Arrow Hawk: Birth of the Hockey Avengers

“So let me get this straight,” Brad Hawkley begins, pinching the bridge of his nose. “Tyler Seguin is a spy-in-training now...with Sidney Crosby who has chaos powers?” He faces his group of heroes.

Tyler stands beside them. Patrick is with him, eyeing the gun as the Star continues to play around, flipping it in his hand.

Evelyn nods. “It appears so. But Hawkley this solves your dilemma for wanting a trainer. Maybe he can help figure out a plan for Jonny’s anger too. Sid sounds like your best friend Hawkley.”

Jonathan nods. “Sid’s a great guy when he lead Team Canada. And he’s matured on the ice a bunch!”

Val stares at Patrick and Tyler. “Tyler deserve chance to be hero. He good friend. Though he sometime hit on my girlfriend.”

Hawkley sighs. “Yeah, but how am I going to have everyone here? I’ll have to worry about keeping track of Captain Blackhawk, Zvezda, Psychica, Arrow Hawk, and now Scorpion. How do I know Sid even will be willing to help me out? And how many more hockey players have powers?!”

Patrick comes forward. He dips his head respectfully. He glances at Jonathan, who nods at him. “If I may sir, I’d like to join in the hero club. I don’t care what, but it’d be an honor and privilege to join and help Jonny out.”

Hawkley faces him, putting his hands on Patrick’s shoulders. “You realize that you aren’t hero material right?”

Jonathan tenses. “Watch it Hawkley. Give Kaner a chance. Maybe you can find a way to enhance his strength or something?”

Hawkley looks at him and sighs again. “I’ll see what I can do. Do you have any powers or skills in mind. If you have any skills that might be worth ‘enhancing’...or maybe a certain superhero you like?”

Patrick screws his face up in thought. “I have stickhandling.”

Hawkley looks at Jonathan, who folds his arms and gives him a stern look. “Alright, how do you feel about being a lab experiment?”

Patrick’s eyes widen and he smiles. “I wouldn’t mind at all! I’d love it! Enhanced stickhandling? I’ll be the best in the NHL! Nothing could stop me! Jonny imagine if I had perfect stickhandling and puck possession!”

Jonathan laughs, walking up to him. He puts his arm around the blond’s shoulders. “Kaner, as if you weren’t good enough.”

“I’m not perfect, Jonny.”

“You are to me.”

Patrick bats his eyelashes at him. “You’re always so thoughtful. I love you Jonny! You’ll always be my hero, but I do want to help out Chicago...have a little grit to me. Maybe be a little sassy.”

“Sassy Kaner, eh?” Jonathan questions. “I’d like to see that!”

Hawkley looks at Evelyn. “I want you, Tyler and Val to go find Sidney Crosby. I’ll handle Patrick.”

Evelyn salutes her boss. “Sure thing Hawkley! Come on Scorpion and Arrow Hawk, let’s go! And Tyler, if you try hitting on me again, I’ll put you in that black hole!”

“You got it Zvezda sweetie...er, Zvezda. I’ll try to behave. And I’m sorry Val.”

“It okay. Just no do it again. Should I bring arrows and bow?”

Evelyn shakes her head. “Sid’s not a villain. I don’t think he’ll attack us.”

“He won’t. I won’t let him.” Tyler purposefully bites his lip. He is trying his best not to add on, “rearrange your pretty face baby” or something along those lines.

They leave the headquarters. Hawkley turns to Patrick and Jonathan. They look at him, waiting for instructions, eagerly.

“Alright, let’s get to the lab and see if I can’t ‘enhance’ you…” Hawkley says.

Patrick claps his hands and then grabs Jonathan’s into his own. They follow Hawkley into the lab room and Patrick climbs into a chair. Jonathan stands at his side, firmly holding his hand. Patrick looks at him with shiny blue eyes. He really is excited, but also super nervous.

“You’ll be okay Peeks, I’m here for you.”

Patrick bites his lip and nods.

“Would a kiss help make you less nervous?” Jonathan asks him.

Patrick nods, smiling once more. He nods vigorously and Jonathan bends over and takes his mouth into his own and kisses him. They remain locked together at the lips.

Meanwhile, Hawkley walks over to a large cabinet in the room. He opens the door up. Inside he scans the vials looking for a particular one. He spots the death liquid he’d used to work on Kelly’s Resurrection powers. He finally comes to one labeled “super strength”. He grabs it and sets it to the side. He finds another one labeled “enhanced hockey skills” and grabs it. Then he grabs one more labeled “expert combatant, including swordsmanship and fighting”. He closes the cabinet doors and picks up the three vials.

He sets them down on the table and then grabs a clean syringe up. He uncaps the “super strength” one first. He sticks the needle into the vial bottle and fills the syringe with the liquid. He turns to Patrick, who is watching him now.

Jonathan has his hand tightly once more for comfort and reassurance. Hawkley tests the syringe out.

“You aren’t afraid of needles or shots now, are you?” Hawkley asks.

“No, just snakes. I’m fine with a little prick. As long as you aren’t evil and you know what you are doing.”

“Of course.”

Patrick lifts his arm out to him, setting it on the arm of the chair. He exposes the underside of his arm to the man. Hawkley rapidly injects him with the liquid. Patrick takes a deep breath but remains relaxed. The empty syringe is placed on the table to the side of the vial.

“I don’t feel anything...or any different. Did it work?” Patrick questions, giving the man a worried expression.

“It takes time for it to kick in. But I need all of them in before they kick in. If it kicks in before all of them are injected into you, there will be pain.”

