Trident Force Chronicles

by Paul Richardson

  "So then he spots this woman, lying naked, and spread eagle on a rooftop." said Hawkfox Delta trying to keep it together and failing. "And he thinks to himself: I can fly in, fuck this woman, and fly out without anyone noticing."

  "Can he do that?"

  "Shh! I am trying to tell a joke here!" answered Hawkfox Delta. "He flies in, BAM, and then he is gone. 'Oh my, what was that' said the woman. 'I don't know, but my butt sure hurts' said the Invisible Man."

  The two laughed for a good two minutes. It was an incredibly funny story, even if both knew it was completely false. This normally is not a problem for the Westgate Tech Food Court on the third floor, however Hawkfox Delta's right wing flexed and accidently hit someone.

  "Hey!" said the offended party, a tall black woman who was clearly a paramedic student. "It is bad enough I am allergic to birds, I do not need you people sticking me with those feathers."

  "I'm sorry, my friend." said Hawkfox Delta as he collected himself. "Sometimes these things have a mind of their own."

  "Whatever." said the woman and walked off.

  Both Hawkfox Delta and Amy Parker stop laughing shortly after that.

  "Well, that killed the mood." said Amy Parker.

  "Indeed." said Hawkfox Delta with a worried look on his face. "However I did not realized people who were allergic to birds would going here too."

  "Do not worry about it too much. The school gives away antihistamine meds for everyone who has hay fever." said Amy Parker finishing up her lunch. "Hey, you know, we have been having lunch together for some time now and I really. However I really want to go out tonight with you. I hope I am not being too forward."

  Hawkfox Delta looked up to her with a smile. "No, that sounds great."

  ***

  Later in the early evening, Amy Parker was waiting for Hawkfox Delta outside Westgate Tech. She had already gone to her apartment to change and had return. Hawkfox Delta himself live in a Westgate Tech Guests room, a small hotel normally rented out to guests to the tech school and located on the fifth floor.

  "It is her!" said a voice behind Amy Parker. The reporter in training turned and saw the tall black woman from earlier in the day. This time, she had a couple of friends with her. A really mean looking and big white guy was leading a pack of Westgate Tech students.

  "Oh yeah, I have seen them hanging out with each other." said the man as he walked up to Amy Parker. "Is your bird friend messing with my girlfriend?"

  "Hey," said Hawkfox Delta suddenly coming out of the building and walking up to the lead troublemaker. "If you have something to say to me, say it to me."

  "Yeah well," said the thug bully. "You just stay away from my girlfriend next time. And we do not need another hero paramedic, we already have Hawkfox Tango!"

  The group of would be trouble makers then left. Amy Parker then rushed to Hawkfox Delta and hugged him. Then Hawkfox Delta sighed. "This is not going to work."

  "What do you mean?" said Amy Parker letting go of Hawkfox Delta.

  "Us." said Hawkfox Delta sadly. "Supers, good and bad, are mistrusted unless the people know them. And I am replacing the much beloved Hawkfox Tango. I am going to have to pass on our night out, Miss Parker."

  With that, Hawkfox Delta left a tearing Amy Parker there on the outside of Westgate Tech and in the cold.

  Sooper Zoom #6

  (2015/11/07)

  Detective Heddings, Detective Dowd, and Sooper Zoom sat across from the building of "BOOM! Tattoos" and waited for Saint Matt to report in. With the exception of the tattoo parlor, the rest of the store fronts were empty and boarded up. The rest of the building held offices, but they were heavily tinted and no one went into the office entrance.

  This is incredible! said Saint Matt all of a sudden. "BOOM! Tattoos" has a two-for-one tattoo special at GroupOn.com going on right now!

  "Oh come on, Saint Matt!" moaned Sooper Zoom. "Can you stop joking around for once?"

  Okay, okay! Just making sure you guys were still awake. The tattoo parlor's public website is on a hosting company's server a long ways away. The payment is coming from a shell with-in a shell company that just goes nowhere. One of those shell companies owns that building and the "For Rent" phone number.

