Punisher War Zone final part
After Budiansky and Soap got Russoti and his man eating brother to the station, Jigsaw made a call to FBI agent Miller, who he'd blackmailed to give them complete immunity and information on Frank Castle in exchange for a setting up a Russian mobster named Cristu Bulat and his new biological weapon, which the agent reluctantly did but hoped that the Punisher would find Jigsaw and his brother and give them what they deserved.
Meanwhile at Frank's hideout
As Angela and Grace were sleeping, Frank was sitting in his chair as he, Blade, Selene and Amelia watched the innocent girl sleeping, reminding them of innocence that they'd not seen in many years. Blade then took off his coat and put it over Grace to provide her with more warmth, making Frank smile at his friend.
Amelia and Selene also stroked the little girl's hair, reminding Selene of her long dead nieces and making her shed a tear. Amelia noticed this and kissed her lover on the lips in comfort before Blade gave his vampire sister a comforting hug.
"You're really close to them, aren't you Blade?" Frank asked as he got up and went to his cooking area to make some Instantly made military food, noticing how close his friend was to the female vampires.
"I am, Frank. When I 1st met Selene, it was to take down a common enemy. But as she told me about her past, I realized that she and I were more alike than just warriors fighting for the same cause, just as you and I did when we met. And as I got to know her better when she and Amelia needed my help, she became more than a fellow warrior and friend. She became the sister I never had. And since Amelia was in love with her, she became family to me as well. Something I've lost 3 times in my lifetime, even though Selene did come back to life, it still hurt." Blade explained as he joined Frank to help him cook the military food.
"Well, I'm happy for you, Raccoon. Those 2 are good for you, even I can see that. They need you and you need them...more than you know." Frank said with a smile. After a few minutes, the food was ready as Angela and Grace woke up.
Blade gave Grace hers as Frank gave Angela hers. "How long was I asleep?" The widowed mother asked, wondering how long she'd been sleeping.
"A long time." Frank answered. "You should eat."
"What is it?" Grace asked, wondering what the food was.
"Egg and cheese MRE, Grace. And this one came with chuckles, the best one to get." Blade answered, giving the child the toy that came with the meal.
"It's good for people who can't cook from what I've heard." Selene said gently while running the girl's cheek.
"Not exactly a balanced breakfast." Angela said as she ate the meal.
"Out of practice." Frank said before they heard someone coming.
Amelia and Selene quickly got out their guns and aimed them before they saw the th intruder was Carlos, making them lower their weapons. "Where's Micro? I need to talk to him." Frank asked, wanting to know where his friend was.
"Said his mother wasn't feeling well, he didn't want to leave her. and his cell phone went dead when I tried to get a hold of him." Carlos answered.
"Damn it." Frank said, having a really bad feeling something dreadful must've happened at Micro's apartment.
"I have the same feeling, Frank. It isn't safe for him out there with Vladimir still out there." Blade said, getting the same feeling as his friend.
"Carlos, protect these 2 until we return, and don't make us regret this." Selene told the former Latin gang member, trusting him to keep the child safe.
"Sure, miss Amelia, I will." Carlos said as he walked up to Grace, who was fond of him.
After the 4 anti heros arrived at the apartment, Frank and his vampire friends stared shocked/horrified from what they saw: how Micro's apartment was torn apart and more importantly...somebody had shot his catatonic mother's face completely off! Getting a bad feeling about Angela and Grace's safety, they quickly rushed back to the hideout.
Back at the hideout
Carlos was playing with Grace while Angela watched, smiling at her daughter being happy after what they just went through...only to discover that James had somehow had found them and attacked Carlos with an axe while he told the widowed mother and child to run, only to get even more chopped up by the axe.
When the anti heros returned, they were shocked/horrified after seeing the reformed Latin gang member still clinging onto life. "Damn it, where are they?" Frank asked, demanding to know where Angela and Grace were.
"They...took...them. I'm... sorry, man." Carlos said as he gasped for air, apologizing for failing to protect Angela and Grace.
