Chapter 3: Weapon

Hughie looked completely terrified as he stared at the young man, who had just taken multiple gunshots to the heart and shrugged it of as if they were airsoft bullets.

All he wanted was to get revenge for his girlfriend. He even helped a self-proclaimed FBI agent called Billy Butcher sneak a bug or something into Vought HQ, risking his own life to avenge his girlfriend Robin, but then he ended up being tracked by Translucent and now he has to kill said man before the most powerful super on the planet, Homelander, finds him and kills everyone here. And now he is standing in front of some asian kid, who about to kill him for hiding away something called an ancient.

Hughie gulped and looked at the asian kid and shook his head "l-look, we don't know what you are talking about. We d-don't have any ancient or whatever you are looking for. We are ju-"

"Don't bother with em, Hughie. He is a filthy super, just like the rest of them. We can put up a fight, but There's nothing we can do now." Butcher sighed and tried to calm Hughie. The young man in front of him was a supe, a powerful one at that, and one not likely to show mercy. The only consolation he had left was, that at least he would reunite with his Becca in the afterlife.

The asian kid suddenly stopped walking towards them and turned around, heading towards translucent's cage. "I-is he letting us go?"

A small chuckle could be heard from the asian kid and he said "Sorry about the scare. I guess you can call it a misunderstanding."

His body returned to normal as he looked at them with a smile and said "Say, what do you three think about me killing the invisible bastard in this room?"

Butcher suddenly slimed with an evil grin. He walked towards the asian man with renewed confidence and said "You'd be doing us a bloody favour."

Frenchie, quickly catching on to what was happening went with the two and nudged Hughie to come along. Butcher opened the blast door and Mike entered with a grin on his face.

The only thing inside the room covered in some kind of foil was a cage with electricity running through it, but a random voice from the cage could be heard. "What now? Gonna shoot me with more guns? Some electricity again? Or maybe you have finally de-"

"Shut the hell up, you filthy swine!" Mike suddenly raised his voice and Translucent for some reason actually stopped talking in fear, something no one in that room thought possible.

He quickly turned towards the boys and said "Who here can open the cage?"

Frenchie looked at butcher and after getting the go ahead, he quickly opened the lock and completely freed translucent from the cage. It seemed like nothing changed, but the young Mike's eyes kept staring towards a certain direction and a disembodied voice suddenly said

"Y-you can s-see me?!"

Mike's hand suddenly stretched out and the sound of choking could be heard right after he gripped onto seemingly thin air. "Does this answer your question, invisible ancient? Quite a worthless power to trade your humanity for, don't you think? Now, why don't you disable your invisibility, before I break your neck!"

A laughing voice could be heard before a lean man appeared out of thin air. "Hahaha! So what if you can see me when I am invisible! My skin is still indestructible. What are you gonna do? Kill me?"

Mike's smile suddenly turned into an evil grin. "Seems like you are both an invisibility and blast resistant variant, or maybe you used up all 5 power slot? What weaknesses do you have though?"

Everyone in the room looked at Richard in confusion, especially translucent "What are you talking about? What power slots? What weaknesses?"

Now it was the young man's time to be confused "Didn't you take a nanite injection to get your powers?" The eyes of all 4 in the room widened and the 3 normal humans turned towards translucent "H-how do you know about compound V?"

"V? Does it stand for the company you three mentioned, Vought, was it? So, I am guessing this is some kind of different super power granting device, different to the nanite injections I know of. No matter, I'll learn of it later, now, it is time to die, Translucent."

Mike turned to Frenchie with a relaxed face and asked "Where did you three put my battle axe at?"

Translucent tried to claw at Mike to get free, but his muscles bulged up with green veins and he just shook Translucent up and down while following Frenchie to get his axe from upstairs.

"Now, I don't know what your Vendettas are against these freaks, but I am here for a reason and our agendas currently align, so we can cooperate. What say you, Butcher?"

The bearded man smirked and stretched out his hand "I don't know exactly what are you, a supe, an alien and neither do I care, If you can help me kill shitstains like him, you could be the fucking drvil for all I care!"

The two shook hands, as they went up the stairs and finally arrived to where the weapon was located. A battleaxe, that is almost a meter long, with huge curved twin axeheads was laid on the floor.

Just from looking at the two axeheads was enough to tell it was sharp enough to cleave right through even metal, but it was too heavy for anyone of the three to lift, so it was still logged into the floor, where Mike originally appeared.

"I have no idea how you even lift the bloody thing, but if that thing can kill this invisible cunt, then go right ahead."

Richard smiled and threw Translucent to the wall and walked up to his battleaxe. His muscles didn't even bulge, he just grabbed the handle and lifted it, as if it weighed as much as a feather and held it with both hands near his hip, as if it were a sword he was gonna draw.

The boys looked at Mike with interest, wondering what he was doing, but the next second, he disappeared from where he stood and blood splashed in the air.

Translucent's eyes stared at Mike in shock and couldn't even blink. Blood leaked out from Translucent's throat, as if it were a tiny waterfall.

The man bleeding felt a cold sensation and looked down to see a huge battle axe next to his throat. A small part of the axe was covered in blood.

Mike put down the axe on the floor and grabbed the man in front of him by the throat once again. "Quite the tough skin you got there. Not even a phase slash with my axe could get through it easily. Though, with enough time, you will most definitely lose that pretty head of yours."

Mike smiled as he shoved two fingers into the part of Translucent's body he had cut and some kind of weird oval shaped piece of metal came out "And now, with this out of the way, we have plenty of time!"

Translucent stared at the short kid in front of him with eyes full of fear. The realization, that this kid could most definitely kill him and that no one was coming to save him completely and utterly crushed his spirit.

Mike turned towards the boys and saw the almost maniacal grin on Butcher's face the dumbstruck face of Hughie and the excited face of Frenchie.

Butcher walked up to the terrified Translucent and said "Let's interrogate a little invisible Cunt, why don't we?!"