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[h1][CENTER][b]CyberCorp's Debut Chicago, Illinois[/b][/CENTER][/h1]
Gavin Reynolds was ready for whatever, and today was one of those days with lots of what-ever. He was a liberty agent who use to work for the CIA & as a technician as CyberCorp. Working with Liberty had swept up his entire time & the nature of the agency made it smarter to cut ties with his other positions for now. He always wanted to be a big man, strive to do important things in life, really make history. Working in this organization being a high ranking officer he was doing just that. His wife & daughter had both been seriously injured in the energy storm, but only he had contracted the plague.

He immediately quarantined himself not wanting to expose his family, but lucky he recovered from his illness. Just as medical professionals helped them nurse the wounds they sustained during the energy storm itself. Already he was a man who was a stickler for justice & enforcing it on those who disregarded the laws with impunity. It was a righteous feeling to him to be able to shut down criminal organizations & detain perpetrators taking them off the streets away from their illicit activities that only served to endanger the people & communities around them.

Suffice to say he had built up a tendency to see the worst in most people, and had a very strong us vs them mentality with his fellow agents & regular civilians. He’d worked primarily in the northern United States during his eight year tenure with the CIA most of which was in Chicago, Illinois a hub of all sorts of crime both from the multitude of violent street gangs to organized cartels, mafia’s & even corruption within the chicago police department. Drugs especially ravaged the inner cities & seemed to be a second economy relying soley on narcotics alone which often was ten-fold and above what average regular hard working citizens were making.

The whole thing, the cultures behind them disgusted him. But he didn’t swell all his hatred into one particular group or race. He had a disdain for the most criminal members of society equally, but that did tend to make him a somewhat biased man unintentionally. However to those on the outside looking in all they saw was another judgmental man with an assumed superiority complex because of the color of his skin. He had his share of bullet riddled encounters with mainly white mafia’s & groups but they had standards which they uphold such as never involving innocent women & children. The killings they did were towards other enemy mafia’s and even when it wasn’t they moved in silence, very clean, swift & most importantly relatively unseen. 

But he had much more harrowing experience during encounters with black street gangs & hispanic cartels. A whole different range of evil & violence including innocents being shot in broad day shootings, sometime on accident, sometimes on purpose, homes being sprayed with bullets with the intention of harming family members only because of relation with no ties to the criminal lifestyle, more instances of spiked drugs, demolishing properties they used to manufacture product, many times in residential neighborhoods, a well as far more instances of beating, robbing & killing random people for mere reasons such as initiation into said groups or just for the mere fun of it.  Deep down maybe he did resent people of color more due to his line of work and the place he did most of it in. Well that was a consequence of the job, he didn’t consider himself a hateful man, but simply one who dealt in facts and didn’t care who his facts offended. 

In short he deemed Altered a major threat, especially in Chicago. Gang leaders with powers quickly recruited other altered & were even more brazen with their crimes, similarly with the cartels. Somewhat new was the Salzaras Cartel was in charge now, they’d spread across the entire country in a matter of 2 and a half months. They were working with altered humans to get drugs into the country despite the border being closed, and as a result had become the middle man for bulk drugs for almost every group that needed them, not to mention charging other cartels a middle fee to bring there drugs in forcing them to either raise the price or rely more on cheaper synthetic versions of popular drugs that were far more potent but far harder to dose at even more alarming rate then I the past two years prior.

Worst then that the altered gangs, the strongest ones had quickly eliminated the weak & managed to attain a level of power they never had prior to abilities. There were now 4 men known as the Chiraq Kings or sometimes more formally “The Four Kings of Chiraq”. Dawson had control over gravity, Harper had telekinesis, Quinn had the power of pryokinesis & Krael had the power of earth manipulation.

Gavin had been given an advanced ear piece & remote, which he would use to commandeer the robotic army he’d been supplied with by CyberCorp. President Forrester was adamantly against CyberCorp obtaining any sort of military defense contract due to the intense family rivarly, but the Lorizilla incident led to his personal opinion being over-risen by those in congress who saw the need for Norman Chaplin’s machines on the battlefield against the threat of the altered. Gavin was use to working with these machines, and such Liberty had selected him to head one of the first missions where they’d be working in tandem with the technology against superhuman opponents.

This was an ambush on Quinn’s base of operation. Gavin was accompanied by a handful of other armed liberty agents & regular military soldiers. They were all briefed on the mission together as well as how Chaplin’s technology worked. They’d worked together doing a few training drills with & without the technology over the past three days. The soldiers working with them had been told that Gavin & the other liberty agents were with department of homeland security. A squadron of armored vehicles rode down towards Quinn’s base of opration.

