Post by leroypowell3 on Jul 11, 2015 17:03:38 GMT
LeRoy Greene vs. Bruce
Irving
Previously: Former President David
Palmer visited LeRoy Greene in order to recruit him. The two were attacked by a
trio of Hand ninja looking to kill David Palmer.
“No!” LeRoy exclaimed. He had almost
finished with the two ninja who were trying to get past him. Greene had backed
President Palmer into a corner as he dealt with assassins. Three times he had
caught a shuriken out of the air from an unseen third assailant.
These ninja were good. He couldn’t
dispose of them quickly enough to locate the third one. During a particularly
aggressive moment in the fight, that third ninja successfully penetrated the
defense which was the master of The Glow and got a poison tipped shuriken into
David Palmer’s shoulder. Thus the screaming of ‘no’ from LeRoy.
Their mission complete, the Hand
retreated, knowing that they would not be followed.
It took LeRoy a while to find his
phone and far far too long for the paramedics to arrive.
When they did, it was obvious that
these weren’t some run of the mill state employees.
And entire army had taken over his
dojo, only a couple of people tending to Palmer. Most of the others seemed to
be securing the area.
One man, African American with a bald
head and an eye patch, ushered LeRoy away. They went to LeRoy’s office but he
didn’t close the door.
“We keep telling him not to run off by
himself like that.” The man said more to himself. He seemed to be very upset
about the situation, emotionally wounded at what had happened to Palmer.
“He’s too high profile a target and
too trusting a man. Always seeing the good in everything and everybody. That’s
why he got elected I guess.”
Finally, he seemed to remember that he
had LeRoy with him.
“My name is Nick Fury. I work under
Mr. Palmer.”
“I’m sorry.” LeRoy murmured. “I failed
him.”
“Yeah, you did.” Fury said quite
harshly.
“Will he recover?”
“Don’t know.” Said Fury looking off in
the directing where Palmer was still lying. The paramedics were getting ready
to lift him onto a gurney. Suddenly Fury snapped around a faced LeRoy.
“He came here hoping for your
cooperation.”
LeRoy drew back. “We discussed it, but
I’m not sure…”
“Buddy, a former president, a
politician that people can actually respect, came here believing in you. We
told him to wait and get the place secured first but he didn’t want to scare
you off with the military meat heads like me. Now he’s lying there near death
because you couldn’t hack it. I guess he was wrong about you.”
A glimmer of fire sparked in LeRoy’s
eyes. “I was not expecting trouble! They attacked me but they were after
President Palmer! If I had understood what was going on, I could have protected
him better.”
“Son, I’ve heard every excuse in the
book.” The fact is the bad guys got what they wanted. You can sit here and hide
in this dojo for the rest of your life or you can make up for failure to Mr.
Palmer by doing the right thing. If you think this is over, then you’re sadly
mistaken.”
**********
And so LeRoy joined David Palmer’s
organization.
He met with Nick Fury to be told what
Palmer wanted him to do.
“There’s a sort of
martial arts tournament. But we suspect
something more to it. I understand you’re reluctance to fight needlessly, but
it’s been said that the competition is fierce. I can’t just send anybody in
there.”
“I will do my best sir.” LeRoy
replied. “But you say there’s a deeper plot. I must warn you, I am no
investigator. “
With a satisfied chuckle, Fury held
his hand up. “You won’t be working alone, LeRoy. I have back-up arranged.”
The door already opened, a well-toned
woman came in. She had white hair like that mutant woman who had married the
Black Panther and a no nonsense demeanor.
“This is Vanessa Lewis.” Fury
introduced her. “She’ll be in the tournament with you.”
She reached out and shook LeRoy’s
hand.
Fury couldn’t hold back a smirk as he
saw LeRoy’s eyes glitter. Vanessa was a looker.
“Look forward to working with you.”
Vanessa said, professionally. “I’m sort of the reason you’re here. I told Mr.
Palmer that I’m not really up for the kind of skills that have shown up in these
tournaments. You’re name came up and we sort of ran with it.”
“I hope I do not disappoint you.”
LeRoy said.
“I’m sure you won’t.” said Fury.
“You’re a known master. Most eyes will be on you. With you having all the
attention, Vanessa will be able to work more effectively at uncovering the
deeper plot.”
“You just beat down the competition,”
Vanessa touched his arm gently. “I’ll see what’s really going on.”
**********
LeRoy and Vanessa arrived and were
surprised to be greeted at the airport. The escort didn’t look like a fighter,
from Vanessa’s judgement, but he could have been a mutant or something.
The cordialness ended when they got to
the tournament. The arena was basically a rundown gym. It had been spruced up,
but not enough to hide its ware.
There wasn’t much room for spectators
but a small crowd was mulling around, waiting for the action to start. All of
them were probably representatives of higher ups. Guys who could keep their
mouths shut and look out for their employers’ interests.
Given sufficient time to prepare, LeRoy
was called for a match. The other fighters weren’t given the benefit of seeing
their possible opponents’ fights.
Always at peace, LeRoy meditated as he
waited for his fight to start.
At last, it was time. He had never
heard of this man, but the man had ever heard of him.
“LeRoy Greene. The so called Master.”
He was a buff man, with tattoos on his
chest and a slicked back Mohawk hair cut.
It ended In a multi strand pony tail.
“It’s nice meeting you. And it’ll be
even nicer knocking you out.”
Fight Parameters:
LeRoy Greene
vs. Bruce Irvin
Competition
style match. TKO, Knock
Out or submission.
electricferret.freeforums.net/thread/3995/leroy-greene
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