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Although Speedy had been brought back to life, he no longer could feel Rage in him.

Just as TheAPERSON and the autistics arrived in Washington a strange bolt cut through TheAPERSON and he screamed in pain. Then he stopped as if nothing had happened. Of course, something had happened.

Rage had found a new host body.

(GAMESTER IS NOT AUSTRALIAN, HE'S AMERICAN)

Gamester stood in the central tower on the island, looking at ten men, all dressed in black and cybernetically and physically augmented. The Shadow Men as he referenced them were his personal spies and assassins, and really good as well. They were augmented so that they could be in the background without people noticing, show up anywhere, and even walk through a building with lazer trip wires and everything.

"Report," he said.

The lead Shadow man stood out, "Speedy has been revived," he said, "Reports from one of our mech spy spiders report that Sedaka revived him."

Another man also stepped forward, "The president," he said, with a glaring look from me, "The new president has issued a statement or will be issuing a statement about the remainder of this term, he is finishing out the old president's term, and as such will not seek election come the next campaign, however he is wanting all Program Soldiers to be activated to defend the capital should another incursion occur again."

I nodded at that, if I were the President, I would do the same thing.

"Most unfortunate," Said Gamester, "That the Hands did not retrieve Speedy."

"No orders from on high were sent," said Mac, "No one is too blame, but right now, we have more pressing concerns."

Mac nodded at one of the Shadow men who had grasped his head and looked like he was in pain, this was for about five minutes, before he regained his stature.

"An eye reported that Rage has taken The Aperson," said the man, "And this is the bad news, The Aperson is in D.C."

Gamester eye's flashed, and he made a motioning sign to Mac who nodded.

"Have The Stellar outfitted with a containment field," he ordered into the microphone.

I nodded at the Shadow men who disappeared to their original assignments, one stayed behind, the one who had been the messenger from DC.

"Should I have the hand standing by in DC to pick up the damage?" he asked.

"I want a contingent ready to take on The Aperson if he tries anything before I get there, but I will have to kill The Aperson, but that will be after I capture Rage," said Gamester as he opened the weapons cabinet in the tower and selected three large blades, and large tube. With that the Shadow man disappeared.

Mac looked at the tube, and sighed, "the last time you used a Boom gun, we had a mess in the forest."

"I can control it," said Gamester, "I need something to augment my powers."

I teleported to the ship, as it had already started getting ready, three contingents of troopers were on board, and the prison level was outfitted with a spirit holding field, Rage was going to be mine, even if some more people had to die.

"Move us out," Said Gamester from the Captains chair, "Full speed."

With that The Stellar moved out towards another confrontation in DC

(No, silly, I was recognising my rescuer, the astute Mr McKenzie. Then my random speech turned to Gamester. Sorry about that, but a character trait shared between the character and myself is the pointless ability to string a series of sentences together that are unrelated to each other. My way of simulating small talk. My apologies to TheAPERSON, because in a Venom like way, the Rage symbiot copies parts of it's hosts and carries them onto the next. Good luck with that)

Speedy decided to find the other autistics, update them on the scenario, and hopefully find a way to at least slow down the apparantly endless army that Gamester had amassed. He needed to find that Routemaster, and his trusted ally, Icarus_Falling. Bazza looked at him in an inquizitive way, something Speedy failed to see,

"How is you always seem to know exactly where you are, despite being unconscious, or dead, or possessed prior to your arrival? That is really weird"

"No, that is just the Speedy way. There is a satnav in my head, it just knows. I know I am weird, and possibly a little mad, but then, if I was not, my plans would never work. We have to stop Gandalf and his flying monkeys, and we will need the rest of the WPers in order to do this. I need to go to a Subway, first..."

(GANDALF!?! I'm not that crazy. I'm much worse. I'm more Saurman with a Magneto complex. Flying monkeys? Wrong storyline, maybe....)

