Chapter 5: A Legend To be told

Black Lightn' tells the others the story behind Nefarious and The Sword of Legends

                             CHAPTER 5: A LEGEND TO BE TOLD

 

Adam and R.J made it home just in time to visit Nana with everyone else. Everyone, that is, except for Matt and Ray; who were still out. Together everyone (except Matt and Ray of course) went to the hospital. They had a long visit because they needed to wait between the times that Nana had visiting hours.

 

After they’d overstayed their time everyone went home. But Matt and Ray still weren’t home; they decided to spend the night at their friend’s house. Matt called R.J and asked if he and Adam would bring them their clothes. Seizing the opportunity to sneak out and secretly meet up with Black Lightn’, Adam and R.J agreed.

 

After giving Matt and Ray their clothes, the two donned their hero costumes and rushed to the Badlands Science Lab and Museum. The two moved so fast that they managed to arrive before Black Lightn’ himself. So they decided to wait outside for him to appear. Within two minutes of waiting, Zero spotted a bright light soaring through the sky. It was a tremendous energy that he identified as an energy field surrounding Black Lightn’.

 

His guess was right; Black Lightn’ flew down low and landed beside the other heroes. Together they all walked inside and searched for a computer lab within the building. When they found one, Black Lightn’ sat down at one of the computers. “This Nefarious dude” Black Lightn’ began. “He’s part of a legend, just like we are.”

 

“A legend?” Shocker asked.

 

“There’s a reason I tracked you two down.” Black Lightn’ replied. “The legend is that two centuries ago a battle took place between this Nefarious guy and three warriors. They were heroes and using their powers of ice and electricity they engaged in the battle of the Earth. Their battle was fierce and their battlefield wasn’t even of this world, they fought in space to secure the safety of the Earth. The battle was won and they sent Nefarious millions of miles away and told him that if he should ever think to return he would be destroyed by whatever good lived on this planet. After they defeated Nefarious, they used all the energy they had and created a sword to contain it. Their identities are unknown but is said that two of them were brothers. Now Nefarious is back and because our powers are identical, he believes we’re them in a new form.”

 

“Maybe we are,” Zero said scratching his head.

 

“No, I was there when you two were born, you certainly aren’t two hundred years old and besides R.J, none of us are brothers.”

 

“Yeah but, that means…” Shocker began. “Wait a second! Matt! That’s you isn’t it?”

 

“Finally you figured it out. You two are so dumb. But that’s not important, we’ve got business to handle. Nefarious is still out there and we may or may not be able to defeat him. But first, whether we need to use it or not, we need to get that sword. If Nefarious gets his hands on that sword we’re toast. Not to mention he has Terry on his team.”

 

“Who’s Terry?” Shocker asked.

 

“Professor Terry Erif.” Zero cut in. “ I thought that Flame Master dude’s voice was familiar. I can’t believe he’d join up with a creep like Nefarious.”

 

“How do you know it’s him?” Shocker inquired.

 

“Remember that nurse told us that there’d been an incident?”

 

“Yeah, she told us Erif wasn’t there.”

 

“Yeah, my guess is he was out scheming with Nefarious.”

 

“Of course. Now, let’s not forget we need that sword. We need to begin our search asap”

 

“Forget the sword, check this out!” Shocker said pointing at the moon. The others looked up and noticed what he was talking about. The moon was had a strange glow greenish glow radiating from it.

 

“What do you think that is?”

 

Before anyone could answer the light extended rays out directly at Black Lightn’ and Shocker. All three of the warriors flipped back but the rays caught hold of Shocker and Black Lightn’. It encased their bodies in a painful sphere, which caused them to grunt in pain. “Hnrra-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhh-aaaaaaaaaaaaahhh-raaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaahhh!” Their eyes began to glow white and the energy from their bodies flew into green light from the moon. Shocker’s was yellow and B.L’s was light blue. They floated up in the air with the energy until they were almost completely drained of their energy, then as it returned they were sent crashing into the building. The force was so immense that they created profound craters in the ground and were left unconscious.

 

Matt and Adam woke up to cold water splashed on their faces by R.J. “That was crazy!” he said standing over them. “You two were out for the whole night. Adam, I had to lie and tell your mom me and you stayed a night at Matt’s friend’s house too. And Matt, I had to tell Ray that you had to go home so he’d tell your friend that.”

 

“Good, but what about our powers?” Adam asked sitting up.

 

“We never had powers.” Matt said sitting up as well. “Only God has powers. Anyways, we still have our super abilities.”

 

“Well, not our costumes.” Adam said noticing that his and Matt’s costumes had been slashed by the fierce energy. “We may need to quit the whole hero thing for a bit.”

 

“Nah,” Matt said looking at his rips. “I thought ahead and prepared two costumes for myself. As for you two, I also knew you two would end up wearing lame gear so I made some for you too.”

