She fell to the ground and began to scream in pain.
But not from the fall.
Super strength, bullet proof skin, and flight. Powerhouse, real name Mary Durrant, has been a staple in the superhero community for about ten years. So Dr. Dino, real name Henry Deuteronomy Michaels, absolutely thought he was hot shit when he invented an 'anti mutant bio wavelength emitter cannon'. Now he's not thinking he is.
He doesn't know this, but three years ago Powerhouse participated in a missing person's case that led to a confrontation with a real, living werewolf. Being a creature of dank elven sorcery, it could bite through her bullet proof skin but she didn't experience a change at all. She thought her powers made her immune to lycanthropy but she was only technically half right. Her semi indestructible bones meant she couldn't change shape but she still was a 'daughter of Loki'.
Now that she didn't have that, she had 1095 days of transformation to catch up on.
Valeria Lafayette, Earth's premier expert on all things magic (she doesn't have a superhero codename), had by sheer coincidence joined Powerhouse on this mission. She couldn't help but giggle when Dr. Dino let out a girlish shriek as 500 lbs of fur and razor teeth lunged at him. Of course she was going to put a stop to this but this supervillain needed a slice of humble pie.
I had always known that Bio-Boy's abilities were difficult to contend with...
The ability to rapidly regenerate lost biomass and reshape said biomass from almost nothing, combined with the high-IQ mind of a prodigy? Almost none could even stall him...
Yet I finally did it... I finally found a way to shut down his powers for good... I loaded the nullifier bullets into my rifle.
Yet...
I wasn't expecting this...
This nightmare...
I remember the boy screaming, first in shock...
then...
Then...
Gods... what have I done?
I duck beneath a table as a combat form breaks through the glass and stalks around. The face of the person it had been half blown off, half contorted into an expression of primal fear and agony. The ossified whip-claw that was once it's intestines and left arm dragged on the ground, leaving gouges as it moved.
I had seen the 'outbreak' begin... I witnessed the first transformation...
I saw Bio-Boy scream in anguish as his body betrayed him, as bones broke, arteries burst and flesh shifted...
The combat form stops and smells the air...
It turns as I bring my energy rifle to bear.
I fire, and the horde below screams, a timer on my back pack begins counting down as my Geiger counter begins screaming...
If neither the Flood of bodies or the radiation gets me first, then I know that the detonation will...
Perhaps it is a fitting punishment, to die trying to undo this mistake of mine... I only pray that my son shall not be made to bear my sins...
*Please forgive me for how ridiculous and garbage the following is about to be, I had a really random idea*
Dr. E. Vil cackled loudly. "Well, Sgt. T. Eddy, now's the end!" Then he slammed the big red button. Immediately, T. Eddy dropped to ground, convulsing in pain. Immortality? Gone. Super strengh, speed? Gone. Awesome hairdo? Still there, but now ruined because of the convulsing bit. Healing factor? Non existent. T. Eddy staggered to his plushie feet, steadying himself. Dr. E. Vil cackled more and more, than pulled out a very large weapon. It was essentially a long cylinder, with a couple of cylinders attached to rods sticking out the front, in a diamond around the barrel. All five cylinders began to spin as the air electrified, blue and orange light pulsing within the barrel. "Well, Seargent!" Dr. E. Vil cackled. "HASTA LA BYE BYE." Suddenly, T. Eddy rolled and the laser that shot out from the barrel, completely blowing through the floor, the island, and the entire planet, proceeding to immediately vaporise Stonehenge. "WHAT?!" Dr. E. Vil sputtered. "IMPOSSIBLE! Your supposed to be half dead!?" T. Eddy looked up, a dangerous gleam in his only eye. "Dr, Dr, Dr. You should have known." He sprinted at the Dr, miraculously dodging every blast, no matter how impossible to dodge. He landed on the Dr's chest and grinned. "That's my line. and copyright infringement is serious." the Dr glowed brightly, and T. Eddy jumped off, springing backwards just as the gavel came down, instantly crushing the Dr. "GUILTY!" the voice thundered across the room. T. Eddy bowed slightly. "Thank you, Your Honor."
