William's astral form followed his body, which had, in a surprising twist, gained the ability to fly, as it initially only flew from building to building but was eventually able to keep himself upright.
The GDA, which had been keeping tabs on the fight through satellite imaging, had continuously sent in teams of snipers to deal with the feral young man, but their weapons merely served to infuriate the young man.
Cecil, who was watching from his command post, finally made a call to a certain doctor.
"Send them in!"
The person on the other end screamed in protest, but Cecil's face remained unmoved, if a little annoyed.
"Just do it, we do not have time for your nonsense!"
He closed the call and continued observing when the young man happened to run into a group of carjackers who were attempting to steal three cars at once.
Cecil sighed as he watched the young man circle the unaware group from the sky like a bird of prey before one of them went off on their own to take a piss.
The young man did not let this opportunity go to waste and lunged at the carjacker like a falcon about to punch out its prey.
WHOOSH
The carjacker was swept off his feet, and he was unable to make a sound as the force pushing him also knocked all the air out of his lungs, leaving the others unaware of the fact that he was missing initially.
"HEY, DID YOU NEED TO PISS THAT MUCH?"
One of his companions circled to where the missing carjacker was and was stunned to find no one there, the only thing that was there was his companion's shoe.
Behind the confused companion, a shadow was approaching speedily in an attempt to kill, but before the shadow could reach out for him, a group of strange zombie robots teleported in, looking half-finished but still more than capable of dog piling onto the young man, much to the carjacker's horror.
"HOLY SHIT MAN R... RUN!"
The others had already bolted off, but one stopped halfway to yell to the companion just standing there in shock before dashing off himself.
Hearing his companions, the carjacker snapped out of it and ran for his life, but before he could get far, a sign pole pierced through his chest and impaled him in place.
SHNK
The last thing this carjacker saw was a group of five robotic zombies tearing at a feral-looking young man who was struggling against their numbers but still managing to hold them off with sheer ferocity.
POW
POW
POW
POW
POW
POW
The reanimen began dogpiling on the young man's body before they began beating him mercilessly with their hands and feet, but when he began to stand up slowly despite their efforts to hold him down, they began biting as well.
With great effort, the reanimen began tearing off chunks of flesh that regrew before they could turn back, only for them to require even greater effort than before to tear the flesh off.
SQUELCH
A reaniman tore the flesh off of William's face, revealing the muscle underneath that wriggled as it regrew.
Watching from the cameras in the eyes of the reanimen, Cecil's eyes turned into pinholes, seeing the flesh regrow
"It cannot be, could it?" He pondered as he watched the young man rip the head off of the reaniman he was viewing through.
The last image flickering on the now mostly static screen was the image of a person they had recently had a funeral for, just mere hours ago, a person who died days ago.
Cecil activated the communication device in his ear and said with a stern expression, "Send in Teen Team, and just in case, send War Woman with them!"
His eyes never left the screens, however, and he saw in real time the flesh reform on William's face, giving him no other recourse than to admit it must indeed be him.
"Any word on Marie? We haven't heard from her since she left the area of contact!"
He spoke into his coms as he watched William pierce his hand into the chest cavity of one of the reaniman, with two of them still clawing at him from behind.
"Tch!"
Cecil originally had great plans for these reanimen, but if these prototypes were any indication, he would need to make incredible and immense upgrades if he were to keep up with any greater threats, and truth be told, only so many of his agents volunteered for their bodies to be used posthumously to be made into reanimen, the soldiers were naturally forced to sign a separate NDA before being given details on the what the project was leading to and out of the hundreds of agents only twenty percent agreed.
These reanimen often consisted of deceased agents who were former amputee and crippled soldiers who, through GDA tech, were able to function in society on an equal or greater level with powerful cybernetic limbs, eyes and other organs that soldiers had problems with due to certain battlefield factors.
Cecil's eyes shimmered with cold sadness when he witnessed William tear one of the reanimen in half.
"Such a waste!"
At Teen Team HQ, Atom Eve was just entering when she noticed that no one was currently present.
"Anyone home?"
Hearing no reply, she shrugged and began walking towards the locker room, it was there that she heard the sound of the showers going full blast.
Nodding to herself as she walked to the locker and was about to begin grabbing some things from inside when the sliding door to the shower opened, and the wet sound of footsteps echoed in her ears.
"Eve? I thought you were at the funeral?"
Kate approached in a strangely guarded manner, and her eyes kept facing downward, causing Eve's brow to raise in response.
"I was! I'd say you should have been there, but it was pretty bleak, Red Rush's girlfriend had a meltdown..."
Before Eve can finish her sentence, Kate suddenly shifts uncomfortably and bites her lip.
"You, okay?" Eve asks with a single hand planted firmly on her hips.
"Hiccups!"
Kate practically yelps out, before a muffled noise coming from the showers suddenly causes her brow to raise higher.
She began walking forward, a look of slight suspicion in her eyes, "Have you seen Rex around? Rex?"
Kate turns in a panic, "Eve, Hang on a sec!"
Eve doesn't listen and continues forward, only to see through the fog of steam Rex with his dick firmly inside a clone of Kate.
