The Main Event

Bearcat, Red Menace, and Killotron closed in on the final concrete wall protecting the police base. Killotron stopped, and prepared himself to rake the top of the wall with plasma bolts from his forearm blasters, as Red Menace rose to cover the point position Bearcat was taking at the wall.

Bearcat tensed to leap over the wall as Red Menace rose into firing range.

Honor Guard was rushing in through the gap between the office installation and the inside of the wall. Thresher advanced, covered by a hovering Jolt guarded by The Eye, at her left.

Red Menace thrust her arm towards Thresher, and a small golden needle, made of a holmium alloy covered in a thin, shiny yellow oxide layer, trailing a hair-fine thread flew from her palm, wobbled for a moment, then shot out at hypersonic speed into Thresher's hip section.

The young girl triggered a Z-pinch. A powerful magnetic field contracted, driving a hundred billion amperes of current into its own induced field over the wire, which vaporized into a conductive plasma. Thresher's ceramic hips detonated, sending his legs and his torso flying -- resistance was, in this case, futile.

The air stank of ozone. Jolt rushed Red Menace, and jigged hastily to the side as Killotron locked his blasters on to her. Red Menace gestured towards Jolt, and a powerful magnetic flux built up around the flying heroine.

Jolt swerved suddenly in mid-air, tumbled drunkenly, and corkscrewed into the ground just inside the compound wall as her negatively-charged body was caught in Red Menace's magnetic flux.

Meanwhile, on the roof of the installation, Thresher double-checked his vital signs. The lower half of his cyborg body was missing, but his brain, liver, kidneys, heart and lungs were functioning again -- the magnetic pulse had briefly knocked out his life-support, but a watchdog system had brought it back on-line.

Red Menace rose into the air, and targeted the armored door of the installation with a second golden needle.

Thresher pushed himself over, onto his chest, and extended his forearms back to the battlefield. A chainsaw blade extended from his left forearm, and his gaze locked on to the hovering Red Menace. He dug the chainsaw into the gravelly roofing polymer and gunned the motor.

Another tearing blast of electricity vaporized the doors, blasting a hole into the front facade of the squat concrete building.

He skidded towards the edge of the roof, just before the wall of the smoldering crater in the front of the building, aiming his right forearm at Red Menace.

A tennis-ball sized lump of white fluff followed by a superconducting tether arced towards Red Menace. Caught in her magnetic field, the ball spun around the young girl soldier, wrapping her in a superconductive tether.

Red Menace fell from the sky from a height of about three meters. Flopping on the ground, she struggled with her bonds just outside the wall. The superconducting coil suppressed her magnetic fields and bound her tightly; the more she tried to use her powers to free herself, the tighter the tether would compress her magnetic field.

Thresher grinned at the edge of the building as The Eye glanced up to him. "Got her!"

Bearcat leapt down from the wall and confronted The Eye, who drew one of her diamond knives as she reached for a flash-bang from her utility belt. He lunged, and she leaped into the air above him, tossing a small canister in front of the feral monster's face.

It detonated, creating a halo of light around the beast's head for a fraction of a second before he fell on his face in the dusty courtyard. The Eye landed between Bearcat's splayed legs. Drawing her second knife, she hamstrung him with simultaneous thrusts.

"You... beat me." Bearcat gasped, writhing in pain on the ground.

"And people get on my case for stating the obvious." The Eye countered, and ran to the wall.

Killotron swept his guns over the edge of the wall as Red Menace continued to struggle with her cocoon of super-conductive tether. The Eye climbed up the wall, hanging over the inside edge. She reached into her utility belt and took a handful of flash-bangs.

She lobbed the bombs into a loose arc, scattering them in Killotron's field of vision. Five simultaneous flares of brilliant white light overloaded his visual receptors. Vaulting over the wall, she leaped into a roll that took her to the robot's feet. As she righted herself at the end of the roll, her legs pumped and drove her towards the momentarily confused Killotron.

She drove her left knife into Killotron's sensor array in his metallic mushroom-shaped head, which sparked and died. Killotron staggered and fell to his knees.

Inside the smoking crater where the doors of the police station had been, Demonslayer stood in her exoskeleton's pulpit-like cockpit. Her calves extended into the upper thighs of the bipedal apparatus, and her forearms slot into the biceps of the upper pair of a quartet of artificial arms.

She stepped forward towards the wall, and her right pair of arms brandished an enormous, T-shaped piece of metal. Demonslayer paused for a moment, and two meter long blade of pulsing ectoplasm formed from the artifact. She swung her out-sized energy blade at the wall, and the concrete exploded outwards, making her an improvised gate.

Demonslayer grabbed the softly moaning Bearcat by the scruff of his neck and dragged him towards The Eye and the blinded, sparking Killotron. She made a blocking gesture in The Eye's general direction with her free left pair of arms, and a wall of force swept The Eye off her feet.

"Come to my voice, Killotron! We are defeated." She turned to The Eye, who was struggling to her feet. "You're the winners. You won."

With three soft pops, Demonslayer and Bearcat, Killotron, and Red Menace were teleported from the battlefield.

Jolt came to slowly, and got to her feet hesitantly. She walked through the hole Demonslayer blasted through the wall to The Eye, who was pointing up into the sky.

Above them, first tens and then hundreds of lifted off from the twilight urban wasteland surrounding the police station. Jolt screamed.

"WHAT'S GOING ON? WHAT'S HAPPENING?"

The sky was thick with candy-colored fighters, lifting off into orbit.