Its all I could manage before it hit me, square in the back 9 tonnes of armoured personnel carrier. I felt the bones in my back shatter as I was knocked flying into the brickwork of the nearest building; the two super-powered brutes high five each other in the distance. Stunned, I try and focus and shift into Dwarf form. But they are too quick and one lifts his revolver and unleashes a grazing shot. Lucky for me his aim is so bad, but it winds me enough to stop the transformation, the armour piercing round tearing a scrape through the weave of the suit.
Casually, the other brute rips a set of traffic lights from the ground, and swishes it round like a baseball bat, then jogs over to his cohort.
You capes should stay out of the Isles! This is what you get for coming into our playground. You should phone up your longbow buddies and well take them out too chuckles the thick set pistol wielding brute. Closing in on me, he raises his revolver, pointing straight at my chest, not even a child could miss from that distance. Time to send Paragon a message, were the Brothers who killed Infinitron, we wont be messed with. You kill our brother, well get you back.
Wait! Take off his helmet, I want to look this tool in the eye when we finish him, plus the souvenir will be nice, on which note the brother swung the traffic light into the side of my head. With my head spinning, I tried to talk, but I couldnt find any words. Dropping the mangled light, he stepped forward, and unceremoniously ripped the helmet from my head.
Hey, didnt this cat get his face ripped up by that spider guy? Theres not a mark on his face. Clearly spidey was spinning us a web of lies, suppose he got what was coming to him a long fall and a sudden stop he commented.
Meh, yeah whatever, time to end his reign of terror. Hnh, pathetic he quipped as he raised the revolver once more. I closed my eyes and awaited my fate.
Id known the risks when I put on this suit, taking over from Joseph Infinus, my ancestor. By rights I was already supposed to be dead, it was only due to the fact I had been mistaken for him in the first place that I was here being merged with a kheldian. Hed sacrificed himself for what he believed in, for what he considered the greater good; I couldnt knock him for it, I had done the same thing in coming here. He may have taken it too far, eventually being blasted by his own weaponry, with only his cape remaining after his attempt to cleanse the city.
Despite his actions, despite being branded an outlaw, a vigilante, revoking his hero status I still agreed to his wishes to take up his mantle on his demise. I knew the greatness that the hero Infinitron would one day embody, a leader amongst leaders I could not let that fade away. But it seems that I could, lying here, helpless, about to become a trophy kill to a pair of criminals.
As these final thoughts rushed through my head, I was stirred by new sound; actually, no - an absence of sound. I could no longer hear the drone of nearby air conditioning units, the twitter and chirp of local wildlife, the dulcet tones of distant gunfire. I opened my eyes, and immediately regretted doing so. Between the two brute brothers an insanely bright light was growing, and they were transfixed by it. With a sudden crack and flash of blinding light, the two brothers were flung, unconscious, to each side. Accompanying the crack, a swirling vortex had appeared out of which a body fell.
As I slumped to my side, dropping out of consciousness I looked into the scarred face of Joseph Infinus, lying unconscious infront of me. And with that, I finally passed out.
Run!
Its all I could manage before it hit me, square in the back 9 tonnes of armoured personnel carrier. I felt the bones in my back shatter as I was knocked flying into the brickwork of the nearest building; the two super-powered brutes high five each other in the distance. Stunned, I try and focus and shift into Dwarf form. But they are too quick and one lifts his revolver and unleashes a grazing shot. Lucky for me his aim is so bad, but it winds me enough to stop the transformation, the armour piercing round tearing a scrape through the weave of the suit.
Casually, the other brute rips a set of traffic lights from the ground, and swishes it round like a baseball bat, then jogs over to his cohort.
You capes should stay out of the Isles! This is what you get for coming into our playground. You should phone up your longbow buddies and well take them out too chuckles the thick set pistol wielding brute. Closing in on me, he raises his revolver, pointing straight at my chest, not even a child could miss from that distance. Time to send Paragon a message, were the Brothers who killed Infinitron, we wont be messed with. You kill our brother, well get you back.
Wait! Take off his helmet, I want to look this tool in the eye when we finish him, plus the souvenir will be nice, on which note the brother swung the traffic light into the side of my head. With my head spinning, I tried to talk, but I couldnt find any words. Dropping the mangled light, he stepped forward, and unceremoniously ripped the helmet from my head.
Hey, didnt this cat get his face ripped up by that spider guy? Theres not a mark on his face. Clearly spidey was spinning us a web of lies, suppose he got what was coming to him a long fall and a sudden stop he commented.
Meh, yeah whatever, time to end his reign of terror. Hnh, pathetic he quipped as he raised the revolver once more. I closed my eyes and awaited my fate.
Id known the risks when I put on this suit, taking over from Joseph Infinus, my ancestor. By rights I was already supposed to be dead, it was only due to the fact I had been mistaken for him in the first place that I was here being merged with a kheldian. Hed sacrificed himself for what he believed in, for what he considered the greater good; I couldnt knock him for it, I had done the same thing in coming here. He may have taken it too far, eventually being blasted by his own weaponry, with only his cape remaining after his attempt to cleanse the city.
Despite his actions, despite being branded an outlaw, a vigilante, revoking his hero status I still agreed to his wishes to take up his mantle on his demise. I knew the greatness that the hero Infinitron would one day embody, a leader amongst leaders I could not let that fade away. But it seems that I could, lying here, helpless, about to become a trophy kill to a pair of criminals.
As these final thoughts rushed through my head, I was stirred by new sound; actually, no - an absence of sound. I could no longer hear the drone of nearby air conditioning units, the twitter and chirp of local wildlife, the dulcet tones of distant gunfire. I opened my eyes, and immediately regretted doing so. Between the two brute brothers an insanely bright light was growing, and they were transfixed by it. With a sudden crack and flash of blinding light, the two brothers were flung, unconscious, to each side. Accompanying the crack, a swirling vortex had appeared out of which a body fell.
As I slumped to my side, dropping out of consciousness I looked into the scarred face of Joseph Infinus, lying unconscious infront of me. And with that, I finally passed out.