Shade - The Living Shadow

Shade#255 (S12): Contact

CUT TO: MIDTOWN DISTRICT

EXT. BAZOOKA'S PARKING LOT - NIGHT

NOMAN AND SHADE SURVEY EACH OTHER.

[Shade]

You've been the one framing me?

[Noman]

Framing? No, I take full credit for the things that I've done. The fact that people think that it was you is just the icing on the cake.

[Shade]

What's the endgame? You want a butch of money, or maybe you want to control the city? Or maybe a girl you like isn't interested in you?

[Noman]

No, Shade. What I want is a return to form. It's time for you and all the other metahumans to die.

[Shade]

Oh, someone who wants me dead. You're going to have to take a number there.

[Noman]

I'm afraid that I'm going to have to cut the line, this is too important to not be done right! I am the light that will drive away the penumbra that you've cast over this city! You die at my hand!

[Shade]

That's enough talk.

NOMAN STRETCHES ONE OF HIS ARMS OVER TO SHADE AND SHADE DODGES THE ATTACK. SHADE THEN RUNS OVER TO WHERE NOMAN IS, ATTEMPTS TO KICK HIM TWICE BUT MISSES BOTH TIMES. NOMAN THEN STRETCHES HIS ARMS HITTING SHADE IN THE FACE THEN TRIES TO HAMMER PUNCH SHADE. SHADE TAKES STEP BACK AVOIDING THE HAMMER PUNCH THEN CATCHES NOMAN'S FIST AS HE TRIES TO ATTACK AGAIN. SHADE THEN PULLS NOMAN CLOSE, PUNCHES HIM IN THE STOMACH, THEN UPPERCUTS HIM BACK ACROSS THE PARKING LOT. NOMAN JUMPS UP QUICKLY AFTER THE ATTACK AND SEES SHADE RUNNING AT HIM. NOMAN KICKS ONE OF HIS FEET INTO THE CONCRETE AND HIS FOOT COMES BACK UP THROUGH THE GROUND WHERE SHADE IS STRIKING HIM IN THE CHIN. NOMAN DOES THIS A COUPLE MORE TIME HITTING SHADE IN THE CHEST AND SHOULDER. SHADE DODGES THE LAST ATTACK, SINKS ONTO THE GROUND, SCALES THE GROUND OVER TO WHERE NOMAN IS JUMPS UP AND UPPERCUTS NOMAN IN THE FACE. AS NOMAN FLIES INTO THE AIR, HE GRABS SHADE AND BRINGS HIM UPWARD WITH HIMSELF. SHADE IS PUNCHED IN THE FACE BY NOMAN AND AS HE STRUGGLES TO GET FREE NOMAN KEEPS HIS GRIP. NOMAN PUNCHES SHADE THREE MORE TIMES BEFORE HE'S ABLE TO BREAK FREE AND PUNCH NOMAN IN THE FACE THREE TIMES AS WELL. SHADE THEN TRIES TO THROW NOMAN TO THE GROUND BUT NOMAN CAUSES ONE OF HIS ARMS TO SLACK GRABBING SHADE BY THE BACK OF HIS SHIRT. AS NOMAN REACHES THE GROUND, HE THEN MANEUVERS HIS ARM OVER TO THE BAZOOKA'S RESTAURANT SLAMMING SHADE INTO THROUGH THE ROOF. SHADE SMASHES INTO A TABLE THEN LOOKS AROUND AS WOMEN IN SCANTILY CLAD CLOTHING GATHER AROUND LOOKING AT HIM.

[Shade]

Any other day, I might have thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

SHADE GETS TO HIS FEET AS NOMAN BURST IN THROUGH A WALL. PICKING UP ONE OF THE TABLES, NOMAN THROWS IT LIKE A FRISBEE AT SHADE. SHADE CREATES CLONES TO GET ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM OUT THE WAY AND VAULTS OVER THE TABLE. SHADE THEN RUNS AT NOMAN AND PUNCHES HIM MULTIPLE TIMES. NOMAN TRIES TO KICK SHADE IN THE FACE BUT HE DODGES, GRABS ONTO NOMAN'S LEG, PICKS HIM UP, AND SLAMS HIM THROUGH A TABLE BEFORE THROWING HIM INTO A WALL. NOMAN SEEMINGLY UNAFFECTED THEN STRETCHES ONE OF HIS FIST OVER TO WHERE SHADE IS AND PUNCHES HIM IN THE FACE. NOMAN THEN EXPANDS HIS FIST, HAMMER PUNCHES SHADE INTO THE FLOOR THEN HITS HIM FOUR MORE TIMES BEFORE PICKING HIM UP, PULLING HIM IN CLOSE AND PUNCHING HIM BACK THROUGH THE AIR TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RESTARAUNT. SHADE THEN SINKS ONTO THE WALL AS NOMAN TRIES TO PUNCH HIM AGAIN AND AFTER NOMAN MISSES HE GRABS ONTO SHADE WHILE HE'S SUNKEN INTO THE WALL.

[Shade]

No way!

NOMAN PULLS SHADE OFF THE WALL AND THROWS HIM OUT OF THE RESTAURANT. SHADE FLIES CLEAR OVER THE PARKING LOT AND SLAMS INTO THE GUARD RAILING. THE RESTAURANT BEING ON AND ELEVATED LOT, SHADE FALLS DOWN THE SIDE OF THE WALL, TRIPS OFF THE WALL AND LANDS ON A CITY BUS. SHADE THEN LOOKS UP TO SEE NOMAN TRAVERSING TO WHERE HE IS.