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Wayward City, NJ…
Luther Vanguard returns stateside on a trail full of intrigue. After several weeks of information gathering he finally traced one of the nine power swords to New Jersey. The mighty Mjolnir was said to be in the clutches of the Russian enforcer, Kremlin. Carrying his own sword, Claiomh Solais, with him Luther met with his mafia contact.
“Freddie my friend thanks for meeting with me.”
“No problem Luther let’s just keep it short. I can’t afford to blow my cover.”
“I understand, I know you’re taking a big risk getting me this information. Do you mind my asking, what are Harrier’s plans for the sword?”
“I don’t know if you heard about him losing the shield he had been looking for?” Freddie whispered.
“I read about it in the Gazette, something about a superhuman defense league? I haven’t heard of them before.”
“Yeah they’ve been a blessing. These three have been tackling organized crime and the super villain community. I’m glad they got their hands on the shield to be honest. Harrier would have decimated this town with it. He still might if he gets his hands on the sword.”
Thanks to Freddie’s information Luther found out Kremlin was planning on handing the power sword over to Franklin Harrier tomorrow night at Club X, which means he had until then to get it from the Russian. Now he just had to come up with a plan to do that. Maybe he should contact the Superhuman Defense League for help? But he didn’t have any idea how to do that.
Early the next morning…
Luther tracked Kremlin to a rundown apartment on Granite St. With the power sword slung over his shoulder, he pounded on the door. He heard a grunting noise as the door swung open. A very large Russian stood in the doorway with his arms crossed and a stare of defiance.
“What you want?”
“Harrier sent me to retrieve the sword, Club X has been compromised. The SDL knows about the hand off and have been casing the joint” Luther lied through his teeth while silently praying Kremlin was dumb enough to fall for it.
“Password” Kremlin grumbled waiting for a response.
The archeologist was at a loss for words now. He hadn’t planned on needing to know a password. Why had Freddie not given it to him? As he thought this over, Kremlin disgust turned to anger and his face threatened bodily harm.
“The boss was in a hurry” Luther Vanguard stalled “he didn’t give me the password.”
Kremlin was not to be fooled; he drew his fist back and swung, putting all of his superior strength behind it. Luther quickly ducked and drew his sword. He swung it at the Russian with all his strength but his attack was simply swatted aside as Kremlin retrieved Mjolnir from behind his door.
“I have blade too” Kremlin said.
“Harbinger” Luther shouted!
With that one word wings sprouted from his back and the blade burst into flames. He leapt into the air and hovered just out of Kremlin’s reach. Then he saw dawning on the Russian’s face. Kremlin held his own sword up and called out.
“Destroyer” he shouted!
With that he sprouted his own wings and his body covered itself in impervious stone. The sword itself changed into a large mallet. He flew after Luther swinging his mallet like a club. Luther blocked with his own sword and the flame flared up in anger. This was the first time he realized Claiomh Solais granted him enhanced strength, for he was able to guard without his own arms breaking under the mighty blow.
Luther managed to slash across Kremlin’s chest, only to have the sword blade spark as it connected with the stone. Then he took a mallet to the head as Kremlin caught him by surprise. It hurt pretty badly. He plummeted to the ground, his nose broken, blood pouring from his nostrils and mouth.
“Ouch, that hurt. Now I have to play rough” he shouted out trying to sound braver than he was.
“Good, I enjoy rough.”
As he stood up his face was no longer bleeding, his nose no longer broken. He had healed almost instantaneously. He took to the sky again trying to put distance between himself and Kremlin. Luther realized too late that he had made a mistake taking on the large man by himself. He only hoped he lived long enough to correct that.
Then his silent prayers were answered. The Crimson Shield arrived and flew up to meet Kremlin head on. The mallet slammed into his shield trying to shatter it. But the crimson energy repelled the weapons onslaught.
“You alright” Voltage shouted at Luther as he teleported into the fray.
“Less talk more pounding” Bombshell said as she delivered an energized punch to the back of Kremlin’s armored head.
Voltage struck out with thunderbolt after thunderbolt but they only ricocheted off the armored skin.
“Less talk more pounding” Bombshell said as she delivered an energized punch to the back of Kremlin’s armored head.
Voltage struck out with thunderbolt after thunderbolt but they only ricocheted off the armored skin. Kremlin seemed to laugh at them as he saw how worthless their attacks were. He easily took the punishment they dealt and kept striking out with the mallet trying to knock one of them down.
“We have to get the mallet away from him” Luther told them as he flew back into the battle, sword blazing.
Voltage delivered a thunder punch to Kremlin’s hand as Bombshell latched on to the other one. The Crimson Shield continued his frontal assault trying to knock the hammer from the Russian’s hands. Luther swooped in and struck out with his sword trying to distract Kremlin.
“Kremlin smash!”
The large man seemed to be reverting back to a more primal state as the weapon warped his mind. With that he used his massive strength to shrug the heroes off of him and he took off at full speed. He was out of sight within seconds and the group of heroes turned toward the archeologist with frustration on their faces.
“We’ve fought him before but not like this” the Crimson Shield said.
“What was that weapon” Voltage asked?
With that Luther Vanguard explained about the swords of power and about how Franklin Harrier wanted that one in order to replace the shield he had lost. He also went on to explain how each sword seemed to have its own powers that it granted the wielder.
“So what you are saying is that you are the Harbinger of Cadamar and Kremlin is now the Destroyer” Bombshell filled in “Can this get any worse?”
The Superhuman Defense League’s communicators went off at that moment. Alicia Martin had been monitoring things from their headquarters as well as tracking down the whereabouts of her own nemesis Ichiko Shi when the call came in. She had to get the team fast.
“Guys we have a problem. I think you all need to get back here at once. This is big!”
“You coming Luther” Voltage asked?
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