The System or the People?
"If a superhero were to be real, would they defend the system or the people? If they were to defend the system, they are only benefiting themselves and others, while the rest suffered. If they were to defend the people, they opposed the system in place and they won't get a self benefit. Whatever it may be, the choice is on you."
There was once a time where peace between the sexes is noble. No one has to fight nor scare any and everyone is treated equally. Or at least that is what most is said to believe. In this world, the females mostly dominated the scene, the males didn't fair well as they were mostly used as slave workers and only the very lucky gets to be picked by one of the higher class of the women. In this day and age, many people strive to be the greatest as they can be. However, the torment and tragedy turned even the most basic into the most horrific thing in the planet.
Enter, the Mechanical Terror. This villain appeared one day liberating the slaves from a corrupt business woman. The women in question had her corpse burnt into a crisp, leaving nothing behind but a charred body. When they first saw him, they see a man wearing an advance suit of power armor to combat even the strongest of the superwomen, forming various weapons around his body to subdue even one of their most durable. And so it became evidently clear that this system needs a team to take down this terror, once and for all.
Here we have the heroine, Venator. She and the other superwomen of the team, were a task force meant to take down and foil the plans of the Mechanical Terror. No matter how many times they plan, however, the MT always seem to plan a step ahead; an edge in this game. Venator is one of the more powerful superwomen in the team, her powers is to control the energy from which she can generate as well as her other superhuman abilities. Not the best, but she is determined nonetheless.
Every time these two battle, lives are at stake. Many people were at risk as these two titans clash against the city skylines, the buildings and on the ground and water. Almost nowhere is safe when these two fight, resulting in catastrophic collateral damage that neither one of them wanted. So for the sake of the people, they often had to fight in the open plain or at a forest near the mountains.
One day, a group of female robbers were breaking into a CPU room, where they may steal a secret file hidden that will exploit a weakness. But whose weakness? They were chatting and bantering with each other as they began to hack into the so call "high-security" firewall.
"Oh man, we're gonna make load with this."
"How are you sure? I mean all we got is just information."
"And it's all we need to blackmail our way to the top!"
Unbeknownst to them, as they were getting the file, one they are being spotted by security and two that the files are being copied from a third party. The security called in Venator to deal with the situation as she is the poster-girl of the city and the most recognizable hero: distinguishable with her bright red and white color scheme as well as her red cape. Her face beaming with life while her sunglasses (mainly to protect her eyes from her own energy attacks).
"Well well well..." The group of women turned their heads around, just as the download was about to finish. "Looks like I gotta teach your lady's some manners."
"Venator!"
With little to no effort, Venator single handedly defeat the group of women, before turning them to the police. However, they aren't the only ones after the information.
A figure in full metal armor, blue and dark grey, sigh in disappointment as he hovered over the city overseeing the women he has sent to infiltrate. "I have to do everything myself, don't I?"
Venator came back to her base of operations, with her friends on the computer trying to pinpoint the location of the third party.
Venator: Hey C, how's that search going?
C: Doing well, Ven. Soon we'll be able to find them and then we'll --.
Just before she finishes her sentence, the computer stopped as it displays "Error" on the screen, with a noise and voice to boot.
C: What?
Venator: What happened?
C is very confused and frighten at the same time. She's the smartest in the city, yet someone has manage to do something that she considers "impossible."
C: I... I... Someone is blocking me out!
Venator: I'll go to check whoever is left there.
Back at the server room, the metallic figure places his hand on the CPU and the only computer in the room. Electric impulses flow from the devices and into the metallic figure, giving them any and all information in regards to a particular source.
"Stop right there, mister!"
Venator came just in time to call out the figure, however, the figure didn't move. It spoke to Venator, "If it isn't the heroine of the city. Quite the surprise that you of all people have decided to deal with petty crimes."
Venator: Stealing information is not a petty crime, Metal head.
"Metal head": Oh? So the deaths of a hundred wouldn't be considered unjust then. Perhaps I should do more.
Venator: They were attacking innocents.
"Metal head": They were defending from their tormentors and you came to shut them up. Permanently.
Venator may be considered as the City's guardian, but she does have a limit to how long talk between her and a villain can go on. In a blink, Venator crashed into the metal figure and they both burst out into the city.
Venator: I'm giving you one chance to surrender yourself, Mechanical Terror. Before, I will have to use more drastic measures.
MT: That's what they all say. It won't matter.
