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Chapter 4: Not knowing
The entire of the Fantastic Five and the Richards children were now at the mercy of the Frightful Five as they did not know what their plan for them was yet.
"What are you planning Wizard?" Reed asked as he struggled to get free.
Wizard came back into view. "Now Richards what fun would that be?" he said putting a device together.
"So when do we do this?" Trapster asked getting impatient.
"As soon as I've put the components together we'll begin now stay here and guard them, we're expecting company." Wizard said as he left them to go back to the lab to finish his plan.
"Hey idiots how does it feel to be beaten?" Klaw asked the heroes as then Dark Reaper was giving a very lustful look at Johnny as she knelt down to him and began stroking his face gently.
"Get away from my husband!" Lyja shouted as Reaper just gave a glare that went into a smile.
"Oh did I make you mad greenie? Don't worry I'll play with you after I'm done with your hubby." Dark Reaper said as she then brought her nail towards his cheek and just dug it in there and drew some blood as she had some on her finger and looking towards the Skrull and licked it off.
Lyja looked on in disgust and anger as then the crazy woman went over to her and knelt down and stroked her cheek and dug her nail into her cheek and drew blood and again taking it on her finger and licking it off. "Mmmm I'm going to enjoy playing with you two." Reaper said as the heroes all looked on now horrified at what this woman may do next.
Thundra looked on at her devious antics and just wretched at the sight of her doing so as she turned to her allies. "How long will this take I want this done with and away from that-that-that…thing over there!" she said pointing to Dark Reaper as she gave a small grin to the Amazon warrior said.
"CLUNK!" a sound of something dropping was heard.
"What was that?" Thundra asked.
"I'll go check." Trapster said as he went to investigate the noise.
He went into the hallways and saw a note attached to the wall a the end of the hall as he went over and took it down and opened it as it said "LIGHTS OUT!"
Feeling a tap on his shoulder he turned around…BAM! It was lights out for the Trapster as he then began tying him up with his gauntlet line.
One down four to go…
Eclipse was now in the building but he had to play it safe and take them out one at a time as he activated the wall crawling ability on his suit to stick to the ceiling as he began to crawl his way towards the main room as he stealthily crept higher up the wall and made it to the upper level as he dropped down silently and observed from above the situation.
"Where's Trapster?" Thundra asked as the absence of her comrade was noticed.
"Doesn't take that long to look." Klaw said as Dark Reaper began to giggle.
That annoyed the Amazon from the future as she asked. "What's so funny?" she asked annoyed.
"He's here…and he's picking you all off…one by one." Reaper said still giggling as they knew who it was.
Thundra looked to Klaw. "We find him and neutralise him." she said as he nodded agreeing with that and they went to find him leaving Reaper alone with the helpless heroes at her mercy.
"Who's here?" Valeria asked.
"My favourite playmate, the dark hero…ha!" Reaper said as the heroes were a little relieved by that hope is not lost.
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The two members of the Frightful Five were on their guard as they were in search of the dark hero and their comrade.
"How can this guy be that good? I took him out easily the last time?" Klaw asked.
"Then he shouldn't be a problem." Thundra said as they kept their eyes out for him.
Both kept on looking around for him as their paranoia levels were rising until they turned a corner and saw Trapster all tied up as they went over to check on him.
"Dammit!" Thundra said.
"WE'RE GONNA KILL YOU HERO!" Klaw shouted out into the hallways.
The amazon looked at him like he was an idiot for saying that.
"Like to see you try!" Eclipse said in the distance as they looked around for where he might be as then something just came flying past them and got stuck into the wall, as they saw it was the disc of the dark hero.
Klaw picked out the disc and examined it. "Is this all you've got?" he said out loud.
As then from out of nowhere he was struck in the side of the head with a flying kick knocking him down, Thundra seeing the dark hero was in front of her she went right for him as he just jumped to the side wall and ran across it and dodged her completely as she turned around to go at him again but this time they were going strike for strike as the blows of the amazon were hard to block as even his suit could not absorb the damage she threw at him as each blow was like cinderblocks hitting him.
He threw a punch but she grabbed his fist and began to crush it as the strength used by her was immense.
"You really think you could defeat me mortal?" Thundra said as she had him trapped.
