Two hours later.
Leeches lit a cigarette and blew the smoke into cold air on a fire escape and she smirked to herself, and stretched her seemingly thin fragile form making odd popping noises as her bone realigned their selves. She headed into the office block where the prisoners were being held, it was a strangely muted affair the hostages seemed to be still only moving slowly, a radio microphone was on a table, and an areial had been hastily attached to the side of the building by some Arachnos agents disguised as workmen. She walked over to the radio microphone and made sure it would be transmitted across the city, Good afternoon Paragon, its me again, your new villain, oh if you only knew the truth.
She laughed and patted the microphone, Now lets see where did I leave you all last time, oh yes thats right, people of Paragon, your hero, well one of them, is about to make his greatest sacrifice, I would dearly love to show this moment on screen for you, but I think you have all had enough TV appearances, so ladies and gentlemen, you are going to hear some uneasy listening, tune in, in one hours time for some live agony in your eardrums.
She moved away from the radio and stood up fully and smiled at the eight Arachnos soldiers dressed as street thugs, Dont worry boys, you will be protected, as will I.
Cluvsun walked up to her, Wont they be able to track dem radio signals to ere?
Indeed they will Mr Cluvsun. She said in a patronising tone,
But dont worry you little self, now its time for some music I believe.
With that she pressed a few buttons on the radio and classical music started to play loudly through the whole office building.
The end is just a new beginning, Goodbye all my coh friends and even the enemies, its been a blast I will miss you all. Thank you Paragon team, you gave me a home from home I will always appriciate it.
((just ignore the first part if its too much reading))
She activated the radio again and said, "ok boys and girls its request time".
With that she went on, I have put a bomb in each school in Paragon, unless I get 14 million dollars, a free pardon and all the prisoners currently in the zig are freed, if not the kids get a lesson in free flight, plus I still will have to kill these two".
She saw the huntsman bring the news crew in, "Correction these five people, have a nice day now".
The end is just a new beginning, Goodbye all my coh friends and even the enemies, its been a blast I will miss you all. Thank you Paragon team, you gave me a home from home I will always appriciate it.
((Deleted and reconned due to LOI dont know what I did wrong this time but there we go))
The end is just a new beginning, Goodbye all my coh friends and even the enemies, its been a blast I will miss you all. Thank you Paragon team, you gave me a home from home I will always appriciate it.
((This will be a bit of a long winded start but I thought maybe some of you would like a nice run up for the event, and well I hope its not too contrived or samey and any questions or suggestions please feel free to PM me.))
It was raining slightly and the grey overcast sky seemed to cast a dreary feel to everything, the blue fields of the force walls that Protected Paragon could be seen all around in the distance as a plane came into land in Paragon airport. The plane touched down and came to a halt and started unloading its passengers and their luggage, everything seemed to be going on normally, well as normal as Paragon ever got. The indication though that things were not quite as normal as the airport wanted people to believe was the presence of a Longbow helicopter circling overhead, they were keeping their distance though and watching from afar, they were following orders, they had been told to stay clear but to keep their eyes on things, unknown to them however someone else had been keenly watching this flight as well.
Three figures were on a roof across the road from the airport, they were in the unmistakable black armour of Archons Wolf spiders but were under the cover of a shadow from a water tower and had built in stealth systems in their armour, all this would make them very difficult to detect. One of them was looking through some technologically advanced pair of binoculars as the other two kept watch for any heroes, so far though it had been silent, their presence had gone totally unnoticed it seemed. The one with the binoculars said down his helmet communicator, Ok target has moved into passenger lounge he seemed to have at least six secret service people guarding him, will continue to monitor.
On the street outside of the airports main entrance and exit, a seemingly normal tramp was staggering down the street and he could see three large black 4x4 vehicles waiting by the doorway with one police car in front and one behind them. He made a mental note of this and hobbled on his way further down the road and whispered down a hidden communicator, Looks like they are going to move him in the 4X4s here, looks like some police will be escorting them too, nothing we cant handle though, group two have already prepared the devices, Operative out.
With that he hobbled seemingly drunkenly around a corner and down an ally way singing to himself and he vanished into a doorway of a nearby building.
On the roof the Wolf spider with the binoculars herd this and said to the others with him, Ok lets go and get ready for the grab, remember though, the web mistresss orders are stun bullets only, she dont want any deaths, I know thats not pleasing but I dont want to get on her bad side.
With that they activated their suits stealth systems and jumped onto the fire escape and made their way down towards the airports main entrance, they were moving with practiced precision, these were no ordinary wolf spiders anyone could tell that by the way they moved. These were not your average barely trained thugs, they were also very ready for trouble and had rifles and the typical Archons mace with them. This was all going exactly as planned so far, but this whole thing was only just starting anything could happen now.
