Interlude - Guardian

Guardian jumps over the wall, doing a flip mid-air before landing on his feet, ready for action.

“Give it up Destroyer,” says the man, his voice distorted and deepened by his armour, “You can’t win this.”

Guardian’s close fitting power armour is sleek and smooth, made up of over lapping plates, the inner ones being black while the outer ones are a dark green.

In front of Guardian is a large, bulky man, wearing red and white spandex that show off his oversized muscles. His flowing black cape ripples in the wind.

“Honestly Guardian, do you even realise how cliché you sound when you speak like that?” replies the man in a throaty voice, “No matter, only you are in a position to stop me and you are most certainly not stronger to do that. You don’t even have any powers, forced to rely on those pathetic gadgets of yours.”

“The rest of the Everlasting Night didn’t find them so pathetic,” retorts Guardian as he leaps at Destroyer, “The rest of your companions have all been bested by me today.”

“But I am the strongest of us,” retorts Destroyer as he swings his fist into the oncoming Guardian, “And unlike you, I’m not afraid to kill.”

Guardian grunts as his armour is dented by Destroyer’s punch and is sent flying into the ground. He lands on his back, smashed into the pavement. He attempts to get up, but Destroyer lands on him, his foot on Guardian’s chest.

“Really Guardian?” taunts Destroyer as he sneers at the hero, “How on Earth did you think that would even come close to even hurting me with a move like that, let alone defeat me.”

Guardian’s response isn’t one of words, but rather one of action as several missile launchers pop out his armour, each containing a trio of multi-headed micro-missiles.

“Oh you son of a-” Destroyer begins to curse as he realises what is about to happen, only to be cut off as the missiles all slam into him.

As Destroy blown away by the explosion, Guardian quickly gets to his feet. As Destroyer staggers upright, Guardian slams his fist into the supervillain’s face. Destroyer grunts as he stumbles backwards and Guardian follows up with his other fist to villain’s lower jaw.

Destroyer is knocked off his feet and Guardian takes the opportunity to jab a small cylinder device into Destroyer.

As the villain scrambles away and gets to his feet, Guardian doesn’t bother attacking the man. He has already won this battle.

With a wild yell, Destroyer swings a punch at Guardian, who catches mid-swing.

“What, but how?” demands the stunned supervillain and Guardian smiles beneath his helmet.

“I hit you with a power nullifier,” replies Guardian, “Your powers are gone for the next hour.”

“Doesn’t matter,” snarls Destroyer, grinding his teeth, “The bomb will go off in three, two , one.”

But the bomb doesn’t go off. Guardian saw to that a couple of weeks ago, just as the Everlasting Night was finishing building it. But Destroyer doesn’t know that and Guardian sees no reason to inform him of that little fact.

Guardian head-butts the would-be mass murderer and Destroyer’s head slumps back, the villain now unconscious.

***

Legacy sits upright in her bed.

Was that a dream? It felt so real. Too real for just a dream.

You seem to be finally gaining access to the memories of the past Guardians.

Cool.