The Perfect Run
Chapter 77
“This is the Berlin Wall,” Ryan said, as he stood between his troops and a blast door, “the last frontier between western civilization, and complete annihilation.”
He glanced at his minions, all ready to die for their country, and because they had little choice. Sarin kept her arms crossed, carrying herself with dignity in this dark hour. Darkling lurked in a corner, still sore about its nickname. Alchemo grunted, eager to see the mission done. The rest of the cannon fodder, Gemini, the Reptilian, and Ink Machine waited anxiously; knowing that as red shirts, their odds of survival were slim.
The Land, Mosquito, and a few others remained above ground to protect the Junkyard. Rakshasa had the critical task of appeasing their ever-numerous rabbit overlords, before their numbers reached critical mass; a doomed task, unfortunately. As for Incognito, Ryan had sent him to Dynamis, to lay the groundwork for the run’s final operation.
The last member of the crack team soon showed up, holding a black briefcase. “It’s here, Mr. President,” Frank declared, as he presented the holy item to his dark master. “The Nuclear Football. It came with the mail.”
Ryan held his breath, as he touched the soft leather with anticipation. He had been careful to order it through a complex route, so the sender wouldn’t learn her client’s identity, but his efforts had paid off. At long last, the courier’s diabolical plan had reached fruition.
“What’s that, Boss?” Sarin asked, a bit confused. “A secret weapon?”
“The only one that matters.”
Ryan stopped time, and when it resumed, his clothes had fallen on the floor except for the boxers. His display of manliness was welcomed with surprise and shock. “Oh my…” Ink Machine said, a bit surprised.
“Not again, you exhibitionist!” Alchemo complained. “If you lead us to battle naked, I’m taking the door!”
“Eh,” Sarin said, as she glanced at Ryan’s boxers. “I’ve seen bigger weapons of mass destruction.”
The president ignored the masses, as he slowly opened the briefcase and gazed upon the dark power within.
Wardrobe’s presidential costume.
Unlike his previous clothes, it was pure black and red; this time, there would be no more playing around. This suit was unlike anything Ryan’s foes had faced before: unrelenting, merciless, uncompromising.
Ryan slowly and silently put it on before his troops, to establish his stylish dominance over them.
The dark pants first, because it was cold in the bunker. They fit his body curves perfectly, and oozed villainous sex appeal.
Then he put on the black leather boots, to stomp protesters’ faces. With skull-themed socks.
A cashmere red shirt and black suit, Karl Lagerfeld style. Because when you embraced the dark side, you dressed German.
A strong and powerful necktie, to represent his authoritarian, unflinching leadership.
Velvet gloves, to choke his minions when they talked back.
A black jacket, that would flow with the wind when he looked threatening atop rooftops.
A red and silver mask covered most of his head, except for the eyes, so that his evil gaze may terrify children.
And finally, a savage bowler hat, to show he meant business.
No light. No hope. Only one word.
“Perfect,” Ryan said, deepening his voice to sound more intimidating.
His men remained too intimidated to say anything, except for the idiot of the group. “I don’t find it anything special,” the Reptilian said. “And I think it’s a bit too edg—”
In response, Ryan choked him with one hand.
It had taken him years to master this move, but the sudden lack of air and blood brought the Reptilian to his knees. The mook attempted to grab the president’s arm with his hands, but the lawful authority only strengthened his grip around his victim’s throat.
“I find your lack of taste disturbing,” Ryan said, his tone promising only death.
“I’m… I’m sorry…” the Reptilian managed to sputter, his reptilian face turning purple.
“I’m sorry who, handbag?”
“I’m sorry… Mr. President…”
Ryan released the protester, and let him gasp for breath. He glanced at the other Psychos, who all straightened up. Frank carefully grabbed the president’s old clothes and put them in the briefcase.
“Alright then, mooks, listen up,” Ryan addressed his troops, as he put his trusty coil gun around his belt, and the Fisty Brothers on top of his velvet gloves. “Our goal is to reach the base’s mainframe thanks to a shortcut, and allow our brain-dead friend to hook up with it.”
“I’m not—”
“Are you questioning my authority?” Ryan asked Alchemo. “Because I respect freedom of speech.”
The Genius glanced at the Reptilian, who had barely recovered from the choking. “Two years,” Alchemo said, “and it’s still the same nonsense.”
“I love democracy.” Ryan promptly continued with his explanations. “Your job is to make sure he reaches his destination. Frank and Darkling will force a path forward, and we’ll follow suit.”
The steel giant immediately made a salute, having put the briefcase aside. “Yes, Mr. President.”
No answer from his back-up though.
“Darkling? Darkling?” Ryan glanced at his favorite ball of black goo. “Darkling, are you giving me the silent treatment?”
“... my name not Darkling...” the slime answered unconvincingly, its countless eyes looking away.
“Then what is it?” the president asked smugly.
“... not Darkling.”
