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[Null Void Incarcecon: A chromium baton scratches along the neon tile of the cell block area. Every cell is empty. Alarms are blaring.]
The baton expands at the head, revealing an electric core. A second one can now be heard scratching the floor as well. Panning up, they’re both attached at the hilt to the Warden’s wrists.
Across from the Warden stands Malevolence.
Next to Malevolence stands Vilgax, armorclad.
The tips of his batons, electrified, expand once more to reveal spokes for grabbing his targets.
Malevolence’s V-shaped, irate eye gapes. And for a moment, he’s sucked back two decades into the past. In that moment of shock, the Warden leaps at the two with his electric, grappling batons.
Vilgax swings at the warden, who was entirely focused on Malevolence. The warden, however, pushes a button that causes a jetpack on his back to activate a quick horizontal boost, barreling to his left and exploiting Vilgax’s heavy swing to jab an electrified baton into the squid king’s legs. As Vilgax drops to one knee, the warden goes in for another swing, but Vilgax’s eyes glow red. Lasers shoot out of them. The warden barrels again in the other direction, but the beam follows and zaps the warden’s boosters, throwing him out of the air. Like a cat, he lands perfectly.
Vilgax draws an axe from his back and holds it right up to Malevolence’s eye.
The warden feels a cold breeze overwhelm him. He looks to find Cyanne having frozen his legs to the floor by passing intangibly through them. The same then happens to his arms, frozen in place with batons at the ready.
Vilgax again fires his beam. Afterwards, the warden of NVI collapses, his Plumber’s badge falling a few feet away. Malevolence picks it up and absorbs it into him, the badge’s hourglass face taking on a sickly version of Mechamorph patterns.
He taps the badge to send a message.
Malevolence stops. He looks around.
Malevolence squints.
Ding!