章 9: First Disciplinary Conflict
Derrick charged in with astounding speed straight towards the madwoman. With my new position in the school systems and the city I clearly needed to do something. I created a junk shooter around a stone I had picked up. As soon as the weapon was made and before the swordsman could strike the girl, whose hair had expanded and looked like some sort of monster about to eat, I launched the stone. Right between them. The resulting micro shock wave stopped them right in their tracks.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" I shouted at the two obvious alphas.
"Oh, a new playmate? Friend of yours Bastard Sword?" The crazy chick questioned with what was an attempted adorable face with her head cocked slightly to the side.
He turned to look at me standing over the body of whom I assume was his comrade and his eyes went bloodshot. "DON'T YA TOUCH HIM YA BASTARD!" And like that his anger was now directed at me as he charged me. I took in the situation and recognized that neither participant was going to answer any questions unless they were incapacitated.
"hah" I sighed and timed myself watching every movement that the two made with special attention on him as he was currently aiming for me. His stance and form told me that he was going for a charge thrust as he held the grip slightly behind him with the tip pointed towards me. Timing my movement with the precision expected of an assassin I stepped sideways and inward placing my hand on his shoulder to help leap over him while simultaneously manipulating my kinetic energy to face plant him and launch myself into the air.
The arc of my movement landed me right in the middle of the two. I peeked over the rising form of Derrick to double check that I had left enough space so that his unconscious ally was fine. There was the sound of clapping and the hairwoman was the source. She had expression of childlike glee. "Oh so pretty you'd be a much better playmate than that barbarian." Before she could react I closed the distance on her charging a kinetic punch aimed for her stomach only to be stopped by her hair glomped on my fist.
While it looked like hair what it felt like was steel threads. As I hadn't been prepared for that my hand was cut and bleeding a little. I dissolved the junk launcher and switched to another of my practiced devices. Before I could complete it the her hair changed again this time it felt almost like a giant fist of hair clamped on my hand, and she lifted me up over her preparing to slam me to the ground. Changing gears I shifted my kinetic energy to slip me out of her grip and towards a wall.
The impact took a little wind out of me but there was no time to recover as her hair reached out. I rolled to the side and sprung that way to be met with a sword swinging towards my head. I redirected my kinetic energy to the side and just barely escaped a fatal wound but ended up receiving a clear wound on my shoulder. The combat stopped again momentarily as the three of us formed a triangle. A standoff. No one could move with out them being exposed to the others.
I kept my hand behind my back as I readied a new weapon. In the same moment I noticed that the swordsman was forming another greatsword In his other hand. My eyes widened slightly. It was the first time I had seen someone else with a similar creation type ability. The psycho in contrast was licking her lips while her face was flushed. I assume in anticipation.
His new weapon was complete and pointing at me while the demonic sword was pointing at her. The new sword while still massive had a more slender and intricate design that made one think of the wind. My weapon was ready in my grip. I tensed my muscles in preparation. The two swords released an aura. The one in his right hand seemed to have air swirling around it catching debris and would most certainly cut if one got to close to it. The other seemed to have a dark cloud around it.
Suddenly I felt my energy deplete just a little like my will was being taxed. I glanced at the wound on my arm and sure enough it was black and veiny like some sort of curse was affecting me. Realizing I could afford no more time I leaped backward applying kinetic energy to increase the distance and draw my weapon. The looks on both of their faces were shocked but that didn't last for long as they recognized the others distraction and attempted to close the distance towards me first. Both were fast.
I was faster. The long barrel meeting the rest of the rifle I fired off to consecutive shots straight to their foreheads. The rounds were nonlethal energy bullets. The purpose of this ammo type was to create a spike of energy that would leave them unconscious for an hour and paralyzed at least for a little longer. While they were fast they weren't among those faster than a bullet.
Derricks swords dispersed to wherever they had come from and the girls hair had shortened drastically to a pixie cut. No longer under threat of death or dismemberment I created full hand manacles for Derrick and a cranial cap for the Medusa wannabe as well as another pair of manacles. I called for the student council to bring a student detainee vehicle with three sets of power blocking cuffs around so that I could interrogate and punish them when they woke up.
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The room they were being held in was pure white and contained three desks that they were cuffed to. I was sitting on a chair in a corner reading through both their student file waiting for them to wake up. Eventually I heard two sighs of distress and one of pleasure.
"Ugh, my head. Wha' happened. WAIT WHERE'S BOBBY!" exclaimed Derrick.
"Haah, I'm right here boss." The other guy called drowsily.
"Ngghhh, That was fun. Great beauty sleep, I'll need to do that again sometime" Melinda, The Medusa wannabe purred.
"Good You're all awake. Maybe now I'll get an explanation out of the three of you before you receive your punishment for breaking both city and school rules."
"I ain't talking to no fuzz." Derricks gravel baritone barked in response.
"Well, lucky for you I'm no cop. I'm MUCH worse. I'm the new head of the Disciplinary committee. And you three are in major trouble."
"Ooh why, I was just having a little fun."
"YA CALL WRECKIN' MAH CREW AND CALLING ME OUT FUN!" Derrick shouted.
"ENOUGH!!!" I roared. "I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU CALL IT! YOU HAVE DAMAGED PUBLIC PROPERTY, DISOBEYED THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT SCHOOL RULES AND HAVE BROKEN SEVERAL MINOR CITY LAWS!" I paused to let the words sink into them. "Soooo, unless you want to spend your entire year of school in detention I suggest. You. Start. Talking."
"Fine Ah'll be the first." Derrick started. "It started yesterday. Me an some of mah crew were hangin' around doin' what we do. When we heard a ruckus. I went to check it out and found some of mah crew had been trashed. Ah axed one a the conscious ones wha happened. He told me some hair chick was tearing up the turf. We started patrolin' and she called mah out today took out three of mah guys and chased me out the alley where we ran inta you."
'One person's story down two to go' I thought. "So who's sharing next."
"Ooh, Ooh, me, me." Melinda was jumping excitedly. "I'll go, I'll go."
"As long as you're honest go ahead." I warned
"Well You see I heard that one of the other members of the Fingers of God was in this neighborhood and I wanted to see what he was like and how strong he really was. Instead all I kept finding were weaklings claiming they were him. It really pissed me off so I beat em' up."
"One more testimony." I turned to bobby with a stare that said don't bullshit me.
"It really is like the Boss said. We tried to find the person who was hurting our friends and found her before I was knocked out."
"Well since you all seem to have answered honestly your punishment will be reduced." I turned to Melinda "You are having one month without powers, five weeks of detention, and three weeks of public service as you were the major force behind this idiocy. Derrick you will have three weeks without powers, four weeks of detention and a week and a half of public service as you damaged the street in our fight. Finally Bobby you are free to go as you were just dragged into this."
I turned my attention back to the other two. "You two are major players in this city and are on the track to being heroes that is why you have such long punishments. You chose to join the hero program and are being punished for not acting like it."
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