It took Gamester and his ship two hours to reach D.C. The ship had a cloaking device so it would remain hidden, but come out if and when it was necessary, as soon as Gamester and his men were on the ground, he looked around. They were in an alley, which was good, He had after all killed the president and didn't want Program Soldiers finding his men.

"I want the 8th Unit to go out and make their way to the White House," said Gamester, "Move in, you have your tricks, make your way to the presidents office, or as close as you can get, but do not move until I give orders."

the 8th special division, the only unit Gamester used for political assassinations moved out.

the next unit beamed down

"I want the 9th unit to go civilian," said Gamester, "I want them to find out opinions in the city and so forth, I want anyone who is sympathetic to our cause recruited, if you find people who don't like us, kill them silently and quietly, I do not want a repeat of the Cold War." Three men laughed, silently, but got the idea.

Four more units beamed down.

"I want the 10th, 11th,18th and 21st special forces," said Gamester, "to go and get weapons, ammunition and vehicles, do it covertly and silently, Mac has the Rochester, the Dobringi, the Vestris, Heartless and Remorseless coming in, Heartless and Remorseless will provide covering fire, the rest are all cargo ships, sailing into the bay, so if you can steal a train and get this stuff that way, I'd be happy, if you can steal a helicopter or two or three or as many, I'd be happy, I called in a few special favors from the Iraqi and Israeli forces in the area, they're doing the same thing, we're going to make the US pay for the atrocities committed on its civilians."

The men nodded and moved out, Gamester had his traditional attire, jeans, shirt, fedora, and black trenchcoat, he had a few concealed weapons, plus his walking cane, he needed to find Speedy and Rage, and bring them back together to get the power that was needed.

TheAPERSON managed to find the whitehouse when an army appeared.

"We are looking for Rage," they told TheAPERSON.

"Who?" said TheAPERSON, then Rage took over. "If you want me, you'll have to kill this lot first.

"What have we escaped for?" asked the autisics. "We're gonna die."

The autistics tried to run away but Rage created a barrier blocking their escape.

The army aimed their guns at TheAPERSON and Rage and shot. But TheAPERSON and Rage were still alive. One of the autistics had been killed.

Rage gave an evil laugh.

Cheerlessleader was terrified. One wrong move and she could wind up dead, too. Then she heard the roar from an engine from the edge of the barrier. She made her way over, and saw Tom's army tank. Before CL could say anything, Tom opened up the tank and pulled her in. Meanwhile, the rest of the Russian Mafia pulled as many autistics as they could over the barriers and escorted them to saftey. "Um, thanks a lot" she said. "No problem, sweetheart" he grinned, adding "Now we have to find Gametser and tell him of APERSON/Rage's whereabouts". Eventually they spotted Gamester in the distance. Tom explained everything to CL. "I've known about this holocaust for years. As one of them, I knew I had to stop it. So I pretended to be lower-funtioning than I really was, and took a position at TASC in order to tell everyone about it and build up my army. But it just didn't turn out that way..." "Yes, nothing ever tuns out the way it shoud..." replied CL. Then they finally caught up with Gamester. They opened the top of the tank again. "Hey..." she whispered. Gamester turned around. He stared at her. "We've found Rage. He's over there, just outside of the Whitehouse."

Gamester sighed, lower echelons.

Pulling out his sword, Gamester nodded, then turned and signaled his men.

Another ship had been sent at Mac's request and it uncloaked over the white house.

The Corriandor was the only ship that didn't carry weapons, heavily armored, and could have a compliment of over a thousand soldiers and two hundred tanks.

"Commander Cardis," Gamester said, "I want the group that I helped rescue in custody now!"

The others who were with me were shocked, that I'd be tray them.

"Commander Cardis," Gamester said, "I have a kill order for The Aperson, Speedy, Bazza McKenzie, and Sedaka."

The commander nodded and the whole compliment that was on the ship was deposited on the ground.

Pointing the boom tube at the group, I smiled.

"Put your hands up," said Gamester, "Or find yourselves on the other divide of existence....non existence."