"I admit I kinda didn't think you were this strong but then again you underestimate me." Eclipse said as he used her grip and swung in-between her legs and the momentum just threw her to the ground as she let go of his hand.
Quickly getting to his feet Eclipse switched to his line shooters and shot out a line wrapping her up in the steel ropes as she was now on the floor trapped as he had seemingly defeated her.
He went to turn around to deal with the last one "AHHHH" he screamed out as the sonic waves of Klaw's metallic device began to rip his skull from the inside as it brought the dark hero to his knees.
"I said I'd kill you and once again you've overlooked my weapon and now I have you subdued I'm going to enjoy scrambling your brains." Klaw said as he turned up the force on his sonic claw as Eclipse was screaming in agony.
OH GOD! I GOTTA FIND A WAY OUT OF-AH! COME ON REDGRAVE THINK!
He looked around and the only thing he could look at was the claw of the villain and an idea of sorts came to his head.
"Hey…I-I-I was wondering…is that Vibranium you're using?" Eclipse asked as his brain was being turned to mush.
"Since you asked yes." Klaw answered.
Going to his hip Eclipse brought out a small device of sorts and with whatever sense he had left he just threw the device and hit him on the claw as then the sonic waves began to cease and Klaw looked to his weapon to see the device attached.
"What is this? What have you done?!" Klaw asked as then he felt something going on with his claw.
Getting to his feet slowly Eclipse stood up slowly. "When I asked you if it was Vibranium you gave me a way to beat you, that little gizmo there is an electromagnet and you know what happens when magnetism and Vibranium collide?" he asked as the villain knew what he meant.
The claw then began to shake violently and then it just exploded and now the villain looked at his missing claw and realised he was at the mercy of the dark hero.
"Now you said you'd enjoy scrambling my brains? Well…" Eclipse just delivered a wicked right fist to the stomach of Klaw and followed it up with a massive uppercut as he flew a foot in the air and landed hard to the ground and quickly shot out a line and tied him up.
Three down…two to go.
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Wizard floated out from the labs as he held up the device he was working on and approached the heroes who were being watched over by Dark Reaper.
"Now Richards you and your team will see what my true plan is." Wizard said holding up the device as he activated it.
The discs on the heroes began to emit some sort of energy as it caused them pain and was seemingly draining them of energy.
"Wh-What're you doing Wizard?" Reed asked.
"I'm taking your powers by doing so I am making them my own with this Cosmic Energy Retainer, I can channel all of your powers into this and use them at my command." Wizard explained as the device continued to drain them of their powers.
He finally stopped as the CER was glowing and now his plan was complete. "Now then it's time for you to all feel my wrath!" Wizard said as he went to put on the device…
"AH!" Wizard shouted as the CER was shot out of his hand. "Who dares…" he saw the culprit in front of him as Dark Reaper was smiling at. "So you've finally arrived." he said.
"Yeah took a little bit of me making your lackey's look like a bunch of idiots and pretty much overcoming the odds and will eventually end up kicking your ass so let's skip the jokes and why don't you give up now?" Eclipse asked.
"Your reputation proceeds you dark hero I've heard that you're insane." Wizard asked.
"No actually it's pronounced mentally hilarious and yeah you could say I am but so is…" he silently motioned that statement to the woman standing in front of him.
"Oh you're still a charmer!" Dark Reaper said.
"Now kitten we already discussed this, we put you in the cuckoo's nest because eating people and violating corpses is not normal behaviour." Eclipse said as she giggled at that.
"But it's my favourite hobby and beating up heroes." Reaper said as she got her scythe ready.
"Ok here's how it's going to go down, you let the Fantastic Five go, surrender and make a witty pun or we could do the other option which is that I end up kicking your asses and make an even better and wittier pun at the end of it all." Eclipse made clear.
"Dark Reaper take care of him." Wizard ordered as she cackled and threw a dark swipe towards him and he just side stepped it.
Running towards her he used the furniture to get a boost and leapt up to the air and fired a barrage of discs at her as she summoned a dark energy shield to stop the oncoming attacks as Eclipse came flying towards her she brought down the barrier and as he was only inches away from her as then she disappeared into a cloud of purple mist and for some reason she just vaporised out of the room leaving Wizard and himself alone.
