MURDER IN MANCHESTER

The gang war threatening Manchester's streets burst into life yesterday afternoon claiming four lives and leaving dozens seriously injured, among the dead local hero Apex. In total fourteen gang members were rushed to hospital with serious but non life-threatening injuries as well as the London hero Anathema who was taken to Greater Manchester hospital in a critical condition and slipped into a coma shortly after being admitted.
The violence started at twelve o clock when seven men armed with assault rifles burst into a laundry and shot the proprietor dead, immediately a large group of Triad members returned fire from the back rooms as across town a mansion in the middle of exstesive renovations was attacked by another seven men with assault rifles, believed to be linked to the local figure Lionel Marks.
As the laundry staged an intense and frenetic firefight three heroes hit the assault rifle wielding criminals in the shop front area; Fung Chi, Not Alice and Gamma came through the large plate glass windows and engaged the enemy. In a battle that lasted over a minute the three heroes managed to subdue the seven local gangsters and the ten Triad gangsters in the back rooms. Several of the criminals needed exstensive medical treatment for their injuries including a man high on Jet that had to be rushed into surgery suffering from gunshot wounds inflicted by his comrades. The only fatality being the man shot before the heroes entered the shop.
At the construction site a large trades vehicle pulled up outside and from the back jumped the gunmen, heavily armed and ready to deal death. As they attacked, firing at the building (thankfully allowing the workers to flee unharmed) they were met by Triad gunmen with automatic weapons, amazingly no one was killed in the opening salvos!
Onto this scene of carnage and blood lust came Anathema and the ill-faited Apex and they hit the enemy with some style. Anathema drove his motorbike into the thick of the combat felling his targets with ease, as he moved on others witnesses describe him running through hails of bullets, many seemingly striking him but not even slowing him down.
Inside Apex drove through the front window of the study and hammered the enemy inside with his super strength and fighting prowess. Again witnesses claim to have heard gun fire and screaming from inside as he tore through the Triad gunmen and at this point the pair were described by people on the scene as 'awe inspiring,' though that sadly would not last.
Anathema moved into the building leaving one gunman outside who was soon shot in the street by the Triads in the building and died on the scene. Anathema is reported to continued the battle with the Triads and Apex was seen at the front window having incapacitated all the gunmen in his area, this is however was when the battle shifted for the two heroes.
From the street many say they saw black clad figures assault Apex brutally and reportedly watched him fall to the ground. Anathema was then dragged into the room, held down and forced to watch as the black clad assailants took several minutes to beat Apex to death in front of him. As the police pulled ever closer a pistol was produced and Apex was executed on the scene with a single shot to the head. Anathema was then set upon and had his legs shattered as he lay feet from his dead friend.
The police arrived shortly after a group of black clad youths were reported to have escaped through the back and disappeared into the Manchester streets, only to find the carnage inside the building. Minutes later Gamma, Not Alice and Fung Chi also arrived and entered the building.
Anathema and the other injured men were taken to hospital and two criminals and Apex were declared dead on the scene.
MI13 stepped in as soon as the news spread that Apex had been killed and took the body into official custody and transferred Anathema to their airbase where the other heroes also followed, presumably to make sure their comrades were treated correctly and to debrief following their harrowing ordeal.
VERITY LUCE.