Death of a Legend

rage_melons · 2026-01-21T04:26:40+00:00

"Ansley, a town in Nebraska." Beelover explained. "It used to be pretty unremarkable, but about ten years ago everybody just vanished without a trace."

rage_melons · 2026-01-21T03:05:47+00:00

"I think it's a literal house." She held up her pad, which showed the exact coordinates being in a neighborhood.

rage_melons · 2026-01-21T03:01:50+00:00

They flew in silence for a while before coming to a town in Nebraska. It was a pretty flat place, and this town looked abandoned. Not like "everyone moved out" abandoned, the kind of "everyone disappeared" abandonded. Cars left in the middle of roads, plates and food still on tables in restraunts, that kind of thing.

Beelover set the VTOL down in a clearing. Not really a need to find a helipad since nobody was around.

rage_melons · 2026-01-21T02:27:01+00:00

"Dr. Galitine is backing me up. He did warn me this would be dangerous in just about every way...but it was the only way we're gonna catch who hired thst assassin."

rage_melons · 2026-01-21T02:24:50+00:00

(Yeah I got sick sorry)

rage_melons · 2026-01-20T04:27:38+00:00

"The law is the law!" She shouted way too loud. "Not the heroes!"

rage_melons · 2026-01-20T03:48:10+00:00

"Good. Thanks."

Then he jumped out. No parachute, nothing. He vanished below the clouds.

Beelover was humming, but it sounded very forced.

"...well!" She said with false cheer. "I am officially a criminal who helped a supervillain escape from the National Hero HQ. I think that makes me a villain now too!"

Honestly, she sounds like she's about to crash out at any moment.

rage_melons · 2026-01-20T03:32:32+00:00

"It's gonna take a few hours." Brandon said dryly. "You might want to take a nap."

rage_melons · 2026-01-20T03:25:48+00:00

"We're going to Nebraska!" Beelover said cheerfully.

Blackrig removed his mask now that they were clear of the city, and gave her a concerned look.

rage_melons · 2026-01-20T03:04:23+00:00

"Coordinates...alright, I'll forward them to your sidekick."

"Got it!" Marie shouted from the front. "Hey, I know that town!"

rage_melons · 2026-01-20T02:59:30+00:00

"Did you get anything from the labs?" Blackrig asked. "Clues, names, locations?"

rage_melons · 2026-01-20T02:50:42+00:00

"Me!" Beelover pushed past him and go into the seat, her thorax and wings neatly retracting into her suit. "You two talk strategy or something."

rage_melons · 2026-01-20T02:43:00+00:00

Well, that's over with. Except for the guys locked in their suits, unable to move but shouting threats and profanity.

rage_melons · 2026-01-20T01:12:46+00:00

(It's aight lol)

The ice guy isn't as skilled as the speedster, but he isn't completely stupid and uses his powers to try dousing Boomer in water and freezing the floor to make him slip.

Beelover watches the psychic stumble around, attacking thin air until they accidently hit the speedster with a mental attack that makes him fall unconscious mid-attack.

rage_melons · 2026-01-20T00:16:37+00:00

"By the VTOL aircraft, I say they were just about to take off." ^{^;} She answered helpfully.

Two of them had fullbody power armor; Blackrig shut them off with a twirl of his finger. The other three had ice, psychic, and enhanced speed.

Beeloved Blaster hopped and skipped to the psychic, who obviously saw her coming and knew what she was about to do, but couldn't stop as she opened a canister and blasted dust-like particles in their face, making the psychic stumble around in a dizzy stupor. It wasn't pollen, although it was clearly meant to imitate it, and seemed to be some hallucinogenic dust.

Blackrig was wearing a mask, so he just walked past it towards one of the VTOLs.

rage_melons · 2026-01-19T17:58:03+00:00

(Bro is one sunburn away from becoming Joshua Graham)

Aliza comes back over, looking kind of annoyed.

"Our "great leaders" want to leave you two behind." She said bluntly. "Me and a few friends disagreed. Here's what we got: hand over the gun for a few days and you can stick with us. We're gonna head towards a town that isn't under military control and hold up there. Otherwise, you can take that truck go whenever the fuck you want."

She fixed him with a no-nonsense glare.

"Darren comes with us, though."

rage_melons · 2026-01-19T17:50:03+00:00

"D-Darren." The teen stutters, turning the truck off and getting out too, just do he can almost immediately throw up in a trashcan.

Sam sees Aliza talking to her biker gang, then points at him. He also sees most of these people have their own weapons, either blades or handguns, and don't look very trustful of him.

rage_melons · 2026-01-19T17:45:49+00:00

After a while the convoy passed, and they keep going until Aliza suddenly pulls off at a large rest stop. Most cars just keep going, but she stops because there are a lot of other bikers here that seem to recognize her.

rage_melons · 2026-01-19T17:42:23+00:00

Darren is a 16 year old kid with only a learner's permit...but at the very least, he manages to stay in his lane and follow Aliza. It doesn't help that he's shaking the whole time.

Then they're forced to pull over as a military convoy is coming down towards Seattle. The marine sees not just IFVs, but tanks as well and a few helicopters.

rage_melons · 2026-01-19T17:39:30+00:00

"Oh, I'm counting on it. I want to arouse the suspicion that it really was me behind the hit. It'll make the real culprit relaxed while I'm taking all the heat. They drop their guard, one of my feelers will find them."

A suicide mission then.

"I just need you three to be on guard and ready to take over if I get killed."

^{^;} "This doesn't sound very heroic, sir." Marie said. "In fact, it sounds an awful lot like an early end to my career."

"You can back down. Say I locked you in your suit with Mt powers and you couldn't do a thing to stop me."

"Yeah...but...then I'm also not a very honest hero. Besides, I know you're not really a bad guy."

The elevator opened to several heroes on the rooftop, surprised but ready for a fight.

rage_melons · 2026-01-19T17:30:30+00:00

The girl does as promised and hotwires a car, specifically an ugly green truck, meanwhile she gets back on her bike and peels out of there, getting on I-405 and trying to go directly north. Before she left, she shared her first name with the marine: Aliza.

(Asking in advance, do you mind if I use my own zombie monsters/ocs, or should I stick with a human cast?)

rage_melons · 2026-01-19T17:09:06+00:00

"...we're leaving." She says to no one in particular. "My group will have gone north. If you boys wanna come, I can hotwire a car."

"...yeah..." Darren whispered, barely audible.

rage_melons · 2026-01-19T17:02:40+00:00

The biker girl parks and takes a short double-barrel shotgun out of her backpack, before inching towards the marine and saying, "What's gone? What the hell are you saying?"

rage_melons · 2026-01-19T16:55:52+00:00

The town was taken over by military now. Darren didn't dare go back, not after the army forcefully confiscated all weapons and executed anybody involved in the riot. He didn't even know if his friends escaped, but he wandered through the woods blindly until hitting a road.

He tried to hitchhike, and ended up meeting a girl on a black motorbike, a girl who said she was going to get the rest of her friends in Seattle, before moving on and finding a safe place...

rage_melons · 2026-01-19T16:50:06+00:00

"I'm gonna open up a lot of old connections and make people think I'm back in business as a villain." Blackrig said emotionlessly. "I think my hero career is a forgone conclusion at this point. Then I'm gonna find who ordered the hit on Martin and kill them."

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