Chronicles of the Night
The last time we left off, Felix became introduced to Lisa, and eventually to Joseph. After Felix found a cure for Lisa's thirst for blood, Joseph revealed himself as a famous rap star and decides to start a new team. Now the team of three is heading out for their first big outing, how shall the team fare?
Disclaimer: I do not own the Marvel Comics elements present in this story, I do own my characters and plot.
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The Night Hunters
"Police! You have two more hours to respond! If you don't respond the Library Tower is going down!" A guy in a black ski mask, wearing a bulletproof vest adorned with several gun magazines, and holding a machine gun shouted from the tower entrance.
"We can't get in captain." One of the cops said from behind a shot up Police car.
"That is bad." Felix said. Joseph, Felix, and Lisa were on top of a nearby skyscraper that only about half as tall as this round tower that had a semi-crown adorned top.
"From what I heard on the radio, the tower was taken over by a heavily armed group of gun men." Joseph said. "They're demanding a total of one billion dollars for the safety of the tower and the people inside of it."
"That's terrible…" Lisa said sadly.
"We should get a closer look." Felix said.
"Hold on…" Joseph said. "I have a plan." Joseph said.
"You'll make a great leader." Felix said with a smile.
"What? Me?" Joseph asked.
"I think so too." Lisa said.
"Well…"
"We've already established my lack of organization." Felix added.
"Alright, ignoring that." Joseph said. "Back on the subject…"
"Sorry." Felix said.
"Felix, I need you to provide a distraction on my signal." Joseph said.
"What did you have in mind?" Felix asked.
"To get down to the entrance and fight your way in to the building. Then work your way up." Joseph said.
"What about me?" Lisa asked.
"Lisa, you think you could get in through one of those windows from here?" Joseph asked.
"…" Lisa looked up and down the Library tower and looked at the windows. "I think I can."
"Okay then. I'm going to get situated, I'm as far up the building as I can and break in from there." Joseph said. He first backed away to the other end of the roof of the skyscraper, then he skated forward at top speed and then jumped at the edge of the roof. He managed to make it quite far up the building, landing on one of the parts of the building that stuck out wider. "Felix are you…"
"Call me Night-claw." Felix responded.
"Night-claw?" Joseph asked.
"Every hero needs a name." Night-claw said with a smile as he jumped to another part of the building that was about a fifty-story drop to the entrance.
"Okay then, Night-claw, you in position?" Joseph asked.
"Roger that." Night-claw said.
"Lisa you ready?" Joseph asked.
"Uh-huh… and… don't laugh…" Lisa said over the radio.
"What?" Night-claw asked.
"I think… Night-princess would be a good name for me." Lisa said somewhat shyly over the radio.
"I'm sensing a theme here." Joseph sighed. "Okay, Night-claw, break 'em down!"
"You've got it!" Night-claw said as he leaned backwards over the edge of the roof and started diving towards the ground.
"Okay captain, I can't take it! I'm going in!" One of the cops said while drawing their gun.
"No wait! Barnes! Get back here!" One of other cops shouted. Barnes fired his pistol at the entrance of the building.
"Too easy." The guy in the mask ducked and fired his machine gun, Barnes went down in a second.
"No Barnes!"
"Damn, he's not moving. He's dead."
"Uh… guys."
"Captain what do we do?"
"At this rate we may very well have to meet their demands."
"Guys…"
"What?"
"There's someone diving down to the entrance."
"What?" The police all looked at the building and saw Night-claw diving towards the entrance. "What the heck is that?"
"INCOMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!"
"What?" The guy with the machine gun looked up and, "OOF!!!" Night-claw landed right on top of the guy and knocked him unconscious in an instant.
"Maybe that was a little harsh." Night-claw said.
"Who are you supposed to be?" A guy in the same outfit as the last guy asked. He was standing right at the entrance to the building asked.
"The guy that's about to kick your butt." Night-claw said.
