Chapter 14: Finding Kraven's Event
With Damian
Paradox was running someone to the hospital at super speed and when he got there he set them on a gurney and said, "You're safe. Now, where's the drop-off?"
The dock worker says "718 Kent."
Paradox starts to speed away and says "I wonder how Dad's doing without the suit right now..."
Paradox called and Barry picked up and Paradox said, "Hey, Dad-- how are you feeling?"
Barry says over the phone "I'm fine, son. What's happened? We were just about to call."
Paradox says "Kraven-- or Kravinoff-- is hosting some party at 718 Kent... figure I'd stop by."
Harry says over the phone "Looks like a social club."
Paradox says "Hang on-- I'm almost there." then the phone call is put on hold.
Then when Paradox got there he was on top of the building looking down and saw people in tux.
Paradox says "Looks like a busy night. Hope our VIP is here."
A server says "They're more riled up than usual."
Another server says "Just keep your head down and there won't be any problems."
Then a voice says "How are you getting in?"
Paradox knew it was Harry asking and said, "Kitchen entrance."
Harry says over the phone "You should change. The classic Damian West-Allen look isn't gonna cut it."
Paradox says "Too bad my tux is at the dry cleaners--"
Then the suit started to change.
Paradox saw that and said, "Huh?" and got onto the ground and hid behind a truck.
{{Paradox's suit is like the Dark Flash suit
And it transforms into a tuxedo}}
As Damian is looking around and sees the suit transform into a tuxedo, he looks at his hand and says "Whoa! I'm a spy... A SPEEDSTER-SPY!"
Harry and Barry chuckle over the phone as they hear that.
Damian walks in through the doors to the kitchen and whispers "You forgot to mention the suit could turn into a tux?"
Barry says over the phone "Right. Sorry, I did forget to mention."
Damian walks in covering his face as he walks by looking at the window.
Then a kitchen expeditor says "Hey. Hey, you!"
Damian looks over and the guy says "Come over here."
Damian walks over and the guy says "Take this to Mr. Kravinoff's bodyguard."
Damian asks "His bodyguard?"
The guy says "Dima. Move."
Damian nods and Harry says over the phone "Well, sounds like your shifts starting."
Damian says "Yeah." to both the guy and Harry.
Harry says "We'll leave you to it, kid. Be safe." and the phone call ends
Damian says "Better go find Dima."
Then he heard a lady come in and order more food and a guy asked, "How are they eating so fast?"
The lady told him not to wait there and get a move on.
Damian chuckled silently at that as he walked away from the kitchen.
Damian walked into the other room saw the way it looked and said, "So schway. Huh. I clean up pretty nicely... and I'm feeling great." as he walked past hunters and other workers.
He made it to the end of the hallway and a Hunter had come out of the elevator and bumped into a server chuckling as Damian walked through a crowd and said, "Excuse me."
Damian was walking near a Hunter and he said, "Keep moving or I'll break your bones."
Then he walked over to pass the Hunter and other hunters were talking as Damian stopped near a rug.
A hunter says "A 300-year-old sleeping dart will never work."
The other hunter says "You are so certain, are you?"
The hunter says "Show me then."
The other hunter said, "I'll show him too." pointing at a server.
The server says "Yes?"
The other hunter pushed the server near the hunter and he knocked the food out of his hands and onto the floor.
Then the hunter grabbed the server and the other hunter said, "Let him squirm. The poison is ancient. And you don't even know how to use that thing."
Then a black tentacle was rolling down Damian's suit to the rug as he looked.
The other hunter says "A true Hunter adapts."
Then the suit's tentacle pulled on the rug and it made him fire the dart at the hunter.
The hunter groans "AAGH-- aagh..." as he falls down onto the floor.
Damian walks away as he hears the other hunter say "Sleep well, my friend."
Damian says to himself "Those hunters were nuts. Can't believe the suit listened to me... Wish my suit had a neural interface like this... I could work with Dad, do the hero gig... and go back to my Earth all at once."
He walked down a hallway reached a door and entered and saw a guy by a podium and said, "That's probably the MaÍtre D' by the podium."
He reached the podium and hunters walked in a group.
A hunter says "Has one of the Shield Bearers arrived?"
MaÍtre D' said, "Ah, yes-- He's in the other room by the fire. Will Mr. Kravinoff be joining us this evening? There are some--"
Then a hunter looked at him and he stopped talking and said, "Quite right."
The hunters left to the other room and Damian whispers "Damn. Kraven isn't here. Shield Bearer? Hmm, sounds like a bodyguard to me."
Then he walked through the entrance to the other room and saw a bunch of hunters gathered around and saw two hunters beating each other up.
