The Blur and Cocoa Fox were annoyed about Poison Dart escaping; no rest for righteous defenders yet though. A sudden explosive roar from behind them cut short any respite. Both heroes spun startled as the supposedly downed Purple Rod lurched up out of the splintered wreckage. Dust and leaves slid off his broad back revealing barely a scratch from their barrage of attacks!
“Impossible!” Devon and Tanya gasped in frustrated dismay. How had their assailant withstood even a buffeting of that ferocity?!
Purple Rod simply rolled his massive neck while nonchalantly cracking vertebrae and straightening to full height once again now with ease. He brandished his expandable police baton. The implement hummed with renewed energy storage also, even the wrist mandala having snapped off earlier didn’t diminish its power any.
“Mudfish, I done told you already - resistance is useless against me!” the herculean figure boasted loudly. “These biceps never know weariness. My muscles ain’t never given me any cramps!”
He walked forwards stalking the young heroes bit by bit like an apex predator. Garish tattoos running the length of both meaty arms seemed to pulse with internal luminescence. That same cryptic emblem Devon had witnessed Mama Dutty bearing on her body also.
“But more importantly,” Purple Rod continued while gesturing grandly at himself from head to toe. “This indestructible skin gifted by them Coco Mosquitoes makes me UNBEATABLE!"
That’s right! Devon recalled with a stab of dismay. That same Coco Skin ability like the savage villain Gunz. Merciless shielding said to render such individuals inhumanly resilient against most forms of damage. It made intimate sense why this mountain of muscle now felt nearly unstoppable.
They wouldn’t last beyond another terrible assault at this rate! The Blur cast round frantically for some avenue of escape while Cocoa Fox bared claws and fangs again. Neither had any plans facing these grim odds though.
“So check it, shorties...” sneered Purple Rod before suddenly his entire mammoth frame bent then sprung forward in a burst of hideous acceleration. One thunderous violet fist hammered with all his gathered might at The Blur in the follow through. “Time for your BEDTIME!!!”
The Blur barely evaded the deadly knuckles through reflexes alone but force from the very wind they generated lifted and flung him backwards quite severely. Shooting uncontrollably through the air ruined his desperate attempt braking with both feet at all. Blur crashed violently atop scrap materials littered around that remote area earlier.
Cocoa Fox found herself seized next by one mountainous hand wrapped round her entire scruff. Ruthless vice grip strength neutralized any attempts at struggling free completely.
Recovering enough momentum to stand shakily, Blur witnessed his comrade captured brutally in their assailant’s clutches. Desperation clawed at his soul until a dark voice spoke smooth yet deadly from somewhere nearby.
“My my...watching you squirm so fruitlessly truly brings me utmost satisfaction tonight.”
Poison Dart herself emerged from the gloom of jungle trees and swaying bamboo fronds with predatory gait. She brandished virulent nails primed to deliver a full dose of her ruthless toxin. “Did you brats really think escaping me that easily?”
The Blur swallowed hard feeling their chances of triumph or even survival now hovered nigh hopeless. With Cocoa Fox captured, he dared not risk his partner's life with careless speed-fuelled heroics. They were well and truly cornered much as it galled him to admit.
"What do you and the rest want with us anyway?" Blur cried out in frustrated anger. Everything had gone so crooked and unfair tonight. "Why target measly amateur heroes?"
"You really are slow on the uptake, aren't you boy?" scoffed Poison Dart. She strode closer while carelessly examining pointed fingernails. "Since you know so much, it warrants your death!”
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The assassin mockingly tapped her own temple. "Lord Skull's plans reach far and your interference must end. So obtaining your names and details becomes necessary of course."
Her cruel words sent icy dread through Devon. Getting unmasked would put all those closest to him at deadly risk! He couldn't let these serpents succeed in their sinister aspirations. He just couldn't!
"We fight to protect the helpless!" The Blur shouted back, tightening crackling dreadlocks around clenched fists. "You and these other monsters have enough blood on your hands from spreading chaos and misery across the island!"
He pointed accusingly at Purple Rod especially. "And this corrupt lawman defiles his duty and uniform through obedient villainy!”