"No… you're the guy I'm about to pump full of lead." The other guy in a mask said. He open fired his machine gun at Night-claw. Night-claw immediately ducked to one side and lunged at that guy and knocked him out with a solid punch to the face.
CRASH
"Son of a… AUGH!!!" One of the other guys shouted as the guy Night-claw punched through the glass doors and straight in to him.
"Open fire!" The men began firing their guns at Night-claw. Night-claw began cart wheeling, flipping, and ducking around the entire room to avoid the gunfire.
"You guys and your guns." Night-claw taunted as he kicked one guy across the face and then jumped at one other guy and kicked off of him. Night-claw revealed his claws and would take claw swipes at the gunmen every time he passed by them.
"AH!"
"ARG!"
"How are things on your end guys?" Night-claw asked over the radio.
"I'm just getting started." Joseph answered.
"Okey-dokey Night-roller." Night-claw said with a smile as he elbowed one guy in the back of the head.
"Night-roller? What?!"
"Hey, you suggested a theme… and you're on roller blades." Night-claw said.
"Fine then… when on missions use handles only from now on then." Night-roller said. "Now Night-princess!"
"Okay."
At Night-princess' position…
"Here I go." Night-princess said. She backed off a ways from the edge of the roof, Night-princess then ran full sprint back towards the edge of the roof and then jumped off of it.
"Sir! We have visual of another odd object." A police officer said.
"What? What does it look like?" The captain asked.
"Um… a little girl jumping several feet through the air."
"Huh?"
"I… want to help people…" Night-princess thought as she was getting closer to the window.
CRASH
"What the hell?" A bunch of guys in masks with machine guns were in the room Lisa crashed in to. Night-princess stood up slowly as the shards of glass on her slowly fell off. "Oh, it's just a little girl."
"Dude. Do normal little girls break through windows several stories high?" One of them asked.
"Good point." All of the men in the room aimed their machine guns at Night-princess.
"I don't want to hurt you… please don't force me." Night-princess said quietly.
"…" All of the guys in the room looked at each other, and even though you couldn't tell under their masks, it was obvious they were smiling at this statement.
"Take her down." Everyone in the room fired their machine guns at Night-princess. Night-princess crouched and shielded her face as the bullets bombarded her on her arms, parts of her body, legs, and even parts of her face. After the men were done shooting at Night-princess, they all began to chuckle for a brief moment until Lisa stood up. "Huh?"
"That… kind of hurt…" Night-princess said as the bullets fell out of her skin and as the bullet holes in her body closed rapidly.
"Wha… wha… wha…" Everyone in the room started to stutter.
"Hi-yah!" Night-princess leaped forward and kicked one guy in the face before landing, turning around and gut punching one guy with enough force to send him sprawling backwards. Night-princess then nimbly avoided gunfire as she leaped behind a desk, grabbed it, lifted it and threw it at a group of three guys.
"AAAHH!!! OOF!" They shouted as the desk landed on top of them, knocking them out cold rather painfully. Night-princess then back-flipped right next to two guys, grabbed one, and slammed him in to the other guy.
"ARGH!"
"Fire!" The remaining three men fired their guns at Night-princess again. She avoided most of them, with only the occasional bullet hitting her, as she ran at the gunmen full speed before kicking one in the jaw, and then tackling the last two.
At Night-roller's position…
"Man… how long do we have to hold these hostages?" One guy asked.
"I don't know… hold on. Hello?" One guy responded before picking up his walkie-talkie.
"There are a bunch of freaks attacking us all over the building!"
"What?"
"Just get rid of the hostages now… GAH!!!"
"Hello? Come in?"
"Hello?" Night-claw's voice asked over the walkie-talkie.
"Who are you?"
"The distraction." Night-claw said.
"Distraction?"
"AH!" The guy right next to him was bombarded by small yellow blasts of energy before that guy was as well.
"Did you have to tell him what you were doing Night-claw?" Night-roller asked over his helmet radio.
