Shade - The Living Shadow

Shade#262 (S12): Venture

CUT TO: PRISON

INT. PRISON - NIGHT

BRIGGS WAKES UP IN HIS JAIL CELL AND GRABS HIS HEAD. HAVING A SEVERE HEADACHE BRIGGS BLEEDS FROM HIS NOSE AND DOUBLES OVER IN PAIN.

[Briggs]

No! How could this happen? I had him! How could he destroy Noman?

BRIGGS PULLS OUT OF HIS PAIN SPELL AND AS HE LOOKS TOWARDS THE DOOR HE SEES SHADE STANDING THERE.

[Briggs]

You!

[Shade]

It's over Briggs. However painful you want this to be, I'll oblige it.

[Briggs]

Let me guess, you've come to kill me? I guess you must have realized that was the only option left. Even from inside the walls of this place I could still get to you.

[Shade]

That's proven to be quite the problem.

[Briggs]

You're going to die tonight, Shade!

[Shade]

Not tonight. No time soon.

[Briggs]

We will see about that. I can still summon Noman and then the kicker is that he's stronger by my immediate vicinity.

BRIGGS CALLS FORTH NOMAN AND USES HIM TO TACKLE SHADE OUT OF THE CELL AND INTO A WALL CLEAR ACROSS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PRISON. THE INMATES ALARMED BY THE COMMOTION BEGIN CHEER FROM THEIR CELLS.

[Inmate#1]

Yo, is that Shade? What the hell is he doing here?

[Imate#2]

Hey, let me out of here so that I can kick Shade's ass!

[Inmate#3]

I hope they rip each other's guts out!

[Inmate#4]

Kill him!

[Inmate#5]

Kick his ass, Noman! End that bastard!

SHADE CREATES A TOMAHAWK, STRIKES NOMAN IN THE NECK WITH IT, AND THEN RIPS HIS HEAD OFF DISSIPATING HIM. THE DESTRUCTION OF NOMAN CAUSES PAIN TO BRIGGS AND SHADE TAKES NOTE OF IT.

[Shade]

How much longer are you going to be able to keep that up?

[Briggs]

Who knows? Judging by your question you know something that you think I don't know. I've got probably 2 more minutes altogether before I can't summon Noman anymore but that's more than enough to deal with you. 

BRIGGS THEN LOOKS TOWARDS THE DOORS THAT THE GUARDS WOULD HAVE COME OUT OF.

[Shade]

I took care of the guards. Until this ends it's just you and me.

[Briggs]

Good, I wouldn't have it any other way!

SHADE STARTS TO RUN TOWARDS BRIGGS AND BRIGGS SUMMONS NOMAN ONCE MORE. NOMAN JUMPS DOWN IN FRONT OF SHADE AND DODGES AS SHADE ATTEMPTS TO ATTACK HIM WITH THE TOMAHAWK. NOMAN THEN PUNCHES SHADE IN THE FACE SPINNING HIM AROUND, EXTENDS HIS FINGERS INTO A DAGGER LIKE FASHION AND STARTS TO STAB SHADE.  SHADE FLASHSTEPS OUT OF THE WAY AND IMMEDIATELY GOES ON THE OFFENSIVE. AS SHADE TRIES TO ATTACK NOMAN HOWEVER HE LIMBO DODGES THE TOMAHAWK THEN DOES A BACKFLIP KICKING IT OUT OF SHADE'S HANDS. SHADE THEN KNOCKS AWAY NOMAN'S HAND AS HE ATTEMPTS TO GRAB HIM, CREATES A KNIFE, DARTS AT NOMAN, AND STABS HIM TWICE IN THE CHEST. SHADE VAULTS OVER NOMAN WHILE CREATING A CHAIN THAT SNAGS AROUND NOMAN'S NECK THEN PULLS NOMAN HIS BACK SLAMMING HIM ONTO THE FLOOR BEFORE KICKING HIM BACK INTO A WALL. SHADE THEN STARTS AFTER BRIGGS BY JUMPING INTO THE AIR BUT NOMAN GRABS ONE OF HIS LEGS AND SLAMS HIM BACK ONTO THE FLOOR. SHADE GETS TO HIS FEET AND TRIES TO PUNCH NOMAN. NOMAN EVADES THE ATTACK AND SHADE'S STAB TO THE GUT FROM THE REBAR CAUSES HIM TO STAGGER. NOMAN THEN KICKS SHADE IN THE SIDE OF THE FACE, LANDS ON THE GROUND, JUMPS INTO THE AIR AGAIN THEN TRIES TO AXE KICK SHADE. SHADE CREATES A SHADOW CLONE THAT PULLS HIM OUT OF THE WAY OF THE ATTACK THEN CREATES THREE MORE CLONES THAT BEGIN ATTACKING NOMAN. NOMAN EVADES ALL THEIR ATTACKS THEN DESTROYS THE CLONES ONE BY ONE. NOMAN JUMPS IN FRONT OF SHADE AS HE SEES THAT HE'S ATTEMPTING TO ATTACK BRIGGS THEN LUNGES AT HIM, SHADE DOES THE SAME. ALL THE WHILE BRIGGS WATCHES CONTROLLING NOMAN, THE STRAIN IT PUTS ONTO HIS BODY CAUSES BRIGGS TO BRACE HIMSELF ON THE GUARDRAIL ABOVE HIS CELL WHILE HE BLEEDS FROM HIS MOUTH, NOSE, EYES, AND EARS.