Blur knew sounding far braver than he felt currently was the only option now. Perhaps stalling things could provide an opening somehow. If he could keep them talking a while longer maybe...
Yet cruel fortune had already abandoned the embattled heroes this unlucky night. For Purple Rod’s immense hand shot forward with a blur, snagging the speedster around his neck in a savage chokehold!
"Less jabbering already, you lippy little shit!" the colossal figure snarled before lifting The Blur bodily off the ground fully. "I'm gonna crush your satchel of bones ‘til jelly spills loose...”
With a horrible grin, massively bulging biceps propelled Devon helplessly into the nearby rock facade lining the forest footpath. Unyielding stone collided with his frame in a horrid thud before bouncing him into another boulder and another after that! His muscles keeping femur bones intact felt the strain with each vicious slam.
Greenish girders scored the granite surface where razor dreads scraped then bounced off. Masked injuries rapidly accumulated across back, sides and limbs flaying unprotected by his open combat suit with repeated automatic pummellings. Dire trauma remained narrowly avoided only due to natural elasticity of his youthful tissues.
"Blur!" Cocoa Fox cried out in concern, still trapped in Purple Rod's vice-like grip. She struggled furiously, snarling and snapping her fangs, but the corrupt officer's hand was like a steel vice around her torso.
"It's no use resisting, pup!" Purple Rod chuckled darkly. "Once I get my hands on prey, there's no escaping!" To emphasize his point, his grip tightened, making Cocoa Fox yelp.
The Blur staggered to his feet unsteadily, using a twisted piece of metal to support himself. Rain pattered down, turning the soil to sucking mud that threatened to swallow his boots. Across from him, Purple Rod stood tall and impervious like a living fortress.
"Why...why are you doing this?" The Blur rasped, wiping grime from his chin. "Can't you see the chaos and suffering your drugs are causing?"
Purple Rod laughed. "Chaos is the natural order! I simply speed it along and profit besides! Don't waste your breath preaching to me, boy. I serve true justice!"
To illustrate his words, Purple Rod swung his baton in a wide arc, unleashing a slicing shockwave of sonic energy. It sheared through several enormous tanks and pipes like tissue before blasting towards The Blur.
Reacting on instinct, The Blur vaulted sideways, narrowly avoiding bisection. The shockwave exploded a tree behind him instead, vaporizing it instantly.
"Justice? You're insane!" The Blur spat. "Hurting others for selfish gain isn't justice at all!"
He charged his opponent, dreadlocks firing off spears of electricity. But Purple Rod merely flexed his indestructible skin and deflected the voltage entirely with his baton. An instant later, The Blur found himself facedown in the mud again from another callous swat.
"Your petty ideals mean nothing to me!" Purple Rod bellowed, emphasizing his words by hurling the dazed Cocoa Fox straight into The Blur, bowling him over again. "I decide true justice with these fists alone!"
The Blur gasped for breath, hindered by Cocoa Fox sprawled atop him. This battle was proving utterly relentless. Purple Rod's impenetrable skin and strength matched his own speed entirely. They couldn't keep absorbing such punishment for long.
As if sensing his despair, Purple Rod suddenly bellowed "Behold ultimate JUSTICE!" and reared back one meaty arm, violet muscles swelling. The embroidered tattoo running its length seemed to writhe.
Realizing what was coming, The Blur desperately kicked Cocoa Fox's body aside then rolled clear himself. An instant later, Purple Rod's infamous Justice Punch struck the very earth they'd occupied!
BOOOOOM!
Shockwaves of cataclysmic force spiderwebbed out as Purple Rod's knuckles connected. Entire factory buildings imploded at once from the sonic devastation while rubble was flung skyward.
The Blur and Cocoa Fox clung to fracturing pavement as reality itself seemed to warp and quake. Trees toppled like dominoes from pure air pressure and any glass for miles detonated into clouds of shimmering dust. Gravity fluxed erratically, violently tugging their insides.
Then silence reigned, interrupted only by the pattering rain. The Blur blinked grit from his eyes and beheld total devastation surrounding them. Purple Rod stood grinning amidst the epicentre of his single punch's annihilation, not even slightly winded. Twisted shards of foundation and pipelines smouldered for acres in every direction.