of stuff needs to be shown to the world."
"Good point. I am with vous all the way, Luna. We'll stop Wernicke, no matter what it takes."
Luna smiled gratefully. "Thanks Mason. I'm glad that we're a team."
"Wouldn't be a complete team without Lincoln. But, you're right. It is too dangerous for him."
"Totally. I do not want him to get hurt or get shot by any guns at all." Luna said. "So, I'm only doing this for his own good. Still, maybe if he had powers too, it would be different a little."
"Oui. That would he different alright."
It was just then Luna's cellphone was ringing, and it was labeled: "Jackal" on there. She made a small groan, but answered it anyway. "Hello?"
"Luna, this is Jackal, and we have a new problem."
"What problem?"
"A group of soldiers are looking you and Color Fire, mostly you in particular. I will say this; they are not friendly."
"Soldiers?" Luna asked. "What kind?"
"Well, they have black bodysuits and black bandanas and berets and helmets. You and Comor Fire need to keep your guard up."
"Got it. Thanks for the warning. Bye," then she hung up, looking at Mason.
"What did he want?" Mason asked. Luna then told Mason the news that Jackal had given to her right now. "Ooh. That is troubling news. My guess is: it could be soldiers hired by Wernicke to try and kill us."
"He did say they were going to kill us both, but I don't know if they are from Wernicke or not. Only one way to find out." her stomach was growling again, louder than ever. "Man, I'm starving right now."
"Well, we're getting close to Detroit now, so you want to grab a snack or some food at some place?" Mason asked. "I know it sounds bizarre and tedious, but your stomach sounds like a monster is about to burst from your chest like an alien."
Luna laughed. "That's funny, unlike Luan." Ultimately, Luna and Mason decided that they should have a snack or some food, but just a quick snack. As soon as they landed on the ground, they noticed some houses that looked abandoned and run down in a small suburban neighborhood.
Along with a few homeless people on the street and having tents and sleeping bags as beds or something to sleep in. It made Luna and Mason sad inside, knowing that these people were suffering greatly. They either lost their homes to high mortgages, or have been evicted somehow.
"Man," Luna said, walking past the group of homeless people. "I feel so sorry for those dudes. I wish we can just save them somehow."
"Je sais, Luna. Je sais." Mason sighed. "Alas, we can't save everyone." he looked down in shame. "I mean, we can contribute, but we cannot just build a gigantic house out of thin air for all homeless people to stay in from the snowfall."
"Yeah, I know. Hmmmm... maybe we can help them after we're done?" Luna suggested. "I mean, we should help them somehow."
"I agree, but right now we have more important things to worry about at the moment."
"Got it." they looked around the neighborhood and they eventually came across a small burger place the size of an apartment flat or a living room, probably some small diner that people would be eating at. A couple of people were seen looking a little shady and menacing, but the two heroes kept their distance, and tried not to make contact with the more creepy and scary type of people.
Detroit was known for poverty, and high crime rate after all. Setting foot inside the diner, the place was a little small, and the waitress was a young African-American lady that was probably in her late twenties, and the place didn't look so bad, and not so clean either. So and so. The young waitress was cleaning the counter where people would order food, and when she saw Luna and Mason, she looked surprise.
"Oh my gosh." she said. "You're Luna Frost and Color Fire. I've heard so much about you heroes! Can I have an autograph?"
"You heard about is, ma'am?"
"Oh yeah. Royal Woods is not that far from Detroit. Word gets around fast." the waitress replied. "What can I do ya for?"
"We would just like a burger to eat, with some hot cocoa to go with it." Luna said.
"I'll have what she will."
"Nice. Very good." the waitress smiled. "So can I have an autograph?"
Both Luna and Color Fire looked at one another and smiled. "Ah, what the heck?" Luna smirked.
The waitress shrieked with joy, and pulled out an autograph book from her back pocket, where Luna and Mason signed the third to last page on it. She was like a Boyz will be Boyz fan-girl after getting to meet that boy band for the first time. she hugged the little booklet and placed it back in her back pocket of her pants, and went back to her business self. "Are you here to dine in?"
"For a quick meal, yeah." said Mason.
"Glad to have a fan in Detroit." said Luna.
"Are you kidding?" said Dominique the waitress. "You're becoming the talk of Detroit. You're getting more famous, Luna. Same with you, Color Fire."
"Cool." Luna remarked. "So, I would like a regular cheeseburger with some Poppy cola."