Eclipse landed on his feet and faced the super genius. "Huh first time she's admitted defeat and by that message your on your own." he said to Wizard who elevated into the air.
"It seems so, now then hero shall we?" Wizard challenged.
"Yeah let's end this." Eclipse said.
Wizard fired from his gauntlets at the dark hero as he used his Parkour skills to evade hits from the villainous genius jumping left and right at every shot he was advancing forward with each evasion.
Eclipse fired some discs at him but he threw up a barrier of sorts and that just disintegrated the oncoming discs.
"Let's see you try and overcome this hero!" Wizard said as he launched his own discs against the dark hero.
The discs came flying at him as Eclipse shot a line to try and escape them high up but the discs began to follow him as he could see they had a mind of their own and were now pursuing him as he kept on swinging around in hopes he could avoid them but then one attached itself to his back then the rest began doing so as he just lost his grip and was now falling as he got ready to hit the ground and closed his eyes not wanting to look…
"Am I dead?" Eclipse asked himself as he opened his eyes and saw he was inches off the ground.
He was then brought up to a standing position and was brought up to face The Wizard as he was at his mercy.
"I take it this is artificial gravity you're using?" Eclipse asked the villainous genius.
"That it is, I must admit you were quite a thorn in my side and you even managed to defeat my subordinates single handed I am impressed but now it's time I throw my problem out the window." Wizard said as he used his gauntlet to blast a hole through the huge glass window as he looked to throw the dark hero out of it.
"Yeah but then I could do this." Eclipse then reached for the emblem on his chest and he just landed on the ground feet first with the discs falling right off him.
"How did you…impossible!" Wizard said in disbelief.
"No not really it was me just making a small adjustment to my suit by activating my space suit function to cancel out the discs gravity and their hold on me so again wasn't hard just wanted to know how you would try to kill me." Eclipse explained.
"I would not even think of advancing further." as he looked to the fallen heroes as their powers were still being drained by the CER and knew he needed to think this through and saw the CER across the hall floor as Wizard was also looking to it and both just made a dash for it as Wizard flew he fired shots at the dark hero who was also in pursuit as he sidestepped one blast he was scraped by the second but continued forward.
Wizard grabbed the CER and saw it was ready to be used but he was blocked by the grip of Eclipse who also went for it as the struggled with it and it fell out of his hands in the struggle as he became frustrated and went to use his gauntlets and blast him in the head but he grabbed him by the wrists and was using his strength to keep him from frying him…He just brought him self to the face of the villain and head butted him as the force of it knocked him down and out and seemingly breaking his nose.
Seeing he had defeated the villainous genius he shot out a line and tied him up as he had apparently saved the day.
Walking over and looking down at the CER he picked it up and walked back over to the restrained heroes.
"Are you all ok?" Eclipse asked.
"We're being drained of our powers and you're asking us how we are!" Valeria shouted.
"I take that as a no, hold on and let me figure this out and see if I can reverse this and free you all." Eclipse said looking over the CER. "I have to admit Wizard's a genius he really put all his effort into-"
"JUST GET US OUT OF THIS!" Valeria shouted at the top of her lungs as he just went to working on that.
Looking it over his brain began working it out as he then pushed a couple of buttons on it and that seemingly released the lock on the discs holding them down and got to their feet as they all were ok but powerless.
"Hey! I'm human again!" Ben shouted as he could see his human skin again as Eclipse approached the heroes.
"Thank you for saving us Eclipse." Reed said thanking the dark hero for saving them.
"Good thing you showed up, they almost had us there." Sue said.
"Yeah I was tailing them and lost track of them for a while until I got a lead and here I am." Eclipse said as he then looked at the CER again.
"Where's the rest of Wizard's goons?" Johnny asked.
"Taking a constricting nap weren't hard to beat when you get the drop on them." Eclipse said.
"Do you have any idea how to get our powers back?" Franklin asked as Valeria glared at the dark hero.
"Yeah I can reconfig-"
"Oh stop it! Just stop this shenanigan right now!" Valeria burst out as she went right up to him.
"Uh stop what Ms….?" Eclipse said as he tried to play dumb.
"I knew when my father asked a complete fool to help me with my theory that there was something I could not quite put my finger on so I did some research and found something." Valeria said as the dark hero knew he was busted.
"Val is there something we don't know about?" Johnny asked.
