Chương 21: Chapter 19
"What is the current situation with the Merchants?" Armsmaster asked with a frown.
"They are on a rampage. From what we have been able to gather, Whirlygig has been kidnapped as well; likely by the same people who kidnapped Squealer. Losing two capes in such a small span of time, combined with their regular mental states, must have made them snap." Miss Militia said as she tied her iconic flag over her face and turned back to Armsmaster. "Snowflame already have burned down four buildings by himself, within an hour they will likely have destroyed almost all of their territory. We need to go out there and take them down or we are looking at civilian deaths at numbers akin to a Slaughterhouse Nine rampage." Patriotic looking woman said with a glare and Armsmaster could only wince at such an image.
He remembered the first and the last time the group of maniacs that was the Slaughterhouse Nine had came to the Brockton Bat. It was during a time where Colin had been a relatively new hero and the situation with the gangs hadn't been as bad as it was today. Then the Slaughterhouse came in and butchered everyone. A civilian death count higher than any cape activity other than a Endbringer battle, but far more gruesome than the work of those walking natural disasters, and more than half of the capes under the employ of PRT dead; followed by almost half of the people leaving due to traumas. Colin himself had been unsure on whether to leave the cape work himself but remaining in order to have the budget for his tinkering, for tinkering was the only thing that could keep those screams away.
Hannah hadn't been in the Bay back then so he could understand that she was using the Slaughterhouse more as a metaphor rather than literally, yet it still took an Herculean effort for him to not snap at the patriotic hero.
"I'll talk to director and have her send as many capes as possible to Merchant territory, but she will likely keep a few people back in case Empire or ABB makes a move." He said with a sigh before pulling up his halberd, upgraded just two days ago, and went towards his bike. "I'll go ahead and try to get Snowflame's attention off of the areas heavy with civilians." He said and then he was off, hoping that he wouldn't be too late; all the while knowing that it was a vain hope.
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"You all will suffer for your insolence!" Snowflame, a man of unknown true name with snowlike white hair and bloodshot eyes with pupils that were always diluted due to extraordinary amount of drugs the man inhaled everyday, screamed as streams bluish white fire erupted from his palms and started a fire in another building.
"You unbelieving heathens who dirty our lord's earth with your blasphemous thoughts! I care not how many of you I have to burn for it; my fellow believers, Squealer and Whirlygig, will be returned to us!" The madman declared with a shout as he threw an orb of fire that was around three feet in diameter at a building with spherical lambs by the door.
Only for a wall of ice to appear in front of the building and blocked the fire.
"You forget where you are." A voice came from behind the rapidly melting ice wall, revealing a woman of moderate height wearing white kimono with blue highlights and a kitsune mask that was framed by her king white hair. "This place belongs to ABB, begone immediately."
"Yuki!" Snowflame growled at the woman with his eyes somehow becoming even more bloodshot, a murderous aura around him in addition to blue fire rising from his back. "You are in the way, you blasphemous whore of lizard!" And then sent another wave of blue fire that was met with a burst of ice.
Out of every member of ABB and Empire, Snowflame hated Yuki more than anyone; even more than Lung and Kaiser. The calm way she carried herself, the way her powers just made other stop, the focused look in her eyes and every other thing about the white haired woman he hated! Her whole existence was antithetical of the teachings of their lord and master that gave them the rush that made them move from one thing to another! She more than anyone else was a…
"Heathen!" He slammed his flaming fists down on the road, causing spider cracks to form before he used his fires to propel himself towards his nemesis. Wanting to grab her by the face and melt her blasphemous skull between his palms!
"Halt!" Yet before he could reach the blasphemous whore, he was hit by some sort of electrical shock that sent him away from Yuki and ended up crashing on a building.
Snowflame got back onto his feet with gritted teeth, it was irksome how electrical attacks were one of the few things that seemed to more or less ignore his Brute durability, and looked at his attacker. A man with midnight blue armor who had a tinker tech halberd pointed at him, there was literally no one in Brockton Bay that wouldn't recognize the man.
"Armsmaster." Snowflame gritted out before a smile appeared on his face. "Our lord truly is generous." He claimed as fire ignited over his hands. "Sending me not one but two blasphemous heathens to burn in his name in one night!" And then he fling his arms outwards, with the flames following the movement and seeing out an enormous wave of whitish blue fire.
Yuki simply created a huge wall of ice in order to protect herself while Armsmaster held his left arm up and the armor around it expanded to form a huge shield he hid behind in order to endure the onslaught of flames.
"Persistent heathens." Snowflame growled as he saw that neither of his adversaries were dead. Readying himself to sent another volley of fire, Snowflame lit his hands once more but before he could attack...
*CLAP*CLAP*CLAP*
...a clapping sound echoed through the street.
"That was impressive." And a man in a suit and iron mask appeared in the middle of the three enemies. "Got room for one more?"
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