Issue #063: Untouchable
“Ok Brats, we’re touching down in five minutes.” The pilot’s voice buzzed in the team’s ears. “We’ll be landing on the roof of the building.”
“Thanks Steve.” Mr Perfect replied through his commlink. “Ok guys, what have we got on these guys?”
The team looked across the helicopter to Mr Universe. “Ummm… Fissure?” He said.
Fissure nodded. “The Untouchables. They’re middle-range. Nothing spectacular. They’ve fought Captain Awesome a few times. They escaped in the big Alcatraz breakout.”
At the mention of the breakout, the team went silent. Gauss had almost killed Mr Universe that day, and had in fact killed dozens of others.
“Jericho is unstoppable.” Mr Universe took over the briefing. “He’s indestructible. Once he gets moving, you can’t stop him. He’s not exactly quick, but he’s one hell of a battering ram.”
“Bliss controls emotions. This is a psychic ability, not pheromone control, so we’re all subject to it.” Fissure continued.
“Dusk goes intangible. Think Cai of Liberty Force, only nowhere near as deadly.” Mr Universe said.
“And last, but not least, Fallout. He radiates energy at an alarming rate. You cannot stand within twenty feet of him without the temperature becoming unbearable. He wears a costume made of lead to stop himself from being a danger to his teammates, but he can withdraw sections of his costume at any time. Radiation sickness is likely, not to mention the damage from the heat, and the chance of cancer.” Fissure finished.
“He’s our first target. We can’t risk bystanders.” Mr Perfect said. “Belle, can you keep Bliss distracted?” He looked to his girlfriend, who nodded affirmative. “Fissure, I need you to contain him. Just pile on the layers. Keep his costume intact if possible. We need the extra layer. Mr Universe, you’re on that too. Like Hadi at Gitmo. Layer upon layer.”
“Makes sense.” Mr Universe nodded.
“Firestorm, Dusk may be intangible, but fire may affect him, so he’s yours.” Mr Perfect said.
“Sounds like fun.” Firestorm cracked his knuckles.
“Ice Princess, Blackbird, Pixel and I will take Jericho. Same as with Pollux. Keep him off balance with ice, and misdirection.” Mr Perfect finishes.
The remaining teammates simply nodded their assent. “Ok Brats. Let’s do this.”
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Cal and Lee Richards sat at their desks on opposite sides of the room. Cal was poring over their budget, Lee was on YouTube.
“We’re going to have to pick up some more jobs or something.” Cal said. “The insurance on this place alone is through the roof.”
“Maybe we should have thought this through a little better, I mean, it’s not like this is New York. Supervillains don’t come here as often as they do anywhere else.” Lee said.
“They’re still around though, and the cops aren’t equipped.” Michelle walked in, a tray of coffees in her hand.
“But we’re big time.” Lee said. “I mean, we took down the Order of Darkness.”
Cal didn’t have time for a response, as a car came tearing through their front window. He barely had time to throw Michelle out of the way, turning his own body to steel in the process.
Lee transformed himself, and Michelle covered herself in a bony armour.
“Ok Trilogy, time for us to earn that retainer.” Cal said.
“This is going to be fun.” Kingfisher said, as he lifted another car above his head.
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“You can’t defeat us!” Epic’s voice echoed from three storeys up, as he swung at the girl attacking his team.
Raider’s forcefield went up just in time to block the attack. “You’ll have to try harder than that.” Raider said, dropping her forcefield and hitting Epic with an energy blast, knocking him on his rear.
“Fuse?” LatX ordered, as he tried to analyse their enemy. If Epic was unable to hit her, then he wasn’t going to be able to do much to her himself. Still, perhaps Fuse’s abilities would fare better.
“One fastball, coming up.” The diminutive heroine said, as she assumed a pitcher’s stance, a ball of energy forming in her hand. With an almost major-league level pitch, Fuse’s aim was perfect. The speed of the attack left Raider with no time to react, and the ball bounced straight off her chest, before exploding in front of her.
The blast sent Raider flying backward, but she managed to catch herself with a shield.
“Red Streak.” LatX ordered, as he slingshotted himself at the villainess, rolling himself into a ball in midair. He felt himself bounce off her shield, but he didn’t care. He wasn’t the real attack. He twisted his neck at an impossible angle and saw exactly what he’d hoped. Her shield was down, and Red Streak was bearing down on her, his own force field was directed straight at her.
“Too easy.” LatX smiled.
Raiders’ eyes went wide when she saw the ginger-haired speedster heading towards her. She panicked, and released energy in all directions, knocking the heroes off their feet.
It was Raider’s turn to smile. “My turn.”
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“You fight worse than your girlfriend.” Kingfisher taunted, as he hefted Cal over his head, piledriving him into the concrete below.