Please don't apologize, that was honestly really funny. It honestly reminded me of maybe an Animaniacs sketch. Not even villains can escape copyright law it seems. Lol well done.
"You did WHAT?" asked Lady Laser Blade as she ignored the man with two broken legs screaming before them.
"I used this depowerment crystal to permanently deactivate all the powers in the room," chuckled the Crazy Dr. Sauce.
"All the heroes powers," she said, abruptly aware that her laser sword was powered by a plutonium rod and was getting quite heavy.
"Oh, yeah, that would have been better," said the Crazy Dr as he looked over at LIzard Girl, who'd chosen the previous moment to lift a four ton air conditioner to throw at Captain Awesome. Everyone had been watching when he fell face first into the unyielding concrete and was lying there very still. No one had noticed the AC suddenly dropping.
Or the blood.
"I think this thing is giving me cancer," said Lady Laser Blade as she struggled to shut the weapon down... and failed. The super powered switches were too strong for her mortal fingers. "You crazy idiot."
"No no, I get that now," said Dr Sauce. "With my powers deactivated, I'm just realized that was what was causing my insanity. Now that it is gone, I feel great."
"Aside from the cancer," said Lady Laser Blade waving the sword at him as she walked behind several crates to find a wrench or something. She found Miss Information rolling on the ground. Her superpower was downloading the entire internet into her brain, Lady Laser Blade idly wondered if that much information could even fit in a brain. She had a good place to ask though.
"Fried Purple Hemlock," replied Miss Information as she cackled.
"No," decided Lady Laser Sword as she finally found a hammer and a screwdriver and managed to hammer her laser blade's off switch until it finally died, probably breaking it in the process. AT least it was only radioactive now. "And now I'm just Karen.
She stepped over Whip Master, who'd fallen and shattered his legs, and dropped the broken sword on his lap. He screamed. Screamed more. He was already screaming. Stripping off her helmet, she found Killshot's normal 9mm pistol next to his armless corpse because a man couldn't shoot a cannon without blowing his arms off, and walked casually back over to where the Crazy Dr Sauce was to explain the problem.
All she found was a pair of his shoes. Conveniently his feet were still in them.
"Where's the druid," she asked to Spandexia, the shape shifting woman. Spandy had stretched out her arms and legs and body and head to attack and they hadn't gone back to their regular shape which was going to make her job as a model rather difficult.
Of course, she was having a seizure so it might not matter in a few minutes anyway.
Then she heard the sniffing behind her and found the Druid, bastion of heroic goodness. He could turn into a bear, and usually did. He had for this battle certainly and he's lips dripped with the sauciest of blood. He roared at her and Karen lifted up the entirely normal 9mm pistol and fired five time into the bear's head.
Lacking bullet proof fur, 5 9mm rounds to the mouth did the job quite nicely and she put one more into Spandexia's head before dropping the pistol and her gloves. She strode out of the warehouse and into the street, looking around at the city from a whole new worldview.
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She fell to the ground and began to scream in pain.
But not from the fall.
Super strength, bullet proof skin, and flight. Powerhouse, real name Mary Durrant, has been a staple in the superhero community for about ten years. So Dr. Dino, real name Henry Deuteronomy Michaels, absolutely thought he was hot shit when he invented an 'anti mutant bio wavelength emitter cannon'. Now he's not thinking he is.
He doesn't know this, but three years ago Powerhouse participated in a missing person's case that led to a confrontation with a real, living werewolf. Being a creature of dank elven sorcery, it could bite through her bullet proof skin but she didn't experience a change at all. She thought her powers made her immune to lycanthropy but she was only technically half right. Her semi indestructible bones meant she couldn't change shape but she still was a 'daughter of Loki'.
