Arrow Hawk: Birth of the Hockey Avengers

The team of Hockey Avengers, led by Zvezda return to the battlefield; Portal teleports the all back to the edge of the street in Downtown, safely out of the way and out of the sight of the villains. She gives everyone the signal, a flick of her hand to the side and the group breaks apart. Portal, Chaos and Iceshot head to the right side and begin to block off a parameter, guiding trapped civilians to safety. Brooke dashes ahead of them and ducks behind a car.

“Okay Brooke, you got this, you can do this!” Brooke whispers to herself in a short pep-talk kind of way. “There are heroes here ready to help if anything goes wrong…” She takes a deep breath and then walks out of the safety of the car and struts toward Vanek.

Vanek spots her. “Did the heroes send a pretty little princess to fight me?”

That’s uncalled for man… Brooke thinks to herself. She clenches a fist at her side. Easy, you can’t take this guy on and you have a job to do. Reluctantly she relaxes and smiles at him. “I’m not a princess...so much as a poor helpless damsel, a mortal, who only wishes she could fall in love with a man before some wicked villain kills her.”

Vanek looks at her skeptically. She rounds him, flipping her hair at him and batting her eyelashes. Vanek smirks. “Maybe I don’t have to kill everyone…”

“No you don’t,” Brooke seductively whispers to him.

Brooke shakes her head and reaches up to grab his head. The villain lets her with a shrug. She grabs him by the collar of his outfit instead and pulls him close to her. “I’m not your normal girl, Thomas Vanek.” She then shoves him backward and Zvezda, Arrow Hawk, Psychica and Sabrebow grab ahold of him. “I’m the seductive queen!”

“Oh isn’t this precious! Mortal girl knows about the heroes and powers and has superfriends! I remember you now!! Val’s little Boston English teacher!”

“You’re damn right I do!” Brooke spits. “I’d never EVER think to date you or kiss you! You’re a traitor...and not only that but you’re downright ugly! I’d take Tyler Seguin over you!” She puts her hands on her hips and cocks a pose.

Vanek cackles. “Shoulda known. Well dearie, you’re in for a swell treat this time!” He disappears and then reappears beside Brooke, teleporting like Portal. He grabs her arm and then teleports off again...with her.

“Find them!” Zvezda howls the order. “Vanek won’t hurt or kill Brooke!”

“No, no! NET!” Arrow Hawk nods in agreement.

They race off down the street, looking down side connector streets and behind overturned cars. They finally come to an overturned truck and look down a final connector street, finding Brooke fighting with Vanek, who is attempting to kiss her...or maybe bite her neck?

“Come on Princess, I’m just giving you what you initially asked for!” Vanek sneers.

“Gross! And I’m not a Princess!” She kicks out at him. “Let me go!”

Suddenly he is blasted by arrows, a fire streamer and cosmic dust. He releases Brooke, who presses against the wall to a building. The four heroes step toward Vanek, keeping on him and continuing to blast him with powers and arrows.


Meanwhile,

Scorpion, Star Vision, Showtime and Captain Blackhawk head off to the left side, where Red Wing is flying around. Captain Blackhawk gives a nod to his posse and zooms into the air and slams into the unsuspecting villain. Red Wing slams into the side of a building. “Miss me?” the brunette snarls.

“Wasn’t long enough, Jonny Boy!” the villain sneers. He shoots at the Blackhawk, who dives for the ground and lands beside the others.

Scorpion flips his guns out, Showtime twirls his stick around and Star Vision puts a finger to his head.

“Oh, isn’t this cute…” Red Wing cackles to himself, before he opens his mouth up and emits the silent, yet deadly screech.

Showtime braves the noise and swings his stick up and whacks the villain in the face with it, causing him to stop screeching. Then Star Vision zaps him with his energy beam and Showtime dances around him, slicing the ends of Red Wing’s wings enough so that he crashes to the ground. The blond Blackhawk then pulls a slick spin-o-rama move and jams the blade of the hockey stick weapon right into Red Wing’s face, threateningly. Scorpion aims his guns at the fallen villain and Captain Blackhawk stands with his hands on his hips.

“Silly Blackhawks and Stars!” Red Wing laughs, eyeing each of them, refusing to go down in a panic.

“I wouldn’t be laughing if I were you!” Star Vision grumbles.

“Maybe he wants to join his buddy Canuck!” Scorpion spits. “I wouldn’t mind giving him a free ticket to Canuck!”

“What say you Jonny? Should we end him here and now or what?” Showtime asks.

Red Wing smirks. “Awe, the little blondie has to get permission to kill me?!”

Showtime jabs the blade of the stick against the villain’s throat. His eyes flash bright blue. Captain Blackhawk flicks his arm out and signals Showtime to stop. Then the brunette Blackhawk drops down to Red Wing.

“If you EVER disrespect Peeksy again, I’ll blow your head off your body with a blast of fire. Luckily for you, you won’t get the chance!” Captain Blackhawk looks up and nods to Scorpion. “Blast him into oblivion!”

“With pleasure Jonny!” Scorpion exclaims and fires at the fallen man, while Star Vision removes his glasses and sends an actual harmful beam at the stunned villain.

Red Wing screams in pain, finally bursting his tough facade and he is slowly fried and shot to death by the Dallas Stars. Then with him barely clinging to life, they stop and let the Blackhawks take over. Showtime makes his weapon turn into a sword and he plunges it into the chest of the charred Red Wing.

