Chapter 3: Insectoid Caster Terror
Alarming sounds of the incoming dangers echoed throughout the entire city's area as the danger of Wrathful Slug occurred. The alarm signaled most citizens on the sidewalk or inside the buildings to show frantic stares and slowly tried to initiate a hasty retreat from their current position.
However, one person wasn't fazed by the caution and danger of The Supervillain's appearance. To be more exact, the person was located near the jewelry store with the glimmering projection of the purple diamond floating on the rooftop. The person was revealed to be Gdark who stopped his steps, scanning his surroundings.
Gdark grinned with an enthralled demeanor at the sighting above. A Supervillain sighting? That's what I've been waiting for.
"Attention citizens, attention citizens, an infamous Supervillain, named Wrathful Slug has attacked the danger in Le Guel Tower," A distressed voice of the male holographic voice echoed. "Protocol C: everyone who is near the danger, please proceed to go to the available evacuation portal."
A repeating voice of the warning kept echoing into Gdark's ears, encouraging him to emanate a clouding of silver energy on his palms. The panic-stricken crowd on the sidewalks and ran away ensued near The Young Inventor's heedful sight. He immediately swiped his emanated hand to the left.
The white aura instantly spread, devouring Gdark until his remains were no longer available, faster than the blink of an eye. It was felt as if The Young Inventor was never even present from the retreating crowd. Some citizens canceled their purchases in the jewelry store, entering their floating car parked in the front.
Meanwhile, a cloudy and all-white dimension generated the human-sized storm of flares in the middle above. The flares stretched like an elastic object until it spawned the muscular humanoid figure, disseminating its traces when the hand was shoved above. It spawned Gdark who levitated above the gushing surfaces.
"Great progress on the pocket dimension," Gdark praised. "No longer I was sent then less even a second.
Gdark revolved his hand and chanted with a prideful smirk, "Aid me to create a spectacular debut!"
"Combine, my heroic alter ego, Viscable!!!" Gdark finished his chant with his resonating voice.
An embarking grey gleam radiated on The Inventor's body, embedding a silhouette of armor that invoked him to heave his hand further. He thrust his downward and reduced all of the enlightening surfaces into specks of dust, bringing its complete physical form of the armored suit, Viscable.
The horde of grey particles spread through the entirety of Viscable limbs, shimmering the blitzing flashes from the eyes of his helmet. The Inventor crossed his arms and flickered a dancing light on the emblem on his chest, projecting the rising magenta flare that instantaneously expanded throughout the sky.
Hence, the grayish sky vanished faster than the blink of an eye, returning The Inventor to the real world where he levitated in the middle of the bluish sky. The magenta flare also quickly dispersed when Viscable departed his crossing arms, proceeding to lock his watchful glare to the right.
Viscable rubbed his armored hands and uttered, "I should have tested this pathetic base form before proceeding with Ace Duelist."
"What a good day that Wrathful Slug becomes my beatdown test subject," Gdark said, raising his malicious grin and hovering upward.
Gdark burst out a chuckle and clenched his fist, "I really couldn't wait to see how fast I'm going to defeat that pitiful insect man,"
Viscable dove kicked the air below and catapulted him afar, plunging his fist forward to obtain a swift momentum of the flight. More particles unleashed from The Armored Inventor back with him gliding to the left. Encircling gray lines flickered from the specific two black dots on the back.
The danger in Le Guel tower would soon end with the debut of the prideful hero coming closer to the incident. The hero, Viscable heaved his hands that were shrouded by the gray particles and positioned it on the sun above, confirming his spectacular entrance to the rest of Gloricon.
The chaos of the Le Guel Tower became worse with several fancy-suited citizens lying on the ground, spreading the pool of blood from the wounds on their chests. Some corpses of the poor citizens also rested above the holographic table with their heads decapitated or other limbs torn off. The light bulb of the tower was also changed into a completely bright red, indicating the concurring emergency.
Although some citizens already stepped on the whirling portal on the edge side part of the room and were transported to a safer place, some weren't lucky. Some of them were mangled by the pack of tiny purplish centipedes that forced them to tremble on the ground, screeching in agony for feeling their feast being chewed.
