Powerhouse: Legend of the Archwave

Chapter 33 (Act IV) (TBOKSS): Laying Off The Loyalists

We last read Chapter 32, in which the Battle of King Street Station officially kicked off and the Spraywatch gang got to work saving the hostages on the train's fifth rail car. Of note, Spraywatch vandal Valentina Valdez saves a husband, woman, and child, while her best friend Tyrone Hoover cautiously wakes up a pair of men who were apparently determined to not let anyone interrupt their sleep. After the duo briefly meet up near the center of the rail car, they return to work; Valentina effectively football-tackles a loyalist to save three women—while also saving them from a returning fire attempt and throwing said loyalist out of a train window in the process—while Tyrone manages to save a few more, but is thrown through the weakened roof by his adversary in the process, leaving him hanging onto the hole's edge for dear life.

Valentina, thinking quickly, grabbed a nearby suitcase and uses it as a "shield" as she advances towards the loyalist that chucked Tyrone through the roof, even going out of her way to protect the remaining hostages from the erratic MP5 fire and allow them to be safely secured by the Spraywatch gang leader Monarch McIntosh and gotten to safety. When Valentina reaches the loyalist, she slams the suitcase into him from the front and forces him onto his back.....before finishing him off by smashing his head into paste with the same item.

Then, she goes to save Tyrone from the roof, climbing up onto it herself using the outside ladder and holding out her right arm and hand for him to grab; after a moment of hesitation, Tyrone willingly lets go of the hole's edge and goes flying to the back of the train.....only for Valentina to successfully grab him as he passes by her, much to his relief. The pair then returned to the inside of the train car, where McIntosh is busy taking out the remaining Schaefer loyalists with his cane-and-sniper rifle-hybrid weapon. When the fifth rail car is cleared, however, they realize that the front half of the car—which used to hold James Markovsky a.k.a. Powerhouse, Isabela Acosta a.k.a. Archwave, Special Agent Warren Schaefer himself, and at least six more Schaefer loyalists—is now empty, and that the doorway into the sixth car is now open, with the sounds of an obvious scuffle occuring inside.

Quickly, McIntosh rallies the Spraywatch forces to his side, and they all advance across the length of the fifth car together, with the chapter ending with them poised to help their allies.

This time, we find out what Powerhouse, Archwave, Schaefer, and the six loyalists were doing at the front half of the fifth rail car during the intense rescue mission at the back half of it.....

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At the exact same time that Monarch McIntosh, Valentina Valdez, Tyrone Hoover, and the forces of the Spraywatch gang were eliminating Schaefer's loyalists and liberating the civilians at the back half of the fifth rail car, James Markovsky a.k.a. Powerhouse, Isabela Acosta a.k.a. Archwave, Special Agent Warren Schaefer, and at least six other random Schaefer loyalists were engaged in a very brutal fight at the front half.

Archwave initially tried to nock a few arrows onto her bow—she had already demonstrated her ability to nock and fire off multiple at a time towards her desired targets—but even she didn't have enough faith in her skills to avoid inadvertently hurting innocent captives should she decide to let loose.

So, in another remarkable display, she instead rushed into the fray while using just her bow and her bow alone.....as a melee weapon.

She charged forward, slid under a barrage of MP5 fire from the first of the six Schaefer loyalists, then popped back up into a standing position and performed a low sweep across the loyalist's legs using her bow before placing his head between the bow's string and front grip.