In Captain Chavez's office, Athena and Elisa were getting some news from the captain.
"Captain, this is a joke, right?" Elisa asked.
"No joke. l'm assigning you a partner. Since the investigators believe that you were the intended target, Wyvern won't be assigned a partner, but she will help you and your partner from time to time. Now that you're back on duty, we're gonna make sure you stay there,"
"You think l need protection? Getting shot, l mean, that was an accident."
This isn't open to discussion," Captain Chavez said as she walked toward the door to her office and opened revealing a man, who could only be the partner, "This is Detective Matt Bluestone. He worked with me to close the Dracon business."
Matt walked into the office and hold out Elisa's phone in his hand, "You dropped this."
"Thanks," Elisa said as Matt places the phone in her hand.
The three of them walk down the hallway after leaving the Captain's office.
"No offense, l'm sure you're a great cop. But l don't need a partner. And l don't want a partner. I got Athena if I need her," Elisa told Matt.
"Hey, l understand," He said, "Problem is, you have a partner. Me. Guess we have to just make the best of it."
"There must be some kind of conspiracy going on to make my life difficult," Elisa sighed.
"Wouldn't surprise me."
Athena looked at her watch, "Me and Elisa have something to take care of. We'll be back in a while, so just wait."
"l'll meet you outside in 20 minutes," Elisa added. Matt waved them goodbye as they walked up the stairs.
Elisa and Athena entered the broom closest and Athena pulled down the
Elisa looks over at the tv she had brought in and says, "You guys better appreciate this."
"I'll go up first and you'll follow behind," Athena told her as before the two went over and picked up the tv. As two carried it up the ladder, Broadway approached them.
"Let me help you, Elisa, Athena," He took the tv from them.
"Thanks, Broadway," Elisa and Athena said to him. A moment later, a remote control toy car drove by Elisa and Athena's feet. They looked behind them and saw Lexington with the controller.
"Neat toy, huh?" Lexington asked them.
"Yeah, slow it down or l'll give you a ticket," Elisa joked before asking, "Where's Goliath?"
"Down in the library," Broadway answered, "You staying for breakfast?"
"No, thanks. l gotta get back to work soon," She answered before leaving the clocktower. Athena stayed behind and helped her family with the tv and soon they had it working by the time Elisa and Goliath returned.
"Well, it's not a six-foot screen, but l hope it'll do," Elisa siad.
"lt's a grand gift, lass. Thank you," Hudson told her.
Brooklyn flipped through the channels with the remote before stopping when Xanatos appeared on the screen.
"Xanatos!" Goliath exclaimed. Brooklyn then turns the mute button off on the tv.
"This is Travis Marshall at the Museum of Modern Art, where one of the world's most priceless jewels, the Eye of Odin, is being donated by David Xanatos from his private collection.
This is quite a philanthropic act, Mr. Xanatos. The Eye is worth millions. To just give it away?" Travus asked him.
"Well, Travis, I just felt that the Eye should be shared with the world, instead of locked away in my personal museum," Xanatos answered before joking, "Besides, it's a great tax write-off."
"A grand gesture from a man known for grand gestures."
Goliath's eyes glowed as he roared with rage before he charges out of the clocktower.
"A few more donations like this, and New York might even forget about your prison record," Travis added.
"l made a mistake, Mr. Marshall. l paid my debt to society. All l'm trying to do now is give something to benefit others," Xanatos said, "Would you rather l kept the Eye?"
Owen appeared on the screen , "Your limo is ready, Mr. Xanatos."
"Perfect timing, Owen. As always. lt appears l'm not appreciated around here," Xanatos left and Brooklyn turned the tv off.
A while later in the early morning hours, Athena was at her desk filling out some paperwork when Elisa and Matt returned from their patrol.
Elisa walked over to Athena, "Hey, I need to talk you to privately. The guys should be asleep by now, so meet me in the clocktower. "
"Why?" Athena asked.
