Powerhouse: Legend of the Archwave

Chapter 18 (Act II): Spraywatch Saviors

We last read Chapter 17, in which James Markovsky a.k.a. Powerhouse and his companion Isabela Acosta a.k.a. Archwave are pursued by the forces of the FBI for the second time, with the driver of the middle SUV returning and revealing that they want to bring Archwave into their custody for immediate deportation.....despite his superior, Special Agent Warren Schaefer, explicitly ordering him to kill Archwave instead. Powerhouse, on Archwave's urging, initiates another hectic chase between them, three black SUVs, and two attack helicopters in response, and the pursuit takes them across a beltway—where the driver of the middle SUV is forced to bail before his SUV plummets to a lower level and his colleagues promptly perish in an explosion thanks to one of Archwave's arrows—as well as a construction site, where Archwave takes out the second of the two SUVs by dropping an entire crane hook on them. Powerhouse and the last SUV drive up and launch themselves off an access ramp.....and Archwave nicks the gas tube on the bottom of the last SUV with another well-aimed arrow, causing it to severely spill its fuel and drastically grind to a halt; when the driver of that SUV takes out a lit cigar to smoke, he promptly drops it on the gas trail, igniting the SUV in an array of flames before detonating it as well.

At a certain point during the chase, Tyrone Hoover of the Spraywatch gang alerts his best friend Valentina Valdez to Powerhouse and Archwave's trouble thanks to the tracking device he planted on the tricked-out convertible during their very first meeting with the heroes, and together, they rally their leader—Monarch McIntosh—and a large chunk of the Spraywatch gang to go and help the heroic duo, seeking to repay the pair for their help in brokering peace between the gang and the city's government. They all arrive just in the nick of time, taking down one of the two attack helicopters and sending it crashing into a crane boom just when it is about to pepper Powerhouse and Archwave with a barrage of bullets from its front minigun.

Monarch McIntosh pulls up his limousine to the lefthand side of Powerhouse and Archwave's tricked-out convertible to greet them, with Valentina Valdez and Tyrone Hoover also inside with him; all three are wielding paintball guns. Additionally, three more dark gray Buicks with Spraywatch vandals in each one also pull up, providing Powerhouse and Archwave with their own personal "convoy" of sorts. However, the lone remaining attack helicopter is joined by another one and three more black SUVs.....to which Powerhouse grins confidently and rallies Archwave and the rest of the Spraywatch forces to take them down.

This time, the second chase for Archwave comes to a decisive close with the help of the Spraywatch gang, but after their departure, Powerhouse and Archwave's relationship as partners begins to take a massive hit.....

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The three dark gray-colored Buicks with the random Spraywatch vandals inside them mostly kept the three new FBI SUVs busy while Powerhouse, Archwave, Monarch McIntosh, Valentina Valdez, and Tyrone Hoover swerved their respective vehicles—Powerhouse and Archwave's tricked-out convertible and Monarch McIntosh's limousine—to and fro across the construction site to disorient and confuse the attack helicopters firing on them from above.

Specifically, for the first of the two attack helicopters, the Spraywatch gang took the lead while Powerhouse and Archwave mainly served as distractions.

"These people took an oath to protect us.....and here they are, just getting in the way!" Tyrone fumed as he reloaded his paintball gun again, leaned out of the closest window to him, and pointed the nozzle directly at the front windshield of the attack helicopter trailing McIntosh's limousine. "Why, I ought to......EAT THIS, Federal Bureau of Indigestion!"

He then pulled the trigger and sent a highly pressurized yellow paintball careening onto the attack helicopter's front windshield, coating the entire window in yellow paint and completely obscuring both the pilot and co-pilot's vision. The helicopter then proceeded to go on a very wild and erratic flight path.....but the gunner was still active due to him being able to lock onto his targets without needing to use the windshield thanks to the targeting screen on the front console.