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Chapter 4

ALLOY HITS THE STREETS

Down on the East side of Crimson City, near the Crimson Bay, a thug ran down into a back alley trying to get away from the fearsome hero clad in black and red armor. Nightblaze had already trapped his two co-hordes by melting two metal bars around them. From everything that this crook had heard on the streets about this new vigilante, he typically just snagged and beat up one person and would let the others escape. For whatever reason, this time Nightblaze seemed to be more interested in capturing ALL those responsible for the robbery at the Crimson Research and Development Vault.

"Crap, just my luck!" The man in a ski mask thought as he ran through the back alley and jumped on a fire escape and began climbing to the top of the building. "I thought if he'd snag the first two guys I could escape before he caught up to me, but that freak is hot on my tail!"

The thug reached the roof of the building and began running fast. Surely he had lost the superhero by getting the high ground. Just as the masked man smirked with satisfaction he heard the sound of a motorcycle's manly engine revving. The robber turned around to see Nightblaze's bike riding up the wall of the building and closing in on him. The crook cursed his luck, under his breath as he watched as XLR8's wheels went from being bladed (which allowed them to climb the walls) to becoming a special kind of heat proof leather that could be driven in normal circumstances. The man backed close to the edge of the building and looked down to see if he had any escape route. Just his luck! There was a dumpster below him that was full of trash. The crook looked back at Nightblaze and smiled deviously.

"Don't do it…" Nightblaze said as he accelerated. "That's NOT a good idea!"

The thug ignored the hero and jumped off the edge and fell face first into the trash. Nightblaze skillfully jumped off the roof of the small building and landed on the ground in front of the dumpster. He parked the motorcycle and stepped off his vehicle. He shook us head as he looked at the pathetic thug who was struggling to get out of the dumpster.

"What on earth did that accomplish other than giving your clothes a distinctly bad smell? Goodness, you know I'll probably be stuck with this odor too? What'd you think, that I WOULDN'T catch you if you surrounded yourself with smelly waste? Criminals these days…you need to go back to Bad Guy school and take a few extra classes in escape methods, my friend!"

As the man still wrestled to get free from the dumpster, Nightblaze grabbed him on both sides and tossed him out of the trash and onto the hard concrete floor. The thief began to back away and begun to chuckle as Nightblaze moved closer to him. The hero turned his head in confusion, he was very puzzled as to why this man was laughing.

"Is there something funny about this poor predicament that you seem to have found yourself in?" Nightblaze asked, "Or is laughter just your coping mechanism…I mean, I'm okay with that if you are…it's just kind of weird. But, I guess it's no weirder then diving face first into a dumpster full of trash and other…crap."

"It's nothing really…" The thug responded with a wicked grin, "Just that you've fallen for what we call in the business, Plan B."

"Oh yeah?" Nightblaze cracked his knuckles, ready to rough up the mouthy baddie. "And what's Plan B?"

"You're about to meet him…" The thug spoke as he wrestled in his hoodie's pocket for a small walkie talkie. Once he found it, he pulled it out and spoke. "I've lured Nightblaze into an open area, send him in!"

Meanwhile, high in the sky far above Nightblaze a jet black helicopter flew in their general area and started to float in the sky. The side door opened and a large muscular Hispanic man with a shaved head, a white wife beater, and blue jeans, tightened the laces of his combat boots and prepared to jump off the helicopter.

"Um…are you sure you don't need a parachute or anything?" The pilot asked, very nervous about what was going on. "We have some in that cabinet behind you…"

"I'll be fine…" The man's voice was deep, low, and violent. He showed a smile of sick pleasure. "I literally live for stuff like this!"

He jumped out of the helicopter and dropped many miles and landed onto the ground near where Nightblaze was "conversing" with the thief. The fiery hero's head turned to the newcomer who dropped from the sky, as he landed onto the concrete on his feet. Where he landed, the ground shifted and crumbled slightly. The impact brought the tall burley man to one knee, but he quickly recovered.

