The Slayer Chronicles-Book 1|Demon Soul

Hammer & Sickle

Well this was new, as it turns out both the Slovetti brothers got a major upgrade. Apparently Donovan had shiny, metallic hands and his brother had Long sword-like blades appearing out of his wrists, kind of like Wolverine from the X-Men only on his wrists and not in between his knuckles. Donovan was the first to strike me and when he did I went flying so high up in the air that I could see where I parked. After I came down my Arm cover to my armor was getting cracked, he must have hit me hard enough cause my armor NEVER cracks.

"Well, well, well. Looks like when someone else's got powers, the big bad Demon Slayer can't handle it. What's wrong Slayer? Hero needs his suit changed?" Donovan says in a classic dumb ass villain false success tone like in the comics.

"Oh no Donovan, I'm just getting warmed up." I say to him in a tone of excitement among other feelings.

"OY!!! Slayer, it's Hammer & Sickle now." He says, correcting me.

"Pfffffffft! WHAT!!!?? You mean like the Russian Communist flag from the Cold War era!? Really? that's the best you two could've come up with? Now I'm kind of embarrassed to fight you two with names like those. I would've called you something like "Iron Doom & Slash" now that sounds menacing, but Hammer & Si-." Before I can finish, Frankie, or I guess now, "Sickle" starts to furiously slash at me repeatedly without fail. Slash after Slash of his huge blades until the cuts start to turn into big slash marks in my armor deep enough to actually cause some damage if I don't back up soon. I use the Jump Boost Boots I added to the suit and was able to get back to the Slayer-Cruiser for a replacement Chestplate. I never thought I'd have to use it but it's a good thing I prepared for it. After my fight with Sithusis and not knowing what he might do next, I didn't take any chances when it came to being a hero. If I needed backups of anything, I packed it, just in case something like this would happen. And as luck would have it, each replacement piece of my armor had different effects to the rest of the suit, this one had a built in mini cannon that (and I'm very proud to admit this) FROZE enemies in place!!! My own little invention that uses highly compressed Liquid Nitrogen that's fired out as a freezing ball that envelopes my foes where they stand, I usually use it on the vehicles as to avoid killing any of them, but since these guys seem to be powered up, I think they can handle some chilly weather.

I start to see Sickle running for me in the distance and run at him as well. "Hey Sickle! You ever see that Disney movie Frozen?" I ask him while shouting at top speed. "Yeah so what? I'm still gonna end your sorry ass." He replies back to me with confidence of a win in his voice. "Well here's a free screening of it, ENJOY!!!" I yell, and I press a button on my glove that activates the cannon, it spews out a ball of liquid nitrogen that envelopes him until he stops moving, however had I gotten just inches closer to him, I would've been caught in it too. See my cannon has a certain range, too far away and my foes just get hit with a giant ball of ice, oh it'll hurt but it won't stop a car that much. Too close and I risk being apart of that ice statue, and I don't want to be the newest attraction at hero's on Ice, literally. Anyway, I start to feel proud that I not only stopped "Sickle" when he was a normal crook, but that even though I no longer had my supernatural powers, I was still able to hold my own against a good slew of Super-Villains.

Just then, I hear Hammer scream in rage at the sight of his Ice statue of a brother. He may not have been the brightest crook either but he at least knew NOT to break the ice. Once someone is frozen in Liquid Nitrogen, their skin and cells turn hard like glass, so if you break it, you're basically breaking a glass sculpture, and that sucks for the person who's frozen. He runs over to me and starts pummeling me with a flurry of punches, each one breaking my armor piece by piece, until I land a punch right in the side of his head. BUT HE DIDN'T EVEN FLINCH!!!!!! After that, he reeled back, and hit me with all his might, and it was enough to send me flying, and I mean FLYING!!! I went so far that I crashed into the City Hall building several structures away, I actually was sent through it. THROUGH IT!!! I get back up and use the boost boots to get back to the scene but the second I get there, they crack open and fail on me. Now I have to add those to the growing list of broken equipment. I run over to the Slayer-Cruiser and upgrade again, this time with Jet Boost Boots like Iron Man. Not only that but I get myself Repulsor Gloves and my signature Hand Cannon, literally a giant laser rifle that's capable of disintegrating human skin in a matter of seconds. I only use it as a last resort so I keep it strapped to my back just in case I might need it. But then as if it was a miracle on Sickle's part, he extends his blades OUT OF HIS ICE PRISON AND BREAKS FREE!!!!

"But....WHAT!!!? That's impossible!!!! Liquid Nitrogen kills on contact with human matter!!!! How are you OK!!!!???" I scream to Sickle. 

"Ain't you figured it out yet Slayer? We got upgraded too ya know!!!! all you're old tricks and even some of the new ones can't help you's now. We're Super-Humans!!!" He exclaims, apparently proud at his transformation.

This Isn't good, how do I stop something that not even my patented Nitro-Freeze blast can kill. This isn't good at all.