Santini killed this guy with his bare hands?
: Khalid Tefibi - No. He threw Girl Scout cookies at him until he dies of heart disease. You'd best watch out, Tefibi...Santini likes killing people--and you look to be a man who likes cookies.
: Blake Coleman
Stormwatch: Team Achilles #1 is an issue of the series Stormwatch: Team Achilles (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 2002. It was published on July 10, 2002.
Synopsis for "The Big Dance"
Ben Santini and Blake Coleman, two former Black Razors, enjoy a run and some "freak watching" in New York on their way to work. Just then, a squad of ambulances and police cars drive by and several fighter jets fly overhead. Santini remarks this as an unusual emergency response until he and Blake realize that they are heading to the United Nations building. They see a fire truck and request the driver a lift. But when the driver learns they are from Stormwatch, he refuses because he dislikes Stormwatch superheroes. But Coleman corrects him by giving the team's tagline: "We're not superheroes. We kill superheroes." This convinces the fireman to give them a ride.
Santini and Coleman arrive at the UN building and find it under attack by a weird, beetle-like aircraft piloted by a man known as Steel Scarab. The pilot notices Santini and Coleman in which his secret employer orders him to kill them in return for doubling his pay. Santini and Coleman quickly evade the Scarab's attack and retreat into the sewers, where they find their way into the UN building. After taking a swim through sewage, they get inside and find an armed superhuman terrorist waiting for them. Through intelligence and superior fighting skills, they kill their physically superior opponent by breaking his bones and joints before firing his own gun into his head.
Santini and Coleman work their way to another part of the base where they find Tefibi, their intel, tech, and weapons specialist, passed out on the ground. They wake him up and find out that the attack on the building had shut down the power to the building and the air filtration system, which rendered Tefibi unconscious due to running out of fresh air. Tefibi recommends using an auxiliary generator to restore power, communications and the teleporter. Santini sends Blake with Tefibi to fix the generator while he sees to his injuries he got in the fight.
Unfortunately, since Stormwatch was not supposed to be operational for another three weeks, the armory is completely emptied of any weapons. However, Coleman finds a package containing a large shotgun delivered by his grandmother; he explains to Santini that his grandmother thought his career was hunting moonshiners. After suiting up in their uniforms, Santini, Coleman and Tefibi split up.
Tefibi eventually restores the generator, which alerts Scarab, who then informs this to his terrorist comrade inside the building. He is then told to keep watch on Stormwatch. Scarab then informs his discovery to his employer and wants to know when he will pull out and abandon "those idiots." His employer tells him that the whole point of the attack is to test Stormwatch and warns that he will not get his money if he retreats before they give the word.
Back inside, Coleman and Tefibi come up on another terrorist. With surprise on his side, Blake fires his shotgun at the back of the man's head. The blast does not kill him though as his skull is made of metal, but it rendered him unconscious. Coleman and Tefibi drag the man to Santini for an interrogation. They examine their prisoner and notice that he is exactly like the first one they killed. Furthermore, Tefibi scans the man's body and reveals that he is augmented with advanced cybernetic implants. As the holding cells are still inoperable, they improvise by tying him up in loads of duct tape. Tefibi restores the internal security monitors and they see what they are up against: there are more terrorists inside, two more outside, and they have hostages. Santini tells Coleman to warm up the teleporter and start bringing in the team.
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- Silver Scarab
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Notes
- Blake's remark about a "racist hillbilly senator" is Sonny Terns, who plays an antagonistic role towards Team Achilles throughout the series.
See Also
- Cover gallery for the Stormwatch: Team Achilles series
- Images from Stormwatch: Team Achilles Vol 1 1