I've always been thinking of doing an Ace Savvy story (and needed to do something to shake some nerves from doing Game Over, Loud! [If you can apply feedback to that story, that would be nice.]) So I've been given this opportunity to do one, thanks to a request from crafordbrian17.
Now this story may get a bit weird if the title and description hasn't tipped ya off. If ya willing to stay on this one, then. *Claps hands together* Let's get it on!
A glorious sunny day is shining upon the neck of the North Valley woods as two average boys, Lincoln and Clyde, walk along the path, enjoying the breeze.
"*Sniffs* Ahhh! Isn't this great, Clyde? Two guys out on the woods." Lincoln announced taking in the air. He turns to his friend Clyde for clarification. Clyde looks around at the wilderness focusing on something, as his face is distraught.
"Is something the matter, Clyde?" Lincoln said to Clyde.
"Huh. At this time of day, the aqua-crested doves usually sings its lovely tune at this hour." Clyde responded, still looking around.
"Maybe they're not here." Lincoln said distantly, not too concerned of Clyde's plight.
"Usually, they get away from the nest due to the predators when it's nighttime." Clyde then gasps. "Has the predators got to them early?"
Seeing Clyde panicking a bit, Lincoln tries to calm him down. "Don't worry, Clyde. I'm sure the doves are fine. Maybe they moved to another place?"
Clyde, however, takes offense of Lincoln's nonchalant attitude about this situation. Does he even care about the dove's natural habitat? "No way. These birds like this particular spot."
"I don't know, Clyde. These woods stretches for miles; I'm pretty sure that-"
"Help!" A voice cries out. The two stop their thoughts as they hear that noise.
"Hold on. Did you hear that?" Clyde said as they both look around.
"Help me!" The voice cries out again a bit louder, it catches the boys attention.
"Someone's in trouble!" Lincoln said as he figured out the sound. "It probably came from over there." Clyde said as he pointed to the direction of the noise.
"Quick! Pull out your backpack!" Lincoln said to Clyde. Clyde takes off his backpack and puts it on the ground, unzipping it.
The boys then pull out two particular clothes from the compartment as they both go behind the trees to change.
"This looks like a job for..."
After a few moments, Lincoln heroically pops out from behind the tree, fully in costume. Revealing his alter-ego!
"Ace Savvy!"
Clyde pops out next heroically, also in costume.
"And his partner, One Eyed Jack!"
With their transformations finished, our heroes rapidly follow the repeating siren to the source.
We see a fair-skinned mid-teen girl who's...looking a bit too plump for her own good. She's sitting from a protruding rock at a cliff-face yelling for help.
Luckily, our heroes found the girl and spot her.
"Hey. Are you all right?" One-Eyed Jack called out from the top of the cliff, getting the girl's attention.
"Help me! I've fallen toward the cliff and I can't climb up out of here!" The teen shouted.
"Fear not, fair citizen! Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack are here to save you!" Ace Savvy announces.
"Hurry!" The girl screams as the rock from the cliff-face she's sitting on, breaks apart due to the weight.
"Ace! The cliff rock doesn't look too stable, we're gonna have to act fast." One-Eyed Jack says.
"You're right." Ace replied. "Pull out the grappling hooks."
The two pulls out their grappling hooks and fire it to the cliff face where the girl is sitting. Both of the hooks hit the sides of the cliff. "Okay. Now grab the front rope and put the hooks on the back and the front of your belt." Ace says. The girl complies as she grabs on to the rope and respectively puts the hooks on the belt sides, putting Ace's experience of watching his athletic sister Lynn do her rock climbing to good use, if the impromptu safety harness is a bit impractical. "Now climb the cliff. We'll will pull you up." Ace replies as the teen complies.
Ace and Jack pull her up slowly, retracting the grapples and walking backwards as she climbs. They struggle slightly from her...above average weight, but so far they have no problems as she's nearly halfway to the top.
"Man...she's kinda looking a bit...heavy there, Ace." One-Eyed said grunting. "No offense."
"Don't worry, One-Eyed Jack.' Ace said also grunting. "As long as... nothing else happens, we can pull her up safely."
However, just as Ace finishes that statement; the next rock she grips on breaks apart!
"Ahh!" The girl screamed as she suddenly lost her grip and is now dangerously dangling and descending!
The two heroes suddenly trip from the sudden change of weight and skid towards the cliff, belly first. Rapidly losing ground.
Thinking quickly, Jack spots a small tree and grabs on to it with his inner elbow. They now forcefully stop. Obviously, this only brings reprieve, as One-Eyed Jack's strength can only hold on for so long. "Gotta..call...for..backup." One-Eyed Jack grunted as he used his free hand to reach for something. He reaches for his pants pocket and pulls two cards from what looks to be a deck. "Yes!" Jacks responds supposedly getting the cards he wants. He then throws them to the ground.
With the selected cards on the ground, One-Eyed Jack tries his hardest to pull himself up but a low popping sound alerts the eye patched hero to see that the small tree is threatening to be uprooted out of the ground.
Whatever backup Clyde calls better appear fast before-*CRACK!*
The tree gets forcefully pulled from the ground and they all begin to fall. It seem like this rescue could meet a rocky end from the trio as the edge of the cliff looks to be the boys only line of sight and the girl plummeting to the rocks below.
"Yoink!"
But then both Ace and One-Eyed were hoisted from the ground! Their speed slowing down. The two look down to be lifted by none other than...
"Strong Suit!" The two boys announced. "And here's Strong Suit to save the day!" Strong Suit aka Lynn boastfully announces.
Strong Suit walks backwards from the cliff, pulling the trio up from falling to their doom with practically no effort! Thanks to her super-human strength.
