Saga 2 Episode 0: The Calm Before The Storm

## Participants

Dez WilsonJacob TurnerTanabanTsungJade Fierce
I

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeaGUfZM5hs&list=PLYNBny7IRlVlZDcKRtLlV-JKVQjMsIcoI&index=4 )

Quite some time ago, there was an incident that went a bit off the file base of Heroes Inc records. There was supposedly a black op’s rescue mission conducted somewhere off the coast of Switzerland. It is A facility which excelled in advanced Bio-Threat creation. The base out here is in the middle of nowhere, to which there is little to any wildlife, that hasn’t been domesticated by the SK to aid in their experiments and test the limits of their creatures. The biological weapons created here are prefect hybrids, able to blend in amongst the public, but SK is very protective over this specific facility, and refuses to let any clearance level, below 10 to even so much as board the base let alone look upon it. It is an area off the map but rumored to be abandoned and has been for some time now. A two man team was tasked to infiltrate a facility and recuse the 20 POW’s located inside of it.

He works for the Shining Knights Conglomerate as a Base of Operations Head. Shining Knights is a giant conglomerate which operates ruthlessly as a major international player in a number of markets; including pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, as well as top-secret operations utilizing genetic engineering and biological/technological weaponry. The company also had a more benevolent public face for the ignorant masses, producing cosmetics, consumer products, and foods. A subsidiary of SK’s operated as a malevolent paramilitary organization. This division of the corporation maintained a highly trained security force capable of rescue, reconnaissance, and paramilitary operations. They used a variety of vehicles, including HUMVEEs. Complementing this security force was an air wing, which maintained a fleet of AV-8B Harrier jump jets, UH-60 Blackhawks, C-130 Hercules water-landing capable cargo planes, CH-53 Sea Stallion cargo helicopters for transporting prisoners/supplies and Hughes MH-6 'Little Bird' attack helicopters and various battle ships to ship products over seas, or by air. The corporation utilized these resources in order to secure and protect its assets, as well as its high profile employees.

Shining Knights first began during World War III. Taniban organized a group of brilliant scientists whose sole dedication was to acquire and develop power through technological means that would overthrow the government. Taniban used SK to develop advanced technological weaponry for The Armada, which was headed by Timothy Fredrick. Although The Armada suffered a major defeat, it continued to exist secretly over the following decades, continually growing and building in strength. The group of scientists grew in number over the years, and made great advances in various fields: robotics, bio-engineering, bionics, bio-organics and physics. Eventually the scientists publicly incorporated their organization under the name of Shining Knights, which was believed by both the public and by intelligence organizations to be an international cartel dealing with the development and marketing of new technological products. They gained great influence with the U.S. government in its role as a supplier of hardware and weaponry to governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, even knowing it was a double edged sword the entire time. SK has created a wide variety of advanced technological weaponry, and - during the period when it was an arm of The Armada- made great strides in creating androids, which the organization employed as assassins. They even played a part in the creation of Crator, the super adaption that originally killed the god killers and destroyed the vacation islands some years back during the GMAFs. Because of their ties with The Armada, this is where a lot of their weapon techonolgies came into play, but their biggest cover up was the other work they did, and still continue to do, for the world at large. SK is very good at one thing: Keeping their secrets, secret, and keeping their loose ends controlled so well. Shining Knights conglomerate, operate from a private island, located in the Indian Ocean. Gaining diplomatic immunity to keep any outside nations form interfering on their soil and stopping or investigating any of their operations. The CIA, KPD, and even Heroes Inc have all tried to investigate the operations of the company but their alibies, and ledgers are to legitimate to make any moves towards.

We start the story and join our Heroes and their descent to the island. The men selected: Dez Wilson and Jacob Turner. At this time Jacob would’ve already have been parachuting down from the sky, about a few miles out from the massive basses radar to avoid detection. As he touched down he’d have unfastened his harness, and stood up wearing his traditional outfit color’s, with his signature shield on hisb back strapped magectically. He began to walk a bit, looking at his watch and looking up.

“Fierce told me he’d be here at the same time I was. I’m assuming he’ll show up sooner or later…I’d better wait. Don’t know what’s coming here and it’s going to take more than me. “ He sighed through his nostrils folding his arms. “Like that’s ever stopped me before. I forget how expendable I am sometimes.”

FLASHBACK
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNb5cwv\_MU8 )
“Why do you feel like you need to do this, Dez? You don’t owe the world anything. We didn’t hire you to build these suits so you could turn around and get yourself killed inside of one.” Donnie’s face appears on a large hologram screen in front of Dez Wilson.

There had been many events in the past few years that have grown on Dez as a way for him to see the world for what it truly is. Standing in front of his CEO in his Hot Rod S.U.I.T., he holds the helmet of the armor in his right hand. The bright blue lights shine while the vibranium metal shines with a beautiful red and yellow color scheme.

“I know it wasn’t what you originally signed me on for, Sir. But I feel like I have so much ability to help fix the world, that it is our responsibility to at least try.” Dez looks towards Donnie with a humbling respect for the man as both a mentor and a boss. “You once told me that Yun Corp not only has the power to save the world, but rather the responsibility to see it change for the better…Please, sir…This is how we take a step in the right direction. Yun Corporations and Heroes Incorporated working together to see a brighter future. A future where our technology not only saves people from sickness and disease but also terrorists and villains who seek to do the world harm!”

Donnie smirks and slowly shakes his head. “I knew I made the right decision in hiring you, Dez. I will grant you authorization to use the S.U.I.T. as a means to get you into Heroes Inc…But that is it. YOU are the sole asset that works with Heroes Inc. I don’t what that green lady to come to me again for more of our tech when they already have you. Weekly reports are required as well. Good luck, Dez.”

And with that, Donnie hangs up their holo-call and Dez’s face lifts with a bright smile. It is time now for the genius to get behind the armor and work for Heroes Inc!
Flashback Over
After speaking to Donnie about his involvement with Heroes Inc, Dez had gone to become a field operative. With his advanced technology, Dez earned the right to be on a two man mission with one of Heroes Inc. most trusted operatives, The Red Dawn. And knowing how important the mission is, Dez is not taking any chances with this one.

Flying high in the atmosphere over the ocean, he also makes his descent to the island that the mission will be taking place on. His HUD shows satellite imagery along with multiple sensory scans of the landscape itself. There are a few things that he picks up on about the location that he can discuss with The Red Dawn as they get down there.

While making the trip closer to the island, his suit quickly begins to morph and become invisible from sight. This is one of the many perks that Dez has with his S.U.I.T. It only takes him a few minutes to catch up to where Red Dawn is on the ground. Following the path of the parachute drop, Dez finds himself making it to the island just as Red Dawn touches down on the ground.

Using his stealth technology, his power suit would actually sound silent to the point that even users with enhanced sensory systems would have trouble hearing. Dez lands on the floor of the island behind Red Dawn. Dis-engaging the stealth technology, his body would slowly begin to re-morph and become visible once more. The stealth tech works like a liquid substance as it moves up his body to reveal the bright red and yellow colors.

Upon appearing in front of Red Dawn, Dez lifts up the front clamp of the helmet to reveal his face to him while saying, “Good morning, Red Dawn. The name’s Dez. I’ve looked forward to working with you for some time now.” If he turned around he would see the right glove of Dez’s extended out for him to shake.

With both men here now, they could begin their mission!

Jacob would’ve remained standing there until finally hearing a soft pitter pat land on the ground behind him. He turned around to see something forming out of thin air. A man in a suit no less. A very up tight and heavily armored suit but a sleek look to it. The man would’ve walked up to him introducing himself, though Jacob was halfway sure he knew who this was. “Good morning, Red Dawn. The name’s Dez. I’ve looked forward to working with you for some time now.” “Ahhh Dez. I was wondering when you’d show up. Late but on time I see.” Jacob nodded and smiled. “Well we don’t have much time to stand around here and chit chat. I assume you read the file for the op. We’ve got 20 good men in there and we need to get them out. I was told you’re the closest thing if not a literal walking supercomputer. Think you can get us a read out on the layout of the base? We can find the best point of entry and both of us take the quickest route to the room the hostages are in.” Jacob would’ve placed his hands on his hips and waited.

The moment Dez did find a suitable entrance route Jacob would’ve nodded. “Alright partner. Let’s get to it.’ Jacob would’ve begun jogging lightly, conserving his energy as not to waste any of it before arriving at the big shebang, though he might not even have to do that much. He jogged at a pretty quick pace for a job, pushing past tree branches and hopping over enlarged tree roots to make his way there slowly but surely. Moving parallel to how dez might have preferred to travel. About a mile away from the base however, Jacob would’ve stopped his movement and placed his hand on a tree before dropping into a squat. “Hey…I think I heard something…” Jacob would’ve used his electronic contact lenses and began switching vision spectrums to see if he could see anything but alas he was coming up rather short on that department. “I’m not getting any vital signs on anything…”

If Dez were to use his own tech he’d be able to see that what they were surrounded by was not biological in nature. It was purely mechanical. They would’ve been giant machines that were using state of the art cloaking material to be invisible to most forms of tracking. Most.

These machines stood a whopping 25 feet tall, made out of solid Carbodanium, a substance only exceeded by adamantium and incredibly difficult to break. They each have twin cannons that fire high caliber missiles, enough to nuke at least 30 feet of whatever they come into contact with and twin Vulcan gun’s beneath said missile launchers. They moved relatively slow and they had appeared to be completely unmanned in mobility. They had sensor arrays and for the moment they were stationary….

Dez nods his head at the comment about being a super computer. It hadn’t been the first time someone has given him that description. After Jacob talks, it had come around to be his turn to speak. Because of the two man team route this mission has been forced to undertake, Dez is also the recon and intelligence portion of the mission setup. Being given the chance to speak, Dez slowly lifts up his right palm to face upwards towards the sky.

Dez activates the plasma node that is in the palm of his hand and a hologram of the building appears before the two of them. The building is shown in a blueprint style while also displaying the forests that surrounds the building. Multiple hostile components surround the house while the house itself shows to have an arsenal of defensive properties.

One thing that does stand out is the heavy signatures that surround the building. These were very heavily cloaked and practically inert pieces of metal that surround the building. But this metal is Carbonadium, a very rare metal that is second only in durability to Adamantium. It does not hold the same defensive properties as Vibranium, it is more so a second-class Adamantium. Dez has the ability to scan for this substance because Cardonadium is the metal that laces the inner-skeleton of the S.U.I.T. he currently wears.

Before Jacob begins to run, Dex gives him a small break down of the area they are currently in, “The house is heavily guarded. These objects of carbonadium surround the building, my scans were un-able to get a full read on what they are…These objects are stationary but they look mechanical. Most likely trap activated. So it would be smart to avoid running into those. I also noticed that on the eastern wall there is a small canal that takes a route underneath the household. It can give us our entry to sneak from the basement up.”

Jacob takes the knowledge that Dez gives him and quickly runs towards the household. Dez takes note that Jacob is not running to his fullest, most likely trying to conserve his energy. Dez uses his standard way of traveling. Using his plasma nodes underneath his palms and his boots, he is quickly lifted into the air to fly at the height of the tree line. Using his stealth technology once more, his motion is much quieter than his normal Plasma Output. He slows down his flight motion to remain parallel with Jacob.

Once Jacob stops because he hears something, Dez instantly de-activates his thrusters and his body impacts into the ground. Dez lands on one knee with his eyes scanning the surrounding area. The HUD shows quick scans of the carbonadium mechs that are stationary around them. Dez’s idea that these things are trap based seems to be the most likely idea since these are now clearly sentries that protect the house. But with that realization, Dez quickly wonders why Jacob would have heard something.

That is when his HUD begins to show an alert coming from their left. In bright red color “Incoming projectile” appears to warn Dez about something about to be fired.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4\_dyrTw5rRw )
“Get down!” Dez yells out as he stands up to face whatever is to the left of them. When he stands up he sees the fully activated body of one of these mech-fighters! At the same time that he stands up, this mech fires one of its missiles in the hopes to take out both of them. Luckily for the two of them it takes a lot more than one missile to take out a S.U.I.T. The missile explodes about one meter in front of Dez’s body and quickly surrounds the two of them in fire and smoke.

While being surrounded by the blast, Jacob would be able to see that the explosion is actually going around the two of them in the form of a dome. He’d be able to see Dez’s bright blue energy shield covering the two of them. Once the smoke clears,Dez would look out as the hexagon formation of his shield begins to fade.

As the mech prepares to fire a second shot, Dez activates his thrusters and quickly punches into the mech with everything he has! The vibranium smashing into carbonadium creates a very loud vibratory sound that echoes throughout the forest. He does this and quickly latches onto the mech to try and get its full attention. The legs of the mech slowly lift up and back like an animal would as it tries to buck Dez off of him.

“Get to the eastern wall! I can hold these things off and catch up!” Dez yells this to Jacob while blasting plasma energy from his palms into the carbonadium, trying to weaken it.

If Jacob leaves, he will have a clear path to get to the eastern wall with all of the mechs being focused on killing Dez. But if he remains to help Dez in battling the first wave of mechs, their path to the eastern wall will be much harder and more heavily fortified.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G4R5u49GsI&list=PLYNBny7IRlVm1xHhYq5qHlNSsKkocXSF2&index=1 ) Jacob would’ve hear Dez’s verbal warning to get down when the machines began to uncloak themselves and come to! “Damn it!” Jacob went to raise his shield but that’s when the explosion didn’t even…touch him. He looked from over the view of his shield and saw that there was a force field surrounding him. Courtesy of Dez’s suit. “Get to the eastern wall! I can hold these things off and catch up!” Jacob nods. “Good looking out! Don’t fall to far behind, keep track of my location!” Jacob would’ve this time taken off in a full blown sprint! His adrenaline pumping through his body, pitting him at heightened speeds of 55mph on foot! His shield on his back as he looked behind him, only to see a line of gunfire coming his way. Turning around with raised brows, to start curving his initial direction to avoid the line of fire, before leaping and kicking off of a tree to avert his direction and roll along the ground.

The moment he recovered from his roll, he’d reach behind his head and pull the shield out with his right hand only to toss it forward, swinging his arm across his chest and sending the hard metal disk to the legs of the walking machine! Made of Carbodainium would’ve made breaking the legs next to impossible. What wouldn’t have been in possible was throwing an object hard enough to buckle those leg joints. This caused the walking machine’s legs to buckle inwards and it literally toppled over itself! Collapsing onto the ground, and allowing the shield to return in Jacob’s direction! Catching it he’d continue making his way to the entrance of the base specified. “Eastern-wall! We should be approaching that right now as we speak!” he spoke to himself. He arrived at the wall of the place and looked to his left. “This way.” His memory of the map’s layout leads him to burst into another sprint around and as he did, a mile and a half later he found that small entrance. The door was locked, so taking a step back he’d raise his right leg and boot the door open.

Stepping inside he’d look left and right see nearly nothing. Taking his shield off of his back he’d begin slowly walking inside of it, he’d keep his senses as keen as he could. He’d take one more step before squatting down around a corner, and using his contact lenses to get a scope on the men in here. He began to see glowing bodies symbolizing enemy men around. “25 located on the mid ground floor…all armed. Rifles. There are less soldiers on the floor above me and there are 30 on the floor below and bodies gathered in a room. I’ll have to pace myself. “ Jacob would’ve turned the corner and began silently running down the hallway before coming up on one of the soldiers. He’d rear his right arm back shield in hand and toss it forward! The shield bounced off of the back of his neck and straight down the hallway to his left only to impact the skull of the back of another man’s head! 2 other guards noticed this and ran down the hallway where the shield was being pulled back to! However when they turned the corner, Jacob would’ve come up basing his shield into the face of one man with both hands and his left leg extended kicking the other man in the head! Once they were out, he’d see another one coming down the hall way and straight toss his shield at him as well. A clean cut blow to the neck knocking him out cold.

Jacob began sprinting down the hallway looking for a door way to the stairs before turning a corner, and almost getting lit the fuck up by 6 men forming a barricade like formation! 3 squatting down and 3 standing up! Jacob spoke into his com link. “Dez, how’s the weather looking out there!” Jacob would’ve reached into his utility belt, and pulled out 3 explosive spheres and tossing them into the hallway and an explosion would’ve ensued as he’d wait for news from Dez’s end. The soldiers in the building would’ve began to take attention to this and start moving towards the floor Jacob would’ve been on.

“Come on ya son of a bitch!” Dez yells out as his palm blasters fire into the hull of the carbonadium mechs.

Bright blue lights of energy spark off of the carbonadium body of the mech, forcing Dez to rethink his plan of action. Plasma energy burns hot enough to melt away the likes of metals just as Titanium, but Carbonadium is a different poison all together. Being second only to adamantium, Dez realizes that his simple hand blasts weren’t going to do the trick to take these guys down.

While he continues to ride the back of this mech, his HUD alerts him of another mech being activated. This mech moves closer towards the scene with its cannons ready to fire. Because of their drone technology the mech doesn’t take into account that one of its own is in the line of fire. It fires another missile which forces Dez to leap off of the back and activate his thrusters. The impact of the missile hits dead on the hull of the mech with enough force to knock it on its side!

As Dez begins to fly around and surveying the area he sees that once knocked onto its side, the mech is unable to get back up. This intel gives Dez an entire playbook to work with which comes to make the genius smirk underneath the mask.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gDch1p4c\_M )
“Such a terrible design flaw…amateurs…” He says as he begins to turn around and fly directly towards the front of another incoming mech.