"Something weird happed to me and Matt when were answered a call at the Museum earlier," She answered, "Weird as in the perpetrator flew away from the crime scene."
"Of course," Athena got up from her desk and followed Elisa to the clocktower. Once they were up there, Elisa told Athena everything that happened to her and Matt.
"We arrived at the museum with something broke through one the window and flew away. I swear it looked like Goliath, and when Matt shot at it the bullet ricochet right off and it sounded like metal," She said.
"Let's see if the Captain knows about any other suppose "Gargoyle" sightings," Athena suggested.
Elisa and Athena were in Captain Chavez's office discussing what Matt and Elisa saw at the museum.
"According to sightings all over town, there are at least three of these things," Captain Chavez told them as she looked at the file, "Well, they're not shy about being seen."
"This doesn't make sense," Athena muttered.
"What's that, Wyvern?" The Captain asked.
Matt walks into the Captain's office, "Check this out," He turns on the tv in the office and it was the news with Travis Marshall.
"This station has acquired the security camera coverage of the robbery last night," The three saw the silhouette of a gargoyle walk up to a glass case and shatters it before taking the eye of Odin and walking away, "According to witnesses, this gargoyle-like creature attacked a guard and then flew away from the scene," Matt turns the tv off.
"You two saw that thing. Care to speculate?" Captain Chavez asked Elisa and Matt.
"All l know is, l hit it with a .38 slug and didn't even slow it down," Matt told her.
"Maza, any ideas?"
"Not yet," She answered.
That night, Elisa and Athena went up to the clocktower to tell the others what happened.
"Hey, Elisa. Hey, Athena," Broadway greeted them.
"Hey, guys. We got some bad news," Elisa told them.
"What do you mean, lass?" Hudson asked.
"This morning Matt and I responded to a call from the museum and when we got there something broke through a window and it looked just like a gargoyle. So there you have it. Someone's impersonating you, Goliath," Elisa finished the story.
"Do you think it's possible there are other gargoyles alive out there?" Brooklyn asked.
"You guys are tough, but you're not bulletproof tough," Athena said.
"l heard Matt's slugs bounce off metal," Elisa added.
"Xanatos' robots," Goliath spoke.
"The Steel Clan? But l thought we destroyed them all," Broadway said.
"We did. He must have made more," Goliath said.
"lt makes no sense. Why would Xanatos donate the jewel to the museum and then have it stolen?" Hudson questioned.
"No doubt he has some sort of devious plan in mind. Hudson, you and Bronx guard our new home. The rest of you, come with me,'" Goliath walks toward the stairs leading to the balcony of the clocktower with Lexington, Broadway, and Brooklyn following him.
Athena in front of Goliath and stops them, "Where are you going?"
"To deal with Xanatos," He answered
"Hold on, father. You shouldn't be taking any chance of being seen, any of 're not rating very high in the public opinion polls right now," Athena told he father.
"No, Athena. No more hiding. Xanatos will answer to me for this," Goliath said before he pushes Athena aside and continues up the stairs.
"Goliath, wait," She pleaded, but there was no use. The four gargoyles jumped off the balcony and glide to the Eyrie building.
Athena went back inside the clocktower, "Elisa, go to your car and I'll meet you at the Eyrie building."
"But how will you get there?" Elisa asked.
"I have another mean of transportation in mind," She responded before Elisa rushed down to get to her car. Athena stepped out onto the balcony and spoke a spell, "Yarva Demonicus Etrigan.
Change, change the form of man. Free the prince forever damned. Free the might from fleshy mire. Boil the blood in heart of fire. Gone, gone the form of man, Rise the demon Etrigan!"
A vortex of fire appears in front of Athena and when the flames cease, Etigran was kneeling in front of her with his head down.
Etrigan looked up at her and stood up as he says, "You have summoned me at your request. Tell me, my dear maiden, what is my quest?"
"Etrigan, I need you to take me to the Eyrie building. My father and the trio are going to face Xanatos," Athena replied,"And I have a bad feeling."
