General Freedom stared at the man before him. The flood of profanity and anger just confirmed his identity, although his physical appearance was more than enough. 

The Special Operations Command Enhanced Forces listed the Splatterer as a class 6 threat. The media called him the most destructive villain on Earth, but the officers of SOCEF simply called him the Emo Kid. Of course the situation that surrounded his affliction was terrible, but his reaction to his situation was an infantile and childish one. Now the Emo Kid was chained, probably with nary a link that could even slow him down, before be broke loose. 

Steve shook his head; looking at the misshapen monstrosity he felt pity.  He had seen a lot of soldiers broken in the last bloody war and myriad of regional conflicts. But this was beyond the pale, what’s worse; this man’s mind broke under the incredible strain of his suffering. There really was nothing to say.  Nothing to do, the truth was he had allowed himself to be drawn into a pit of self-loathing. 

While this man was a class 6 threat, Kali was another matter. Not only was she powerful, but she was coldly intelligent. While the Splatter was a force of nature, destroying all in his way, Kali was an extinction level event, bent on destroying the world.  

Steve inhaled softly as he thought, [color=6ecff6][i]“For all your boasting I don’t know what’s more pathetic, your temper tantrums or the fact that Kali managed to capture you.”[/i][/color]

The cobalt blue energies flared around the hero, rippling across his body in a cascading field of energy.  Chirping his microphone he spoke quietly, [color=00aeef]“Clear the area, and open a pathway for the Splatterer, let him leave the city. I repeat allow him to leave. Focus on Kali.”[/color] 

With that he launched skyward, the energies surrounding him flaring in an amazing nimbus. Somewhere out there was Kali and whatever she was planning couldn’t be good. If she brought the Splatterer it was as a distraction. Something was afoot and Steve needed to find out what.