“Still think we’re cute?” Showtime grunts, furiously.

“Well you shouldn’t!” Captain Blackhawk then powers up and blasts a stream of fire, causing the remainder of the man to disintegrate into ash completely.

They all high-five each other, cheering loudly. “Yeah, teamwork!”

“All right Tyler, Jamie and Peeksy!” Jonathan exclaims. “Good work boys!” He spins and looks around the battle scene. Iceshot, Portal and Chaos are all still busy escorting people. Vanek, Brooke, Psychica, Zvezda, Arrow Hawk, and Sabrebow are all missing. He spins back to his group members. “Kaner, Jamie, help out Gabriel, Tavs and Vlad! Tyler and I are gonna go find the others and Vanek. When you all are done, come find us! It might take us all to beat the supervillain!”

“But Jonny…” Showtime begins to complain, trailing off.

“Go and do as your told, Peeks. We can hang out later on baby, promise.”

Showtime nods and reluctantly runs over to where the trio is with Star Vision at his side. Scorpion, who loads his guns with more ammo, and Captain Blackhawk dart off down the debris-ridden street. They scamper around an overturned truck and around a corner onto a connector street. Vanek is being pelted by dozens of arrows, blasted with cosmic dust by Zvezda and terrorized by a fire streamer from Psychica.

Captain Blackhawk looks over the options and spots Brooke pinned against a wall, trying to stay out of the way and shielding her face. Scorpion looks at the Blackhawk. “Tyler, think you can get Brooke out?” He nods at her.

Scorpion smiles. “I don’t think, I know. Saving the ladies are a specialty of mine!”

“Good, whatever, just go get her.”

The Dallas Star stuffs one of his guns into a holster and then whips out the grappling hook from one of his suit pockets and he aims it at the building to the side of the street, where Brooke is pressed against. He tests it out and then swings up and over to her. He drops down, the retractable line returning to the device and he extends a gloved hand to her. She looks at him with an ‘are you kidding me look.’

“Take it, Brooke,” he says.

Instead she throws her arms around Scorpion’s neck. He in turn hooks his free arm around her waist. Then he instantly aims the hook back out and swings them both back to safety. Captain Blackhawk has joined Zvezda, Psychica and the two Russian archers. Scorpion remains with his arm around Brooke, after she removes her arms.

“Whoa, Tyler, you can let go!” Brooke states.

Scorpion pauses, looking at his arm still around her waist. He pulls it back. “Sorry.”

Brooke nervously tucks a strand of her curly brown hair behind her ear. “It’s uh, okay, you didn’t know...you were just thinking heroically.” She looks to the side, awkwardly and blushes. “Uh, thanks.”

Scorpion puts the hook away. “Yeah, stay out of trouble!” He chuckles and spins one of his guns in his hand.

Brooke turns to him and frowns, shoving him back. “Are you flirting with me?!”

“Hey, I’m just saying…stay out of trouble.”

Brooke folds her arms and shakes her head at him. “I was perfectly fine! I don’t a man coming to my rescue!”

“I was following orders.”

Brooke blinks and runs a hand through her hair. She then returns her focus to the Star and smiles. “Okay, maybe I did need saving. But this changes nothing between us and don’t you dare brag about how you saved me!”

“How will you know if I do?” Scorpion says, spinning the gun in his hand once more, as though he were some cool kid.

Brooke punches him. “I’ll know!”

Scorpion rubs his arm and nods, choking back on the pain from her punch. “Fine.”

“Thanks, Scorpion for saving me and being a temporary hero!” Brooke remarks, smiling at him and batting her eyelashes.

“Okay, now you’re just being mean and asking for it!” Scorpion states, playfully.

“What are you going to do about it, Pretty Boy?” Brooke continues.

“You shouldn’t egg me on...Brookie dear,” Scorpion remarks, wagging his eyebrows at her and flashing her a sly smile.

“Oh really, what are you--?” She is cut off as Scorpion grabs her around the waist and pulls her into him. She gasps in shock. He takes her lips into his own and kisses her. She relaxes in his hold and grips onto the collar of his catsuit. “I hate you...you damn Tyler Seguin.”

Zvezda chances a glance to the side and sees Brooke gone. She panics but then shakes her head, spotting her with Scorpion, locked at the lips. “Oh, that spy!”

Just as hope fills them all, Vanek destroys it with a wicked laughter. “You’re wasting all your energy, heroes!” He sends them all flying to the side. Captain Blackhawk and Zvezda crash into the wall where Brooke had been, while Psychica, Arrow Hawk and Sabrebow are flung to the other wall. Vanek brushes himself off, perfectly unharmed. “Must you forget,” Vanek sneers as he throws his arms out and locks on Scorpion and Brooke, whose foot is raised up behind her in an angle. “I have Power Immunity and Injury Immunity! You can’t kill me!”

With a sharp jerk of his hands backward, he pulls both of them to him and wraps around each of their necks. “My, do we have a lot to catch up on, lovebirds!?”

“Not with you!” Brooke snarls, stomping down on Vanek’s foot. “I’m not talking to a hockey traitor like yourself!”

“We’ll see about that, sweetheart!”

Notes

Next up: The Final Battle - Part 2