"Though I know we should be wary, I shall follow your command and take you to the building of Eyrie," Erigan responded before he picks Athena up in his arms. He opens his wings and jumps off the balcony for the Eyrie building.
They manage to arrive not long after Gargoyles and the trio did. Etrigan landed next to the trio and watched as Goliath confronted Xanatos in the courtyard.
"Athena? Why are you here?" Brooklyn asked.
"I just have a bad feeling about this," She answered, "So, be glad we're here."
"Xanatos!" Goliath exclaimed, "You have gone too far. First you steal our home, and now you steal our very identities."
"You've got it all wrong. l'm the best friend you have in this world," Xanatos told Goliath, causing him to growl before roaring in rage. Xanatos continues, "You see, soon everybody in the Big Apple will be hunting gargoyles."
"Because of you," Goliath responded.
Xanatos waves his finger at Goliath, "lf you want to be picky, we won't get anywhere. Let's try to focus on the big picture, Goliath. l've got a research facility upstate, where you and your friends could be comfortable and protected."
"What?" He questioned.
"Doesn't seem a difficult choice to me. Stay here in the city and be hunted down like animals, or be my guests in a safe haven. What do you say?"
Goliath roars before smashing a light post to the ground and jumps up the stairs to join the others.
"Let's go," Goliath said as he ran passed them and glided away from the Eyrie building, the others followed him to return to the clocktower.
"You're taking this much too personally," Xanatos yelled.
"So what happened?" Brooklyn asked as the glided above the city, "Did Xanatos admit he was-"
"l don't want to talk about it," Goliath interrupted with a harsh and angered tone. Suddenly, a laser shots from behind them, hitting Goliath in the wing.
"Father!" Athena cried as she watched him fell, landing on a satellite dish and held on. Athena looks over Etrigan's shoulder and sees three Steel Clan robots, one of which is red and appears to be taking the lead, "lt's the Steel Clan!"
The Steel Clan begins to fire lasers at the them. The gargoyles and Etrigan scatter across the sky and dodge the the Steel Clan's blasts, left and right.
"What do we do?" broadway asked as he narrowly escaped a blast.
Down on the roof, Goliath managed to dodge a blast from the Steel Clan leader. He replies, "We've beaten them before. We can do it again."
The robots fire their lasers at the gargoyles, causing them to separate while the red one focuses on Goliath. One of the other robots managed to hit Broadway in the back. He went down and rolled across a roof until a large brick wall stopped his momentum. Lexington was next to be hit in the back and went down. He struck a metal railing hard enough to wrench it loose, and his limp form dangled from it before Broadway rescued him. Brooklyn tried to remove the head of the one of robots, but was electrocuted and flung away before landing in front of Goliath. Broadway and Lexington soon joined them.
"Etrigan, when I say 'Now', I want you to throw me at the Steel Clan robot," Athena told him before saying, "Metallicus!" Her skin, hair, and clothes transform into metal.
"Time for a revival as they say. We shall make this fiend rue this day," Etrigan said.
Athena waited for the Steel Clan robot to get closer them before yelling, "Now!"
Etrigan then holds Athena with one hand like a spear before throwing her at one of the robots. When Athena collided with the robot, it exploded. Etrigan caught Athena as she fell and she turned back to normal.
Suddenly, one of the Steel Clan robots shot Etrigan in the back with a laser. As they fell, Etrigan held Athena tight to his crest and wrapped his wings around her, trying to shield her, before he landed on his back on the same roof top in front of the others. The Steel Clan dive and went through the wall, causing the bricks to topple on top of them.
They managed to break free from the brick, and Etrigan unshield Athena with his wings, to see the Steel Clan diving toward them before stopping just a few feet away
Lexington woke up and says, "Hey. We're still alive. How come?"
"lt's it's like they're waiting for something," Brooklyn commented.
"No doubt for us to lead them back to our new sanctuary," Goliath reasoned.
"But why? Why not just kill us?" Broadway wondered as they stepped out of the bricks.