The chaotic preparator himself, Wrathful Slug was cornered by the U-V droid that blasted a barrage of bolting bullets from their heads that transformed into gatling guns. The Insectoid Caster propelled his stammering arms and unleashed thousands of the bold-black centipedes, acting as the living wall with them voluntarily being pierced by each the bullets
The bullets completely disintegrated the centipedes boiled more frustration within Wrathful Slug, compressing the ground below with his praying-mantis legs. Thundering vines sprawled out from the amber orbs, darting his sight toward Gigant Centipede who bull-charged the incoming robot from above, scrapping it into a hundred pieces of metal.
"The spoiled rich people will all be eaten by my hungry centipedes!" Wrathful Slug bickered, resting his arms that immediately dusted out the slug and hopping upward. "I…I shall show you all!!"
As Wrathful Slug grasped the momentum in the above, he swiped his right leg to cast out a buzzing circle. The plummeting circle caught some of the U-V robots who failed to make their escape attempt, slashing their limbs in half and exploding the combusting smoke. The three escaping robots became the primary target for The Insectoid Caster to dive into them, pulling his left leg to touch his spine.
The U-V robots recoiled their gatling barrel heads before blasting off combined bright blue beams, heading to Wrathful Slug. The Insectoid Caster plunged his legs until they flexibly reached the front of his sight, unleashing the triple-slashing waves. The slashing waves crashed on all three U-V robots and fractured them in halves without difficulty, allowing Wrathful Slug to land smoothly.
"What exactly do you want from, Insectoid…FREAK!!" A man with a ruined green suit and his left leg paralyzed, loudly called out, shakily holding a white gun with a bright blue line on the side part.
"You've been attacking us without any legit reason," The man added.
Wrathful Slug burst out baffling laughter and countered, "You rich people are the reason my place is still stuck in endless poverty. Even worse you rich people used my friend either as a slave for your pleasure!!!"
"Now, you rich people will suffer the consequence of my vengeance!!" Wrathful Slug yelled, heaving his arms.
The rich man could only close his eyes from despair when Wrathful Slug thrust his hand, resuming his act of vengeance. Sadly, it didn't go well in The Insectoid Caster's Favor due to the presence of the man suddenly vanishing faster than the blink of an eye. He rotated his sight to the left and gasped in shock at the discovery.
Wrathful Slug motionlessly witnessed The Armored Figure floating and carrying the man in the hand, grunting in boiling anger. The rich man began to open his eyes and dropped his jaw in amazement toward his savior who carefully flew down. At last, he and the armored figure landed in a steady standing position.
"Thank you very much for…saving My life!!" The rich man thanked the hero who let go of the grip and gladly nodded. "What should I call you?"
The Armored Figure coughed and responded with a cheerful young man's voice, "Call me Viscable."
"I suggested you run from this place," Viscable suggested, flying closer to The Supervillain who tilted his head to the left. The rich man gave a salute nod before proceeding to run to the portal on the left, full of a line of rich people who were instantly being teleported from the threathening place.
Viscable drew his open hand and insisted with a polite tone, "I recommended you to stop this crime, Wrathful Slug."
"You telling me to stop my quest for vengeance, going to be delayed by you!!" Wrathful Slug bickered.
"Not going to happen in my watch," Wrathful Slug added, marking his finger forward and commanding the Gigant Centipede to glide to the new hero.
"Alright then, we have to settle this with violence," Viscable uttered, shrugging off and continuing the statement.
Therefore, Viscable rushed on The Gigant Centipede who contortedly hissed, grabbing the monster by the neck. Furthermore, The Armored Hero carried over the monster with its mighty grip, fleeing toward Wrathful Slug. A daunting dread resonated through The Insectoid Caster, desperately hopping to the back.
The attempt to escape was proven to be a failure with Viscable immediately grabbing The Insectoid Caster on one of his legs. The Armored Hero fleeted from the crime scene, dragging the giant Centipede and Wrathful Slug from the crime scene as he strengthened the choking grips.
Feeling his throat become sore, Wrathful Slug repeatedly rammed the amber orbs on both sides of the hero's ribs. No significant marks or bruises were carved on Viscable ribs, screeching in dreadfulness. The Insectoid Caster charged up more gleams inside the orbs with him folding his mantis's legs to his spine, forging the scything construct on each side.
The sharp sense of Viscable ordered his grip to hurl The Insectoid Caster down and anticipatively eyed the gigantic Slug who flapped its wings on its tail, trying to break free. Wrathful Slug hurriedly swung himself upward, launching the humongous slashing wave toward his heroic opponent.