"Eclipse here is-"
BOOM!
The roof of the building was blown open as a dark mist covered the ceiling.
"HA-HA-HA-HA!" the evil cackle of a certain villainess was heard.
"Forgot about her, get to cover now before she-" he got cut off as the could of darkness just dropped down to the floor and unleashed a dark wave just blasted them a few feet back as all of them landed hard.
Eclipse began to shake the cobwebs off and saw something that just scared the crap out of him as Dark Reaper had in her hands the CER and put it on.
"Check…Mate!" Reaper said as her eyes glowed yellow and she smiled as the powers of the Fantastic Five flowed through her.
"OH WHOA-WHOA-WHOA!" Eclipse shouted as he ran right at her trying to stop her but she just unleashed a massive psychic attack knocking everyone out within her radius.
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Opening his eyes slowly and groggily the dark hero awoke. "Uh oh my head…" he saw he was lying on a medical table as then in came Reed to check on him. "You get the licence plate of that thing that hit me?" Eclipse asked as he sat up slowly.
"We all got hit with a psychic wave that knocked us all out but by the time we awoke she was gone." Reed said.
He felt his face seeing he had his mask still on. "I tried to get it off but I got stopped." Reed said as he knew the security feature stopped him.
"Sorry about that, had to be sure no one found out who I was while I took a nap and also sorry for the small shock." Eclipse apologised.
"No need, besides we have bigger problems." Reed said as he knew what he meant.
"Dark Reaper." Eclipse said getting up as the situation was dire.
Both left the room and made their way out to the main hall, as the other members of the team were awaiting them.
"Alright I have a slight headache so let's get the situation right, first off where are the four stooges?" Eclipse asked.
"Taken to prison." Ben said.
"So what do we do about our powers? That psycho has our powers." Jonny asked.
"Add that with her dark magic she has immense powers at her fingertips, I have to stop her." Eclipse said as Reed approached him and gave him something.
"Take this this will help you locate her cosmic energy trail." he said as Eclipse turned it on and it was beginning to pick up her trail.
"I'll get your powers back and end her game before she-"
"HOLD IT!" it was the voice of Valeria Richards and in her hands was a massive folder.
"Uh sorry Ms…?" Eclipse asked playing dumb.
"Don't treat me like a fool, as I was about to say before that the reason I why an idiot like Jack Redgrave was helping me didn't make sense until I saw these." she said holding the folders and gave them to the rest pf the team to look at as they opened them and were shocked.
"You mean that…"
"Yes, Jack Redgrave is Eclipse!" Valeria stated as all eyes were on the man in black.
"No point trying to throw them off now." Reed said to him as they then looked at him in surprise.
"Wait you knew about this?" his daughter asked.
"Yes I've known a long time and don't take it personally but he asked me to keep this between us." Reed explained his reasons for not saying anything.
"You know it makes perfect sense that you had some sort of an advantage but this…this is too much, your no superhero who fights evil, you're nothing but a thrill seeking junkie who gets off on beating up bad guys and saving the day, I bet that you were never even this smart without that artefact enhancing your mind?" Valeria went off into a massive angry rant with him as Jack remained calm.
"Make all the assumptions you like about me but I've got better things to do right now than stand here and take this from you so if you don't mind." Eclipse said turning around to leave.
"You think just because you have that huge brain of yours that you can go out and be a hero like the rest of us? What gives you the right to do this huh? Wonder what your father will think of you right now?" Valeria asked as he stopped in his tracks hearing that.
He just turned around and marched back right up to her face and just took his mask off with nothing but anger in his eyes.
"Don't you EVER! Talk about my father! You think that file by there is all you need to know about me? It's words printed on paper, you have no idea what I went through…my father died to save me and you have the gaol to insult him?" Jack spat in anger as he wasn't done.
"I'll tell you something I wish that I did use what I know now to save my father but I used it for my own selfish needs and he paid the price, I live with that every day that is why I do this in his name, in his honour and now there's a psychopath running around armed with your powers and is ready to do god knows what? But I can tell you something right now people like her they don't look for logic…people like her wanna watch the world burn, she'll burn this city to the ground for sick pleasure and I'm the only one who can stop her so do me a favour…STAY OUT OF MY WAY!" Jack said throwing his mask back on as he ran out the hole in the main window and went after the villain.