Her eyes turned into pinholes, and she shouted, "You piece of shit!" before storming off.
"Babe, wait!"
Rex stormed out of the showers with a towel barely fitting around his waist, and he grabbed Eve by the arm and stopped her for a moment.
"I knew there was a reason you skipped out on the funeral!"
Rex stammered in a panic, "J...Just wait a secon..."
She slaps his hand away and snaps, "Don't even!" However, what she saw next made her stomach churn and added to the sting of betrayal.
Not one but two clones of Kate, whom she thought was standing behind her, emerged from the steamy depths of the shower room, covering their naked bodies with towels and bearing a look of immense shame on their faces.
"Oh god, ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Kate, I can't believe this!" she roars at Kate behind her before pressing her hands to her temple in pure exasperation and anger, "I can't believe this!"
Kate had a guilty look that shifted to confusion. "Rex said that you were taking a break, he said that you talked about it!"
Eve's eyes turned into pinholes as she looked up towards Rex with rage in her eyes, "What?"
Rex, in a desperate attempt to regain the high ground, suddenly spouted, "Don't give me that, it's true, we haven't been intimate in weeks, Eve, WEEKS, do you know what a week without sex does to a man of my caliber?
Eve squeezed her fist before exclaiming, "It's not true!" Tears poured from her eyes before her expression hardened, "And whatever I expected, I guess I was wrong!" She turned around, "About both of you!" She stormed out immediately, just as Rex attempted to protest, "Hold on, this, this doesn't mean shit, they're not even the real Kate!"
Kate, who was behind Rex, had a deadly glare on her face that bore a hole in the back of Rex's head, "We are all the real Kate!"
Rex began to stammer before Kate walked off in a huff, now ignoring Rex, "But you know what I mean, right?"
Eve heads to the training room and, with assistance from a VI installed by Robot, turns the settings beyond her normal maximum difficulty.
However, before she can enter the training room and begin, the alarms suddenly blare, and the lights turn red before all of the screens in the facility suddenly show the round features of Donald.
"Gather together, you have a mission, and this time you will be escorted by War Woman, she should be arriving shortly!" The screens suddenly displayed a set of coordinates before returning to normal, as did the lights.
Eve's eyes twitched, however, as she couldn't help but think, "Did he have to blare the alarms and the lights?"
She activated her powers, causing a pink light to envelope her entire body before her clothes disintegrated, revealing her feminine and perky features momentarily before she was once again covered in her usual superhero suit.
Ever since she had mastered her powers, she had been able to do basically everything with a single set of clothes, including a super suit.
She suddenly soared into the sky, foregoing the use of the Verti-bird to avoid encountering Rex and Kate, who were loading up into the vehicle along with Robot and a woman with a mace and ancient-looking armor.
While this was going on, William, in his feral state, continued to pummel and be pummeled by an ever-increasing group of reanimen.
POW
SLASH
SLAM
CRACK
POW
POW
SHNK
William was suddenly attacked all at once, being thrown in multiple directions before being slammed into the ground so hard that visible cracks appeared on the ground.
The reanimen continue to pummel William, who took on a defensive posture. Even in his feral state, the instinct to survive took precedence, however, before he could bide too much time, one of the reanimen impaled him with a signpost.
POW
POW
POW
POW
POW
POW
As he was currently immobilized by the signpost, the reanimen continued to bash him from multiple angles, and even with William's bodily defenses, eventually the sound of broken flesh and breaking bones echoed out.
When the reanimen designated the target as deceased, they ceased their assault and went into standby mode, awaiting retrieval by GDA agents.
William, in astral form, attempted to fly back into his body, but he was rebuffed by an intense rage that instinctively caused his astral form to retreat.
Inside the human-shaped crater where William's bloodied corpse lies, suddenly, the blood and flesh explode into a thick red mist, which sends the reanimen flying along with the signpost that impaled one of them on a warehouse wall.
A vortex forms within the mist, and the surrounding droplets of blood from the mist are dragged into the torrent of growing red swirling mass.
Suddenly, the swirling mass of blood slammed together and gurgled in place as it slowly began to take on human shape. It culminated in William emerging from within with one of his eyes glowing red while his sclera was a demonic-looking black.
He let out a mouthful of blood red steam as he opened his mouth and revealed a set of powerful fangs on both his upper and lower jaws, all on the same side as the demonic eye.
"CRACKLE!"
The sound of lightning striking a power pole behind William rang out, and his head raised to the sky as he let out a primal roar, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
William raised his hands towards the remaining reanimen, and suddenly the tendons in his arm began squirming in place before erupting out and wrapping around the remaining reanimen.
The reanimen suddenly felt the danger as they were wrapped by the tendrils made of William's strangely powerful tendons, but were unable to free themselves from them.
William's face turned demonic as he pulled his arms downward, causing the tendons to suddenly become taut beyond what the current reanimen could handle, and they were suddenly reduced to bloodied bits.
In his feral state, he was about to raise his head to once again roar, but he could see a pink orb approaching in the distance before it suddenly slammed into his gut.
Crack
Ribs shattered under the immense impact of the pink construct as a very angry Eve suddenly appeared in front of William with her arms blazing with pink energy.