The Mark

Thor dragged the nearly catatonic Gordon Halstag by his collar through the hallways of his own one hundred fifty story bank. Only a few minutes earlier Thor had injected Halstag with a serum that nearly turned him into a zombie. His mind still worked as normal, but all voluntary muscle movement ceased.

There was an enormous bounty out for Halstag, almost enough for Thor to retire happily after just six year of being a bounty hunter. Apparently, Halstag had been a little too open with his clients records and account information, and the Omicron Corporation had wanted to know just how Unix Corporation had known just where to strike and cripple their finances.

"Shark," Thor said, pressing on his throat to activate the radio implant in his neck, "Where the hell are you? This serum is only going to last for about another ten minutes, and I don't want to risk having this guy go into some kind of weird paralysis because of overdose."

"Calm down, Thor." came Shark's voice through receiver implanted just in front of Thor's ear, "I'll be there in seven minutes, traffic is really bad out here."

Thor knew that Shark wasn't behind schedule because of traffic. He'd taken that into account when he planned the mission. Knowing Shark, the spliced freak of nature had stopped at a fish market to have a snack. Shark would never be able to control his primitive instincts.

Further contemplation on the matter came to a stop when the transporter at the end of hall chimed to life. Thor's mind immediately went into overdrive, there wasn't supposed to be another security patrol for half and hour, and the cleaning crew had already hit that floor. Two bodies started to materialize inside the transporter, and Thor dove into the nearest office, just as Saber and Flash appeared, and unleashed a barrage of lasers.

Saber and Flash were probably better known as the Cyborg Twins. They were also known for their lethality and amount of collateral damage they caused whenever they took a job. Saber was almost completely covered in a titanium exoskeleton, only his face was visible for what it was; he took his name from the blades that were fused to the forearms of his armored suit. Saber had terrifying strength, and was said to be able to punch his way through a steel door six inches thick. Flash was so called because of the personal transporter he had implanted inside his body somewhere, he usually used to it to bypass walls, doors, floors, ceilings, and so on. Mechanical eyes allowed him use x-ray vision and see a variety of light spectrums. He was also a trigger happy psychopath, and was well known for his tendency to unnecessarily kill bystanders.

Thor dropped the mark, just as Flash teleported into the office, and aimed one laser pistol at Thor, the other at Halstag. Thor grabbed Flash's wrists and brought his knee up into the assassin's crotch, then threw him into Saber, just as the armored monstrosity ran into the office. That bought Thor a few seconds to draw his sonic blaster, a medium sized weapon that fired pure sonic energy. There was a loud hum as he fired a round into the two assassins.

The blast paralyzed Flash for a few minutes, but Saber was nearly unfazed by it, and was back on his feet immediately. Thor counted on Saber's high level of aggressiveness as he ran from the office, leaving Halstag, unmoving on the floor. Thor's gamble worked, and Saber bolted after Thor, laser blasts firing rapidly from his pistol.

"Shark, where the hell are you! I'm under attack in here, get over here now, I don't care how many traffic laws you break!" Thor screamed.

"Rodger that, Thor. Give me two minutes."

"I'm not going to be here in two minutes!"

Thor ducked under the next poorly aimed laser blasts, then turned to face the much larger cyborg, "Come on!" he yelled defiantly.

Saber was so close that he disregarded the laser gun and swung a bladed arm at Thor, who leapt over the arm, and kicked Saber in his one unarmored spot. Saber staggered backwards, and groaned in pain and surprise. Thor took the advantage and grabbed Saber by the neck and one of his thighs, then lifted him over his head and threw him some twenty feet into a wall, thanking the genetic engineer for the superb work on enhancing his muscles. Then Thor pulled out his sonic blaster again and setting it to overload fired a blast of energy at Saber the size of a basketball. Saber couldn't take that a direct hit of that much energy, and moaned softly as his exoskeleton sputtered and sparked. Thor hoped he'd managed to short circuit the chaotic cyborg.

Running back to where he'd left Halstag, Thor saw that Flash was recovering from the blast, he was on one knee, and was shaking his head as if trying to clear it. When Thor came into sight though, Flash's injuries seemed to dissipate. Flash brought up both pistols again and rapidly fired them at Thor. Acting on pure instinct, Thor leapt across the hall and into another office, where he prayed that Flash didn't shoot Halstag.

Flash teleported into the office again, and this time was the faster of the two as he grabbed Thor by the throat, and pointed a pistol in his face. Thor yelped as he jerked his head to one side just enough to avoid the laser, which passed by so close that Thor received a painful burn along the side of his head. Thor grabbed Flash's wrist, the slammed the palm of his other hand into Flash's elbow, breaking his arm. Flash fired again, just as Thor fell to the floor. Thor screamed as the laser burned through his shoulder.

Thor quickly repositioned himself and kicked hard into one of Flash's knees. Fortunately for Thor, Flash tumbled to floor. Thor leapt to his feet and stomped his foot down on Flash's throat, and was very satisfied with hearing something snap, and even more satisfied when the green lights in the center of Flash's eyes went out.

Triumphantly walking back to where he'd left Halstag, Thor found the executive starting to recover from the serum. Rather than risk another injection, Thor pinched a nerve in Halstag's neck, and the man dropped into unconsciousness.

"I'm right outside." Came Shark's voice, "What do you want me to do."

Thor actually laughed at the irony. "Break the glass so I can get Halstag in there without risking any more security patrols or more hopeful assassins."

"Okay, Thor."

The glass wall shattered revealing a moderate sized gunship. Shark stood in the entry way. The easiest way to describe Shark was a man sized blue shark with legs, and arms where his pectoral fins should be. Thor was never really sure if he'd been a human who wanted to be shark spliced, or a shark that was genetically crossed with a human.

Dragging Halstag to the entry way, and passing him to Shark, Thor finally boarded the gunship and collapsed into one of the black leather seats.

"Okay," Thor sighed happily, "Take us to Omicron HQ. And Shark??"

"Yeah?"

"No fish market stops this time."

note: I wrote this story in about an hour and a half just because I was bored. But if I get enough reviews and/or enough encouragement then I'll consider writing a sequal or making it part of a series. So please review and give me some feedback.