DAC Issue 3: Suicide vs Death

Issue 3: Suicide vs Death is the third comic-styled episode in the Dark Archer Chronicles series. It began production on May 17, 2015. It centers around the Suicide Squad invading the Iron Temple, right after the League of Assassins cleared it of their enemy. As they face off, it becomes clear they are both there for only one reason, and just that one reason becomes an even greater threat.

Summary
Zambesi - The plane of ARGUS opened up at the back over the Iron Temple and four people jumped out. The League scouts posted on the roof don't see them coming, but Amanda Waller killed one of them, before being saved by a boomerang killing another scout. Captain Boomerang arrives from behind the pillar using a second boomerang to kill another scout. A third and fourth scout are killed by Ravan Nassar and Cupid respectively. Waller orders them to clear the Temple of both League assassins and Bannerless Legion monks, no-one can remain alive.

Malcolm Merlyn still hallucinates of fighting off reanimated monks, when he finally breaks through it, finding himself surrounded by dead assassins of the League, and not of the Legion. Getting to grips with what happened, he is surprised when Waller arrives in the chambers in the catacombs and challenges her to not try her. Telling Captain Boomerang and Ravan to take care of him, she and Cupid enter the staircase to the lower levels where Nyssa is. Captain Boomerang and Ravan both fight Malcolm, but Malcolm's League training proves him to be a superior foe to both.

Waller and Cupid get down, with Cupid quickly shooting and killing the two remaining assassins that were with Nyssa. Both Waller and Cupid jumped through the hole in the ceiling into the chamber where Nyssa was shooting arrows at a wall, still hallucinating. Breaking out of it, Nyssa is forced to face Cupid, while Waller advances through a trapdoor Nyssa missed when she sought the room. Nyssa and Cupid went up equally in fighting style, while Waller found herself finally face to face with the artifact both she and Malcolm were looking for, the Runestone of Charon.

Malcolm was still fighting Captain Boomerang and Ravan, when a new entrance opened up in the chamber and Nyssa enters first, with Amanda Waller and Cupid carrying the Runestone. Nyssa breaks the fight up between Malcolm and Captain Boomerang and Ravan, and Waller and Cupid place the Runestone in the middle. Talibah enters the chamber as well and sees both Ravan Nassar, who she recognizes as a former member of Onslaught and proceeds to secure the Runestone for Malcolm. However once she touches it, her eyes turn black, she begins to shiver and ultimately Amanda Waller puts a bullet in her head to end her agony.

Trivia

 * Suicide Squad team: Captain Boomerang, Ravan Nassar and Cupid

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