"It was fun… whoa hang on!" Night-claw said before the sound of machine gun fire went off.
"You alright?" Night-roller asked.
"Yeah just fine. But a lot of them are coming downstairs to check what's going on." Night-claw told him.
"You just take care of them then." Night-roller said as he broke the padlock that was holding a set of double-doors closed. "Alright everyone! This is a rescue!" Night-roller said to the numerous people inside the room.
"Whoa!"
"Who's that?"
"Hey isn't he on the news?"
"Doesn't matter now, let's get out of here!"
"Freeze!"
"Whoa! Stay in here for a moment!" Night-roller told them as he wheeled back out in to the hallway where he was greeted by machine gun fire. However the machine gun fire was easily blocked by his personal force field.
"Our guns aren't working!" One shouted.
"Got that right fool." Night-roller said as he skated towards the group of gunmen while rapidly firing single finger blasts at the gunmen.
"Ah!" They shouted as the blasts knocked them out cold. The ones he missed, he simply knocked out with a backhand.
"GAH!"
"Jump him!" Two guys jumped on Night-rollers shoulders, only for him to slam them in to a wall.
"Oooooohhhh…"
"All clear!" Night-roller shouted. The people started flooding to the elevator.
"Wait, there's too many of you to use the elevator, and it's too dangerous." Night-roller said as he watched the elevator lights above the door flash until they stopped at a floor above him.
"So where do we go?" One guy asked.
"The stairs of course." Another said.
"I'll lead the way." Night-roller said as he went in to the stairs first.
Back at Night-claw's position…
"Jeez, you guys just keep coming." Night-claw said as he bounded and flipped around the room to avoid the numerous amount of machine gun fire.
"Come on… surely we can hit him at least once." One of them said before Night-claw landed behind him and kicked him in to another guy. Night-claw then dived for another guy, landed on his hands and sprang up in to the air off of his hands while kicking another guy under the chin.
"Man I'm good!" Night-claw declared proudly as he landed in the middle of three guys with his claws revealed. He slashed at them all quickly and caused them to all fall down to the ground unconscious. "Whew… quiet for no… oh crap." Night-claw said wide-eyed.
At Night-princess' position…
Night-princess was on a different floor and running down a hallway when she turned a corner that had a bunch of guys aiming their guns at her. "…"
"Get her!" One guy shouted. Night-princess ducked in to an office before the machine gun bullets struck her. She came back out holding a computer monitor and a computer drive in each hand. "What the…?"
"HA!" Night-princess hurled both items down the hallway and hit two guys with them.
"That does it." One guy pulled out a grenade from under their vest, pulled out the pin and threw it down the hallway.
"!!!" Night-princess jumped over the grenade as it bounced down the hallway and attempted to outrun it.
KABOOM
"AH!" Night-princess shouted as the force of the explosion sent her flying forward as the shrapnel flew in to her back and the back of her head. She began skidding down the hall towards those guys where she lay still for a few moments breathing heavily.
"Is she… still breathing?" One of the guys asked, obviously scared by this.
"Unnngh…" Night-princess moaned as she stood up, the shrapnel falling out of her body and the wound healing.
"Shoot her!" The men fired their guns at her, most of them striking her head as she stood up.
"This… hurts…" She said as she jumped over the top of those gun men, letting the bullets fall out of her body before she landed in the middle of them. "Ha!" Night-princess stood on her hands and kicked two guys on her two sides. She then sprang up, landed on the shoulders of one guy, punched him on top of the head and knocked her out. Night-princess then punched out the other guys. "It's been… a few hours… since I last had… my serum…" She breathed as her sunglasses fell off, revealing her mildly red eyes. She took out a vaccine from one of her pouches, pulled up the sleeve on her jacket, and injected herself. Immediately her eyes returned to normal, and she put her sunglasses back on.
"Uh… guys, we have a big problem." Night-claw said over the radio.
