David woke, with a head that felt like the inside of a particularly dirty swimming pool, and lungs full of dust from shattered concrete and insulation. Choking, he tried to will himself to stand up and get fresh air, only to feel a large weight pushing him back down, and what felt like a rogue stick poking him in the back.
He opened his eyes to see the problem: a rather large piece of concrete pillar was pinning him down, under God knows how much rubble.
The rubble of the Sunshine 60 skyscraper.
The pure horror of his current situation washed over him. Not only were the Dominator and his buddies got tricks straight out of the comic books, they would go through innocent people.
Go through innocent people. The horror quickly faded away, replaced with rage.
Go through innocent people. His hands braced against the pillar, and pushed hard.
Go through innocent people. Fuck. That. Noise.
[oo]
The force descended on Sunshine City, a motley collection of heroes indeed. Mustang and Wildflower led, followed by Rake and Infinity, while the rest brought up the rear.
"My Gods!" Wandeln yelped as they approached the oncoming cloud covering what used to be the urban complex. "What the hell happened to Sunshine City?!"
"Another Yizibajohei, I'd bet." Rake answered. "And I think I know just who."
"The Dominator?!" Infinity growled. "I just finished getting rid of him!"
"Forget him, Infinity!" Mustang turned his head to look Infinity. "We've got worse things to sort out now! I'll handle Dominator. You try and rescue anybody who's still alive down there!"
"By yourself?!" Cremisi shouted back. "You've got to be joking!"
This isn't time for jokes, love! You, Virago and Stone Mountain look around for the Dominator's buddies, and take them out! Moolika, Rake, Wandeln, go with Infinty!"
The others nodded, and the group split up.
Cremisi and her group quickly spotted the Dominator's trio, and quickly gave chase, the trio running in fear of the three behind them. When you have three of the most powerful Yizibajohei on your tail, even most other Yizibajohei tend to do so.
Infinity's eyes glowed as she called upon her powers. "Stand back guys, I'll have everybody out in a jiffy!" A snap of her fingers... And her team-mates' eyes bugged as the Ikebukuro roads were suddenly filled with dust covered bodies, a sizeable portion of Sunshine City's casualties instantly recovered.
"Alright, girls..." Infinity grinned. "Get crackin'!"
\O-O/
It was beautiful. One of the tallest skyscrapers in the city, reduced to nothing. The Dominator laughed, loud and clear, from his perch atop the remains of the Sunshine 60, the remains of one of the concrete and steel struts that still could stand. In the distance, he could see the people racing towards him. Medics, police, onlookers. and especially them. And one more kill to add to his tally.
Not bad for openers.
Mustang smashed down onto the pavement, making a rather large crater as he did, eyes burning hot, and locked directly on him. Dominator stood, totally unimpressed.
"Explain yourself!" Mustang shouted, stepping towards Dominator with that fiery look on his face.
"Nothing to explain, Mustang. I thought that this... Would be enough to get your attention." Dominator spread out his arms, to encompass the ruins of Sunshine City.
"Get my attention? Get my attention?!" Mustang shouted, the force of his voice making the Dominator's coat pick up. "Wasn't Infinity kicking your ass good enough for you?!"
Dominator locked gazes with Mustang, and Mustang noticed for the first time the fervour in the Yizibajohei's eyes. "It's not good enough, Mustang. It's never good enough. The need to fight is always inside me. It fills me up, burns me from the inside out."
The Dominator's smile became a shark-like leer. "While that bitch friend of yours could keep me off planet, she could never fill my need. The need to fight, Mustang. To fight, and destroy. It's inside us all. It's in me, you, Rake, your little girlfriends, the Archaeologist, my buddies... And especially Infinity. I bet even the Fabulous Quartet have it too. Not to mention the Doctor..."
Mustang's eyes blazed even more. "You sound like a clichéd movie serial killer! Killing people to get you jollies might work with you, but it sure as hell doesn't with me!"
And then, at the height of this most perfect confrontation, a rather large pillar uprooted itself from the ground, while underneath it a foreign man covered in cuts screamed bloody murder.
David Watts, Sunspot, had arrived.
"The slight?!" Dominator exclaimed, his eyes widening in surprise.
"Sunspot?" Rake murmured, similarly taken aback.
"What the...?!" Mustang blurted out.
"BASTARD! I just crawled up from the depths of HELL to face you!" David screamed, his voice rough from concrete dust.
The Dominator collapsed to the ground laughing madly.
"Hey! Get outta here! It's not safe facing him!" Mustang shouted.
"Shaddap!" David bellowed, hunching down like a wild animal. "I just had this bastard and his little mates drop a BUILDING on me! He killed hundreds of people to get to me! I'm not letting that go!"
The Dominator rose. "Alright then! After I'm done reducing you to paste, Mustang and his little girlfriends will be next! And after a slight like you, I'd think they'd be a lot more fun to take apart!"
He burst off into a run, charging headlong at David, body low to the ground, ready for violence. David, still hunched over, cupped his hands together, and growled, a spark of light generating between his fingers.
"Your little flash-bulb tricks won't work on me!" The Dominator hollered as he picked up speed, his fist ready to bear on David. "I am the Dominator! I am INVINC-"
David brought his cupped hands and thrust them into the Dominator's face. And then there was a terrible flash of light.
It was true of course. All Sunspots who have existed throughout the ages were capable of generating and manipulating light. This many Yizibajohei knew.
What was less known, however, was that all Sunspots were capable of manipulating not just light, but also ultraviolet and infra-red light as well.
David Watts, like all Sunspots, was capable of emitting light with the intensity, heat and radiation as a hundred of your powerful tanning lamps.
Unlike David Watts, however, most Sunspots didn't live long enough to find this out.
And so the next thing that most of the people who got blinded by the flash could register was the agonised screams of the Dominator, as he clutched at his seared face, a pair of pitch black handprints directly covering his now scorched and useless eyes.
Mustang was the first to recover, and quickly laid the Dominator flat with a punch, watching with some degree of satisfaction as the little asshole smashed through a wall and skipped across concrete to land in an undignified heap.
David, however, was staring into space, a rather vacant look on his face. Mustang felt worry: he didn't need somebody who can cook faces off with shell-shock. "Hey...? You okay?"
David turned towards Mustang, a disturbed expression on his face. "Uh... What the hell did I just do?"
"You shot sunlight into his face... I think," Mustang replied uncomfortably. "Hey, where's your costume?"
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And now...
(Posted Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:45)
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