"Woah…" Nightblaze spoke, slightly shocked at the large man that appeared next to him. "That was cool…and who are you?"

"Call me Alloy." The man spoke as he began walking closer to Nightblaze. He looked at the wimpy criminal and gave him one hard left hook to the face, knocking him out. "And I've come here to take care of you, Nightblaze…permanently."

"Alloy eh?" Nightblaze spoke as he backed up a little from the very strong and angry looking man. "You're pretty open with who you are and your intentions…you must be pretty sure of yourself, haven't you heard about what I've been doing to your friends?"

"I don't mind setting people's minds to peace before I kill them. We all deserve some peace before we become pieces, right?" Alloy said with a malicious smile as he cracked his neck. He lived for a good fight and a good kill. "Go ahead boy; ask me anything else you want. This is your last chance."

"Um okay…" Nightblaze found himself slightly taken back by this man's lack of intelligence. "Who do you work for and what are you guys up to? Why are you taking all the Adulium in Crimson City?"

"I work for the notorious crime lord, Victor Glamnock…and I don't really know what they're doing. I do know this; he and HIS boss are paying me a lot of money to kill you. So, that's why I'm here. I'm kind of a pro at killing freaks like you, Nightblaze…it started out as a hobby, but now it's become quite the lucrative business!"

"Well, something tells me you have never met someone like me!"

Nightblaze extended both his arms and out of his hands came a orange heat wave directed towards Alloy's left arm, as the man ran towards him. He had hoped to catch the man's skin on fire, but Alloy's arm became shiny and silver, and Nightblaze found himself dumbfounded. Instead of burning, it simply heated up and drew a slightly orange tint.

"That's not normal…" Nightblaze muttered as Alloy's arm began to shapeshift into a large metallic sledge hammer.

Alloy swung his hammer hand and hit Nightblaze directly in the stomach so hard that the super hero coughed up blood as he flew into a pile of cardboard boxes next to the dumpster that he had pulled the crook out of earlier. Nightblaze found himself slightly dazed and shook his head in disbelief as to what happened. He touched his ear to send a communication frequency to Eric.

"Yo Eric, are you getting all this?" Nightblaze spoke as he struggled to make it to his feet.

"Yes, and I'm already four steps ahead of you." Eric's voice rang into Nightblaze's ear. "According to the data I just gathered, you're dealing with a very notorious and very dangerous hired hand, Jose Delgado...Also known on the streets of Crimson City as Alloy."

Alloy ran towards Nightblaze and shifted his other arm into a large spiky metal mace. He attempted to smash the flame throwing hero with his mace but Nightblaze swiftly dodge the attack and moved behind the bad guy.

"I already figured that out…" Nightblaze said, his voice suggesting a sense of urgency. "Did you find out any other useful tidbits of knowledge in your little computer?"

"Well, his whole body can turn metal and into objects that he typically uses as weapons." Eric responded, as he was skimming through Alloy's bio on the FBI's classified report.

Nightblaze jumped backwards as Alloy tried to use his hammer to smash his chest again. "Jeez Eric, skip to the part in the biography when we learn how to stop this freakshow. Preferably before I become tenderized and turned into nice little Nightblaze morsels for this monster to eat."

"Um well…" Eric stammered as his brilliant mind worked to devise a strategy. "His entire body is metal, and since you have the ability to heat up to immeasurable temperatures and send out heat energy at will…I suppose you could melt him, but that seems a little inhumane, don't you think?"

"Noted…" Nightblaze said with a satisfied grin, as his arms surged with heat energy that melted the concrete around Alloy, trapping his legs. "I'll turn up the heat on this guy!"

"But…" Eric's voice was cut off by Nightblaze silencing the communicator. He knew that his best friend would attempt to give him another lecture with big words about how Nightblaze is dealing with criminals especially harshly since his breakup…Frankly, the hero wasn't in the mood to here such garbage, as there was a large man trying to mash him into a bloody pulp.

