by Jason Krate
She ran as fast as she could for the exit, but when she passed by the stairway heading down to the basement area of the building.
She paused when she heard the sound of female voices calling out for help down below.
She then realized that that must be the "Harem" that Bone Breaker had spoken about when he was trying to rape her.
She figured that they all must have been "bought and paid for" like she had been, not here by choice…or at least the ones calling for help weren't she figured
Some women would sell themselves to absolute creeps for a lifetime of sexual slavery if it meant food and board…she had seen it happen.
Hell, she was one of those people.
If there was now two Metahumans going at it in this old building, then their fighting might bring the building down upon all of them.
Those poor girls would be buried alive.
But was it really her problem?
She had her own life to worry about, and Kaylie's life.
She should just keep on walking.
But she couldn't do it.
Her mother's memory sprang right into her mind, and begrudgingly she turned around and began making her way down the stairway towards the source of the pleas for help coming from the basement.
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Meanwhile, back in the bed chambers of Bone Breaker.
The vile bone manipulator was being tossed around the room violently by the returned Baron Knight.
He was slammed into the wall seven times before Baron Knight settled with pinning him against the wall, in his flesh and blood form.
Bone Breaker took one look at Baron Knight, and spat blood upon Baron Knight's makeshift recreation of his original metal head mask in contempt "Just who the hell are you supposed to be?"
Baron Knight ignored him, and screamed bloody murder at the vile metahuman "MURDERER!"
"Murderer?" Bone Breaker said in surprise, "What the hell are you talking about, I never murdered anyone here, what the fuck do you want!?"
"Let's see if I can't jog that empty skull of yours Bone Breaker" Baron Knight growled, "you lead an assault on Lost Hallowing. A woman stood up to you, and you murdered her!"
"Oh yeah, I remember. Some stupid town that wouldn't pay up, and some stupid bitch trying to be a hero. What the fuck does that have to do with…?" Bone Breaker asked apathetically.
Baron Knight then slapped him across the face and pulled out his shadow gun and put it right up to Bone Breaker's temple, which shut him up instantly.
"Kilari." Baron Knight corrected, "Her name was Kilari Moraes. She was a good person who never hurt anyone who didn't deserve it. A kinder soul than this world ever deserved. The only one I knew who would do the right thing no matter what the consequence. She stood up against you and your friend's heathen disregard for human life. And you all raped and murdered her!"
"Oh yeah!?" Bone Breaker snapped, and grinned sadistically "Not what I remember. I remember the bitch, and that saucy little outfit she wore. She didn't put up any resistance. She spread those legs, let my dick shag her pink ass and she moaned like a whore before she died. It isn't rape if the woman enjoys it and she LOVED it!"
Suddenly, to Baron Knight's surprise, a spike made out of Bone Breakers bones erupted out from the vile villain's chest area and impaled Baron Knight's own chest.
It shot out of Bone Breaker and went right through Baron Knight's body, before impaling itself into the wall on the other side of the room.
This caused Baron Knight to release Bone Breaker and fall to the ground clutching the wound in his chest.
His healing factor not being what it used to be, he began bleeding profusely upon the floor, his blood stains burning the ground they fell upon due to the liquid miasmic mutagen contents his blood had.
He knew he could still heal, but not like he could when he was young.
It would take him at least five minutes to heal from this wound, and Bone Breaker was moving in for the kill.
Baron Knight watched as the area of Bone Breakers skin on the chest area where that bone spike had shot out from, closed up and healed rapidly.
So…he did have a type of healing factor.
One that acted like the old comic book character "wolverine" by healing wounds made in Bone Breakers body whenever he used his powers like this in this way.
Just as he suspected.
Good.
That just mean that outside of this little "spike through the chest" snafu, everything was going the way Baron Knight wanted them to go.
"Murder, rape, do you know what those two things have in common whoever you are?" Bone Breaker asked, while circling around the wounded Baron Knight who was coughing up blood while clutching the wound in his chest, "What they have in common is that nobody gives a fuck about them when they happen…and there isn't ever going to be nobody ever going to be able to do anything about it if they do care about them either. Because if some fool comes after us to take revenge, we kill them. We aren't called the Sadistic Five for nothing. You want to know something else about those two things? They are fun! Now, since you were dumb enough to come in here and interrupt my fun with my new slave girl. I'm going to have some fun with you. I'm going to use my powers to erect you in place with your own bones, the painful way instead of the easy way like I did with that red haired woman you just interrupted me from fucking, and then I'm going to test out my spike throwing and Bone Bullet powers."