The four kings had grown brazen thanks to their powers & the powers of their pawns. Admitteddly there was little traditional chicago police could do to quell the expansion of their criminal empires. The inner cities of the Windy City had already been riddled with rampant crime, gun violence & illegal drug activity, but now it was even worst. Ten minutes passed and Gavin’s team was in position to take offensive maneuvers against Quinn’s base of operation. 

“Aye who the hell iz dat, it look like da boys” A gangster standing on the corner with a pocket full of dope and gun in hand noticed one of the liberty agents. As he raised his weapon he was shot multiple times by a soldier ducked behind a nearby dumpster.

Shots fired, everything started. Swarms of armed thugs began coming out armed to the the teeth with weapons, while VT-Droids armed Began marching down the street. The sound of whirring helicopter blades filled the atmosphere as large air-crafts were seen coming from all directions. Opening up XP9’s emerged from the carriers flying down to the ground level thanks to there jets. One altered woman with a Glock on her hip was firing lasers at the legions of robots, hitting a few but not putting them down.

“Ayo the fuck, get Quinn! The Feds dun brought robots out to fuck wit us!” The girl yelled out, while another man came running out. His howled and his body began talking on wolf like features, the humanoid wolf man lunged forward tackling one of the robots ripping parts of it’s chest. As he did two more androids tackled him. 

“WOLF!” The woman yelled out only for a torrent of bullets from an XP9 to pepper her killing her instantly, Gavin & the actual humans had stayed back. THey’d taken positions nearby in the shadows weapons in hand but allowed the machines to do the actual combat. They were on stand by to pick off any stragglers, while missiles were launched at the safe house by the XP9’s blowing the door off it’s hinges as wells demolishing walls.

“ENOUGH” One voice boomed above all others, and a man engulfed in flames came flying out the house, this was Quinn who similarly to the Human Torch had mastered the art of “Flaming on”. Quinn flew forward releasing a volley of fire balls as well as large waves of scorching regular & blue fire at the androids, the XP9’s began focusing there firepower o him. The Chiraq king formed a massive wall of flame to protect himself, making the wall of flame white. Doing this caused the projectiles aimed at him to melt as they went towards the wall.

Quinn was truly a powerful altered human, his emergence from the house had inspired others in his gang to keep fighting. Those within the safe-house had emerged with heavier artillery, RPG’s, machine guns, and more to try to match the destructive power of their robotic oppressors.  “Y’all ain’t going stop shit, I don’t give a fuck if y’all got terminators! Swarzzanazer’s kinfolk ain’t got sht on a real one!!”

Quinn yelled from the skies above eliciting victory cries from others working with him. Another altered man used his powers and began spinning around becoming a rapidly spinning human twister. The human twister lunged forward successfully tearing through two androids, however a RPG launched by one of the VT Droids was able to finish him off. Launched at the ground beneath him causing it to explode disrupted his spinning motion.

With the spinning ending he hurtled through the air unable to activate his power mid-flight. He was hit with multiple shots killing him instantly, while wolf lunged forward towards an XP9 plunging his claws into the machine. “You’ll die!” Wolf yelled out ripping parts out the machine only for Gavin to perform some action, and the robot self destructed taking out Wolf, some thugs near him and even two androids.

The laser girl crawled towards the house her body riddled with bullets, a trail of blood behind her. A stray missile made short work of her, while Quinn flew down towards the Vt Droids sending out more waves of fire. An XP9 proved to be his undoing producing a powerful flame extinguisher and blasting him. The foam assault was joined by two other XP9’s also equipped with extuinsihers, modifications made to deal with him in particular

The Chiraq king yelled out as the trio of enhanced flame retardants pushed him out of his flaming form and sent him crashing into the concrete below. Yelling Quinn gathered fire in his hands to fire two bursts of flame, while trying to “Flame on” again but was doused in anti inflammatory chemicals thus preventing him from accessing the pinnacle of his powers. For the first time in hs reign as a superhuman drug lord fear coursed through his body.

All around him he could see the streets were littered with the deceased bodies of his compassions. Those who tried to flee in vehicles had failed, indicated by cars & SUV’s filled with bullets or blown apart by missiles. Now only being able to channel his destructive torrent of fire through his hands he used all the power he had to unleash the fire, only to yell out as a bullet his his shoulder fired by a Vt droid. Quinn screamed as another bullet hit his other shoulder blade, the combined pain of getting ht twice causing him to cease firing the massive column of flames from his hands.

