AAOOOSC!: The Mission

"Tavares?" Antti mutters to himself, wandering around the main room of the EHP HQs in deep thought. "What was he doing here? And-and he wanted...he wanted to take away my powers...any power players' powers!" He looks up around the room. "Why? How did he know about this place?"
"Because he has Toews," Kari's voice booms out from the left side of Antti.
The Master of the GHP turns to his left, seeing Kari entering the room. "He has Toews?"
"Yea...it just makes sense; and he did run away when I made the conclusion." He stops in front of Antti, crossing his arms and putting all his weight on one leg.
"Well, we have to get him! He has Toews!" Antti points to the entrance. "He has what we need!"
"We?" Kari rolls his eyes and scoffs. "It's more like I need him. Not us, me." He points to his chest. "Now more outta the way, Niemi, because I have a mission to accomplish." He then begins sauntering towards where he came from.
"No!" Antti automatically extends his hands out towards the entrance, creating a force field on the opening.
The Master of the EHP stops in his tracks as he sees the opening having a weird film. He snaps his head over his shoulder, darting his eyes at his enemy. "Oh, so you want to make this hard on me, eh?"
Antti replies in a stern tone, "You're not...going to get him."
Kari fully faces him. "Hah, that's what you think. I'll make it hard on you in that case." He then blasts a streak of light with both hands, straight at the good Master.
Antti blocks the light with his tactikinetic powers.
"Is that all you do:" Kari starts, "block things? You can't attack?"
"I can--you just never let me!" The GHP's Master sweeps the evil Master off from his feet, letting fly up towards the second floor. But before he was able to place him on the second floor, Kari began glowing with light, making Antti lose control, dropping him back down.
Kari slows down the speed of the fall and lands softly on the ground. "Take this, Niemi!" He projects light blots straight at him.
Antti creates a force field to protect him from the blots.
"You like that force field of your's, don'tcha?" Kari points out. "What if I bring that down? That'd be fun!" He then crosses his arms across his chest, creating tons of light. He then extends his arms out to his side.
Light streaks out from around the Master of the EHP, engulfing the room in whiteness.
But this blinding light of power does not blind Antti; he is able to see clearly, finding his opponent in the midst of whiteness due to blindsight, another power of his. He then gathers up all the tactikinetic powers he could gather in a few seconds and blasts it straight at the oblivious Master.
Kari is thrusted off from his feet and tumbles mid air, falling face flat on the ground; all the brightness dims down.
Antti slowly goes up to Kari, looming over him. "Anything you have to say for yourself?"
Kari groans as he turns over to his back, glaring at Antti. "Fine. Go. You can have Toews. As you can see, you won the battle. Congratulations."
The Master of the GHP is confused. Why was Kari giving up so easily? Did I really beat him? Or is he just bluffing? But this is a great opportunity to chase John and grab Toews because Kari wouldn't be on his heels. He gives his defeated opponent a small smile. "Thank you." He then begins making his way out of the room.
But before Antti is about to exit, he feels an agonizing, hot stab in his back; he then is thrusted into the air, inches away from the ceiling. He squeezes his eyes shut, trying to fight off the pain that was circling inside his body.
"You thought I was going to let you go that easily?!" he hears Kari snap from below him. "You're stupid! I would've never had done such a thing! Ha! Who's the winner now, Niemi?"
Antti looks down at himself, realizing that there is a streak of light right through him, like as if he it part of a shish kabob that is being held by a stick made from pure light. "Kari...!" he groans. "Let...me...go!"
"Wooow...do you hear your own pitiful cries, Nemo? You can't save yourself? You're the Master of the GHP, aren'tcha? Weren't you the one who had the ways of taking away people's powers: Bishop's...Elliott's...? And now you can't even save yourself? What was Elliott even thinking of when he assigned you Master?"
"Just let me go!" Antti yells quickly.
"I'm not making this easy...no, no, no, because you didn't make it easy on me, Niemi. But let me be so nice and propose to you a deal. Sounds fine?"
He grunts in response, fighting off the pain.
"Alright, I'll take that as a yes. And if it's not, I'm tellin' you anyways: Leave me and my business alone, which includes Toews--"
"Never!" Antti cuts in, growing impatient.
"Excuse me, I wasn't done talking, Nemo! What happened to your manners?"
He does not respond, so Kari continues, "You leave me and Toews alone or else I swear I'll take away your powers or hurt you until you can't even use your powers, because that's exactly what you did to the others. Are you in?"
"No!"
"Deal's on anyways because I have you in hostage at the moment and you can't do anything that goes against me. You have been defeated, Niemi, face it."
Antti begins building up his courage. "Maybe this time...I lost, but in the end...we will win."
He hears Kari let out burst of laughter. "That's an awesome joke right there, Nemo, beautiful." His tone then grows serious. "So do you want your powers or not?"
"You know...how to take 'em...away?"
"Yea: overload, just like what you did to Bishop. If I did it with the anger thing with the two strikes, then--pfft--that'd take forever...so I'll just stick with the overload."
Then it hit Antti: this was payback for all he head done to the EHP. It would catch up to him sometime...and it seems like it just did now.
"Fine," he replies full of defeat. "We'll stop pursuing Toews. There."
"That's what I like to hear." Kari then launches a surge of power though the 'light pole' he is holding Antti up.
The surge hit him, making him yell in pain. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Kari continues blasting more surges of power up at his opponent until Antti had a glowing outline.
Then he brought him back down to the ground.
The glowing outline faded and Antti is now the one laying on his stomach, groaning and writhing a bit.
"Nice to be back on the ground, eh?" he hears Kari say.