MT rushed forward with his boosters, launching his fist into Venator's face, sending the heroine across the city block as the metal figure sends in waves of punches and kicks all around the heroine. Venator can only react to pain as her nemesis explain, while inflicting as much damage onto Venator.
"My mechanical features has allowed me to heightened my very body..."
He crashes her into the multiple buildings containing the people inside, melting the exterior and interior with every clash.
"... Putting me well above and beyond the absolute limits..."
MT is not done yet. He grabbed the cape of Venators an twirled her around in such speed, he sends her into the air. He followed the heroine as he delivers his final line, "... Of living flesh!" then slams his metal hands on Venator's back sending her to the ground. But before she could reach it, MT flew under her, kneed her abdomen before using his elbow to finally crash her into the ground.
"And to think you are the peak of a human, is disappointing."
He hovers back to the ground and watched as his rival struggles to pick herself back up.
"If you can fight, why didn't you defend yourself?"
Venator spits out her blood and has fully stood up. Her hands spark with energy as her eyes glow blue.
Venator: Heh, I'm... just g-getting warmed up.
Venator charge forward and clenches her hand into a fist. With her own momentum, she launches her fist and collided with MT's chest. The force was strong enough to launch the metal encased man into a nearby building. Venator continued her assault by shooting out balls of intense plasma at MT, melting the nearby bricks and tar, yet surprisingly his armor didn't melt. MT flew in the air, just after Venator finished her attack, not wanting his armor to over heat and melt.
Venator fly to chase down the villain across the city, soaring through the air as heroine and villain battle it out in the sky. Their strikes and beams are so visible, many watch from their windows. Even under the moonlight, they are as clear as day. Eventually, Venator gained enough force to bring the villain towards an abandoned mansion.
The mansion is charred, damaged and abandoned. The large central room where the guest used to walk through is now deserted and absence of life. In fact the entire mansion is absent of any sort of life, with the only exception being the animals and critters that have now inhabited this once gorgeous and majestic mansion.
The fight within the mansion is as chaotic as it can get with many of the old ornaments and furniture being destroyed in the process. After loosing MT, Venator took the time to rest before pursuing the mechanical villain. She notes on the architecture and how it all felt so familiar to her. As in she knows this place, yet she can't remember it. Everywhere she goes, a sudden and strong surge of pain rushed through her head as twisted and painful memories seemed to revive themselves.
"Why did you do this?"
Venator: What? That voice...
"You are one stupid boy, just like the rest of the men!"
Venator: Wait... What?
"Come on, come on. Unless you wanted punishment, do you?"
Venator: Wait? I recognize that voice.
"Please no! Anything but that!"
Venator: N-No...
Venator clenched her head as she remembered her old memories. One that she herself used to be something else. Something more vile. Something completely different than what she is today. It aches her to remember, those voices. Was that her?
Before long, The Mechanical Terror burst through the wall and blasted Venator with his canon, blasting her through the wall and into a ballroom. Venator stood up to meet her adversary, raising her fist with her eyes and body glowing again. The two stood at the opposite ends of the room. The light and dark sides of this old ballroom.
MT notices the distress and pained look on his adversary's face, her body seemingly shaking from whatever pain she felt. Internally perhaps. Maybe this place held some importance to her. What it might be, a bad memory started to rise? It didn't matter as MT chuckled with glee as he said to her, "Recognize this place?" knowing of the significance of this manor to the heroine.
Venator didn't speak a word. Her eyes shifted from the armored man and the ballroom they're in. A haunted memory seemingly manifested itself to show a group of girls, on the side of the man, throwing things at a boy on the ground, curling, on her side. Because of its apparition, the heroine can't identify any of them.
"Perhaps I should destroy it, so you won't remember a thing about this place."
"No." Venator look at the man, her fist and muscles clenching hard as her body seemingly moved on its own. It wouldn't take long for them to fight in the ballroom as well, severely damaging it, but never destroying the place. MT launched Venator again into the air, slamming her towards a shed. An other apparition of a scene formed again: this time is of a girl and a woman whipping a boy on the ground.
"Stupid child, never listen to his own mother!"
"Momma, can I hit him?"
"No. Please no more!"
Venator gets back up and ignore the apparition as she continued to fight MT.
The fight ended with Venator performing the "Slashing, uppercut plasma slash" across the man's face plate, cutting the metal before sending him crashing onto the back of the manor. A piece flew over Venator and landed on the field of grass as she walked into the crash site of her opponent, laying on the ground on his stomach side.
