Family Ties Chapter 1
"I finally took that miserable runt's gunblade, he can't catch me now" said a Yagyu ninja running down the street's holding the blade.
All of a sudden two bullets went flying towards the Ninja narrowly missing him. He turned around and saw the person he stole it from standing on the roof top of the building behind him. After seeing him he began running faster but the gunslinger was standing there and smirked a bit before continuing to sprint across the roof tops running at the same speed that the thief was.
"How did he catch up to me so fast, that's not possible" the ninja said
He took the fastest route across the rooftops hoping to out run the attacker and succeeding his mission. He turned around and noticed he was no longer there
"What the hell, where did he go?" He asked himself out loud
"Evening, I believe you have something belonging to me" He said coming up alongside the thief before knocking him off the rooftop onto the path way.
The thief landed with ease and didn't lose his footing,
"Damn it, Jack where the hell are you!"
"Above you Axel" he replied
Axel looked up and saw Jack's jet ready to intervene
"Let me guess, you want to knock him off his feat?" Jack asked raising his eyebrow
"Yeah, but wait till we're in more open ground, don't want to end up destroying building and by the looks of it, he's heading towards the forest" Axel replied
As Jack raced ahead, Axel and the thief continued running through the city hoping to outrun Axel and take his prize with him. The Ninja threw some smoke bombs down to try and elude Axel but he managed to keep up at equal speed.
"You want to play dirty, fine let's play dirty" Axel said as he pulled out his revolvers again and began to open fire. Each hit came close but not close enough to cut him that he would leave a blood trail.
Axel looked around and noticed that the ninja was too busy focusing forward that he would see him coming from a different route. He jumped onto a wooden platform that took him to the rooftop on the left to the one that the ninja was on. To Axels luck it lead right on route to a joining of the roof top the ninja was on
'Shame, was really looking forward to seeing Jack test that new toy of his out'
As the rooftop was about to join Axel grabbed a skateboard left on the roof from someone earlier and quickly sped up on it using the downhill ramps left by other people. The thief was still focused on the front so Axel made sure to use that to his advantage.
"I guess he gave up" The Ninja said after not hearing Axel's footsteps behind him
"No I didn't!" He exclaimed as he kicked the skateboard hitting the Ninja head on, knocking him off his footing and face planting into the ground.
"I'll be taking that" Axel said grabbing the ninja's bag and pulling out his silver gunblade.
He flicked it around and shifted it into its gun state to make sure it still worked before putting it back in his sheath
"So, you got your item back now what are you going to do to me?" The Yagyu ninja asked
"Nothing, just get out of here and don't come back again" Axel said looking at him dead on
The ninja ran off and disappeared before Jack returned to Axel, landing his VTOL on the roof
"You couldn't let me have this one?" Jack said hoping out the jet
"I would've but then I remembered how crazy you went last time when we were on the Iceberg assignment!" Axel exclaimed
"What, we ended up getting the target and got bonus pay for wiping out the base" Jack replied
"Really, I was positive you destroyed a landmark in the process" Axel retorted while making his way to jet
"Fine" He sighed
"Also here are these back" Axel said as he threw the pair of revolvers back to Jack
"Thanks, I'm surprised you weren't even trying" Said Jack as he put them back in his holster
"Come on, let's head home, Jessabel is probably starting to get worried about us" said Axel
30 MINUTES LATER
"You two finally came home?" Jessabel asked as she was playing with her yo-yo on the couch
"Yeah, that thief was a little harder than expected" Axel replied as he sat down next to her and began to relax a bit
"Did you bring anything interesting back?" Jessabel asked
"Just my stuff and this skateboard" Axel replied as he yawned trying not to fall asleep
"I think I'll head back to bed, I'll see you guys in the morning" Jack said closing his door
It was just Axel and Jessabel sitting in the living room enjoying each other's company. They all shared a bit of the same background all growing up orphans, Jack first met Axel when he was only ten. Axel arrived at the orphanage after his parent's had a huge falling out completely forgetting about him and dumping him there to fend for himself. Jack had been there all of his life after being dropped off on the doorstep never knowing his true parent's or where he came from but helped Axel adjust to the life he was forced to live out with just each other to rely on for help.
That was until Jessabel came along several months later, she was five months when Axel found her alone while walking around the city one night. At first she was scared only being five months but gradually over time looked up to Axel as a brotherly figure and Axel saw this in her. He thought that she would be another problem that would go away over time but he grew towards her as well and felt a connection between them both before the event's that took place which resulted in the three of them running away and Axel and Jack becoming mercenaries to keep themselves a float.
"What's that damn beeping noise?" Axel asked himself waking up after falling asleep on the floor
He looked outside the window to see morning had finally broken over the city and that the glare from the sun was shining into his left eye making it hard for his eyes to adjust. Jessabel was still fast asleep on the couch, Axel figured he must've fallen off somewhere through the night. As he got up he rolled the sleeves on his jacket back up before stretching a bit trying to wake up.