Increasing the power in his jet thrusters, Dez quickly breaks the sound barrier with a powerful BOOM sound. The mech fires out hundreds of rounds from its minigun, hitting Dez against the mighty vibranium metal he wears. Unfortunately for the mech, the metal absorbs the kinetic energy from the impact and Dez uses that to further strengthen the attack he has in mind.

Without slowing down, Dez rams his body into the front end of the mech and the impact blows dozens off trees out from the ground and launches them back with gale force winds. With his hands extended out in front of him, Dez’s body is able to knock the front of the mech off balance and to fall over helpless like a turtle on its back.

Dez screams out with excitement as he continues to fly around the forest. In his excitement he doesn’t see his HUD alerting him of an incoming projectile. While in the air he takes the full force of one of the missiles and is quickly taken out of the air.

“GUH!” he yells out as his body hits the ground and bounces like a ball across the forest floor.

His back smashes through the center of a tree which causes the tree to fall towards the ground. The impact causes his HUD to static and short a little bit as he gets back up to his feet. All he can hear is a small amount of static coming from the missile disrupting his gear for a few seconds. Once he is able to catch himself he sees the mech that shot at him coming towards him.

“So if no one is manning you…Let’s see if I can’t get me a pet mech.” Dez begins to come up with a plan that is something only he would try.

Flying towards the third mech, he maneuvers himself to avoid the bullets and missiles that are being shot at him. If Jacob wasn’t too far out he would probably be hearing all of this as it happens. Once he is close enough, Dez leaps for the top of the mech as he did the first one. This time, he latches himself down on the top making sure to keep himself balanced in the center.

With his right hand, he slams his fist into the hard carbonadium. This punch makes a small impact showing that this is not an attack that Dez hopes to break the carbonadium. Instead upon the contact of his suit to the mech, the liquid style vibranium slowly begins to flow down onto the mech. Like a parasite looking for a host, the liquid metal begins to cover small portions of the mech trying to find a way into its structure.

It doesn’t take long for the metal to squeeze through the barrel of the weapons, the screw holes that connect the mech together, and even getting in through the points that connect the carbonadium pieces together. Once inside of the mech, the symbiotic metal begins to do its work. The sounds of sparks inside of the mech are heard as it starts to act erratic as if it knew what was happening to it.

A few seconds later the mech comes to a complete stop. The mech makes a couple of beeping noises as if it were being re-configured. Sure enough, Dez stands back up; recalling the metal that is inside of the mech. His suit becomes whole once more now with his HUD bringing up all the information about the mech system that he is standing on.

“Welcome to the family, chicken legs.” Dez says while examining the specs of the machine. “Onward, Steed!” He yells out as he points his left index finger out towards the direction of the eastern wall.

And like a slave to its master, the mech begins to move foot over foot towards the direction that Dez orders it to go. The metal had completely re-configured the data inside of the mech to become another extension of his own suit. How he is psionically connected to his suit had now been extended to the mech that he stands upon.

It’s at that moment that he gets a com link from Jacob asking about the weather. Dez laughs a bit underneath the mask before looking around him.

“It’s actually not that bad out here. I made a new friend. His name is Chicken Legs. Fun guy. We should invite him to poker night. How’s it on your end?”

Waiting to hear a response, he would be able to tell that it is enough time of having fun and playing around. He playfully places a hand on Chicken Legs hull while saying his goodbye.

“Sorry, Chicken Legs. Daddy has to go to work. You behave yourself now. Don’t kill anyone unless they are shooting at me.” And with that, Dez activates his thrusters to quickly get to the eastern wall to catch up to where Jacob is at.

“It’s pretty sunny. Partially cloudy but nothing much to ruin my day.” Jacob would’ve decided it was time to take action, as he leapt from behind the corner he’d reach behind him for his shield. As he did the trained soldiers would’ve begun to fire off rounds towards Jacob but his shield was already poised in front of him! Jacob’s run was lower poised and to the ground, but he could still move his legs at a wide enough stride to reach his top speed in only a few seconds! As he got about a few feet away from them he’d release the shield and with superior striking speed boot kick one of the men in front of him sending him flying back down the hall by 20 feet! Ducking low, and sweep kicking the man to the right of him, and turning around to the man on the left to grip his trigger arm and judo flipping him over his arm! He’d then narrowly avoid a line of fire and roundhouse kick another man in the temple, sending his head against the wall.

Jacob would’ve stood up right again before one of the men put a pistol to the back of his head. “Hands up where I can see them!” Jacob raised his hands up into the air and the man circled around him, the gun still pointed at him. “You foreign scum… How dare you step foot on this soil like you own it. You and the other americans will face DEATH. Kneel!” the barrel against his forehead Jacob would’ve knealt down before him. “die with dishonor!” Jacob waited until he heard the barrel of the gun click before he leaned his head to the right side! The bullet grazing his cheek before he spun around and raised up with a flying knee!!!

the solider dazed stumbled back before Jacob lifted his left leg to his chest and boot kicked this man as well. He traveled the same distance as the original man he’d boot kicked before!

Jacob huffed through his nose, and started sprinting once again, after a few more steps he’d finally made it into the stair way. He’d peak through the little window department and see down the dark steps. His contacts confirm that the people located blow are indeed. “Dez I’ve got the hostages location. They’re heavily guarded though. A full circle of men all around them. they’re already paranoid from the activity up here but if I make a wrong move they’ll kill them. I’m linking you to the vision and location I’m seeing. Once your in range, bring the thunder.” Jacob would’ve squatted down, posting by the door and listening in wait.

* If Dez made an entrance and found a way to neutralize the 10 men surrounding the hostages, Jacob would’ve made his appearance as well, opting to handle the other 15 men in the room as well. Every man was armed but the main priority at this point were the 20 hostages. Dez could try and take out all 20 men on his own, and allow Jacob to be the one to rescue the hostages and free them, or he himself could prioritize getting the hostages to safety while Jacob was a distraction. Either choice made, while the commotion was ensuing, footsteps could be heard down the hallway from the floor Jacob had previously been on. The footsteps got louder and louder as a man would’ve removed his hands from his pockets, and began cracking his knuckles. Each of his fingers contained a ring of different coloration on them...”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9PhfUsFvj0)
While making his flight up to where Jacob is, Dez comes to encounter some reinforcements of the men that Jacob had already taken out. From Dez’s scans it looks like there is a small squad of foot soldiers making their way up to Jacob’s location. He smiles underneath the mask as he makes his way up towards the squad.

They march up the stairs trying to get to Jacob before he can get to the hostages. But Dez crashes their party by zooming to them and by the sheer force of his speed, knocks them all into the walls that surround them. Like a plane, he creates a small barrier around him as he flies that gather up kinetic force that blows each soldier back.

As he flies passed them, he also points his palms out to a few of them to release a small plasma blast. “Excuse me, fellas. Got people to save.” He says as he continues his path to where Jacob is.

It doesn’t take long after that for Dez to catch up to Jacob. Having listened to what he said about the hostages being close, he sets his thrusters to their stealth mode and slowly comes to a landing in position to get into the room where the hostages are located. With his own sensory array of visionary modes, he begins to examine everything in the room from behind the door. His targeting systems begin to lock onto anyone who is considered an enemy while the hostages are marked as civilian on his HUD.

This makes it easier for Dez to take out each of the men without any collateral damage. It only takes a second for Dez’s HUD to mark everyone who is a target and who is not. This brings Dez to the threshold of his plan to get everyone out of here.

“Here we go.” He says to himself as he rears his right leg up to kick the doors open and reveal his large metallic body to everyone in the room.

Some of the men have the reflexes to quickly look up towards the door. But as they do that, they see Dez’s shoulder pieces lift up a small compartment that reveals what Dez had planned this entire time. His shoulder weapons fire out pulse bolts at everyone who had been marked a target prior to his entry. Once fired, the bolts fly across the entire room making sure not to hit any of the innocent hostages. One by one the men are quickly taken out by the bolts that pierce into their bodies. Groans are the last sound they release before hitting the ground.

With the technology of his power suit, Dez clears out the entire room of henchmen in seconds. Looking around, he scans to see if there is anyone he missed in this room.

“All clear down here. Score one for democracy.” After clearing out the room, he would aid in the release of the hostages with Jacob.

II
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As Jacob made his way down the stairs, he’d turn to see that Dez had boomed inside of there right on time! Jacob arrived just in time to see Dez kick down the door and fire small misssles form his shoulders as the henchmen began to drop like flies the moment they were hit! Jacob looked around the room and nodded silently. “Good shot. You make this job a hell of a lot easier Dez.” Jacob would’ve ran over and began untying hostages and talking calmly to them. “Ante up solidier. It’s all gonna be alright now. We’re all gonna get out of here alive and get you home.” The men nodded and began to stretch themselves out from being in captivity for so long.

“Alright fellas here’s what we’re gonna do. You all stick behind me, I’m going to lead you to the rendezvous point towards the coast of here. When we get there, there will be a cloaked Heroes Inc helicopter. Simply approach it and it’ll appear. The driver is there to take head count and he’ll be off. Dez, take point and make sure we’re are covered while we’re moving out there. There’s still at least a few men on that top floor and they’ll be down here any minute now. Come on let’s move.” Jacob would’ve started jogging through the door Dez came in, using the map he had in his head to maneuver them there.

That’s when all of a sudden Jacob felt his body being levitated into the air from what seemed like a visible miniature tornado underneath his body! “Wha-what the hell?!” Jacob would’ve then been tossed into the double doors of a room they were passing! It was about as big as the average were house room with a giant floor door in the center. There were rocket launcher shells and wooden crates abroad filled with all sorts of war goodies, and as Jacob’s body impacted some of the crates, his back would’ve hit the wall, and dust would’ve fallen from the ceiling! Jacob slumped down, gritting his teeth before standing b back up using the wall as leverage.

That’s when a figure would’ve appeared before the 20 men and Dez in the hallway. He looked like a rather tall Asian man, which was abnormal. He had a fair build, and long black hair, with a gotee and mustache to match the attire he wore: a black pinstripe suit, with shoes and cufflinks. He spoke with a thick Asian accent, while adjusting those fancy cufflinks of his. “Good morning gentlemen. I can see you’ve enjoyed stumbling upon my humble abode and what not. I had figured the Inc would’ve meddled in my affairs. My employers are never happy to run into you meddlesome lot.” Jacob would’ve looked over to some of the creates and saw a familiar SK ensignia logo printed on them. “Shining Knights Conglomerate…we’ve been chasing these guys for months. He’s connected!” Jacob thought.

The asian man held his arms out by his sides and the rings began to glow brightly, each of them having a different color. As they glowed, a redish orange energy began to form around his hands. “Men get down!!!!” Jacob yelled out as he’d dash out there, anticipating some form of attack and he’d be right to. The asian man shot a one handed redish firey bolt of energy at the crowd of hostages but Jacob would’ve let that blast deflect right off of his shield and impact the wall beside them blowing it clean to bits and revealing a large open and gaping hole in the wall now. “Dez! I’m gonna reroute the guys! Hold him off for me!??!” Jacob would’ve turned tail, realizing he wasn’t going to be able to fight whoever this was while having to worry about hostages. As such, he’d try to lead the men out of the facility in an alternate route, something that could direct them where they needed to go to and allow Jacob to come back and enter the fray as needed to.

Meanwhile the asian man would’ve been facing off with dez! His body would’ve begun to levitate as the rings continued to glow on his fingers with an eerie luminous light. Each ring had a different purpose but they hadn’t been revealed just yet. If anything maybe Dez recognized that the red ring was the one that glowed when the fire blast was shot, and the blue ring was still resonating during the tornado assault but was finally beginning to fade out of it’s glow and return to normal. He’d have no choice but to hold this man off either by combat in this small hallway, or taking the confrontation to a wider area! Just until Jacob was able to get back and aid him in the fight! would he need it?!

Dex assisted Jacob as they began to release the hostages from their confined bondage. Dez felt pretty good about how well he has been able to work alongside Jacob for this mission. He didn’t expect to get as much field time as he had been getting, but he couldn’t deny that the ability of the S.U.I.T. made it hard for Heroes Inc to just keep him behind a computer all day. As he helped some of the soldiers on their feet, they expressed heavy gratitude for being saved. This in itself gave Dez a joy that could only be received by being a hero.

Jacob lays out the plan with quick thinking that shows how great of a leader he actually is. It makes sense now why someone like him would have the honor of taking of the legendary mantel of being The Red Dawn. After the plan got put into action, Dez nods his head in understanding and activates his thrusters to quickly take point. But before they can even leave the building, Jacob is taken out by what seems like a human made tornado! His body is shot through double doors and Dez quickly runs to see if he is okay. Looking into the room, the HUD he wears points out all kinds of heavy weaponry that is hidden away in the warehouse.

He slowly turns back towards the right to see the large Asian man standing in front of them now. He slowly extends his right hand out in a protective stance in case this guy tries anything funny with the hostages. He listens to him talk about Heroes Inc and how he anticipated their part on this mission. Dez tries to get facial recognition on who this man is, going through multiple databases to try and get some type of intel on who is standing in front of them now. Before anything can be figured out, he fires out a bolt of energy from one of his rings that is burning red. Dez is quick to react with an energy shield but it would be of no use since Jacob charges in with his shield to protect the hostages himself.

The bolt of energy is launched towards the wall, making a new route for these men to escape from. Jacob gives Dez the mission to hold off this new attacker until he can get the men off to safety. With confidence in his own power suit, he nods in agreement to it.

“I got this…” Dez says to Jacob as he begins to file the men out of the building.

Now standing in front of the Asian man with determination in his eyes, Dez begins to charge the chest plasma node that is in his suit. This plasma node is much stronger than the individual plasma nodes that are fixated throughout the body of the suit. While doing this, Dez uses a tactic to try and get this man’s attention.

“I don’t like closed spaces like this.” He says while the chest portion of his suit begins to slowly get brighter. “It gets me really flustered and nervous.” The small rivets around the chest piece begin to show a soft white glow while he speaks. “And when I get nervous…” The HUD now shows the chest piece being fully charged. “sometimes I…” and with a smirk on his face, he activates his Unibeam technique.

The center chest piece fires out a powerful beam of white light that fires with the temperature of 6,450 degrees Kelvin, which equates to almost 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The blast is aimed to hit this man in the chest at over 100mph in such a short enclosed space. The impact of the unibeam would cause this man to fly out of the very building they are in and be launched towards the open forest, thus bringing the fighting to where Dez likes it. The blast itself could cause some serious damage to this man, but Dez calculates that one of those rings is going to help get this man to stay into the fight. This attack is merely a failsafe attempt to get this fight into open area and in a hurry. With such a tight hallway it would be extremely difficult to dodge this attack, which Dez calculates again that it will lead to this man either taking the hit or blocking it. And with blocking it, it would still hopefully have the power to launch the man out of the building.

If the attack did do its job of sending the man out of the building, Dez would smirk under the helmet while finishing his sentence from before. “blow up…”

Following the hole that would be created by the man after taking the blast, Dez flies out into the open air; using his scanners to keep track of there the man is located. Hovering in the sky now, Dez keeps count of which rings have been used and which have not. So far he is still less than a hand sure of what extent his power can get too. Hopefully now Dez can be content with at least buying some time for Jacob and the soldiers to get to safety. As a defense measure, Dez stretches his palms out towards the man with the white glow of energy locked onto him.

“Just give it up while you still can, Mr. Miyagi.” Dez growing more sarcastic with the more comfortable he becomes while using the armor.

The Asian man would’ve smirked as he levitated there in front of the red suited man. He listened as he spoke of having this in the bang, and he could only tilt his head up a bit at this notion. He held his palm out, his right palm out, and as he did, a blue orb would’ve begun to form the palm of his hand. He’d have converted the air based molecules Matter-Rearranger Ring, aka Remaker (worn in the right thumb): This Ring allows the Mandarin to manipulate the atomic and molecular structures of matter. It cannot transmute elements or affect objects encased in force or energy fields. As such he’d transit the energy into plasma, coincidentally the same energy source his opponent was using. The ring also allowed him to identify identically any other abnormal energy source that he came into contact with, for the simple fact with matter conversion he could change said matter to whatever he needed to change it into to fit his situation.

When he began to hear him talk even more and watched the middle piece on his chest begin to glow even more, he then made another orb appear in his hand! When Dez began to fire his giant beam from his chest, the Asian man placed his hands in front of him, and as the plasma from his opponent came close, he’d polarize the plasma in his hands to make sure the energies weren’t compatible or connected, and form what looked to be a giant and transparent yellow orb around his body! Taking the blast head on and being blasted form the hallway! The orb surrounding him would’ve rippled as the blast sent him flying outwards. “Impressive Tin person!” his arms spread as his body seemed to glide through the air effortlessly. The blue ring glowing again would’ve revealed a spiraling vortex beneath his feet. The white ring on his finger also glowing, and creating a nearly thin transparent aura around his body.