“Fuck Fuck” That brief interlude of ending his attacks proved to be his fatal undoing. He was gunned down, meeting his end in the same manner of death he had delivered personally as well as ordered others in his gang to do to others. In the end he made a desperate attempt to turn and run another fatal error. Bullets from armed VT Droids & XP9’s riddled the drug lord’s body, before a XP9 charged up it’s plasma cannon and fired a blast right through his neck. His body hit the ground in a pool of blood whilst bullets continued to hit him.

Within twenty minutes Quinn’s entire group had been wiped out by VT Droids & XP9’s. Thanks to the assistance of Norman Chaplin’s machines, Quinn & his forces were overwhelmed. After confirming through the machines that the streets were clean, Gavin & his team began moving out. On top of that SWAT teams in conjunction with military/national guard came to survey the scene & put up yellow tape to prevent others from coming out. Those unfortunate enough to live nearby on the block were screened by VT droids and identified. Those with warrants were easily taken into custody, all who’d seen the quick decimation of the chiraq king’s forces put up no fight against the heavily armed robots not wanting to meet the same fate as the drug dealing human torch.

Footage of the gruesome but effective & quick slaughter of the superhuman criminal & his underlings had been transmitted to Gavin, Liberty, Department of Homeland Security, the military & lastly the news. The news however had received a somewhat edited version of the conflict, the intelligence agencies who’d obtained the full complete video audio included had made some edits to the version the news obtained. Within the hour footage of the confrontation was being aired on live news mediums, with warnings to viewers to have young children stay away as the footage was shown to the public.

Since Chaplin’s succesful obtainment of a contract with the United States to utilize his machines following the Lorizilla incident, this slaughter of Quinn & co was the first time they’d been deployed to aid military & Law Enforcement in their ongoing battle against criminal altered. The results were as expected by Chaplin & resulted in rapidly increasing almost staggering support for using the XP9’s, and VT Droids in both other parts of the country & overseas. Gavin was off to the side lighting up a marble while shooting the sht with another Liberty agent named Tom nearby. Tom was also a smoker but had forgotten to pick up smokes on the way to carry out this grueling task.

“I can’t lie, I know the Forrester’s don’t fuck with Chaplin, but they need to get over it. This was a landslide victory, I mean I’ve been working here since the start, and today Is the easiest mission I’ve had so far.” Tom said as he lit the cigarette Gavin gave him.

Gavin took his lighter back and pocketed it before taking a few more drags. “You ain’t lying about that, although operating these machines was a bit difficult. It honestly didn’t require as much manual implementation of orders as I thought, Chaplin’s toys have come a long way from the days I worked as a technician. All it took was one crazy bitch going Godzilla mode & trampling people out west for the suits to put these things out on the street.” Gavin replied back satisfied with the results.

Quinn was dangerous, and a brutal man. He’d been a notorious gangster before his powers, but they’d exacerbated his already violent & ambitious behavior. He’d burned many who opposed him indiscriminately rival dealers & law enforcement alike.  Chicago was well known for it’s high murder rate, as well as absurb number of robberies, shootings & murders. They’d been aptly nicknamed Chiraq long before the Energy Storm & altered humans entered the equation.

“Shit really, they need to teach me or you do on how to help operate these things. Shit the next thing Chaplin needs to come out with is something we can wear. Ya know like some Tony Stark, Ironman sht, now that would be awesome and really level the playing field.” Tom said with some optimism that didn’t fit the bloody scene littered with soldiers, cops, ambulance’s, fire-trucks, blaring sirens, armed robots & news vans.

“Yeah I think we’re a long ways away from human piloted shit that’s anything like this, besides if you ask me even though that sounds riveting, this is the best thing possible. I mean imagine how many of us might not be able to make it home to our families going up against Quinn and the rest of his pissants had we not had these bad boys on our side.” Gavin stated as he finished his smoke and flicked it on the ground before grinding it out with his shoe.

“Yeah and the nerve of that bastard, calling himself a king, just another crook with an inflated ego, only difference is he had super powers to back up his atrocious actions. Either way your right human piloted or not, this is a game changer for sure.” Tom agreed entirely with Gavin, happy they’d completed their assignment with no loss of life on their side.

Gavin looked around taking in the whole scene around him. Blood had been spilled, quite a bit of t but none from any liberty or military personnel. What truly got to him about this was he no longer felt like he was lying to his wife & daughter. Every day he told them he was okay and that he’d make it home. The truth was working as a liberty agent going up against the worst of the worst equipped with abilities beyond mortal man, that was little more then hopeless optimism at best, and flat out lies to ease their fears at worst. But for the first time in a long time in the past three months he felt like he’d be able to make it home to the two women he loved the most everyday. “I’m just glad it’s over, those other altered bastards better look out, cause now we’ve got an answer to there madness.” Gavin retorted confidently before taking out his buzzing cell, seeing he had a call from some liberty superior.