I saw Manning and his son get into it today. Looks like the kid wants nothing to do with his father. I need to see if I can exploit that to dig up some dirt for CHESS.
Some loser villain named Ray took on a new identity. He faked his own death in order to get to Black Mesa, and kill some heroes. Calling himself Death Ray, he went after Black Warrior. I tried to laser him, but he was in some kind of ghost form. He was scared when I tried to blind him, but in the end, Dark Warrior went into the same ghostly form, and kicked him in the nuts.
We had to take him back to Deep Six. It was pretty boring. this guy is kind of challenged, so he kept watching cartoons on the trip. turns out he really likes the Smurfs.
On the way back, we got a distress call that a cruise ship was being attacked by a giant squid. I accessed satellite info, and we saw it was being controlled by the Sub Human. This guy was a hero who went MIA 2 years ago. I'm pretty sure he's gone insane, which means if we don't stop him fast, the Moevians will. He also had some servants that looked like those sea monkey things they used to advertise in the back of comic books.
Dark Warrior flew Modi and I with him (as he flies faster than my armor does). DW went right after the squid after throwing Modi at Sub Human. What I saw next scared me worse than our mission in space.
Modi literally took off Sub Human's right arm with his hammer! I almost threw up in the armor, but I had to save his trident. It might be of use, so I wanted to save it. I did, but had to get the arm off it. Gross.
Warrior was going toe to toe with the squid. Not sure what to do, I set off a wide range flash of light, affecting the Squid and the monkey things. The monkey things jumped off the ship, which meant the passengers and crew would be ok.
Though blinded, the squid got the upper hand on Warrior. I charged it, and stabbed it's closed eye with the trident, but don't know if it did much. I kept hearing Modi and Sub Human fighting (they had crashed into the ship through it's deck while brawling).
Warrior came back at the Squid, and knocked it up out of the water. I fired off a series of laser beams, cutting off 4 of it's tentacles. It fell back into the water, and appeared to be dead.
One of the monkey people waved at me. I approached him, but he spoke to me in German! I don't know German, so I didn't know what to do. Warrior showed up, and used some kind of mind communication with the thing. I touched him, joining in. turns out these monkey people were transformed by Sub Human, and used to be german citizens. This is bad. This guy is nuts, and can transform people and sea life into monsters. I am so out of my depth here (no pun intended)
Modi and Sub Human are in the water now, and a giant wave is approaching. I'm trying to get the people on the ship organized, but they're in a panic about the giant wave. Except it's not a wave. It's a whale larger than the cruise ship! Trying not to hyperventilate, I try and come up with a plan of action.
Modi is on the surface, and he's beating the whale with his hammer. I go for a blinding flash on it, but this thing is so huge. I'm contemplating a suicide run into it's mouth, and just firing lasers at it's inside. I might do some damage before I die.
Warrior actually thought of something I should have. He mentally connected with the whale, and convinced it to leave. Thank god! Even Modi was hardly doing anything with his hammer of doom!
The ship is damaged though, and we need to evacuate everyone. Over a hundred passengers and crew died when the whale struck the side of the ship with it's massive fin though. I call our sub, and instruct them to organize a massive rescue operation. With Warrior's aid, we get Johan (the sea monkey who spoke to us) to have the sea monkey people help save everyone.
Sub Human got away, but he lost an arm, and Modi says he broke the other one, and part of his leg. I hope he doesn't come back. That whale could have killed all of us.
Now we need to find a way to help Johan and his fellow sea monkeys. They were people once; can they be so again? And is this trident just plain old coral, or something more?
I still feel out of my league, but my confidence is growing. I still think I need to try and figure out how to replicate Dark Warrior's Omni Wave though. If he ever turns crazy like Sub Human did, it might be the only way of stopping him. I know my armor alone wouldn't last five seconds against him.
Still, I'm starting to realize that even though I rely on my armor, I'm possibly the only one who won't go insane some day. Which means I may be the only one who may have to stop my team mates if they go over the edge. I don't stand a chance in hell, but I still have to prepare myself to try.
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