Thread: Not So Super  (Kassy & Alexandar)

Sir I have a security breach in Rethul Tower., scans are picking up a possible virus trying to seed into your systems. The armed security guard informed his boss. Xel Rethul watched from Kassy's apartment window through a pair of enhanced binoculars as his new slave, Ultragirl attacked the convoy he'd instructed her to. Interesting, I wonder who could be trying something so stupid? Initiate the hologram generator in my office, let's give them what they want to see, and while they are distracted, run a trace on the origin of the hack. Xel said calmly and returned to watching the battle. Meanwhile back in his office, a three dimensional hologram of himself watching out of his office window appeared. This was no ordinary visual illusion either, it had heat sinks and could mimic a human's heat signature as well, in case he was dealing with someone that could see in more than one spectrum. That was the thing about being the archnemesis of a hero the caliber that Captain Ultra offered, you had to think outside the box, and he'd been doing it for decades. Xel focused his lenses down onto the battle, he'd assumed that Ultragirl would simply swoop down and wipe the smugglers out with little trouble, but things hadn't gone that easily. There was some enhanced figure down there, dressed like a low rent ninja and he was actually holding his own against Ultragirl's amazing powers. Sure she would surly win the battle, few could keep up with the pace someone as powerful Ultragirl could deliver, but who was he? Why did the world's greatest Supervillain not know who this little gnat was? Get me jacket on this little smirking punk, I want to know who he is Xel said, using the tech binoculars to snap several high resolution photos of the stranger and sent them via Wifi to one his other, compromised mainframes. Meanwhile back in his office the security turrets had activated and taken aim at the decoy he'd created. Xel certainly didn't want to relinquish control over Ultragirl, but at the same time he desperately wanted to find out who this new operator was. He had a sneaking suspicion that who ever this slacker ninja was, had something to do with whomever was hacking his Tower's security systems. Just as the alert that his own security cannons fired, he reached down disabled his device, freeing Kassy from his control. He was of course completely unharmed, standing safely in Kassy's apartment, but he wanted whoever was in his computers to believe they'd disabled his control over Ultragirl, so that he could be free to reverse trace the origin of the signal. Ultragirl was torn, she absolutely hated being controlled by Xel, but at the same time he'd used his control over her, not to do evil, but quite the opposite. When she'd arrived here and seen obviously criminal insurgents she'd been surprised. Why was Xel using her to stop villains, afterall there was a good chance she would have stopped them without Xel controlling her. Then again maybe he was just testing her, afterall there was an enhanced villain here, whoever this two-bit ninja was atleast putting up a fight. But he couldn't honestly believe he had a chance at beating her. She was only striking with a fraction of her speed and power, if Xel controlled her and forced her to go full power, one of her punches could literally splatter this mortal man. She had to wonder what his true plan was. The villain was making wisecracks, which wasn't something she was unused to, and if she wasn't being controlled she may have even quipped back, but what surprised her was the weapon he used. It was obviously magical, as it was able to stop her punches as well as deflect a blast of her laser vision. Her enhanced eyes tracked it and focused in on the blade as he whipped it about. There was something strange about it, what first just looked like black metal, in closer inspection seemed to be something less substantial, almost like it was made out of condensed shadow instead of just steal. It was obviously the source of his powers and if she wasn't being controlled by Xel right now, she would focus her attacks on removing it from his possession, but that wasn't an option right now. Suddenly she felt an internal snap in her mind and then reverberating through her body, she was free of Xel's control. Why he would release her, was beyond her comprehension but she wasn't about to waste the opportunity. She stopped mid attack and turned and leapt into the air, attempting to take flight. Her intention was to fly back and fight the supervillain in her apartment, but as her body lifted into the air she felt an intense pressure force her back to the ground. She came crashing back to the earth, smashing down into the tarmac hard enough to crack it. Ultragirl's eyes darted around, trying to find out what powerful force had just grounded her, when she saw the man dressed in black standing not far from her, his foot placed down on the shadow she was casting, thanks to the large sodium lights that were illuminating the loading bay. Yup, that was us who freed you, He stated, pointing to himself with a triumphant smile. Now hold on one moment! I freed you but that doesn't mean I did it out of the goodness of my heart, it's time I collect my reward. Ultragirl tried to stand, but found some incredibly powerful force keeping her down, it was almost as if his foot standing on her shadow was being amplified and projected down onto her. Let me go now or I'll hurt you in a way that you won't walk away from! She snarled. Ultragirl's eyes darted around, finding the large sodium light that was shining down from above, she fired her laser vision at it and burned it out. Temporarily freed, she tried to get back to her feet, the problem was that was just one of the big overhead lights, there were others which meant there were other shadows being cast.