The minutes that went by between the blackout and the unfortunate events of the heroes were enough for the light to dimly flicker back as the mall’s generator kicked in. It unveiled the original massacre. Blood, bodies, chaos, cries and moans. As big as it were, this place looked like a war zone.
Without a head, they were just roaming around doing things. And as many times it happens, one got to the right location at the right time. Taking the movie or his believes too seriously. One went to the security post, and put on some very interesting music choices, a loop of ice cream truck music mixed with the impending doom of being killed for being a heretic. “Hey…hey …look they have uniforms….” “let’s wear them ! “ “Hell yeah ! “ The 4 present put on mall guards uniforms on, what better way to kill people than to gain their trust ? They split up, 3 of them heading towards the dumpster group , 1 just remaining at the security post for now.
some of the Purgers on another floor of the mall stopped and gathered around Sin and James. “Fight ! Fight ! Fight ! “ they chanted as they recognized that it clearly was a rematch situation. If not, they would kill the loser anyway.
This couldn’t get any worse. First Purgers killing everybody, then Sin, because of course it had to be her. And then lights again, and yeah, what he saw did trigger him. Because yes, this was a war zone and he thought we would never see something like that again. And there it was, just in front of him. Smell of blood went to his nose, trying to ignore it. Fortunetly, somehow, events were on his side or kind of as the men stopped what they were doing to come around the two of them, wanting for them to fight. Oh that sounded not so stranger to Bucky’s ear. And he indeed took advantage of it. “Oh wow, your pals here seem to like you. You sure you wanna fight me and be alone against them all, or you wanna fight with me against them.” He asked her seriously, approaching causiously, talking low enough just for both of them. “They want blood, they’d never stop.”
Sin smiled, spinning her gun around in her hands as she watched how Bucky seemed to be having a little bit of issues. “Having a problem there, dear?” she sang. Out of the corner of her eye she saw the mob gather around them. She could smell the blood lust coming off of them. Once she was done with Barnes she’d take care of them. “Me, fight with you?” she laughed. He had to be joking, but the look in his eyes said it all - he was being completely serious. Part of her wanted to spit on his offer, but in the back of her mind, the logic was sound. She was a good fighter, but the lust for blood was always stronger. She ground her teeth as the words hurt to spit out. “You have a point, Barnes. Fine, but once we take care of these baffoons, I’m coming for you.”
“One more bit of craziness in the hell that is currently my life.” Josh’s sarcasm took over for a brief moment before the fear set back in, “But that is totally not important now. Yes I do know her and she’s weird as all hell but has some kinda power thing.” How the webs worked he didn’t wanna know. “Alright I’ll-” he was cut off as the lights finally flickered back into existence and he caught sight of the massacre around them; his breath caught in his throat and he was utterly frozen in horror for a few moments. All those people… People he might have been able to help, people who’d probably died, scared and in pain while he’d been hiding in a clothes rack. “Oh God…” he whispered, only drawn back to the injured man by the tug in his stomach to right this one wrong while he still could. “Alright.” he reached out and placed a both hands on the man’s shoulders, the golden glow of his skin brightened slightly and he felt that unnerving warmth come over his as his power sought out the wounds to the man’s head, ankle and ribs. It was easy really, within a few moments it was as though the wounds had never been there at all, that was when he noticed something else.
“Oh but- you’re blind? I can fix it too if you give me a minute, just let me-”
“Who’s there?” A loud voice made the golden boy jump and he turned back to see three men; his instinctive fear was lessened when he noticed they were all wearing security guard uniforms, they’d probably been getting the power back on. “Thank goodness you’re here. Please, we need help!” Josh waved them over, doing his best to ignore the sight around him and that disturbing music playing on the mall speakers.
“That’s alright kiddo, we’re gonna handle it from here and, hey… ain’t you a lovely shade of gold, proper little Midas.”
Josh felt his cheeks heat and the fear was once again back in full, he’d been so worried he’d forgotten for a moment.
“Yea, Goldenboy, just let us handle this.”
The second guard came close and put a hand on his shoulder while the third went towards Matt and the first turned to the weird-web girl.
“We’ll give ya just what ya need.”
The grip on Josh’s shoulder went tight, too tight, “Please, we just need to get somewhere safe, can you let go of my- ahh!” He didn’t get to finish before the grip turned crushing and he was shoved back against the wall, slamming his head.
Barney got on higher ground and was to leave the man in the dumbster when voices caught his attention. He witnessed the little group and was blinded when the lights came back on. “fuck” he whispered and rubbed his eyes. He blinked and focused again. // Boss I got eyes on the so called Silk and a boy with a healing factor // he called Zemo who then gave him the priority order to capture Silk. // Silk it is , Barney out // He was aiming at her when a web caught his crossbow. He looked up. “That’s not nice mister. “ “I’m not nice. “ he said nd threw a flash grenade at spiderman. “Hey!” Two spiders , maybe he could snatch them both then. He took his stungun and shot at the spider who fell on the ground paralyzed. “My boss will like to have you around. “
Cindy turned when she heard a group of men approaching. Something felt weird about them though and she could feel her senses going off. But maybe it was just everything going on around them. However that feeling quickly was validated as they began speaking to them. Cindy eyed the one who turned towards her. “I wouldn’t do it dude.” she warned him but he didn’t seem to listen. “I won’t hurt you too much girly.” he laughed. He lunged forward towards her, trying to grab at her which was easy enough to dodge out of the way. Turning back towards him she shot two webs catching his hands against the wall behind him. It was enough to hold him for a second. However her attention was pulled as she heard Peter’s familiar voice above her. Though she saw him drop as he was hit with some kind of stun weapon. Turning back towards the others she quickly shouted over towards them “I will be right back.” Shooting a web up towards the ceiling she was able to project herself into the air, and landed next to Peter to make sure he was okay. “Come on, wake up.”
Matt finally switched off and let the kid do whatever he was doing, slowly coming back bit by bit. Finally awaked, Matt had a moment of adaptation, those noises, those smells, all the blood, the pain, this smell of death and chaos, it was almost hard to believe what his senses were now telling him. He needed to filter everything, to focus on what was really important and to ignore this already unbearable song. Men approached and Matt didn’t take long to understand that they weren’t here to help. He slowly stood up and played the blind hurt guy. “Mulan, Midas and Stevie Wonder, lucky us...” One of them whispered, walking to grab Matt. “Hey 10/10 vision, over here.” The guy said doing stupid gestures in front of Matt. An idiot, because the blind man simply waited the good moment to grab his arm and knock his brainless head against the container. “Dick.” He replied before stealing his truncheon and throwing it in the face of the man mistreating his healer.