“Let’s see how you handle this!’ He’d extend his hand towards Dez and while seemingly nothing happened at first, the white ring on his hand would’ve begun to glow brightly and that’s when suddenly dez would’ve able to hear his suit make a strange metallic humming as his body would’ve been whisked from his spot! (assuming he followed suit) and pulled towards the man! This is by usage of the White Light Ring, aka Daimonic (worn in the left thumb): This ring allows him to generate and manipulate various forms of electromagnetic energy. One of them being magetisim as if this attempt worked, the moment he was 2 feet away from him the asian man would’ve used his opposite hand, which had seemingly no glow to it, but when rearing it forward for a punch, Dez would’ve found this punch was a lot heavier than a normal man’s punch. This is via the gravity manipulation which also falls under the white rings properties as if this punch connected, Dez’s body would’ve been propelled down into the forest below, about 40 feet into the ground deep! His body feeling as if it was facing gravity 20x that of the earth’s surface!

If both these attempts failed, the gravity ring’s alternate effect is increasing the wearers density, so physical attacks would’ve taken some extra umph to harm him, but he’d also attempt to shoot what appeared to be a barrage of fire blast from his left and right hands, backing away from dez in a backwards line flight as he’d shoot fire blast after fire blast. Each one of these blast containing heat equivalent to the melting point of steel, as he’d have shot about 45 flaming blast at his person.

By this time Jacob would’ve maneuvered the soldiers to the coast and secured their spots on the helicopter, opting to get them up and out of here. He’d then look back to the location where he’d be hearing the fighting going on. With a furrow in his brown he’d take off in his 65mph sprint, going to help his partner in this scenario not to sure how it was going to go!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2CJD734z5E )
With his palms pointed out towards this Asian man, he is curious to see where the situation goes. The man compliments him on his abilities at this point of the fight which makes Dez quickly see that this fight is far from over. Opponents don’t compliment when they feel like they are going to lose a fight. The HUD focuses around the rings, showing how this man draws his power from the rings themselves. Jayleen breaks down what data has been gathered so far.

“The energy he gathers is produced through the power of the rings. Each seems to pertain a different power. I will be sure to keep track of each ring and what it can create.”

Dez nods his head now just as this man yells out with an attempt of his own attack. Unfortunately for this man, his ring of magnetism becomes useless against a fighter like Dez. Knowing that magnetism would be used against him because of his all-metal suit, he has created the ability for the suit to create and control magnetism. Using his own ability to create and control magnetism, it gives his suit a form of anti-magnetism. If someone were to be using a different visionary sensory mode they would be able to see the magnetic waves that both of them are emitting. Jayleen keeps track of the suits vitals, showing that the magnetism is not throwing the suits specs out of whack.

Dez smirks with a cocky attitude as he says, “Come on now, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I thought your precious ring pops had more kick to them. If that’s the best ya got, why are you even trying?”

And with that, the Asian man fires a set of 45 heat blasts from his palms. Dez swiftly activates his thrusters and begins to quickly fly high into the air. The higher he gets the more the energy orbs create a long line behind him. Some of the orbs make it to him, forcing Dez to swing his fists at these orbs and explode onto his body. Luckily for him, Vibranium is more than capable of withstanding the heat and able to absorb some of the latent energy from these blasts. His movements seem a little slower though as if the suit is getting a little heavier. Jayleen fills him in on what is going on.

“The density of your suit is increasing.” His HUD begins to show the density levels of his armor slowly rising with each moment that this man has to focus his power. “This looks to be a form of gravitational manipulation. You do not currently have a defense system against that form of attack.”

Dez scrunches his nose a bit in frustration, “Mark that down for future upgrades to the S.U.I.T.’s mainframe…If this guy doesn’t like Plasma Energy…let’s see how well good old fashioned bombs do him.”

Changing his route, Dez begins to fly further from the opponent. In doing this, he gets all of the remaining orbs in a line flying straight towards him. Once they are close enough, metal compartments open up on each thigh and they instantly release hundreds of burning hot flares that would create a wall for the heat orbs to make contact with. With the orbs hitting the flares, a large and powerful explosion would appear high in the sky as the flares hold up a defense for Dez to get back into the fight. These flares are similar to military grade flares that an AC130 would use to blow up incoming missiles.

After being given the clear flight path, Dez would begin his flight path to head straight towards his opponent. Forcing his suit to break the sound barrier, his body releases a loud sonic boom while creating a circle cloud around him. His eyes stare down through the HUD as a lock-on symbol appears over his right eye. Once he is about half a quarter mile away from his opponent, his lock on attack would commence. His upper right shoulder compartment begins to open up with a larger load of S.M.A.R.T. missiles being fired like bees out of a honey comb!

Each of the High-Tier ballistics explosives have enough power to completely destroy a tank with so much ease that Dez doesn't even need to wait and see if it works. The pencil sized Missiles are explosive and powerful to the point that it can incinerate the human body with one simple impact. But the specialty of the Pencil Sized Missiles are that they are fired in clusters as to up to one hundred of these missiles. This is to help hit more than one target or hit the entire body of a target. In this case, Dez is firing the specialized pencil sized S.M.A.R.T. missiles.

The missiles would all fly around the battlefield, making their way to the opponent. The missiles would attempt to surround the opponent in all directions with the intent on completely obliterating the opponent into nothing more than a pile of pink mist.

Even if the missiles were to be blocked, they would explode on any contact within proximity to the target. They would also have a failsafe explosive technique that causes the missiles to blow up if they are within five meters of the target itself. This is so that the tracking capabilities are able to cause injury to the target even if they try to escape the missile barrage.

While all of this is happening, Dez comes to a slow floating stop while he watches to see if his missiles are going to do the trick. If they do not work however, Dez would begin to plan for something that he knows will take care of the situation.

The Asian man would’ve watched as his magnetism wasn’t able to take down the suited man much to his dismay. This only meant he’d have to try even harder this time around. He floated in the air now using gravity manipulation hoping the fire balls would do the trick but alas the suited man was nimble in that suit of his as he sent out his own projectiles in order to blow them up and destroy them easily. He began to wave his hands back and forth, the darker blue ring now beginning to glow. “This is getting interesting. I never get off from behind my desk that often for any reason.” As his hands began to glow he’d watch his opponent carefully. Having a suit it was very easy to telegraph his attacks as his suit had to begin visibly changing in order to be successful.

When he uses the pink ring or the Psionic Ring, which allows him to manipulate psionic energies, he’d use this to enhance his vision and see where Dez was at physically which is when he saw his shoulder compartment open up to shoot out what looked like incredibly small missiles! The asian man would’ve begun waving his hands around his body, seeing that the small moving objects were forming around him, there were maybe hundreds of them but he did not fret. In fact as the missiles began to close in on him he’d combine the power of two rings! The grey and the dark blue one as he combined the ability to create vortexes with the ability to freeze things. Ice Blast Ring, aka Zero (worn in the left little finger): This ring allows him to project waves of up intense cold and ice, including trapping foes in ice blocks and sheaths.

These two abilities fused together would’ve created a swirling orb of about 10 feet from his position and as this orb expanded it would actually interrupt the many missiles flight patterns by legitimately freezing them over! Each missile sitting lifelessly in the air, the temperature steadily dropping closer to the freezing point of steel. As the missiles were all entrapped around him, the asian man was no fool as he kept his physical density increased for a surprise attempt. What he did do was shoot them opposite of himself! Sending them all back towards Dez’s position but with a twist! He increased their potential gravity which actually tripled their original speed! There was something odd to notice however as only half of the missiles were coming towards him and the other half was being shot towards the facility. His intention was to destroy any and all of the evidence being presented in that facility to get ride of it for future usage! If the missiles connected the original force he intended for him would’ve been coming back towards Dez himself!

To add to things, weather the missiles were adverted or destroyed, the Asian would’ve changed his tactics! Opting to lessen the gravity on himself to increase his speed and fly towards dez in a superman like tackle! He’d increase his gravity about 3 feet away from dez to make sure he converted the speed and momentum of his charge, to a Mach 2 and tackled him tightly only to wrap his arms around his waist and attempt to bring him down back first into the roof of the building back down into the lobby of the first floor! His grip on him superhumanly tight as the density of his arms if the suit was resilient enough would crush and bend it. However the asian man was smart as was figuring dez’s suit was some form of special impact resistant metallic source. None the less if the tackle was successful, the wind would roar through the lobby, sending a shockwave through the walls and trembling them! The support beams began to rock and shake at the impact itself, as the facility shook in response!

If the tackle had been successful the structure of the facility would’ve weakened ever so slightly! (or if not, the missiles fired towards it would’ve done a similar effect. If that happened the aisan man would’ve flown back towards this location) the place would’ve been a bit unstable as the asian man would’ve hopped about 20 feet away from dez, taking a martial arts pose and awaiting Dez’s next move! The rings on his fingers not glowing anymore. If anything their color would’ve looked a bit dead, and the fact he challenged Dez on the ground might explain the discoloration for some reason….

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onCThj5GCB4 )

His HUD detects the two power signatures radiating from the rings, focusing on them as it fully analyses how the energy in the rings works through its charging and unleashing process. This is what Jayleen does for Dez while his mind is on focusing for the battle. His eyes are on the giant ice ball that is being created which is catching each missile like they are nothing. They don’t even come to explode which brings Dez to become a little frustrated here.

Jayleen doesn’t help by saying, “This guy is taking you around the ringer with you conventional techniques. Do you think it’s time to stop playing with the small toys and jump to a little Extremi-…”

But before she could finish Dez yells out to her, “No! I will not be played by some guy with fancy glow rings of fate! There has to be a weakness somewhere…I won’t resort to blowing up an island just to get a victory here.”

Jayleen rolls her eyes. “Suit yourself, Boss. But if he doesn’t run out of energy in those rings he’s just going to keep batting you around like a piñata at a kids party.”

“That’s why it’s your job to figure out how those rings-.” And he is quickly interrupted by the sound of an explosion as the missiles all begin to be fired back at him with much faster speeds. “ahh hell…” Is all he says before his body is covered in each missile that he had sent out to impact the Asian man.

The explosions are extremely powerful, enough to tear a person’s into nothing but a pink mist in the air. The vibranium metal suit does its job to protect Dez from the impacts while absorbing the energy that these missiles emit. The strength of the missiles however hit Dez with enough force that it launches his body down into the ground. His body hits the dirt with a loud crashing sound that launches large piles of dirt into the air. The HUD begins to static some more with Jayleen’s voice cutting in and out.

Gathering himself, Dez slowly gets himself to one knee and orders , “Jayleen…Give me a suit read out.”

Jayleen scans the suits integrity and quickly responds with, “Suit containment still active. Energy levels increased by forty percent on that last absorption.”

“Place that extra energy into the right plasma node.” Dez orders while he examines some parts of data with the HUD.

Jayleen’s A.I smirks a bit before saying, “Now that is what I am talking about, Boss man. Time to give this guy some real power.

With the given order, Jayleen works the suit to where all the energy gathered by the missile attack had been focused into the right plasma node. This would be visible to the naked eye, showing a bright blue glow radiating from the right hand blaster. As the energy transfers from the whole suit to just the right palm node, it releases some bright blue shock streaks as well to show its unstable levels through transfer.

Once completed, Dez slowly gets up to his feet with his right hand glowing much larger now. But when he gets up to his feet, his HUD displays the oncoming projectile is coming he looks up to see that it is actually the Asian men flying straight towards him! Dez is quickly tackled from his position and sent flying into the house once more!

His body smashes through the roof of the house and is launched onto the ground, breaking the floor on his impact. He slingshots up once more and crashes into a wall before falling to the ground on one knee. His head is hung a little low, feeling the effects of getting blasted around by someone like this. Though his body is not physically injured, it is getting into his head that he is not proving himself to be the accomplished fighter he could be. He isn’t trained as a master of martial arts, nor is he an expert assassin. But he is proud of his tech and always felt that he could hang with the best because of his tech. This battle is weighing heavily on that belief of his. And because of that, he begins to dip into the attacks that are specifically meant for supers far above the level of conventional weapons.

Standing up onto his feet, his right hand begins to burn with a small grey smoke that rises up to the hole in the ceiling that he had just came through.

While he stands up, he sees that his opponent jumps twenty feet back and gets into a martial arts stance. Jayleen also has the HUD focus on the fact that the rings seem a little dead. Dez smirks with the feeling of taking enough from this guy is about to come to its end. A prideful man would take the challenge and fight this man one on one. But Dez is not a thoughtless man, he is a thinking man. And a thinking man would see an opportunity to end this fight.

“Hand to hand, aye?” Dez opens up his right hand and the palm blaster begins to form a bright blue orb of Plasma energy. “Sorry, guy…I know what im good at.”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lGuDTRilKQ )

Without any hesitation, Dez thrusts his right hand forward and that blue orb of energy explodes out from the palm blaster in the form of a powerful beam of Plasma Energy. With the charge up from the energy gained by the missile, the energy beam is much larger than the beams that he had been firing earlier. Instead of them only being as big as the plasma node itself, the extra energy in this blast gives it a much heavier kick behind it.

The energy beam heads straight towards the opponent with a beam fifteen feet in circumference. If this energy beam was to hit the opponent dead on he would feel the heat and power tearing through his entire body! The energy would burst out through the side of the building and continue to be lifted up into the air like a rocket of energy! By the output of the energy alone all of the floorboards underneath Dez lift up around him with the similar effects of a powerful fragmentation grenade. His body remains perfectly still with his right arm just flowing with Plasma Energy.

The attack would span for about eight seconds before Dez’s energy beam slowly begins to dissipate and disappear from sight with a strobing light show on his palm. Once the attack is finished, his palm would continue to release a greyish smoke into the air from how hot the energy beam had been. The bright blue eyes of the S.U.I.T. helmet would remain fixated on the area where he fired his beam, hoping to see that the man is no longer there to fight against him. Even with one side of the house destroyed, Dez hopes that this will be the highest amount of damage that he is forced to cause to end this fight.

Jayleen’s voice quickly appears and says, “Right Plasma Blaster offline for five minutes for Plasma Recharge.”

“Thank you, Jayleen.” Dez responds while he lowers his right arm back down.

If the opponent were no longer in front of him, Dez would begin an area scan with his HUD that would begin to scan the island for any sign of life from the opponent he had been studying intensively this whole time. He’d also begin to wonder if Jacob got the hostages out okay. He hadn’t heard anything on the comm line so he figures that everything must have went well. To reassure himself Dez also begins his scan to locate Jacob as well.

The asian man would’ve began to notice heavily the fact that his opponent had massive energy reserves. Weather it had something to do with the nod on his chest was left to hypothesis. He did however make sure his tackle was a go and as he stood in a marital arts pose he didn’t fail to notice the light coming from his opponents hand. He thought to himself. “Come on….come ooooooooon.” He thought to himself and as the blast began to came his way his ring’s would’ve flashed only one time before the one that stood out the most would’ve been the glowing pink ring. He stood there letting the blast come to fruition seeming to have a frightened look on his face before the beam connected! His body and suit was engulfed in the bright beam of plasma energy! His body would’ve been riding along the wave of the blast! Soon his body would’ve been flying out of sight! His clothes ripping and his flesh burning in the heat of the beam!....so it would’ve lured him into a false sense of security.

As Dez lowered his right arm to rest as it seemed, he would’ve seen what he wanted to see. His attack winning. This is because of the effects of the pink ring. Mental Illusions – He may psionically generate illusions within the minds of others or as physical appearances for those with psychic resistance. These illusions are very realistic and are capable of affecting all of the senses (vision, hearing, taste, touch and smell). This would’ve worked by the asian man timing this at the right moment to cause an illusion of himself getting attacked by the blast. Thanks to his density manipulation he could effect the feel of the after image to make it seem and feel like it connected which would give the sense of security it did. It was also this ability that somewhat allowed the asian man to “peek” into Dez’s mind in attempt of course, playing on his mental disorders in order to make this more of a success. Of course if he had some form of psychic resistence or the other , the only part that would’ve played true would’ve been the illusion of being shot. He’d simply use the fact Dez exerted power to take this vulnerable moment.

The real Asian man however would’ve attempted to use a form of psychic shielding to fool Dez’s senses into thinking he was completely and perfectly safe, when however The asian man would’ve been coming from behind Dez with what looked like a black energy like substance around his right fist as his hand was in a claw like fashion! “ON YOUR REAR!” Jacob would’ve come in from the right side, in a dive like fashion bashing his shield into the side of the asian man’s body! The asian man would’ve slide back on his feet, and began to sit himself on one knee. He held his stomach, and a slew of blood dripped from his mouth. Jacob recovered and landed, standing up with the shield strapped to his left arm. “Dez you alright? The guys at the beach told me about this fellow. Those rings have charge times after he over uses them. They’ve seen it to many times in action. I saw the blast while I was coming to, and I didn’t see anyone on the end of it, but I did see his body here in the room with you. Whatever mumbo jumbo he’s got going on it’s all a trick. Though…” Jacob would’ve looked at the asian man’s bleeding stomach wound. The hole was deep but not quite revealing the intestines yet. “Looks like he was only able to defend himself enough. He went for melee because he’s almost juiced out of those rings.” Jacob would’ve pointed to him. “It’s over Tsung. Turn yourself in, or I guarantee my friend here won’t miss his next shot this time.”

Tsung would’ve wiped his mouth. “You’ve not won yet. This facility was home to many things...things the conglomerate is not allowed to get hold of at this very moment. “ he would’ve taken off all of the rings, except for the white ring on his thumb. It would’ve started glowing with a white light. “I’m cutting our time short.” His eyes widened as the room began to rumble and shake. “I’m getting out of here alive and YOU WILL BE BURIED WITH THIS FAILED FACILITY!” he’d raise his right hand with the ring into the air and blidingly bright light would’ve emitted from it! The light so bright it’d completely deafen any light on the electromagnetic spectrum making alternate forms of detection impossible! Jacob held his shield up to try and keep vision but sadly the complex would’ve begun to rumble and shake! Soon enough chunks of the celing would’ve begun falling down all around them as the support collumns on each floor would’ve begun giving out right around them! “THIS PLACE IS COMING DOWN!!!!!” Jacob shouted as he held the shield above his head to defrag any rubble coming above his head! It was in to many numbers however as the white light continued, and soon after the entire establishment would’ve caved in on the two heroes!!! The whole thing coming down in rocky shambles!

