On the ground, Powerhouse parked the vehicle inside an empty space and promptly exited it, alongside Nightclaw and Coldsnap.
"That's the helipad up there, right?" Nightclaw asked, pointing to the platform located some distance above the main building.
"Well.....it's the only one with other people on it, so I'd imagine so," Powerhouse replied.
Coldsnap got Powerhouse's attention. "Wait, didn't Duncan park his aircraft on a helipad before?"
"Yeah, but that was a different one."
"Huh?"
"The GDC office has two helipads; a lower one and an upper one. Duncan landed his plane on the lower one, but it looks like all the action is currently at the upper one."
"How are we ever going to get there in time?" Nightclaw wondered aloud.
Coldsnap grinned. "Don't worry, guys.....I got this one."
She held her hand up to her mouth and whistled. Within seconds, a massive ice dragon was en route to the group's position, landing elegantly on its four feet in front of the trio.
Nightclaw and Powerhouse stood there in stunned silence, their mouths agape.
"You have an ice dragon?!" the werewolf exclaimed in awe. "When were you going to tell us this?!"
"Yeah, come on! We could've totally used this earlier!" Powerhouse added.
Coldsnap shrugged. "Sorry. Guess I forgot to tell you guys back at the briefing." She then jumped onto the dragon and landed on its back in one fluid movement. "You guys coming or what? The Viper needs our help!"
Nightclaw and Powerhouse gave each other an understanding nod, then got onto the beast themselves before the dragon began lifting off into the air and flying towards the upper helipad.
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Shocker laughed darkly. "Well, well, well.....if it isn't The Viper. You know.....you've got a lot of nerve coming after us. Killing us once really wasn't enough for you, was it? You just had to come and try to kill us again."
"Look, I don't know how you, Herman, and Mitchell managed to return to life, but this is the end for you guys. .....Again. Now get on your knees and put your hands behind your backs, and hopefully we can end this without things getting messy," The Viper ordered.
"You really think I'm going to just give up? We haven't come this far to falter now!" Mitchell shot back. "I've been given a second chance to make you pay for your betrayal....and I'm not about to waste it!"
"Neither am I," Herman added, much to The Viper's devastation. "I too, looked up to you once upon a time. I joined you in taking down Duncan atop the Space Needle all those years ago because I thought you were going to make him face proper justice. Instead.....not only do you give him a second chance, but....."
He paused for a second; his voice was audibly breaking at The Viper's perceived "treachery".
"You prioritize him, a mass murderer, over me, your friend whom you've known since childhood. You even killed Monica and I at the power grid. You're no hero.....you're just a backstabbing, unjust fraud."
"He's right, you know. Why would you side with him? What are you hoping to get out of it? Bring all of his victims back to life, perhaps?" Shocker mocked. "No matter. We'll take care of him and his lackey soon enough.....but only after we finish you!"
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The Paragons
Teen Fiction~PARAGON CINEMATIC UNIVERSE: PHASE 1, BOOK 6~ *This novel serves as the culmination of all five PCU novels that have come before it, and it is the 6th and final novel of Phase 1 of the PCU. You will get the most out of it if you've read all of them...