"And I will have what she is having, s'il vous plait." Mason added.
the waitress wrote it down on a piece of scratch paper, and placed it on the ordering wheel that bordered the counter and the kitchen behind. "Albert, we have an order!" the waitress sang to a husky chef with a white five o'clock shadow on his face and buzz cut hair under his hat.
"Coming right up, Dominique." said the chef, sounding a little bit like a hoarse dog coughing before making the patties.
"You're food will be here in a minute or two. "Albert's a burger wizard. He's the only reason why this place is up and running. And you know what? Burgers here cost three dollars, but, Just this once, you can have your first meal for free."
Both Luna and Mason were surprised to hear that. "Really?" Luna said.
"Yep. Have a seat, and I will bring you your food."
The heroes did just that, and sat at a nearby booth, one closest to the front door of this little dinner.
Mason took off his mask, and it made Luna a little worried. "Wait, I thought you said you wanted to keep your identity a secret?"
"Don't worry, Luna. She won't know my name. And besides, it will only be for a little moment."
After about a minute and a half, the waitress came and placed the food at the table. "Here you go. Enjoy yourselves."
"Thanks, ma'am," Luna said. The burgers were an alright quality and had an alright taste. Almost as good as Burpin Burger or other international burger joints in the world. Still, it was juicy and burgers were best when they are juicy.
"So, we still have to be careful. These baddies could probably come here and try and kill us. When we get to Wernicke, we should at least keep it cool." Mason said.
"After what Walker did to my arm?"
"I know, I know, but there could be more enemies to fight than we bargain for. We could be impossibly outnumbered."
"Well, I don't think they will let us in." Luna suggested. "They might turn us away."
"Maybe so. But, we cannot kill for trying."
"Good point." they both continued eating their burgers and after it was done, they both put their wrappers and scraps in a nearby trash bin, and Dominique the waitress bid them farewell, and Luna decided to give her something. "Here you go, Dominique. Just a little something for your trouble."
"A thirty dollar tip?" Dominique looked at the twenty and ten dollar bills that the hero had given her. "Wow, thanks, but you didn't have to do that."
"I wanted to give it to you." Luna said. "Keep it."
"Thank you so much. Keep on saving the world, you guys."
Mason put his mask back on, and he replied: "you betcha." They both here out of the diner and fafed the cold weather again, but it wasn't a problem for Luna or Mason. "Well, back to business Luna, let's just fly over to Wernicke and give that evil company a piece of our minds."
"It will be my pleasure." Luna cracked her knuckles.
As they made their way in the neighborhood, getting close to downtown Detroit, many people recognized Luna and Color Fire like the waitress did back there, and ma y of them were praising her, telling her that they loved her, and Color Fire, though, most of the praising was for Luna.
She was flattered that she was getting more and more recognition for the heroic deeds she has done. However, something fast was coming up to her and Color Fire from down the road ahead of them. It was a gigantic armored truck and it was moving fast and it was as black as a jet jewel.
The teens realized that the truck was not stopping and it went at full-speed, looking like the drivers wanted to run them over into human pancakes. Both Luna and Mason jumped out of the way in different directions, and the truck zoomed past them like a missile.
Tires were screeching and when the truck pulled over to the right side of the road about two-hundree yards from where the heroes were, a group of armed soldiers came out from the back and they all had masks, black armor, and machine guns as weapons. Their leader had no mask, but wore a white beret on his head of yellow hair. "Alright men!" he barked, "find Luna! Shoot to kill!"
"It's the soldiers that Jackal was talking about." Luna said. "The ones out to kill me."
"Time to give them early retirement." Mason readied his firebolts.
Luna readied her ice powers to freeze them all at once and they charged at the group of gunmen. "There she is!" said another soldier.
"Shoot her!" a third one exclaimed. All of them opened fired and the sounds of heavy gunfire were heard in the streets. Civilians and screaming people ran for cover, and Luna used her powers to freeze a quarter of the troops after her head.
Bullets froze and dropped on the ground, breaking, as if they were actually ice cubes instead of real bullets. Color Fire shot a wave of fire at another quarter of these hostile gunmen, and they were screaming as they were burning like a bunch of living coal. The armor was a little thick, so the flames didn't kill them.
As for the third one, Luna was face to face with the captain and the rest of his squad. "Time to die, kid!" said the captain coldly before cocking his gun. Luna created a thick ice shield to protect herself and the bullets bounced back off of it like it was bulletproof plexiglas.