Caught in the collapse of the building, everything would’ve been black and dark. It would’ve been unknown how much time had passed by since the building collapse. When the heores awoke however they’d find everything to be completely dark. Jacob’s eyes fluttering open but he could see nothing around him. One of them would’ve had to illuminate the way and if he or Dez did they’d see water everywhere. Pieces of rubble remaining from the previous implosion

## III

Dez believes that he has won the fight and feels pretty confident in himself after battling this man. But that changes the moment he hears Jacob yell out with a warning that there is something at his rear. Dez’s vision shatters like glass as the trance he had been in is now broken. When he prepped the supportive traits of the suit, he never realized that there are powers beyond that of the conventional level. This had become such a learning experience to him for him to see what upgrades he would need to make on his armor.

After his mind is released from the visionary tricks, he slowly drops down to one knee with his right hand being firmly pressed onto the floor. His heart rate begins to get very rapid and sporadic because of the PTSD symptoms that he has. His eyes blink faster and his face is covered in sweat. Because his mind had been played with by his opponent, a lot of the control he had over his disorders were thrown out of the window in this instant. The HUD shows the rapid heart rate and the symptoms showing a panic attack currently occurring in Dez.

“Boss! You have to calm down! Jacob needs you! You are stronger than this!” Jayleen yells to Dez.

Her re-assuring words only make him worse because it makes Dez overthink the severity of the situation. His eyes dart to the left and to the right as if he feels the walls closing in on him. To the two men in the building it would look like Dez is just resting on a knee. They would not see the panic that Dez is putting himself through because of the suit not showing anything of the man inside. Jacob mentions that this guy has certain limiting capabilities but it goes in one ear and out the other with Dez not focused on listening.

At that time, Tsung had come to activate his fail safe technique to bring the entire house down on top of them. Each board of the house comes crashing down on the two men and Dez just sits there and is hit by all of it. His body didn’t even budge because of his mind lost in a tidal wave of other things. Before they know it, they are both lost in the rubble and time fast forwards into an unknown.

Located under the rubble, Dez’s suit lights are all off. The impact of the house on top of them caused Dez to be knocked unconscious, which also stopped his panic attack and gave his mind time to fix itself. Once his mind and body had recovered, his eyes slowly begin to open. As they do, the Plasma nodes also begin to flash with their bright florescent blue color. The more conscious he becomes, the suit once again becomes active and online. The HUD begins to static up once more as the suit brings itself to a diagnostics scan.

Dez inches his way back to his feet now, placing his right hand on his head with a mild headache from what had just happened to him. As he stands up, dirt and rubble fall from the body of his suit and he looks around the area. His array of scanners show that they are in an area of zero illumination. To help ease that problem he activates bright LED style lights from the right ear portion of his helmet. The light would illuminate the area in front of them, making the picture of water and a cave like structure visible to both of them.

Looking over to Jacob slightly Dez sighs and begins to say, “I’m sorry, Jacob…I…I should have had that situation under control…” Feeling down on himself, Dez begins to walk down the area trying to scan a way for their escapes back to the freedom. “Let’s just hurry and find a way out of here…Maybe I can get that right…” His tone is much softer even through the speaker system of the suit.

Jacob’s eyes look around as he tried to reach for something. Tried to reach for…hell ANYTHING! He couldn’t see shit and it was beginning to annoy him. How is one to defend themselves in pitch black, it just doesn’t work. Jacob went reaching for something in his utility belt until he saw the lights of Dez’s suit about to glow. Once they did he’d see Dez start to become a bit more mobile again. He stood himself fup and illuminated a light. Jacob covered his eyes for a second and let his eyes adjust to the light but still enough to peer out into the darkeness. “That was a ride huh Dez?” Jacob would’ve pushed himself up and off of his shield, putting it on his back and letting the metal attach to the magnet hold it in place. “I’m sorry, Jacob…I…I should have had that situation under control…” Jacob blinked a couple of times. His tone…changed. He sounded a lot less…confident than the person he’d met that first came to the island brimming with confidence, even if it was to much.

“Let’s just hurry and find a way out of here…Maybe I can get that right…” As Dez began to walk forward, Jacob would’ve stepped over a few rocks to get out of the way and wade into the ankle deep water. “Hey man…” Jacob would’ve walked beside him as they both walked the murky dark cave. “I’m not psychiatrist but back there…when we had everything under control you looked shaken. I saw the things you can do, and little building collapse shouldn’t have been so…bad.” Jacob would’ve paused for a moment to let what he was about to ask sink in. “I’ve seen a lot of things. Good men and women who freeze like that because of past events can get themselves killed in a situation like that. We don’t know who the hell that guy was or what exactly he had going on but it’s nothing to get shaken up over right? We’re here…somewhere.” Jacob looked around. “Probably some escape routes or something…but yeah. What’s going on? It’s not my business but at least next time I might be able to help.”

As they continued forward they could hear drips of water. It was already a bit unsettling that there was no form of light anywhere around them but what was more unsettling is that there was no noise besides them. Nothing. The silence was perhaps the scariest part of it all.

As they walk down the path of the murky caves, Jacob begins to talk about men and women who freeze during combat. His eyes hang a little lower as Jacob goes on to talk about the fact that people can freeze because of multiple reasons. But it isn’t a mystery as to why he froze in that room today. Even with the conversation Dez doesn’t get mad or feel irritated that Jacob brings it up. Because at the end all be all, Jacob is depending on Dez to be fighting by his side. They are protecting each other and one thing above all else, Jacob needs to be able to have confidence and trust that in Dez to do his job. Because of that fact in his head, he shows his trust in Jacob to tell him why he froze.

While continuing to talk Dez explains a little bit about himself to Jacob. “In my early twenties I had a girlfriend…One who I was going to spend the rest of my life with…We used to live in Kasaihana City, we went to college together. Neither of us were Metahuman in any way, just two young kids looking forward to the future…” Then there is a break in his speech before he says. “But then…she was killed by a Meta…Someone just like so many others on this planet who were born with this Omega Gene to turn them into something that makes them so much more dangerous than any human could be…”

Dez extends his right palm up and creates a holographic image of Melina, the woman he was going to marry. Her image shows a bright and beautiful young Italian-irish woman with flowing rare natural orange hair. He shows Jacob this to show him a glimpse of his life before joining Yun Corp. and building his Hot Rod S.U.I.T.

“I had to bury the love of my life…I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t wish that evil upon anyone.” After that, he slowly places his hand back down and continues talking. “Because of that night, I grew unsettled. I had been diagnosed with some paranoia disorders and even PTSD because of it. That is why I wear the suit. Because the only way to combat the fear and the anxiety I have is to try and face these Metahumans head on. I personally could not do it as a normal man, but in this armor I am more than just a man…Countless hours have been put into training my mind and body to master this suit and its capabilities…I just…I lost a lot of that control when that man entered my mind. It made me feel so weak in the very machine I designed to feel STRONG…It just showed me how powerful these people can be…”

After talking so much, Dez notices that outside from his voice there is no sound whatsoever. He looks around a bit and sees water dripping but no sound appears as they hit the ground.

“Do you notice how abnormally quiet it is down here?” He asks Jacob before he continues his scan of the area. At this point, nothing would surprise Dez with how weird today has been.

Jacob sighed though his mouth and folded his arms while speaking. “I’m sorry for your loss Dez…I can’t even begin to imagine the kind of pain you went through. If that was the cause of your freezing I’m sorry if I came off wrong about it.” Jacob looked down for a second as their walk continued so would he. “You know the kind of thing you went through was the fault of someone with power. Choosing to do wrong with it and abuse it instead of using it for the betterment of himself and the people around him. They’re called villains for a reason, which is why we are called heroes for a reason. There will always be good guys to stop the bad guys. I wish we could stop them all at once but some things just aren’t possible now a days. Just have to take it one battle at a time. That’s the only road to peace, at least that’s what I was raised to believe. “ Jacob took a breath through his nostrils. “The things I’ve seen make you question your morals a bit. This job will…do that to you. I keep mine though. It’s all I’ve got in a world full of people like those guys. The Freedom to do so is mine and mine alone.”

Jacob took in his remark of how it was unusually quiet down here. “Yeah its…odd. Most mines have some kind of…under life or something close to it. Dez shine your light on the ground, towards the water.” If he did, Jacob would’ve squatted down, not worried about wetting his suit as the water would bead off of it regardless. He looked at the water, and pulled out a vial from his utility belt, scooping some of it up and holding it up to the light. “This water is Black…like a murky dark black. Can you run some kind of analysis on it and get a read on it?”

If Dez was able to do this, they’d discover that this water was actually containing heavy amounts of pollution and degradation. It would’ve had the components of decaying flesh inside of it as well.

Jacob kept looking around when he saw something towards the farther end of the cave. “Hey look. There’s something over there. I saw some kind of shimmery coloration.” If Dez followed him over and kept the light going it’d reveal a lever. “Hm.” Jacob took hold of it, looking at dez for a moment before pulling the lever down and all of a sudden the cavern in front of them would’ve begun to illuminate itself! The lights overhead turning on one by one revealing mine cart tracks with 2 mine carts. One filled with coal and the other with diamonds. Jacob walked up to the diamonds and picked up a few. “These are…real. Genuine… I’ve seen a lot of these in drug busting missions. “he looked back down the hallway. “Whoevers down here has made this an operation that is still in effect. If they wanted it to stay hidden they would’ve shut all the electricity down in the first place to prevent this kind of thing. “ Jacob would’ve tried to check his watch but the holographic screen was fuzzed out. “How? This tech survives even the worst environments….”

Jacob would’ve looked to Dez and if he confirmed his radar wasn’t working as well, Jacob would’ve looked back to the hall, taking his shield and strapping it on his left arm. “There’s some powerful jamming technology going on down here. We’re going to have to go in blind as far as tracking and spotting goes. We’ll be a bit blind but it never hurts to use the old eye sockets properly for once.”

Jacob would’ve nodded and if Dez was ready he’d begin walking down the tracks. Seeing twist, turns, corners and more crates. There were miner hats and tools located all over the place. As they progressed they’d see the insignia “SK” painted on some of the property which was the same thing plastered on some of the materials from above before the building collapse. There was also a very very feint tapping noise in the distance. Like metal hitting something over and over again.

Jacob’s tone is sincere and his words help comfort the armored operative. He listens to what he says about heroes and villains; that there will always be heroes and villains. There is a line set in the black and white for the difference between the two words. Dez can understand that point of view but he always wonders, where does the line grey? Where does the line of morality begin to cross into a grey area? Even for heroes. What comes to define someone as a hero?

“What about the people who get to play HERO?” Dez stops walking and begins to talk directly to Jacob. “People like you who are HEROES who work with an organization like Heroes Inc…You guys are trained, you go through screenings, and there are steps you take before an operative even gets sent out into the field. I’ve read the files. Heroes Inc has turned people away just as much as they welcome them in.” Dez’s tone a little more determined as he speaks. “What about the people who don’t take the steps? The ones who just fly under the radar and do whatever they want. The amount of destruction that is caused by the constant fighting between heroes and villains is what the problem is. How many times have you saved someone in an event where hundreds more didn’t die because they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time? How much damage does Heroes Inc have to pay for each year to rebuild what is destroyed in these fights?”

Before the conversation goes further, they both get drawn to the water. Giving Jacob the light he asks for they both see that the water is disgusting. It looks murky and is clearly not in any form suitable for anything to live off of. When Jacob asks if he has anything that can analyze this water on the spot, Dez nods his head and takes the vial in his hand. Jayleen does her thing and quickly analyzes the water with her scanners and sensory arrays. It only takes her a few seconds before she has a final read out of what is in the water.

Jacob would be able to hear Jayleen’s bright female voice as she says, “The compound in the water seems to be a 92.3% match to that of decomposing skin tissue. The water is very toxic because of the decaying fragments.”

After getting the water figured out, Jacob points out something shiny in the near distance. Dez quickly makes his way to follow Jacob so that he isn’t out of the view of the light. The light would no longer be needed however once Jacob comes to pull the lever. The entire place becomes illuminated and it reveals the crates full of coal and the other of diamonds. When Jacob tries to use his radar tech, Dez looks to the side and sees that his tech is crapping out on him. Testing his own now, the HUD begins to static a bit but still remain active because of Jayleen’s interface. The radar and location finder however are both crapped out as well.

After agreeing with Jacob about having to use the ole eyes to see where they are going, the two begin their walk deeper into the mine. Dez takes note of the SK markings all over the place, even taking some snapshots of the logo design itself with his helmet camera. While walking he continues to hear this tapping noise in the distance which for some reason makes Dez feel uneasy; going from no noise to now hearing tapping. This isn’t the kind of thing you want to be a part of when anxiety attacks can be a very possible threat. But while they walk, it could be a good enough time as any for Jacob to comment about what Dez said before they checked the water.

As they were heading down the hallway, Jacob kind of gave some thought as to what Dez had spoken on. About the line between how some heroes fly under the radar and aren’t working for a higher up organization with rules. Jacob could see where he was coming form but he didn’t nessicarily agree namely because of the other three heroes he’d met who’d helped shaped his career as a whole. As they proceeded down the mine way, Jacob would’ve looked away before turning his head back to Dez and speaking on the matter he lost track of because of circumstances. “You know…Dez.” Jacob would’ve stopped walking, and reached under his chin to take off the helmet portion of his outfit, revealing a young looking man in his twenties with short blonde hair and blue eyes. Jacob looked at his helmet for a moment. “You’re not wrong. Afraid to say you’re not completely right either. I’m not to sure how long you’ve been at this kind of thing, or even in the field in general. So I can say from my experience that yes there are heroes who work under the radar and go against the rules.” A memory of Web Strider appeared in his head. “And there are those “Heroes” who follow their own moral code. As dark as it might be…it does lead down a path for the better.” He thought of The Black Dusk for a moment. He then turned to look directly at Dez.

“Regardless at how you look at it, there are good men and women out there, with the inc or without who put their lives on the line to handle things, normal people can’t. I’m a clam person and no offense but…It sounds like you’re telling me I don't understand a situation I’ve been dealing with for 2 years now. I can’t directly blame you because it’s the ones like you, who’ve had other experiences that don't get it. We don't let people die because it's the lesser of two evils, or expedient, or because it serves the greater good... we don't compare the act against something else—They & I see someone who needs help... And we help. You’re over thinking the situation because of happened to you but you're wrong. The right, no the freedom to help people is what makes us human. This is exactly what we’re supposed to be fighting for. I know who I am. I rescue the helpless. I raise up the hopeless. I don't measure people's lives... I save them. WE save them. You put ‘what ifs’ and restrictions on a public service, then it’ll become up to someone else to decide who the heroes and the villains are. “

Jacob spoke his peace and had more to say but his ear’s picked up on that metal collision sound in the distance again. “Hear that…” Jacob would’ve put his helmet back on, and with Dez at his side, they’d cautiously make their way there and the closer they got they’d be able to hear man grumbling to himself. “God damn foriengers.” He took the pick axe and struck the rock again. “Making me pick up on other peoples slack!” he struck the rock again, and Jacob would’ve slowly approached the man. “Excuse me sir.” The miner got defensive turning around and pointing his pick axe at Jacob and Dez.

“Who in tarnation are you over dressed freaks!” Jacob held his hands up. “Calm down. We’re from Heroes Inc. I’m Red Dawn and this is…” Jacob would wait for Dez to either chose to give a fake alias or his real name. Either or didn’t take any skin off his bones as he continued. “We got lost. The building above collapsed ontop of us thanks to Tsung. Wanted to get some information on where exactly we are.” The miner rubbed his head with the flat esil end of the pick axe. “Tsung? Brought down the facility? I always KNEW he was plumb crazy! I never trusted any damn foreigner in my life! I knew working for Shining Knights Mining was a crappy idea! I aint even wanna come over seas!” Jacob lowered his arms. “So this is a Shining Knights facility…I thought they only dealt with medical supplies and vaccines?”

“What? Hell no boy, they deal with everything. This here mine was established to mine for diamonds. They take them and compress them down into some kind of material…hell I dunno. Something about some damn armor casings or jewelry or what ever.” Jacob knew better. They’d been chasing SK for months trying to connect the massive bio terrorist out breaks all over the world in small supply for the moment and connecting it right back to a vaccine sample that was secured from one of their facilities. Sadly every time they get remotely close, the bio outbreak just stops…almost like it’s stopping on command. That was the part that didn’t settle well.

“Is there a facility down here?” “Yew see the lights dontcha? Of course there is if there’s power! I’m only here cause I got behind in my work and they told me I can’t clock out until I finish but damn that. I’m making my way back up there it’s close to dinner time and I’m starving. “ “We’ll accompany you. We don’t wanna be here any longer than we have to.” He shrugged. “Suits me. Gets lonely walking these caves on my own all the time. Follow me, I’ll take you there. Names pete by the way.”

