Superhero Anarchy

Duane waited in the elevator as it rose to the upper-most floor with public access. He had a keycard for the private elevator, but chances were the whole building was alerted of his presence. The roar of the elevator\'s ascention was loud, louder than your typical elevator. The doors opened and the good 8 to 10 armed, armoured personel pointing machine guns at the elevator was not a welcoming sight.

\"Morning....\" Duane said casually. \"I think I got the wrong floor.. I\'ll just be go---.\"

He was cut off by the one man\'s step forward and sudden yell of \"STOP RIGHT THERE!\"

Duane put his hands into the air out of reflex. His two guns showed easily. \"Im sorry... I seriously, seriously got the wrong wr, wrong floor!\" Trying to pull the scared innocent act off, the fact that he was covered in blood and well, was the confirmed target didnt really help matters any.

The swat member stepped forward and was about two feet away from Duane. \"Give me your guns!\"

Duane looked. \"Take them from me, you fuck.\"

The swat member stepped forward, Duane grabbed him and his gun and put the gun to the guys head. Smirking. \"You shoot me, he gets fucking killed. Trust me, I\'ll have every single one of you fucks dead before you can even blink.\"

Another swat member looked. \"Let him go... I\'ll count to three.\" He held up one finger, this showed the start of his count.

Duane shook his head. He committed a quick count, there was eight of them. This was an incredibly tight spot. But he\'d have to be careful, as das determined to go on and he woudlnt let a swat team stop him. He looked \"Dont bother counting. You swat fucks have nothing on me. I have more training than you on this left hand on this gun, Dont fuck with me...\"

The swat member put up a second hand. \"Surrender now... Dont be an idiot.\" He had his gun pointed firmly at Duane. The room was dimly lit by the florescent lights. Duane pointed his gun in the air and took three shots, suddenly the room was dark as night.

The swat member\'s turned on the lights on the scopes of their guns. Beams of light poorly illuminated sections of the room. They looked. Duane was nowhere to be found. The swat commander looked \"Three groups of three and a group of two. Split up, We gotta take this fuck down, he is wanted specifically by the united states government.\"

Duane had made a mad dash down the hallway, the upper floor was large and he knew he needed to keep hidden. He didnt know what exactally the swat team was doing there for. But he knew they were not part of the buildings defences. He was a bit curious what was up with this. He didnt do anything to warrant the FBI after him, not for a good 5 years. Not that, thaer ser stopped the FBI.

He had his guns ready, he heard footsteps, 3 sets of them. He put his guns back in their holsters and waited patiently, on the other side of the doorway. He saw the barrel of the gun. Duane snapped into action, grabbing the barrel of the gun and whapping the swat-guy right in the face with it. Keeping the gun he baseball batted the next Swat-man right across the face with it. Holding the gun pointing it at the next guy.

Duane smirked, He dropped his gun and the swat mans line of sight followed it, Duane took a step forward and kicked the man across the face. Dragging all three men into the room, he locked the door and forced it shut with a chair. He then walked down the hallway, he saw the lights from some of their guns. Two more were coming.

Duane waited, the first man walked passed the corner and didnt even notice him. Until his elbow hit the man right below the jaw. In the neck, practically crushing his throat. Duane barely flinched when the bullet clipped his leg, The leg still came up and clocked the next Swat member right in the face. Duane grabbed their gun... \"The hell?\" he looked at the rounds.

These arent bullets ....

He could feel his leg going numb as the process ran through his head. These rounds werent for killing. These were stun rounds. He got up ans les leg was barel good enough to walk on. He turned the corner before the but end of a gun clocked Duane on the jaw.

The Swat Commr lor looked at Duane as he cracked his jaw back into place. He realized how much it hurt when he did it. \"Ugh... what do you want with me?\"

The Commander just smiled under his helmate. \"Thats classified information...\"

Duane barely had time to react before he felt the 6 or so tranquilizer rounds purge into his upper body. He passed out almost on contact. The swat men picked Duane up and ushered him out of the building. What awaited Duane was unknown to him. His last concious thought, was, \'the fuck?\'

Rage looked as the sword was continuing to cut through the wall.. Rage shook his head. \"I just want to go home, I want to feel safe. I dont want to fight, but all this shit is PISSING... ME... OFF!!\" He got enthrulled in his firey aura. Rage was lit up and ready to go. The sword finally cut a door shape through the wall and Odin kicked his man made hole down.

