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Chapter 11: Project Vulture Pt 2
Buzludzha Communist Headquarters
"And who are you?" Red Hood stared out to the man in black, bearing two shotguns in hands. He wore a black tail coat with sleeves cut off barely a third down the upper arm, with armor plating's on his forearms, ankles and feet. On his waist sat a slung black belt with multiple shotgun bullets, and three bullets on his chest infront his chest plate.
In his arms were several black tape like wrappings, barely covering his pale white skin. And finally, under his hooded head sat a mask infront of the face, a skull like face with a tip at the end point. "Special Forces Talon Unit," the man stated with his eerie skull like mask gazing towards the group. "Reaper."
"Reaper? What are you gothic or something?" Red Hood asked jokingly, making Reaper growl in annoyance. Oh, he'd heard that joke multiple time from either Talon troops or publicly speaking and he hated it. He wasn't gothic, per say, he was….. Out in the open, yes that was one way to put it. "So you are a dual wielder too, hm? Well, I guess that's one thing we have in common."
"And what are you supposed to be? A cosplay rip off of me?"
"Rip-off wha-? Red Hood came first before this Grim Reaper rip-off!" Red Hood snapped, firing multiple rounds at the Grim Reaper. Reaper shielded himself with his shotguns, before unloading his powerful weapons himself.
"Die." He snarled darkly, firing round as the man.
"Scatter!" the Overwatch agents didn't need to hear a second time to know, shit was going to hit the fan. They either ducked in cover or rushed to return fire to Reaper. With Genji under medical attention with their only medic, getting closer would be difficult. "Hey Lena, we could use some support here!"
"I would love to help out, luv" Lena squealed as she dodged another missile for the twelfth time. The Arkham Militia wasted no time in trying to shoot them down. "But we're kind of having some difficulty up here!"
"Tracer, hover close to the ground! I'll lend Red Hood and the others support!" Soldier: 76 ordered, loading his Heavy Pulse Rifle with several Helix Rockets.
"Right!" the Redstream bobbed and ducked to the ground, hovering close to the fight. The Vulcan Turrets rained down on Reaper, who only growled annoyed and returned fire. "Good luck!"
Soldier: 76 jumped down, firing bullets and Helix Rockets. "Red Hood, come over here and get stabilized!" He called out, setting a Biotic Healing Field. Red Hood ducked down beside his ally, sighed with relief at the healing he received.
"Alright, the Headquarters seems to be abandoned after the troops left!" Red Hood explained, ducking down as another bullet hit the metal wall of the downed Orca. "Air support as you already know is sketchy, so we have to work fast and take out the Anti-Air defense turrets on the support walls!"
"What about the others!?" 76 asked, turning back up as a Rattler Tank came up. "Once sec…." An explosion and metal tank parts flying later, and 76 looked back down. "What about the others, how is Genji doing?!"
"I will make it past the gate," behind them Genji stood up, using his sheathed Dragonblade as a cane to keep up. "But I cannot support any longer after."
"Damn," Red Hood whispered. He looked back up, there were still tanks coming in, Rattlers and Twin Rattlers. "Okay, Lena will bombard the tanks coming up…. And, uh well rush in."
"Reaper, the transports are away." The Arkham Knight stated through the comms. "Widowmaker has already left back to our base, I'm inbound."
"Don't bother, I'm already done here." Reaper's form turned into a cloud of black smoke, rushing through the tanks and towards afar.
The Arkham Knight's helicopter rushed from behind the BCH, missiles and turret ring all across the plain. "C'mon, face me!" The Knight roared through the helicopter speakers.
"Oh ho… He's asking for it now…" Red Hood knew who he was calling out, and he was glad so see the Redstream hovering above the Orca remnants. He didn't bother to wait, or listen to the others cries of fear or shock. He jumped onto the back of the Redstream's cockpit, opening the glass shielding before entering. "That fuckers going down!"