"No Carlos, don't you die on us." Blade told Carlos as he took the axe out of him, along with the note Jigsaw had left, telling Frank to come to the hotel or Micro, Angela and Grace would die.
"Hey man... I've seen what happens in situations like this, Raccoon. D-don't let...me die like this. Not like this." Carlos said, knowing he was dead no matter what his friends tried and begging them to put him out of his misery.
Frank, wanting to honor the reformed gang member, put his gun to his chest where his heart was as Selene spoke. "You did really good, Carlos. You turned your life around and protected Angela and Grace to your last breath." She said with a sad smile.
"That's something few people are capable of. Let that be your greatest accomplishment in the afterlife." Amelia added with the same smile.
Carlos smiled before saying his last words. "See you guys in hell, mi amigos."
"We see you anywhere in hell, we'll kick you out of there and into heaven." Blade said, making Carlos chuckle before the Daywalker covered his eyes and Frank shot him through the heart, ending his pain forever.
Meanwhile at the Bradstreet Hotel
Jigsaw and James were meeting with Reznov at a secret back room, which had been converted into a 'laboratory/operating room' for the 'procedure'...as his vampire followers had loaded a huge amount of the super human/vampire serum into a huge dispenser machine hooked up to a number of IV tubes.
Reznov welcomed Jigsaw and his brother, while asking if they brought their 'special' guests for the 'main event'...which Jigsaw answered with a dark grin before turning to James, whom would mirror the smile and show Reznov a chained up and gagged Micro, Angela and Grace.
Jigsaw asked a question of his own. "How are things on your end Reznov?"
His secret vampire ally stated while gesturing to a large army of 50-60 human turned super vampire soldiers. "My new army is nearly complete, my friend. All that's needed is to dangle the bait...and lure in the prey."
Jigsaw smiled and answered. "You got that right, my friend."
Sometime later
Frank was in the church with Blade, Selene and Amelia, having contacted Budiansky for a meeting. While sitting, Frank old friend Father Mike walked up to him. "Haven't seen you in ages, Frank. Whatever it is, it must be pretty bad." The priest said before he noticed the 3 vampires. "Never thought I'd see the day when creatures of the night sat in the House of God."
"Maybe we're here to support a friend, Father. Someone who's lost everything, just as we have." Amelia explained while sympathetic to Frank.
"I know you must think that we're monsters, Father, but we don't harm innocent people, despite what we are." Selene assured the priest, knowing just what the priest must be thinking about her and her lover and brother.
"Or maybe I'm just here to see an old friend." Frank said.
"Yeah right, Frank. I haven't seen you since-" Father Mike said before Frank finished for him.
"The funeral, I know."
"I've been reading about you. You're a long way from the seminary, my friend."
"I don't even remember that as part of my life anymore."
"Why do you and your friends do what you do?" Father Mike asked, wanting to know why his old friend and the 3 vampires do what they do.
"Someone has to punish the corrupt and kill the pure evil monsters who prey upon the humans." Blade answered for his friend.
"Judge others and you will be judged, for whatever measure you deal to others will be dealt to you in return." Father Mike said, quoting a verse from the Book of Luke."
"Matthew:72." Frank said, familiar with the words and the book, getting a nod from the priest.
"I'm familiar with the words. And when that eventually does happen, we're more than ok with that." Blade said, fine with the day he and his vampire sisters would eventually face the ultimate judgement day.
"While we're not religious, we've read the book. And believe it or not, I've felt what death is like, and when I eventually face it again, I know what to expect." Selene said, remembering the night she saw death and saw a small bit of the afterlife.
"God be with you all." The priest said before he left as Budiansky came in after putting a bit of holy water on himself and doing the holy cross sign before sitting behind the 4 anti heros.
"Interesting choice for a meeting place. Didn't think you or your... friend were religious, Castle." The agent said sarcastically.
"Yeah, well...an eye for an eye." Frank said.
"If I remember correctly, they're not called the 10 Suggestions."
"Russoti has Angela and Grace." Selene informed the FBI agent.
"How?"
"Doesn't matter how, what matters is getting them back." Amelia said, knowing now that the only thing that mattered was getting Angela and Grace back.
