Death's Head #4

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“Plaguedog!” Writer: Simon Furman. Artist: Lee Sullivan. Colorist: Nick Abadzis. Letterer: Annie Halfacree. Editor: Richard Starkings. A sinister undertaker, a birthday cake and a rabid dog can mean only one thing - business as usual! Death's Head met with Dead Cert and accepted a contract on Plaguedog. Plaguedog was a bio-engineered killing machine belonging to the Undertaker, and Death's Head's mission was to lure it into the open and then kill it. Unbeknownst to them, the Undertaker had already sent Plaguedog to lay in waiting at Death's Head's new office. Death's Head had a giant birthday cake made for Jules "Kneecap" Venici, the Undertaker's lieutenant. He also had a bomb made with the appearance of a smaller slice of cake. He arranged for a deliveryman to send the larger cake via Kneecap's front door while he sneaked inside with the bomb in the guise of a waiter. Having left his main arsenal at home, he hid a spare blaster under one of the food covers. When Kneecap saw the giant cake he assumed there was a gunman hidden inside and had his men shoot it to pieces. All this achieved was getting cake over everybody, and Kneecap soon realized it was empty. He sat down to wipe his face clean and ordered some proper cake. Death's Head gave him the "cake" bomb and began to move away quickly. Kneecap plunged in his fork and promptly went up in smoke. As Death's Head made his escape, he bumped into one of Kneecap's goons, sending his waiter's wig flying and ruining his disguise. The goon realized this was no waiter, but Death's Head attempted to convince him to keep it to himself with a crack across the jaw. The other goons caught on, so Death's Head made for his spare blaster. Death's Head had hoped his assassination of Kneecap would lure out Plaguedog, but instead he found himself cornered and under fire. He fought his way through Kneecap's men, planning to assassinate the Undertaker's second lieutenant in the hope that this would prompt Plaguedog into action. Death's Head infiltrated the apartment of Roberto "Slick" Capelldani and assassinated him. When Plaguedog didn't show, Death's Head decided to cut his losses and meet Spratt at the new office. He considered charging Dead Cert expenses. What Death's Head didn't realize was that Plaguedog had been sent to his new office and had already been narrowly defeated by Spratt. Upon reaching the office block he found Plaguedog's dead body and the burnt wreckage of a car. A tired and moody Spratt walked out of the offices with his right arm in a sling and refused to explain what had happened. Death's Head was just happy that he would be able to collect the reward!