Chapter 216: Outside The Murder Games
The whole world was watching the broadcast Battery and Beta had set up. The battles that were going on in the Murder Games were being viewed by everyone, letting them watch as their favorite heroes won and lost in rapid succession. The shock of the Emperor's return, of seeing Lucifer in the flesh, of a new Full Monarch battling... All of this happened in the span of less than one hour, all before their very eyes.
But...
What else was going on in the world? Surely, if everyone was all focused on the battle inside of the Murder Games, villains would use this as their chance to strike. That's correct. In an instant, the moment Battery and the Victorian vanished and left for the realm, crime instantly skyrocketed. Then, in another instant, it all came crashing down again as the villains lost.
Even without Battery and the Victorian, the good guys were stomping the bad guys.
In Oleander, Roulette flew through the air, sending out a sea of bullets that tore through the streets and wrapped around hundreds of different villains, some Supers, some just normal folks causing chaos. While he did that, Duplicity cloned herself and ran out, handcuffing them all. In another city, Guy With Gun's Brother ran around with a shotgun, smacking it into the heads of a non-powered villain group, knocking them out. Long Legs ran across the ground behind him, using his many limbs and to throw the villains into a box created by Cube. Another hero named Stone Fist tore through a wave of robot villains, backing up Halo and War Goddess as he did so. In the oceans, several sea-based heroes like Lobster swam around sending out waves of water that put out all the fires that were being caused in cities.
Things like this were happening all over the world. Despite having relied on the strong like Battery, or the Victorian, to defend them, the other heroes were now picking up the slack and stopping crime where they could.
So that brings us to Lillian, where a familiar villain was discovering her jail break plan was a lot harder than she had first thought.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Red Ape cried out and wrapped his arms around Green Wolf. "I'll never betray you again, I swear."
Green Wolf's eye twitched from under her mask, and she swung her sword out, slicing through the prison, killing waves of guards and prisoners. "Oh, trust me, I'm the last person you want to be seeing. The things I'm going to do to you."
"You're holding a grudge!" Red Ape asked.
"Hell yes! Do you know how much you made my life a living hell after you turned me into a girl?" Green Wolf stalked forward, swinging her sword again and again, going on a rampage. Her other arm had Red Ape flung over her shoulder as she carried him out of the prison. "Now, I will say I don't mind this new body, but you went and stepped out of line."