Rise Of Hades' Hellborn: Trumpets Of The Damned

Nightmare Reloaded

Myles flexed his wrists making the taxed joints pop audibly. He ejected his pistols’ emptied mag and tore off the duct tape used to gag Louise.

“ Was the gag strictly necessary?” Louise grimaced and caught Myles gaze. “ Okay I get your point”

“ I believe you'd admit that I've done a pretty good job in taking good care of merry maids huh”

“ Well I see you've managed not to kill all of em” Louise admitted. “ I didn't kill any of em, those were plastic bullets” Myles clarified.

Myles was a DIY specialist in the armory field and an expert too. He enough rounds of custom made bullets that could kill or incapacitate a small army but only a small amount was kept at home, the rest were stashed at various hidden locations across the state.

“ Then what do you call tossing a guy out of a damned window” Louise taunted. “ Petty street fighting” Myles dismissed with a wave. “ Resulting in just a damaged knee cap and a couple broken bones”

“ Those aren't the only ones Myles, there's no shaking outta this” Louise said, looking over his shoulder.

“ Good cause I'm just getting started” Myles scoffed and strode to an MP3 player in the room.

It took him only a few minutes to select a soundtrack and slot it in.

Outside, multiple teams of mercenaries had arrived at the apartment.

A team who had arrived in a van charged through the fire rails leading to his room while another set fired more grappling hooks.

Inside, The sound of an uplifting fast rap beat enveloped the room Myles cocked his pistols just as a section of wall blew up.

The emerging team fired immediately at him. His eyes turned purple for a brief moment during then it seemed like every thing was happening in slow motion.

He fired rapidly, each bullet precise and movements fluid. Louise ran an hid himself behind a desk while the onslaught continued.

The bullets shower hit each man with the kinetic energy of a maul, they collapsed frothing at the mouth working for a breath they could not draw.

The shooting lessened when Myles ran out of bullets in each pistol. He dashed around easily avoiding each bullet with grace with the air was swollen with the smell of spent gunpowder.

“ Hate to break it to you guys but I'm down to last mag of plastic rounds which means you'll all have to share” Myles said.

He charged forward swiftly downing each man with a sharp clip to the back of his head with the butt of his pistols.

Another set of mercenaries came in through the door and instantly got their leader downed by an expertly shot ricocheting bullet.

The rest of them were quickly cut down in minutes with a few more of them tossed out the window until one of them aimed a shotgun directly at his chest and pulled the trigger.

The shot was muffled but brutal sending, the impact sent Myles crashing against the far wall.

“ Aw hell Zach! You were to bring the fucker alive” one of the men shouted. “ Get his watch let's gather our men and get that bounty.”

Just then the MP3 clicked on to nightmare, the next song: “ I've dealt with worse than you I've felt what it's like to lose, I'm not scared of what's out there I've seen the worse in my nightmares”

“ That doesn't exactly inspire confidence” a mercenary commented. “ C'mon man gather our dead we leave in five”

Just then, like an undead Myles rose back up. The gaping bullet hole in his damaged flesh sizzled and closed it's gaping lips.

His eyes were glowing and his gaze turned fearful. “ It does inspire me ” he smirked and raised his pistols with a snarl.

Meanwhile…

As planned a five men and women team of the Paragon elite waited in the background in a disguised armoured vehicle.

“ Are our guys still gettin' their ass’s kicked” Jake, one of their special operators asked. Leo took a minute to check their live feed.

“ Uh… yep”

“ These guys give lowlife killers a bad name” Jake laughed. “ At this rate we're never gonna get them” Melissa surmised, she was the team's hacker and tech support expert.

“ I still say we go in ourselves” Alex grumbled she was the team's bomb specialist.

Suddenly Leo bolted upright in his seat and leaned towards the monitor. “ Ah what do you know it! One of our gundogs actually did it”

“ Good so we should be outta here s-”

“ Whoa whoa whoa! Hold on!” Leo rushed calling the attention of the others, he rewinded to the scene where Myles bullet wound sealed up. “ What was that?”

“ Are we talking about some kinda enhancement?” Melissa inquired. “ Oh great the fella's some kinda supersoldier” Jack murmured dryly.

Leo immediately relayed the video to HQ. “ Alpha to HQ are you seeing this?” “ What is that?” Sandlers asked slack jawed.

“ That's what's we were kinda expecting from the doc” Jack replied. “ I've got nothing right now” Winfield voice crackled over the intercom.

“ I've got a theory and I'm gonna need a few minutes to test it.” The voice was that of their lieutenant Savannah Storm.

Instead of remaining in the van she had chosen to stay atop a nearby rooftop and watch the action in real time.

“ I don't know lieutenant this guy's pretty dope, are you sure you won't need some help?” Leo inquired. “ The Paragon ammo should keep me alive, just keep the van warmed up” She dismissed.

In taking a step further on technological innovations to conquer demons, Paragon had developed a special custom made bullets.

They had each bullet round in their arsenal hollowed out and had their voids filled with petanium, a chemical made by scientists in the lab.

In humans the chemical was harmless but in a demon it would be capable of liquefying any demon it comes in contact with.

In Myles apartment, Myles had switched to firing lethal bullets at noncritical spots to keep the men alive.

Lieutenant Savannah broke in through the window, landing on her feet with fluid grace and quickly withdrew Grebane, her hightech carbon fiber retractable bow .