Killing Capes by Scott Mathy

Author:Scott Mathy [Mathy, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2016-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

Ten

The next three days were mostly peaceful as Dwight got caught up with everything he had missed while he recovered. He spent most of it in his room, researching how the Capes of New Haven were reacting to the presence of a new vigilante. The papers had taken to calling the killer “The Referee,” noticing the pattern of attacking Powers who committed some kind of social wrongdoing. It seemed even the media was catching on to Wulf’s game.

Secretly, he wondered if that hadn’t actually been his boss’s doing. It served the bastard’s agenda to have the Capes afraid of a shadowy rule-keeper watching them, ready to strike at anyone who misbehaved.

The official statement from the Justice Guild was that they would hunt down the killer and bring them in for questioning. Dwight considered whether he would actually make it to a courtroom if he was taken alive. He feared being disappeared by Wulf would be the better way to go.

Midas was the Guild’s frontrunner at the press conference. Though he said the words, the man wasn’t exactly known for mercy. Clad in his golden spandex, black cape flowing behind him, he looked like a trophy – something too ornamental to actually do anything. He was their paragon: every new Cape wanted to be like him, glamorous and untouchable.

As Dwight watched the recording, he couldn’t help but feel like Midas’s eyes were fixed directly on him. The Cape swore to hunt the vigilante down, his perfect features etched with determination. When the media event was over, he rocketed away. The rest of the Guild left the stage in more mundane ways, Linda among them. Each walked back to their individual lairs within the Guild’s headquarters.

Feeling restless, Dwight spent the remainder of that afternoon testing his body. After a few sets of simple exercises, he concluded that he was at least as fit as he had been before the accident – maybe even more so. The transfusion from Bernard seemed to have corrected some of the wear and tear he felt as he aged; indeed, he hadn’t enjoyed this kind of energy since his early twenties. The new arm wasn’t holding him back, either. It did the job of his old one adequately; even better, considering the features the Doc worked into it. All things considered, he was doing great for someone still listed as missing/dead.

Only a few days later, Bernard arrived at their door with a familiar black briefcase: a job for them. Dwight wasn’t surprised that Wulf hadn’t waited; if Wulf needed his personal exterminator, he wasn’t the type to wait for approval.

It was the contents of the briefcase that shocked him. The gold and black caught his eye first; the chiseled jaw and neat hair were next. Midas’s picture-perfect smile always unsettled him in ways he could never adequately describe.

“You do realize this isn’t possible? He’s an S-Class Power.” Dwight gave Bernard a skeptical raised eyebrow. “You might as well ask me to kill God.”

To the contrary, Bernard looked positively excited with the task, “Come on, D; consider it a ‘welcome back’ gift.

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