Alloy's right arm turned into a metal buzz saw that begun to turn on automatically. He cut through the concrete freeing his legs and laughed at Nightblaze's feeble attempts to contain him. "Your fancy feeble fire tricks are entertaining for a little bit, but I'm getting bored playing games with you, you little fire ant. I've been in the business of killing freaks with a little extra power like you since you were being changed by your momma. It's time to turn out your lights…permanently. "

"Well let me turn up the heat on you. " Nightblaze glared at his enemy with fire in his eyes (quite literally.) "And for your information, my mom's dead…you jerk!"

Suddenly, Then hero's communicator was turned on once again. (Eric had a nasty habit of hacking into devices that Nightblaze tried to block him from.) His voice returned to the armor clad crusader's ear in a panicked tone. "Zach! Behind you, there is a high concentration of water gathering in that bay…you better get out of the way, and QUICK!"

Nightblaze cursed as he turned and saw a massive tidal wave surge towards himself and Alloy. The hero quickly lunged behind the dumpster, wondering how on earth such a tidal wave could appear from a peaceful bay, as Alloy was hit by the water at full force. The wave hit him into a wall of one of the nearby buildings.

"Oh that was a cheap shot." Alloy sighed as he got up and shook his head, knocking the water out of his ear. "I don't know who just did that…but you got me wet, and I don't like being wet!"

Out of Crimson Bay a tall man with blonde hair, and blue eyes, wearing orange and green tights with a yellow belt appeared as he jumped very high. The man did a front flip and landed on the sidewalk next to the bay.

"My name is Aquaman, and I have some questions for you two gentlemen…and I will have my answers!"

"What is this?" Alloy got frustrated; he hated it when people interrupted his fights. His two arms became long and very sharp swords. "Who invited you, fish boy? Now I'm going to have to make myself a filet with you…and then I'll get back to my barbeque with fire trash man, over there."

"I'm here on advisement of the fish in Crimson City." Aquaman spoke as he braced himself for a fight with Alloy. "Apparently there has been development of some pretty deadly chemicals in these parts that are meant to be thrown into the ocean soon…and I'm here to stop it!"

"Good luck with that…" Alloy grumbled as he began to swing his swords at Aquaman, "I hope you don't need your head for that job!"

Nightblaze jumped back up to his feet, successfully remaining dry after narrowly avoiding the large wave. He watched as these two freaks fought it out. He smiled to himself as he released he now had his time to seriously heat things up. Nightblaze closed his eyes and concentrated very hard as his entire body begun to heat up. He then rushed all of his heat into his two arms, as he pointed them towards Alloy's left arm. Suddenly Nightblaze opened his eyes and prepared to unleash his fire.

"Hey Alloy!" Nightblaze yelled out, "You didn't think that little display of some microwaves was ALL I could do, did you? You're all wet now, let me warm you up!"

Out of Nightblaze's arms flames surged out that covered Alloy's arm. The fires were so hot that they burnt the street, and completely melted Alloy's metal arm. The criminal screamed in pain as he lost his arm. Aquaman jumped back in surprised and gasped as he looked at the bloody nub that dripped red and silver liquid. Nightblaze himself was taken back a little as he saw this graphic sight. Seeing this man in great pain, and without an arm, definitely didn't make Nightblaze feel as heroic as he hoped he would feel. Behind his mask, Zach considered all the superhero tales he read growing up…You never heard of Superman melting a man's arm off before…but this was real life, things are different…right? Nightblaze shook his doubts away, as Aquaman jumped towards Alloy with the hopes of grabbing him by the neck.