Rage looked \"You!\" Odin stepped through the wall, standing tall, allbeit disoriented from his being blasted through a wall but Odin was set, he would not be stopped. Odin charged in soon however he was grabbed by Rage and thrust into the wall. Rage growled and looked at Odin. \"Im tired of you, and your little team of \'freedom fighters\' trying to ruin my life. Especially when im innocent!\"

He threw a punch at Odin but Odin slipped out from under Rage, and Rage\'s fist was thrust into the wall, going clean through the wall. Leaving a sizable hole in the wall. He pulled his fist out and turned around to Odin. He took a few deep breaths and then charged, like a slight blur he floored his shoulder into Odin and sent him crashing into the wall..

\"Impressive....\" Odin said as he forced his way upto his feet. He slowly straightened himself and then looked at him through his helmet. He pulled off his cape and layed it on the ground. Then he pulled off his helmate and looked into Rage\'s eyes with the dark eyes of his own. His face was scarred with the results of being in numerous battles. He shook his head, taking off the arm peices of his armour as well. \"But unfortunately, you\'re messing with the god of thunder here. And God\'s tend to not bend over as easily as say, Slash did when Duane faught him.\"

Rage took some deep breaths and shook his head, slowly advancing towards Odin. \"I\'ll tell you one thing I am not, and that\'s a god.\" He said now walking in stride, crossing over the room to Odin. \"But, one thing that I am. Is this.\" he said grabbing him by the collar of his armor and pulling him towards him, headbutting him. \"AND THATS REALLY PISSED OFF!!\" Rage snapped, he headbutted him and then punched Odin. Odin flew through the wall into the next room. Rage\'s firey aura had nearly trippled. He felt this burning inside of him.

\"And that means, even a god, wont stop me from kicking your ass!\" He said advancing through the hole in the wall created by \'s \'s body. He gained ground quickly on the fleeing odin, a foot to the back plate of his armour slowed him to a hault \"Where you going all mighty god? Hoping some other thunder god\'s gonna save you?\" He chuckled lightly. \"Call me the god of anger, and this can be your judgement day!\" he said angrily as he thrusted odin to his feet, punching him across the face with a heavy right.

Odin staggered backwards down the hallway. Rage was laughing as he stalked after him. He got a really sinister feeling about destroying Odin, but either way he didnt care, he was enjoying himself, and getting a personal revenge. \"Where you going Odin? Lost your way?\"

He ran upto him and turned him around whipping him, literally grabbing him by the arm and throwing him the opposite direction. \"Well, its THAT way.\" he said with a mighty heave. Now stalking Odin was forcing himself to his feet, retreating backwards. He looked \"You\'ll never defeat me.\"

Rageed aed all the doubt, it was like at that moment, all his rage just surged forward. \"QUIT IT!\" He shot two firey blasts at him from his fists, the blasts hit odin with a mighty thud, the crash of glass could only be heard by Odin\'s yell as he fell from the upper moreso stories of the building. He walked upto the lege of the building and his firey aura disipated. \".... Fuck you.\" he said as he fell backwards from exaustion with a mighty thud.


ncenncent walked into the room where the isolation chambers were. He looked to Jennifer, there was a large hole in the room and then he noticed the absense of one of the angrier members of the group. \"Where\'s Rage?\"

Jennifer shrugged. \"Who knows, he threw Odin through that wall, and is probably proceeding to pummel him into a bloody pulp. That guy, sometimes I just dont think he knows his own temper.\"

Vincent chuckled lightly \"Hulk smash?\" Jennifer however felt that this was not the tior hor humor as a one armed, bleeding, relatively pissed off Mystic named Dranzior walked through the first hole in the room created by odin. \"Springboard.\" Jennifer quickly muttered.