Antti stops moving and peeks up at his enemy, seeing that he is looming over him with a sickening smirk on his face. But before he is able to speak, he spots that Kari's tie no longer had its colour but is now gray. Are the clothes now black and white? He tries to get up, but immediately feels feeble and ends up sitting on the ground.
"Poor, poor, Nemo, can't even get up."
"What did you do to me, Lehtonen‽" Antti snaps with ire.
"What else? I gave you what you deserve: No more powers."
The GHP's Master's eyes grow wide in shock. "What?"
Kari nods his head. "Yup. Now come on, I'll let you join your long lost spy your minons left behind here."
Streaks of lights begin wrapping around them, blurring the scenery around them. They then teleport to the second floor, in front of a wooden door in the middle of the hallway.
Kari opens the door, seeing Patrick sitting on the floor in the window-less room, chained to the wall by the light ropes. "Oh, Kanerboo, you got company!" He then pulls the Shark to his feet and shoves him into the room. He leads him next to the Blackhawk and chains him up the same way: wrists chained on the wall and light rope bind the feet together.
"Have fun, boys!" Kari winks then bursts into evil laughter while sashaying out of the room, slamming the door behind him.
"So you finally came, dude," Patrick randomly says.
Antti groans. "Yea..."
"It's about time, man. I've been stuck here for days!" He shakes his wrists, showing that he would've left but couldn't due to the restraints holding him in place.
"Sorry, it's just that..." The goalie shakes his head. "...we were going through some difficulties."
"Well, man, at least I got some company."
"Yea..." Antti reverts his gaze to the stone ground. "But I know where Toews is."
"Really, dude?" Patrick eyes light up. "Man, where?"
"Somewhere--"
"That helps, dude--"
"--with Tavares."
The Blackhawk blinks for a moment. "Like in John Tavares, man, captain of the Islanders, dude?"
"Yea."
He makes a confused look. "Now why would he want him?"
"He must know that Toews has the power to control the NHL; I think he's using him for his own advantage."
"Ugh, poor Tazer man..." He looks up at the ceiling with a worried look. "I hope he's fine, dude."
"Ohmygoodness, I don't even know where the GHP is!" Antti snaps his head up, looking ahead of him in anxiety. "I'm the Master and I'm in captivity! The society's gonna fall--!"
"Whoa, my, Nemo man!" Patrick cuts in loudly.
The Master turns to his spy. "What?"
The spy has a terrified look. "You-you-you just...you just flickered...like an old computer...dude..."
"Flickered?" Antti makes a confused look.
"Glitched, man," Patrick adds in.
"Glitcthed?" He looks down at his hands and realizes that they are appearing and reappearing like a hologram flickering with a light blue outline when they flicker. His eyes go wide. "Ohmygoodness...!"
"What's going on with you, Nemo dude?"
"I-I-I don't know; my powers just got taken away and now I'm flickering like a hologram!" He looks up at the blond hostage.
"We gotta get outta here, man, like quick, dude!"
"Uhhh..." Antti looks back down at his hands, getting an idea. When his hands disappear for a few seconds, Antti pulls his arm away from the light ropes; when his hand appear again, he was free from the ropes.
"Awesome, man!" Patrick has a gleeful look. "Do the rest!"
So when Antti flickers, he removes himself from the glowing restraints. After he is free, he stands in front of Patrick. "Uhhh...how can I get you out? You're not flickering."
"Uh-oh, dude..." Patrick looks around with an afraid look.
Then like on cue, a loud, frustrated yell from Kari echoed through the hallway and in the room.
"Wow, Kari man can scream pretty loud!" the Blackhawk points out.
"Patrick, the restraints are gone!" Antti exclaims. "Stand up--now!"
Patrick looks down at where his restriants used to be: They were no longer there due to Kari losing control of the restriants for a moment. He stands up and backs away next to Nemo just as the restriants appear once again. "Well, that's the first time that ever happened, man!"
Antti gazes at the light ropes "At least we're free now."
"Ahhhhh..." Patrick starts stretching a bit. "But it's nice to stand up again, dude!"
The goalie looks at the winger. "C'mon, Patrick, you can stretch later! Let's go!" He starts heading towards the door.
Patrick follows him and takes the lead, sidling out of the room and walking on the hallway towards the stairs. But before they could go down the stairs, they hear a familiar voice saying, "Shtop righ' dere!"
They turn around, seeing Giroux coming straight towards them on his gliding, swinging a lasso in the air. But behind the Flyer is the Penguin, Sidney, who is also on his glider and ready to strike him with his powers.
Patrick just decides to make a massive-sized fist, punching Giroux off from his glider and onto the ground.
Sidney halts his glider, adjusting his goggles. "Wow, whatta punch there, Kaner! Good to know that you're still around! Uh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh!"
"Sidney--" Antti says gravely while flickering a little bit more than before. "--tell the others that Patrick and I are going to the HQs; lead them over to the HQs when you guys can."
"Alrightie, will do!" Sidney replies, noticing that something is wrong with his Master, but decides not to bring it up.
Patrick then leads Antti down the stairs and safely out of the HQs since the GHP are keeping the EHP back, excluding Kari, who is doing something busy in his office, and Ben, who is still going after Toews.
The two formal teammates look around the deserted area.
"I hadn't been out for so long, man!" Patrick comments. He then feels Antti's grasp disappear from his hand. "Nemo man‽" He looks at the goalie with wide eyes. "Your arm, dude!!!"
Antti looks down to his left side, realizing that the sleeve to his trench coat was hanging loosely. "Ohmygoodness, I'm disappearing!"

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