Alloy turned his attention to Aquaman and with his one strong arm grabbed the superhero by the neck and threw him into Crimson Bay. It was a very impressive throw indeed, showing that even with one arm, Alloy was still very strong. He glared at Nightblaze with hatred, and then glared at the Bay where he knew that the other hero was quickly recovering for a counter attack. As much as the assassin hated to admit it, he wouldn't be able to complete his mission here tonight.

"This isn't over, you flaming freak!" Alloy growled as he picked up a sewer cap and threw it at Nightblaze who quickly ducked, to avoid being hit by the large metal object. As the hero dodged, Alloy turned around and ran far from the heroes. At an appropriate distance, the metallic villain called in his chopper to return to pick him up.

Nightblaze rose to his feet to see Alloy flying away and a large ripple in the water where it was clear that the man known as Aquaman was swimming swiftly into the heart of Crimson City. The hero knew that he had to take care of the terrifying Alloy, but he also knew he had to investigate this new player, Aquaman, as well. Deciding his chances of catching the fast swimmer were greater than tracking the villain, Nightblaze set his sights on Aquaman.

A few hours later, Aquaman found himself climbing into a large blown up hole at the Crimson Crusade's Capital, in the center of Crimson City. The superhero found it very odd that this place had been broken into already tonight, but this unfortunate event was rather fortunate for the king of the seas, as he needed to investigate the Crusade's records for information that could be linked to the potential poisoning of the world's waters. Aquaman made his way through the rubble to the messiest looking desk that had many papers that were thrown around as if someone was already searching for some kind of information. Aquaman figured this already searched area was a very good area to start.

"Not so fast!"

Aquaman turned to see Nightblaze standing in the hole made by a large explosion. "You know, you're a fast swimmer….I had to drive halfway across town to find you, "friend", and you know how traffic is at this time of night! Now, where do you want to start…how about answering the question, Who are you? Is that to broad, how about what are you doing here?"

As Nightblaze moved closer Aquaman jumped over the table and prepared himself for an aggressive confrontation. Nightblaze began noticing the pictures around the desk the two superheroes were circling. He recognized the reporter's parents, her siblings, and finally the reporter herself…Amanda Cho-Ming. Nightblaze's eyes were drawn to the ground where saw signs of a struggle and then he noticed Amanda's cell phone. He quickly picked it up and saw that the last called made was to "Zach Davis"…Amanda would have only been calling this number if she was in dire trouble and needing the help of a super powered friend. Nightblaze glared at Aquaman, considering him the obvious suspect.

"OK I don't know how you found me so quickly…" Aquaman tried to speak calmly with Nightblaze, "but something tells me that we are not on opposite sides here."

"I'm only going to ask you once, water-boy." Nightblaze teeth gritted together as his fists started to radiate with heat. "What did you do to this reporter here? This is her phone, that she'd never leave off of her…and here you are…not looking suspicious at all, right? WRONG!"

"I literally got here a few moments before you did…" Aquaman responded, as he dropped his defenses deeming this other man as a potential ally. "My name is Aquaman…I'm here because your local marine life has warned me about a deadly toxin that has been detected in this city and if it's released into the oceans, which seems to be the intention, then that could be catastrophic to both the life in the sea but life on land. I'm here to prevent that from happening."

"I'm sorry did you just say that FISH told you about an evil plot involving poison?" Nightblaze mocked the other super hero. "You're crazy and barking up the wrong tree…"

Nightblaze began to consider tossing a fireball at Aquaman to get more answers, and then he considered what this unbelievable truth may mean. "Of course, if there WERE a highly toxic chemical that was meant to be released into the sea…they would need some very durable, practically indestructible metal containers to transport and release the chemicals in…oddly enough such metal has been stolen here in Crimson City for months now…"

"So it looks like we're both after the same culprits…" Aquaman stated as he begun to leave the Crimson Crusade office building through the large hole in the wall.

"Perhaps we can consider teaming up for this one?" Nightblaze asked, as his fists stopped flaring. "I saw what you can do back at the bay…I think I may have been a goner if it wasn't for you."

