Log:Wasp Venom, Scene 18

Wasp Venom 2013/10/02     Diamant The Creep 18

While superheroes (and supervillains) regularly make the news, in most small towns, especially small towns like Saldanha, metas were something that happened somewhere else. So when Cadet Tshehla saw a man in a sky blue Luchador mask with a red heart on the forehead walking through the academy commons he pulled out his PDA and recorded it. Although Cadet Tsehla did not speak English, the camera he recorded with didn't care.

Diamant Drie lands in front of the Luchador hard enough to spray the surprised villain in bits of concrete and says something in Afrikaans.

"Sorry mate," the Luchador replies. "I don't speak Afrikaans, or whatever you call that Dutch-like garbage people use around here." Looking from the three on the blonde superhero's chest back up to his angry face, he adds, "And I'm not sure I want to talk to some lab-created superhero knockoff anyway."

"I said," Drie repeats in English, "we found the girl in the vault."

"You did?" he replies casually. "I could end up marrying that one. She was too much of a good girl to admit it, but you could tell she really liked what I did to her."

With a growl of rage, Drie flies at the Creep in the Luchador mask, his fist cocked back for a mighty punch. The Creep twists and turns the punch into a hip throw that, instead of planting Drie hard on the grass, throws him *through* the ground with a ripple effect like a man landing in a pond.

As the ground resolidifies with Drie inside it, the Creep mutters, "Try breathing dirt for a while, copy boy."

Just then, another Diamant drops out of the sky and slams into the ground, fists first. The Creep turns to run as the damaged ground erupts upward in a volcano of flying soil.

The 5 on the second Diamant's chest identifies him to the watching camera as Diamant Vyf. While Drie coughs dirt, Vyf ignores the Creep and tries to help his brother, supporting him with one hand, while slapping his back with the other.

The camera turns and catches the Creep reaching a building and running through it. The stone again ripples like a pond with a stone thrown in it. A boom can be heard to the camera's left and a red and blue blur dashes across the camera's view around the building. Moments later, a scream can be heard as the Creep appears, flying in an uncontrolled arc over the building he recently ran through.

Vyf catches the Creep but gasps in surprise as the ground he is standing on suddenly can no longer support him and, like Drie, he disappears underground. The pair reappear moments later with the struggling Creep still held firmly in Vyf's arms.

"That trick doesn't work so well the second time," Vyf comments with a chuckle in English. "Especially against a hero that can fly."

Drie reappears and punches the Creep with all of his considerable strength. After the second punch, the Creep is hanging limply in Vyf's arms. After the third punch, Vyf drops the Creep to restrain his brother.

When dropped, the Creep suddenly becomes active and tries to swim away through the soil. Both brothers spread out a bit and stare at the soil. Within moments, one spots the Creep underground with his x-ray vision and calls out to his brother. Both take deep breaths, fly in high arcs and slam into the ground hard enough to bury themselves.

The three reappear moments later. Drie appears to be trying to drown the Creep while Vyf pulls on his brother's arms to save him. Both men are flying half in and half out of the soil, which is splashing like water as the Creep struggles vainly to free himself from Drie's deadly grip. Suddenly, all of the soil solidifies at once and both men pull themselves and the Creep free.

"What now?" Vyf asks his older brother in Afrikaans.

"America," Drie replies emphatically as he throws the Creep's body over his shoulder. "This creep isn't the only one who needs to answer for this crime."