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<blockquote data-quote="Broccli_Head" data-source="post: 1161267" data-attributes="member: 105"><p><strong>issue #10, part II</strong></p><p></p><p>Somewhere under the waters in Boston Harbor, in a hidden base, Armando Montoya floated, his internal organs, mainly his throat and lungs were slowly being healed by a combination of antibiotics and nanomachines in a viscous fluid. Valor McCoy monitored the system while the Mark IV maintenance robot cleaned the medlab of the glass and liquid residue from the small battle between Zephyr and Somnus. The rest of the team patrolled Boston, looking for the Crowns of Krim and the Star of Karnak. It was late in the evening. </p><p></p><p>Jae Sun took the low roads and rode the trains in the metropolitan area. Slipstream buzzed around the streets. Dragonfist on his hoverbike and Cosmic Knight in his power suit monitored the skies. Much to Jae Sun’s chagrin, Darkfire had turned off her communicator for some unknown reason. As he rode the T and thought about things some more, his annoyance became concern. The nightmarish unicorn aspect of Darkfire more and more seemed to be the preferred form. </p><p></p><p>His holographic wrist communicator beeped. A small image of Slipstream’s face appeared. </p><p></p><p><em> “Yoh! Jae Son. I heard somethin’ kinda funny as I was passing by MIT. Gonna check it out. See ya.”</em></p><p></p><p>“I will be with you shortly. Contact the others,” replied the detective. </p><p></p><p>He walked towards the end of the train car and opened the door disappearing in a flash of light.</p><p></p><p>“Huh? What was that?” exclaimed a half-asleep occupant—the only other that had been in car with Jae Sun.</p><p></p><p>When he received no answer, he adjusted the backpack that he was using as a pillow and went back to sleep.</p><p></p><p>**</p><p></p><p>Slipstream slowed down near a building that contained several laboratories. Coincidentally, he remembered, Valor McCoy’s labs were housed within. Smoke poured from one of the windows and despite the fire, it was eerily quiet. </p><p></p><p>Then he heard Jae Sun sprinting across the quadrangle. He pointed towards the shattered windows and smoke then he sped up to the main door and phased through. In seconds he arrived in the lab. It was a ruin. Scour marks from blaster fire marred the walls. The electronic equipment was destroyed and sparking and the glassware had been broken and strewn all over. But what was worse were the dead bodies of what he guessed were Valor’s students and technicians. The back of his neck tingled as arcs of electricity coursed across the computers and spectroscopy machines. </p><p></p><p>He spun around on instinct and there before him materialized a robot!</p><p></p><p>“What the--? You look like you just came out of a Terminator movie!” he exclaimed surprised as he searched through his mental database to place the robot and the villain who had sent it. </p><p></p><p>He blasted the machine anyway, but the energy seemed to dissipate when it struck the corona of electricity that surrounded it. The robot mouthed something unintelligible and some of the arcs coalesced near its eyes shooting out electric fire. </p><p></p><p>“Yeowwww!” cried Slipstream and he leaped from one of the shattered windows. </p><p></p><p>At that moment, Jae Sun arrived into the devastation. Detecting no other targets , the destroid turned on the detective and before he could act let loose two more beams from its electric eyes. Jae Sun screamed as he caught fire. The attack had been two quick for him to dodge. He sunk to his knees and then did a face plant on the tile floor, severely burned.</p><p></p><p>**</p><p></p><p>Cosmic Knight was humming and thinking of a young woman—blonde-hair, blue eyes. That she happened to be a super thief and a member of GRAB was irrelevant. She was imprinted in his mind and he was in love with her. </p><p></p><p>His musings were interrupted as Jae Sun called him. </p><p></p><p><em> “Trouble at MIT. Home in on Slipstream’s or my signal.”</em> </p><p></p><p>Dragonfist rode up to where Cosmic Knight was acknowledging Jae Sun’s transmission. </p><p></p><p>“You know,” he commented. “She likes me more. After all she charmed me first.”</p><p></p><p>Inside his helmet, Theo looked at him incredulously as he punched his bike across the Charles towards the university. </p><p></p><p>“Oh, yeah? I’ll show you!” </p><p></p><p>Cosmic Knight nodded his head and set the thrusters to full throttle. He roared past Dragonfist and was soon at the building…the building were he worked. Horror crept over him as he saw Slipstream leap from the window trailing fire. Seconds later, he saw the “terminator” robot appear. Instinctively, he fired, but the creature merely absorbed the plasma blast. Then it looked at him and fired its eye beams. They tore through his hardened armor plating and burned him badly. He shot up into the sky. </p><p></p><p>“What is this thing? Where are the others?”