Now that she didn't have that, she had 1095 days of transformation to catch up on.
Valeria Lafayette, Earth's premier expert on all things magic (she doesn't have a superhero codename), had by sheer coincidence joined Powerhouse on this mission. She couldn't help but giggle when Dr. Dino let out a girlish shriek as 500 lbs of fur and razor teeth lunged at him. Of course she was going to put a stop to this but this supervillain needed a slice of humble pie.
Heh, healing power only thing preventing werewolf mode. That’s a unique twist.
Ooooo I like this
This is a great twist. Love it.
Very nice, well done.
I had always known that Bio-Boy's abilities were difficult to contend with...
The ability to rapidly regenerate lost biomass and reshape said biomass from almost nothing, combined with the high-IQ mind of a prodigy? Almost none could even stall him...
Yet I finally did it... I finally found a way to shut down his powers for good... I loaded the nullifier bullets into my rifle.Yet...
I wasn't expecting this...
This nightmare...
I remember the boy screaming, first in shock...then...Then...Gods... what have I done?I duck beneath a table as a combat form breaks through the glass and stalks around. The face of the person it had been half blown off, half contorted into an expression of primal fear and agony. The ossified whip-claw that was once it's intestines and left arm dragged on the ground, leaving gouges as it moved.
I had seen the 'outbreak' begin... I witnessed the first transformation...I saw Bio-Boy scream in anguish as his body betrayed him, as bones broke, arteries burst and flesh shifted...The combat form stops and smells the air...
It turns as I bring my energy rifle to bear.
I fire, and the horde below screams, a timer on my back pack begins counting down as my Geiger counter begins screaming...
If neither the Flood of bodies or the radiation gets me first, then I know that the detonation will...
Perhaps it is a fitting punishment, to die trying to undo this mistake of mine... I only pray that my son shall not be made to bear my sins...
First off, FIRE WRITING, 2ndly, CRIMSON 1 PFP??? I haven’t seen one in ages!
Well done, I like how you can feel the fear the more you read like you can tell he realized he screwed up badly.
"and now, you are mine" Dr. Toro said as he pushed the button rendering the Superpower of Mr. Fanastic, and Ms. Rumbastic.
Both fell to the ground writhing in pain, and after a few seconds a blinding flash and deadening noise filled the cave.
"What is this!" Cried the Dr. After the dizziness discipated.
"Unit 1 and 2 secured", he heard a man in a black suit standing over the 2 Super.
"Ok pal, move and I blow your head". Another said to the Dr. As he was dragged up and out of his cave.
He was whisked to a black SUV. 3 guns pointing at him.
"You know Dr. You should not have done that, for being a "Dr" that's not very smart" a woman behind her said.
The dr. dare not move.l, afraid the guns will start shooting.
"We closely monitor you and the two supes, they always take the fight to somewhere far from people and the aftermath makes us richer."
"Who are you?" Dr. Whispered
"Who else?" A creeping smile entered the woman's mouth. "Now, with them out, we can get all your ideas for us"
The Dr. Shivered, he knew them, and the horrors he heard from the shadows.
He knew...he will never be seen again.