  "Anyone answer that phone?" asked Detective Dowd.

  That's the weird thing. said Saint Matt over the phone speaker in Detective Heddings' car.There is a voice that tells whoever calls that the number is disconnected, but that is not coming from any phone company! I have tried to trace it, but whoever set it up is very good.

  "Alright, I have heard enough. Me and Detective Dowd are going to go in and scope the place." said Detective Heddings as she disconnected the call from Saint Matt. "We need to get something ourselves if we are to get a search warrant. You stay here!"

  Sooper Zoom watch the two Detectives go in as Saint Matt rang Sooper Zoom's earpiece under the Mexican's mask.

  They go in? asked Saint Matt.

  "Yeah, but I fear that they are not going to find anything. I didn't the last time, that is why I dismiss it at first." All of a sudden, two shots could be heard inside the tattoo parlor. "Shit! Call in some back up!"

  Already on it!

  Two more shots are heard as Sooper Zoom gets out of the car and removes his outer clothes to reveal his costume. It took him a full two minutes to get to the tattoo parlor, since he couldn't go his full speed while removing his clothes. When he open the door to the tattoo parlor, he saw the two Detectives with knives sticking out of their upper arms. About six ninjas who looked like they leapt out of a movie screen. The Japanese tattoo parlor artist Sooper Zoom saw earlier and a big mean white biker guy with tattoos all over his body filled out the rest of the people. Two of the ninjas were on the ground dead from gunshot wounds. The rest were going for the two Detectives, until Sooper Zoom walked in. "Ops! Bad timing for a tattoo, you guys?!"

  Luckily, none of these guys were supers. So Sooper Zoom was able to take them out in no time at all. After taking them all out, he went to the Detectives. "Are you two okay?"

  "Yeah, we are just Sooper!" snapped Detective Dowd. Sooper Zoom winced at the pun, but let it go. "They wanted us alive for some reason."

  "Just hold on. Backup and medical is on their way." said Sooper Zoom. Then Sooper Zoom went over to tie up the thugs. While doing so, Sooper Zoom checked for 'The Eye' tattoo and each of them had it. "Interesting. They are marking people now instead of places. At least here in Westgate City.

  When the rest of the WCPD got there, they entered the rest of the building and found ...nothing. "Not a damn thing!" said Sooper Zoom as he hit the side of the building in pure frustration. "Why go through all the trouble for this one empty building!"

  Oh no... said Saint Matt in a hushed voice.

  "Wait, what?!" asked Sooper Zoom confused. "What do you mean, 'oh no'?!"

  It would seem like Westgate Sentinel has retired. said Saint Matt in a hushed voiced still. And the protests in Leftover Hill are reaching levels of hundreds, if not thousands of people. I suggest you get over there now!

  Red-Eye Destrobot #6

  (1992/09/12)

  How Red-Eye Destrobot ended up in Florida is an epic unto itself. It involved Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth, a head-strong Brazilian dancer, and three French men on a ghost pirate ship. A tale of romance and high adventure on the Atlantic Ocean. A story we would like to tell today, but we can't. Red-Eye Destrobot didn't know it yet, but he was walking along Tea Creek and Static Test Road at Cape Canaveral when a black unmarked van pulled up beside the robot. Three men got out of the van and surrounded Red-Eye Destrobot.

  "Well, what do we have here." said one of the clean cut surly men. He was wearing a black suit and tie. Red-Eye Destrobot wish he could answer, he did. However some poor tech at Kennedy Space Center got this message off her printer.

  'I SURRENDER! I SURRENDER!'

  Red-Eye Destrobot held up his arms in the air. His clamp hands slammed shut a couple of times to show either one had nothing in the
m.

  "What are you?" asked the clean cut surly leader who spoke earlier as he cautiously patted down Red-Eye Destrobot. "An alien? Are you from the future? Or are you a Russkie spy?"