Speedy and Bazza rushed to where the autistics were, and found out that TheAPERSON was infected with Rage, and about to meet his doom against Gamester,

"We have to find TheAPERSON, he is in serious trouble. Rage will be the end of him, and a lot more autistics, if we are not careful"

"What do you have in mind? Considering the fact that Gamester will find him, the odds of him making it through all of this are pretty slim. You aren't going to do something stupid, are you now?"

"If I must , I will let Rage control me again"

"What!? That's bloody ridiculous, and you know it. You will end up with another hole in your chest, and I can't see Sedaka being able to play god a second time."

"Do you have any better ideas?"

"Well, not really, but you can't go acting the matyr all the time. I risked my life for you, as did Sedaka, and a lot of others. You owe it to us all not to die."

"I said nothing of dying. We are in a difficult situation here. Rage is in control of TheAPERSON, and I am not sure he will be able to subdue it long enough. It is a very powerful being. On the other hand, we have Gamester, whose intentions, and let us face it, are not working entirely in our favour. His loyalty in all of this is somewhat one-sided. This holocaust is not going to stop itself, but I know of a way in which we can stop it. I have not used the answer, yet."

"What is this answer? You've been going on about this for some time, apparantly, the group you were with before talked about you and this answer, and to be quite honest, I don't think that you even have one. Until I see this answer take effect, I'll consider you just another autistic, who seems to be incredibly lucky when the time comes."

"I do not believe in luck"

"Oh, here we go"

"Everything happens for a reason. I know that right now, amidst all this carnage, that that seems unlikely, but this will all work out for the good of us all, you shall see. Can you feel that? Something is wrong. Gamester..."

Three helicopters arrived on the scene and I pulled out my bio armor.

"BY THE POWER OF THE ANCIENTS!" Roared Gamis Tiron, "I GAMIS TIRON, CALL FORTH THE POWER OF THE ANCIENT ELDER RAGIS EDGES, ANCIENT RAGE MASTER!"

Energy surged around me, the power of the First Rage, combined with Tiron, and Gamis, created a new energy being, Eldris Ragis Tironis.

"I AM ELDRIS RAGIS TIRONIS," Said The being, as the pull transformed into a large spike on his hand and the bio armor morphed into energy shielding, "BOW BEFORE YOUR NEW MASTER, I WILL TAKE THE NEW RAGE AND ADD IT TO MY POWER, THEN I WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE!"

With a sweep of its hand, Tironis grabbed a metal lamppost and turned it into a big sword, double bladed and tripple ended.

( You're not going to kill us, are you?)

Speedy moved as fast as he could, he needed to find TheAPERSON. All this had given him an idea...

Tironis saw Speedy and grinned. Time to test the new power.

"EAT DUST SPEEDY!" roared Tironis as he fired energy from his fingers, flinging speedy against a wall.

"Damn psycho. I feel like John McLane here. My ribs hurt. There is something in my mouth. Oh, that is a tooth. There was no call for that!"

Although slightly more fragile than he was used to, Speedy propped himself up against the wall. He pulled a piece of rubble out of his side, and hurled it at Gamester. It caught him in the face, but not yet being full strength, it was not enough to take him down. The distraction was enough to give Speedy some time to hide in a Fiero, and hotwire it

"Come on, you bloody American...haha! Life!"

Speedy drove off through the town, knowing that being in car probably made things worse. He saw TheAPERSON, wandering the streets, trying to come to terms with Rage

"This thing is evil, it, it keeps trying to kill. Waah!"

An arm grabbed him and pulled him into a car. It was Speedy,

"You bastard, giving me this Rage thing! It's really dangerous! Hey, what are you doing?"

"I apologise for my actions, but you will not feel a thing, and Rage will soon leave you"

"You aren't going to kill me?"

"No, just this..."

Speedy reached under the seat, and found the tyre iron. With a quick swipe, TheAPERSON was out cold. Rage could not carry on with an unconscious host, and jumped ship, into Speedy's soul,

"We're back!"