"Hope this attack can send you to the depth of hell, New Hero!!!" The Insectoid Caster screamed.
Instead of being devoured by the cautiousness, Viscable sighed in disappointment and strengthened the choking grip on The Gigant Centipede who helplessly squealed, feeling its bone being shattered. The Armored Hero hauled the animal and flew it to the slashing wave, acting it as his meatshield.
A bombarding explosion temporarily trespassed the view of the blue sky, leaving the crowd of black smoke gushing around. Wrathful Slug who fluttered his dragonfly wings, gritted in anxiousness toward the smoke especially when it unfolded the shadowy silhouette of his giant centipede being torn in half.
"Such as a shame you couldn't give any significant damage," A deep voice invaded Wrathful Slug's ears, tremblingly gasped, and turned around.
Viscable who only showed to have a couple of tiny bruises on his armor, shook his head and bitterly crossed his arms. His narrow presence intimidated Wrathful Slug who quivered his legs and hurriedly kicked the air below to send him afar. The Insectoid Caster frigidly bowed his neck, attentively observing toward his current threat.
"Afraid of me now, low life bug?" Viscable mocked, wiping out the voice of the polite young man. "I thought you were going to be consistent with your stance."
"Instead you are just a showoff," Viscable added, shaking his head and grunting. "A miserable villain who just loves to play the victim in the first place."
Viscable laughed, "You should be gladful I'm following the hero moral code."
"ENOUGH!!!" Wrathful Slug yelled. "You don't understand anything, new hero!!! Those rich people didn't deserve to live in the first place!"
"They are the sole reason I lost my son because of their one experiment!!" Wrathful Slug added. "The experiments to create an efficient Supersoldier."
Viscable prolonged his baffling laughter and spoke, "Those rich people did the wrong time, especially the ones in charge of the Larheneim project, but you are no better than them, Low life wrench."
"Sadly, I'm not here to lecture you to be a better person, " Viscable admitted, slowly flying closer and giggling. "Instead, you are just a specimen for my beatdown!!
"Beatdown!?" The Insectoid Caster murmured, vibrating the high-pitched soundwave from his antlers. "Are you some kind of fake hero?"
"A fake hero?" Viscable responded with a puzzling tone, stopping his flight.
Viscable persistently placed his marking fingers on his chest and uttered, "Absolutely, wrong guess."
"Are you some kind of an obsessive glory seeker?!" Wrathful Slug tried another guess, extending the dragonfly wings.
Viscable whistled joyfully and replied, fleeing forward, "Almost correct. Almost CORRECT!"
"You are even worse than the rich people I wanted to take vengeance upon!!" Wrathful Slug ranted. "You didn't even care about the rest of the world. Becoming a Superhero to fulfill your ego"
"Fine, I will find a way to give you even worse punishment," Wrathful Slug declared in bombarding rage.
Viscable nodded and provoked, "Go ahead."
"Try your best to bring your punishment to me, low-life bug." Viscable continued to taunt, waving his hand.
Wrathful Slug pressed his head forward and vomited a chunky giant red slug from his throat, triggering The Armored Hero to clench his fist and spread a large flock of grey particles. With his knuckles shelved by the enveloping particles, Viscable drove them toward the red slug who unbridled its slimy mouth, gathering a growing purplish bolt that generated a bulky orb.
The empowered knuckle and the orb rammed, unleashing the boisterous shockwave that puffed away the cloud above. It also harshly threw Wrathful Slug away by the pressuring force of the shockwave, groaning in irritation before he strewed a group of bolting vines from his hand. His action prevented him from fleeing further.
"What…The!!" Wrathful Slug muttered at the top of his lungs in complete shock toward the sighting on the front.
The charging slug faced its unceremonious defeat with its head detonated into a puddle of violet blood, volatilizing into a mass of gasses. Behind the remains of the slug, Viscade emerged victoriously as he composedly flew toward his foe. It convulsed the course of The Insectoid Caster's veins, gulping in nerve-racking.
"NO WAY!!" Wrathful Slug said with a frightened tone.
Viscable grunted as he flexed his neck to the left, "Not impressive."
"This is your best attack? Very pitiful," Viscable grumbled, indignantly hissing toward his current foe.
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