"Alex, are you sure you want to go against Jason?" Len was slightly concerned about Alex's states with his brother, watching him go in and out of sadness and anger was really worrying her. "After all, you both are-"
"That filthy coward can rot in Hell!" Alex stated through gritting teeth, the controls in his copilot seat becoming the manual control setting. "I'll make sure to send him there!"
"Come on, Red Hood! You can do better than that!" The Arkham Knight taunted, trying to fire missiles to the Redstream. Sadly, he didn't realize he was going against a fucking jet and he was in a helicopter….. So to say the least, Red Hood was looking closer to the winning side. "Die!"
The Knight's helicopter swirled around to fire at the Redstream, but the jet teleported once more and fired several missiles and bullets across the rear tail of the helicopter. "You can't win, Jason! Give up!" Red Hood called out, firing another barrage of bullets. The Knight's helicopter started spitting out smoke from its exhaust ports. "Give up!"
"You first!" The Knight snapped. Lena couldn't help but let out a small snicker, the two were alike, and now she could see why they got along long ago. "If I'm going down, you go with me!"
"Why did you come back? Why did you take up the Arkham Knight persona all over again?!"
"To test you, kid. You may be the Red Hood, but that doesn't mean you're a good one at that!" The Red Hood's helicopter skidded with the ground, finally crashing into one of the front walls infront of the BCH. "You know, I would have been there…. But you know, you would have held back."
"What are you playing at, Jason?" Red Hood whispered, watching his friends on the ground rushing to see the pilot.
"Alex, the Arkham Knight isn't here!" 76's statement triggered an inferno inside Red Hood, the bastard took off earlier in the fray. "But there is a pilot, it seems to be a…. a chemical plant specialist?"
"A chemical specialist? But, there's no chemical plants close to here…" This was confusing, why would a chemical specialist be here in a non-nuclear country? It didn't add up. "Athena, identify the specialist. We need to know who he is and what he's doing here."
"Understood," the small video feed from Soldier: 76's visor showed Red Hood the pilot, a chemical specialist tied down with duck-tape in the pilot seat. The controls were on automatic, he must have been taking through comms….. "The Specialist' name is John Herminie, a chemical designer for the ACE Chemicals Complex in Gotham, New Jersey. Evidence shows the man was kidnapped during an evacuation of the plant, wasn't found for nearly a year… Interesting, several other plant workers have seemed to get kidnapped to, around the same time period."
"Why would the Arkham Knight hit so close to Gotham? It doesn't add up…." Red Hood was even more confused, why would he go out of his way to kidnap workers only from Gotham? Why not closer, here in Europe? "Hang on, you said other workers. How many in total?"
"Well, including Mr. Herminie, 7 in total. What's odd though is that the US and UN governments made no move to address this to the public, they seemingly kept it a secret." Strange, Alex thought looking down at the downed helicopter. Very strange.
"H-Help!" rushing out the BCH's entrance came a Chemical Specialist, struggling to keep on her feet. "Someone please!"
"Woah, woah, woah hold on miss!" Winston managed to catch the Specialist before she fell down, helping her back to her feet. "What is it what's wrong?!"
"I-It's Black Crane! He-He's gonna kill us a-all!" She stuttered out in fear, struggling to breathe calmly. "He-He's going to overload the Chemical plant with enough toxins to form a cloudburst! It-It's his Black Death poison, it- it tears people apart inside out. A-A-And it, it makes them go the p-point where their ripping each other ap-art!"
"What Chemical Plant?"
"The-The one under the Headquarters! They b-built it underground, dug a huge trench on the side of the mountain so it would filter out into Bulgaria and Europe. We're talking about a cloud that could engulf all of Europe, Africa and possibly China if not stopped!"
"Jesus H. Christ," A cloud able to cover almost all of the West? That was insane, it couldn't be done. But so many countries would never see it coming, and Europe, Africa and China were still under this threat. "We have to stop him, we have to stop him right now!"