"Yes we are. Now we have to take on that crazy nut who is wiping us all out!"

"Sounds like a plan. What do we suggest?"

"We don't know yet, kind of hoping we might have come up with something since our last encounter!"

The symbiot sensed the pain in Speedy's body, and worked on healing it,

"We are in some pain"

"We know that, just get on fixing us!"

TheAPERSON came round, and was a little concerned that Speedy appeared to be conversing with himself in the third person. That's not right, he thought. Oh no, Rage!

"What do we do with our last host?"

"He only kept us warm while we were temporarily dead. Not dead now. He does not have do die by our hands."

"Fine, but he will end up hurt if we do not part ways with him"

"True, true. Sorry, chum, but this is for your own good. Our efforts must concentrate on kicking arse, not being sidetracked by another. There is of course, one way..."

"We have never done that before. If we do, it could result in a lot more carnage"

"More than we are already facing with the wizard"

"One extra vessel will not be enough. We will need more..."

Speedy was getting to grips with having an extra being attached to him, and they were learning to co-exist, finally.

"Where are the rest of the group?"

"Who me?"

"Yes, you who else is in the car? Who do you think we were talking to?"

"Errr, ok, they were last seen near the White House"

"Bugger. We are on the other side of town, and we are running out of time. We need some way of moving quickly..."

At that moment, they saw a figure staggering through the streets of Washington. It was Icarus. He had followed everyone off the island, but was left drifting around the Carolinas when he saw a news report that showed a fleeting glance of some of his comrades,

"Hey!"

Icarus was pulled into the car. This was coming together, slowly,

"Good to have you back, old buddy. We were beginning to wonder what had happened to you"

"I went on vacation. Cameron is nice this time of year. Are your eyes glowing?"

"Long story. We need your speed force abilities. That wizard who helped us escape the prison block has turned out a little bit on the nutty side. He killed me once, but I got away with it."

Speedy had two elements that he needed; the purity in TheAPERSON, and the warrior in Icarus. He needed one more element. All he had to do, was find it.

He went to the front of the ship and took driving duties from there.

Suddenly, he saw a big...

Pissed is the best way to describe any mortal after getting hit in the face with rubble, with Tironis its more like, "YOU DIE NOW FREAK!" was what was said as Speedy got away.

Gathering their energies, Tironis, Eldris, and Ragis called forth a new entity, The Akusa. Energy driven, the Akusa are essentially free floating souls who've been banished to the netherworlds, juice up on the souls there, become powerful enough and break the soul divide barrier. calling forth an Akusa was probably the one thing that if Gamis or Tironis had been in their right minds, they wouldn't have, but it was now Tironis, Eldris and Ragis, with Gamis merged somewhere else.

"WE ARE NOW ALL POWERFUL," said the being, "WE ARE THE TRIDANT TERON KARUS, AND WE WILL RULE!! !"

Tridant Teron Karus was the more fully energized uber deadly form of Gamester/Gamis Tiron, and had purple hair.

The trident was because the metal poll that had originally been part of Ragis Tironis was now the weapon, as for the sword it sprung three forked ends and merged with the boom tube to become the trident weapon.

"SPEEDICUS RAGE!" roared Tridant, "WE CALL YOU TO STAND BEFORE US AND FIGHT AND NOT RUN LIKE THE COWARDS YOU ARE!"

To make their point, Tridant jumped in the air and slammed down the business end of the trident , creating a massive shockwave which destroyed a good portion of DC that Tridant was in, killed a few thousand more and managed to go far enough to hit Speedy's car, sending it skidding through three buildings.

"WE WILL FIND YOU SPEEDICUS RAGE," roared the being, "AND YOUR SOULS WILL BELONG TO THE TRIDANT!"

Cheerlessleader stared in shock at Tridant Teron Karus. Between this being and the NTs, she'd much rather face the NTs.