No Man's Land

A New Killer

Alfie began to revert the computer screens from inside the car to local CCTV footage, as the team continued to discuss what had happened.

"Surely it isn't him, it can't be Diego. You told me he's a child, could only be thirteen or fourteen. How could he be the Knight?" Asked Romeo.

"He could have insoles in his boots to increase his height for all we know. By now, nothing is off limits. Anything is possible" replied Diane.

"Let's just take our focus off of the mad man who wants us dead for a moment, there's something in the village, look" said Alfie.

The team all turned their attention to the computer, shocked at what they saw.

Through the alleyway in the village, across from the mural of Neeta, was a body nailed to the wall with a pig's head on it.

"What the hell?" Said Kurt, trying to comprehend what he was seeing.

"Who put it there? Rewind the footage" said Romeo.

Alfie began to do just that, finally reaching the moment the body was nailed up against the wall.

A black car had driven into Hollyoaks, with blank license plates.

It had parked next to the mural of Neeta, and out of the car got a figure in a black apron, white shirt and white bottoms, with a pig head on them.

They opened their car boot, taking the body out of it that had the pig's head on already.

They then got a box of tools out of the boot, spending the next few minutes nailing the body to the wall, before getting back in their car and driving off.

"What a vile person. They need to be stopped" said Bruce.

"That person is a total and utter lunatic. We can't let them roam the streets. We need to examine the body, see if we can find any evidence" said Diane.

The team all left the hideout through the brick wall, walking away from the loft area and going through the alleyway, spotting the body instantly.

The five of them approached it, Bruce ripping the pigs head off of it and tossing it onto the ground.

"It's a man. Never seen him before, so he must not be from here" said Diane.

"So they took him from wherever he died all the way here? Why?" Asked Kurt.

"To spike fear? To keep the body away from the killer's location to keep them out of suspicion?" Said Alfie.

"Look at his chest, something's carved into it'' said Romeo.

The team all looked close, the man's chest had "mine" carved into it.

"The killer definitely wants control. The word mine? Putting a pig's head on the victim while also having one themselves? They'll get too greedy eventually and pick the wrong person to mess with" said Alfie.

"Would one of you send a tip off to the police? If this killer is someone new it isn't good" said Diane.

Alfie typed the numbers 999 into his arm communication system, and rang the police. Once they answered, he was quick to tell them what he had to say.

"Hollyoaks village. There's a body nailed to the wall" he said, before ending the call.

They began to walk away from the scene, but as they were about to enter the loft area to go back to their hideout, they were disturbed.

Out of the front window of price slice flew none other than Blaze, with the inside of the shop in flames.

The team rushed over as soon as they spotted him, intending to take him down as soon as possible.

"Blaze." Said Romeo.

"Good to see you all again, but it'd be better to see you all IN FLAMES!" Blaze screamed, shooting his flamethrower at the team, however it went out before it could hit the team.

Kurt pulled out his pull gadget, shooting it at Blaze and pulling him down to the ground.

As Blaze reached to press a button on his jetpack to fly up, the team ran over to him, Diane putting her boot on his hand to stop. "I don't think so."

They all aimed their ray guns at him, as he slowly began to cackle without a care in the world.

In the corner of her eye, Diane noticed someone in the alleyway, she looked around, "Breda?" She asked in shock, the rest of the team looking over.

This gave Blaze an opportunity, which he used immediately, pressing the button on his jetpack and flying up and away.

"Hello Diane," smiled Breda.

As the team all stared at her, Bruce
used his ray gun to hit them all over the head, knocking them all out in a matter of seconds, without them ever seeing it was him.

"Good work!" Exclaimed Breda.

"Right back at you. Thank you for your help" replied Bruce.

"We could just kill them here and now," said Breda.

"No. Remember what they told us? We weaken the team step by step, continue to pile threats onto them, until they have no other option but to surrender, and then they get brainwashed to work with us."

"Kathryn did say killing them would be a waste, when they would be so powerful along with us" replied Bruce.

"Fair enough. At least it won't be long until they're on our side, and then we'll be unstoppable" said Breda, walking off.

After minutes of standing there, Bruce began to shake awake the team, who all got up off of the ground.

"I just woke up. Someone must've knocked us all out. Breda's gone, as is Blaze" lied Bruce.

As police sirens began to come closer and closer, the team all walked away from the burning price slice, entering the loft area as Diane scanned her hand on the brick wall.

They all walked inside of the hideout, Alfie closing the brick wall and following the rest of the team down to the computer.

"So who was it then?" Asked Alfie.

"Who was what?" Asked Diane.

"Who could've attacked us? Like Liam said, Blaze had flown off, and Breda was in front of us, so there was someone else, but who?" Asked Alfie.

"Surely it's on CCTV?" Said Romeo.

Alfie was shocked to see that the cameras outside Price Slice had been destroyed. The only available footage was Blaze appearing in the village, before burning the cameras.

"Brilliant" said Kurt sarcastically.

Bruce had to conceal his smile, the plan had worked.