"Well maybe if you'd let me take them police protection like you should have, xwe wouldn't be having this conversation." Budiansky told them, blaming them for Angela and Grace being in the hands of those psychopaths.
"They'd be dead if we'd done that." Blade said, knowing that with all the corrupt cops in the city, Angela and Grace would be dead right now.
"The law can't touch them, you guys. Total immunity. Unless you have a video of Russoti taking them, they can't even give them a parking ticket." Budiansky told them.
"It's a fucked up system you're sworn to protect." Frank cursed, knowing that the system was broken, with criminals like Russoti taking advantage of every single loophole it had.
"Frank's right. If the system did its job right, criminals like Russoti and his brother wouldn't be breathing and there wouldn't be a need for beings with powers." Blade added after his friend, knowing that the system was completely broken and if it wasn't, there'd be no need for people to have an overreliance on beings with powers.
"Never said it was perfect, raccoon." Budiansky said, agreeing with the vigilantes on the system, but never saying that it was perfect.
"He wants me in exchange for them, but we need you to help secure the trade." Frank said, as he and his friends needed Budiansky to help secure the exchange.
"Okay. But we're doing this by the book." Budiansky said, willing to help Frank and his friends but only if they agreed to do things by the book.
"And what book do you think they're going by, Budiansky?" Selene asked.
"Hey I took an oath, lady."
"No official police procedure, Budiansky. You really want to save that little girl, forget the book and Leave your badge at home." Amelia told the agent before the anti heros left the church.
A few hours later in the city
Russoti and LBJ had went across the city, recruiting all the local gangs and crime families that the Punisher had ever targeted, giving them a speech that they could finally kill Castle if they worked together. The gangs eagerly agreed on that before all of them were preparing themselves at the hotel, with several vampires. Meanwhile, Budiansky, who had realized that Soup was Frank's inside man in the police department, had asked him to help him in convincing Chrstu's father in helping to kill Jigsaw and his brother for putting his son in prison for life, which the old Russian mobster was eager for. As this was happening, the 4 anti heros were scoping out the hotel, seeing many gang members and vampires that Blade, Selene and Amelia identified.
Later at nighttime
Budiansky and Soup saw Cristu's father and his men go into the hotel, with the other criminals thinking they were there for the 'Punisher party' before being let in. That was when Frank and his vampire friends appeared and explained the situation: how Jigsaw was partnered up with Reznov, who was really a vampire and how they were holding Micro, Angela and Grace hostage in the hotel. Budiansky refused to believe them, stating that vampires didn't exist...but swiftly changed his mind after Blade, Selene and Amelia revealed their vampire genetic features to him and Soap...much to their shock/surprise. Selene then told the dark skinned FBI agent that she, Amelia, Blade and Frank were Micro's, Angela's and more importantly, Grace's only shot at escaping the hotel alive. While he was against the idea completely, Budiansky begrudgingly gave the four anti-heroes only 1 hour to do what they needed to do...and then he'd call in the FBI SWAT and HRT squads.
"1 hour is all we need. Stay here, and if you don't hear gunfire for the next few minutes, they're not in there. If that happens, call it in." Frank said before he and his friends heard gunfire, indicating that the old mobster was opening fire on the other criminals and were most likely getting killing themselves in the gunfire, making the job of the 4 anti heros easier as they headed to the side of the hotel and up to a wooden window and broke through it before using their guns, sword, gaives, stakes and their skills to kill all the other criminals and vampires around the hotel in very violent ways before Frank killed the last of them before getting attacked by LBJ, who was fighting very well into the bathroom of the hotel, biting Frank on the neck before Blade grabbed the insane human and began to beat him up violently until he threw glass at them and ran to where his brother and Reznov were before his scared brother threw him a gun and he pointed it at Grace's head as Jigsaw pointed his at Micro's head.
"Welcome, welcome, welcome. Come on in, Castle, don't be shy and throw down your gun." Jigsaw told Frank before he did as he was told for Micro's, Angela and Grace's sakes. Jigsaw then shot Frank 3 times, much to his friends' concern before throwing the gun back to him.