</p><p></p><p><em>“Gotta get Jae Sun! Call Valor and tell him the bad news,”</em> responded Slipstream. </p><p></p><p>“How many?” asked Theo his voice trailing off as the horrible possibilities sunk in. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Slipstream, ran to the side of the building and leapt back to the 7th floor crashing through another window and into the lab hopefully on the flank of the destroid. He reached the fallen form of Jae Sun, barely breathing and grabbed it sliding behind some shelves and machinery as the robot turned to the sound of his entry. One of the beams skinned his shoulder and melted the refrigerator in front of him. His flesh sizzled, but fortunately, it was just a flesh wound. </p><p></p><p>“Dang, Jae Son. Sorry for leaving you, but we’ll soon be safe.” </p><p></p><p>He thought he heard the detective groan. Considering the state of his burned body, that was a good sign. Slipstream shot through an open door and out the back, but then around the front as he heard the screams of innocents. The destroid had turned his attention to the unlucky students that were crossing the quadrangle this late in the evening. He put Jae Sun down behind some bushes, stabilized him and ran out to confront the deadly robot. Somehow the ‘bot had missed its intended targets who were running away back the way they came. </p><p></p><p>Slipstream got the machine’s attention back with a <em>sonic blast</em>. </p><p></p><p>“Over here, big ugly. Pick on me!”</p><p></p><p>Cosmic Knight was trying to repair internal systems and put out the fire in his suit. He continued to fly higher. </p><p></p><p>Dragonfist arrived and homed in on the fried form of Jae Sun Lee, stabilized thanks to Slipstream’s <em>molecular re-rearrangement</em> power. He narrowed his eyes and looked across the courtyard. Slipstream dodged another set of eye beams from a scary looking robot that stood in the sill of a shattered window. </p><p></p><p>He began to work himself into a frenzy, “No one hurts one of my teammates and friends! Robot, you will soon be scrap!” </p><p></p><p>He spun his hoverbike around and shot towards the robot. Slipstream caught on, realizing that energy blasts would not take the destroid down, he too decided to engage in melee. A second or two ahead of Dragonfist, the speedster ran and smacked the robot. Electricity coursed though his veins as his fist penetrated some sort of force field. </p><p></p><p>“Man! That hurt me more than you, probably.”</p><p></p><p>He thought he saw the thing grin. Slipstream heard the whine of engines and looked over his shoulder. Dragonfist was bearing down on them with an angry face. The speedster flattened out and rolled away. Dragonfist turned the bike at the last second and leaped across the empty space seven floors high with a war cry. His bike tumbled away on horizontal trajectory, but Dragonfist flew. He pulled his fist back and it began to glow, and then as he landed in front of the destroid, connected. The robot burst into many pieces and Dragonfist cried out in triumph. </p><p></p><p>Slipstream brought him back to reality, “Whoa, dude. Dragonfist, Smash!”</p><p></p><p>The red haze of anger left and Dragonfist stood panting, spent by the incredible effort. Cosmic Knight flew in ready to rumble like his companions. He was briefly disappointed at missing all the fun. However, looking around at the scene and the blasted corpses of his lab-mates sobered him. Cosmic Knight stood in silence letting his arms droop to his sides, now suddenly emotionally drained. </p><p></p><p>Even Dragonfist’s final husky remark of “Now she’ll like me even more,” was lost on him. </p><p></p><p>**</p><p></p><p>Valor stood over every one of the bodies in silence as the police and forensics lined them in the courtyard. Jae Sun, now miraculously recovered and wrapped in blankets, and Slipstream talked with PRIMUS agents. Cosmic Knight, not being able to handle all the emotions coursing through his mind, had left without explanation. Dragonfist brooded. </p><p></p><p>Valor McCoy was disappointed in his last surviving student and after apologizing to Roger and Shannon, Bill, Rhonda, Prakash, and Michael for driving them so hard that they all had to be at the lab late at night, walked over to Jae Sun and Slipstream. </p><p></p><p>“It’s all my fault. I think I need to hang up my armor and stop trying to be a superhero. I don’t think I can take more people that I care about, dying.”</p><p></p><p>“Valor, we need you,” responded Jae Sun. </p><p></p><p>Valor shrugged his shoulders. </p><p></p><p><em>sigh...</em> “Gotta go make a police report, then I’m going back to base to check on Armando. After that, I think I’ll pack up my things and take a vacation. Maybe I’ll go back out to New Mexico.”</p><p></p><p>He changed into his heroic form—black armor telescoped around his body--and flew towards the harbor.