Vincent looked. \"Huh?\" He then nodded, as the image struck his mind. He got down on his hands and knees and Jennifer sprinted at him. Leaping off his back. She drew 3 daggers from her belt and tossed them at Dranzior, all striking him like darts. Then drawing two more, in mid flip then stabbing them into her as she stabbed him into the ground.

\"Where\'s that god damn Deftain?!\" She cursed at the now very stabbed Dranzior, who was in a very sudden state of shock, just gasping... as his eyes no longer had the purpley glow of control, they now had their natural green/greyish tint of color. He groaned.

\"Ugghh.... \" He barely got out words, he had to focus, he was not counting on that but judging on his parties actions he could understand the hostality. \"...He was controlings us, I broke it on me, but, everyone else... He killed Vintage. Dont tell... \" He couldnt end his sentence before he lost all signs of life. The elder statesmen as far as TMX was concerned breathed his last breath. Jennifer just with drew all her daggers and re-belted them \"I\'ll avenge you.\" She kissed her fingers and pressed them to Dranzior\'s forhead.

Standing up and walking through the room she persued Deftain... Vincent ran to the hallway, narrowly escaping being punched by a very aggressive Hurricane who was still attacking the very defencive minded Rayvin, and looked to a very light of breath James Cain. \"James, Varnet, whatever you want me to call you. Jennifer just ran after Deftain.\"

The look on James\'s face couldnt be described as anything, it was rage, fear and excitement at the same time. \"Well dont just stand there! Lets go!\" He ran to the room and then looked at one of the two holes in the adjecent walls. As if he knew, he just ran into the one to the left of him and walked over Dranzior\'s corpse, closely followed by Vincent as he persued after Jennifer.

Rayvin did not have her pinned for long, as she had expertly escaped his pin and was now on the offensive. She glared, her eyes glaring a deep purple. \"You wont fight Deftain, until you walk over my cold dead corpse, Rayvin Mitchels.\"

Rayvin shook his head, drawing his nunchucks. \"That, my love, is not an option.\" He began spinning them around his body, and stood in a typical martial arts stance, waving Hurricane on, she more than oblidged, charging him, aiming a kick at his head.

He whipped his nunchucks around her ankle, twisted them and turned her to the ground, flipping over her he got right back in his stance. \"You cannot defeat me, this battle will go on for eons if it has to. I will tirelessly fight you off, I will not harm you!\"

Hurricane cackled maniacally as if she could\'ve cared less entirely all together. \"Funny, because I\'ll do everything I can to harm you!\" And she thrust out her arms sending a mighty gust of wind after Rayvin that, rarely as it ever happened, caught him off guard. The wind carried him to a door frame that his back was rammed into, wincing as the pain was immense, he was dropped landing on his belly weakly.

\"True love is something I will fight for Hurricane. I pray my friends find Deftain before I do, because I will show him no mercy!\" He pried himself to his feet and charged her with a blind sprint, leaping off the wall, to its opposite and back and forth, then landing infront of her, tripping withwith his nunchucks and then quickly pinning her again. \"Stop, please, I dont wish to harm you!\"

Hurricane\'s knee found his groine about as fast as sonic the hedgehog speeds away from danger. A snister smile crept across her face as she noticed the intense look of agony on his. She threw him off of him and sprang to her feet. \"Its bout\' time you grew some baloy. oy. Unless of course, I just smashed them to bits.\"

She walked upto rayvin and and thrust her arms at him, hitting him with a violent hammer of wind that thrust him to the ground, indending the ground below him. She swept her arms forward, clubbing him in the side with that same hammer of wind. Sending him up and onto his back, he winced as it felt like he was being clubbed with a sledgehammer.

