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- | There Ain't No Justice |
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- | #95 |
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- - Dark White -
- - 01: Loose Ends -
- by Ironhorse
-
-
-
- A light coating of dust lies atop everything in the small two bedroom
- house in Duart, Onterio. The home has been locked up and abandoned for two
- months, the last person inside, Lois Thompson, a real estate agent.
-
- Often, when a house such as this remains un-owned for so long, the
- windows get broken and children vandalize the yard. But this has not
- happened here. This house is haunted.
-
- "Fifty dollars if I just stay inside the old Sanders' house for one
- night?"
-
- "You'll never do it," boasted one of four children outside the
- fore-mentioned home.
-
- "But you said Miss Sanders was a nice lady, if she was so nice, why would
- her ghost want to hurt anyone?"
-
- The boy being dared is eleven year old Joey Russo, new to the town and
- ready to prove himself in front of the town bully and his two friends.
-
- "It's not who she was that made her bad, it's how she died," boasted the
- bully.
-
- "Yeah, it was gross!"
-
- "How was it then?"
-
- "You ever hear of the super-hero team World League?"
-
- "Duh... like who hasn't?"
-
- "Well lady Sanders went to California to work with them as a cleaning
- woman and she fell in love with Great White..."
-
- "That's stupid," quipped Russo, "If they were in love how come I never
- heard about it?"
-
- "Because..." the bully said with an eerie pause, "Great White didn't
- love _her_."
-
- "No way."
-
- "Yes. Anyway, Sanders was working, all the time trying to get him to
- notice her but he wouldn't even give her the time of day. Then came the big
- fight up on Hollywood hills... It seems World League got the hell beat out
- of them and right before they were about to lose to Evolutionary
- Force, Miss Sanders ran into the clearing in an attempt to save Great
- White's life and had her spinal cord severed by Mane."
-
- "That's how she died?"
-
- "No. She was just paralyzed and bleeding to death. But her diversion was
- long enough for Great White to regain consciousness and realize how bad off
- they were."
-
- "What happened?"
-
- "Great White. He went super-nova, burned up the entire top of the
- mountain. Almost all of World League survived."
-
- "Almost?"
-
- "Yeah. Flex just atomized. And Great White couldn't handle that much
- output. He killed himself to save the others."
-
- "Evolutionary Force?"
-
- "All dead. Everyone except for Mane."
-
- "What happened to him?"
-
- "No one knows... But they did find his style wounds on Miss Sanders' body.
- It looked like he tortured and raped her before she died."
-
- "No way," exclaimed Russo with a curative glance at the house."
-
- "Yes. Ask anyone, they'll tell you the same thing. So, do we have a bet?"
-
- "I don't know..."
-
- "I knew you were chicken..." The bully's friends joined in with this
- to tease Joey, and to see if he was actually brave enough to do what they
- would never do.
-
- "Okay," Joey said after a few minutes, "but only 'til sun-up."
-
- "Deal."
-
- Minutes later Joey Russo went home to lie to his father that he'd be
- staying over a friend's house for the night. It would be the easiest fifty
- bucks he ever made. There wasn't no such things as ghosts anyway... was
- there?
-
-
- --+=*=+--
-
-
- It's so great to see you again," said the feather-laden Alice
- Stevenson, previously known as Condor. Those who she welcomes to her San
- Fransico home are the Spinskis - Adrov, Lori, and their one month old
- daughter Jennifer Love.
-
- "Joe! How you doing?" Ask the one-time Frost [Lori] of Joe Develio once she
- was freed from Alice's hug.
-
- "Good, I've got a record company looking at the band - you should see
- the light show I put on at our concerts..."
-
- "Your concerts? I thought it was Mike who started the band," Adrov
- interrupted.
-
- With that a gust of wind passed the four at the door and suddenly before
- them stood Mike Johnson, previously known as Bolt.
-
- "I was. Am. This hose asked if he could cut in on the action," Mike said
- with a smile at Joe, "I decided, why not? A little electrical manipulation
- sure as hell could put on quite a show."
-
- They laughed, exchanged more greetings and then went into the dining
- room.
-
- "Really though," Mike spoke on to Adrov over the appetizers, "I
- don't see why they've denied me Guiness Book, I mean I play a hell of a
- lot faster bass then Joey DeMaio, so what if I'm super-human?"
-
- Laughter.
-
- "Joey DeMaio," who's he with again?" asks Develio.
-
- "Manowar."
-
- "Brotherhood of America?" asks Lori.
-
- "No, the band," replies Johnson.
-
- "Oh. Whatever happened to the Brotherhood of America anyway?"
-
-
- --+=*=+--
-
-
- "Isn't it great honey? Only here two weeks and Joey's already got
- friends."