They’d now be following behind Pete in these caverns passing by many sights of interest depending on what they saw. As they traveled, if Dez had any questions or concerns he could voice them to this shorter and older gentlemen should he chose to do so. The tension of the two’s words might’ve still been there but there was a bigger issue at hand. Just what the hell goes on down here…?

The conversation takes a different turn as Jacob specifically calls out Dez’s opinion as a wrong opinion. He can sugar coat it all he wants in the beginning by saying he is somewhat right, but he outright calls him wrong for his train of thought. Hearing Jacob’s words makes Dez’s right eye twitch a little bit. It wasn’t like he was just pointing some things out to Dez. No. Jacob speaks on behalf of the heroes in pointing out that Dez’s whole idea of what a hero and what they stand for it well, wrong. Everyone has their own choice of opinion but at the end of the day, there are people whose opinion could actually make the difference. He has more to say on the subject as well but is quickly deterred because of the sound that Jacob also hears.

When Jacob comes to introduce himself as Red Dawn, he understands why he does so. Unlike Jacob and other heroes, he does not wear a mask to hide his identity. Yes his face is covered but this is because he uses the helmet as both armor and an offensive playbook. The helmet has more uses put to it than just ‘hiding his face.’ Because of his identity not really being a secret to anyone, which is another opinion of his that he feels is important, he answers his portion of the conversation.

“You can call me, Dez.” The tone of his voice robotic but confident once more.

After listening to Pete explain what he was doing down here, Dez raises an eyebrow at the sound of some material being made from diamond. Even though he didn’t have the intel from Jacob’s earlier missions relating to SK, he is well enough knowledgeable in knowing what kind of things could be made from diamonds. While Jacob and Pete talk, Dez is listening but also using his A.I. Jayleen to find anything she can on SK and Heroes Inc. intel that they have on them. (If you allow it) Dez would come to learn every detail that Heroes Inc. would have on SK and why they have been hunting them down.

Nodding his head along with the conversation, he follows behind Pete. He looks over to Jacob real quick out of the corner of his eye. He had come to respect the man for his work that he had done in the last two years, but their conversation really seemed to hit a nerve for both of them. This had been a subject of great interest to the both of them and it is unfortunate to see that they are both on the opposite side of this topic. It would be a shame if this topic were to eventually drive a wedge between their works together.

Trying to get the conversation on something else, because they didn’t need to show their disagreement in front of a stranger, Dez begins to ask Pete a question. “So Pete. You said it gets lonely down here? Does that mean you work by yourself mining all day? Gotta be hard on your back…”

Dez tries to get some information about how SK works by trying to connect to Pete. Instead of outright interrogating him he tries to get Pete to talk about things that pertain to him rather than SK. How his day might go or if he likes what he does. This is a tactic that undercover agents come to use because they understand that when someone can be connected on a personal level, they are liable to be more trusting and giving of information without even knowing that they are doing it. Hopefully Jacob would catch onto this and maybe even help make the process easier to get Pete talking.

Jacob is very careful to take note of the route they are traveling along. He wasn’t exactly sure where they were going but he knew questioning it would only get him somewhat far. This fellow they were traveling with seemed….oddly kind of slow. You could tell he was a bit of a backwoods bumpkin but Jacob was in no position to judge and he wasn’t about to start now. As the walk ensued, he’d listen to Dez as he began to ask questions himself.

“So Pete. You said it gets lonely down here? Does that mean you work by yourself mining all day? Gotta be hard on your back…”

“Me? Heavens no. They have 3 working shifts like any other job. This is here is nearing the end of first shift sense it’s two hours after twelve at this point. I’ll get to go home soon enough.” He’d slosh some saliva around in his mouth before spitting it onto the ground on his left. “Yeeeeah buddy. About 50 of us come here, mine for what we’re supposed to and then head on back to the factory. Fun fact there used to be a huge case of Asbestos down here, so they make sure we get our vaccination shots.” “Asbestos…huh.” Jacob looked over to Dez as if emplying something. If Dez knew what Jacob knew, then they’d both know right off the bat based off the year it is currently a cure for Asbestos was made years ago. Like A LOT OF years ago. Why would anyone need to get vaccinated for something that can be cured right off the bat with a simple pill.

“You’re sure that’s what it is?” “Damn right I’m sure, I work here don’t i? Every worker has to have this vaccine applied twice a week. It’s mandatory you know, you think I’m trying to die of some off wall diseases? We’ve already had fellows pass out and die right infront of us before! It’s a scary thing I tell ya. The ones that don’t die just…change.” Jacob’s tone got a bit more serious. “Change…how?” The old man turned to look at the men. “Well they start losing color in their skin. Like a lighter shade, er sometimes pale. Yeah, and then their eyes become so…cold. Like the color in em just fades and they get all stoic and unresponsive for about five minutes. After that though they do whatever the hell you tell em too. I’ve seen bossman do that to some of the ones that we keep around as clean up crews for the ones that work in the facility. “ Jacob folded his arms and continued to listen to the old timer. He thought to himself. “That description sounds a lot like the ones that fit what happens to the people who end up exposed to the Z-virus…could these men and women be getting dosages of it? And if they are how come the transformation time for them varies? Most cases mutate immidately…why the delay.” Jacob pondered this thought in his head momentarily before stopping dez, putting a hand on his shoulder.

“Something’s not adding up here.” He spoke low so the miner couldn’t’ hear him. Jacob began to count his points by poking his fingers out in a one two three fasion. “There haven’t been cases of Abstoes in over thrity years, and it’s curable, so there’s no need for vaccination. Second, from what he describes whatever the hell is effecting people down here is NOT Asbestos. If it was it’d be a lung diseases not a complete full body killer or dedgredation for that matter. Third, I think…I think who ever is running this is administering the Z-vrius to these men and women that might work here. The concern is if you’re aware the virus works instantly. If these people get this shot twice a week that means it’s either a new strand or maybe, just maybe some of them have developed some sort of immunity to it. We might be able to make a dent in t his right here and now if we can find out who’s running this and what exactly their admistering. “ if Dez agreed, Jacob would nod and catch up to the miner a bit but the miner began speaking. “Welp we’re here now! The place we’re looking for is just down that corridor.” The miner pointed down the caveway and in the distance you could see what looked like a giant grey building, with multiple buildings attached to it. There were windows here and there, and what looked like helipads with helicopers only on two of the three buildings located there. The facility was fenced in and there was even what looked to be a vehicle bay. Jacob could even feel a draft in the air which meant that there must’ve been an areal entrance that lead to a way out of this area.

Jacob would’ve stood beside the miner and folded his arms. “Tell me something here…who’s your bossman?” “The bossman? Don’t know what he looks like. He only ever gives orders from his office but his name is…what is it…tannabut? Tannahut? Tampon? Erm…..uhhh….Tanban or something like that I don’t know. But pssst. Don’t tell anyone I told you that. It’s a secret he hates giving his name away to people who aren’t employees you know?” Jacob looked straight ahead. “Really….hm. Say where do you go to get in?” “Well I’m about to head to the convoy line to go home but er theres a front entrance and a back entrance. There’s also one by the vehicle bay but only employees of high rank can go in t-“ the old miner didn’t get to finish his sentence as Jacob would’ve raised his right hand and with enough strength slammed the blade of his hand into the back of his neck to knock the man out cold. Just enough to shock his brain and render him unconscious.

“He was helpful but I could already tell he’s the type to sell us out if caught or questioned about it. Liabilities aren’t needed this time…” Jacob would’ve picked the man up like a baby and taken him to the side, sitting him up on the bench and straightening him up. He’d look to Dez. “Well the good news is we’ve found the facility. The bad news is, we have no way to communicate to the outside just, we have no idea what’s in here and if memory serves me correct about SKC…the guy he spoke on Tanaban…should be dead.”

Taniban was one of the orginal founders of Shining Knights Conglomerate during his days of life during WWIII. He had massive shares invested in the company, which kept his pockets, realitively full at all times, even going as far to contribute some of his DNA into the Bio-War experiments that went into alot of the development that were some of their weapons. He however has been dead for sometime, and his mantle, wealth, and shares have been passed down to his son, Tanaban Jr.

Jacob would look to Dez. “So how do you want to approach this? We can go in quiet, split up, or go in through the front door. Either way…” Jacob looked at the patrol vehicles driving by below. “We’ve left one battle and leapt straight into another…”

The choices here have been laid out infront of Dez. There were apparently three ways in: the front door, the back and the vehicle bay. The vehicile bay was the most suspicious entrance since only certain people could traverse in through that way. He had the choice of these entrances or coming up with his own and his own method of getting in. Weather frontal assault, stealth, or divide in conquer, Jacob would opt to go with any plan he came up with, even if it wasn’t all that good, he’d work to make the outcome in their favor. The choice of approach is up to Dez and what he feels is most comfortable.

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The moment that Pete mentions vaccines for asbestos it creates a red flag in Dez’s mind. There is NO WAY in hell that getting a vaccine for a cured drug would be administered on a post weekly basis to workers even if the mine was full of it. When he looks over to Jacob he can see that he too caught how out of whack that statement is to their knowledge.

Pete then goes on to explain that without the vaccine and even sometimes with it in them people transform into something completely different. They lose themselves and become these lifeless drowns to the one known as “Bossman.” Just hearing that someone who is willing to do that to innocent people makes Dez livid. This is the very thing that makes Dez want to do the things that he does. To stop the powers that would be organizations like the Shining Knights. While also feeling this rage, he uses his brain and begins to scan Pete’s body for the abnormalities that he believes are inside of him.

Dez listens to Pete and begins to feel a form of sympathy knowing that these people not only work themselves to the bone but are obviously Guinea pigs to something much higher than them. Jacob stops him which switches his focus from thinking about the people and listening to what he has to say. He agrees with everything that Jacob points out, which seems to be a first between the two warriors. Dez listens and uses the knowledge he gained from heroes Inc. files and understands that they have a great opportunity here to stop something that can be catastrophic to the whole world if let loose.

Just before Jacob begins to walk away, Dez would place his palm on Jacob’s chest to stop him from walking.

“Wait…There is…” He looks down to see Pete walking further from them. “He has it inside of him, Jacob.” If Jacob turns to look at Pete, Dez would then explain what he found. “I scanned his body while we walked through the mine after he mentioned the vaccine. That virus is lingering inside of him now…and…and he doesn’t even know it.”

After speaking that portion, Dez would then walk back on track and make his way behind Pete. He didn’t tell Jacob just to inform him that their theory about everything is correct, but for Jacob to see something that he probably would not have seen from his point of view. Dez wants Jacob to see that these villains that are left unchecked aren’t looking to play by the rules of the game. They are willing to do whatever it takes to see their goals accomplished. And while they are here trying to stop it, how many had to die before they got here? How many are GOING to die because they ARE Here? These are the questions that run through Dez’s mind when he sees people like Pete who are helpless to stop what is coming to them. No one asked to be born without powers just as much as those born WITH them.

Jacob’s ideology sees that heroes do everything they can to save people because it is their RIGHT has people of this world to protect and serve others. But at what point does being a hero go against what the word stands for? Every day the number of supers grow and everyday more heroes and villains are born. More people who are willing to push the line for their own selfish goals.

When someone grabs a gun and shoots someone who is robbing a store, they go to jail. Being a vigilante is not only illegal but goes against the very laws that they are trying to defend. Nothing is more contradicting than a vigilante. SO why is it okay for someone with powers to do the same thing and get praised? Why do some heroes become validated and others get to roam free unpunished. When they break a building, they don’t pay for it; the people do! When an apartment building falls because a hero is thrown through it during a fight, they live. Of course they always live. But you know who doesn’t? The children playing in their room. The mother cooking her children dinner. The father coming home from a long day at work. This is the world that Dez sees. And now showing Jacob that HEROES can defend themselves but maybe he should think about the people who just get caught in the wake of their own damn battles.

After the long trek through the mine, the three of them come to the exit after finding out that Pete’s boss man is Tanaban. Dez is equally as confused on the name because even someone like him knows that Tanaban is dead. But in this world, no one really stays dead for long. Pete begins to give his goodbye but is quickly put down by The Red Dawn. Dez watches as Pete goes night night and is taken out of sight from the rest of the workers.

Jacob would look to Dez. “So how do you want to approach this? We can go in quiet, split up, or go in through the front door. Either way…” Jacob looked at the patrol vehicles driving by below. “We’ve left one battle and leapt straight into another…”

Hearing that, Dez comes up with the perfect plan that actually puts Stealth, Frontal Assault and Splitting up all in the same pot. Jacob hadn’t even come close to seeing just how powerful the suit really is. If anything Jacob only got the scratched surface of the giant iceberg that is The Hot Rod S.U.I.T. One of the traits that he has is that he can transform the look of the suit to just about anything. The ultimate stealth machine so to speak. And without even speaking, the suit would begin to morph. Similar to how a ghost would look being caught on camera, the suit begins to change appearance to fit what Dez looks to make the suit seem like in appearance.

Before a few seconds pass Jacob would be able to see Pete standing right next to him in the very same outfit without one hair out of place. With the accuracy that his suit has to match a living being he would look and seem like the real Pete. Even with the height difference, the suit takes into account everything that makes up Pete’s physical being right down to the voice and speech patterns.

Dez begins to whisper to Jacob, “Now listen.” His voice still his own while he talks to Jacob. “You act like you just got caught by taking a side of a pick axe to the back of the head. We roll in through the front door and I present you like the golden turkey that you are as the Golden Boy of Heroes Inc. They take us to their leader and from there, we frontal assault them with everything we got. How does that sound, partner?” And if Jacob were to agree to those plans, he would be able to make the first step by acting like he just got hit with Pete’s axe with some Oscar worthy moaning and groaning in pain. This would allow Dez to take the lead and present Jacob to them and get the plan underway. This relies heavily on Jacob being able to trust Dez to do his part. Will he be able to trust Dez is the real question.

IV
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“I scanned his body while we walked through the mine after he mentioned the vaccine. That virus is lingering inside of him now…and…and he doesn’t even know it.”

Jacob takes in what Dez mentioned about ol pete. It was a bit disheartening. While he may not be the most charming fellow, a life is life and all life is sacred, even though it might seem like a huge contradiction considering some of the people allowed to roam free in this world. Jacob waits for Dez’s response but it doesn’t come in the form of a verbal answer, as Jacob looks over and looks at Dez’s body. It appears as if it was morphing and changing, metallic sound effects brimming form his body until suddenly he looked EXACTLY like Pete. Jacob did a double take for a moment looking at the passed out original and then looking back at Dez’s replica. “Color me impressed. “ Jacob nodded in approval before hearing out Dez’s plan.

“Hmm…” Jacob thought the principle behind the idea was aboslutey brilliant. Though he wasn’t exactly to keen about being the one to be the genuia pig here. He’d be putting his life on the line when there are other ways to go about the situation entirely. If this plan failed it’d put both of them in a predicament they might or might not be able to escape from with their heads in tact. That and Jacob would have to trust that Dez wouldn’t simply leave him to his own devices and high tail it out of here. “Well…I guess that is an efficient way to go about it. I’ll trust you. “ Jacob would’ve reached down into his boot, pulling out a combat knife, and pulling down his cowl for a moment. He’d slowly take the edge of the blade and make a very light cut, before poking his finger inside of it. His eye twitched for a moment before the blood finally started running. It wasn’t a large or harmful stream, but it was enough to convince one of a pick axe to the head. “Here.” Jacob walked over to a free and avalabe wheel barrel. “I’ll limp out in here. Let’s hope this works.” If Dez complied, Jacob would’ve laid himself in the wheel barrel and letting his limbs hang out of it as if lifeless or knocked out, he’d close his eyes and let his head hang. This be the cae, Dez or “Pete” would and could roll him up to the front doors and stroll inside no problem.

As Dez rolled the limp Jacob in the wheel barrel towards the front door, two of the soldiers wouldv’e looked at him, before one of them spoke aloud.

“Well if it aint old stinky pete! Hahaha! It’s about time you finished your share of the mines. Every day, I mean eeeeevery day you’re the last one to clock out of your shift. “ the other soldier laughed along and complied with the joke. “Yeah you could stand to lose a few pounds fatty HAHAHAHA!!” The both laughed in unison for a moment before they looked in the wheel barrel. “Just what the hell is this? You fishing out dead bodies or something now? I think that’s live blood in there…”

Once Dez gave a very compelling and convincing cover story as pete depending on what it was the gaurds would’ve looked at one another with raised brows, scratching their heads and then nodding. “Yeah you should…you should definitely take that to the bossman. If this is who you say it is…this is going to be quite the catch. Here.” The guard would’ve taken off his keycard and handed it to “Pete.” “It’s my security clearance. You’re gonna wanna follow the map on the wall to his office. There’s some areas you can’t get into without that so make sure you bring my shit back you hear me ol timer?” the guards would’ve both stepped to the side letting Dez and Jacob in the facility without a hitch (feel free to npc the gaurds a bit if you want to xD)

As they walked inside, Jacob would’ve been laying there pretending to be knocked out. This gave him much needed down time to think as he literally had to lay there and be alone with his own thoughts for the time being unless spoken to. Throwing in a groan of pain and confusion to really sell that hed been taken out. The thought of Dez’s point of view was something he hadn’t been a stranger to. In fact for as many supporters as it has, Heroes Inc still to this day is a matter of civil debate amongst a lot of nations for the simple fact that even with their resources, some claim it’s not always enough to cover for the damages caused in their wake.