"What is it?" Both Night-princess and Night-roller asked at the same time.
"When the guns stopped firing I started hearing a beeping noise… like a bomb counting down!" Night-claw shouted.
"What?" Night-roller said over the radio. "You sure?"
"My ears don't lie Night-roller, I'm looking for it in the sub-level parking area but even if I find it I won't be able to deactivate it." Night-claw explained.
"I probably could, but I can't leave the hostages unprotected, oh hang on!" Night-roller said before the sound of him firing his energy blasts could be heard.
"I could get to you and protect them." Night-princess said. "What floor are you on?" She asked as she walked towards an office and looked at the windows of that office.
"I'm on the forty-second floor. You are?" Night-roller asked.
"Coming down." Night-princess said as she dived through one of the windows and started diving down below, counting the windows as she flew by. She reached out and grabbed the edge of the window, then pulled herself up and smashed through it.
"Freeze!" Several men pointed their guns at Night-princess as she came through before blasts of energy flew in from the door and knocked them all out.
"Okay! Go! The hostages are in the stairwell waiting on you!" Night-roller shouted as he skated right by Night-princess and jumped out the window.
Down in the parking sub-level…
"Okay, I'm getting closer." Night-claw said as he ran by the numerous cars. "Hm? Two heartbeats?" That's when the sound of two cars starting up sounded. "Hm?" Night-claw looked behind him and saw a decently large armored car heading towards him, and then looked to his right to find another one heading towards him.
"So long freak!"
"At this rate they'll hit me and miss each other unless…" Night-claw noticed a nearby car and jumped towards it. He reached one hand below the front of it and dug his claws in to the hood. "Hrrrrgh…" Night-claw had trouble lifting the car due to the weight of the other end, but after a few seconds, he lifted it straight up in to the air.
"Oh son of a…" One of the guys said.
"Ha!" Night-claw threw it and it hit the hood of the first armored car. The other armored car then rammed in to that one and knocked out both drivers. "Now to find that bomb… oh there it is…" Night-claw said as he noticed a large device with a blinking light on top of it. "Night-roller… where are you?" Night-claw asked.
"Right here!" Night-roller said as he skated up with machine gun fire peppering his backside. Night-roller turned around, skated backwards, and returned fire with his energy blasts, clearly knocking them out since the machine gun fire stopped.
"The bomb's right here!" Night-claw called out. Night-roller pulled up and looked at it.
"Computer… analyze bomb."
"ANALYZING." A computerized voice inside of the helmet said as the visor of the helmet began scanning.
"Open the bomb and look for the wires in the meantime." Night-roller said.
"Right." Night-claw said as he opened up a part of the bomb that was screwed in with the claw on his index finger. "Oh wow that's a lot of wires… reds… blues… greens…" Night-claw said.
"How can you tell the color in this light?" Night-roller asked. "It is very dark you know."
"My eyes are the combined work of peak human eyes, and cat eyes."
"Come on… hurry up and analyze…" Night-roller said. "Done! Quick, cut the blue wire going in to socket A.
"Got it…" Night-claw said as he looked at the numerous wires going in to sockets labeled A. Night-claw revealed the nail on his index finger, held the blue wire and cut it with his nail. "Whew… the beeping stopped." Night-claw sighed. "How much time was left anyways?"
"You do not want to know." Night-roller said. "Night-princess, how are things on your end?"
"Just a minute please." She said as the sound of guns went off before they were silenced. "All taken care of. I just got these people to the ground floor, they're leaving the building now."
"Okay guys… let's all meet on the roof of that building we were on." Night-roller said.
Later…
"Well, we did good." Night-claw said. The three of them were standing on the edge of the roof of an adjacent building to the Bank Tower, watching as the people called for their rides, and as some hugged their families, and as the police started bringing in the gunmen.
"Yeah… I guess we did." Night-princess said with a smile.
"Let's head on home you two. Let's head on home." Night-roller said.
