CENTRAL LONDON ATTACK CLAIMS 22 LIVES

The Crusaders broke with the current incarnations tradition and spoke to the press at the end of a dark day for them and London that saw twenty two dead and hundreds injured.

The U-Foes; an American super villain quartet most famous for battling the Hulk, were the source of the pain that tore at central London last week and caused so much damage in the process. In a very short battle with the Crusaders one of their members; 'Ironclad', managed to create several localised earthquakes that caused millions of pounds of damage and created shock waves that tore the streets apart, causing the loss of life.

The Crusaders fought the U-Foes as well as they could, trying to contain the deadly force that they represented, but were unable to stop them from devastating the surrounding area and taking the lives they did. They did however use a as yet unconfirmed teleportation ray that removed three of the four U-Foes from the battlefield. The fourth member, Vector, was left dead in the streets, killed when his team mate unleashed his super strength onto the streets.

Vector was confirmed to have died of a multiple fractures to the skull and his cause of death was similar to the Twelve policemen, two ambulance staff and six members of the public who died.

Following the battle the beaten and some clearly badly injured Crusaders helped the rescue teams for many hours before finally moving away.

In the week that has followed work has begun on making the area safe to traverse and work in once more and MI13 have confirmed that all three remaining members of the U-Foes were caught in the Devon area but were killed by MI13 agents when they would not surrender.

The Crusaders leader, Gamma, left this message on the night of the incident.

'We are not the Crusaders who often make public statements but we wanted to express our deep regret for the events of today and our shock at the heinous terrorist attack which has been carried out in the heart of this great country and our regret that our actions were not swift enough to be able to prevent this loss of life.

We pass our condolences on to all those who have lost loved ones and all of those who have been injured and we will do our best to prevent this from happening again and to help all the victims on this sad and tragic day.

That's all.'

The Crusaders have themselves been criticised by some camps claiming that they simply didn't understand the battle they needed to fight and were clearly out powered, but others have pointed out that this was clearly an attack meant to create as much damage and loss of life as possible while drawing the Crusaders to the heart of the event.

Another shock from the battle was the appearance of The Crusader 'Sinner' who was reported dead and confirmed to have been so for at least two weeks and yet was back fighting with the team.Some experts are claiming that the Crusaders are obviously running an illegal and unsanctioned cloning operation while others have pointed to the hero Anathema as the source of 'Sinner's' Resurrection and have suggested that it is clearly this sort of power that could lead to the 'Sentry virus' taking a foothold in this dimension once more.

Clearly this team is soon to be in the middle of a media, spiritual and political storm that could threaten the teams very existence.