  'IF YOU ONLY KNEW.' Read the poor tech's printer. On a side note, that tech resigned at that moment and became a Nun a few years later. People would catch her until her dying days muttering how evil printers were. No one really asked her why specifically she thought printers were evil. A harmless eccentric, she was a highly respected Nun and died loved forty years later.

  "Umm, sir," said one of the other three men. "Endeavour is about to launch any minute now."

  All the men turned to the Space Shuttle Endeavour sitting on the pad just a few miles away. In about twenty minutes or so, the first launch of Endeavor is going to take place. Red-Eye Destrobot used this moment of distraction to run away.

  "He's getting away!" yelled the surly man in charge. "Jones, call this in! We might need back up on this one!"

  Despite having been in the ocean for the better part of a week, Red-Eye Destrobot was running just fine. However he did notice that he could not reach his top running speed. Even at his diminish speed, Red-Eye Destrobot can still outrun the three men and outlast them too. It was an unfortunate turn of events that these men were also supers.

  The first man, was quickly running beside Red-Eye Destrobot with a gun drawn. Reacting, Red-Eye Destrobot knock the man hard and sent him tumbling. The next man, identified as Jones by the leader earlier, was now flying above Red-Eye Destrobot with a gun drawn as well.

  "Hey, that was my buddy asshole! Freeze, whatever you are!" said the man named Jones. Red-Eye Destrobot planted both feet on the ground and leapt ten feet right into the man. After a series of random tumbles and disjointed flight, the man named Jones coincidentally landed next to his fast moving buddy. Just so everybody understands, they were just friends and both had loving wives. They personally don't mind gay people, it's just that they wanted to make sure everyone understood their friendship.

  The surly man in charge then landed in front of Red-Eye Destrobot, now transformed. He was ten times his original muscle mass, had purple skin, and a big bushy red beard.

  "You're going to pay, robot!" said the man. "Not only did you hurt my partners, but now I, the Surly Purple Giant, am going to have to shave this beard off when I return to normal!"

  The Surly Purple Giant picked up Red-Eye Destrobot, spun him in the air, and then threw the Red-Eye Destrobot 30-miles out into the Atlantic Ocean. At that moment when the Surly Purple Giant threw Red-Eye Destrobot, the Endeavour rockets ignited sending the purple muscle mass to the ground.

  Green Silk #6

  (2015/11/08)

  Green Silk awoke on the roof top shivering. Green Silk remembered that she had climb up the nearest wall after being knocked out the night before, and then passed out again when she got to the roof. Green Silk was so tired, cold, and hungry that she could barely move.

  "You see, brother." said a female's voice. The woman was dressed all in white, from head to toe. She even had on a mask that showed nothing but her eyes, which was human. And what looked like an all white nun's veil covered her head. The only other thing on her was a gold chain with a cross on it. This cross however, had what looked like four angel wings coming out from it. If Green Silk did not know better, Green Silk might have thought this woman was a nun. "She is not processed or have demonic powers."

  "Hmm..." started a male's voice. The man was dressed all in black, from head to toe. He even had on a mask that showed nothing but his eyes, which was human. This made him look like a priest. The only other was a gold chain with a cross on it. This cross however, had what looked like four angel wings coming out from it. "Maybe, sister. But there is a taint to her. I also smell brimstone."

  "Then we take her to Bethesda House, brother, and examine her there." said the woman in all white.

  "Agreed, my sister." answered the man as he took a step forward, bent down, and swiped his hand before Green Silk and then the very cold woman passed out again.

  ***

  Yellowgate Village was indeed an unique neighborhood within Westgate City. It sat where Hot Draconia, Glass Towers, and Leftover Hill all came together. The place was a combination of old money mansions, a couple high end restaurants, and one very pricy hotel that used to be a mansion.

