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The events of this story take place during Captain Midnight Number 10.
I've been away from my city for too long. I've seen so much in the last few days that my small personal mission seems inconsequential in the face of the worlds problems. I feel selfish and petty.
My city screams in agony. The beasts that Midnight warned us of have landed and they landed hard in my home. I hitched a ride with The Squad, by the time we landed hell had already arrived in Nighthaven.
The beasts crashed into my city like three boulders plunging into a lake. They never slowed down. Superion engaged one beast with punches that could tear down Everest and shatter bedrock. The beast shifted its weight while skyscrapers reeled from the shockwaves. Then the most fantastic thing possible, Superion lifts the beast off the ground with a bellowing roar that could wake the dead. They slowly at first rose and began to climb soon their spped was incredible. As they disappeared from sight I heard Falcon screaming over his commlink "Superion where are you going? You can't sacrifice yourself! Stop thats an order!!!Dammit!"
A one sided farewell between two old friends, men that could depend on the other to save the world and
each other. I believe Falcon would have shed a tear if he wasn't busy saving a school bus full of kids.
I hear through my helmet scanner that emergency services are taxed beyond their capabilities.
My city screams for help. The Squad rallys for a stand against the remaining two monsters that are silently viciously tearing apart the city. Falcon shouts battle plans, Knight and Hunter fall into the formation they need to be in to act as a distraction. Plasma bursts fly from Hunter's pistolwitch draw the closest beasts gaze upon them Knigh deploys his wrist blade and leaps at the beast tearing a chunk of pseudo flesh from its leg. An unspeakably horrific roar of pain eminates from the beast. That's when the sky turns white. I look up and see Neutron alight with a white hot flame of energy, I see him screaming but the cacophony around me makes it impossible to hear. the light is so intense that I can feel the heat on my face through my helmet. If it wasn't for Shadow Hawks upgrades to my uniform I don't think I would still be standing. As the sky regains the sick orange and yellow flame soaked color that it was when we landed. The beast drops to its knees a giant hole burned through it's head, the smell is sickening. Neutron lands near Falcon his flame sputtering and then extinguishes. Falcon pats him on the back and says" You did a hell of a job son, get back let us take this one down." The smile on his face is reassuring and oddly misplaced. How does he remain his composure in spite of all of the destruction and death that surround us?
My city screams for heroes. Falcon's energ yshields flare the order is given" Raven, Hunter give me an opening. Knight back me up!"
With that my combat instincts kick into overdrive, The final beast looms in front of us his golden trident flares and then the blast hits. Hunter goes down in a barrage of debris. I look back at Falcon and his determination fuels my drive to strke at the heart of this destroyer this killer of everything I have. I see Emily's face in the smoke beside me as I climb the side of a fallen building. Knight swoops in beside me and together we leap accross the fire and destruction to tear apart the murdering behemoth. Knight lands first his blade charged with plasma energy, cutting into the shell of the beast. His victory is short lived as the beast slaps him to the ground. The thud breaks whats left of my heart. My rage is at it's peak when I remember something that Shadow said before we left his safehouse. "There's a little surprise built into the new nightsticks. I based on Captain Midnight's bracers. It should pack quite a wollop if needed."
I flip the hilts open as I fly through the air and the nightsticks ignite a dark blood red. I point them at the target just as a huge burst of crimson energy erupts from the ends of the sticks. The energy hits it's mark just as the beast begins to doge the blast as if it sees something it fears. The right arm of the monster is sheared off. But it's not dead.
My city screams for vengeance. Falcon stops in his tracks as I fall to the wasted earth beneath me. His gaze turns from me back to the sky as a bright red bolt from space plummets directly into the head of the final beast cleaving it in two. the crater created by the strike will remain for years. As the two halves of the beast fall to their respective sides, we see the unthinkable. Superion his costume torn his face bloddy stumbling from the gore. "Thought you'd finish the end of the world without me huh?"
My city screams for peace. I pray for the first time in my life that the heroes of Earth are as lucky as we were here today.
To be continued....
__________________Hindsight is always 20/20...
But looking back it's still abit fuzzy. Dave Mustaine
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