</p><p></p><p>“I do not think this was related to our current search, and I feel that there is more to come this night.”</p><p></p><p>Slipstream nodded his head. He knew where the robot had come from but kept it to himself. </p><p></p><p>“Let us regroup at the base. See if you can contact Cosmic Knight. I will grab Anaka.”</p><p></p><p>The leaders parted company and headed off into the Boston night.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Broccli_Head, post: 1161267, member: 105"] [b]issue #10, part II[/b] Somewhere under the waters in Boston Harbor, in a hidden base, Armando Montoya floated, his internal organs, mainly his throat and lungs were slowly being healed by a combination of antibiotics and nanomachines in a viscous fluid. Valor McCoy monitored the system while the Mark IV maintenance robot cleaned the medlab of the glass and liquid residue from the small battle between Zephyr and Somnus. The rest of the team patrolled Boston, looking for the Crowns of Krim and the Star of Karnak. It was late in the evening. Jae Sun took the low roads and rode the trains in the metropolitan area. Slipstream buzzed around the streets. Dragonfist on his hoverbike and Cosmic Knight in his power suit monitored the skies. Much to Jae Sun’s chagrin, Darkfire had turned off her communicator for some unknown reason. As he rode the T and thought about things some more, his annoyance became concern. The nightmarish unicorn aspect of Darkfire more and more seemed to be the preferred form. His holographic wrist communicator beeped. A small image of Slipstream’s face appeared. [I] “Yoh! Jae Son. I heard somethin’ kinda funny as I was passing by MIT. Gonna check it out. See ya.”[/I] “I will be with you shortly. Contact the others,” replied the detective. He walked towards the end of the train car and opened the door disappearing in a flash of light. “Huh? What was that?” exclaimed a half-asleep occupant—the only other that had been in car with Jae Sun. When he received no answer, he adjusted the backpack that he was using as a pillow and went back to sleep. ** Slipstream slowed down near a building that contained several laboratories. Coincidentally, he remembered, Valor McCoy’s labs were housed within. Smoke poured from one of the windows and despite the fire, it was eerily quiet. Then he heard Jae Sun sprinting across the quadrangle. He pointed towards the shattered windows and smoke then he sped up to the main door and phased through. In seconds he arrived in the lab. It was a ruin. Scour marks from blaster fire marred the walls. The electronic equipment was destroyed and sparking and the glassware had been broken and strewn all over. But what was worse were the dead bodies of what he guessed were Valor’s students and technicians. The back of his neck tingled as arcs of electricity coursed across the computers and spectroscopy machines. He spun around on instinct and there before him materialized a robot! “What the--? You look like you just came out of a Terminator movie!” he exclaimed surprised as he searched through his mental database to place the robot and the villain who had sent it. He blasted the machine anyway, but the energy seemed to dissipate when it struck the corona of electricity that surrounded it. The robot mouthed something unintelligible and some of the arcs coalesced near its eyes shooting out electric fire. “Yeowwww!” cried Slipstream and he leaped from one of the shattered windows. At that moment, Jae Sun arrived into the devastation. Detecting no other targets , the destroid turned on the detective and before he could act let loose two more beams from its electric eyes. Jae Sun screamed as he caught fire. The attack had been two quick for him to dodge. He sunk to his knees and then did a face plant on the tile floor, severely burned. ** Cosmic Knight was humming and thinking of a young woman—blonde-hair, blue eyes. That she happened to be a super thief and a member of GRAB was irrelevant. She was imprinted in his mind and he was in love with her. His musings were interrupted as Jae Sun called him. [I] “Trouble at MIT. Home in on Slipstream’s or my signal.”[/I] Dragonfist rode up to where Cosmic Knight was acknowledging Jae Sun’s transmission. “You know,” he commented. “She likes me more. After all she charmed me first.” Inside his helmet, Theo looked at him incredulously as he punched his bike across the Charles towards the university. “Oh, yeah? I’ll show you!” Cosmic Knight nodded his head and set the thrusters to full throttle. He roared past Dragonfist and was soon at the building…the building were he worked. Horror crept over him as he saw Slipstream leap from the window trailing fire. Seconds later, he saw the “terminator” robot appear. Instinctively, he fired, but the creature merely absorbed the plasma blast. Then it looked at him and fired its eye beams. They tore through his hardened armor plating and burned him badly. He shot up into the sky. “What is this