 

“But you will not live to wear them!” Nefarious shouted from atop the roof.

 

“Nefarious!” R.J yelled balling his fists. Matt and Adam took their fighting stances next to him. They looked up and Nefarious had vanished. Quickly they formed a triangle to be able to defend from all sides.

 

 

 

“Not good enough!” Nefarious said. He appeared behind R.J and kicked him in the back, sending him flying into the air. Before R.J hit the floor Adam was sent following by a powerful thrust kick to the face. Matt took to the offensive and threw a punch at Nefarious’s stomach. Nefarious dodged and Matt flipped forward and tried to kick Nefarious. Nefarious ducked and Matt flipped over behind him to blast him. Before the blast was released Nefarious grabbed Matt’s hands and threw him into the air. Then he punched Matt in the face, making him a third addition to the pile of boys.

 

“Always nice to see the martial artist get tossed around,” R.J joked pushing Matt off of him.

 

“Never,” Matt said wiping blood from his lip. “I was just testing out his strength. After all, we never did fight, the coward ran off.”

 

“ Yeah, I see why.” Adam cut in. “He’s too weak to beat us.”

 

“What are you talking about?” R.J asked. “We all just got tossed around like rocks. I’d say he’s pretty strong.”

 

“He’s right. Nefarious isn’t weak, we’re stronger. R.J doesn’t notice it because he wasn’t hit by the light, only we were!”

 

“So why wasn't I hit? What does this all mean?” R.J asked.

 

“It means stand aside and let the real champs handle this chump!” Adam said with pride. He stepped forward and raised his right hand. A small sphere of electricity formed around it, pulling in more and more electrons. His hand began to glow with the energy and ball of energy doubled in size. "Static..." Shocker called out. He pointed his hand at Nefarious and shot off the blast in a powerful flash. "Cannon!" he yelled as the blast launched out and struck Nefarious, sending him crashing into a nearby building.

 

"Watch it retard!" Matt said stepping forward. "There are still people around us!"

Nefarious stood up out of the rubble of the and gathered his energy into a blast. He shot it forward at the warriors. Black Lightn' stood ahead of the others and put his hands out to the side. Two identical energy fields appeared around his hands. "Double Flash Cannon!" he shouted as threw them forward. One hit Nefarious's blast and destroyed it while the other headed to Nefarious and shot him into the air.

 

With great speed Matt flew up beside Nefarious and delivered an onslaught of powerful punches. First he threw a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left, a right, a left uppercut, a right uppercut, left elbow to the face a right knee to the stomach. The gave an axe kick to the shoulder and then did a double flip over Nefarious and blasted him in the back. Nefarious fell downward but before he reached the ground Matt flashed below him and kicked him back into the air.

 

Matt flashed above him and charged his entire body. He reached out his right hand and all the energy channeled into it. "Shock Gun!" In a great flash Matt released the blast and all around except for himself were blinded. The large blast flew at Nefarious in a twirling spiral. The blast hit it's target and the power shook the ground below as Nefarious crashed deep into the earth.

 

The battle was over, Nefarious was out cold. Matt descended next to R.J and Adam who'd finally gained their sight back. "What power!" R.J said blinking in disbelief. "That was incredible!"

 

"Yeah! But what now?" Adam asked.

 

"I know," R.J said stepping forward to the crater Nefarious was in. He reached out his right and created a thick sheet of ice which filled the whole and buried Nefarious. "That takes care of him, and now no one can say I didn't help in this fight."

 

"Great, now can we please go home?" Adam asked.

 

"It's not over." Matt said. "Flame Master is still out there. We won the battle not the war."

 

"Well, you're a happy hero." R.J sarcastically said. "Why are you so negative?"

 

"I'm not. I just know when we've won. But to answer Adam's question, yes we're going home."

 

"Woo-hoo! Yeah finally!" Adam cheered. The heroes were going home after a long night of work. As they flew off the city's people finally came out. And they weren't alone. Nefarious reached out a hand and broke free! The screams of the terrified citizens alerted the heroes who stopped their flying.

 

They looked back and saw Nefarious fleeing the town. "Oh man," Shocker said in disappointment.

 

"Here we go again," Zero said from on his ice slide.

 

"No, let him go." Black Lightn' said reaching out to stop the other's from leaving. "We'll get him later. For now, let's go home."

 

"What?" Adam asked puzzled. "It's not like you to let someone get away!"

 

"I know. But I've got homework and I can't tell my teacher I had to fight crime."

 

So it was that the warriors let Nefarious get way. They'd had a long night and needed real rest. Nefarious would show up another day. And so together, Black Lightn', Shocker, and Zero all headed home. The warriors battle was over, for the moment...