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Bela and the Lugosies
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Point's first time back in action, after losing Flow, Vox, Lodge and Note.
February 25, 1973
Westcott Auto
This full-service garage and gas station is a two-story building. The bottom floor possesses three separate work pits, allowing three different cars to be serviced at the same time. It is kept meticulously clean and everything is painstakingly-well-cared-for and sorted. This garage can do everything from a simple oil change to a complete rebuild of any known make of automobile, even foreign vehicles. There is a small market where those pulling in for gas can pick up essentials. There is also an office and supply room. A stairwell leads upstairs to living quarters.
Nero Westcott, the owner and lead mechanic here, has also hired several local youths, setting them up to provide car washes on the weekends. Westcott has himself and two other full-time mechanics on staff, as well as several assistants who help run the gas station and help with some of the easier automotive repairs while they're learning that trade. There is always some late model car or truck in one of the stalls getting worked on. Parked outside is a red tow truck with "Westcott Auto" stenciled on the side. There is a flagpole on which Westcott raises an American flag every day at dawn.
The scene: A small gang of men dressed up as vampires from some bad movie have taken to breaking into the garage, their intent to steal the cars within! They're even getting into the spirit of their roles, minus the part about shunning sunlight, speaking in bad transylvanian accents and wearing the whole black and red costume. They weild small arms, and the police have been notified.
A Yellow and blue figure can be seen walking quickly toward a group of thugs who are jimmying the lock on a garage door. Intent on publically stopping their nefarious activities, Point says in a deep and commanding voice "STOP! In the name of the law!"
Jimmying the lock, if one could call walking in armed and ready to rob jimmying, then jimmying they are! Five in all, the vampire gang become agitated with the appearance of a super hero, a couple of them hissing badly, while one lets out what sounds like a genuine growl. The one who is silent draws his gun and points it at the armored hero, shouting "Gebback! We's gonna run this place now! You's so gonna be creamed by Bella and his Lugosies!"
The thug who spoke pauses, then gets into character, "Ve vill suck your blood!"
Drawing his gun, and leveling it at the punk with the gun, Point says "You're not suckin' nothin' but a long jail term!"
All three of the other thugs now draw their guns, while the one who growled spreads his cape, showing off his fangs and approaching Point. His eyes are glowing red, and he speaks in a commanding voice, "You should not have come here, mortal." His accent sounds real. Like he's had practice. "You vill not survive this day."
Point looks at the thugs and lightly bends his knees. He shoots at the one who just spoke.
The Pneumoblaster does a wonderful job of destroying the cash register, spilling the contents all over the floor.
Bella, on the other hand, takes this moment to dive at our hero, to engage him in fisticuffs.
The thug connects /solidly/ with Point, and Point is thrown onto his back into a pile of autoparts. Shaking his head, Point says "I hope you got something better than that, kid."
Bella laughs, "You believe you can vithstand the might of Bella? You vill learn better. Far, far better..." His Lugosies start to open fire on the downed hero, though none of them really have any effect with their small arms, as none of them quite hit the mark. They're all bad shots.
Point stands up and then kneels on one knee. Quickly aiming, he fires a normal blast at the leader of this motley crue of Tyrannical Transylvanian Tramps!
The blast strikes Bella square in the chest, making him let out a loud snarl, "You vill PAY for that, mortal!" He leaps again at Point, his fist ready to pound our hero into the ground!
Unfortunately for Bella, he is unused to fighting people who are set to fire a blaster at him, and he sails past a few feet, wheeling around to again face point while his thugs again open fire.
The bullets zing all around Point's head. One of them richochett's off oh his helmet, leaving a small black mark, but casuing no noticable damage.
Dezz again aims at Bella. Squeezing off a burst, he says "Think I'll go out for some nice GARLIC pizza after this!"
Bella moves easily away from the hero's target zone, "Lugosies! Strike him down! Now!" Once more the Lugosies try to shoot our hero, being who they are and who they are working for.
Again, a hail of bullets zing past Point. One glances off his shoulder, and another glances off his boot.
Bella once again aims for the hero with the whallup in the little gun, snarling, "You vill fall before me! I am invincible!" He does not have the room to maneuver as he did before, so this time his aim is to grapple the hero.
With his last attempt foiled by the hero's nimble maneuvering, Bella keeps trying to grapple with him. "Stand still!" he yells, enraged.
The vampire-themed villain seems to be having trouble catching Point, making him more and more angry. His thugs all fire, but none of them really have any chance in actually hitting him. The hero is simply too nimble.
Bella grows frustrated at this, unable to quite strike his foe, and picks up a piece of sheet metal, swinging it in an attempt to do a better job of ridding his new base of operations of this pest! "Feel the might of Bella!" he bellows.
Point aims his blaster at Bella. "CROSS my fingers, I'm goinna git you, you Very Villanous Vampiric Vandal!"
KA-THWONG! Resounds down the street as the large piece of sheet metal hits Point. It doesn't even slightly annoy him.
In time, Point gets backed up by the police, who take the thugs and Bella away, as the vampire-themed villain shouts a curse upon Point and his lineage.
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