"Wow, that was a close one!" One-Eyed Jack said, laying down on the ground trying to calm his adrenaline. "Way to cut it at the last second there, Strong Suit."
"Sorry. Had to take care of some random bad guy robbing a bank." Strong Suit said standing dusting herself off.
"Thank you." The over-plumped girl says lying down on the ground trying to relax from the chaos. "I don't know what would've happened if you wasn't here."
"No problem, Ma'am. It's what heroes do." Ace said with his hands in his hips, heroically posing. Strong Suit quietly chuckles at her brother's embarrassing way of displaying gratitude. "Yeesh, Can you look any more dorky, Ace?" Ace glares back at Strong Suit. "What's your name?" Jack said to the girl.
"My name is Sarah."
"So Sarah. Where's your parents, I'm sure they're looking for you." Jack continued.
"They're not here."
"Can't you call them on your phone?" Strong Suit said.
"My phone fell from the cliffs."
"Where's your home?" Ace said.
"My home?" She looks around. "I don't know. I don't know this place."
"Phone number?" The three said at the same time.
"...Can't remember. Sorry."
This poses as a major predicament for the three. They found a girl with no phone, no phone number and doesn't know where she is. They can't leave her in the woods...So..
"How about this." Ace spoke out. "We can take you to our lair! We'll have Card Counter help you."
"Li-"Strong Suit nearly spurted out his real name but corrected herself as she now whispers. "Ace, what are you doing?"
"Relax, it's only for a short while." Ace whispered back. "We'll just bring her home to nurse her back, have Card Counter help find her parents which should only take a short while considering how fast she is at this stuff, ferry her to her home and we should be off. Should be no more than a few hours. Besides, we can't just leave her here."
"You do realize that we have to keep wearing those costumes right?"
"It's a small price to pay for helping the needy."
Strong Suit only sighs. "All right, Let's just bring her in the van."
The four walk to the family van named Vanzilla as Eleven of Hearts (aka Leni) waits in the drivers seat. Normally, High Card is one in the driver's seat but in case she's unavailable, Eleven of Heart will fill in for her.
"Hey, who's your friend, Ace?" Eleven of Hearts says to Ace.
"She's a civilian named Sarah." Ace responded. "Eleven of Hearts, we need to take her to the lair, so we can find her parents."
*GASP!* Her parents are in our lair?" Hearts responded taking what Ace said a bit too literally.
"No. No. We need to use Card Counter's radar to find Sarah's parents, who's looking for her somewhere in Royal Woods." Ace corrected her.
"Oh okay! That make much more sense." Hearts realized. "Hop on, guys."
The four responded the okay as they all go and get in the car. Strong Suit getting in the side seat first. One-Eyed Jack going in the back of the van with Sarah following suit. She gets her front inside before she suddenly stops. She grunts trying to get her whole body inside the van but her stomach is a bit too big for the entrance door. "Urgh. I..Can't...get..in."
"Let me help." Ace says as he pushes her side stomach in. "HURRGH." Ace grunts as he digs his feet to the ground pushing. But his feet only skids backwards as his hands sinks slightly to her bottom as he tires.
"Phew. This is a bit hard." Ace pants as he stands up to try again. "One-Eyed. Try to pull her in."
"You got it." One-Eyed Jack replies and pulls her in by her hands.
Ace pushes as One-Eyed pulls but again, no movement is being done.
"Hey. How come everyone isn't in?" Eleven of Hearts said.
"Sorry. HRRGH! We're...um having trouble getting our passenger in. GUGH!" One Eyed Said struggling.
'*sigh* You boys are a bunch of weaklings.' Strong Suit thought as she goes outside the van to help push the plump girl inside. "Let me take care of this." Strong Suit says as she cracks her knuckles.
"Remember, Strong Suit. Take it easy." Ace says.
"Yeah yeah." Strong Suit replies as she puts her hands to Sarah's side of the stomach to get a feel of her predicament. 'Wow, this girl is a bit big.'
Strong Suit gets a couple of practice shoves in her body before she brings it on. Sarah then moves a bit almost inside.
"Hey, I'm getting movement! Strong Suit-" Before One-Eyed finishes, Strong Suit one hand pushes the girl in with a shout. "And. GO!" Sarah then suddenly pops in and slides to the right side of the van, the van tilting slightly.
"Woah! Earthquake!" Hearts responded as the van reorients itself.
"Strong Suit!" Ace spouted out to the strong girl.
"Hey, you told me to take it easy!" Strong suit responded back.
"Are you okay, Sarah?" Ace called to Sarah.
"Yeah." Sarah said, fortunately her stomach cushioned the sudden crash from the door putting her completely unharmed.
"You okay One-Eyed Jack?" Ace called to Jack.
"No problem." Jack dazedly responded recovering from being suddenly squished by the girl.
With the conformation, Ace and Strong Suit get back in the van.
Jack is trying to get comfy but is...looking a little close between a door and a big stomach. "Um, Hearts. Can't you pull the seat up?"
"Sorry One-Eyed Jack." Hearts responded. "The van's seat adjustment been broken for...ummm...how long was it?"
"That's a good question, Hearts." Ace said. The broken seat adjustment was one one the many failings of this family van over the years it's been used. Despite it's age, it's still perfectly ride-able. "Just hang in there, buddy. We don't have long to go. Okay, Eleven of Hearts! Take us home! Go-Go-Boot!"
"Right! Go-Go-Boot!" Eleven of Hearts says as she puts the petal to the metal and drive off, back to their lair.
Ace Savvy has been put to the task to help Sarah help find her parents as they go to the lair. But will this job be as simple as it seems? Find out on the next Ace Savvy!
Comments and Constructive Criticism are welcome! :)