Gambler
News reports where coming in on all channels. The death toll from the recent bombings where staggering and the devastation unimaginable. Everything was going according to plan. With the confirmed death of the Ninjetain warrior Sha, and the capture of the Wal affiliate, Acer, the Resistance seemed to be on the ropes. Small battles had broken out all through setting the city ablaze. The War had begun.
As the President and the Queen of Diamonds touched down on the Aircraft Carrier, she smiled before relaying a message from the first lady,
Esther will meet us on the Carrier in an hours time. Her departure from the manor was delayed.
Gambler smiled at the prospect of seeing his queen for the first time in months. She had a calming affect on the Cajun which helped him keep focus and concentrate on the overall goal. But as the King of Kings deboared the chopper his ears quickly picked up the sounds of combat. His own personal bodyguard was in the midst of systematically dismantling his security detail. Gambler used his arm to block Kiara from leaving the chopper. He watched as after was broken down with ease, only one man had such an extensive knowledge of martial arts.
Speaking from the side of his mouth Gambler told the young Queen to leave,
“Take the chopper, once your airborne contact my Queen. DO NOT, allow her to land here. Understand? Go now. Return to the HFC.”
As Morte dropped the last the arrogant Cajun began to clap, his Cheshire Cat smile stretching from ear to ear. From the first time the Living Weapon and the Living Legend crossed paths they both knew they where destined to be bitter enemies. Underneath all his bravado, all his skillz, Gambler knew Morte was the better fighter. In their first confrontation the Cajun had barely survived. Had the assassin not been the hero he was, victory would have been his. In their second meeting Morte had displayed his tactical genius, catching Gambler off guard and using his own trap against him.
Now here they where once again. About to launch into part three of their epic trilogy. The assassin paused for only a second to make his speech,
You have gone too far this time Cajun, we settle this hear and now
His voice commanded respect, if only the Cajun’s pride had any to give. Within a flash the former Death Angel Assassin began his charge. Planting his back foot and taking off, Gambler began his. Crewmen, Pilots, and even Sentinels all formed a large circle around the two killers as they raced towards immortality.
Morte Rapida
Business just started to pick up. As Morte was leading the villainous Jean Lebeau to the roof to board his chopper, he wondered when his friend Kurrent would make a play for the "President". This was the part where things would get tricky for the Ninjan Assassin. He did not want to fight any of his comrades, but he couldn't let them kill the president on national TV. That action would destroy any prospect of showing the true nature of the Cajun, and portray him as a martyr in the public eye. It would not aid in showing the people the truth in hopes of them restoring their trust in the heroes who have always tried to protect them. Since the damaging battle of the Mobb Deep Affiliate has not kept in communications with anyone. He could not risk his mission by releasing any details regarding his attack preparation. He had to leave both his team and the resistance in the dark producing no "footprints" leading to his intentions. One loose end could uncover his rouge. In the possibility of being recognized, he had to have faith that his peers had the utmost trust in him and would not question his position. This was the one aspect of the strategy that Morte could not control or predict.
Morte accompainied the deceitful President to the roof of the building after he conducted his short speech to the countless reporters. He kept his attention on the surroundings at all times knowing that an attack from the resistance would be happening at any moment. His only worry was that the surrounding area was densely populated with civilians. Tempers were running high and emotions were at an unpredictable level right now. Expect the unexpected was the only mind frame the ninja could afford to be in. While they were moving toward the chopper, a strange looking being approached Gambler. Morte recognized him as Demosapien, he tried to converse with the president -
"Come on Gambler. Do you know what you’re getting yourself into? What shall we do of the resistance? You know there are many who disagree with your plans."
Jean continued to make his way to the helicopter ignoring the beast and struck the demon with a back hand to the face. The assassin noticed the arrogance that Gambler displayed openly to his followers. "He is beginning to lose his focus and let the power he controlled get to his head thought the hero. The display of his true nature to the American people might be a little easier than the tactician originally thought. Gambler was getting cocky and sloppy. As they started to board the chopper, Both Morte and the Cajun noticed a flux of activity causing the sentinels and various security personnel to take defensive positions around the president. The dark hero quickly jumped in with the special agents mimicking their movements around the HFC leader.