The convoy of vehicles started on its way and started driving slowly down the street, they were moving slowly as these vehicles were armoured. They almost idly drove down the street and the police escort kept a close watch, the Longbow helicopter was still circling overhead as well. The first police car passed a innocent enough looking water hydrant but as the first 4X4 started the pass the hydrant exploded in a huge explosion that knocked the 4X4 over on its side and sent it skidding sideways across the road, another hydrant near the rear police car also exploded flipping the police car forwards and sending it smashing into the back of the rearmost 4x4 which skidded forwards in turn smashing into the back of the middle one which was trying to turn desperately as a manhole underneath it slowly slid open and two stone encrusted fists punched the car sending it flipping on its side as a large man with robotic arms and legs encrusted in lumps of stone lifted himself out of the manhole and two Crab spiders in partial stealth lifted out behind him opening fire at the downed vehicles making sure anyone in them stayed under cover as the three stealthed Wolf Spiders ran from an ally way and over to the middle vehicle ready to grab their target.
Overhead the Helicopter had seen all this and the crew tried to send a radio message to their commanders only to find that the radio was being jammed. The Longbow soldiers in the back of the chopper prepared to put some Eagle backpacks on when they felt something hit the Helicopter and its started to spin around out of control and the pilot shouted, It hit our tail rotor, hold on everyone, I think I can still get her down!
On the street below several pedestrians had no doubt been rather surprised to see a woman apparently pushing a baby in a pram pull out a heat seeking missile launcher from the pram and fire it at the Helicopter, she smiled as she saw it spin out of control and said down her communicator that was disguised as a wrist watch, Eye is the sky is going down, am returning to base.
With that she pulled a rifle from under her long coat and ran away towards a nearby manhole cover.
The three Wolf spiders opened the doors on the side of the 4X4 and fired their rifles inside stunning the three secret service guards and pulling their unconscious target out, they dragged him to the manhole and jumped inside followed by the cyborg and the two crab spiders who had blew out the tyres on the remaining police car and wrapped the police inside it in a covering of web grenades so they would not be following as the ambush group made their escape.
Paragon up and coming hero Justice For All though had arrived just to see the last part of the event unfold, he ran to the ambush area and saw the carnage but was relived to see that it seemed most people in the convoy had suffered minor wounds though one had a broken leg. He helped some of them out of the vehicles and then he saw the manhole, he had to try and rescue this guy, whoever it was. This was probably why all heroes had been told not to be in the airport zone by authorities, as they seemed to think a hero presence attracted trouble like flies to a rubbish dump plus some politicians were always wearing about heroes. He shoved the manhole aside and said to one of the secret service men, Call for backup as soon as you can, I am going after them, you try and get things up here sorted out.
The secret service man nodded and started to organise his men. Justice hoped none of them followed him as whoever organised this ambush seemed to know what they were doing and them following him would probably only get them killed. He wished he could call for backup though but there was no time to waste on waiting for someone to break the jamming signal, he was going to have to go this one alone.
He form a shield of ice around himself as he jumped down into the sewer tunnels, he was surprised to find that the tunnel had been drained of sewage. What was going on here? He looked around cautiously but couldnt see anyone, that didnt really reassure him though these guys had been using some kind of stealth they had to have been. He herd voices up ahead and got ready for trouble as he slowly approached a corner, he took a deep breath as he took a peek around the corner. He saw the back of an Arachnos crab spider and some big guy that seemed to be half robot but have stone powers. Great if a Crab spider wasnt enough trouble he would have someone with power to deal with, he was going to have to take them out quickly and he kicked the crab spider in the back of the knees and jumped around the arms of the backpack as the arms fired lasers in all directions, he had obviously surprised the Crab spider and he took advantage of the surprise by slamming a punch into the Crab spiders head hard enough to knock the soldier out despite the armour. It seemed though he had jumped the gun somewhat and the stone user was on top of him pummelling at him with his fists in the space of a second or two at most, then he seemed to pull away. Justice For All swung a counter punch at the attacker and felt a net suddenly wrap itself around him. He used his strength and yanked at it pulling two Arachnos soldiers over as he did and sending them sprawling across the floor. A third Arachnos soldier ran at him swinging his mace. Justice For All punched the soldier in the chest denting his armour and flung him backwards and up against a wall with the force of the punch. He realised though too late the soldier attack had been a distraction and a stone covered metal fist hit him in the head and he staggered backwards and slipped down a wall, he felt consciousness leave him as he saw a woman stand over him with shadows seemingly drifting around her, he recognised her, his old enemy, Countess or was it lady Leeches?
He came around tied to a chair and leeches smiled mockingly at him, Nice of you to join us Justice man, she chuckled almost childlike with her strange echoey voice as she went on, We have so much catching up to do.
Then her tone changed almost instantly till her voice was almost demonic sounding and the shadow stuff around her seemed to change form from smoky to almost having a jagged edge appearance to it, I have so been looking forwards to my payback.
Justice shook his head trying to clear his mind, god not her, why did it have to be her? He knew he was in serious trouble here so tried to reason with her, Look, I know this is going to sound like begging but, it dont have to be like this, just hand that guy over all this can be forgotten about.
Leeches laughed but it was a bitter laugh full of malice, Oh I think not, I am making a statement, you will see, they all will.
