Blood Moon and Ether: Wisps

There goes Blood Moon again *sigh* you'd think he'd grow up someday.

"Blood Moon, quit starting fights." I chastised him.

"You what, mates?" Blood Moon asked some punks we'd just seen pick-pocket from an elderly couple "D'ya think you can just steal from senior citizens?"

"Yeah, gots'a problem with that?!"

"Good grief," I said wiping my face and toning down Blood Moon's powers by mind control, "Wrath's going to catch up to us in no time with all of these outbursts."

Blood Moon then pointed at the hood rats and flicked his fingers, causing them to start coughing up blood.

"Guess what, ass hats? I can control darkness. Guess what's inside of you? Answer correctly and I'll stop."

"Uhhhkkkkk."

"Wrong answer."

I shielded my eyes as they exploded into bloody chunks.

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"Emperor Wrath, I have good news, sir."

"Yes, General Lesion?"

"We've detected a powerful uptick on the Ysiric scale--we've found them again."

"Where?!"

"In a small town in Nevada, by the name of Perdition."

"Excellent. Set warp drives to there, and prepare your legion to travel with me there."

"Yes, sir!"

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I woke up to a cacophony of explosions. In Perdition, that's not exactly common. Or at least not supposed to be.

Regardless, I got up, and tapped into PsiLink, contacted the Emissaries, and told them to send some bodies to check it out. I got ahold of Brian, who said he'd get someone to look into it.

Then I got my uniform on and gear and went out to see what all the hubbub was about.

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"How's the whole blowing up a bunch of pickpockets feel now?" Ether asked me.

"Was that your idea of banter?"

"No, that'd be a question."

"Ah, I see. Still incredibly satisfying and damn well worth it."

"I figured."

A bit o' brotherly bonding during the fight of your life is always something I hold deep to me.

I fired several rounds at the Ysiric cavalrymen with my pistol as Ether slung around concussive blasts. The whole shadow pincushion play had taken a bit out of me, so I needed to rely on something that didn't sap my energy reserves.

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I stared at the mosh pit below, not sure what to think of it.

Is this some weird Emissaries shit?, I thought.

There was basically an entire army attacking two metahuman guys. The army all had science fiction esque armor and looked identical (at least from afar), one of the metahumans was a bulky energy man and the other had long hair, a mask, and was using a pistol. Strange.

"The General wants us to get surveillance from up here, for long range support if needed."

I looked behind me to the stairs, which the voice had came from.

"Hold on! Who's that?!" one of the soldiers said, pointing at me.

"Kill him for the Emperor!" the other screeched and raised his spear into the air.

"Good luck with that." I said, as I raised my shorty shotgun to meet them.

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As I arrived on the battlefield, all I had to do was snap my fingers for my soldiers to open a path for me to the deformities.

As if I was going to walk that distance. The two would come to me--involuntarily. They flew into my hands as my mind beckoned them to do so.

"Oh," Blood Moon said weakly, "So this is why you're called Wrath."

They repulsed me, being this close, so I absorbed most of Ether's energy and casually discarded both.

"Have at them." I said to my legion.

But those who were to pounce on the Deformed were shot down by an unknown gunman, who afterwards threw down a light orb, blinding us all temporarily.

"Who do you think you are?" I asked the masked man.

"Your dead end."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It's game over."

"What?"

"The jig is up."

"Huh?"

"My stalling worked much better than it had any right to."

"You harlequin! How do you think you can stop us all?"

"Can I answer your question with another question?"

"Isn't that self-contradictory?"

"Well, didn't you just answer mine with a question?"

"Why am I wasting my time with you?"

"Why are you, exactly? Reinforcements have already arrived."

"What is it you speak of, fool? I have not called for reinforcements!"

"Look behind you."

"Oh."

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"Cease and desist now or perish." Obelisk said to the Ysiric ruler.

"Hahaha!" the Emperor scoffed. "How do you believe you can raise such an ultimatum when I have a literal army at my hands."

Then someone--Blitz--tapped Emperor Wrath's shoulder. "Look at 'em now."

They were all incapacitated.

"How did you--?"

"So which are you picking?"

"Temporary retreat." Wrath said, opening a portal back to his away ship.

"This isn't over yet!" he yelled, entering it.

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I woke up before Blood Moon, surrounded by strangers.

"Who are you all?"

One answered, "The Emissaries of Justice. You?"

"Ether."

"Good or bad guy?"

"Is there a difference?"

"Perhaps. But what's the whole idea with you two?"