Cal groaned on the ground, and turned to look at Ossuary’s prone form laying across the street. He had to get to her. He climbed up on one knee. A roundhouse kick to the ribs sent him tumbling back to the ground. “I didn’t say you could get up.”
“You son of a bitch.” Lee said. He lay twisted on the ground some distance away. Kingfisher had wasted no time in disabling the stronger of the brothers, wrenching Lee’s legs out of his sockets easily, even in his steel form.
It hadn’t taken much for Kingfisher to disable Ossuary, using the energy he controlled to bind her, cracking through the exoskeleton she had erected, and crushing her beneath it. She hadn’t lasted long before passing out.
Which left him with only one adversary, and he was savouring it.
Cal struggled to his feet, and this time he made it. Kingfisher made no attempt to stop him. Cal rushed to his girlfriend’s side. Cal let out a sigh of relief when he saw she was breathing, if shallowly. He had to end this now.
Kingfisher’s deep laugh rang through the street, as he advanced on Cal, who straightened to face him.
“We’re done here.” Cal said. “Back off.”
Kingfisher’s laugh just got louder.
“I’m not letting you win here.” Cal said. “Stand down.”
“Make me.” Kingfisher taunted.
Cal assumed a combat pose, as Kingfisher flew forward and seized the hero in a huge bearhug. He tossed Cal into the air, catching him in a tight grip around the legs.
“I’m going to kill your girlfriend.” Kingfisher’s laughter hadn’t stopped. “And I’m going to use you to do it.” The villain raised Cal like a club, readying the death blow.
Cal couldn’t let him do it. He transformed back to his human form. He had to stop himself from hurting Michelle, even if it was going to kill him.
Kingfisher swung Cal downward, crashing him down on top of Ossuary’s prone form.
Kingfisher’s expression turned to rage. “How dare you!?” He demanded. “You want to take away my fun?”
“Kingfisher.” Daytripper ordered.
“What!?” The rage didn’t leave Kingfisher’s eyes, as he turned to face the teleporter.
“You’re done.” Daytripper said. “You’ve passed your test.”
“I’m going to kill them all.” Kingfisher said.
“No. You can’t kill them.” Daytripper said. “The Brat Pack will come looking for us. We need to control the fight. That’s how we’ll win. We choose the time and place. Not them.”
“Let them come.” Kingfisher said, as he reached down for Cal’s unconscious form. He missed, his hand instead hitting the floor of the training area at his headquarters.
The villain screamed in rage as he began pounding at the reinforced concrete, cracking it to the very foundations.
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Iaso crouched over Epic’s body, her healing energies flowing out, into the unconscious size-changer. “You idiot.” She muttered, as his wounds closed up, and his bruising disappeared.
She turned her vision back to the battle. LatX had wrapped himself around Fuse, to protect her, and was bouncing around the street, as Fuse lobbed her explosive energy at Raider, who was shielding against every blow. Red Streak was having similar luck, as he crashed his battering ram into her forcefield, neither was budging.
But the heroes were weakening, growing tired, while Raider was just as fresh as she was in the beginning. One of Fuse’s shots went wild, and Red Streak was hit in the leg with shrapnel, putting his high-speed running to a halt. Raider took her chance, dropped the shield and hit LatX with an energy blast, knocking him off Fuse, and leaving the two falling from ten feet up. They hit the ground with a loud crack.
“Raider. The test is over.” Daytripper was standing next to her.
“But I almost had them.” Raider said.
“Almost isn’t good enough. Kingfisher has crippled Lee Richards, Ossuary is bleeding internally, and Cal Richards is beaten. The test is over.” Daytripper said, placing a hand on Raider’s shoulder. The two disappeared instantaneously.
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“It was a simple matter of tactics.” Mr Perfect told the reporter. “We did what we knew had worked for us in the past, from battle and from training. It’s all about the teamwork.”
As the authorities loaded the battered, bruised and inhibitor-collared criminals into their transports, Mr Perfect was dealing with the assorted press that had arrived on the scene.
Off to the side, Mr Universe’s cellphone rang. His eyes went wide. “Perfect… We have to go. Now.” He said.
“What?” Mr Perfect turned from the interview, midway through answering a question.
“Iaso just called. Quintessence just got decimated by an unknown, calls herself Raider. Got teleported out by a guy in a suit.” Mr Universe said.
“Daytripper?” Mr Perfect asked.
“Sounds like it. He said another one guy, Kingfisher, fought Trilogy in Texas, and they’re in a bad way. Iaso wants us to fly her out there.” Mr Universe said.
“Kingfisher?” Fissure’s usually expressionless face was the picture of fear. “Flying is too slow. Where is Iaso?”
“Near Quintessence’s office. Why?” Mr Universe asked.
“If Trilogy have fought Kingfisher, they’re probably dead.” Fissure said, as he melded into the road.
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