Let's Find That Slayer

"That was the fourth time this week" Cloud complained holding his right wrist.

Maverick, Ravage, Cloud and Static were gathered in the newly furnished Den. Night and Ravage were able to rebuild and refurbish the once destroyed lair and turn it into their new meeting ground. Although Ravage uses it as his lair now, but Night does drop by every once in a while, and he did so today.

"I'm fed up with having to fight demons almost every day" Ravage added sitting down on a red sofa.

"Then we need to get to the bottom of this" Ramon said opposite him on a green couch.

"I did a little digging of my own and I found something that you all will find interesting" Mike said pressing buttons on the computer in front of him.

He hit the enter button and multiple video windows appeared on the monitor.

"These demon attacks aren't happening just here, they're across the country" Mike said. He began pointing at different videos. "Seattle, Vegas, Austin, Bismark, New York D.C, it's happening everywhere."

"We are in the middle of a national event here. Why hasn't the media carried any of this?" Ravage asked.

"Isn't it obvious? The media is trying to downplay the whole situation to make people think that they're safe when they're not. Their trying to cover their failure" Ramon said.

"As far as I'm concerned, I have a feeling the government's hands aren't entirely clean on this" Cloud pitched in.

"I don't think so" Max said. "If they were in on it things would be different. They would hit strategic places and not go all out on a rampage, their hands our clean but they don't have anything in their arsenal to combat these things" Max said.

"Then heroes have to clean up after them just like we've been doing for years" Mike said.

"But not all heroes can handle them. We've already counted four dead fighting these things, not everyone has the right build to go against these things" Ramon stated.

"Then we need to find answers and a way to counter these things fast or America is going to have another massacre" Ravage said.

"If there's anyone who could give us answers, it's him" Mike said pointing at the screen to the Bismark video showing the demon slayer in action.

"Agreed" Cloud said.

Their meeting was adjourned, and they returned to patrolling the city, Ramon and Max were sitting by the dock looking out into the horizon. Max brought Ramon there to discuss a matter.

"So, this is where you come to get away from all the madness of life" Ramon said sitting next to him.

"Everyone has to clear their head once in a while" Max answered.

"So, what did you want to talk about?"

"It's about this demon thing"

"What about it"

"I'm going over to D.C to have a little chat with Gears, see what we can discover"

"You want to go in alone?"

"Yes, I can't take any of you along, the city needs all the help it can get right now" Max said.

"Why didn't you raise that up in the meeting earlier?" Asked Ramon.

"I didn't want questions from the guys on how i know where he lives and all" Max answered.

"I understand" Ramon said.

With his whereabouts declared to his friend, he stood up ready to fly away.

"If the others ask of me, just tell them I went to handle some stuff overseas"

"Don't worry about that, I'll cover for you" Ramon said as Max began to levitate higher and backwards away from him.

Max nodded at his friend before flying away with a blast, going at his speed, he was out of the city in seconds and was heading towards Washington D.C unaware of the current situation of the city.

The streets of Washington were overrun by an outbreak of demon running wild and destroying everything in their path. Gears flying over the streets in his suit which had a larger booster rocket on the back for him to attain higher speeds. Using his sonic and plasma cannons, he was able to hold of a number of the demons, but it still wasn't enough.

"Damn these creatures, they just keep on coming" He grunted firing multiple times as he flew about.

"System, get Rodrigo on the line" he said as he flew over a car thrown at him and fired his sonic cannon at the demon hurling it into more of its kind.

"Calling Rodrigo" his system answered in a female voice.

His friends phone rang but it was on silent mode as he was in class, so he had no idea of what was happening. His friend wore brown pants, an army green T-shirt on black and white trainers.

"Damn it. He's probably in class right now" Dave lamented.

As he hovered about firing at demons, he was unaware of the car thrown his way from behind. By the time his sensors picked it up, he was hit sending him into the streets infested with demons. The demons swarmed around him trying to take apart his suit. Their size was different from the ones Max fought being about for feet in height resembling more of a hobgoblin than an actual demon this time around. He shot as much as he could, but the demons were just too much on him. One took the liberty of biting down on his sonic cannon pulling out a bunch of wires from it.

"Sonic cannon offline" his suit said and displayed on his H.U.D

"You little bastards" he said with anger.

His left arm which held his plasma cannon turned into a grenade launcher as he fired at the demons around him but that was a little remedy to their increasing numbers. All of a sudden, all the demons were blown away from him flying hundreds of meters away in unison.

"What's going on?" He asked his suit.

"Unidentified object above you" his system answered.

He looked up to see swaying cape and a black suit.

"These demons can be a big pain"

"Max?! What are you doing here?" Dave said surprised to see him. Ripped out parts of his suit began to reappear as the suit fixed itself.

"That can wait, these demons are coming" he answered.

"Right" Dave said looking at the demons sprinting towards them.

His suit had been fixed and he turned his right hand from a sonic cannon back to a normal hand as he was down to one effective weapon against them. Micro-missiles in a rectangular case stood on metal arms hoisting them over both shoulders.

The missiles were launched dispelling the demons a far back as Max opened his arms ready to clap. He swung his arms into each other producing a sonic clap launching a huge bunch of the creatures into the air as Gears fired at them. Maverick was punching his way through demons as Gears covered him, the two were making decent progress against them allowing people to escape as they were taking on their full force. Gears shot two demons trying to flank Maverick as Maverick himself delivered a one-inch punch to a demon, the force of his one-inch punch sent the demon through the sound barrier and through a toy store and into the path of their boss, hitting him in the back. He growled angrily.

"Isn't there supposed to be a commander?" Maverick asked hitting two demons away.

"There is. but I haven't found him yet" Gears answered blasting a demon in the gut.