He sympathizes with the fact that innocent people can and do get hurt in their squabbles. In the heroes battle with the big bad guy and at the end of the day sometimes when the villain is defeated that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve saved the day. You can always cause more harm than good and you can always chose to be the good guy or the bad guy, but that’s the point Jacob wants to make: is that the choice of a person to do these types of things, restricted or not is their choice. It’s concerns like that, that lead to thoughts of asking to restrict the activities of a person’s civil right to help other people in need. Putting leashes on those who go the distance by their own merit and not because someone in power told them to do so. One cannot vouch for the evil done in the world or the people that commit it. Not even for the people caught in the cross fire. However the crossfire is a variable. The death toll and destruction of property is always a variable. There is a difference between 50 casualties and 100 casualties. The difference is the people who were willing to work to prevent that other 50 because they weren’t restricted to how, when, or where they did it. They just did it. However it had to be done it had to be done by someone then and there, not someone on call. There is no such thing as certainty in the situation of heroism, no matter how one goes about it.

These thoughts and scenarios can become seeds, planted in the minds of many that start to question what it is a “hero” is supposed to be, what they’re supposed to do and why their even supposed to do it in the first place. That seed grows into a root of doubt, planted in the mind. Leading to questions like “what if they can’t do it?” “what if they go to far?” “What IS to far?” That root then begins to slowly grow into a tree of misjudgment, leading to “You can’t do’s” and “You have to’s” The leaves of this tree grow into an ever growing cluster of “Because we say so’s” and that will be the time the line between who is right and who is wrong becomes non existent, leaving a vague grey mesh of ambiguity and uncertainty.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhKHt85CFwI )
Dez listens to the jokes that these guards say as they believe him to be Pete. The way they treat Pete is just another example of how Dez already sees this place to be. But he is not Dez right now and he needs to be the role of Pete so that they can get through this door here without any problems.

Dez laughs with the jokes and even adds some in, “you’s mothers don’t seem to be complain, boys.” The guards look at each other and the three laugh at their banter before they finally come to ask who is inside of the wheel barrel. “Lookey here and see, boys. Caught myself a full bred Super Her’a. Guess he done came here lookin to shut us down, but ole Petey gave him a good lickin with my axe. He’s out cold fer now. Thought I’d take him to the boss man, mahself. Maybe get myself a little fatter for a reward.”

One of gaurds leans over to the other and asks, “Isn’t that The Red Dawn?” They both nod their heads in agreeance and prepare to let Pete in to see the boss man. “Yeah you should…you should definitely take that to the bossman. If this is who you say it is…this is going to be quite the catch. Here.” The guard would’ve taken off his keycard and handed it to “Pete.” “It’s my security clearance. You’re gonna wanna follow the map on the wall to his office. There’s some areas you can’t get into without that so make sure you bring my shit back you hear me ol timer?”

Dez nods his head and begins to walk passed them while saying, “I’ll be back faster than a squirrel chasing its nuts.”

Once inside, Dez sees the map on the wall and slowly makes his way through the hallways and even getting a glimpse at some of the rooms in the place. If Jacob were peeking through he’d be able to see may Shining Knight rooms filled with possible information to grab about the place. This facility is like a gold mine for Jacob if he could find a way to still be able to get information from what he sees.

It doesn’t take more than about five minutes for Dez to see that they are only twenty yards out from getting to the main office where the boss man is. He kept a count on his HUD on how many doors that he had to use the keycard for. The number had come to five uses before coming towards the main office door. Some people had been walking in and out of the rooms that they passed but for the most part they didn’t took so out of the ordinary. Which may be a weird problem that a guy in a wheel barrel wasn’t surprising to any of these people, whether that were authorized to be there or not. Once he finally pulls Jacob’s body to the door of the office, Dez sees that the wall is made out of reinforced carbonadium and sealed tight with a seal that extends deep into the walls. Clearly this door is meant to keep anything unwanted on the outside.

Using the key card once more, the Carbonadium walls would slowly begin to open and inch by inch the doors to see who is behind this whole project open up for both Jacob and Dez to see. (I didn’t wanna be the control of the boss cause SK is all you XD. So kind of just continue the scene from here for your post haha)

Jacob would’ve made sure his eyes were closed for the duration of the conversation ensuing around him. He couldn’t let anything give up or comprismise what they had going on and so far…it was working! Dez’s pete inpersonation was on point and the gaurds didn’t suspect a thing! They even found a way to get a security clearance card! The things they can both discover in this place only makes getting inside of here just that much better! As they make their way down, Jacob is careful to only onpen up one eye and peek on the side his head was turned on. He knew there had to be some form of security system so he didn’t want to…make movements to sudden. He could at least get glimpses of things as he and Dez would’ve been passing over what looked like a long bridge like platform that was encased in glass.

Down below they could see factory workers in hazmat suits and hair nets, all working and operating different machinery. Some of them were pulling down presses forming what looked like weapons or metallic ammunition to be loaded on up. Others of them were loading up large crates that looked like it had assorted guns, missiles, and…cybernetic skeletons inside of them? Jacob couldn’t react like he wanted to but just seeing what was going on made him raise a brow. Shininig Knights…just what all do the do! That’s when Jacob’s eye caught it. “Dez…” Jacob quietly speaks. “Look.” He nods to the assembly line where massive crates of beaker tubes with a black like substance inside of them were being railed forward on a rolling line. “Do you think that’s the same stuff we came in here on? The same stuff that these people are having injected inside of them? And these workers…do they have it inside of them too?

If Dez answered him, Jacob would’ve had to keep playing dead no matter how much this pained him to see he couldn’t give in and get angry. He had to remain calm…there’s no telling just…just who would be behind this company as a whole that would want to manufacture such a vile substance. As they traversed the ways they were supposed to go, Jacob would’ve been open to any form of conversation that came his way, but when they finally made it to the secure hallway, Dez would have to scan the card. Once he did the door would’ve opened to reveal a room. It was a blank white room that had seemingly no…real theme to it. It was just there. There was a door coated in black paint infront of them. There was a big red button that was more than likely to be pushed to talk into seeing as how there was a speaker below it.

If Dez did so he’d hear a voice. “You do know how I hate…unexpected guest. The punishment for that is fairly…harsh. “ the voice was low…didn’t sound to human to be honest with you. Whatever Dez may or may not have said as pete the voice would’ve let a long pause sit there for a minute before finally speaking. “Come in.” the door’s would’ve opened up to reveal a very lofty looking office space. It was made up of a lot of browns and deep reds close to that same color. The office chair which was huge an leathery would’ve been turned away from the two men. The voice would’ve sounded a lot more…human but there was a bit of a rotting smell in the room. “Forgive the odor. There are bad pipes in the pluming.” He’d let his black sleeve and gloved right hand be visible only to form a “waving it off” notion with his hand and as he did incents in the room would’ve lit out of nowhere. The room now having a nice toasty cinnamon smell to it. The man in the chair continued speaking. “So. Is this the real deal? Is this actually THE Red Dawn Mr.Pete?”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fwWS6Xo1go )

Walking through this place practically crawls up his skin because of the things that The Shining Knights are doing here. While being pushed, Dez hears what Jacob asks about one of the rooms featuring the substance that thay found when they first got here. Looking into the direction with his real body and keeping Pete’s body looking forward, Dez takes a quick scan of the black tubing that is being worked with. With a quick scan, comparing it to the sample they have already, Dez comes to find out that the black substance has matching markers to that of the sample they found earlier.

“That is a lot more than just a stream of water infecting people…They have enough to do some real damage, Jacob.” Dez whispers to Jacob though Pete’s mouth does not move. “We have to find a way to stop them…Maybe I can work up a cure if we gather enough samples before we get out of here?...That way…Maybe we can bring these people back from their crucible here.” He brings that idea up hoping maybe that could be something they try once they make it out; if they make it out.

While they make their way towards the office, a small silence comes between the two of them. Dez smirks a little bit as he remembers the conversation they had today already. Using that conversation and how Dez felt being told he was wrong, he begins to flip the script and actually use it to make the tension filled conversation into a positive step forward to a better partnership with Jacob.

“You know you really surprised me with that two year career.” Dez whispers to Jacob. “I looked into your file a bit and read what you have done for the Inc…I would have never thought you could have done all that in just two years. Hell, it took me more than two years to get this suit right and working.”

This conversation could carry on for a few more minutes but inevidebly come to an end when they reach the office door. Dez takes a deep breath and begins to press Pete’s finger against the red button to active the comm system for the boss man inside to hear him.

“You do know how I hate…unexpected guest. The punishment for that is fairly…harsh. “

Knowing that there is no margin for error Dez gets his voice right and replies with, “I’s understands that, boss man. But I done caught us one of them halloween cosplay hero dressers here. People call him The Red Dawn, boss man uh sir. Some real trouble, that he is.”

Dez waits a few seconds with his heart racing a little bit faster and sweat beginning to appear on his forehead inside of the helmet. “Come in.” And with that, Dez gives a strong sigh of relief and the doors open up for them to finally make their entry into the main office.

All Dez can think about as the doors open up and begin to walk in is, “Wow this place is really creepy.”

Once the boss man flicks his wrist and the incents are activated, Dez looks to his left and then his right to observe how they came to instant be lit. The boss man doesn’t real himself but only exposed that hand of his when he lit the incents. Dez tries to use his scanners to get a good look of the body that is sitting on the chair but is quickly interupted when the boss man asks if this is the real Red Dawn.

With a quick response Dez focuses on getting Pete’s manerisms just right once more, “Of course, Mr.Boss Man. He done tried to come up through them mines uh yours but good ole Petey gave him a nice head ringer. Once I clocked him I knews the best person to bring um to was you’s, Boss Man. You’d know just what to do wit his kind.”

Dez would be ready to morph back into his normal appearance if him and Jacob got made, but so far things have been going to plan as best as he imagined they would. Now it would be more so up to Jacob when he’d want to keep himself hidden and “unconsious” or get up and reveal their ploy. Dez would try to get information out of Boss Man if Jacob stays unconsious but that would prove more difficult to get information when they believe he is just a simple miner who happened to come up on a big fish. A lot of variables are running through Dez’s mind as he waits to see where the situation goes.

“Of course, Mr.Boss Man. He done tried to come up through them mines uh yours but good ole Petey gave him a nice head ringer. Once I clocked him I knews the best person to bring um to was you’s, Boss Man. You’d know just what to do wit his kind.”
The man known as Tanaban would’ve paused for a moment before the elbows of his arms made their way onto the arms of the chair. “Well much to your pleasure I am glad that you brought him to me. This particular hero has been a thorn in my side, leading the case to try and…discover what we do here at SK Conglomerate. Tis not his fault. Some people simply cannot see how my vision. My work. Helps this generation as opposed to those who hinder it.”

He would’ve finally turned around in his chair to reveal himself to them in full view. He had slicked back blonde hair with black sunglasses on his face. He had on a black trench coat, made of fine leather material. A black dress shirt underneath it, with matching black slacks and shoes you couldn’t see but they were there. He was odd…he looked like one cool fellow but his voice threw one off with how calm and stern it was. Like being polite and rude at the same time.

Tanaban would’ve looked at the both of them for a second. Jacob still pretending to be knocked out and Tanaban leaning forward on the desk a bit. “I suppose you’d like some form of reward for your catch.” If Dez answered, Tanaban would’ve reached into his desk pulling out a blank check. He’d pull a pin from the cup on his desk and begin writing him a check. Literally. “Here is a 10,000 Tanz bonus for you and your family. “ Tanaban would hand Dez the check leaning forward a bit and waiting for him to take it. There were no odd readings about the thing, it was just that. A check. What he said next however would’ve sounded suspicious. “Roll him over into the corner. I will personally deal with him in a second. Before I let you return home however.” Tanban would’ve stood up slowly, opening the drawer again, and pulling out…a syringe. The syringe would’ve had the same black chemical substance in production at the plant itself. The same thing that …turns people. “you’ve only had one injection for the week. Here I’ll do you a service and give you this other one while you’re here.” Tanaban would’ve been walking closer towards Dez or “Pete” with the black substance dripping from the needle point of the syringe. His face showing no emotion as he began to point the needle at “Pete’s” Arm. “Shit.” Jacob thought. His head was turned but he was sweating bullets!

What was going to happen!? If Dez didn’t take the shot, their cover would’ve been instantly blown! They’d be in the center of a base with no plan of escape and a much harder fought battle just to get out and escape the place! If he took the shot however, he’d be subjected to the same kind of bio poison that had been plaguing the various nations around the world! What will Dez’s next move be!?!”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfqknedm7hY )

Dez raises his hand to take the check, having scanned and sees that it is indeed just a check. It seemed like their plan had been going to their own perfected layout. Dez even comes to smile a bit underneath the mask but then that quickly changes when he hears what Tanaban says next.

“Roll him over into the corner. I will personally deal with him in a second. Before I let you return home however.” Tanban would’ve stood up slowly, opening the drawer again, and pulling out…a syringe. “you’ve only had one injection for the week. Here I’ll do you a service and give you this other one while you’re here.”

“You cannot be thinking about injesting that crap!” Jayleen yells out.

“I need samples of this Jayleen…And what better than its purest form from the boss of everything. This is as best as it is going to get!” He replies through their comm connection in the helmet.

“You don’t know what it will do to you, Dez! YOU COULD TURN!” Jayleen’s voice actually relaying emotion and concern for her creator.

“Nothing…ventured…” And as he says this, the needle pierces into Dez’s real right arm where he had pulled the armor plating away so Tanaban could inject the virus into him. Dez releases a grunt of pain that would come out as Pete’s voice. “Nothing…Gained…” he thinks to himself as he quotes a very famous exploration statement.

After being injected with the virus, the armor plating quickly closes up the exposed hole while Tanaban just sees Pete’s arm bleeding a bit from the shot. Even with him wanting to be injected, Jayleen takes it upon herself to activate the suits auto-healing mechanism. This is a design that allows the suit to heal the wearer if he ever came down with injury. The scans show that the virus quickly spreads through Dez’s blood stream and quickly becomes part of him. Even Jayleen with all her knowledge can only keep the virus at bay but cannot purge it out of him. To do this, Dez will need to do something drastic to get his body back to normal. And because of that, Jayleen fears what could happen to him.

After taking the injection, Dez’s already sweaty face increases as if he were just running a marathon. His vitals get much faster, Jayleen doing everything she can to contain the virus and get him back to his normal self. With his focus being on the mission, Dez wheels the barrel towards the corner of the room where Tanaban had ordered “Pete” to place him.

With a slight groan in his voice, Pete places the barrel down and asks, “Need anything else from me, Boss man? COUGH Or can I COUGH head home for the night?”

The coughs had been a mixture of acting and actual coughs from Dez with his body reacting a bit to being injected with that god awful virus.

Tanaban watched Pete take the serum and watched the itty bitty bit of blood come from his arm. He emptied the syringe into his body and then pulled it out, tossing it into the trash can and nodding at Pete, putting his arms behind his back. “Good then.”

“Need anything else from me, Boss man? COUGH Or can I COUGH head home for the night?”

“Hm. Actually there is one more thing you can do for me.” Tanaban would’ve raised his hand, putting his index finger to the center of his glasses and pushing them up closer to his eyes. As he did this however…..Dez would’ve had a clear view of the demonic red eyes that lay underneath thoses sunglasses of his. “You can state by remaining exactly where you are and not moving an inch.” Tanaban would’ve put his arms back behind his head, snapping his neck from left to right. “I would’ve said you almost had me, but even then I’d be telling you a fib. I’ve known about this two man operation team for weeks. I will give you credit.” Tanaban waved his finger at Dez. “I didn’t expect either one of you to get past Tsung. He’s was one of my most effective generals. Hmph. Was. I’ll see to it he be dealt with if he hasn’t fled the country by now.” Tanaban would’ve looked over at Jacob, raising his hand by his ear and speaking some more. His actions seemed rather animated. “I can hear you’re heartbeat. A scientist like myself who studies the human race is very adept on the differences in heartbeats of the unconscious and the conscious. The beat is not far off…but it is off.” Jacob would’ve snapped his head in Tabana’s direction, drawing his gun from his leg holster at the same time pointing it directly at him, HOWEVER Taban moved so fast, his body temporarly distorted it’s own image! Traveling the distance between him and the desk in a black blurr as he gripped Jacob’s wrist and threw him directly at Dez! His intention was to throw Jacob’s body double the speed of a world record fast ball at Dez, and weather or not Dez side stepped and let Jacob hit the wall or cought him, Tanaban would’ve stood before the two, puling his gloves a bit and adjusting them. “You know my name. You know my exsistence. Which means you also know what’s coming next. Don’t you.” His eyes flashed red through his red sunglasses as he stared the two men down with mallcious intent…

Weather caught or not Jacob would’ve stood up and adjusted his shield strapping it on his left arm. “So…you asked about that two year career. Now that I don’t have to act unconscious it was a long two years of learning. Started off in an army that was previously lead by the president…bad time for conversation but I think the bonding is worth it. Partner.” Jacob would’ve looked at Dez and nodded with a smile, adjusting his helmet and spreading his feet shoulder with apart a bit.

The jig was up! Tanaban knew that both Dez and Jacob were in to get him! With the virus coursing through Dez’s veins would it hinder him or would he be able to form a genius counter serum? The only good thing is that Tanaban was confident enough to think he could take the both of them on his own without calling for back up but would that be the case?!? The battle was about to ensue! Dez and Red Dawn vs Tanaban! One of the founding memebers of Shining Knights Conglomerate!

