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[color=black][b][u]9:13 PM; July 9th, 2018
Lawrence 'Squid' Loman's House; New York City[/u][/b][/color][/center]
The reason they called him Squid was a funny story.

It was his first time dumping a body into the sea. Everything went as planned, they drove the body out there in a duffel bag filled with bricks, and tossed it into the water... And just as they did so, a squid popped out, and got hit in the head by the bag. It was a strange, surreal once in a lifetime event. God only knew why that squid was so close to the docks, why it came out of the water, and why it decided to wait until a bag was about to hit him in the face to pop out. The guys started calling him 'Squidkiller', which eventually just got shortened to Squid, and the name stuck. Everyone called him by the name now, even the ones who had never heard the story.

[color=aba000][b]"Ey Squid?"[/b][/color] Squid was pulled out of his recollections by the voice of Eddie, one of Silvermane's grunts. For some reason the old man was putting a lot of guards with the important members of his outfit. Squid had to feel a bit flattered that he was considered by the big boss to be important. It had something to do with that psycho cop that's going around and cutting them all down. Bah, that guy didn't know what was coming to him. Whether it was the cops, them, or that Spiderchick, he'd be put down soon enough.

[color=f6989d][b]"Yeah? What is it?"[/b][/color]

[color=aba000][b]"The cameras is down. Don't know what happened to 'em."[/b][/color]

Furrowing his brow, Squid got up, following Eddie to the camera room. All the monitors showed static and red letters reading [b][color=ed1c24]"NO CONNECTION"[/color][/b]. [color=f6989d][b]"What the fuck? What happened to 'em?"[/b][/color]

[color=aba000][b]"I already says, I dunno what happened to 'em, but it ain't good. I'm thinkin' someone cut the power to 'em or somethin'."[/b][/color]

[color=f6989d][b]"Well then go and fix 'em!"[/b][/color]

[color=aba000][b]"Right, boss."[/b][/color] With those words, Eddie went outside to reconnect the power to the cameras. Squid sat nervously in the room, staring at the monitors. If the cameras were down, that meant something screwy was going on. Maybe that Punisher guy was a serious threat after all. Bah, he's being too paranoid. Something probably happened with the fuses or something.

Everything would be alright.

One of the cameras came back on, the one nearest the power box. And all that Squid saw was the corpse of Eddie, a large red smile along his throat. [color=f6989d][b]"W-what the fuck?!"[/b][/color]

The camera went out again. Then, the lights.

Muffled gunshots rang outside, punctuated by the screams of his men as they died. The gunfire lasted for a minute or two, before all was silent. Slowly, Squid reached for his gun...

[color=black][b][i]"You can run on, for a long time... Run on for a long time... Run on for a long time..."[/i][/b][/color]

Singing... [color=f6989d][b]"The fuck?"[/b][/color]

[color=black][b][i]"Sooner or later God'll cut you down... Sooner or later God'll... Cut you down..."[/i][/b][/color]

Where the hell was it coming from? [color=f6989d][b]"Cut that out, you crazy bastard!"[/b][/color]

[color=black][b][i]"Go tell that long tongued liar... Go and tell that midnight rider... Tell the rambler, the gambler, the backbiter..."[/i][/b][/color]

Squid fired his gun off, shouting, [color=f6989d][b]"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"[/b][/color]

[color=black][b][i]"Tell them that God's gonna cut them down... Tell them that God's gonna cut them down."[/i][/b][/color]

[color=f6989d][b]"WHERE ARE YOU!?"[/b][/color]

[color=black][b]"Behind you."[/b][/color]

Squid's last words were a series of gurgled screams.

[center][hr][color=black][b][h3]ISSUE #7
PART ONE
FROM THE SHADOWS[/h3][/b][/color][hr][/center]