"You did not just shoot at me." Luna growled. She created three pillars of ice, and with a her might, she threw it at the soldiers in front of her. Even the captain was hit by an ice block, crashing him down hard. It gave Luna the perfect moment to use her powers to create some soldiers and she a hand-to-hand combat match with three of them.
Dodging and using her great agility, she kicked one of the soldiers in the groin, and knock a second guard out with a gigantic gauntlet made of ice, and for thr third one, whonwas charging at her, she used her ice powers to freeze the ground and make the goom slip and crash into a wall, knocking him out cold.
At last, Luna and Mason turned their attention to the captain, who pulled out a beam sword, because he ran out of ammo. He was fast and furious and angry at the two for already taking out his troops, and he intended to slice open these kids into two halves like a melon. He managed to knee Luna in the face, and hit her broken arm, making her howl in pain, and kneel on one knee.
"Time to finish the job on ya, kid."
Suddenly, Mason picked up one of the guns and fired a few rounds at the captain's back, causing him to srop his beam sword, and fall flat on the snowy ground. His beret fell off, and Mason helped Luna up. "You alright, Luna?"
"Yeah. I suffered worst pain. Thanks for the help."
"De rien." The deceased captain lied there on the ground and the police arrived moments later as Luna was inspecting the captain's uniform. On his right arm, there was a patch engraved: "Wernicke security captain" on it. Luna's blood boiled at seeing the signature. "Wernicke."
'It is him?" Mason asked
"Yep. This has Wernicke's name written all over it." The police then arrested the guards and placed them into custody.
"Are you okay?" said the chief, who was a tall African-American man, who looked a little bit like Micharl Clarke Duncan.
"Just fine officer." Mason said.
"Good. I heard about you kids." The man smiled. "Kind of a long way from Royal Woods, huh?" He joked.
"Yeah." Luna smirked. "Wernicke's trying to kill me."
"Wernicke?" The chief frowned. "I know that man and company is shady, but guess that my fears are true. Many people of Detroit have been disappearing lately. Mostly criminals and scum running rampant around some parts of Detroit."
"I think I know where they could have been taken, officer." Luna narrowed his eyes.
"If it is Wernicke, be careful. Those are big places. Besides, even for heroes like you it could he suicide. Maybe we should have some backup for you, 'specially since your arm's a little... you know." he pointed to Luna's still broken arm.
"Don't worry about me. I already told my bro if I am not back the next day, he can call the police."
"Oui. We got this under control." Mason reassured.
"Very well. Be careful, new heroes. Alright boys, put these scumbags in their place." He got back in nos police car and the other cops rounded up the beaten guards in their own vehicles.
Luna's phone was ringing, and it was Jackal again. "Talk to me, Jackal"
"Luna, if you come across those soldiers, you will find they are not government. Those soldiers after you were Charleston Wernicke's private security forces under the employ of his money. He really wants you dead."
"We know. We killed the captain of his guards and we saw the insignia on his arm." Luna said.
"Perfect. If you are going to confront him, do not underestimate him. Unlike his security, he is part of the government. Politicians have the most powerful lawyers and mercenaries on their sides to do their dirty work."
"Not if we expose their dirty work to the whole world." Mason said. "When his experiments go out, Charleston will have his life ruined in a snap of a finger." he literally snapped his left fingers and a spark of fire was seen form it, like his hand was a lighter trying to work.
"Yeah. We fight the power and show the evils of politicians." Luna agreed. "Come on, Mason."
"Right behind you."
The heroes flee all the way to the Wernicke building and they barged in the front door without ease. Inside the lobby were a couple of security guards and some scientists looking at them with concern. "Hey! You need to have authorized personnel before entering this building." said a guard.
"We're here to see Charleston Wernicke." Luna said
"Not without a clearance or paper of approval you're not." said another guard. "Now, stand down, and leave."
Luna and Mason recognized the uniforms that the guards were wearing and they knew that the soldiers that attacked them were from Wernicke all along.
They approached the heroes menacingly, but Luna managed to use her powers to freeze them and put then out of commission. The scientists looked at her with fright, but the rocker girl went up to a female scientist and grabbed her by her lab coat. "Okay lady. We're looking for Charleston Wernicke. Where is he?"
"H-he's on the very top floor." the scientist replied in a shaky voice, pointing her finger to the ceiling above her. "The very last floor."