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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6YE0rC8Kmo )

Just when you think that all is going to end well, Tanaban displays his knowledge in knowing about this plan the entire time. Dez grits his teeth a bit when he realizes they have been played. Jayleen doesn’t make matters any better when she puts in her own two cents about the subject.

“Now you have that disgusting trash inside of you for NOTHING!” She yells out.

“The pursuit of science is never for nothing Jayleen. You remember that!” He replies to her as he shows no regret for his actions.

After the giving his reasons why their plan failed, Jacob springs into action and tries to get an upperhand on Tanaban. But with a black blur, he moves to from his desk to Jacob and even for Dez it makes him blink over and over because he can’t comprehend the speed he moves at. Thankfully for him, the scanners of his helmet are able to tap into the speed he moves at. Before Dez can even move though, Jacob is launched at him like a fast ball right down the middle.

Dez makes sure to place his hands up to catch Jacob even with his amazing speed. Once Jacob’s body hits into Dez’s armor plated chest the stealth design quickly begins to fade away and return Dez to his normal red and yellow armor scheme. The bright blue lights shine brightly now and give Tanaban a good look at who Pete had really been this whole time. Placing Jacob down next to him, the dynamic duo both stare down at Tanaban now as this looks like it is about to get very interesting.

“So…you asked about that two year career. Now that I don’t have to act unconscious it was a long two years of learning. Started off in an army that was previously lead by the president…bad time for conversation but I think the bonding is worth it. Partner.”

It indeed was a bad time for conversation but it did make Dez feel a little bit more at ease with the whole situation. Even though they face one hell of an opponent, Jacob finds the time to keep one of their conversations going. Because of the talk about bonds and teamwork it actually brings Dez to come up with a way to perhaps win this fight. There is an entire arsenal of weapons inside of the S.U.I.T. Some are small and some are big. Then there are some that are just downright destructive coming from the mind of Dez himself. With that, Dez looks over to Jacob and begins to speak to him about his idea.

“We need to keep him occupied for two minutes. If I can get that, I think I might have a way to take him out.”

If Jacob were to agree to try and get this fight over in two minutes, this would mean that the two of them need to give it their best for that short amount of time. And with the opponent that they have it would seem very hard task even with the time being only two minutes. Jayleen feels like she knows what Dez is thinking and she asks him to make sure her thought is correct.

“Blue Sunrise?” Jayleen asks.

And with a simple confident tone, Dez replies with, “The one and only.” After speaking, the HUD begins to show a charge meter with the time scale of two minutes.

Because he is in charging mode it will be hard for him to use Plasma blasters. If Tanaban and Jacob looked, they would see the suit beginning to change. Knowing that he must keep his plasma output to a minimum, Dez finds a way to keep himself at top level while still being able to charge. The entire body of the suit begins to reform, with certain parts of it molding into others. The color scheme of the red and yellow continues to show while another dark grey appears where the armor expands. The helmet changes as well with a dark grey samurai style appearance is what the change is for. Appearing in his right hand is a small base of vibranium that extends out to a point to look like a Bo Staff. It takes only a few moments for that length of vibranium to remold and take the form of a high grade katana! The blade itself glows bright with the blue plasma energy that is similar to the rest of the suit.

The purpose of the suit transformation is that this armor setting is more based to help Dez with hand to hand fighting. His sword is an extension of his suit and Jayleen is constantly working on recording and analyzing movements in front of him. Instead of being wide variety with rockets, blasters and hundreds of other weapons; this mode focuses solely on hand to hand combat. Dez may be MMA trained in many forms of martial arts but that doesn’t put him on hand to hand levels of higher tier masters. In this mode the suit not only gives Dez a better chance to fight masters but it also reacts with the opponents movements almost like it has its own mind. This gives Dez the reaction time of a master as it would be like a master fighting a super computer that has all the knowledge of martial arts.

Once ready Dez stands tall with the countdown beginning and he says, “Let’s do this!”

“Two minutes. Okay, I can do two minutes.” Jacob would’ve popped his neck from side to side squatting down, and watching Dez change into some more combat ready armor of the sort. Jacob would’ve held his shield out infront of him and decided to take charge first! Since Dez was the one who needed the charge time he wouldn’t mind for the time being using himself as bait! Whatever he needed to do in order to bide time! As he charged Tanaban he’d attempt to lash his left arm out with the intent of shield bashing the man! Tanaban weaved backwards, and threw a straight right at Jacob’s muzzle! Jacob would’ve learned his head over the left narrowly dodging the margin! “This speed is superhuman! I’ve got to be on my a-game here!” Jacob would’ve spun his body to the right, launching out his left leg in a forward roundhouse kick before attempting to bring his right leg around for a cresent reverse roundhouse kick! Tanban simply ducked the first kick and instead of outright dodging the second kick he’d dash towards Jacob instead! As jacob’s leg was still in it’s kicking motion he’d lash his gloved black hand out at Jacob’s face, and with superhuman strength he’d mush Jacob’s face into the tile floor! Pieces of tiles flying into the air as Tanaban’s trench coat fluttered in the wind! His eyes caught sight of Dez’s position and his new looking armor with what looked to be a glowing blue sword. Tanaban showed no care in the world, as he’d sling his left arm forward and in doing so a knife would’ve popped out of his sleeve! He’d twirl it in his hand twice before approaching dez with the same superhuman speed he’d been using! Moving so quickly he’d arrive at Dez’s position before jacob’s feet had even hit the ground from the original impact!

He’d attack dez with a series of 6 slashes! His grip holding the knife in a reverse like state, a feint humming noise could be heard coming from the knife itself. This was no ordinary knife however, oh no in fact it was quite the opposite. This seemingly normal K-Bar knife was made up of SKC’s newest metallic alloy: Syn Metal. Syn Metal is a specially designed metallic alloy using metal and nanomachines in conjunction to create an almost sentient metal. It’s durability is seemingly on par of something a bit stronger than stainless steel but this wasn’t the beauty of the alloy itself. sAmong the unusual properties of Syn metal is the ability to negate gravity in it’s mold, allowing a person wearing an object, such as a belt, made of Syn Metal have much faster reaction time and movement. In addition, Syn metal also protects the wearer from the elements and speeds the healing of wounds, increases their strength, and the metal is impervious to extremes in temperature via the metal having nanomachines that can adjust and adapt to whatever extreme in temperature it may encounter randomly. These six slashes were alternating from right to left horizontally but each of the slashes were all aimed at the following parts in order: the bridge of the nose aiming to cut his head into two, the neck, the torso, the abdomen, the upper thigh, and the knee in that descending order. Thanks to the metal’s structure his superhuman speed and strength would only make his attack toward Dez that much faster! His arm taking the form of what looked like a wide black whip! His arm almost looked like a piece of rubber as it bent and each slash looked like as such! If these slashes hit, Tanaban would’ve attemted to cleave Dez into pieces but he was no fool. Dez was armored, so he’d test said armor against the latest in his companies tech to see it’s effectiveness. Even if the slashes didn’t cut, their properties accompanied by his superhuman strength may at least scratch or mark the armor in some form of way, as the kinetic impact behind each slash would at least rock his body from side to side.

The trick to his attack depended on Dez however! The moment a slash was blocked, or successfully dodged he’d change up his strategy and attempt to accelerate his body in the form of a black wave shifting behind Dez and attempting to wrap his right arm around his armored neck, and using the left hand twirling the knife in it he’d attempt to bring the point of it right into the center of Dez’s neck! If this was successful Dez would’ve been the one to parish!

Tanaban’s movements so fast by the time this would’ve happened or this time frame reached Jacob would’ve kicked himself up off of the ground, and he would’ve turned around to see either Dez successfully combating Tanaban or otherwise. He’d place the shield in his right hand, and fold his arm across his body before speaking again. Signaling with his body language he was waiting for Dez to create an opening even though he’d be casually conversing. “So tell me about yourself Dez! How long you been at this mechanics thing you do?! You’re academics record makes you arguably one of the smartest people on the planet!”

Whatever Dez was planning to do if he could create an opening for Jacob while he charged his attack for the anointed two minutes, Jacob might be able to buy him some time if he could nail Tanaban one good time! However he may have planned to do it, this two minutes for Jacob was seemingly going by agonizingly slow. The room was pretty casual sure, but there was standard safety gear in there and an abundance of office furnature to use if someone really wanted to. Oddly enough there were no…windows. What kind of room was this anyway??

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The battle had began and Jacob takes the inititive and makes his way out to battle on his own first. With a squint of his eyes, Dez wonders if that had been the best way to go about this. But he doesn’t want to leave his new partner hanging and with a flick of his wrist, the long plasma blade spins around and Dez begins to run out to give aid to Jacob.

Within those few seconds of Dez charging up and Jacob heading out first, his eyes stare down to see Jacob being smashed into tile! Dez’s eyes widen and then looks over to where Tanaban is now. With the small knife twirling in his hand, Dez keeps his grip on the blade firm and ready to attack.

When Tanaban comes to attack, the armored operative’s suit reacts to the amazing speed that Tanaban has. This sword fighting hand to hand mode had been a prototype mode for Dez during this mission. The S.U.I.T. has been many years in the making but because he never had any field time behind it until recently in this year, certain technologies have not been adjusted to battle situations. The speed calibrator in the armor is one of them. It reacts to speeds that it sees and is able to catelog. At this point other than his flying speed, Dez has never cateloged a speed faster than himself and Jacob earlier against Tsung.

Because it is not fully at Tanaban’s speed, Dez’s head twists to the right and the right edge of the blade slices against the front of the grey portion of Dez’s new helmet appearance. It wouldn’t be obvious but the blade ships into the paint of the suit and leaves a small slash mark in the grey helmet. When the second strike comes, the suit is more prepared to defend itself. With his right hand, Dez reaches up towards the knife that is now coming towards his neck. With an amazing reaction time to find its way to barely keep up with Tanaban, Dez would actually attempt to stab his Plasma coated vibranium sword into the forearm of Tanaban’s attacking arm. Moving as fast as they are, the arms would look like blurs and Dez’s arm would pierce right through his arm bone and come out clean on the otherside. While this happens, the Syn metal actually hits his vibranium shell near his neck but comes to just create a grey appearance from the paint getting taken off. Dez’s suit is a heavy armored suit that is coated heavier in important vital areas, one being the neck. There is a thicker layer of vibranium around the neck to help ensure the Syn metal doesn’t pierce through the hull. If the stab attack were not successful, Dez would look in shock at the speed it would take to avoid that stab but his suit would still be able to calculate that speed and make it its own. If the stab were successful though, Dez would have Tanaban locked in place with his arm deep towards the handle of the blade. This could give Jacob the chance to hit him with the element of surprise still on their side from being able to hurt him.

Once or if the attack missed, Tanaban would go to his second plan of attack which is attempting to use his speed to get behind Dez. If this had been against anyone else the element of surprise would have made Tanaban’s attack full proof. But this is where Dez’s unique S.U.I.T. design helps him. He knows that there are a number of blind spots when you were a power augmented suit. And to cover that, each blue light that is on Dez’s suit is actually a small camera that links into Dez’s HUD. To anyone who has seen the suit, the lights create a 360 degree view of everything around the wearer. With that, Dez is able to see Tanaban the moment his body appears with that black appearance behind him. Once the right arm comes over his back, the armored operative bucks his hips up and thrusts his body forward while attempting to place his left hand on the right hand that Tanaban is using around his neck. This would launch Tanaban into the air in the form of a judo flip. For every attempt that Tanaban does, he increases the ability for Dez to match and better get ahead of his speed. And if this judo flip were to happen, Tanaban would feel the force of his speed being used against him as he is launched into the air.

At that moment, Jacob would be getting up to his feet to see Tanaban actually being thrown towards him! Knowing that his combat adaptation would be able to react and maybe get a double team attack going, Dez has confidence in that Jacob will be able to react in time. If Jacob didn’t then it would look like the outcome would end up having Tanaban being launched into Jacob’s body. That is the outcome that Dez does not want to end up seeing here.

Depending on how Jacob comes at the situation, Dez will react accordingly and with the best strategy he can come up with. While all of this is happening, he makes sure to also keep checking his HUD to see how much longer they have before he can complete his attack to try and take Tanaban out.

Tanaban when he went for the lethal neck slash he’d take note of Dez’s actions as his blade would’ve pierced his arm dead on! The oddest thing about it however was the fact that Tanaban’s facial expression didn’t change at all! There was blood drawn and you could hear the searing flesh burning in his arm as the blade stayed lodged there. However it was all for the research, his research to be specific. Dez interested him quite a lot with this piece of machinery he was sporting as body armor! He frets not as he decides to continue on with his planned method of attack! Zooming around Dez in attempt to pierce his neck but the surprise was on him! He noticed that Dez could seemingly adjust and counter almost any and all of his physical increases with just his suit of armor alone. “Fascinating.” He spoke aloud as Dez took hold of his arm and flinged him forward! The odd part was that Tanaban didn’t even so much as resist. Dez would’ve definitely noticed this by the non existent resistance with added momentum that would’ve sent him flying even faster towards a now up and standing Jacob. Jacob saw what was coming a mile away and his eyes narrowed as he focused on his next move, and he knew he head to make it hurt!

Tanaban’s body flying towards his own Jacob would’ve squatted down, holding the straps of the shield with both of his hands tightly squatting and ducking low enough below Tanaban’s body so as he would’ve passed over him instead Jacob would’ve used his peak human leg strength to jump! “Going down for the count!!!!” Jacob yelled out, All the while bashing his shield into his enemies stomach and propelling the both of their bodies up into the air, in a fast jump that also combined the entire momentum of Tanaban’s movement and sent him back first into the large light he’d had up there! Once his back collided with it there would’ve been a surge of electricity that passed through Tanaban’s body! All that could’ve been heard was the crackling of electricity the flashing on and off of the lights in the room and the smell of burning flesh…it was a tad disgusting. Jacob would’ve landed on the ground, reaching into his utility belt and taking out his grapple gun pointing and aiming it up, only to pull the trigger and release the rope & claw mechanisim! The claw jerked into Tanaban’s clothing and Jacob would’ve hopped a few steps back attempting to pull him down to the ground! Tanaban had other ideas however as he quickly pushed his body into a front flip and landed on the ground in a squat! He’d attempt to pull Jacob to him by the grapple gun itself. “Oh no you don’t!” Jacob was a smart fighter. Hell he had to be when it came to super human opponents like this guy! When he let the grapple gun go, Jacob would’ve used that same split second to pull his shield from his back with his right hand and toss it at Tanaban! Tanban would’ve raised his left arm and bitch slapped the shield back in jacob’s direction aiming to make his attack backfire.

Not wanting to be unsuccessful with another attack attempt the moment the shield came back in his direction Jacob would’ve hopped forward, spinning his body and lashing his right leg out in a reverse roundhouse kick to use the back of his heel to kick the shield back towards Tanaban again but using the strongest set of muscles in the body, the shield would’ve accelerated to a speed to rival that of a snipers bullet as the shield collided with Tanaban’s head, and sent his neck snapping backwards!

The shield lodeged itself into the wall with a “CLANG!” Jacob saw the sunglasses fly off of Tanaban’s face and he’d start running towards him to see if he could finish off his combination this time, still trying to by time for Dez’s attack. However when Tanaban sanpped his head back forward there would’ve been a huge gash in his forehead and his violent red eyes would’ve been in full visibility this time.

[1:44:03 AM] Captain America: Jacob would’ve reared his right hand back, his body posture positioning perfectly to throw a full power super soldier hook punch! Tanaban would’ve been seconds faster as he would’ve thrown his own punch at the same time, ducking jacob’s punch and digging his fist into jacob’s gut using the lightning thrust technique! One of he main moves within this style would be the Lightning thrust technique, which is When user is able to launch a single attack that hits its target multiple times. This could be a punch that hits the target ten times despite only throwing one punch but in order to do said move, one must -c-
[1:44:08 AM] Captain America: channel enough Chi into their arm that could deliver the said blows to dismember an opponent. Using the technique… to an opponent so “1 punch” could have been thrown out to the human eye and untrained eye. But in reality the strikes would add up to 10 hits or more in total. Tanaban would’ve appeared to have thrown one solid punch but in actually he threw 30 punches into Jacob’s abdomen! Jacob’s eyes about rolled into the back of his head as he was pretty sure he had cracked ribs on both sides of his body. The outfit he was wearing had kinetic meshing which was a godsend considering without that factor alone Jacob would’ve been pulverized into hamburger meat. Tanaban glanced over at Dez and incase he’d decided to try and make any sudden movements or motions to attack him or not, he would’ve enclosed his arm around jacob’s neck! His right arm around his neck putting him in a locked in one armed chokehold while his left arm snatched Jacob’s gun from it’s holster! Tanaban would’ve removed Jacob’s cowl and put the barrel of the gun to Jacob’s temple. Jacob had two streams of red coming from the corner’s of his mouth. He was pretty beat up but he was still struggling to get loose of Tanaban’s grip.