The next morning…
Joseph, in a black shirt and loose blue jeans, was sitting at a table in the kitchen eating a bowl of Total. While Lisa was sitting at the same table in a pink night gown, trying to eat some toast, but she soon gagged on it and coughed it back out. The windows in the kitchen had boards over them, preventing any sunlight from shining on the polished wooden floor or the black countertops.
"I… can't eat it…" Lisa said sadly, her eyes watering a slight bit. "This is just like yesterday morning…"
"You really can't eat anything can you?" Joseph said sympathetically.
"I guess… I can only drink…" Lisa tried to say as she started to sniffle a little bit. Joseph got up and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Hey… one way or the other, everything will work out. Okay?" Joseph said comfortingly to Lisa.
"Mm hm…" She said while nodding her head.
"Hey… come on shouldn't you guys be glad that he at least has a manager?" Felix said, walking in with a cell phone to his ear. "What? How long until he fires me? You know what just… okay, bye." Felix said barely keeping his temper. "Something wrong?" Felix asked Lisa the second he got off the phone.
"No… I'll be fine…" Lisa said. "Who was that?"
"The record company, they aren't the most thrilled by the face that I'm only eighteen and I'm your manager. They think I'm going to mess you up badly." Felix said with a slight chuckle. He was wearing decently nice looking beige pants and a light blue short-sleeved shirt. He wasn't worried about his gloves and shades due to him being in the mansion.
"Speaking of which… did you remember to call those guys at the company and tell them which single on my album to release next?"
"Oh… I'll get right on that… but first there is something I need to show you." Felix said. He set a newspaper down on the table. "Somebody… is a really good photographer." He said as he pointed to the front-page picture. It was a zoomed in picture of them standing on the roof together last night.
"Wow… that was fast." Lisa said as she looked at the headline 'The Hunt has begun.'
"They're calling us the Night-hunters." Joseph said as he looked at the article. "I actually think that name has a ring to it."
"So what? That's our official team name now?" Felix asked.
"I… guess so." Lisa said. The three of them stayed silent for a moment, glancing at each other. "What if… my parents recognize me?"
"That's… another thing." Felix sighed. He turned a few pages in the newspaper and set down a different article that had a smiling picture of Lisa on it.
"That's… my most recent school picture…" Lisa said.
"My guess is… your parents paid the newspaper enough money to make this article." Felix said. Lisa skimmed the article, her tears welling up as she read it.
"Hey…" Felix whispered.
"Hm?" She looked at him.
"One of these days… I'm going to make sure you can see them again. I'm promise it." Felix said to her.
"And until then… we'll be here for you Lisa." Joseph said. "We are a family, in… some dysfunctional way or another." Joseph said. This statement made Lisa crack a slight smile.
"Okay…" Lisa said. "I'm… going to bed for now… see you later…" Lisa said as she left the kitchen.
"She really is a good kid. I want to help her out." Joseph said as she left.
"So do I. So do I." Felix said.
"Now… about that phone call you're supposed to make, did you forget anything else?" Joseph asked.
"Uh…" Felix thought for a moment "Oh crap… I forgot to check with the record company about the equipment, and ticket details about the concert a few weeks away from now." Felix thought to himself. "No, nothing I can think of."
Lisa's bedroom had plush beige carpeting and matching wallpaper with thin red lines running up and down. The bed was quite large and fluffy, and had a pink blanket. The lights were completely turned off. There was a closet that had a few clothes, and her belt that contained her serums in it. Her costume would have been there if Felix hadn't dropped it by the old lady that made his costume for repairs. As Lisa lay on her bed, her eyes starting to close, she thought one thing. "I guess… we'll be together… for a while… thank you Joseph… and especially you Felix." She thought.
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Well, the first mission of the Night Hunters turned out to be a success. Now how shall these adventures yet to come go for them? Find out… next update! Until then leave a review… pwetty pwease…