The ground shook as the two slowly turned their attention towards a toy store down the street. The smaller demons began to cheer and jubilate lifting up their hands and making distorted dark screams.

"Oh o" Gears said.

The toy store turned to rubble as a thirty-foot demon came out. He had nothing but a piece of cloth wrapped around its waist dropping a bit down the middle. It had big, pointed ears and horns sticking out of its forehead, two prolonged canines protruded from its mouth. Its claws were long and dirty as it lifted up its arms looking at the sky then roared.

"His mouth stinks" Maverick remarked floating up in the air then flew at the demon.

Max landed a big punch to its head producing a shockwave as the demon stumbled backwards and had to quickly find it's balance again. He attacked it again delivering two more punches and an uppercut causing it to groan with Gears went back to fighting the little minions. The demon grabbed him by the left arm as it punched him twice in the gut then head butted him. Gears saw this and launched to missiles at the demon, the demon used Max like a bat and swung him into the path of the missiles causing them to explode. He then threw him at a building sending him to the ground, rubble fell on him as four demons gathered around him and began to punch him.

Gears looked at the sight then looked up as he was covered by a dark shadow, the demon commander had jumped in the air and was falling down on him. Using his boosters, he jets backwards as the demon crashed on the ground producing a crater then turned its head facing him and roared. Gears blasted off as the demon followed him going through buildings, the demon shot out from the left demolishing a building as his palm swipe narrowly missed him. He ascended firing at the demon as it was stuck in the rubble of the building, the demon managed to break free and threw a pickup truck at Gears. He moved down dodging the truck and turned back to see if there was anyone inside, before he turned back, he was punched by the demon with the force sending him through a building or two. He landed at the front of a pet store after skidding on the ground like a tin can.

"That hurt" He remarked.

"Suit integrity at eighty percent" his system reported.

"For a suit who could take on the blast of a thousand dynamite crates, you sure don't fare well against demons" He added.

A growling roar hit his ears as he raised his head to see the demon coming down on him again, he was still trying to recoup from that punch so he couldn't move. As the demon came down, he was suddenly hit away landing two streets away.

"You have to be my worst demon so far" Max said after punching the demon away.

"We need another plan" Gears said standing up to his feet.

"Let's try some combined attacks, see where that gets us" Max suggested.

"Okay" Gears said holding his right fist up.

White glows ran up to his fist as he took his gaze from his fist back to the demon. The two heroes flew towards the recovering demon who managed to just get on his feet, Gears' right fist had increased in size by three times as the two punched the demon in the chest sending him to the ground.

"That seemed to do the trick" Max said.

The demon growled rising from the ground slowly.

"You may have fended me off this time, but we shall return to conquer this world" The demon said with a deep voice.

Dark orange fiery symbols appeared around every demon in a circle, and they descended into the ground never to be seen again.

"That was interesting" Gears said.

.................

"Welcome to my base" Gears said.

The two descended down a glass elevator to where Gears did all his heroing business. The walls were white and glossy, silver cylindrical casings stood like coffins, ten in number. Three white sofas surrounded a live glass center table that displayed nature footages, a hundred-inch TV screen was in front of them with a TV stand below it housing books, and a mini fridge containing drinks and snacks. A huge glass monitor spanning 19 feet long and 14 feet tall, bright lights illuminated the place with a massive 3d printer and other tools covering the other half of the room. One seat was placed was placed in front of two super computers below the glass screen.

"Damn, this is slick" Max said.

"Na, it's nothing major" Dave said.

"Well, it is better than my wardrobe" Max said.

The two walked to the sofas and sat down taking a break. Max deactivated his powers looking normal again.

"Those demons aren't fooling around" Dave said walking towards where the cylinder cases were arranged.

"They aren't" Max said.

"What brings you here cousin?" He asked.

"I came to ask for your help" Dave said.

Dave stood in the case and his suit opened up with the front part retreating back to let him walk out.

"What do you want me to do?" Dave replied. "Computer, run diagnostics on my weapons and fix the sonic cannon. The carry my core and put it in suit 707" he said.

"On it sir" the system replied.

"It's about the demons. I need you to help me find the demon slayer"

Dave's eyes widened as he said that.

"To be honest Max, I was actually going to call you and ask to come help me with that" Dave said walking towards his computer.

"Really?"

"Yes. I'm tired of taking on these things literally every day, I don't have time to rest and worst of all, winter is on its way" Dave said.

A metal arm dropped down from the top of the case as the suit returned to normal only turning its left arm to a sonic cannon.

"I feel your pain. So, what's the plan?" Max asked walking towards him.

The metal arm spun the crest of his suit as it covered a bright white substance as a second arm came down and pulled it out.

"I've been able to triangulate their appearances and it turns out that these things have a pattern" Dave explained sitting on his desk and displaying a map of America covered in red dots.

The arm holding the substance moved to the second suit from the right as it opened up to show another suit sporting more gold in its design running on its arms, legs, back and chest. Two golden lines from the top and bottom ran to the gear crest as they led to four lights with two on the shoulders and two on the waist which were not lit up.

"They didn't just start springing up in unison but began to spread from the north all the way to the south" he said as the dots began to recede one after the other from the south.

Another arm opened up the gear spinning the crest out as the white substance was placed in it causing the lights to light up. Another arm joined the arm on the first suit as they began to rewire and weld the sonic cannon back to a hundred percent functionality.

"The southern states were hit last, and I followed their spread pattern and it all led to one place....."

"Bismark, North Dakota" Max said.

"Exactly, the home of the demon slayer himself" Dave added.

"Suit 707 is fully operational" his computer said.

"Great, modify the proton blaster and route more power to the cannons" Dave instructed.

"This is the second time this place is coming up today"

"Done sir" his system reported.

"Then let's go find ourselves a demon slayer" Dave said.