The return and the call

Damien felt his headache as he stared straight at a grey wall as he tried to move he felt his body being tied down he then felt pain thrash around his body uncontrollably as he roared in pain he herd the screeching of many other creatures

That's when he saw HIM a man with a scared face and a monstrous eye " your alive good i would have hated having to tell of your death to Powder" he spoke with sincerity with that the memories came flooding in

After waking up from a mindscape exploration he found no one in the bar only a note that said " I'm getting Vander back watch Powder and take care we'll be back by noon -Vi" immediately Damien began to scream for Powder " COME OUT THIS IS NOT A GAME" but was able to find her own gadgets with a note saying " with Ekko" with that he then looked towards the creatures who whispered to Damien their locations and with that Damien called up the messengers who brought him his gear which included a hunter cleaver a hunter saw spear and a pistol as well as standard hunters clothing and began to run towards his family

He was able to catch them just outside the wear house and once Vi saw him felt an overwhelming sense of pressure only for him to say " let's find the old man " everyone nodded and entered with Kira at the back hiding in any shadowed area then they found Vander who saw them and immediately warned them to leave then Damien stood up and looked towards the bridge and said " I know your there come out " clapping then ensued with a whole gang of thugs some of which Damien recognized " I expected nothing less from the bloodied child and the one most likely to be next in line to take control of the undercity" said the leader a skinny man with a horribly disfigured face Damien tossed his cleaver between Milo and Claggor " Silco leave the kids OUT of this " spoke a injured Vander Silco seemingly ignores Vander and instead continues " I'd like to offer you to join me to make the undercity what it should be "Damien felt his grip on the saw spear lighten his mind drifted to a better undercity with little crime everyone working together no drugs happy families smiling children

Instead his mind then wandered to its current state drug Addicts selling their kids off for one more hit his mind filling itself with contrasting views on the undercity but then his mind snapped itself back to the present as he began to walk forward tightening his grip " DAMIEN DONT" then he pulled out a pistol and shot one of the thugs in the head then they all charged Vi came up to assist with her large gauntlets

Damien continued to brutally cut and shoot the thugs that came his way occasionally assisting Vi but then he got hit once and began to become more erratic as he saw more and more red each time he was hit one thug fell down after being shot in the knee and Damien jumped on top of him with a utterly emotionless stare and began to swing downwards then in the red paste he was grabbed and lifted up by a mutated punk kid he tilted his head and shot the mutant in the eye and was going to cut his leg when he was kicked in the chest and flung back into Vi dropping his weapons on the way

Damien got up quickly and then charged back at the mutant not noticing a slight change in his arm and the fact that more creatures began to pool in his shadow he ducked under an claw and with his own ''claw'' clawed the chest of the mutant then his other arm began to glow and released a small shockwave from then on it became a bloodied fight chunks of flesh came off both of them yet the mutant and Damien both stood standing with Damien becoming more beastly each passing minute magic flowing through one half of his body

Even with this Damien was getting pushed back his body breaking down unable to handle the rapid change he also tried to become more tactical yet failed as each time he tried to clear his mind he would be open and injured further

Vi would attempt to enter into the fray but there where a few thugs getting back up to occupy her and after a awhile overwhelm her as she lost a gauntlet and was getting repeatedly pummelled

Damien had seen this and after getting one more good magic punch into the mutant which knocked him back for the time he went and helped Vi grabbing the fallen gauntlet and enhancing it with his mystical energy he punched a thugs head clean off which led to shock amongst the other thugs upon seeing Damien's more monstrous form very much so bloodied from his own wounds and the blood of the mutant and their fellow comrades

Vi took the thugs surprise and knocked another out with Damien grabbing the last one and crushing his chest with the magic gauntlet then the mutant now back up rushed at Damien and smashed his head using the stun as a moment to pick him up and throw him hitting the doorframe Damien's vision went black his body and mind finally failing under the pressure

Vander could only look on as he see his children get brutalized by the thugs and mutant once he was freed by Milo he told them to start destroying the wall then grabbed dirty old hooks he ran and pushed Vi out of the way then sending out a strong right hook across the monsters face " Vi go help your brothers" Vander said as he attempted to bring down the injured mutant

It was a slugfest between a tortured father protecting his children from a horrifically mutated child adrenaline was the only thing keeping ether of them up but even now Vanders age was catching up with him but his will kept him going

Though not for long the wall had barely been cracked and Damien was still knocked out then if any of them focused they could hear a tiny cymbals being banged together

*tick

*tick

*tick

*KABOOOOM

The resulting explosion blasted Vander off the catwalk and into crates of serum the mutant had half his body destroyed and the rubble had crushed Milo and claggor Vi was stuck under a metal door and Damien was coming to very weakly and hazy were he now wobbled towards the children still determined to kill them all at some point his leg finally gave out and he crawled towards them

Damien then saw the bloody rubble and Claggors googles he herd Vi screaming and he herd the grunts from the mutant he tried to see red but he couldn't he failed to he couldn't even cry or scream he felt the darkness return to take him as he saw a shadow loom over him and Vi

*Bang

The wall crumbled under the weight of a now mutant Vander holding Vi and Damien he serum then ran out and Vander crumbled to the ground " forgive...and protect them ..Vi" Vi screamed out in rage that's when Powder walked around the corner smiling like all was good in the world she couldn't wait to tell everyone how one of her gadgets finally worked

Oh she was quite right though her gadget worked all too well