  One such mansion was called Bethesda House, for the family that used to own it. Sandra Padgett did not know it when she woke up, but she was in one of the oldest mansions in Westgate City. Sandra Padgett did not know where she was and held still for as long as she could. However a yawn forced her to start moving. She was on a very old couch with a blanket thrown over her. She did not have her costume on, but a very short pink cotton tank top, pink cotton panties, and soft white socks on. Sandra Padgett covered herself up again, because she knew she had nothing on under her costume.

  "I've been raped!" said Sandra Padgett almost on the verge of tears.

  "I must assure you, that you were not." said a female voice at the entrance at what Sandra Padgett could only assume was the living room. Every stick of furniture in here looked a hundred years old at least. Looking up, Sandra Padgett saw the second floor and to her right was the library.

  "You did not get my affirmative consent to take my cloths off and put new ones on! I was raped! And whose are theses? And who are you?" asked Sandra Padgett pulling the blanket close.

  "The clothes are mine, they happen to make me look cute and very feminine." answered the woman in a blue business dress as she set the food tray down before Sandra Padgett and held out her hand. On the food try was a fresh-made Club sandwich and a tall glass of milk. She was a tall woman with blonde hair and deep blue eyes. "And my name is Priscilla Engelhard."

  "And my name is Edward Engelhard." said a man as he enter via the library. He was tall too, blond hair and blue eyes. He wore a black suit and tie with a white shirt. "Welcome to the Bethesda House. Your home until we can talk about how you got your powers."

  Blue Star #6

  (2015/11/07)

  Just then, Green Silk flew overhead Blue Star. However before Blue Star could react to anything, a glass bottle smashed into her back. This knocked her down, but not out. A number of thugs surrounded Blue Star and started kicking her. However Blue Star was able to roll under the thugs and get up before too many blows landed on her. Before they could catch up with her, Blue Star was able to able to get back to the roofs.

  Up ahead, Green Silk had already gotten up to the hydration tent. "Alright One Percenters, give up the water in the name of Our Lives Matter!"

  The crowd that had gathered behind Green Silk cheered. The paramedics looked confused at Green Silk. One grabbed a bottle of water and held it out. "But, we are already giving out water to you guys. All you have to do is ask."

  "Oh, shut up!" said Green Silk, who proceeded to web each of the paramedics mouths. "There. The one percent should be seen, not heard."

  The crowd cheered, but before anything else can be done, an arrow appeared right between Green Silk's feet. "What in the...?"

  Green Silk looked in the direction of the arrow and saw Blue Star jumping off the roof of a car and landing on another car. Blue Star then drew an arrow and pointed at Green Silk.

  "You guys, run!" said Blue Star to the paramedics and they did not wait to be told a second time. Green Silk took in a long look at the retreating paramedics and then back to Blue Star after the paramedics had gone.

  "Now, you are going to pay for that." said Green Silk.

  "You said you wanted the water." said Blue Star nodding to the water. "Well, there you go. What more do you want? Hostages? Now back up!"

  "Or what?" asked Green Silk. "You going to murder me? You are not a vigilante, are you not some kind of cop?"

  Blue Star's teeth was clench. Green Silk was right, Blue Star is not a vigilante. Blue Star is, however, an auxiliary police officer and can arrest people as a law enforcement action.

  "No, I am not
going to murder you." said Blue Star shaking her head. "I am going to arrest you! On the ground and spread eagle!"

  "Yeah... No, that is not happening!" said Green Silk as she started shooting web balls at Blue Star and strafing to Blue Star's left. Blue Star, to her credit, was able to hit every web ball with an arrow. "Oh, very nice!" Green Silk leaned toward one of the hostile protesters. "You think you can tip that car over?"

  The group of protesters rushed Blue Star. 'You know what I need right now,' thought Blue Star to herself. 'Is trick arrows. I am going to have to talk to Mantis Skin for that next we talk-'

  Before she could finished her thought, the mob rushed the car. When they slammed into it, Blue Star just jumped to the next car over. However Green Silk was able to catch Blue Star in her webs. "I got you now, pig cop!"