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Posted by Songbird on 7/7/2008, 1:18 pm
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When bionically enhanced vocal chords are manifested into hard sound constructs through a specially designed carapace, Melissa Gold becomes Marvel's sensational, sexy, singing siren of sound - Songbird!
The Beetle Revealed
Cast Profile:
Abe Jenkins - Abe Jenkins started his career as low-level villain the Beetle. After a rather unsuccessful stint, he joined up with Baron Zemo to become one of the original Thunderbolts, changing his identity to Mach 1. Abe found he liked being a superhero more than just posing as one. He later reformed the Thunderbolts, acting as team leader for a spell until a battle with the Grandmaster rendered his then Mach IV armor beyond repair. Since then he has lended his scientific brilliance working for the CSA, hoping one day to create Mach V armor. He has been missing for five days now and in that time somebody wearing Abe's old Beetle armor has been very active...
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Red Hook...
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Songbird soars through the sky, her wings a sparkling pink among the afternoon sky. In the distance, and in her sight, flys the Beetle. She keeps space between them, not wanting to be seen. Wanting to follow him to his destination...
...Abe Jenkins...my ex-love interest and current freind has been missing for five days...He never reported back after helping me in Cleveland*...nobody has heard from him since...
(*issue 4)
Songbird lands on a high rooftop, stealthly watching as Beetle lands among a lot of condemned tenements. A sack of money over his shoulder as he looks around cautiously before entering one of the dilapidated buildings...
...Two days after he went missing a Manhattan bank was robbed by the Beetle...like something out of a campy, old-school comic book...since then the CSA super-computers have been keeping an ear on every communication channel they possibly can...(and that's a lot)...three days later the Beetle made it easy...robbing another bank in broad daylight...I got there just after he left, following him here...there's just one thing I didn't count on...
BA-WOOSH
A tidal wave, or at least a powerful blast of water with the impact of one washes over Songbird, knocking her, along with several bricks and debris from the roof on which she was perched...
"Look what I found," Hydro-man's liquid form flows down from the roof above, "Looks like we're not the only ones looking for this guy."
..."we're"?...
A firm, strong hand lifts Songbird by the hair, pulling her off the ground, "Maybe she's one of them, too," Titania says, looking her over before throwing her hard into a nearby wall, "Perhaps I should rip off her arms and legs to find out."
..."one of them"?...
Songbird, dizzy as she rises after impacting hard with the wall, is suddenly pinned to it as a sticky substance hits her clear in the midsection, spreading over her and binding her to the wall...
"That should hold her," the Trapster says, looking to the Wizard.
"We meet again, eh Songbird*," Wizard says, stepping forward.
(issue 2 - Eric)
"Too soon for my liking," Songbird glares, "Why are you after the Beetle?"
"Why are you?" the Wizard retorts, bemused, Songbird just glares, "No answer, eh? Then I'm afraid our reasons as well as yours will remain a mystery," he walks away, "Titania..."
Songbird is about to scream, to form a construct, to fight back, but Titania's fist is quicker, knocking her out cold, leaving her unconcious, bound to the wall by the Trapster's substance...
"Let me kill her," Titania says, lifting Songbird's chin with a finger.
"No," Wizard commands, "We are here for other reasons. Murdering a hero will only bring us more trouble. Let us attend to our business."
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Soon...
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knock, knock, knock
"Who could that be?" the Beetle thinks to himself, the knock at the door interrupting him from counting the money of another, just committed, bank hiest, "Nobody knows I'm here."
He walks silently to the door, leaning his head to it, trying to listen for anything...
THAKA-POOM
The large fist splinters through the door, connecting squarely and with resounding force against Beetle's head, sprawling him across the room. The large fist rips the door off as it pulls back, revealing it to belong to Titania, flanked by the other three members of the Frightful Four - Hydroman, the Trapster, and the Wizard...
"Hello, Beetle," the Wizard says, "We'd like to ask you a few questions."
"Maybe I don't feel like answering!" Beetle blasts back, his repulsor blasts bouncing harmlessly off of Titania.
"Hydro-man," Wizard motions.
"My pleasure," Hydro-man washes over the Beetle, seeping into every crevass of his armor.
"Hey! What are you-!?" Beetle protests as his armor starts to spark and short circuit, suddenly rendered useless as he falls to the ground, trapped within his powerless armor as Hydro-man seeps out from him, retaking his human shape.
"Now," Wizard says as they all stand over a grounded Beetle, "Let's see who you really are."
FWAKA-BAM
The hard pink baseball size sphere of sound slams hard into Trapster's head, rendering him unconcious and sending him tumbling into the Wizard. Titania and Hydro-man look over to see...
"Songbird!" Hydro-man exclaims, "Didn't learn anything the first time around, huh?"
...He's right...I didn't learn anything...Instead I have more confusing questions then the answers I came looking for...
Hydro-man lunges at her, morphing into water as he does, though this time his entire form is quickly encased in a bubble of hard sound...
"I'm ready for you this time," Songbird glares, driving a wedge through the bubble, splitting it (and Hydro-man) in two, sending the half-spheres away fast and in different directions.
...Two down...two to g-
"Ugh!" Songbird whinces, barely getting a shield up as Titania double axe-handles her across the room. Though glancing, the awesome might of her blow sends her reeling.
"Your persistance is admirable, if not stupid," Wizard says as Titania's fist shatter spikes of hard sound sent her way, "Do you even know why you're here?"
"I...hnnnf!" Songbird trys to reply, but Titania punches through her shield, shattering it, straining Songbird's vocal chords.
"Please, Titania," Wizard insists, "Let her answer."
"I...," Songbird pants, wiping blood from her lip, "I wanted to find out who this Beetle is. Abe Jenkins has been missing for days. He used to be the Beetle. That's his armor. I'm thinking this guy knows something about his disappearance."
"You think this is not Abe Jenkins?" Wizard looks over a helpless Beetle, "Titania..."
She knows what he wants. She lifts the Beetle and throws him over at Songbird. He lands like a ton of bricks before her...
"Go ahead," Wizard says, "Prove it. Unmask this Beetle..."
...This can't be him...It won't be...Abe would never go back to this life...still...why do I feel doubt?...
Her fingers nervously reach for his face-plate as Titania and Wizard stand over them. She takes a deep breath before lifting it from his face to reveal...
"A...Abe?" Songbird's lips tremble, her eyes well up, "Abe...my God. How...how could you? Why?"
A confused Abe looks up at her, "Do I know you?"
Songbird blinks, confused herself, but is left little time to dwell on it as a swift kick from Titania knocks her back. Titania lifts Beetle by the neck...
"There is so much you don't know, Songbird," Wizard says, "Titania...finish him!"
Titania rears her free hand back and before Songbird can react, awesomely, gruesomely, she punches the Beetle square through his chest. Her hand, covered in blood to the elbow, penetrates through his back...
"NO!" Songbird screams, letting out all her anger, her sadness, her confusion, and frustration in one tremendous display of power. Dazzling pink hard sound shatters through every window and wall of the abandoned tenement and when all the dust settles and the smoke clears Songbird is left alone, on her knees, crying beside her murdered freind, "Abe...-sniff-...I'm so sorry...I..."
Songbird's expression changes as she looks upon his exposed face once more. Finding it no longer belongs to Abe Jenkins, instead she gazes upon the face of a dead Skrull...
TBC
Next Ish - Confused? Well, so is Songbird. And the best place to get answers about all things Skrull is the one and only Baxter Building. Be here next issue! It promises to be "Fantastic"!
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