\"You\'re foolish Rayvin Mitchels, Deftain will enslave the world, why do you side yourself with the little guy, it will be a hellish future and you just decide to side with the losing side? Deftain will rule with an iron fist, power you could only dream of. Dont be a fool, dont make me crush you out of pure pity.\"

Rayvin couldn\'t and didnt believe the words coming out of hurricanes mouth. \"...That\'s not you talking, That\'s just what Deftain\'s feeding you. He\'s a fool.\" he said slowly taking this opertunity to mount an attack. \"And I know you\'re gonna hurt after this but when you wake up I promise you I\'ll apologize immensely.\"

She didnt even have time to say what before he leapt up, and snapped her neck, not breaking it but just such a sudden rush to heave her into unconciousness kne kneeled beside her and then sighed, cradling her up in his arms and just holding her close \"Im so sorry!\"

Deftain\'s laugh was heard as Vincent and James approached. A loud groan and sigh from Jennifer as she fell unconcious from Deftains choking spell, just as James and Vincent walked into the room. James glared \"You son of a bitch!\"

James flew at him and was thrust aside just as easily as Vincent when he had the same plan. Deftain countered with two Telekenetic attacks. \"Do you think this was going to be easy? I hope you pray that you can be able to kiss the grime off my boots when I conquer theld.\ld.\"

James blasted at Deftain and this staggered him back. Vincent spun his scythe and then leapt at Deftain to slice and dice him but a thrust of Deftain\'s arm and Vincent was being pinned to the wall by his own scythe, trying to worm his way out.

\"I\'ll do something involving you and feet alright!\" James roared as he charged forth, punching Deftain in the face when he wasnt watching him. James grabbed Deftain, pulled him back up and punched him again \"You like it huh? How do you like being punched?\" Deftain glared into James\'s eyes, striking him with the fear of 100 people. \"Scared boy?\"

James crumpled to his knees in a shreik of horror. But Vincent had finally wormed his way out of his scythe and pulled it out of the wall. \"Try scarring a man with no fear!\" He said walking upto Deftain and clubbing him with the butt end of his scythe. Tripping him with the bladed end. Deftain\'s shreik of pain as Vincent struck him. Vincent\'s eyes were cold as ice, his life he had dealt with too much shit to be scared of a punk like Deftain. \"Who\'s scared now?\"

Deftain looked to Vincent, blasting him with a thunderous energy blast into the wall. Deftain got up and smirked slightly at Vincent. \"You like that? How does it feel?\" he balled his fist, essentially grabbing Vincent\'s soul it self and began pulling. \"To know that in a few moments, you\'ll be as empty as you like to believe you are, how do you think you\'re going to feel when you don\'t even have a soul?\"

Vincent was fighting it as valiantly as he could. It felt like his essence its self was being ripped away from him, and he didn\'t know what he could do to stop it or counter it. Luckily he didnt have to because James was slowly recovering from that panic attack he was erinering. James looked over, he wasnt sure what was going on. But he just glared.

\"Hey Deftain... What\'d the green beam say to the demented sorceror.\" Deftain blinked turning around. \"Fuck if it mattered... It just kicked his ass!\" And with that he blasted Deftain clear into the next room. Vincent took a deep breath as he slowly felt oriented again. James ducked to check on Jennifer who was a bit shaken up but okay.. Vincent got up on his own.

James looked \"So... is that it?\" Vincent shrugged but blinked, as slowly James was being elevated and choked. \"The hell?\" Jennifer gasped. \"Thats what he did to me!!!\" James was trying to pry the invisible hands from his throat as he was being strangled. Vincent looked as Deftain walked back into the room. \"DONT YOU GET IT, YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME!!!\"

A split second decision was made as Vincent swung his scythe and it dug deep into the back of Deftain, causing him to fall to his knees and caugh out blood. Vincent let a small smirk escape his lips \"Take that.\"

James fell to the ground but he soon got upto his feet and walked towards Deftaiickiicking him up he looked into his eyes. \"Face it... its ove.\" But Deftain began laughing, slowly from his robe he drew a curved, puple dagger, it glissened in the minimal light.

Jennifer blinked. It all happened so fast. James barely had time to recieve Jennifers warning, \"James!\" before the blade had been ja rig right into his chest, into his heart. In reflex, James just grabbed Deftains face, and unleashed a huge, galactically so, energy blast, all the stress and all the rage inside him just burst out in the energy blast.

