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[center][b]Christopher Arthur III[/b][/center]
Chris circled above the West Virginian countryside, scouting out what seemed like an abandoned factory or water treatment plant. However, the signal from Veronica’s tracker was coming from within that building complex. Therefore, the building must not have been as “abandoned” as it seemed.

Chris sent out an EMP towards the building in order to disable whatever defenses awaited for him within the remote structure temporarily. Chris then descended upon the building, blasting an opening in the roof so that he had access to the room adjacent to where Veronica was being held, or at least where his sensors told him where she was.

Once he had entered into the building, Chris located the wall dividing the room in which he currently stood and the room where Veronica was. Chris jabbed his sword into the wall, slowly cutting his way through. Once he had completed cutting an opening, Chris kicked the wall out of the way, sending sliding across the floor in front of him.

After he created his own makeshift door, Chris caught sight of four people in the next room. First, there was a young man of quite short height. He would have looked quite normal if his dinosaur-like tailed was not present, or his raptor sickle claw on his feet, or his costume that seemed more apt for a comic book rather than real life. In his arms was a tall young woman, who wore a similarly comic book-like costume. This woman had wasp-like features, including compound eyes, an extra pair of arms, and an insect abdomen. Unlike the man, this woman was unconscious. Alive, but unconscious.

Behind them was a second girl with blonde hair. She was drenched in some unknown green liquid. However, unlike the other two, she was wearing normal clothes and she did not have any weird, animalistic features. Beside her was a third girl, Veronica, his sister. She too was like the second girl, normal clothes and no animalistic characteristics. However, Veronica was covered with sweat and her face showed that she was under extreme pain.

“I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum.” Christ announced. Immediately he stuck out his closed fist, as if he intended to show the four of them something. Once Chris opened his stretched out fist, several wrappers of bubblegum fell to the floor.

“And I’m all out of bubble gum.”

The three people in front of him gave Chris blank stares, probably because they were unsure whether Chris was being serious. Chris concluded that his opening words probably sounded better in his head than what the three people in front of him actually heard.

“Activate targeting system. Distinguish between civilian and metahuman using the most recent metahuman database.” Four white circles appeared over the four individuals in the room on Chris’ visual screen. The circles over Zac and Kelly’s heads immediately turned red due to their strong metahuman signatures. However, to Chris’s surprise, after a couple seconds, the circles over the blonde’s head and Veronica’s head slowly turned red, too.

Veronica suddenly stood up between the other three and Chris. “Stop it, Chris”, she said, “They didn’t kidnap me. They’re actually trying to help.”

Then something big hit Chris. All Chris could remember between now and when his half-sister beseeched him to spare her apparent “rescuers” was Veronica falling to the floor, clutching her sides as her skin turned a greenish tint. He remembered that the blonde-haired girl grasping her head, crying out that her head felt as if a marching band was stomping right on top of her. Finally, he recalled something hitting himself hard, enough to knock him back to the wall.

Before Chris stood a giant, muscular man, over six feet by his estimates. However, this was no normal man, if Chris could even call him that. The “man” had a shark’s head, probably a Great White’s to be exact, in place of a human head. Human eyes were the only token left of his humanity.

The giant “shark-man” charged again at Chris, pressing Chris down with his powerful arms while at the same time using his jaws in an attempt to crush Chris. Chris pressed his hands against his assailant’s face, trying to prevent himself from becoming fish food.

“I thought I was getting into someone’s secret base, not a psycho’s animal farm,” Chris thought. First a man with raptor features and a woman with wasp features, now there was a man with shark characteristics attacking him.

While under attack from the giant “shark-man”, Chris hastily pondered how to get out of the situation. What would be his attacker’s weakness? Then something suddenly hit him. He did not know where he heard it, but for some strange reason, Chris remembered that punching a shark in the nose would repel it. Now he only hoped that his assailant would also have this weakness.

However, the only problem was both of Chris’ hands were occupied holding back the man’s powerful jaws. How could Chris punch him in the nose without allowing his opponent to take a bite out of Chris? Or does Chris really need to use his fists for this action?

Chris immediately headbutted the “shark-man” in the nose, forcing him to take a couple steps back. Both of the combatants were dazed for a couple seconds, but Chris was the first to regain his senses. He drew his sword and delivered another strong blow to the “shark-man’s” nose. Although his blade did not cut or physically damage his opponent, Chris was successful at taking the upper hand against this marine villain.

The “shark-man” placed his hand against the side of his head, as if he was listening to an earpiece (if he even had ears). He quickly, but clumsily made a retreat from the room, still a little dazed from Chris’ attack. Chris normally would have gone after him, but he had to attend more important matters than chasing a “shark-man”.

He walked over to Veronica and picked up his unconscious half-sister. Her appearance had changed drastically since the beginning of his fight with the “shark-man”. Her skin tone and hair color turned green, while her skin changed into a hybrid between human skin and snake scales. A snake’s tail replaced Veronica’s usual lower body, easily reaching the floor and even coiling up in a circle. Chris reached down again and gathered his sister’s tail into his arms. Chris then turned around and started to leave, intending to depart through the same way he arrived.

“Wait!” Aubrey yelled out, “What about us?”

“Don’t worry. I have people coming for you.” Chris replied. He shot out a small canister from his armor, which spewed a cloud of knockout gas, rendering both Aubrey and Zac unconscious (Kelly was already unconscious).