Heroes Legion: "Year One": Episode 11: The Hive

Chapter 3: First Contact with The Hive!

Heroes Legion Clubhouse/Silicon's Lab, November 30th, 2013: 11:10 AM

Silicon was in his lab at this time, doing what he usually did to pass time....tinkering.

Coming up with gadgets, technology and weapons to use in their secret lives as the world's first superhero team to combat supervillians and or The Dark Elite if ever they should rise.

After what had happened with the Mansion being taken over by their enemies The Dark Elite, leaving them all out gunned and held captive in their own headquarters, Silicon had made the effort to make some countermeasures and technology for the Heroes Legion to better defend themselves with.

This latest project was one of those "Anti-Supervillain" countermeasure devices.

Silicon was just installing one of the cryo-fluid canisters that he had been given by S.L.E.E.T's TechNet division for his little experiment when Velocity entered the Lab.

"Now THAT was a much needed rest!" Velocity said stretching out his arms, and then he saw what Silicon had been working on.

It looked like one of those "Proton Packs" from the "Ghostbusters" movies, only there was cold mist coming out of the pack and the front of the "Gun" section at the other end of the connecting hose line.

"I know I'm going to regret asking, but what's this?" Velocity asked as he looked at the device Silicon was working on.

"It's a Cryo-Pack" Silicon answered, "or at least it's supposed to be. It designed to dispense a stream of cryogenic fluid that induces cryogenic freezing, putting the target in an immobile state susceptible for capture"

"A "what" that does what?" Velocity asked, not understanding Silicon's "geek Speak" term for his invention.

"It's a freeze gun" Silicon said rolling his eyes, "it fires a cryo-fluid Jetstream that once combined with an chemical cocktail of my own making, pumped through the nozzle of the gun at high pressure, should render someone like one of the Dark Elite immobile and able for us to pick up and ship to Ryker's Island's "Special cases" wing"

"So it freezes supervillians...." Velocity said with a disbelieving look on his face.

"That's the basic idea" Silicon said finishing loading the Cryogenic fluid canister into the Pack itself, "Juts need to run some more tests first, then I can give it its first test run".

"Man, little buddy! You have way too much time on your hands" Velocity said shaking his head, "this is WAY to sci-fi to actually work..."

Velocity then foolishly pressed the "Fire" button on the top of the Nozzle gun.

The Pack whirred to life, and suddenly a Stream of Cryogenic fluid shot out from the Gun itself, the Stream of icy blue fluid shot out across the room and the Gun began to spin wildly around from its test stands, sending its stream of icy blue colored liquid flying around the Lab itself.

Silicon ducked before the Gun fired its wild stream of cryo-fluid in his direction, taking cover bellow the work station table the gun was positioned on, while Velocity dove out of the way and joined him underneath the table...both of them watching as the Cryo-Gun froze everything it touched with its stream of Cryo-fluid.

The doors to his lab opened up at the last few seconds before Silicon managed to shapeshift his two fingers in their liquid metal form around from underneath the table and shut his invention down, but the familiar sound of a woman's voice giving off a surprised gasp sounded off before he managed to shut the Cryo-Gun down.