Venator: It's over. Surrender and we'll do this p--.
The man stood up with his now damaged face plate. Venator prepares herself to fight MT again, but what she saw has widen her eyes in shock. Even if a piece of it was broken off, it showed a portion of a brokened man's face by suffering from the system. And that face sends Venator back in shock, sending her back to a dark time in her life. The death of a family member.
Venator: No.
Without even a chance to react, Venator is blasted by MT over the field and crashed into a tree. Her head is a bit dizzied with a memory crawling back into her head, seeing the mansion in a blaze with a little girl watching as the building burned brightly into the sky. Venator took her time to crawl her way towards the girl, the audible crying being heard in her ear. "Was that... No. No, it can't be!"
Venator snapped back into reality as she looked up to gaze at the MT, his face plate being slashed and blood leaking out. The scarred eye from the slash revealed one side of his face burned from so long ago. The slash only cut the cheek area. When Venator saw that man held the metal rod pointing at her, the instincts within almost cause her to move to the side. The man plunged the metal rod down and Venator rolled to the side. However, to her horror, the metal rod struck one of her allies, her body bleeding from the entrance and exit wound. Once more, the man effortlessly lifts up the women before slamming her to the ground, injuring her further.
MT: How unfortunate. It seems you dragged another sibling to their death again.
Venator: No!
Venator started to break down. It wasn't just from her teammate bleeding, but also from the revelation that the villain she fought so hard against, is none other than her...
Venator: Arthur
MT: Don't call me that! You discarded me, used me as your slave, "master."
Venator: Brother, please. I beg of you, she needs to be in a hospital.
MT: Really? I'm pretty sure she'll live. Just like before long ago.
Venator: Brother, I tried to save you.
MT: What was that saying? Oh yeah, you said to me: "Call me Master and never call me by my name. I'm not your sister and you're not my brother."
Venator: A-Arthur, please. Why you're doing this? That was not me!
MT: Really? What about that time you left me to die in the fire, badly wounded as I tried to crawl out of that damn place you all a home?! I saw that face of your's when you saw me weakly crawling out of there.
Venator: I tried to save you!
MT: You didn't even think twice about saving me. Just like how you deliberately murdered father.
Venator: That was Momma's orders.
MT: Liar! You did it on your own volition. You scarred me, Eliza. And look at the result. You still treated men, me included, as SLAVES!
MT, Arthur, swing is metal boot and kick Venator, Eliza, a good few inches as their conversation continued.
MT: Look at me now. How does it feel like to be beaten around?
Venator: Arthur. please. She needs help!
MT: Like hell I care what happened to her, I rather enjoy it, while I still can.
Venator: Look Arthur, I can heal all the scars you've have.
MT: You can't heal scars, only wounds do. I'll never forgive you And Esther for taking away my childhood
Venator: Brother, please. I'm sorry.
MT: Sorry won't bring back my childhood nor my sympathy to most females. And to be frankly honest, you don't deserve to have me as a sibling, Eliza.
With that, MT formed a large cannon on his arm, aimed at Venator, and shoots her multiple times, before leaving the scene. Venator just lies there in spin, both physically and emotionally, as her team rescues both her and her other teammate. Venator closes her eyes to contemplate all the decisions she have made in the past that cause this to happen.
Venator slowly open her eyes by the light of the hospital. She looked to her right to see her mother, Esther, with a worried expression turned relieved after she have woken up.
Venator: M-Momma?
Esther: Oh my sweet baby girl. How are you?
Venator: I'm fine -. Wait no! Momma, I need to talk to you!
Esther: What is it? You can tell me anything.
Venator: That man, the Mechanical Terror?
Esther: Yes. We all know him. What was it?
Venator: He's Arthur.
Esther was shocked to say the least. Having heard of her son's survival seemed unbelievable at first, but with her daughter telling this with sincerity, this is not a lie.
Esther: I-Is that true?
Venator: Mother, I will never tell a lie to you.
Esther: Well, except for a couple of times.
Venator: Okay okay, but that's not the point. Arthur is alive!
Esther: Oh. Okay...
Venator: Momma, aren't you thrilled that he's alive?
Esther: Yes yes. I'm quite thrilled, but there's more to this, is there?
Venator: Well...
(Venator: Look Arthur, I can heal all the scars you've have.
MT: You can't heal scars, only wounds do. I'll never forgive you And Esther for taking away my childhood
Venator: Brother, please. I'm sorry.
