Here we go, my friends, the tenth chapter has begun. Selene said her Amelia and Blade in be after a target that will be a bit personal for Blade and they'll meet someone who the Raccoon Daywalker shares his view of Justice with while helping him fight an enemy out for revenge against him. Anyway, enjoy the entertainment, my friends.
Sitting in a chair in 1 of many base of operations in New York, Frank Castle, aka the vigalatie known as the Punisher, was watching the news. Frank Castle had been a former Marine until coming home to his waiting family. A beautiful wife named Maria and his two children: Frank Jr and Lisa Castle. But just when it seemed like Frank would get to live a happy, normal life with his wife and kids, a horrible tragedy occurred. When Frank went with his family to a picnic in Central Park with his wife and kids, they accidentally came upon a Mob hit. Fearing witnesses, the criminals brutally murdered Maria and the innocent children right before Frank's eyes and they had almost killed him on that horrible day as well, but unknown to the mob goons, Frank Castle survived. The grieving father tried to follow the justice system and put the ones who murdered his family in prison but unfortunately, the Mob's money, power and influence bought them their freedom. And it was on that day that Frank Castle knew he couldn't riley on or trust the system because it was broken and corrupt.
Frank then used his military skills to bring his own justice on the ones who killed his family and hunted down the ones who were involved in the shooting, killing them all while also hunting down the corrupt people who just let the criminals go free instead of putting them in prison. After the monsters who killed Frank's family were all dead, Frank Castle decided to spend the rest of his days hunting and killing those that did evil to innocent men, women and children, donning a pure white skull on his body armor and taking the name that would suit his new life: the Punisher.
Currently, Frank was in his armory, listening to a news report on TV about how a witness was murdered due to a hit ordered by Italian mobster Gaitano Cesare to avoid being brought to justice while the witnesses grieving mother was left so devastated and saddened at the loss of her son. While still listening to the news, Frank prepared his gear to go after the Don and his family and give them all the punishment they deserved.
Later at night at the Don's mansion
NYPD Detective Martin Soup and his partner were staking out the house, with Soup being sure that the Punisher would be coming to 'deal' with the Mob family due to being the primary person on the task force assigned to bring Frank Castle into custody, along with the Mob boss and fellow Italian mobsters and their families who were celebrating their boss avoiding prosecution. One of the guests was the Don's nephew and top enforcer, Billy Russotti and his men, Pitsy, Nicky and Ink along with Billy's date, who Billy grabbed by the throat for attempting to fix his hair for him, due to his obsession with his good-looking face.
"You know, Soup, the captain should have sent me out here with 30 or 40 men to raid this little get out of jail party, but instead I'm stuck here with you." Soup's partner complained.
"Well, he might come out tonight. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure he's gonna show up." Soup countered while looking through his binoculars, sure that the Punisher would be here tonight due to the fact that Castle could not resist doing what the cops and the system failed to do so many times.
"And, uh, what are you gonna do?"
"I'm gonna bring him in."
This got a laugh from Soup's partner. "Yeah? Well, let's just say if you could do that, why would you? He does to those bastards what me and you can only fantasize about." He said, wondering why Soup would even want to bring Castle in when he could do to heartless criminals like the Mob what any cop in the world could only dream of and fantasize about.
Inside the mansion
Billy and his crew were heading upstairs to where his uncle was and entered the room while they told their ladies to leave the room. "You handled the witness situation perfectly." Cesare congratulated his nephew while handing him a large envelope filled with money.
"No sweat, uncle G." Billy said while taking the envelope and giving it to Nick. "You look great."
"The hell I do. I shit in a bag, for Christ's sake." Cesare complained.
"Hey. Saves you a trip to the can, right?" Billy asked before looking at his reflection in the nearby mirror, getting lost in his looks enough to not pay attention when his uncle spoke again.
"You wanted to discuss a private matter…down at the docks!" Cesare said, yelling the last part to get his vain nephew's attention.
"Right. Uh, Vladimir Reznov."
"I hear he's a sick fuck, fresh off the boat."
"Vladimir's bringing in a shipment that needs a safe port. I've arranged for my Customs guy to be on that night. The Union boys'll be there to unload, our cut's 50 mill. We won't break a sweat." Billy explained.
"50 mill?!" Cesare asked, surprised that a shipment could gain him and the family that much money. "Fuck's Reznov shipping?"
"I don't know! Some kind of biological package." Billy answered.
"A biological package? I fucking knew it! Probably going after the ragheads in Queens." Cesare said with a bit of anger, as he'd heard about a biological package being shipped in and that the Russians would surely use it on the ragheads in Queens.
"Reznov's guaranteed it's leaving the city." Billy assured his uncle but the Don didn't buy the answer.