"Thanks." Luna then let go of her, and went up the elevator to go confront the madman behind all of this. As soon as they got to the last floor, they encountered a whole squadron with guns in their hands and ready to gun down the heroes to prevent then from reaching their boss.
"Freeze! Don't move!" said the ringleader. "Turn back and leave this building, or we will open fire on you!"
Luna and Mason looked at one another, and had sneaky smiles on their faces. "Actually, you freeze." Luna said before shooting a gigantic wave of ice from her unbroken arm. It was a bery gigantic wave and it was so powerful. A few sounds of bullets being released were heard, but the bullets didn't hit anywhere in the direction where the two were at right now.
All the soldiers were frozen in their place, looking more frozen and statue still than most criminals that froze from Luna's new ice powers.
"Parfait," Mason muttered. "Come on, time to give this villain a piece of our mind."
"Cheerio, mate!" Luna crafied her knuckles again before heading to the door where it says: "Charles Wernicke" on it. "This is it," she knew. "Payback time".
she froze the door, and Color Fire kicked it down like it was made of match wood. Charles Wernicke was sitting in his desk and having his hands under his chin like a smug man he was. "Ah, Luna Frost and Color Fire." he said in a smooth voice. "I have heard so much about you, and your accomplishments."
"Tais toi! (Shut up), Wernicke!" Mason spat out. "We know of your experiments and your plots to kill Luna and me."
"Yeah, the jig is up, the news is out, but." Luna said with hatred. Her eyes glew with hatred and she was more than ready to turn this evil politician into a living popsicle. "You were trying to kill me. Admit it!"
"Now, calm down, my friends." Wernicke said in a calm voice. "Where would you get such an idea of such accusation?"
"Because the patches on your stragglers say your last name on their arms." Luna pointed. "And I bet you sent Chris Walker to try and kill me too."
"Look, I did what I had to do." Wernicke admitted. "With you still around, you would put my corporation in terrible danger. You and Color Fire. Look at the city below." he got off the desk, and started down through the glass window again. "As you know, Detroit is one of the most impoverished and ramshackled cities in all the United States. I am simply doing it a favor by purging it of scum and the Scourge of crime and villainy."
"By kidnapping people?" Mason asked.
"Look, doing the right thing is never easy. Sometimes, you have to play dirty tricks to achieve your goals."
"That's bogus, man!" Luna exclaimed angrily. "Even Lynn wouldn't agree with that. Well... maybe she would a little, but she would never cause a genocide."
"Genocide? No no no no, you are not understanding. You see, u am doing America a big favor in eradicating it from scum and villainy."
"How do you explain the experiments?" Mason asked.
"Well, I wouldn't call them experiments. I would prefer to call them rehabilitation methods. With my methods, I can make the world a better place, and no more individuals fighting another, and all the horrible sins from murder, to espionage, to kidnapping, all these crimes can be eradicated from this earth."
Luna and Color Fire are obviously not buying in to these lies. If he truly wanted peace for the world, he wouldn't cause inhumane experiments and hire a bunch of hired guns to kill people who would look like a potential threat to him.
"Being a very powerful and wealthy politician myself, I can make the dream of world peace come true. As a matter of fact, you two. You two can help me achieve the dream of world peace through my methods of incarcerating villains and putting them in their place."
"No." Luna said. This made Wernicke's kind demeanor go to a frown in an instant. "What did you say?"
"You heard me, you shrewd slimeball!" Luna said. "I will never help a sleazbag like you in experimenting, especially since you sent Walker to try and kill me!"
"Neither will i!" Color Fire added. "As soon as we defeat you, the whole world will know of your sick and twisted experiments!"
Charleston sighed sadly. "I didn't want to have to do this, but... Walker!"
Something big had grasped Luna and Mason's necks from behind. The wicked and cold Peter Walker came up from behind and snagged them as if he was picking up a pair of puppies or kittens by the throat. "Walker!?" Luna gagged.
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"Did you miss me?" said the behemoth
"Kill them both. They know too much." Wernicke ordered.
Before the brute could do so, Color Fire used his powers to light the goon's arm on fire, and make him let go of him and Luna. Having had enough of this, Luna and Mason began blasting at the brother's face and they were intending to make him fall through the glass window of the tallest floor. It was working, for Walker was too occupied with his burned arm go try and fight back, and it must have hurt really bad.
"Boss! You gotta help me!" Walker said to his superior. "Please!"