Then he saw the Shield Bearer by the fire.
Damian took a couple of minutes but he got the Shield Bearer and said, "That must be him."
Damian sets the tray down clears his throat and says "You're meal, sir."
The bearer looks over and puts a foot on the table and says "What the hell is this?"
Damian said, "Um, I was told to deliver this to Mr. Kravinoff's personal bodyguard."
The bearer asks "What makes you think I am him?"
Hunters near the Bearer laughed at that.
Damian says "Uh, You know... you're... uh, huge?"
The hunters started to laugh at that.
The bearer says "Dima's very hungry--" as he looks up to a room.
Damian looks up and sees the room.
The bearer says "...you should leave now."
Damian says "So funny-- I was just about to do that." as he puts the lid back on the tray and walks away.
Damian walks to the door and says "He was looking up at that room, gotta find the elevator."
Damian entered and said, "If that's just the Shield Bearer... how big is Dima gonna be?"
He got to the elevator, then a server pushed passed Damian and said, "Coming through!"
Damian stops him holding the tray and says "Seriously? Are you trying to knock me over?"
He says "No, just get out of my way!"
Damian says "You're lucky I'm carrying this tray or I'd put my fists in your face."
He moves out of the way and the server walks away scared of Damian.
Then when he was out of the way Damian got in the elevator and hit the button for up.
Damian got out of the elevator and said, "Find Dima... we find Kraven and this weird Lizard serum. Easy."
Damian entered the room where Dima was supposed to be and he saw a tiger.
Damian's suit quickly changes back to a Flash suit and he asks "You wouldn't happen to be..."
As his suit fully formed around him he continued "Dima?
Paradox says "Crap. Well, that explains the secret menu."
Damian quickly got out of the room and said, "Someone's a little hangry... A tiger? That's new."
Then he says "All right, let's give Dima something to eat that isn't speedster-flavoured. That raw meat is good, but what else can I add to it? Wait, where's that sleeping, Hunter?"
Then He sped all the way to where the Hunter that was sleeping was at Flashtime.
He quickly approached the sleeping hunter and grabbed the dart.
Paradox puts a finger up to his mouth and says "Shhhhh-- our little secret."
Then he quickly got back to the room with Dima where he set the tray on the ground outside the room.
He got to the tray bent down and said, "Sleepy time for Dima. Snooping time for Damian. If this doesn't work, there's only one thing on the menu... me."
He quickly hit the raw meat with the dart and then he got up and opened the door and said, "Hi, Dima! I'm ba-aack with a little snacky-snack!" then he threw the meat in there and waited for Dima to eat it.
She started to eat it as he vibrated faster than the eye could see and she started to stumble and eventually fell down and was asleep.
Paradox says "A chef speedster masterpiece." he made a kiss sound when he brought his hand to his mouth and brought it out.
Paradox started to look around and said, "Guess Kraven's too cool for his own party... should look around in case he left the Lizard serum somewhere in here."
He walked over to a table saw a potion and said, "I don't see Kraven's Lizard serum here...but what are these potions? I wonder if this is how he's so freakishly strong..."
Paradox walked away from the table and made his way to the desk.
He saw a book on the 'philosophy of the hunt' on the desk and said, "Didn't know hunting could be so existential..." then he saw other books and said, "He's better read than I would have thought... nothing like some light philosophy between hunts."
Then Paradox saw candles and walked over to them.
He smelt them and said, "Must have just missed him..."
Then he saw a cross on the desk and said, "Was Kraven... praying?"
Paradox then made his way to the stairs that lead up like 12 feet and went to the desk on there.
He saw nothing but binders and a box, a book, a computer, an IV bag, and pill bottles.
Paradox says "No serum... these drugs are for late-stage chemotherapy. Are these Kraven's too?"
Then he saw a drawer and opened it.
He saw a note inside and picked it up and started to read it.
The note said, "'It is time to pray'. My mother opened every hunt with these words. Others spent the night feasting, drinking themselves into oblivion. Not us. Not the Kravinoffs. To us, the hunt was sacred. A duty from a high power. 'Predators force the weak to grow stronger; we shape the world', she would say."
"Gathered into the candlelight of our Chapel, we shared bites of paska. Felt the anticipation in our bellies build. Ready to honor our ancestors. Feel their blood course through our veins. Though she is gone, I still honor the tradition. The fires have been lit. The Chapel was prepared. Tonight I will pray for what I hope is the last time. Now the hunt begins. And if I do not return, all the better."
Paradox sets the note on the desk and says "The Chapel prepared? St. Sophia's is only a few blocks from here. Kraven has to be there with the serum. Time to move."