"Your woke early" Jack said sitting in front of his computer monitor
"Well your damn computer kept beeping I'm surprised it hasn't woken Jessabel up" Axel replied
"Yeah sorry about that, I'm just running a few tests on the system" He explained rolling turn his chair to another monitor
"What's wrong?" Axel asked looking around at the other monitors
"Well I can't tell if something is jamming our messages, we haven't received any contracts from anyone and usually this is the time of year we get a lot of requests"
"You need me to do anything?" Axel asked
"Yeah, can you go on the roof and check if the receiver is damaged, the wind sometimes bumps a few cables loose" Jack replied restarting a few on the computers
"Anything specific?"
"Check if the electrical receivers or the transmitters are burnt out, there's a pair of them on the dining table if they need replaced" Jack instructed
"What do they look like again, we have a lot on the dining table" Axel asked looking at Jack's entire computer parts scattered on part of the table
"The red wires and little grey boxes" Jack replied
"How do you know all of this stuff?" Axel asked getting his gunblade from his room
"I dunno, just natural I guess" Jack replied looking running another system check
As Axel left to go to the roof he made sure he had everything he had before proceeding up the staircase on to the roof. As he walked out to the roof top the sun was still rising and shined brightly into his eyes but it didn't interfere with his sight that he couldn't see.
"Ok let's see here" Axel said to himself as he bent down towards one of the communications electrical box
As he opened it he noticed a strange smell coming from it as if something had been burning during the night. Axel pulled out his walkie talkie
"Hey Jack, would you know why the communicator's electrical box would smell like its burnt?" Axel asked
"Could've been caused by strong electrical feedback or a lighting strike it did storm a bit last night so that could've caused it" He replied
As Axel began replacing the parts he noticed a few things flying up in the air, he didn't pay much attention to it and just mainly focused on fixing the electrical box and nothing else. As the time went by he kept thinking of why he was still being a mercenary instead of settling down and helping Jessabel have a normal childhood unlike he had with all the fighting in his family, he was never harmed but usually had to endure the yelling and constant issues until they dropped him at the orphanage.
"Ok, that's all of them replaced" Axel said to himself as he shut the box and got up
"Jack did that fix it?" Axel asked of the Walkie Talkie
"No, damn it, why isn't this fixed"
"Did you try turning it off and on?" Axel replied with a bit of a joke in his tone as he made his way back to the apartment
As Axel went down the stairs he felt a bit un-easy and thought it could've been caused by the strong burning smell from earlier. He entered the apartment to see Jessabel was awake and was sitting there watching Jack going all over the place trying to fix the net work
"I see your up" Axel said to Jessabel leaning on the couches edge
"Yup, he's been going at this since you went up, I swear he does this too often" she replied
"Dude, seriously take a break it doesn't exactly matter if we miss one day" Axel suggested
"That's not what I'm worrying about anymore" Jack replied taking a look at a monitor
"What's wrong now?" Axel asked sitting down on the couch
"The network wasn't being ruined by the box being damaged, someone is causing it and it's most likely being caused by someone we've encountered before!" Jack exclaimed trying to back trace it
"Oh you are too kind" Said a voice coming from outside the window, just as they turned a giant fist came through the roof and grabbed Jessabel
"Jessabel!" Axel exclaimed jumping to grab the fist as it retracted
Jack followed and grabbed Axel's legs pulling them all to the roof before the pair of them were thrown off and landed on the roof. Axel got back up and drew his gunblade before opening a few rounds on the robot which was standing their holding Jessabel in a pod centred around its stomach
"Axel! Stop or you're going to hit Jessabel that may not be bullet proof casing!" Jack exclaimed
"I would listen to your partner" The man said as the dust cleared
"Eggman!" Axel exclaimed pointing the gun blade at him
"Oh now if you fire that thing at me, you can kiss your sister good bye into oblivion!" He exclaimed pulling up a detonator and holding it, forcing Axel to lower his weapon
"What do you want from us?" Axel asked trying to hold back the rage that was building up inside him
"I require your services to deal with a formidable enemy of mine and I heard your best in the business, my boss wanted to make sure it was you I hired" Eggman responded lowering the detonator
"Who's the target?" Jack asked
Eggmen threw a package at Jack and caught it, as he opened it they were both stunned to see who the target was
"Sonic the hedgehog?" Axel muttered under his breath
"Here's the deal, you kill the annoying the hedgehog and you get your sister back" Eggman said raising an eyebrow
"Axel?" Jack asked looking at him
"Fine, where is he?" Axel asked sliding the gunblade back into his sheath
"The forest outside of town, he's currently there figuring out what I'm up to, but I've set it up as a trap for you, go there now and take care of him or else your sister will never come back, farewell" Eggman instructed as he proceeded to fly upwards into a carrier ship and zoom off into the distance
"Do you really think we can kill him?" Jack asked prepping the VTOL hastily
"Were going to put on a show for eggman, he'll get what he wants all right" Axel smirked hoping in to the jet.