Look Ive told you before killing will just get you hated more!
Leeches glared at him with her black eyes boring into his, I am already hated for something I done sixty years ago! Paragon and its form of human justice chooses never to forget, so dont expect me to show mercy.
Look, you could negotiate about that, we all make mistakes.
Leeches made a mocking motion of blah blah blah with her mouth, They and you never understood, after world war 1 there was chaos in Europe, people needed someone full of promise, I fell for a lie, my father was a liar also, but no, you want to lock me in a cage for something I hardly had any control over, no my dear, I am not going to be locked up like an animal, your death and the death of this senator will be the first act in a, great shift in things.
She chuckled to herself and moved away and said to the stone cyborg quietly, No killing anyone Mr Cluvsun, do you understand? That was all bluster, I am indeed making a statement, but not the statement I told him.
Then what is all dis for den?
Said Cluvsun again in a way that was exposing the fact that he was maybe not the sharpest tool in the shed. You and they will find out soon enough, just watch the prisoners, I have other things to attend to.
A newspaper report obviously leaked by Leeches herself to the press, Senator Albert Redrick and paragon hero Justice For All kidnapped by felons unknown , city told to be ready for radio and TV broadcast from the group of kidnappers, Senator Redrick is a known opponent of the freedom for heroes act and we cant help but wonder whether some heroes were in on this plot, after all where were they when all this happened? Where was the hero security on this event? Were they all busy elsewhere or didnt they care because of who this victim was? The press demand to know the answer to this and a few other pressing questions!
Later that day on TV and radio, a fuzzy picture of some 1950s sci fi film of a giant squid attacking a submarine showed itself and a woman in black makeup with pale skin and shadows moving around her like the tentacles of the squid that had been shown a second earlier, People of paragon, you can blame Edward for this method, I know it will rile him so.
She chuckled slightly, Anyway, this was the only way to make myself known without someone getting to my message and warping it, straight from the horses mouth you might say, not that you would say I was a horse, or I would cut your head off, anyway moving on.
She chuckled more almost like an excited school girl, Now dear Paragon, the city that broke my little heart, I am giving you a message from the soul of the underbelly of the city you love, and the message is. You do not deserve heroes! The man I captured, one senator Redrick he wanted to end heroes, to make them illegal, so he should, if you let a man like this into your senate you really dont deserve heroes do you? No I think not, many will be happy when I kill this man, many will rejoice, I am doing a good thing no?
She smirked slightly before going on in a almost dreamy sounding voice, she was obviously enjoying hamming this up, Now where am I holding them both the hero and the enemy of the heroes? Yes where indeed, well I shall tell you, where my dear Edward rests his hat, and where that despicable psycho made his mark and weakened your left over heroes, yes Kings Row my friends thats where. She chuckled again and the camera closed in, then she kissed the camera leaving a mark of some black oily substance on the lens before saying, With love and kisses, with scars and bruises to my dear paragon, oh and I nearly forgot, happy voting, you know whos not getting my vote.
With that the American national anthem started playing as the end of the 1950s film showed the squid being set on fire.
Leeches moved away from the camera a totally different persona to the one she had shown was evident, Now, with that hopefully they will think Im a psycho.
The Huntsman she spoke too seemed to think she was anyway and made a none committal grunt before saying, What was the point of that? You have as good as sold us down the river to the Zig.
No I havent, I have timed this to perfection you see. Most the heroes are either still in the post zombie Halloween recovery state, tied up in that strange business with some odd robots or on some strange venture in some portal, no one will come, and I shall have such a show for the public by the time Im done, I trust the pit is ready?
Yeah if you can call it a pit.
It will serve, so is Cluvsun still watching the prisoners?
Yes, and he hasnt made a move to touch them, he seems to have calmed down somewhat.
Yes I do hope he keeps his cool, anyway have he and the prisoners been moved to that office block and have your men changed their uniforms into something less Arachnos like as pre planned?
Yes, everythings been done to look like this is some thug ran thing, the only one that knows any different is well, that Justice For All clown.
Good right, prepare to start phase two of the plan, oh and by the way, your spec ops have so far Impressed me, dont botch things now, understood?
Yes, but we arent doing it for you, we are doing it for lord Recluse.
Of course, of course, now move out someone may be tracking the transmission to here, I have something waiting if they do.
That said she vomited up a black substance on a nearby wall and seemed to sink right into it emerging on the other side and heading for a street as large bat like wings burst out of her back and she flew away. The huntsman sent a signal to his men to begging phase two of this whole thing and made his way out heading for a fire door, walking passed the tied up news crew he had stolen the equipment from, he stopped as he did so though a idea crossing his mind. Ah leverage, Leeches might be willing to take risks but he wasnt and he nodded to two of his men, Bring the hostages with us, we can always use a meat shield in case the police try anything.
((Again, sorry for how long that was))
The end is just a new beginning, Goodbye all my coh friends and even the enemies, its been a blast I will miss you all. Thank you Paragon team, you gave me a home from home I will always appriciate it.