He went to the door but it started to open slowly and he was about to phase so that no one could see him but it was too late.
The bearer walked through and said, "Dima?"
He saw Paradox and Dima on the floor.
Paradox says "It's... not what it looks like?"
Then the Bearer threw a chair at Paradox and it hit him and he was tossed into the room with all the hunters.
He landed on the floor.
The bearer says "Keep him alive." as he goes back to Dima.
Paradox says "Okay, suit-- let's let's see what you can really do."
Then he used the symbiote surge and he started to attack everyone at super speed, hurting them. Paradox punching them with the symbiote tentacles.
Paradox says "Dad did NOT tell me it felt like this."
Then he grabbed a hunter with the tentacles brought them closer and punched them.
Then he used a tentacle to bring one closer and kicked them back.
Then he started to punch another hunter and threw him over his head onto the table breaking it.
Paradox says "I feel... so strong!"
Then he then did a symbiote strike to knock them all back.
Paradox says "This thing knows how I like to fight."
Then he super-sped punched two hunters and a robot knocked them out and destroyed the robot.
Then he went into the other room and super-speed punched out every hunter he could see.
Paradox said, "Gotta get to the Chapel quick."
He was about to leave and said, "That was fun."
Then the suit alerted him to turn around and he did and he caught an arrow with a tentacle.
The hunter dropped the crossbow.
Paradox then grabbed the hunter with a symbiote tentacle and threw him out the window as he screamed, "AGHHHH!"
Paradox then looked at his hands and said, "Uh, that wasn't me..."
Then he did a super speed jump got through the broken window and landed near the hunter.
Paradox points to him and says "You should ice that." then super-speeds away.
Then Paradox got a phone call and it was Cecile, Barry, and Harry.
He answers and she said over the phone, "Hey, Dam-- Any luck?"
Paradox says "No, Kraven, yet-- but I think I know where he is."
Barry asked, "How's the suit?"
Paradox says "Weird-- it's like it knows me. Don't worry, Dad. I'll take care of everything-- promise." then the call ends.
He then super-sped to the Chapel.
He was on top of a pillar looking over them as he was perched.
Paradox says "It's quiet."
Paradox then sped in and was alerted when he was about to be hit, but he couldn't move and he was hit as soon as he was alerted.
Paradox was in a broken wall and he got up and super-speed punched the Bearer multiple times as it was him who hit Paradox.
Paradox sees the Bearer and says "It's you... I knew that was our meet-cute back there, I knew it!"
Then he began to hit him even more, punched him in the face with a tentacle, and knocked him out.
Paradox saw him on the ground and said, "I'd love to get to know you better-- but I got some business to take care of. See ya." as he sped into the Chapel.
Paradox stopped and yelled, "Here to pick up a serum order for a Dr. Connors!"
Then he heard movement from above.
Paradox did a symbiote jump and landed up top on the support beam.
He walks forward as he starts to hear a little pitched sound but not loud enough to hurt him.
Kraven's voice said, "You have hunted me. This is good."
Then the suit alerted Paradox to move and he did and saw an exact copy of the knife that stabbed him.
Kraven's voice says "Let's see if you have the strength to finish what you started."
Paradox started to look around and saw nothing then he was hit in the face and he was knocked off, then he used a tentacle to swing back up on the support beam.
Then when he wasn't looking again he was hit.
He rolled on the beam and got back up and was hit again.
Kraven then pushed him against the wall and brought a knife close to his face as Paradox was holding his blade arm back.
Kraven says "I see a man, but I sense... a beast."
Kraven pushed harder as Paradox struggled to hold him back.
He saw the serum around Kraven's neck, and pushed him back far into the bell of the church."
Paradox jumped up onto the high support beam then he started to grunt as he walked.
The sound started to hurt his head.
He continues to groan as he walks forward.
Kraven was turned around near the bell and he looked at Paradox and asked, "Why don't you set it free?"
Paradox set a tentacle to grab the serum on his neck and pulled it back to him.
Paradox looked at Kraven and said, "I'm just here to save my friend."
Kraven smiled and hit the bell with his foot.
Paradox then screams in pain as he falls back onto the beam and the suit starts to freak out with tentacles moving everyone on the suit.
Paradox moves side to side trying to adjust to the sound but can't.
He then sent a tentacle to knock the bell off the hinge so it couldn't make a sound and it retracted afterward.
Paradox got up panting and said, "We'll finish this later." then he used a tentacle to pull him to the window and he crashed through it and landed on the ground super speeding away.
Kraven walks to the window looks out and says "My final hunt."
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