thing? Where are the others?” [I]“Gotta get Jae Sun! Call Valor and tell him the bad news,”[/I] responded Slipstream. “How many?” asked Theo his voice trailing off as the horrible possibilities sunk in. Meanwhile, Slipstream, ran to the side of the building and leapt back to the 7th floor crashing through another window and into the lab hopefully on the flank of the destroid. He reached the fallen form of Jae Sun, barely breathing and grabbed it sliding behind some shelves and machinery as the robot turned to the sound of his entry. One of the beams skinned his shoulder and melted the refrigerator in front of him. His flesh sizzled, but fortunately, it was just a flesh wound. “Dang, Jae Son. Sorry for leaving you, but we’ll soon be safe.” He thought he heard the detective groan. Considering the state of his burned body, that was a good sign. Slipstream shot through an open door and out the back, but then around the front as he heard the screams of innocents. The destroid had turned his attention to the unlucky students that were crossing the quadrangle this late in the evening. He put Jae Sun down behind some bushes, stabilized him and ran out to confront the deadly robot. Somehow the ‘bot had missed its intended targets who were running away back the way they came. Slipstream got the machine’s attention back with a [I]sonic blast[/I]. “Over here, big ugly. Pick on me!” Cosmic Knight was trying to repair internal systems and put out the fire in his suit. He continued to fly higher. Dragonfist arrived and homed in on the fried form of Jae Sun Lee, stabilized thanks to Slipstream’s [I]molecular re-rearrangement[/I] power. He narrowed his eyes and looked across the courtyard. Slipstream dodged another set of eye beams from a scary looking robot that stood in the sill of a shattered window. He began to work himself into a frenzy, “No one hurts one of my teammates and friends! Robot, you will soon be scrap!” He spun his hoverbike around and shot towards the robot. Slipstream caught on, realizing that energy blasts would not take the destroid down, he too decided to engage in melee. A second or two ahead of Dragonfist, the speedster ran and smacked the robot. Electricity coursed though his veins as his fist penetrated some sort of force field. “Man! That hurt me more than you, probably.” He thought he saw the thing grin. Slipstream heard the whine of engines and looked over his shoulder. Dragonfist was bearing down on them with an angry face. The speedster flattened out and rolled away. Dragonfist turned the bike at the last second and leaped across the empty space seven floors high with a war cry. His bike tumbled away on horizontal trajectory, but Dragonfist flew. He pulled his fist back and it began to glow, and then as he landed in front of the destroid, connected. The robot burst into many pieces and Dragonfist cried out in triumph. Slipstream brought him back to reality, “Whoa, dude. Dragonfist, Smash!” The red haze of anger left and Dragonfist stood panting, spent by the incredible effort. Cosmic Knight flew in ready to rumble like his companions. He was briefly disappointed at missing all the fun. However, looking around at the scene and the blasted corpses of his lab-mates sobered him. Cosmic Knight stood in silence letting his arms droop to his sides, now suddenly emotionally drained. Even Dragonfist’s final husky remark of “Now she’ll like me even more,” was lost on him. ** Valor stood over every one of the bodies in silence as the police and forensics lined them in the courtyard. Jae Sun, now miraculously recovered and wrapped in blankets, and Slipstream talked with PRIMUS agents. Cosmic Knight, not being able to handle all the emotions coursing through his mind, had left without explanation. Dragonfist brooded. Valor McCoy was disappointed in his last surviving student and after apologizing to Roger and Shannon, Bill, Rhonda, Prakash, and Michael for driving them so hard that they all had to be at the lab late at night, walked over to Jae Sun and Slipstream. “It’s all my fault. I think I need to hang up my armor and stop trying to be a superhero. I don’t think I can take more people that I care about, dying.” “Valor, we need you,” responded Jae Sun. Valor shrugged his shoulders. [i]sigh...[/i] “Gotta go make a police report, then I’m going back to base to check on Armando. After that, I think I’ll pack up my things and take a vacation. Maybe I’ll go back out to New Mexico.” He changed into his heroic form—black armor telescoped around his body--and flew towards the harbor. “I do not think this was related to our current search, and I feel that there is more to come this night.” Slipstream nodded his head. He knew where the robot had come from but kept it to himself. “Let us regroup at the base. See if you can contact Cosmic Knight. I will grab Anaka.” The leaders parted company and headed off into the Boston night. [/QUOTE]
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