"Sorry walker, but like I said, everyone's expendable." he pulled put a remote and had a gigantic button on it and was about to press it.
"Wait, what's that?" Mason said.
"If I die, you will die with me."
Luna gasped as she realized something. "It's a bomb!" she and Mason then tackled Wernicke so he wouldn't push the button, but as soon as they did, Wernicke pushed it (by accident), and Walker exploded a gigantic blast from inside out. There was, indeed, a bomb implanted inside of him.
It appeared that the bomb was planted in case the madman decided that he had no more use for his number one enforcer.
"Security!" Wernicke called. A bunch of soldiers came from the elevator, and they all had guns. "Mill then both!"
As the troops opened fire, Luna and Mason narrowly escaped by flying and landed on the first floor where the lobby was. The alarm went off and the red lights were flashing.
"Alert! Alert! We have intruders abroad!" said the robotic alarm voice. "Reprimand any interlopers."
"Come on, we need to get out of here." Luna said. Before he and Mason could get out the front door, it was sealed shut by metal bars so they wouldn't escape.
"We're trapped." Mason said.
"Well, if we go down, we go down fighting." Luna said.
More security guards came down and tried firing their guns at the heroes, but the two teens kept on using their powers and they were using their powers to fight off any enemy that was trying to stop them from escaping.
"We can't keep fighting them forever." Mason said. "There's got to be another way out of here."
"Quick! maybe you can melt the bars with your powers."
"Maybe. I can try, but it will be very hard with all these guards in the way."
"Umm... I think i can still do this." Luna created another blast of ice with her one arm and froze another wave of security. Despite it freezing a lot of guards, another wave of guards came from many directions and readied their guns. "OH COME ON!" she groaned. "How many gosh-dang security guards does this guy have?"
"As much as I need to sustain power around here." said Wernicke, coming from the crowd of guards. "Surrender and we will let you live."
"Go hop in a frozen lake, sicko!" Luna said, spitting at the floor of his direction. Suddenly, a bunch of animals, or humans, no... animal-human hybrids came out and they made roaring and screeching sounds. There were people who were half-deer, half-cow, half-snake, half-rat, half-tiger, you would name more animals, and they were ready to attack the heroes. "Seize them, my subjects!"
the animal-human freaks then charged at them, and Luna and Mason were about to blast them when they realized that; they were people they were about to freeze or fry. "Wait," Mason said. "We can't kill these people. They're... unwilling subjects"
"You're right. Maybe the criminals, but not all of them are criminals." Luna then thought of an idea, and decided to create a wave of ice that wouldn't be too cold for them to freeze to death, but cold enough to stop them in their tracks from coming any closer.
"Let us go, Wernicke!" said Mason.
"We cannot do that!" the man shouted. "You've seen too much, and you know too much. No one in the world can never know about this!" A rocket blast was heard and there was a blast behind the heroes, but it wasn't that big where they were standing. A police officer fired a bazooka and it gave the rest of the cops the opportunity to come inside and stop this whole massacre.
A gun-match happened between the law and the security forces, although the police were taking the most numbers because the guards had more firepower than the policemen. More and more animal-human hybrids were coming out, but they were quickly subdued by Luna from her ice powers, and tasered by the police.
All of the remaining security guards were subdued by the heroes or shot down by the policeman, except for Wernicke, who tried to escape out of the rubble, but he was tasered by the chief of police from before, and been shocked into unconsciousness. At last, this whole thing was over, and the heroes were already exhausted. Despite that they had beaten Wernicke, they still needed to expose the inhumane experiments to the whole world. "What are we going to do with these people?" asked Luna
"Well, Wernicke and his cohorts are obviously going to be put on trial for crimes against humanity." said the chief. "As for the animal people. I don't know how we're going to fix them."
The ice slowly melted from the hybrid experiments, and the people were out. "W-what, what happened?" said a man-pig person.
"You guys were going to attack us." said Color Fire. "Don't you even remember?"
"No." Said a female deer woman. She made a gasp. "Wait! Now I do! Wernicke was trying to make us attack you by placing chips in the back of our heads. Those chips controlled us, and made us do his bidding."
"That's right." the pig man remembered as well. "He made us experiments and tortured us for the fun of it. Man, how am I going to face my family like this."
"Sorry about what he had done to you." Luna said. "We wish we can help you all." Then an idea sprang in her head. "Wait... maybe there is."
The mutated people and animals looked at her with hope.