Alright, Not-Darkling it was.
a Psycho’s life is nasty, brutish, and short.” Ryan put his hands
operation. Many of the circumstances that made it possible wouldn’t repeat, from Psyshock going to the past, Sarin acting as a
time since Ryan had started looping, this run would be a one-shot.
his men reaching the mainframe, after all, which meant that the things on the other side
without
president stepped aside and raised his coil gun,
raised her hands, and blasted the steel door away with a mighty
with
way before a stray ray could hit her. On the other side of the broken door, the courier glimpsed a squadron of cyclopean androids, each firing rays from their single eye. They had assembled in tight, defensive positions along a large steel
the robot squadron. The giant crushed anything in his path,
immediately slithered after him, and the group followed. Ryan and Alchemo remained at their formation’s center, with the Psychos forming an
All hell broke loose.
to reveal twin miniguns on each side. A volley hit Ink
and shot both weapons with his coil gun. Thankfully, the
tin can approaching her too closely. Ink Machine leaped around the room and used her
glance, Ryan had realized the truth upon closer examination: her tentacled shadow was the real her, and the shining woman a mere illusion. And that
the corridor’s lights suddenly increased in luminosity. Two robots moved their pitch-black shadows in such a way, that they seemed to grab
restrained Gemini’s own. It had only taken the machines a few minutes to guess the nature of her power and figure out
things could learn. Worst of all, the way they moved, avoiding friendly fire, and coordinating almost perfectly… they weren’t individual
within minutes, that same intelligence had identified Alchemo as a key target; perhaps because Ryan and the others focused
Alchemo, the shoggoth immediately switching from attacking robots to protecting the Genius. The ooze swirled around Alchemo
afterward though, the machines switched targets. This time, they focused on Ryan. Five robots unleashed a volley of lasers in his direction, and
couldn’t identify me as the leader until I opened my mouth?” Ryan taunted them while he activated his power. He leaped out of the lasers’ way in the frozen time, before smashing the sixth robot’s chest in with Fisty. “Haven’t you looked at my
in his bowler hat the moment time resumed, infuriating him. Ryan angrily retaliated by shooting down the machines holding Gemini with his coil gun, freeing the Psycho. Her shadow quickly tore the remaining
The new room beyond the hallway took the shape of a large dome, with the ceiling layered with holographic projections representing the solar system. Ryan noticed a red point in orbit around
he didn’t have time to look at the beautiful spectacle, as small holes opened all over the dome. Eye-shaped drones flew through, and opened fire at the group with submachine guns. Darkling immediately reshaped
Blast doors on the walls opened and more
protect Alchemo, Frank rampaged through the ground-bound machines, his metal body shrugging off lasers easily enough. Unfortunately, his lack of range prevented
eventually resorted to stopping time, both to push his second-in-command out of a
any better. Cyclopean robots were trying the same ‘shadow grab’ tactic their predecessors used on Gemini, except this time with greater numbers. Eight robots
machines had cornered Ink Machine, and incinerated her with sustained laser beams. The liquid Psycho dissipated into colored steam,
only avoided death so far by staying
pointed at his left once he had a brief respite, near a junction between the dome’s wall and the floor. “The structural
obeyed all the same. Her gauntlets vibrated, and she started targeting the spot with shockwaves. Cracks slowly began to appear on the floor, the metal foundations floundering under the
instantly attempted to stop Sarin, but Darkling formed a defensive wall around her, Alchemo, Ryan, and the Reptilian. Only
to
mode, barked orders. “Reptilian, with us!” he ordered,
Reptilian and Ryan to grab him like a potato sack before jumping into the void. Frank and Darkling moved to cover the hole behind them, snatching
allies landed in a strange, ghastly gallery of vats and glass containers. Each of them contained half-formed humanoid bodies, some with their organs floating in colored liquid; while they had human features, the
A Genome research lab.
be
pointing at two blast doors. “Left
right steel wall, right behind a green vat. If they collapsed it, they would gain direct access
accelerated rate while Ryan raised
the ground. Apparently, his enhanced senses allowed him to notice slight vibrations. “I sense something coming from the left. A robot, bigger than the
Ryan said,
avoid that,
mimic a choking motion, and the mook
hands at the front. Crimson liquid swirled inside the vat, as an energy bolt raced through the substance; Ryan could see a tiny crimson spot at the center, a speck-sized portal
target. The machine pointed a hand
A true telekinetic, capable of applying force to anything with Red Flux energy
scene reminded Ryan of a mosquito being crushed by a flyswatter, the
thing had turned its attention towards Ryan, raising
the air, immediately moving away from his current position and firing a shot. The coil gun’s projectile
that power?” Ryan taunted the machine, which answered by trying to slam him against a wall. Only the courier’s use of time-stop and enhanced timing allowed him to avoid the Reptilian’s
panels from the walls, and throwing
no fun to banter with a mindless machine. The courier might as well be speaking to a
punched the machine’s left arm at the joints, snapping it in half with Fisty. He hoped it would disrupt its telekinesis; the courier couldn’t afford smashing the glass container
fashioned for war, and didn’t
Sarin had melted a tunnel and escaped inside with Alchemo. The courier tried to follow, but the machine attempted to grind him into paste with its remaining arm. Though the time-traveler managed to activate his time-stop
moment to slither through the ceiling’s hole, and
swallowed the machine with its black ooze, its mere proximity negating the machine’s telekinesis like Alphonse Manada’s radiation. The shoggoth dissolved the Red Elixir
appétit, my dark friend!” Ryan said as he fled into the tunnel, leaving his pet shoggoth to
the bunker’s command room, crimson lights and screens flickering above his head. A red forcefield shielded the central, biomechanical brain, which Alchemo desperately attempted to bypass. Sarin, meanwhile, struggled to hit
care of the turrets, help our brainy friend,” Ryan told Sarin, as he reloaded his coil gun and opened fire at a turret. A projectile went
it like a bull, forcefully aiming it at the other weapons in the room. A hail of bullets
giant brain; part of it rusted, and caused
the Genius intertwined with the giant brain, nailing it with his syringe-fingers and connecting to the alien machinery. Blue lightning raced through Alchemo’s exposed brain, his nervous system directly
firing a single shot. The one that Ryan had seized deactivated, much to his disappointment. He had loved
glancing at the turrets as if expecting them to open fire
privileges and ID
tremors or gunfire,” Ryan said, “so I
but the information gathered on
videos of the bunker’s rooms, from the recreational area to the holographic observatory. Frank had piled up a hill of
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