"No thanks necessary." Aquaman spoke coolly as he gave Nightblaze a cold look, "I was just doing the job of a hero with the powers that life has given me. You on the other hand…I'm not so sure about your methods, "friend"…I saw how you handled that man too. Burning his arm completely off, how inhumane! I have never seen you before, so I'm guessing you're a relatively new hero. If that's the case, you have a lot to learn about how to do things. This office seems to be a dead end. That's okay, I have other leads."

Nightblaze found himself speechless as Aquaman calmly left the Crimson Crusade. He did feel rather ashamed at his actions against Alloy, and he knew that he handled the villain in a wrong way. But at this moment, none of that mattered. Nightblaze clicked on his communicator and spoke.

"Eric, did you get all that? I think all this craziness is starting to make sense."

"I got it recorded and analyzing the data right now here on the other side." Eric responded, "You should follow that guy, he'll lead you directly to where you need to go, I think."

"No time for that." Nightblaze said as he picked up a picture of Amanda and rubbed his finger over her face. "I think they took Amanda, she must have been running a story on this thing or something. Start running a search on the name Victor Glamnock…that's who Alloy said his boss was…he also said that Glamnock had another boss…If we find them, maybe we'll find Amanda."

"Okay, I'm running a search now…we'll have an address soon! Why the heck would Amanda be looking into a story like this?" Eric asked, "How the heck would she have known who these guys were before us?"

"Eric…" Nightblaze's voice became emotionless and dead serious. "Amanda was doing a story on Derek Widener…she must have found some skeletons in the closet. Eric, I hate to beat a dead horse, but I think it's entirely possible that Derek is Glamnock's boss..."

Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, in a very dimly lit room, Alloy sat on a metal bench staring at his nub and cursing Nightblaze for that cheap shot he took. The door to his private quarters opened, and Victor Glamnock entered with a Widener Tech Scientist.

"How the heck could YOU have lost your arm at the hands of this guy rolling around on a motorcycle in a black mask?" Glamnock demanded as he looked at Alloy's pathetic body. "I thought surely YOU could have taken care of this pest…it's just one super powered peon, back in the day you took care of these freaks all the time, Alloy!"

"There were two of them…" Alloy muttered, "He got a cheap shot off on me! Nightblaze can be powerful if wants to be…I'd love to go another round with him, I'd kill him so fast that he wouldn't know what hit him..."

"Not in your current condition you wouldn't." The Italian scientist spoke, "But you are still on Mr. Glamnock's payrole, and so you still have a job to do. Luckily for all of us, I've secured enough Adulium to fuse with your metal exterior. Thanks to the technology developed in Widener Tech's Biogenetics program, and this indestructible metal, I'll be able to build you a new arm that not even Nightblaze can burn off. Then maybe even a dumb oaf like you could finish the job you're paid to do."

"Big talk from a Widener employee." Alloy grumbled violently as he looked at the scrawny scientist. "What's to stop me from killing you right now?"

"Relax Alloy, we all know you've had a tough day." Glamnock spoke casually with a vile smile. "But there is no need for violence here…all of us are actually on the same team, that is ever since our dear scientist had changed sides from Widener's to ours. Yes, soon all of us will have exactly what we what…Our good doctor here will make an enormous amount of money, I'll be turning the tables on Derek Widener and robbing him of everything he's worth and making myself that much more powerful, and you my dear Alloy…not only will you get a shiny new arm, but you'll have your revenge on Nightblaze. How does that sound, my old friend?"

"I can't wait for round 2." Alloy said as he clenched his fist. "I'm going to tear that maggot to shreds."

OK, so you all probably know this but I need to say it just in case...I don't own Aquaman, he's making a guest appearance in this story but he is NOT my character...he's a DC Comics hero, which btw... i don't own the DC universe either. If I did, you wouldn't be reading Nightblaze fanfiction but watching him in a movie :)

Until next chapter friends!