"We have a breach in sector 625. IT’S HIM IT’S HIM!! HE’S MOVING TO FAST!" - radio traffic, security
Kurrent was spotted making his way toward the island. As the Electric Ace was closing in on Gamblers position he made eye contact with the assassin. Sure Morte was disguised as a special agent in the presidential security detail, but Kurrent knew exactly who he was. They must have locked eyes for only a split second, but that fraction of time felt like an eternity of speculation and uncertainty. After breaking eye contact in time to not seem suspicious, Kurrent fired an electric blast which narrowly missed the helicopter that the presidential regime was using. At that moment all Morte's fears were laid to rest. The Living Weapon trained this electric warrior for months. He knew what this man's capabilities were like no other. The only way he missed that chopper was as if he wanted to. That was Kurrent's way of letting his teammate know he trusts him. A sigh of relief passed through Morte's mind as the pressure of displaying his true intentions to his fellow resisters was released. He could now concentrate master of manipulation.
Gambler pushed his way through the special agents; he looked as if he wanted to engage the Excellence of Electrocution. Before the Cajun could act on his aggression toward Kurrent, a cape killer tried to get him out of harm’s way. The HFC leader used his shield to almost decapitate the man killing him instantly. He showed no remorse. Much to Morte's surprise this happened in front of thousands of citizen witnesses. Before the act could be broadcast to the millions of viewers, Kurrent used his electrical based abilities to cut the live feeds. The ninja understood that his teammate didn't want the world to see him attack the current president, but at the same time he canceled an opportunity for the world to see the Initiatives leader in his true form. Damn thought Morte. As Gambler positioned his footing to leap toward the electric hero, the surrounding body of water which encompassed the island started to rise causing enormous waves to create a shield like barrier between the president and the heroes bent on ending his tyranny. The powerful being creating this water like phenomenon then exhaled a freezing gust of wind which froze them solid while they were in motion. now looked like it was surrounded by mountains of ice. This gave Gambler and his security detail the opportunity for an easy escape to the aircraft carrier on standby.
The disguised ninja boarded the chopper along with half a dozen other agents as well as Gambler and his first lady Kiara. He sat across from the Cajun and made sure to not make eye contact and seem unimportant. In the Jack of Spades current frame of mind, he didn't even notice "the help". Morte had an encrypted com link with a manual frequency hop capability that included digital transversion for high frequency transmissions (basically it's a com link in which reacts to unequal receiver freqs by adjusting the traveling frequency to communicate with specific transceivers). This com transceiver allowed the silent assassin to record any voice data as well as radio traffic that were operating on the classified set frequencies. This radio and voice data was recorded to a hidden mainframe the assassin kept underground in one of his safe houses located in .
While the chopper was making its way to the heavily secured air craft carrier Morte peaked out the window to see the F-22 Raptor aircraft and multiple Sentinels escorting them. Gambler picked up his communicator and without any hesitation ordered and immediate attack on the historic prison inhabited island. He did not care for the civilians or for his own men still trapped and doomed to the incoming onslaught.
"Dat takes care of dat” smiled Gambler as he turned to Kiara."
The Mobb Deep Affiliate became enraged; he wanted to rip the Cajun's throat out right there while in flight. He restrained himself for the time being. As they landed Morte prepared to rush both Gambler and Kiara. He loosened the buttons on his custom tailored Brioni blazer so it would not restrict his movement. The Former Death Angels Assassin had two Diamente Sai in special leather confinement belts strapped alongside his ribcage. The Brioni blazer was specifically tailored to camouflage the shape of the blades.