"We don't touch that kind of shit!" The Mob boss said, forbidding the shipment, as the family never got involved in biological weapons.
"In case your memory's going, along with the rest of your bodily functions, you might like to remember I'm the top earner around here! I'm not stupid!" Billy said while insulting his uncle's condition while reminding him that he was the top earner of the family and that he wasn't incompetent.
"Stupid?! You're as shithouse crazy as your brother Loony Bin Jim! I should have had the both of you locked away!" Cesare angrily snapped back, calling Billy an insane asshole like his brother 'Loony Bin Jim' and that he should've had them arrested and spending the rest of their lives in prison.
Billy snarled angrily about the insult towards his brother. "One my word about my brother I swear to Christ I'll...!" But he was cut off as his uncle's bodyguards pointed their handguns directly at him and his crew, with Pitsy and Ink pointing their own handguns at the Don's men for insulting and threatening their boss.
"Hey, let's all just calm down and remember why we're here, ok?" Nick told them, trying to deescalate the very hostile standoff and remind them they were supposed to be having a great time and not starting a slaughter, which the Don instinctively agreed to and ordered his men downstairs to celebrate with their guests in the banquet room.
"We're not eating with that old shitbag. Pitsy, pour me a drink!" Billy ordered, simply wanting a drink while refusing to eat with his slowly dying uncle.
While outside the mansion, a Mob soldier patrolling for any cops or intruders around the property was only able to choke on his blood after Frank slashed his throat with a large sized knife and took out another mobster before he could alert the mansion and sneaked inside without any other mobsters seeing him.
Back in the banquet room, all the quests and Mob associates had applauded Don Cesare for having the eye witness killed as his date had rolled him into the room and they prepared their own plates filled with delicious food and wine glasses for the multiple bottles of wine that were placed in the center of the table. But before they could even get down to eating their dinner, the lights had mysteriously went out and all the guests had cried out in shock...and stared in horror as the Punisher was standing on the table with a red flare in his hand, before slamming it into the table and decapitated the Don right in front of his guests!
The mobsters and their family members were horrified after seeing the Punisher decapitating the head of their organization and the Don's date tried to get his gun to kill Frank but he quickly snapped her neck before several thugs attempted to him, only for the Punisher to brutally kill them with his Beretta handguns, knife, including the ones on the table, and his hand to hand combat skills before the lights came back on. Frank hung from the chandelier while using his machine guns to kill more job soldiers while spinning!
While the guests were attempting to run for their lives, Billy and his crew would be witnessing everything while avoiding being spotted and left the mansion before the Punisher could spot and kill them, too.
Frank got off the table and killed another going by smashing a chair let into his eye when he tried to hit him with it before reloading his pistol and diving on another Mob soldier while dislocating his nose in the process before shooting the goon dead before doing the same thing to 5 more before walking to an exit.
While outside, Soap and his partner called their precinct for backup, as they suspected that Frank was inside the mansion and killing most of the guests before separating. His partner found Frank as he walked out of the house and pointed his gun at him. "Police! Freeze!" He told him before Frank did as he was told and turned around, making his the cop raise his hand in an 'it's ok' manner before hoisting his gun. "Listen, Billy Russotti's getting away. Silver Rover." He informed Frank as he threw him the keys to his car. "Might want to head down to the docks first. There's a glass production plaint he uses as a cover for his operations."
Frank nodded in approval, as if silently stating that the detective made the right choice in letting him go before running to the car to head to the docks. The detective then punched himself, to make it look like Castle had 'blindsided' while 'disarming' him before heading back to the front of the mansion where the cops were just arriving.
Meanwhile at the plaint
Before Frank had even arrived at the glass production plant...Blade, Selene and Amelia who arrived in New York, were staking the area out while avoiding being spotted by Russotti's men patrolling the perimeter of the plant for intruders. Two months after their encounter with Wolverine, Bruce Banner/The Hulk and Weapon X team in the Canadian wilderness, Blade had received a message from his old friend and mentor Noah that there was still a surviving member of Existence operating out in New York.
Blade was shocked at that news and stated. "Noah, that's impossible. I hunted and killed all of Frosts agents and associates all over Asia. There shouldn't be any surviving Existence agents still alive."
That was when his human friend/mentor countered. "The agents you hunted and killed my dear boy were merely the surviving members of the European and Asian branches. This Existence member is a part of the North American branch."
Blade and the two lesbian lovers were surprised after hearing that Existence already had agents operating outside of Asia...until the Raccoon Daywalker had remembered the vampire disguised as a police officer and Gondo's haunting words: how Existence had been expanding their operations throughout the world and how they had agents already embedded in various government agencies and law enforcement.
Blade asked his friend/mentor softly, intending to go after the Existence agent and kill him. "Noah, what's the target's name?"