It's like they were low key protecting him in a way without their knowledge. Well played
*Please forgive me for how ridiculous and garbage the following is about to be, I had a really random idea*
Dr. E. Vil cackled loudly. "Well, Sgt. T. Eddy, now's the end!" Then he slammed the big red button. Immediately, T. Eddy dropped to ground, convulsing in pain. Immortality? Gone. Super strengh, speed? Gone. Awesome hairdo? Still there, but now ruined because of the convulsing bit. Healing factor? Non existent. T. Eddy staggered to his plushie feet, steadying himself. Dr. E. Vil cackled more and more, than pulled out a very large weapon. It was essentially a long cylinder, with a couple of cylinders attached to rods sticking out the front, in a diamond around the barrel. All five cylinders began to spin as the air electrified, blue and orange light pulsing within the barrel. "Well, Seargent!" Dr. E. Vil cackled. "HASTA LA BYE BYE." Suddenly, T. Eddy rolled and the laser that shot out from the barrel, completely blowing through the floor, the island, and the entire planet, proceeding to immediately vaporise Stonehenge. "WHAT?!" Dr. E. Vil sputtered. "IMPOSSIBLE! Your supposed to be half dead!?" T. Eddy looked up, a dangerous gleam in his only eye. "Dr, Dr, Dr. You should have known." He sprinted at the Dr, miraculously dodging every blast, no matter how impossible to dodge. He landed on the Dr's chest and grinned. "That's my line. and copyright infringement is serious." the Dr glowed brightly, and T. Eddy jumped off, springing backwards just as the gavel came down, instantly crushing the Dr. "GUILTY!" the voice thundered across the room. T. Eddy bowed slightly. "Thank you, Your Honor."
Please don't apologize, that was honestly really funny. It honestly reminded me of maybe an Animaniacs sketch. Not even villains can escape copyright law it seems. Lol well done.
"You did WHAT?" asked Lady Laser Blade as she ignored the man with two broken legs screaming before them.
"I used this depowerment crystal to permanently deactivate all the powers in the room," chuckled the Crazy Dr. Sauce.
"All the heroes powers," she said, abruptly aware that her laser sword was powered by a plutonium rod and was getting quite heavy.
"Oh, yeah, that would have been better," said the Crazy Dr as he looked over at LIzard Girl, who'd chosen the previous moment to lift a four ton air conditioner to throw at Captain Awesome. Everyone had been watching when he fell face first into the unyielding concrete and was lying there very still. No one had noticed the AC suddenly dropping.
Or the blood.
"I think this thing is giving me cancer," said Lady Laser Blade as she struggled to shut the weapon down... and failed. The super powered switches were too strong for her mortal fingers. "You crazy idiot."
"No no, I get that now," said Dr Sauce. "With my powers deactivated, I'm just realized that was what was causing my insanity. Now that it is gone, I feel great."
"Aside from the cancer," said Lady Laser Blade waving the sword at him as she walked behind several crates to find a wrench or something. She found Miss Information rolling on the ground. Her superpower was downloading the entire internet into her brain, Lady Laser Blade idly wondered if that much information could even fit in a brain. She had a good place to ask though.
"Fried Purple Hemlock," replied Miss Information as she cackled.
"No," decided Lady Laser Sword as she finally found a hammer and a screwdriver and managed to hammer her laser blade's off switch until it finally died, probably breaking it in the process. AT least it was only radioactive now. "And now I'm just Karen.
She stepped over Whip Master, who'd fallen and shattered his legs, and dropped the broken sword on his lap. He screamed. Screamed more. He was already screaming. Stripping off her helmet, she found Killshot's normal 9mm pistol next to his armless corpse because a man couldn't shoot a cannon without blowing his arms off, and walked casually back over to where the Crazy Dr Sauce was to explain the problem.
All she found was a pair of his shoes. Conveniently his feet were still in them.
"Where's the druid," she asked to Spandexia, the shape shifting woman. Spandy had stretched out her arms and legs and body and head to attack and they hadn't gone back to their regular shape which was going to make her job as a model rather difficult.
Of course, she was having a seizure so it might not matter in a few minutes anyway.
Then she heard the sniffing behind her and found the Druid, bastion of heroic goodness. He could turn into a bear, and usually did. He had for this battle certainly and he's lips dripped with the sauciest of blood. He roared at her and Karen lifted up the entirely normal 9mm pistol and fired five time into the bear's head.
Lacking bullet proof fur, 5 9mm rounds to the mouth did the job quite nicely and she put one more into Spandexia's head before dropping the pistol and her gloves. She strode out of the warehouse and into the street, looking around at the city from a whole new worldview.
"Great, I'm gonna die from cancer."