Chapter 9

Whoops looks like I never posted Chapter 9, so I've got two new chapters here.

Chapter 9

It was Jigsaw that was the first through the door at the penthouse suite. He hadn’t been home in a couple of days, and it was glad to see the place had been nearly as he had left it. He quickly found his seat around the giant table in the middle of the room and waited for the others to arrive. He looked down at where his left hand was supposed to be, it was still back in Vicki’s purse, at this far of a distance he couldn’t feel his own hand, it was very disconcerting. Vibrator was the second to come through the door, he had woken up with a splitting headache but was glad to be out of there. He ran to the fridge and grabbed a bag of ice, he then quickly went to relieve himself in the bathroom. Vortex came third with Leo shortly behind him. When they closed the door Leo let out a loud yell, “Graaaaah!” He quickly found his seat as did Vortex and they sat down. Leo was the first to talk, “Well Jigsaw, I hope you’re happy! We saved you, but now our lives have become a lot more complicated.”
“Hey, let’s lay off on the blame here, at least we got out of there, the odds were stacked against us.”
Leo rubbed his face then more calmly began again, “Well at least you have information on them all, what do they call themselves?”
“The Fabulous Five.”
“Five? But there were six.”
“Yeah the bitch that has my hand is just a manager, as far as I can tell she has no powers.”
“What of the others, are they actually any threat should we come upon them again?”
“The only one I’d fear is Percy, he’s the one that convince people to do things they don’t want to do.”
“So why is he with those losers?”
“I don’t know, he’s pretty reserved for having such amazing powers, it’s almost like he doesn’t really care about them.”
“Well at any rate, I hadn’t ever expected seeing Harold again.”
“What is the story there if you don’t mind me asking?”
“Him and I were buddies, we both worked dead end office jobs, we met through a mutual friend named Johnny. When I first met Harold he couldn’t stay awake to save his own life. Then one day he doesn’t come to lunch, we call his place and there’s no answer, we figure he’s asleep but after a couple of days of hearing nothing from him we start to get worried, then Johnny gets a letter saying he’s in China or some sort of Oriental country and we never see him again, I was actually surprised to him so awake, I almost didn’t recognize him. A couple days after getting the letter I happen to find I have powers myself and I got rich and well, you know all that stuff.”
“Right, so uh, someone should check on Vibrator, make sure he’s alright.”
“I’ll do it,” replied Vortex who had been stoicly silent the whole time. He gets out of his chair and heads to the bathroom, he lightly knocks on the door and asks Vibrator if he’s alright.
“So anyways,” says Jigsaw turning the attention back to himself, “Who was this Johnny guy?”
“Just a friend, I haven’t seen him in some time either.”
Leo looks over to notice Vortex now banging louder on the door. “What’s up?”
“Vibrator isn’t answering.”
“Just open it then.”
“It’s locked.”
Leo looks towards Jigsaw, “Wanna lend your hand?”
“Fine,” says Jigsaw as he gets out of his seat and heads for the door. As he got there his remaining hand came off and fell to the floor, it slid under the door and jumped up opening the door from inside. As the door opened both Vortex and Jigsaw let out an audible gasp. The wall opposite them was missing, a clean cut done in a circle, it was large enough to take the bathtub out if someone wanted. Vibrator was no where to be found. “Uh, Leo, you better come take a look at this.”
“Alright,” said Leo as he got out of his seat, “I’m on my Waugh!” He let out a gasping yelp.
Vortex and Jigsaw turned to see Leo down on all fours with man that looked like a poor mans Indiana Jones who had a whip wrapped around Leo’s neck and had his boot pushing down on Leo’s back. The Man gave a smile then laughed and said to the two standing in the doorway, “Don’t worry guys, we only need this guy, and your buddy in the bathroom, we don’t have any use for either of you.”
“Son of a…” Jigsaw trailed off, his hand now back on his arm, he started for the man with the whip when a loud wrenching noise could be heard from in the bathroom. Vortex looked a moment too late as the bathroom sink collided with his head, properly knocking him down and unconscious. Jigsaw turned back to see what had happened when the man pulled another whip out with his other hand and cracked the end of it on the side of Jigsaw’s head, knocking him to the ground and unconscious as well. A sadistic looking fellow walked into the room holding the unconscious body of Vibrator over his shoulder. He was wearing a hunter’s outfit and his arms seemed to be melting. His left arm suddenly solidified and became a silver spike, he raised it when the man yelled for him to stop.
“Hunt! No killing! We’ve already drawn enough attention with your hole in the wall. Now let’s hurry and get out of here, we have what we came for.”
“I could kill you and them and our Boss wouldn’t care.”
“You know it gives me great comfort to know you mean what you say and that I can run away faster then you can attack.”
“Fine Bullwhip, looks like you’ve choked out your boy there.”
“Yeah I sure have, but of all people, I really didn’t expect it to be him.” Bullwhip grabbed Leo’s body and slung him over his shoulder. The two of them left out the front door.