MT: Sorry won't bring back my childhood nor my sympathy to most females. And to be frankly honest, you don't deserve to have me as a sibling, Eliza.)
Venator: Momma, we need to do something.
Esther: And that would be?
Venator: I can't believe what we have done. Arthur is now a maniac because of us. Because I... I left him to die!
Venator started to tear up, realizing the weight of her previous actions and decisions have rid any sort of innocence from her own brother. Her tears went unnoticed by her mother, who hugs and caresses her daughter to calm her down.
Esther: Eliza, this is our fault. We will try our best to bring him back.
Venator: Momma, do you regret it?
Esther: Since he perished, every single day of my life. We turned what was once a innocent boy into our monster.
After separating from each other, Esther let Venator rest to regain her strength and to heal. The latter, meanwhile, now think of the ways to subdue her own brother and to restore his humanity from the trauma they've caused; like the saying goes: "Everything has a consequence."
Venator and her mother has certainly regretted their decisions, and now the whole world is going to pay the price.
. . . . .
In the battle in the sky, Venator knows what she has to do. It's risky, but she needed everything in her arsenal to subdue her brother. Luckily, thanks to her training, she have mastered an ability to temporarily produce an EMP strong enough to knock out a city block. She must hope this will give her sometime to make a resolution with him.
"You just don't give up, do you?"
Venator: You're wrong, Terror. Ever since the revelation, you showed me my mistakes. I don't want to harm you any more, I want you to come back to us!
"Like hell I am."
That's it, he is pushed to his limits. But so do Venator.
"I will defeat you, permanently!"
The various tiles around Hsi body broke off into the open air, all facing towards Terror's enemies as he readied his ultimate blast. By concentrating most of his power into the weapon systems, he formed 4 large cannons (one on each arm and one of each shoulder) and prepared to fire them.
In Venator's communication earpiece, her friend, C, warned her, "Ven, the energy output is off the charts! I'm not sure you could absorb that much energy in a single blow!" Venator merely chuckled to her teammate and said, "Don't worry, I have a plan."
In the last moments of communication, Terror unleashed his ultimate attack: "Ultimate Chaos Fire!" The tiles and cannons fire all at once I to a concentrated red beam of pure plasma energy and it is coming straight towards Venator. Venator let some of the energy hit her before flying away as the beam melted the skyline in it's path as well as burning the side of a mountain a few kilometers away.
After the fire, the cannons and tiles formed back onto Terror as he rejoiced by his former tormentor's death. He pants heavily after expending so much energy to take her out. He said to himself, "Finally, she's gone. With so much of my energy being expended, I must return back before doing anything else."
Before he had a chance to fly away with what little power he has left, Venator suddenly appeared in front of him. "Then come with me."
"No!" Terror banged his head on Venator's before flying high in the sky. The heroine followed the man into the stratosphere just as she saw the energy of that suit of his dwindling. Venator uses the absorbed energy to fly faster to gain enough speed to unleashed her EMP, completely disabling Terror's suit, but as a side effect of sending him to the ground. Seeing that he is probably gonna die from the fall, Venator used the remaining power boost to fly her way towards her brother, hugging him tightly and thus saving the mechanized villain from the fall.
MT: Let go!
Venator: No Brother.
MT: Then why saving me? After everything I've ever done.
Venator: Arthur, please. I am very sorry. From the very bottom of my heart. I regretted every action, every decision I have ever made that turned you into this.
MT: Hmph. Like I care from your "apology." You took me away from my childhood, you turned me into slave, you punished me for even the most petty of crimes and you left me to die. I had to escape into the woods to find my salvation!
Venator: Brother...
Venator stop to lay her brother on the ground.
Venator: I know you still blamed me and Momma for this. I know you have a rage against most females. I know what I have done that contributed into this. Tell me, will you still forgive me?
MT: Even after you deliberately ruin my every piece of early existence, forcing me to suffer every single day? No, I will never forgive you for any of that. I'd rather die than return to your family.
Venator lay beside her brother, while waiting for her team to arrive to pick them up.
Venator: Arthur, things were different that time.
MT: and how do you think it is different than you killing one hundred men.
Venator: I didn't kill them. I only wounded them to a point that they can still work and live.
MT: Slaver. You enforce the system to treat men as nothing but labourers. Nothing has changed since.
Venator: Perhaps. But I fought for the people.
Her brother laughed, "The People? You're joking. What people? The ones with system or the ones opposing it?"
