Beginnings by Shatterhead
Lightning pushed her fists at The Cloud. Enough messing around, she’d fry the perp and ask questions later. Nothing happened. She tried again- still nothing. “Guess we’ll do this the old fashioned way” she thought.
As Lightning was thrusting her fists at The Cloud, Whisper was simply talking to him. “Put your hands up and surrender. It’s the easiest way, you know. All this fighting and smashing things is silly. C’mon, you give up right?”
The Cloud looked away from Lightning and stopped in his tracks and stared at Whisper. He cocked his head as if hearing someone far away talk to him and put his hands up.
Whisper took handcuffs off her belt and told The Cloud to bring his hands down in front of him. This was always the scary part she thought. Even though her powers had always worked and she always had her martial arts training to fall back on, she had to get close enough to cuff them and she was always uneasy about that.
The Cloud brought his hands down in front of him and Whisper closed in. Dragon stood off to the side watching very intensely at what was happening. Lightning just kind of stood there looking at her fists. As Whisper went to put the cuffs on, Lightning shouted “WHISPER DON’T!!!!” The Cloud brought both his fists up and smashed Whisper in the neck with both fists sending her sprawling backwards onto the concrete floor.
Dragon attacked, hurling fists and kicks at The Cloud at a remarkable speed. Some made it through his defenses but most were blocked. She would have to figure out a way through his defenses before she tired. The blows that landed seemed to have no effect on him, actually he seemed to be enjoying this whole battle and when she did land a blow it felt like her hand or foot suffered more damage then he did.
Lightning roared into the battle as well and now he had two of them to contend with. Although not nearly as skilled as Dragon she was certainly good enough to defend herself and defeat most men.
Dragon finally connected with his head and snapped his head back; Lighting landed a kick in his stomach and sent him hurtling backwards into the darkness. They charged ahead to finish him off and were astonished to see that he had disappeared.
Dragon looked at Lightning. Lighting brought her finger to her mouth as if to say “shhhhhh”. They stood there silent waiting for the inevitable attack. Suddenly the metallic voice of The Cloud broke the silence.
“So here we are. Have you discovered what is going on here yet?”
“It doesn’t matter what’s going on here, you will be brought to justice soon enough” replied Lightning.
“Where is your friend, Whisper? Do you see her anywhere?”
“Oh God” though Lightning, we should have made sure she was okay before chasing him.
“I knew gathering you as a group would be hard and have its share
of risks, but you don’t know how to work as a team. Do you realize how
many members of the underbelly of this city will pay for the four of you?
Do you know how much money you’ve cost some very dangerous
people?”
Lightning tried to look around the room and get her bearings. If he would keep talking she should be able to use the time to her advantage. “No idea” she said. She was letting him ramble on.
“A lot. As I said earlier, I am a bounty hunter. That is why I devised
this plan.”
“Keep blabbering,” thought Lightning. She had covered half the room now but was having trouble getting to the parts of it shrouded in darkness.
All of a sudden a crashing sound came from the other side of the room and a woman squealed “ NOOOOOOO”, this was followed by the sound of someone being dragged across the floor. Suddenly a door slammed shut and quiet returned.
“Uh oh” thought Lightning. For the first time that night a little shiver of fear crawled into the back of her mind.
“AND THEN THERE WAS ONE!!!!!” screamed The Cloud. Lighting jumped. God she was scared. “Come on get it together” thought Lighting, you’ve faced much worse than this and defeated it.
Suddenly the lights burst on and Lightning was forced to shield her eyes for a moment. When she could see again the room was bathed in light. Standing in front of her about 30 feet away was The Cloud. This was the first time she had gotten a good look at him. He was in a word: Menacing.
He stood about 6’5, had the build of a linebacker and looked to be as wide as he was high. He wore a black spandex mask that covered his whole head. It seemed to have eyeholes but they were tinted making it impossible to see what color his eyes were. He had black work boots on and wore a one-piece black jumpsuit with what looked to be black surgical gloves. You couldn’t see one part of his skin.
Behind him hanging on the wall was the body of Whisper. She was hanging by rope from a steel beam in the ceiling. The tips of her boots were scraping the floor and she seemed to be unconscious. Her hair hung down and covered her face. Her toned body looked fantastic all stretched out hanging there.
“What do you think of my style, Lightning?”
“You bastard! Let her down immediately!”
“Well you can’t use your powers against me. They seem to have disappeared. Do you really think you can beat me without them?”
“Yeah, I don’t need anything other than my hands to defeat scum like you. It must be some equipment blocking our powers.”
“Very good, Blondie. It’s actually called the Capacitive Inhibitor.
It’s a little something a friend of mine cooked up. He made it especially
for me as….well… I guess you can say as a favor,” he
explained. “One of many surprised I’ve put together for you
and your friends.”
Lightning continued to advance towards him. After seeing Whisper hanging there she had no choice, she would have to beat him here and now. He was big, but she had taken down bigger. She had to think smart and quick, that was the way to stop this obnoxious brute.
“Keep coming Lightning. Believe it or not I have always admired you.
You realize that you are beautiful, even with that mask on I can tell
that.”
Now they circled each other. She was trying to find his weakness.
“I must confess I have a story to tell you. Something that has to do with tonight. Do you remember when Senator Blandi was abducted and what happened to her?”
Of course she thought, everyone remembered the poor Senator. She was currently in an insane asylum after going through a horrible ordeal. She had been introducing legislation in order to lengthen jail time for vice and gun crimes. She was on her way home when she suddenly disappeared. She was discovered a year later naked and hogtied at a bus stop in midtown. She had apparently lost her mind during her abduction. The Senator claimed to have been forced into an addiction to heroin, beaten daily, experimented on and raped by men and monsters.
“It was you then. You were the one who did that? What kind of a monster are you?” she stammered. “I was going to just arrest you, now you’ll pay dearly for what you’ve done!”
Lightning charged him and landed a punch to his jaw. Spittle flew from his mouth and he backed up. She followed that up with a kick to his balls but her boot clanged off of something metal. Her fist then connected with his stomach causing him to groan. A chop followed to his neck-still he would not go down.
She swung her fist to bring down on his face and he caught her fist in his hand. His hand swallowed up her fist and then he squeezed. “Ugghhh” she moaned. He pulled her fist along with her arm straight up in the air. He then brought his knee up and nailed her in her crotch. “UGGGHHH” moaned Lightning. He brought his left hand up and punched her square in the jaw.
He then dropped her to the floor. He grabbed her blond hair and pulled her across the floor by it. Lightning moaned again and pulled at his hands. She couldn’t believe how easily she had been defeated without her powers. He dropped her again, turned around and kicked her square in the stomach. Once again he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her head up and whispered in her ear.
“Listen bitch, you have no idea how lucky you are. Someone paid big
to land you and I gotta keep you kinda nice for him. If not I’d bang
the fuck out of you right here on this floor and then throw you downstairs
with your friend. Instead I’ll have fun with that slut hanging on the
wall.”
All Lightning could do was moan. “I have to recover and find this thing that stripped our powers or we’re done,” she thought.
“Bye bye baby.” With that he dragged her up against a wall
and pulled something out of his pocket. He punched a green button and a door
appeared and then swung open. He grabbed the spandex by her crotch and picked
her up by it. He could feel some of her pubic hairs rip loose. He then swung
her and hurled her into the room. He stepped back, sniffed his fingers and
said, “You and the girls are in for a hell of a night
Blondie”
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