Suddenly to Bone Breakers surprise, the wounded Baron Knight began to laugh.
Before Bone Breakers surprised eyes, Baron Knight turned into his living Shadow Form and stood up facing the vile villain with glowing red eyes full of hate and vengeance.
He may have been wounded, but in his living shadow form he wasn't hindered by his wound…because his living shadow form was basically his body having transformed for a temporary time into a living energy form….living dark matter energy to be exact.
"And Kilari was the last "Fun" you and your friends will ever have with any innocent lives ever again!" Baron Knight declared.
"Stay back freak!" Bone Breaker warned.
"Why don't you try and make me Bone Breaker?" Baron Knight challenged, "You can manipulate bones right. So try and make me back off!"
"I will!" Bone Breaker scowled, "And I'll break every bone in your body in the process. Take this!"
Baron Knight didn't even flinch, and to put it more bluntly nothing happened to him when Bone Breaker tried to use his powers on him…just as he had figured when he had planned for this before coming her to confront him.
He relished in his daughters murderer's shocked surprise when he realised his bone manipulation power wasn't working on Baron Knight's bones.
Baron Knight laughed at him.
"What?" Bone Breaker exclaimed, "Why isn't my power working on your bones?!"
"Do you see any bones here?" Baron Knight explained smugly, "I don't have any bones to manipulate in this form. My whole body, my whole being is living dark energy in this form. Your "bone puppeteer" powers won't work on me…and you won't be able to make my bones grow out painfully like you did the night you killed Kilari!"
"Stay back!" Bone Breaker shouted, now he was afraid.
But Baron Knight just slowly began walking towards the vile villain.
Bone Breaker, freaking out then began throwing everything he had at the approaching Baron Knight.
He threw Bone Spikes and Knives and when that didn't work he used his bone Bullets which shot out from his fingertips.
But to his horror, not only did this not impede Baron Knight's advance towards him.
Baron Knight absorbed the Bone weapons into himself, and then he redirected them right back at Bone Breaker.
Before Bone Breaker could try and duck out of the way, he was impaled from toe to shoulder to the wall behind him…and with his own bone weapons at that!
Baron Knight then revealed the last of Bone Breakers bone breakers weapons he had left to use, one last Bone Bullet.
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br /> He drew out his living shadow hand and made it take the shape of a gun, and placed the bone bullet at the tip of his miasmic hand, and placed in in the direction that would send it right through Bone Breakers head.
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"Bone Breaker? They should have called you Bone Head!" Baron Knight said mockingly.
"You can't do this!" Bone Breaker pleaded, "This is murder."
"And suddenly you care about murder?" Baron Knight said in mocked surprise, "I guess the only time people like you care about stuff like that is when it's happening to you instead of you being the ones causing it, isn't that right? I remember people like you from the old world. They too thought they could do whatever evil they wanted in this city, my birth home, without any consequence. They believed the whole world and everything in it was their playground and playthings to do with as they wished. Well…just like the criminals of the past, you and your friends are going to learn the hard way that the world doesn't work like that. For every negative action, there is a swift and equally positive reaction. Like the criminals of old, you all crossed the line and summoned forth a vengeful spirit of the night to punish you for what you have done. I am that spirit of vengeance."
"Who are you?!" Bone Breaker demanded.
"I am Baron Knight…." Baron Knight then used his powers to shape his living shadow forms face around until it was now a facsimile of his true face that he hid behind the mask, revealing to Bone Breaker who he was and why he was doing this…and Bone Breaker recognized the face of the old man whose daughter he and his friends had killed "and I am a father exacting revenge for the daughter you all murdered! Say goodnight to the devil for me when you meet him, and tell him you'll be bringing friends!"
Baron Knight then pulled the "trigger" of his "gun" and shot Bone Breaker with his own Bone Bullet right into his head.
He watched as Bone Breaker died before his eyes, the bullet through the brain being the one thing his powers could heal him back from….just like his own Healing Factor could never do.
Which was why he wore the armored mask in his youth.
He then turned back into his flesh and blood form, and reveled in the sight of the dead murderous member of the Sadistic Five who had taken away the last precious piece of his family and old life away from him forever, leaving him all alone in this world.
But he knew his vengeance wasn't complete, it wouldn't be complete until he had taken down the rest of the Sadistic Five…and maybe even their employers the so called "Deathborne Siblings" as well.
He still had work to do.
"One down…four to go" he said to himself.
The Baron Knight Returns: Chapter 4
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Chapter 4: Rachel and The Knight
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South Side Brightmoon, ArcView Park: October 7th, 2063: 10:20 PM
Rachel Addison found the locked door that contained Bone Breakers harem sure enough, down in the basement area of the ruined building.