Venator: Hmm.. it's rather confusing honestly. I rather have it benefit everyone, yet stayed relatively the same.
MT: So you fought for the system? No equality among genders.
Venator: Maybe. But, I'm sure there's someone with that goal.
Just in time, her teammate arrived to pick them up, though they were hesitant about keeping the villain in their custody.
. . . . .
"Are you sure, V?"
"Yeah, he pretty much wrecked us a lot, including you."
Venator: I'm sure of it. Let him stay with us.
"If he is, you better have a tight leash on 'im."
Venator glare at the one who said it.
"Just sayin'. I mean, you are the boss, after all."
Venator: Good. Now, can everyone leave us alone?
The team are inside of a hospital, and they left the room to let Venator and her brother alone together - with an exception of the nurses and doctors that occasionally come to check on him as well as Esther.
Esther: How was he?
Venator: He's doing fine, Momma. After such a battle, he still have some injuries left.
Esther: Yes, yes he does.
The door of the room opens as a doctor and nurses entered the room, as well as young boy.
Doctor: Ms Esther and Mrs Eliza, would you please let us do our work?
Esther: Yes Doctor. Please do.
Both she and her daughter moved to the side with the young boy closing the curtains and sits next to the two. A silence filled the atmosphere between the two women and boy as the doctor and nurses helped to heal the man. Even if he is a villain, the hospital always have the motto: "We will heal anyone with care and kindness in fair."
After the doctor and nurses finish what they have came for the doctor called the young boy out, "Yin, let's go." The little boy hopped off the seat and ran to the older female
Yin: Mommy, can we have something to eat after this?
Doctor: Of course, Yin. I wouldn't want to waste too much time so let's get going.
Yin: Oh okay.
Doctor: Hehe, don't worry. Say, when we come back, I'll make your favorite dish.
Yin: Tuna?!
Doctor: That's right, my little kitten. Don't forget to share it with your sisters.
Yin: Okay, Mommy.
Venator and her mother just watched as the Doctor is being kind to her son. The pure innocent and joy from the two is such a sweet moment that they wished they would turn back time and fixed their mistakes. The obedience of the boy without any force from the doctor, made Esther regret everything from the start of the family, how she treated her one and only son. The kindness of the mother reflect it onto her boy, presented as an ideal way to treat a kid - not by too much force, but by respect and care.
After the doctor and boy left, both Esther and Venator heard a groan from the bed. Esther and Venator walked towards the man on the bed it comfort him to the best of their abilities and to resolve their separation by trauma.
Venator: Hey Arthur, how are you feeling?
MT: Like I'm being stabbed by a thousand needles.
Venator: Hehehe, oh brother.
MT: That is not a joke.
Venator: Oh.
Esther: Son, I want to help you. Please, forgive us.
MT: Oh Esther, you never learn, do you? It's always this that I must forgive and forget. You're dumber than your age.
Venator: Arthur!
MT didn't said a word. Instead he reached out from his pocket a small flip phone. Old, but had been upgraded by him during his time as a villain.
Venator: Wait, what is that?
MT: I always plan a step ahead.
With a press of a button, every cellphone and smartphone received a message containing a file regarding the corruption among the government and any immoral actions that they made in the pass. Everyone checked their devices and they were mixed, but shocked by the revelation of their own government doing this.
Esther: What have you done?
Venator: Arthur?
MT: (Laughs) That is a contingency plan for whenever I got captured. You gave me enough time to gather enough to be able to send it.
Venator couldn't believe her eyes. So that's why he stole those files? Just to reveal the corruption of the government?
MT: Of course I could've used it for blackmail, however, as corrupt as it is, it must be cleanse.
Venator: What happens now?
MT:...
Esther: Arthur. Please, we need to know.
. . . . .
A few months have passed since the riots and with a new government system in place, all men and women are treated as equals. No one has to suffer so dearly. In the end, everything have been resolved and peace is restored at last.
Standing on top of the roof, a man in metal armor watches the people from below, gazing as the people finally have their resolution. However, he is still trying to recover from his past trauma with a heroine walking towards him.
"Well, you did it."
"Yeah."
"Come on, we got work to do. If you're busy, that's fine."
"I'll go."
The woman sigh as the man started to walk towards the elevator, she rode on. It'll be a while, but with time, she's is sure to have her brother back and they will be siblings once more. One way or another.
(Hero Sister x/vs Villain Brother)
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