"Die, you bastards!" LBJ said as he pointed his gun at the Punisher.
"No, my friend. That's no way to punish the Punisher, the Daywalker or 2 traitors to the vampire world." The voice of Reznov said with an evil grin as he appeared out of the shadows.
"Reznov, I presume?" Blade asked with a hateful glare.
"Yes, Daywalker. What do you say we play a little game of Russian Roulette?" Reznov asked with dark amusement before looking at Jigsaw.
"Yeah. You got 1 round left in there, Castle. You shoot 1 of these 2 and the other 1 go free. What do you say, Frank? Who's it to be, your car friend right here?"
"Or the little girl... unless... I could grant her the gift of immortality." Reznov said while hissing at Grace.
"Go to hell, you bastards!" Selene yelled in anger.
"If you hurt that little girl, you'll all die screaming in pain!" Amelia added after her lover.
"Silence, traitors! Your punishments will come after the Daywalker and the Punisher are dead. The covens of your kind have placed a very large bounty on your heads and I'm going to be the one to collect." Reznov said evilly, thinking that he would be the one to collect the bounty on the former Death Dealers' heads.
"Then they both die." Jigsaw said as he prepared to shoot Micro and James prepared to shoot Grace.
Not wanting Grace to die, as she was only a little girl and innocent, Micro asked Frank to kill him. "Frank! She's a kid. Shoot me."
Frank aimed his gun at his friend before Jigsaw began to count to 3 as Frank looked at his friend. "You won't feel a thing, Micro." Frank said sadly before he shot James in the head, killing him.
After watching Frank kill his brother, Jigsaw shot Micro in head, killing him as well before he and the Punisher engaged in a heated brawl as Blade quickly got Reznov out of the way before Selene and Amelia released Angela and Grace, allowing them to escape before helping Blade with Reznov, with both fights ending with Frank impaling Jigsaw and Reznov with a metal pipe, hurting them greatly before Blade drank Reznov's blood to find out how many more Existence members occupied America, which fortunately were only 2 left before the anti heros finally decided to end both of the evil monsters by pushing them into fire, making them scream in pain as Reznov began to explode and Jigsaw finally died as his puzzled face came apart.
"That was just the beginning of your suffering in hell." Frank said before Jigsaw and Reznov were finally dead.
Back outside of the hotel
Angela and Grace walked out of the hotel where Budiansky and Soup were waiting for them. They walked up to the woman and child and Budiansky hugged them. "You okay?" He asked, getting a nod from Angela. "Where's Castle and his friends?"
"Still inside." Angela answered.
"And Micro?" Soap asked, making Angela look sadly at him, as if saying he didn't make it as Soup bowed his head sadly at Micro's unfortunate death.
That was when Frank and his friends came out of the hotel before the agents ran up to them before Budiansky smiled at them. "I think you guys should get out of here." He said with a smile, getting an nod of respect from Frank and the vampires, as if saying that he's doing the right thing.
"Yeah. Come on, guys, I'll buy you a couple of drinks." Soup said as he began to led the anti heros away from the area before the cops arrived.
"Wait!" Angela said as she ran to the anti heros and spoke to Frank. "My husband and I talked about you, argued even. And he said that you were 1 of the good guys. And your friends are, too." She said with a smile, finally accepting Frank and his vampire friends.
The 4 anti heros smiled back and looked at Grace 1 last time, with the sweet innocent girl waving goodbye to them before they waved back with gentle smiles before leaving the area with Soup as Angela walked back to Budiansky and her daughter as he embraced them in a hug. As the anti heros were walking with Soup as he began talking to them about taking a break since almost every criminal and vampires in the city were all dead, they disappeared as a mugger pointed a gun at the cop, demanding his wallet before Frank shot him in the head, getting a smirk from Selene, Amelia and Blade.
"Oh man, now I got brains spattered all over me." Soup complained.
There you go, my friends, Punisher War Zone is complete at last. Don't know which Marvel movie will be next but I think I'll go with the Hulk vs Thor animated movie. Rate and review. See you soon, my friends.