Van Helsing answered honestly, knowing that his friend and successor would go after the vampire, no matter what. "The agent's name is Vladimir Reznov: a high ranking Existence member who disguised himself as a 'businessman', who's really a black market weapons dealer. He's currently in New York, along with other Existence agents to negotiate a deal with an Italian mobster named Billy Russotti, trading weapons in exchange for a 'shipment' entering the city."
A little later after the 3 Vampires got to the plaint
Billy and his crew had arrived and was sitting in his chair in his personal office, while planning the business deal with the 'Russians'. That was when a black man with dreadlocks had arrived with his 2 friends, who Billy paid a grand each for going to the port and handing the money to the security men on Billy's payroll, which they did by parkouring their way out.
Frank had arrived and had used a pencil to set his nose straight before taking out the guards and getting inside the plaint and bumping into Nicky, who had just stepped out of the bathroom and stared shocked as the Punisher had shot him without hesitation! After hearing the gunshot, Pitsy ran out of the office to see what was going on...before being knocked down by Frank kicking from behind! Ink tried to rush out to save his father...only for Billy to stop him, stating he would deal with Frank while sending him to alert the guards outside. After Billy attempted to shoot at Frank, the Punisher fired in return, breaking the rail and causing him to fall into a glass grinder. Frank saw this and went to the controls before activating the machine, with Billy screaming in agony while his face was being mutilated by the shattered and sharp glass fragments.
After the guards had arrived, Frank used his guns to kill a few of them before running out of ammo. He then went up to Nicky's body and looked for a for a gun to use...and opened his shirt to reveal a surveillance wire, making him stare horrified as he realized he'd just killed an undercover cop on a sting operation!
Frank then glanced back up see someone he hadn't in a long time...a certain Raccoon/vampire hybrid, along with 2 women with black hair and glowing blue eyes in trench coats. "Blade?" He asked softly, surprised at seeing the hybrid that he trusted enough to call a friend after seeing that he shared his view of justice and didn't trust the system...or those self-righteous heroes who didn't see that the villains they put in prison broke out in a week or so and kept hurting and killing innocent people.
Blade asked in return, surprised at seeing the man that shared his views of justice and someone he trusted enough to call a friend. "Frank?"
The 2 lovers were surprised that their brother and this human knew each other until they remembered that he'd told them about Frank Castle and how he became the Punisher: how his family was tragically murdered by the Mob and the justice system did nothing to get Frank's wife and kids the justice they deserved due to the Mob's money, power and influence and how Frank took matters into his own hands and hunted down the ones who ruined his life and killed them before dedicating his life to punishing the criminal underworld and the occasional super villain using his version of justice while only hurting the so-called heroes that got in his way.
But now wasn't the time for a reunion as the FBI had entered the plaint and had guns pointed at Billy's guards, making the 4 Anti-Heros quickly get out of the plaint to avoid the cops. After getting away, they headed to Frank's hideout below the subway station. Once they got there, Blade informed his old friend and ally about what he'd been through: from meeting with Selene and Amelia and helping them with a Lycan plot in Budapest, to his rivalry with the half-breed Micheal, to them killing the Vampire Elder Viktor after learning the truth about what he did to Selene's family and fighting the other vampire Elder Markus and his uncontrollable Lycan brother William and killing them by working together. He'd also told Frank about their encounter with Wolverine and the Hulk and his painful procedure of getting his new claws out into him, showing them as proof and finally coming here to kill the Russian existence member.
"Damn. Sounds like you've been very busy, Raccoon, especially since you've got these 2 helping you now." Frank said, amazed at how much Blade's life had changed during the last few years.
"Indeed, old friend. Although I didn't expect to run into you again. Though I wish it could have been under better circumstances than this." Blade said with a sympathetic face, as he could tell exactly what Frank was going through right now.
"I must say that it's great to finally meet you, Frank. Blade told us everything he knew about you and your past. And for what it's worth, even though we weren't there, Amelia and I are so very sorry for your loss." Selene said as sympathy for Frank, as she and her Amelia knew what it was like to lose everything to heartless monsters.
"And even though I got my Selene back, the memory of her dying in my arms will always haunt me, no matter how much time passes, just like Blade's tragic past will forever haunt him and Selene's will haunt her...and yours will forever haunt you." Amelia said with the same sympathy, as she knew that the memories of their paste would always haunt them everyday no matter how much time passes.
"I Know. But there's something you have to know, Blade… I'm done." Frank told his friend, shocking the 3 Vampires.
There you go, my friends, the 1st part of the Punisher War Zone chapter is complete. The 2nd chapter should be up in a few weeks after I work on my other stories. Also, the version of the Punisher I'm using is the one from the Avengers Confidential movie, so try to imagine that one and the actor who played him in that great anime film. Rate and review. See you soon, my friends.