Leaving them all in a speechless state as the faces of Valeria's family said it all as she knew she went too far.
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Swinging from rooftop to rooftop he was using the device given to him by Doctor Richards to locate the madwoman as her trail of cosmic energy was leading him right to her.
Thrill seeking junkie…I'll show her, I'll show them all who I am!
Jack mentally said to himself as he was in no mood for any villain especially the one he's hunting as he looked to the device and saw he was close to her location and saw it was leading to an abandoned building in Hell's Kitchen so he swung up to the roof of the building which happened to be an old hotel.
"Guess she's here…better go inside and end this." Eclipse said to himself.
He just used the door for a change and kicked it open and entered the building not knowing what would happen as the place was in darkness as he switched on his night vision on his mask seeing everything more clearly.
Looking around everywhere waiting for her to make the first move he looked to the device and saw the signature was strong and was very close by…
"Finally you're here…" the voice belonged to Dark Reaper as Eclipse threw fists into mid air hoping to catch her.
"Oh so sorry dear I'm not there…I'M EVERYWHERE!" she shouted as then the sound of what could only be described as loud cackling and an earthquake was heard.
Eclipse stood ready for whatever was coming looking around as he felt a large hand grab him out from the darkness and thrown down through the ground as he fell down three floors but stopped himself as he clung on to a piece of debris and pulled himself up and rolled away from the hole in the floor and was trying to get his bearings back as appearing in a cloud of dark smoke was the villain herself.
She walked up to him as he was on his knees and she knelt down to him and was at face level with him. "Why stop your mistress when you can be my pet and we'll watch as this city and it's insects descend into chaos?" she made the proposal to him.
"You're seriously insane and…I WILL STOP YOU!" Eclipse said as he fired a double shot of discs at her as she turned into smoke and then re-emerged as her self as he came at her throwing wild fists but she just used Mr. Fantastic's powers ability to avoid all attacks and then turned invisible using the Invisible Woman's powers.
He stopped doing so as he fired a quick disc hitting the wall. "WHERE ARE YOU?!" Eclipse shouted looking around for her.
As then she laughed he hit nothing then he heard her again and struck but got nothing as more laughter was heard. "Oh now I know you can do better than that my pet." she taunted as he was beginning to get more angry and just hit mid air hoping to hit her…
Two large stone fists just blasted him as he fell through the floors yet again but was then grabbed by her large hands and as they continued to fall down the many floors of the building she just drove him downward and right down into the old lobby as he laid there in a massive hole made by the impact as his suit was damaged as the left arm was almost exposed but his gauntlet remained intact.
"Uhh…." Eclipse let out as he was beginning to see double and saw standing above him was the mad woman smiling ever so evily.
"Now…time to fry my pet." Dark Reaper said as she began to use The Human Torch's ability to roast him as he knew he only had seconds to get out of the way and tried to shoot a line to safety up as he just did it anyway up as she threw the fireball attack at him as he shot a line out and narrowly avoided the attack but the line got burned and threw him down to the ground but now he took more damage as the right eye hole was exposed and his bottom jaw of his mask was torn as blood was shown coming out of his mouth and was hurting bad as he think he broke his ribs on landing.
Looking around he saw she was nowhere to be found as he knew she was playing with him again.
"Eclipse." a familiar voice called out as he saw someone he thought he'd never see.
"Spider-Girl?" he said in disbelief. "What're you doing here?" he asked her approaching her slowly.
"I'm here…TO HELP YOU DIE!" she shouted and swiped at him with a scythe as she managed to cut him by the abdomen but missed the killing blow as he realised it was the mad woman using the powers of Ms. Fantastic's shape shifting abilities.
"Now I'm going to kill you my little pet." she then was about to use her scythe and power up one final attack and he knew this would be it as a massive surge of energy engulfed the place…
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"Hello?"
"May…he-he-help…m-m-me…ugh…"
"Jack? Jack? JACK?!" May shouted down the end of the line as she heard nothing.
"HANG ON I'M COMING!" May shouted down the line as she found an empty area and changed into Spider-Girl.
Oh! Our hero is down but now will the wall crawler be able to save him in time? Will Dark Reaper be stopped?
What you think? Reviews please!