She could hear the cries of help coming from behind that barred door.
She quickly lifted the metal bar that was barring the door and threw the doors open.
She saw through the now open doorway that there were at least thirteen women ranging from 15 to her age in there, beaten, battered….and whimpering.
They must have thought that the person opening the door was Bone Breaker or one of his men coming in to punish them for calling out for help again, at least until they saw who she was.
Because once they saw that it was just her that had opened the door, they made a beeline towards her for the exit.
Rachel Alder had to pin herself flat against the wall of the stairwell to avoid being trampled by the stampede of now free slave girls.
She couldn't blame them for wanting to get the hell out of there and get as far away from this place as humanly possible in Brightmoon City.
Sexual Slavery: A despicable practice and that she herself had almost been condemned to.
Once the last harem girl had left, without even saying "Thank You", Rachel couldn't help but reflect on her having rescued a bunch of innocent women from enduring the exact fate that had been handed out to her when she was 13 years old...before she escaped from her slavers.
"Now why couldn't someone have done that for me a long time ago?" she mused sadly.
She was about to make a break for it when suddenly, from out of the shadows of the darkened Harem cell room behind her, two tentacles made out of animated darkness grabbed her around her waist and gagged her.
They then turned around to face the darkened doorway of the now empty harem, where two glowing red eyes could be seen in the darkness staring right at her.
From out of the darkness, the same demon she had seen assault Bone Breaker emerged.
"You?" he said in surprise.
Rachel Addison in her bound and gagged state did a double take upon hearing this metahuman speak to her in a tone that indicated that he had seen her before, that they had met once before.
"How very interesting…." The Baron Knight said, "I have need of your services. Not the kind that involves your body mind you…but it does require you're physical services none the less. I pumped all the information I could from both Bone Breaker and your pimp boss…before I castrated him and sent him out to deliver a message…and sent Bone Breaker to meet his maker. But I'm not aware of where to find the rest of the five, and how this city now works since I was here last to successfully pull off my revenge. But you live here, you can tell me where they live. Now…where do I find out where the rest of the sadistic five are at in this city?"
Baron Knight then retracted the shadow gag around the bound around Rachel's mouth to allow her to speak.
"And why should I help you out Metahuman!?" she spat in contempt.
She was terrified, but her contempt towards Metahumans overrode that fear she felt towards this metahuman who had her in his power.
"Because you owe me" Baron Knight answered promptly, "If I hadn't intervened, that bastard would have fucked you in the ass and then killed you. Trust me on that when I say that, I have the ability to see a person's thoughts and memory once I touch them."
"Then touch me and take the information you want, I won't help you" Rachel Addison snapped.
"Oh yes you will…" Baron Knight said angrily, and suddenly his eyes began to flash.
Rachel Addison soon found herself captivated by the flashing eyes of Baron Knight as he hypnotized her with his hypnotic stare ability.
"You will help me, and once you have helped me out I will set you free from my power. Not before. When I snap my fingers, you will be conscious again, but you will follow my command to help me find the rest of the Sadistic Five. Even if you don't want to, you will do what you have been commanded to do. Understand?"
"Yes…." She said monotonously while under hypnosis.
Baron Knight then snapped his fingers, snapping her out of her trance…but the post hypnotic suggestion he had planted in her head was in place.
"What the hell did you do to me Metahuman!?"
"What I had to do, now where do I find the rest of the Sadistic Seven. I'd like to find them before as soon as possible." Baron Knight answered.
"I don't know where they are" Rachel Addison answered reluctantly while following the commands of her post hypnotic suggestion, "But I know a guy who might. People around her call him 'The Guru', nothing happens around this city without him knowing about it. If anyone can give you the information you want freak, it will be him. Now let me go."
"No…" Baron Knight shook his head, "Still have a use for you whore, I'll need someone to lure the male members into a trap and there is nothing more enticing for a psychopathic monster than a woman of the night offering herself to them for pebbles…something you should be VERY good at."
"Fuck you!" Rachel shouted.
"In your dreams" Baron Knight shot back, "now…tell me where to find "The Guru"…so we can both get this over with and never see one another again. I bet that w
ill be beneficial to both of us."
"You might as well kill me now, because the task you want to do is damn near suicidal" Rachel sneered.
"If I wanted you dead, I would have let Bone breaker have his way with you, now where is "The Guru" located at" Baron Knight pressed again.
Rachel fumed, this is what she got for trying to do the right thing.