Morte was ready to attack. He no longer needed to hide his identity, Gambler crossed the line and there was proof. The Ninjan Assassin was no longer constrained by the possible backfire from the public. As soon as Jean and Kiara stepped of the helicopter onto the aircraft carrier the aggression from the death dealer was released. The Practitioner of Precision quickly attacked the surrounding armed security detail using tactical Kenpo Kai Japanese striking techniques. Morte began the rapid series of fluid attacks with a shuffle up front kick which landed the ball of his right foot on the chin of its first target splitting the bone causing muscle tissue to dangle out of the gash it created. The unsuspecting cape killer slowly slumped down as he lost consciousness from the powerful blow. While his right leg was still extended the assassin then transitioned his weight from the ball of his left foot he was standing to the heel as he positioned his hips and then whipped the same leg into a standing side kick connecting onto the temple of another bodyguard standing to the right of the hero's position. These two attacks happened so quickly that the other agents couldn't comprehend yet what was going on. The closest agent engaged the assassin with a stiff over hand right. Morte easily dipped laterally allowing the swing to float right by him. Before the man could retract his arm, the elusive warrior executed a left body hook followed by a haymaker of a thai leg kick which instantly shattered the man’s knee. While the ninja dropped his right leg back down he instantaneous re-positioned his weight forward leaning in with a fierce elbow strike to man’s nose causing blood to splatter from all directions. As soon as he completed the intense combination he teleported behind the last agent and performed a right handed two knuckle concussion punch to the man’s spine while grabbing his forehead jerking it backward breaking both his neck and spinal cord. The man fell, dying instantly. Morte then looked his nemesis in the eye -
"You have gone too far this time Cajun, we settle this hear and now." - Morte
The Living Weapon then started closing the distance engaging Gambler with bad intentions.
Terry
High above the golden gate bridge where his sister once was Terry watched as his friends tried to revive his sister tears slowly rolled down his glossy body he was sweating from his own flames. Terry had been in England the last 2 months he had been in hiding since the vine villains fell but he was back to stop the Tyranny of gambler. Terry was already dead he was born dead, but sha she was full of life and her death meant that the only living relative he had was now gone. grahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh he screamed in pain at the thought of his sister’s death. But he was a Gorick a monster someone who would kill children and not have any remorse for it. It was time to put an end to the pro registration. He dropped down not taking off his hood and greeted feral and AR from his dark cloak a tear could be seen. He heared thumping and mass machinery he turned around to see a sentinel in his face damn his flames rushed him nova strike! he charged at the sentinel and knocked out it’s legs it hit the ground causing an explosion ,but terry simply absorbed the fire. Then men in black suits appeared one had shot terry in the chest he fell to the ground holding his chest damn He fired embers at the men in black lighting them on fire, his wound eventually healed and he rose to his feet I’ll be back he flew at the speed of light towards Los Angeles following the scent of Hayden. He was going to slaughter her like the animal she was. He was going to burn the soul off of her. Terry thought about his many fights he had in his short time. The two that stuck in his mind one was against soul taker how soul trapped him in his own reality exposing his flames to copper oxide putting him out completely. Then it was MOF he had manipulated his flames and turned them into water sucking his being into a whirlpool ending him. It was the evil sha who showed him the power of darkness making him more than just fire. As he arrived at the fault line he summoned his chakram the wheeled spiked weapon came straight from hell he saw Hayden punching at the ground he put his hand behind his back and aimed at her neck.
Feral Nova
Feral Nova stood as she continued to look down at her friend, her eyes started to fill with sorrow as she saw her attempts to bring her back were useless. "S-sha..." She said as her voice began to choke. "Common man... get up!" She said as she was about to start doing compressions on her, until Kurrent came in front of her.
"CLEAR!" He yelled out, his hands were encased in electricity as he pressed his hands against Sha's chest. Her body jumped up from the electrical wave that surged through her body and fell back down on the ground. Kurrent did this about three times, until it was shown as useless. Sha was gone...
Nova's eyes turned red from holding back her tears, until she fell down to her knees she covered her face with her hands and began to cry. She couldn't believe this, Sha was alive only a few moments ago and what was the last thing Nova said to her? 'Need some help!?' what kind of crap was that?! If she would have stopped being lazy and joking around all the time she could have helped Sha out and she would still be alive right now. Nova punched the ground out of pure anger, causing her fist to go into the Earth all the way down to her elbow. She was breathing heavily as her face was wet from her tears.
"She had it coming, you all do." A voice said from behind the two fighters. Nova pulled out her fist as she her eyes began to fill with fire. She turned around to see a Hott Flyer behind them, but before Nova could even do something Kurrent already attacked the man taking him out. He then picked up the jet pack that the Hott Flyer was wearing, slipped it on and before he took off he turned to Nova, anger and sorrow filling his eyes just like hers.
