Punisher 2099UG #14

Jake Gallows, the Punisher, crept behind a crate. He was on the Lower East Side of the dock. Jake gripped his trusty 45, tightly. Sweat poured down his face; it was very humid this night.

Jake peeked over the crate and saw two men talking. Frank, the first man who was tall and slender with the evil glent in his eye, was a drug dealer/cold blood killing. The other was Crow, a short stocky fellow with premature baldness. Crow was a small time gangster, he was nothing to worry about, and he was a pawn in Jake's large chess game against crime.

Frank must be punished, he had killed innocents in cold blood many times before Jake finally got to his name on his list. This was very serious to Jake, he would not get away alive tonight.

"Do you have the stuff?" Jake heard Crow ask. "I need it now, or my buyers will hang me by my thumbs off some building!"

Before Frank could answer, a shot went off. Crow grabed his neck and blood started to shoot out like a water fountain. He died very quick leaving Frank with one question.

"Who the shock did that?!" Frank turned to his right to see Jake standing up.
Jake's gun had smoke coming out of it. He loved the smell of the lead when it exited at high speeds.

"Shock! O' Shock!" Frank was already on the run. He started to breathe heavily, his legs began to ache. Insight was his meg-lev, he was almost home free. Almost didn't get it...

"Time to pay the price, scum!" Jake was in front of Frank's meg-lev.

"But how?" Frank started to back up.

"As I said before--" Jake stumbled a little. His head became light and Fearmaster appeared before him. "No! You're dead!" Jake exclaimed.

"Oh, great he has gone insane! O' Thor save me!!" Frank reached into his Italian jacket and pulled out a ion gun.

Jake started to sweat more. His eyes full of fear, what was going on? He did not know. Fearmaster was dead, wasn't he? Thoughts like those race through Jake's mind. Until it happened....

Fire started to spark out of Jake's eyes onto near by things. Frank was one of them. Jake cried out, for some reason this hurt him, but he is strong he will beat it.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH"

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"Tell me again why we are doing this again, boss."

"I have heard that a cretin Mr. Jake Gallows is alive. I want to see if this rumor is true," he is called Jigsaw, not one of the more leading types but he has his moments. Jigsaw steps out of the meg-lev that they traveled in.

"Now I see the boss," four other men stepped out with ion cannons and plamsa guns.

Jigsaw points to a local shop. All four men open fire, killing everyone inside. Two of the men turned around and opened fire on the surrounding crowd.

"We should make the 11 o'clock!" Jigsaw laughed as he slaughtered a little girl and her mother. Blood flew everywhere. It covers Jigsaw totally.

"Dis is fun, boss!" one of the men yelled.

"Didn't I tell you!" Jigsaw slammed his hook hand into the head of a SHIELD agent that tried to stop the killing.

Two hovering disks carrying SHIELD agents appeared over head. The SHIELD agents opened fire killing the public and missing Jigsaw and his gang of goons. One of the men fired his ion cannon on one of the disk causing it to crash into the other one.

"Boss, the media is coming!" a goon yelled.

"Good, now make this place real bloody for the news hounds!" Jigsaw pulled out a small handgun and fired on the SHIELD foot soldiers coming at him.

"I am reporting live from..." the first reporter to arrive on the scene was shot in the head by Jigsaw.

It was still enough time to get some of the slaughtering on tape and sent to the public watching.

"Come on, were out of here!" Jigsaw and his goons ran back to their meg-lev.

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Jake has been riding his 'cycle for an hour. Seeing the Fearmaster shook him up a bit. He turned a corner to see a shopkeeper being beaten up.

"It's time to be punished!" Jake jumped off his 'cycle with his power bat in hand. He set it to maximum power.

He hit one of the three in the head. His blood spilled all over the concrete floor. Jake hit the other two twice with the power bat, killing them. He turned to look at the shopkeeper.

"Thank you," he said.

"Thank you? Is that all?" Jake's hands turned to blades, he randomly stabbed the shopkeeper.

Jake walked over to his 'cycle that had automatically stopped when he jumped off it. He got back on it with no regret of what had just happened. He then sees a little box in front of him.

'It looks like the one I got this morning,' Jake opened, 'More of that dust! Shock!' Jake threw it to the side, he inhaled some of the dust.

Later, Jake pulled up to a holo-screen. The screen was showing events that happened earlier. He saw that Jigsaw had been involved in the killing of a little girl and a SHIELD agent.

"Jigsaw!" Jake drove off.

Atop a building stands a man in a brown raincoat. Green tented goggles covered his eyes. His hair long and brown, "Ah, all is proceeding as planned! The dust has been doing its job." his voice was deep but yet empty.

Next issue- Um...So what is this dust that this brown hair guy was talking about? How does Jigsaw fit in? Find out next issue!