"Because Xanatos doesn't want to destroy us. He wants to dominate us," He answered.
"He's probably controlling them by radio, like that toy car l have," Lexington said.
"Yeah, so what do we do now?" Brooklyn asked.
"We can't lead them back to the clock tower, and we can't stay here. lt's not long till sunrise," Goliath said.
"Your right, father," Athena agreed, "You all would be sitting ducks."
"We could tackle 'em again," Broadway suggested.
"Yeah, l'm really looking forward to that," Brooklyn said sarcastically before saying seriously, "They're a lot tougher than the last batch we fought."
"Yeah, particularly that one," Lexington pointed to the Red Steel Clan robot.
"We must continue the fight someplace isolated. Come," Goliath said.
Etrigan picks Athena up and everyone jumps off the roof of the building before flying away with the Steel Clan following them.
"Where are we going, Goliath?" Lexington asked.
"There," Goliath points to the Statue of Liberty. They soon landed atop her head and watched the robots coming their way, "You take the others. l'll handle the leader."
The Red Steel Clan robot fires a laser at them and they jump out of the way, off the the Statue of liberty's head. While Goliath deals with the Red Steel Clan robot, the trio deal with one of the two other Steel Clan robot and Athena and Etrigan deal with the other one.
"Metallicus!" Athena yelled, transforming her skin, hair, and clothes into metal, "Etrigan, I think it's time for we take one out of the game."
"As you wish, my dear maiden," He said.
Etrigan throws Athena at the Steel Clan robot and once she clodies with the robot, it explodes and Etrigan catches Athena.
"Thanks for the catch," Athena said before she and Etrigan joined the trio in the Statue of Liberty's torch.
Circling above Lady Liberty's torch, Goliath and the Red Steel Clan robot one followed each other close. Occasionally, one would swipe at the other, hoping to bring their opponent down. Goliath then attempted a different tactic. He flew high into the air, then dove down so he was right on top of the Red Steel Clan robot.
He nearly succeeded in bringing it down, but at the last second, it increased the power of its jet propulsion system, sending the two back into the sky.
"No machine!" Goliath growled. "You'll not get rid of me that easily."
There were two long metal tubes on the front of the robot's armor. Goliath grabbed one, then the other. The robot began to descend towards the head of the statue. The two of them landed on the status's head before standing up and ready to fight. The robot went for its laser gun, but Goliath effortlessly ripped it off its arm, crushing it in his grip.
Without its weapon, the Red Steel Clan Robot decided to punch Goliath in the face. Goliath took the punch, then punched the Red Steel Clan Robot twice. The robot grabbed ahold of Goliath's wrist and toss him over his shoulder. Goliath landed on his back and rolled out of the way before the Red Steel Clan Robot stomped on him with great force. Goliath then used his tail to knock the robot off its feet. Goliath went to punch the robot, but it grabbed his fist and kicked him. Goliath staggered back. The Red Steel Clan Robot was about to attack but stopped when the other gargoyles, Etigan, and Athena joined Goliath and surround the robot.
"Time to give up, Robo-Gargoyle," Athena said as balls of fire form in her hands. They all close in on the Red Steel Clan Robot, it looked over the head and saw the other Steel Clan Robots were destroyed. Then the Red Steel Clan Robot shot up into the sky and flew away.
Athena then noticed something out of the corner of her eye and saw a helicopter coming their way,"We need to leave now or else you guys are going to be international news."
Etrigan picked up Athena and everyone jumped off the statue to return to the clocktower.
As dawn approached, the Gargoyles took their places on the stone railing of the balcony. Elisa, Athena, and Jason were with them.
"The public's been reassured that the gargoyles were robots," Elisa told them.
"As for who created them," Athena added, "That is still under investigation."
"Xanatos tried to force us to reveal our new home," Goliath said before a smile came to his face, "We defeated him. And, if we did it once, we can do it again.
"And we will," Elisa smiled, "Together."
The sun soon rose and the gargoyles turned to stone in its light.