Pedestrians that were wandering the streets at such early hour of the evening were treated as the upper floors of the building, atleast opposite of where the fight was going on was blown apart in a blast of green. Glass shattered and so did Deftain\'s skull as it practically was turned into a mist due to James\'s blast. After it ended. Jame\'s body with the dagger in it, fell weak to the ground, as did the headless body of Deftain.

Jennifer immediately rushed to his side \"James!!! Speak to me, are you okay?\"

James\'s reply was weak. \"..No.\" he coughed up some blood, and groaned. \"That didnt feel too good.\" he sighed lightly. Rayvin soon walked into the room, holding Hurricane, he rushed to his side, handing Hurricane to Vincent. \es! es! Are you alright.\"

James just smiled. \"You know... This moment, I really didnt picture it happening like this.\" He sighed. \"I was hoping i\'d be like, I dont know, older than seventy. Maybe break a hip or something.\"

Rayvin held a hand to his neck. \"Your pulse is weakening.\"

James groaned.. \"Remember when I leveled that millitary base...\"

Jennifer nodded, hugging him, holding him close. \"Yes, you nearly di- oh no.. James no!\"

James just sighed. \"Exactally... Jennifer, I\'ll love you.. Forever.\"

Jennifer was sobbing weakly. \"No James, please, please dont die!\"

Rayvin as if he\'d gone through this a million times, truth was, he\'d dealt with Energizer\'s death, and well, those things happened. He wasn\'t emotionless but even he was feeling a bit of tears coming on. \"Jennifer he\'s going....\"

James sighed, his voice continuously weaker. \"I\'ll tell Lauren... you all said... hi...\" His eyes closed slowly, and his body went limp. His pulse stopped and everything kof sof stopped. The man Jennfier loved, a leader, a friend. James Cain\'s body couldn\'t handle the stress of the energy output of the blast and shut down, for good.

Jennier just cried. Holding his head to her chest, full out crying now. \"No... no.. god no!\" Rayvin gently hugged Jennifer as she wept for the man she only recently fell in love with. She now knew how James originally felt, when Lauren was ripped away from him so violently, in an act of war. She felt James was ripped away from her, \"Its just not fair Ray... not fair.\"

(One week later)

Jennifer stood over James\'s casket, which was beside another casket. She was sobbing greatly. Vincent, Rayvin, Hurricane, and Rage all sat in their seats as Jennifer waited to speak. Duane, who hadn\'t been seen since the event was also presumed dead. So the funeral was for the two of them. Other mutants and mutual friends of both James and Duane we\'re in attendance.

\"James was a hero... A man who inspired everyone, even in the darkest times. He was there to keep us high during the mutant wars, and even when people doubted him. He lead us through that. And he suffered a great loss during that, we all did. His wife, Lauren Reynolds died during that war, a loss that I dont think James ever really recovered from.\"

She took a sobbing breath.

\"James, even in the worst of times, felt it was his obligation to make sure we were okay, no matter how low the morale was around us. He made damn sure we were good to go. It\'s not easy doing what we do. And James was just an example of a rare type of leader out there. His heart and spirit will carry on with all of us. And he will watch over us. Along with Lauren, they will make sure we\'re okay. We\'ll miss you James.\"

She sighed and was given a large hug by Rayvin as he stood to speak for Duane.

\"Duane Bannts... Some would say he was the worst man on the planet, and many would agree with him. But to me, he was a friend. He helped me realize just how things worked over here. Some would call him violent, or his ethics, unreasonable. But I would say that he was one of the best people in the world.\"

He sighed lightly, but Hurricane smiled to him from the crowd, this helped Rayvin to finish.

\"Duane will be missed by all of us, some because of the way he could always keep a light mood during the most tense and uncalled of times. Others because of the way he worked, Duane, as most all of us know. Was as hitman to put it lightly. And he took his job very seriously. Some would say that he was the best. Others, would say he was imamous for one thing. But one thing he will always be, is a hero.\"

Numerous people paid their respects over the evening and eventually the caskets of the best friends, Duane Bannt\'s and James Cain, were buried side by side. Just like they both would\'ve wanted.