"Get Sha to a safe place and watch out for Sentinels." He said as he then took off. "Follow My signal if you want to find " was heard from her communicator as he continued to fly.
Nova looked back down at her deceased friend in disbelieve. "Your not dead, YOUR NOT F@CKEN DEAD!" She said as she got in Sha's face and started yelling at her. "HOW CAN YOU DO THIS?! HOW CAN YOU JUST F@CKEN GO OFF AND DIE!? YOUR NOT EVEN FROM THIS WORLD, YOU SHOULDNT HAVE FOUGHT, DAMN IT SHA!" She yelled frustration, anger, confusion and sadness as she then stood up and tears continued to fall from her eyes. That is until she heard a whirling sound from behind her. She turned to see an aeroblast come at her, from none other than Hayden.
"HAYDEN!" Nova yelled out as she stood up, her voice was filled with anger. She made a fist as she saw the blast split. She didnt care she shot a wave of fire at it, causing the two blast to cancel each other out.
"DIE!" Hayden then yelled as she then landed on the ground hands first and began to twist her body, her legs out as she tried to kick Nova in a spinning kick aiming for the back of Nova's neck. Nova lift her right hand up and blocked the kick to her neck as she growled at Hayden. Her eyes turned from green to fiery red, her tears drying up instantly. She was then kicked in the stomach by Hayden and was sent stumbling back a few feet Nova looked up to see Hayden take off as fast as she came at her.
"I'LL GET YOU HAYDEN! YOUR HEAD IS F@UCKING MINE!" She yelled out as she was going to go after her, only to stop to remember what Kurrent told her. "Get Sha to a safe place." She said as she turned back to see Sha still laying on the ground. Nova slowly walked up to her friend and knelt down besides her, with sorrow in her eyes she gently picked up Sha's cold body. She turned her head to the left as she closed her eyes, trying not to let herself cry again. This war... it was real, people were really going to die... mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends...
Novas body then burst into flames once more, once more she controlled her fire so that her flames wouldnt harm her friend. She took off flying at the speed of sound to the only place she could think of that would be safe to leave Sha, The LOVE HQ. Nova landed in front of what looked like a coffee shop she put out her flames as she walked up to the door and kicked it open, customers jumped up in fright while others looked at her in almost amazement. The workers of the shop simply stood back as everyone watched the woman walk over to the storage room. When she got there she kicked against the wall and then a hidden elevator was shown, as the door opened Nova walked inside it and waited as she kept her eyes fixed in front of her. When the door opened there were scientist working on different weapons, body armor, chemicals, and other things. They all turned and looked at her as she walked through the area, her face was cold and emotionless as she continued to walk till she reached another elevator, she then walked inside that one.
'Name, team number and retinal scan please.' a male computer voice said.
"Feral Nova, 1978." Nova said as she then leaned into the eye scanner.
'Name-clear, Team Number-clear, rentinal scan-clear.' the voice said as the elevator moved once more, this time another twenty feet underground. When the elevator stopped the two were now forty feet underground, the door opened to show the living area for the girl who were team members of team LOVE.
Nova walked out and made her way to the bed rooms were she stood in front of Sha's door. Nova used her elbow to open the door as she stepped in and slowly laid Sha down upon her bed. Nova stood there as best she could without trying to show emotion. Sha was dead... one of her best friends... dead... Before Nova started crying again she turned and walked out of the room, she closed the door behind her and walked pass by a couple of security guards.
"Ms. Nova, is everything alright with Ms. Sha?" One of them asked.
Nova stopped and turned to look at the men. "Do NOT let anyone near Sha's room unless they are a LOVE member." She snapped out at them. "UNDERSTOOD?" She stood there as she watched the two nod there head. Nova then just continued to make her way out of the building. When she walked out of the coffee shop and burst into flames once more, she rose to the air and flew back to San Fransisco. Nova was now over the San Fransisco bay and saw AR not too far away just finishing off some Hott Flyers. She flew over towards her and stopped only about three feet away from her friend.
"Hey..." was all that came out her mouth as she continued to look around the area with an emotionless look even though her emotions inside were filled with rage and ready to kill anyone that came near her. "kill anyone yet?" She said trying to make a joke but... it ended up not coming out that way.
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