-
- "I don't like it," replied Mr. Russo. "What do we know about these kids?
- How do we know he'll be okay?"
-
- "Calm down dear, how's he supposed to make friends?"
-
- As his mother finished speaking, little Joey Russo entered the room.
-
- "So dad, can I?"
-
- "Well, I suppose - but only 'til tomorrow afternoon, you still have work
- to do here..."
-
- "Thanks dad!" With a smile and a hug, Joey was gone...
-
-
-
- --+=*=+--
-
-
- Very much elsewhere...
-
- "Hey baby, wanna see what a real man can do for you?" taunts a rather
- large man as Angel Smith and her less endowed male friend made their was
- past the alley in which he stood.
-
- "Ignore him Thomas, please," Angel said not-so under her breath.
-
- "What was that?" spoke the man, stepping from the alley, placing his
- formidable hand on her shoulder and forcibly spinning her to face him.
-
- "Hey!" Thomas yelled but was literally cut short as the brute produced
- a six inch blade and stabbed him in the stomach, ripping the lining,
- allowing the acids to eat Thomas' insides and bringing upon a slow,
- agonizing death.
-
- Angel screamed as he withdrew the blade, dropping Thomas in the street
- to die, and throwing her down into the alley.
-
- "Wh-who are you?" she stammered as he pushed her to the trash-strewn
- pavement while holding onto her blouse, ripping it from her body.
-
- "My friends call me Stark..."
-
-
-
- --+=*=+--
-
-
- Well, I guess this is really it, Joey Russo thought to himself. as he
- stood at the open gate of the picket fence that surrounds the late
- Jennifer Sanders house. To enhance the scene even more so, the front of the
- house stood in shadows, the house silhouetted against the setting
- western sun.
-
- It's okay... he thought walking slowly towards the front door, there's
- no such thing as ghosts. Just then he thought he saw a flash of
- yellow-white light in the bedroom window.
-
- "You're crazy," he said to himself as he opened the door and stepped
- inside.
-
- "He's a goner," said one of the bully's followers many minutes after Russo
- shut the door behind him.
-
- "Sh-shut up man," the bully said.
-
- They stood transfixed and watched the house until the last light was
- gone from day and it could be seen no more. And then they stared a little
- more, and finally went home.
-
-
-
- --+=*=+--
-
-
- "...all my mana and fireball you for twenty-three points of damage.
- You're dead."
-
- "Som' bitch," Adrov Spinski said standing from the table at which we
- was just defeated by Mike Johnson in a game of Magic: The Gathering.
-
- "Good game," said Mike. "Let's see what I won..."
-
- Turning over two carding in the center of the table, Johnson smiled.
-
- "My Rock Hydra!" exclaimed the Russian. "Rematch!"
-
- As the men played their games and Joe Develio did the dishes, the women
- sat in the living room discussing goings-on.
-
- "...really?" asked Alice Stevenson, "All night?"
-
- Lori Olsen-Spinski laughed and replied, "You should have seen him while
- he was still immortal."
-
-
-
- --+=*=+--
-
-
- Stark rose and looked over what he had done. Beneath him, raped, killed,
- and then raped again, lies the body of Angel Smith, once as beautiful as her
- namesake, now a bloody-violated mess. An evilly satisfied smile crept over
- his face.
-
- In a final act of ruthless defiance he urinated on herlifeless form.
-
- When fully satisfied he turned and disappeared down the alley from
- whence he came.
-
-
-
- --+=*=+--
-
-
- Later the three visitors to Mrs. Stevenson's depart, and on the way to
- the car Mike Johnson approaches one last order of business before the
- Spinski's leave.
-
- Pulling Adrov to one side he asks, "Seriously Andy, have you heard from
- the Brotherhood lately?"
-
- "What is it with you Mike?"
-
- "Stallion. I want her. _Bad_."
-
- The Russian laughs. "Good luck... Actually, I haven't heard from either
- Brotherhood in quite a while... do they still exist?"
-
-
-
- --+=*=+--
-
-
- Joey Russo spent the first hour inside the late Sanders residence
- within the living room - he dared not go any further.
-
- Right here, he thought to himself. All I have to do is stay right in this
- room until the sun comes up and I can buy that new Sega cartridge I want.
- Right in this room.
-
- But, much to the protests of his eleven year old rationale, he found
- himself moving towards the bedroom he thought he saw the light in before.
-
- What am I doing? He asked himself as one very shaky hand grasped the
- doorknob of the suspect room.
-
- Just do it.
-
- He turned the knob and flung the door open as fast as he could, trying to
- steel himself and be prepared for anything he saw.
-
- He wasn't.
-
-
-
- ... to be continued.
-
-
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