Villainy without Pier!

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

Pier Four, headquarters to the World Famous Future Foundation!  A place of science and learning, pushing the boundaries of tomorrow...TODAY!  But today, science has come under attack!  The forces of wickedness have been secreted into the building by parties unknown, using powerful teleportation technology!

The Dreadknight, ghost bound to a suit of living armor, with his enchanted sword and shield stalked the halls...

The Blizzard, master of molecular motion and captain of cold, left a frosty path through the building...

Electro, the vampy villianness of volts, sizzled through the corridors....

Cardiac, beta-powered punisher of heroes, wielder of wicked weaponry that served as a conduit for his energy, made his own way through the labs...

And Boomrang, master markman and tricky tosser, prowled the building....

All of them searching for something... and all of them ready for trouble...

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[ngm_lethal_legion1]

The sword struck true, piercing through the Dreadknight's armor and right out the back. There was no blood, no gore, not even the sound of tearing flesh and bone. Instead, beneath the armor... there was... nothing.

The Dreadknight just laughed. "A blow well struck!"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi's eyes widened at his sword hitting nothing beneath the armor. He dissipated the sword and filled in the hole in his shield. He expanded the shield to give him a little time. He huffed a breath.

The blond Atlantean tried to form an invisible bubble around his opponent's head. With nothing under the armor, he assumed it wouldn't kill the walking armor.

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

In fact, it did nothing at all, at least not noticeably. The Dreadknight did not need to breathe.

"You fight well," he said, "but the victory shall belong to me!"

He brought his sword around again.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi blocked the sword by raising his shield some. He reached up and grabbed an invisible tendril from the bubble around the knight's head.

The Atlantean yanked on the tendril, trying to make just the helmet go sailing down the hallway behind him.

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

The helmet went flying, bouncing several times before it landed.

The rest of the armor did not move. "You... you... scoundrel!"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi smirked. The armor wasn't moving so he dropped his shield. Just to make it easier to do his next act.

He tried to put a small bead of force inside the open interior of the armor. Then, with a motion of his arms sweeping out, he expanded the force bead quickly to get the armor pieces to sail all over the hallway.

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

Pieces of the armor scattered everywhere.

"Scoundrel! Gutter trash! Contemptible rogue!"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi looked over the scattered armor. Then he looked at the head. If it all managed to reassemble, someone a little less battle-hardened might run into danger.

Despite the need to go find his love and their daughter, he went back down the hallway to the bellowing helmet.

"Tell me something I don't know." He put an invisible globe around the helmet. The globe came up to hands and then floated by him like it was a balloon held by an invisible string.

"C'mon, un chevalier bégueule. I can use you as a bowling ball if I run into any of your comrades."

[ngm_lethal_legion1]

"You... you... knave!"

But the Dreadknight had little choice in the matter. Especially with the force field.