“Of course. Continue on then.”

Hawkley retrieves another syringe and repeats the procedure with the one labeled “enhanced hockey skills”. He inject Patrick with that one and then finally injects the one labeled “expert combatant”.

“Now I think it takes about ten minutes. Twenty total. For ten minutes your body will undergo the transformation,” Hawkley says as he washes the syringes out and then grabs the vials and returns them to the cabinet.

“Will it hurt?” Patrick asks, looking at Jonathan.

“Not as badly. you may experience a headache or a slight discomfort but it won’t be unbearable. After it kicks in, we can test it out. Just so happens that Val left one of his sticks here, so I’ll go grab that. Jonathan, keep an eye on him will you. If anything weird happens, lock the door and come get me at once. I’m going to also grab some swords and a warrior stick.”

Jonathan nods and Hawkley leaves the room, heading toward the training room. Patrick looks at Jonathan and smiles.

“You’ll be fine, Peeks,” Jonathan says. “I have faith in you!”

Patrick nods. “I know...I can do this Jonny. It’s for the best. If Val, Tyler and you...and Sidney now...have powers, I want in. And being a damsel in distress isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I want to handle things on my own.”

“I understand. I’ll still save you and be your hero, but being mortal does suck.”

“I’m just glad that I’ll be doing this with--” He breaks off as a sudden sharp pain enters his head. He jerks his hand free from Jonathan’s and grabs his head, screaming.

“Peeks? PEEKS!” Jonathan cries.

Patrick screams again. “I got this Jonny!”

Jonathan steps back as Patrick holds his head, squeezing his eyes tightly shut. He eventually stumbles out of the chair to his feet.

“It’s like a flippin’ migraine!” Patrick howls. He grabs the table with his hand to steady himself.

Jonathan steps forward toward him but stops at once as he spots Patrick’s arm grow in size, almost like he has been working out. He isn’t by any means ‘gross’...but the muscle in his arm has buffed a little bit to show that he is ‘stronger’. Then Patrick snaps his eyes open. They are now a brilliant sapphire blue. Jonathan blinks.

Patrick gasps for air before he faints and falls to the ground. Jonathan rushes to him and drops down. He puts a hand on Patrick’s shoulder. The blond looks up, smiling.

“I did it!”

“Yes you did, and your eyes...they are even more...gorgeous!” Jonathan remarks. He helps Patrick back to his feet and then hugs him.

They break apart as Hawkley enters, holding Val’s hockey stick, two swords and a warrior stick in his hand. He smirks as he spots them and sees the change in Patrick.

“Glad it worked.”

“It wasn’t too painful. I pushed through it.”

“Well that’s good. Let’s see if you’re the Wade Wilson type!”

“Wade Wilson?” Patrick questions looking at Jonathan, who shrugs.

“Deadpool. Marvel. You know, X-Men...the badass dude with the swords.”

“OH! Yeah! I remember him! He was really cool!” Patrick remarks, his deep blue eyes sparkling.

Hawkley passes the hockey stick to him first. Patrick takes it and begins to spin it around. As he spins it, he pushes the speed faster and faster. Jonathan stares in shock and awe as he spins the stick around like it is Wade Wilson’s swords. Patrick chuckles enjoying himself. Hawkley tests him and throws a puck in his direction. Patrick spins around and slashes the stick down, perfectly stopping it and sending it to the floor at his feet. He pauses, gripping the stick. He looks up at Hawkley, blinking.

“Whoa! Cool!” Patrick remarks.

Hawkley takes the stick from him, snatches up the puck and passes him the stick and then the two swords. Patrick repeats the spinning move, mimicking Wade Wilson with the new items. Hawkley once more tries to throw the puck at him, when he isn’t suspecting it and yet again, Patrick cuts it down with expert precision. He ends up actually cutting the puck in half with the swords.

“Showtime, right Jonny?” Patrick laughs as he passes the swords back to Hawkley.

Jonathan is shocked by the skill he sees but nods. “Uh, yeah...Showtime.”

“Ooh! That can be my codename! Showtime!” Patrick exclaims.

Hawkley sets the weapons to the side. Then he addresses Patrick, “Showtime is a fine name for you. I’ll get to work on crafting a special weapon for you. I’m thinking something that can work as a stick and also a hockey stick. You won’t have swords, but if the need arises, you can gladly use them. I think Showtime though is more hockey based. So therefore you should have a weapon suited to your personality and skill set.”

“That’s fine.”

“I digging the new you.”

“Same here, Peeks,” Jonathan finally manages to say. “God, could you get anymore hotter?!” He walks up to Patrick and puts an arm around his shoulders.

“Easy there Jonny,” Patrick chuckles.

Hawkley nods at them. “Luckily you won’t exactly need training, as the skill comes from yourself and the ‘steroids’ I injected you with. Whatever skill you may need or special moves, Jonathan can work with you on or you can make up.”

Patrick dips his head. “Sounds like a plan Hawkley. Thank you.”

“It’s no problem. Now, let’s see if the others have found Sidney.”

Jonathan gives Patrick a squeeze and then they grab hands and exit the lab, following the older man back to the main room where the supercomputer is. Patrick continues to beam, filled with so much happiness. He can’t believe the new skills he has. And even though he doesn’t have powers like Jonathan, he is still super excited about being “Showtime”.

Notes

So, now we have 5 of the Original 6: Arrow Hawk, Zvezda, Captain Blackhawk, Showtime and Scorpion...so...


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