“Don’t come any closer or I’ll blow his head clean from his body. My finger is easily slippery when it comes to firearms.” Tanaban lowered his head a bit to glare at Dez. “Let’s make a deal. Your both lucky I don’t activate the Z-Virus inside of the hundreds of people inside of this factory. Your both going to surrender or not only is this one going to die, but I’ll ship each and every single one of these innocent people off to different parts of the world and activate the Z-Virus in their veins simultaneously. I wasn’t planning on starting a world wide outbreak just yet as my pieces aren’t aligned yet…but whatever gives me leverage for the time being.” The wound in his head had healed ,and the bleeding from Dez’s stab wound in his arm had also completely healed. Jacob’s feet were kicking as he was loosing air fast. He was trained for this and steadied his breathing calming himself and looking at Dez. “So what’s it going to be boys?” Tanaban pressed the barrel of the gun even harder into Jacob’s temple.

* A new hostage situation had occurred as this time Jacob was the victim! Tanaban with his speed could blow Jacob’s head off without so much as a hitch in his movement. Dez would’ve had to make a serious choice here. If he didn’t surrender Jacob would’ve been killed right here and now, release a viral outbreak all over the world and there’s no guarantee he could’ve taken Tanaban on his own. That or he could give up his fight and submit to Tanaban’s will. However if he looked at Jacob very , very closely you could see him flashing his wrist at him. It didn’t seem like something important unless you saw the fact Jacob was glaring at his shield. If dez turned his attention to it it’d he be able to see the shield shaking inside of the wall. Jacob WAS able to call the shield back to his location but he’d have to time it with Dez’s own offensive to make it as effective as it could’ve been…what was the plan now?\*-e-

The attacks he delivers made Dez happy to see that he did something right during a combat situation on this mission. But his attacks don’t feel right. He can’t shake the feeling that it seems like Tanaban is really holding back. The slice of his arm didn’t phase him at all physically. Even the readings from the sword could feel the muscles trying to pull back into place before the sword even came out of his body. And the judo toss had absolutely no resistance to it. He might have chalked it up to someone who has become to overly cocky that they don’t try in a fight and can get caught up in a technique easier. Even with that Dez believes that Tanaban is merely either playing with them or trying to learn them. Either way doesn’t give Dez a good feeling in his stomach.

A small glimmer of hope appears in his eyes though as he watches Jacob work Tanaban over. He had been able to deliver some pretty god hits and even got him to burn. But the tables turn and the situation once again comes into Tanaban’s favor. Showing more to his arsenal, Tanaban shows that he can utilize the thunderous boxing style. Using that style he is able to take Jacob out of the fight with a brutal beating.

Dez had been learning from the fighting and his S.U.I.T. growing more because of it but now it looked like the fight was coming down to the wire. Dez has already seen that lethal attacks on him don’t work for long term because of a healing factor that he has. It’s a good thing Dez’s attack is looking to be much more damaging than anything they have thrown at him so far.

“Don’t come any closer or I’ll blow his head clean from his body. My finger is easily slippery when it comes to firearms.” Dez’s HUD scans Jacob to see what injuries he might have sustained while Tanaban continues, “Let’s make a deal. Your both lucky I don’t activate the Z-Virus inside of the hundreds of people inside of this factory. Your both going to surrender or not only is this one going to die, but I’ll ship each and every single one of these innocent people off to different parts of the world and activate the Z-Virus in their veins simultaneously. I wasn’t planning on starting a world wide outbreak just yet as my pieces aren’t aligned yet…but whatever gives me leverage for the time being.”

It had become a very difficult situation for ole Dez here as he is faced with the option of trying to win this fight on his own and risk Jacob’s life or give in to the terroism and put away his weapons to surrender. His mind races beyond anything it had before to try and calculate a way for him to beat Tanaban and save Jacob. But even calculations as precise as his were unable to come to an answer because in Dez’s mind he sees Tanaban and knows he hasn’t even tried.

In his thought, that’s when he sees Jacob’s hand moving. Through his helmet he sees the shield in the corner of his eye and realizes that Jacob is able to call the shield back to him at any given moment. This makes Dez smile because not only does it help give Jacob a chance to recover but his HUD is pointing out that his charge time is over.
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“Okay, Tanaban…you win.” Dez says while he slowly begins to retract his suit out of its hand to hand mode and back to its normal physical appearance.

What looks like an act of surrender is just getting Dez’s suit into the proper form to complete the attack that he has. If he were to try and do it in the hand to hand mode, it would be strong, but not to its maximum potential Plasma output as it would be in his normal form.

“You got your surrender…” Dez says once more while the last few portions of the suit come back into place. Looking over towards Jacob he begins to say, “I’ve been building this suit for over four years, Jacob.” Dez’s right index finger twitches just a little bit in the direction of the shield to try and give Jacob the heads up that he is going to want that soon. “And in that time I have made some very deadly weapons…just like this one.”

That would be the only warning given before Dez flexes his arms out to push his chest forward and releases the charged up plasma energy inside of the suit! Instantly a bright blue energy bursts from his body and fills the room to the point that anything inside of the office would be burnt into ash because of the 15,000 degree kelvin temperature. If Jacob were to get to the shield in time, he would be able to get behind it and use it as a shield, obviously, to safeguard himself from the attack.

But Tanaban on the other hand if not able to escape the room almost at light speed level, he would feel the sindering heat that is able to metal through steel. The blast itself tears through the office and bursts out to the rest of the lab, destroying a lot of potenial intel but giving the boys a chance to get out of here alive. The energy would flow out all the way to where the two guards are still waiting for Pete to come back. The burst of burning blue plasma energy would tear through the protective metal doors and encase those guards in the bright blue death blast!

The blast would last for almost thirty seconds and continue extending for another five minutes after Dez’s body stops releasing said energy.

Once the place is clear, Dez falls to a knee with the suit’s lights blinking slightly. This is why Dez uses Vibranium as the main metal for the suit. It is the only way to protect him from blasts like that, that could potentially melt any other metal other than Adamantium with its extreme heat. That is why he also knows that Jacob has a well off chance of making it because his shield is made out of the very same material that the outer shell of the armor is made out of.

If the situation came to be all clear and nothing else would be coming after them, Jacob would be able to look at the epicenter of the explosion where Dez is resting. His bright red and yellow armor sinders with a few smoke trails but all in all, it would seem like he is perfectly okay after releasing a blast like that.

“Not bad…for our first time out right?” Dez jokes over to Jacob hoping that he isn’t mad at Dez for releasing such a risky attack like that.

Tanaban smiled as he heard Dez’s verbal surrender. “Good…” Jacob cringed a bit, seeing Dez’s body language signal to Jacob to be ready. Doing his best to nod he’d begin breathing in and out of his nostrils fiercely getting ready for what ever was about to come his way. “I’ve been building this suit for over four years, Jacob…..And in that time I have made some very deadly weapons…just like this one.” Jacob would’ve used his wrist device to call the shield back to him quickly! Tanaban’s eyes would’ve looked in it’s direction but the shield would’ve dented the side of his head, flpping off of his crainium and landing in Jacob’s hand! As it did, Jacob would’ve palced the shield on his right forearm only to squat down, and use his right hand to brace the back of the shield itself! Tanaban had no idea what was going on…until he’d suddenly experienced a burnig feeling in the pit of his gut. He looked down, but by the time he did his body had been moving at such a speed he was already blasting through the walls of his own vicinity! Through the hallway and out of the front entrance! Miles away the sound of the explosion could be heard! “BOOOOOM!!!!” The extrvigant amount of force from the explosion rocked the very underground structure itself! If not for the fact the people had already begun to make their way home before this conspired, their might have been hella casualties!

Jacob squinted his eyes a bit trying his very best to hold tight. His shield doing it’s job with the legendary metal properties keeping him grounded and in place, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t feel the very heat surrounding his body from such a massive blast of power! After a while it settled down….jacob lowered his shield and stood up. His outfit had a pretty good bit of wear and tear on it from Tanban’s punches but he’d only wince a bit when he took a breathe. He’d taken beatings from superhumans before so he was sure he’d be fine in about two days tops at the most. He and Dez stood side by side both of them covered in some pretty extensive battle wear and tear.
“Not bad…for our first time out right?” Jacob turned to look at him with a brow raised. He couldn’t help but laugh a bit and smile, pointing his finger at Dez while struggling to talk between laughing. “You are one crazy son of a bitch you know that?”

VI
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The next hour and a half was spent making sure that any left over civillians were shipped out to the beach. Jacob had ships flown out there to take the people into protective custody and to see if they could research the Z-Virus with fresher and better subjects to test it from. It wasn’t a complete and total victory but there were spoils to be gained from the battle. With Tanaban presumed dead, Jacob and Dez would’ve been the only two left behind, but there was a Black Byrd Jet idol and waiting for the both of them to board should they have wanted to. Jacob would’ve waved to the ships as the people inside praised he and Dez as did the original hostages that were gone to. Jacob sighed with contempt, holding his ribs a bit.

“You know something Dez. About what I said earlier. “ Jacob would’ve looked at him for a moment before looking back to the horizon line where the ocean meets the sky and the clouds danced around the sun. “regardless of how me and you view this whole job description. At the end of the day it’s really about the people themselves. Hate to say it but sometimes as much as I get gratitude and feel appreciated I can’t help but feel expendable sometimes.” Jacob took off his cowl/helmet and held it in his hands looking at it. “Guy before me who wore this mask used to tell me the same thing. That any one individual could put a mask on and run around spouting about justice. That the mask itself is the immortal image of who you are and what you portray.” Jacob shook his head for a moment. “Then again it is nice to see some people don’t mind just being known for doing what they do like yourself. Technology like yours , your name should be plastered all over the place. You came from Yun Corp right? Same guy who made this disc on my back.” Jacob knocked on the back of his shield a few times. “Doesn’t really beat what you got but it makes a difference. “

An hour and half passes by after the presumed death of Tanaban and the island had come to be pretty cleared out of people and as much intel they could gather about the place. Dez felt a nice feeling of happiness and accomplishment in his heart for what he and Jacob did here today. Out in the distance of people getting on transports off the island, Dez can see Pete from earlier in the day getting onto one of them while he screams and moans about wanting to just go eat dinner. That sight even brings Dez to smile a bit under the sun.

He and Jacob both stand on the beach, their boots stuck into the sand a bit as waves crash down into the ground with a loud energy. You’d be surprised but the island actually looks peaceful and relaxing when you look at it from this point of view. Dez activates the cover of his helmet and the front yellow piece would lift up to reveal the man underneath the armor.

While admiring the view, Jacob begins to talk to him about what they discussed earlier. Dez had to agree, their point of views were very different but it didn’t stop them from being able to work together and walk out of this mission with their heads on their bodies. It kind of gives Dez a somber face when he hears that Jacob believes himself to be expendable. It takes a few seconds but then after Jacob speaks, Dez would place his hand on the shoulder nearest to him on Jacob.

“Once again it looks like we disagree on something.” Dez flashes a smile because he knows that would seem weird to say about the subject. “I don’t believe you are expendable at all. If that mask and that shield is a symbol then the man wearing has to live up to what that symbol MEANS. I understand the idea is that ANY man can be what you are, but they only want to be that because of what YOU do with it. You are the hero that kids look up to and want to be because YOU give them that hope. They don’t just give that mask to anyone…you earned that right to be called The Red Dawn.” Dez then turns around to give Jacob a look at all the violence and destruction that had come of this place. “A two man team. Sure. You can see maybe that they didn’t expect much from us….I on the other hand like to see it as they thought the only way this could work was with just US. That with your talent and experience with my intellect and tech, we were the only two who could pull this mission of. And we did! Now imagine if they sent some others with us. Who’s to say they wouldn’t have got hurt when Tsung brought down the house?” Dez keeps that sarcastic smile on his face and brings up something Jacob said earlier. “I know you don’t like the ‘what-ifs’ but…they come in handy when you only think negatively like that. My what if, is what if they didn’t send us? All those people we saved today would still be in captivity. That virus would be one more step closer to world domination…And best of all…You wouldn’t have found out that not only is Tanaban still alive but he was in charge of this entire sect. Now to me that doesn’t sound like something an EXPENDABLE would be able to do.”

If Dez’s speech on Jacob being anything BUT expendable helped him any, Dez would feel like their partnership would get stronger because of it. This is the first mission they have done together and Dez is sure that it will not be their last.

Jacob laughed at this notion and smiled. “Yeah you’re right. I am special. Who I am underneath his mask is entirely special by all means. We all are, omega gene users or regular people, everyone has an extraordinary side to them they can bring out in the worst of situations should they god givenly need to.” In his instance Dez was pretty good with his words. He could make terrible scenarios sound like they all had promising upsides to them. “Come on let’s hit the plane up and go back to the city and grab some drinks or something. The day hasn’t even much started. I mean I can’t actually get drunk but a beer every now and again is good for the kidneys.” Jacob would’ve nodded and motioned the both of them towards the plane where they decided to head towards. To head back to the city for some much needed R&R.

## VII

As the months began passing by rapidly the two by this point would’ve become somewhat of a known duo in heroes inc! they worked almost flawlessly together combining their talents to achieve the best possible results! From crimes committed in the cities to crimes committed over seas, these two were an inseperaable pair when it came to their job. They eventually starting partnering them up off the bat and over the next six months their bond grew to such a high extent it wasn’t odd for either one of them to refer to each other as a “best friend.” But as these glorius six months passed by, and the seasons began to change, so did they. Their friendship remained solid but their views in light of more recent events had wavered. Jacob was in trouble with the law for going against the Omega Gene Registration Act saying it was unlawful in nature and no different than slavery. While there were heroes who sided with him it was only natural for not just the heroic but the population of omega power community to be split in half. Heroes Inc needed a figure head for this operation

Present Day
In the executive office of Heroes Reprieve would’ve been none other than Jade Fierce. Since Densuke Ryoji Ryoji’s incarceration and improisionment she took the reigns of this operation known as the inc and was running it. Anyone affiliated with her and the inc was obviously pro registration. Even if they didn’t want to be, the fact that the Inc was government funded, by may governments around the world mind you, they HAD to comply. Jade would’ve been looking out of the window at the sea. It was stormy today, lightning strikes struck down from the skies and touched the very horizon of the sea. The waves creeped and crashed, but the high end base received only the rain from the sky. It poured against the open window, as in the background behind Jade would’ve been a picture of Jacob Turner aka the Red Dawn…his fast was on a Most Wanted list. “Listen.” She spoke, turning to face the man in the office. “I know this can’t be an easy thing for me to expect you to two. Give yours and his partnership over the course of the months you both fought for us.” Jade walked over to the desk and sat on the edge of it, folding her arms under her ample busum. “ But you know him better than we do. Personally. You’ve worked with him so you might be able to know his every move, even before he does. We need you to head this operation. I hate calling this a “war’ but the press will sooner or later. As long as we can keep it isolated we might be able to stop this, this outlaw before it spreads nation wide. We don’t need heroes and high tier power people for that matter fighting amonst themselves in the public. I guess to get down to the nitty gritty the question is. Are you willing to do this. Can I trust you to put your friendship behind you and do what must be done, Dez.”

Jade would look dez directly in his bare or electronic eyes and wait for him to reply. Depending on this answer, the future of transpiring events could take a complete turn for the worse or for the better.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVwP5WGXYM0 )
It had been a long day for the Armored Operative of Heroes Inc. He had just finished weeks of research on the Z-Virus still trying to discover a solution to the problem. But because there had been so much on his mind with events happening around the world, he had been doing so many things at once that even his super computer of a mind has trouble to take in all of it at once. Donnie had returned to Seattle to be with his family and Jacob…well Jacob is out doing other things now. Even though he is surrounded by hundreds of agents and co-workers, he had never really felt so alone. It now feels like how it felt when his fiancé died.

To top it all off, he now finds himself summoned into the office where the head of Heroes Inc. works. It had never been a good thing if Jade calls you into her office. He honestly had no idea what the meeting is about, but she was sure to make sure he knew the moment he stepped into her office. As he walks in he is not wearing his Hot Rod S.U.I.T. but rather it being in the form of an all-black Armani suit with the black tie evenly down the center. His hair is combed and full and his goatee on point as if he was just coming from a high class event. That is when Jade tells him that his purpose is beyond that of a normal operative but to now be the head of this Pro Registration act of Omega beings.

After Jade speaks, he can tell that he is being forced to go against the very man that he had been working with for his entire time here with Heroes Inc. Dez is not some simpleminded fool who will just agree to throw his friendship with Jacob away because of his stand against the act. Hell, Jacob and Dez have been arguing about this very subject since the moment they met. He is well aware of Jacob’s views on the subject, which is why he can understand his view as well. It is clear that he understands it better than the people here like Jade who aim to put Jacob down.

It takes a few seconds before Dez speaks, but when he does his tone is strong and more confident than it had been when he first joined the Inc. “I will take control of the situation and become the face of the Pro Registration group…” If that made Jade happy to hear, the next part surely wouldn’t. “But I will not do this your way…You want me to do this because you understand that my relationship with Jacob is very close…You think I can be used as a weakness for him, maybe get him vulnerable…That is not the plan I will take if you give me the responsibility on this…That man is not only my best friend but he is my mentor…my partner…And it will be a cold day in hell before I just turn my back on him!” It is evident now that his time with Jacob has helped give Dez a much fiery attitude in standing up for things he believes in. “If we do this…We do this MY way. The job gets done and you all get to have the satisfaction of a job well done…But I WILL NOT have you breathing down my neck like I am your puppet in this.” He’d wait a few seconds and Jade would be able to see the fire lit inside of his soul when it came to this subject. “Those are my conditions…If you can accept that. Then let me get to work…ma’am…” And it would now be up to Jade if she really wants Dez as the front runner.