//no this not a robocop fanfic I just like the new suit//
"Welcome, to 75th annual Hunger Games! Just kidding, this is fricking black market arms sale."
Kingpin waves his hand in an arc across the group of people in the warehouse, like a delusional theater star.
I stir from my unintended nap, and look up slightly. I am chained from the ceiling by my hands, my arms gradually being pulled out of their sockets. It hurts.
"I'm so glad many of you were able to come tonight, because it's gonna be so fun!"
He looks around the room, awaiting a response. All the buyers stare at him blandly. One begins to leave, but is stopped by Kingpin's next words.
"Tut, tut. I haven't even told you what the surprise weapon is yet."
He signals to a guard in the corner, who flips a lever, revealing the surprise weapon. The floor in front of Kingpin splits open, and the weapon rises out of the ground, unveiled before the guests.
The "surprise weapon" is a suit, and a badass looking one. Its armor is a solid titanium tinted black, and is intricately woven together to ensure maximum durability. The helmet features a glass visor, stopping under the nose, leaving the mouth open. Running across the visor is a red light, presumably a vision enhancement feature.
The guests respond in confusion as well as shock.
"What the actual heck is that?"
"Looks like Robocop, tbh."
"Do you have any donuts? I'm kinda hungry."
I whisper into my comms, "Lin, you getting all of this?" She doesn't respond.
Kingpin sighs in disappointment, "You guys are so boring, perhaps a demonstration will improve your idiotic outlook on life."
He pulls a remote out of nowhere like the people in cartoons, and pushes a big red button in the center of the remote.
Nothing happens.
"..what the heck..?" he mutters to himself. He pushes the button once more, with the same result.
An awkward silence settles over the room.
"Uh, I will be right back," he says to the guests, "In the meantime, please start choosing your weapons, we'll be closing soon!"
He steps of the stage and stomps over to his chief guard.
I use this moment of distraction to activate the plasma bolts on my wrists, melting the chains. I drop to the ground silently, making my way to the suit in the middle.
"Lin, where are you?"
More silence.
The guests are writing down and calculating their purchases, giving me an opening to the suit.
I freeze when I see a guard next to the suit, inspecting it for sabotage. I crouch behind a crate, a shoot a sound amplifier that will allow me to hear whatever someone says in my comms.
The guard notices a small scratch near the neck of the suit, and speaks into his comms, "Boss, I think found the problem. Someone sabotaged the communications in the suit."
Kingpin rushes to the suit, shoving the guard out of the way. He curses, "I said to find the girl, where is she?"
The chief guard responds, "She disappeared, we can't find any trace of her."
"Who is this girl?" I think to myself.
Suddenly, the air next to me shimmers, and the woman from earlier materializes in front of me. I jump in surprise, and press my forearm against her neck, pinning her to the ground.
"Who the frack are you?"
She grunts in response, "Try..ng...to...spe..k"
I loosen my grip slightly, letting her speak.
"We both want the same thing, Ezra. And that's Kingpin dead."
I continue to stare into her eyes, which are a brilliant emerald green. Weird, I knew someone with those eyes.
She continues speaking, "It's not enough to just kill Kingpin, you have to destroy the people he works for."
I stare back skeptically, "Kingpin doesn't work for anyone, only himself."
She looks back at me through her mask. "Look at him. He's an idiot, do you really think he could have done all this by himself?"
I contemplate her words.
"Whatever, I'll distract them, and you grab the suit," she says.
"Why would I grab the suit? I mean, it's pretty badass, but I don't need it."
"You will," she replies, shimmering once more, her cloaking reactivated.
Suddenly realizing something, I attempt to speak to her once more, "Wait, how did you know my name?"
Silence.
Then, an explosion erupts from the center of the warehouse, the weapons spilling onto the ground, initiating chaos within the warehouse.
