Ultimate Volt: Finish Line

A Fight Worth Watching

Meanwhile at Philip's aunt's house, Joshua, Creed, Ben, and Jesse were relaxing in the living room, waiting for Philip and Gracie to arrive, questioning themselves as to why they hadn't shown up yet. Jesse was on the couch, munching on potato chips while Joshua, Ben, and Creed were sitting at the living room table, playing cards. The three men were arguing, they took playing with cards seriously in a joking matter. Jesse was slightly frustrated, "Could you guys cut it out? I'm tryna watch this show, and I'm not tryna watch it on my phone, I haven't even paid the bills yet. Joshua looked at his cards, but spoke to Jesse. "Hate to burst your bubble, but there's nothing better to do since you know, Phil and Gracie are out on there little date." Ben pulled an Ace, winning the game. "Boom! Get rekt kid, now pay up." Creed pulled a $5 out of his wallet and handing it to Ben. In the meantime, Oliver Gaile and the rogues began making their way to the Olender household, particularly his aunt's house. Philip had tried contacting them earlier when he found out who caused the explosion, but the cable lines were destroyed in the process. Gaile and the rogues all gathered around the front door, ringing the door bell. Jesse heard the bell, "Can one of you guys get it? I'm kinda comfy right now and I don't wanna move." Creed got up, sighing, he went to the front door, he didn't expect to see the rogues standing in front of him. Oliver Gaile looked at Creed directly in the eyes in his human form, demanding Philip. "Where is Olender? Bring him outside." Creed quickly webbed up Gaile's mouth. "Better watch that attitude bucko" he quickly suited up. He had no patience, trying to take on the rogues all at once. Quicksand made a giant sand fist, punching Creed to a wall. The impact caused the lights to flicker inside, signaling that something was wrong. Joshua looked at the lights, then at the door. "Seems a little suspicious that it's been 5 minutes since Creed opened the door, and now the lights are flickering." Ben looked at Jesse, "He's right Jesse, let's go suit up just in case." The heroes quickly suited up, racing outside to see the destruction.

Creed could be seen, suited up, trying to take on the rogues, but being swatted around like a fly ironically. The three other heroes stood tall, gulping as they saw the rogues gallery. Ben looked at Joshua, "You don't think that they you know- hurt Phil and Gracie?" Jesse looked at the two of them, "They're probably dealing with other matters in the city, these guys are always up to no good." Joshua nodded, "And right now, Creed needs our help" he proceeded to swing towards Creed, kicking Calvin Daxter, known as Surge, directly in the chest. Ben raised a fist in the air as did Jesse, "Sweet!" He swung directly at Gaile trying to web him up, but his webs kept freezing and falling apart. Jesse focused her attention on Ben Attell, known as Quicksand, speeding around him and trying to build up speed and lightning. As she did so, Creed was sent flying back from the force of Magnez's punch, wounding Creed in the leg in the process. Gracie had finally made it to the household after multiple delays involving helping others in the city. Her eyes widened, seeing all the rogues battling the three heroes. Creed began trying to web up Surge, refocusing to Gracie, "Hey Velocity, do you have any idea why these guys are here?!" Ben also spoke to Gracie, "And where's Phil? Don't you guys duo nowadays?" He had trouble trying to web up Basilisk. Gracie looked at Jesse throwing lightning at Attell, just barely hitting him. "He was trying to help some people, as far as I'm concerned, we have to protect him at all costs." She raced at Breacher, suckerpunching him as he shot a breach accidentally at Joshua, Joshua being sent straight at a wall. Jesse came in with the clutch, also hitting Evermore as he was about to cast a storm.

Meanwhile on the Aspen Bridge, Philip began waking up, his vision was still slightly blurry from the knockout, but he noticed that an orange lightning streak could be seen speeding down the bridge and getting more people out of the way. That streak was Central City's The Flash, the named Fastest Man Alive, but Philip has beaten him before. Due to the power loss of SHIELD and other organizations due to the prison escape, agents began going rogue wreaking even more havoc. He heard a double clank from a medium distance, he entered Flash Time. He noticed a rogue A.R.G.U.S. agent sitting on top of the bridge holding a sniper. The shot was already taken, aiming straight at Barry's head. Philip used all of his speed, racing as fast as he could to intercept the bullet. He shoved Barry out the way, the bullet piercing him straight through the side. The bullet wasn't any ordinary bullet, it was meant to dampen the speed of a speedster. Philip fell to the ground, Barry using this as an opportunity to locate the rogue agent and knock him out. Barry raced back down, holding Philip. "You're alright kid, you'll be fine." Philip held his wound, groaning in pain. "I really got hit, huh?" He laughed, slightly tearing up from the pain. "Someday, you'll be the best of us kid, and you'll be The Flash, that's a promise." The bridge began to collapse, luckily everyone was cleared out, but Barry lost his footing and tumbled down the bridge and straight into the rubble. Philip tried to get up running, but he was losing more blood than he could handle. He quickly wrapped the wound with a piece of his shirt from the date with Gracie, making it off the bridge, able to see the Olender residence a couple of miles away, however he couldn't run as fast as he normally could. Blood was dripping from his side, leaving a crimson trail behind him, he tore off his cowl, not even caring about his identity. His loss of blood also made it hard to have any physical pressure on him.

Back at the Olender residence, the heroes were rather unsuccessful. They hadn't really gotten to know the Rogue's weaknesses so they were scrambling for ways to do so. Velocity successfully beat the crap out of Breacher, allowing the rogues to not escape so easily from this fight. Creed was swinging around, shooting web balls at Magnez, attempting to slow him down as he was by far one of the most powerful. Ben was doing acrobatics, trying to distract Basilisk the best he could, failing miserably. "Hey punk, looks like you had too many mints!" *Ben continued talking smack, Basilisk grabbing him by the throat and throwing him to the ground. "I've had enough of these games you child." He knocked Ben out cold clean, leaving Joshua, Creed, Jesse, and Gracie. Joshua was rather successful in most of his attempts at fighting Surge, but Surge managed to throw a lightning bolt directly at Josh's mask, too fast for even his Spider-Sense to predict, sending Joshua straight into a wall, defeating him. Jesse and Creed were still going strong, teaming up to almost defeat Quicksand, but not before Basilisk froze Jesse, bringing her body temperature lower than ever, she began going into a state of hypothermia, Creed ran to her, trying to help her, but Breacher suddenly woke up from his knockout, breaching Creed hundreds of feet in the air, perfect for Magnez to punch him straight to the household, leaving a giant gaping hole through the front of house. Jesse managed to get out of her hypothermia state, but she was too weak to even fight on, as were the other heroes. All that was left was Velocity, using her speed she managed to land multiple hands on each rogue, but it simply wasn't enough. Gaile, in his Basilisk, walked straight towards Velocity, lifting her up by the neck. "If I can't kill Olender, then YOU ALL will suffice." Gracie was struggling to move, she was tired and weak from the battle, tearing up from the fear of dying. As Gaile was ready to freeze all of them and slaughter them, he voice could be heard from down the street in the neighborhood.