Putting the Pieces Together
One - Shattered

Shattered resin fragments scattered across the roof top, the woman in the wedding dress clutching the pickaxe was breathing heavily. The live mannequin behind her stared with wide mud eyes at the remains of the person –the statue–that he had come help to rescue.

Karl might have been a slightly psychotic but the fact that he had been defeated chilled Climber. Especially since Karl was smashed right in front of Climber, the statue's eyes frozen inhumanly large.

It was apparent that Karl was never going to say a witty remake ever again.

Annie glanced back at Climber, as if daring him to attack her too. Climber swallowed backing up a little. Karl's crow, Arma, circled above then dropped down next to what was left of Karl. Annie turned her head, glaring at the bird. She readied herself for its attack but Arma didn't move. The bird cocked its head looking down at Karl almost sadly.

Taking her eyes off the crow Annie turned to her fallen husband. Dropping the pickaxe she ran over to him, silently crying as she held him in her arms.

'He's dead. Both of them are.' Climber thought to himself his eyes moving back and forth from Ginger and Karl. Climber jumped as Arma shrieked. The bird rarely made any noise. Standing up Climber slowly walked over to Karl's shattered body. "Come... Come on Arma." Climber stuttered reaching out for her.

Arma darted at him, just barely missing Climber's shoulder. She dove at him again her red eyes narrowing. Climber snatched up his pickaxe using it to try and shield him from the angered bird. "Okay! Okay! I'm sorry!" Climber cried, holding his hands above his head as Arma continued to dive bomb him.

'She's not going to leave him... I was hoping she'd come back to the park.' Climber thought sadly, running for cover from the bird. Once it was clear to Arma that Climber wasn't going to try and take her away she returned to Karl's side, gently pecking at what was left of Karl's head.

"Damn bird shut up!" Annie snapped, shooting at the bird. Watching from a distance Climber watched as Arma fled the woman's bullets. Picking up her husband Annie ran past Climber, down some twisted steps behind him.

Climber took one last glance at Karl as Arma came back. With a sigh he turned following Annie down the steps.

'I guess I'll have to tell Mr. Jack what happened.' Climber thought sadly.

Back on the roof top Arma sat beside Karl as if the bird was waiting for him to get up. A piece of broken building was knocked aside causing Arma to turn her beady red eyes to a figure that has gently jumped down to the roof.

Blinking the bird stared up at the young figure that stared at her and Karl. The figure walked slowly over to Karl, picking up a large piece of what use to be his arm.

Arma quickly took to the air to dive bomb the mysterious person that was trying to take a piece of Karl. Mid dive Arma stopped above the figure's head. There was something different about this person. Karl had always disliked humans, so effectively Arma had too. But she was unable to tell if this person with the hood over their head was a human or not. That and the figure did not give off a hostile vibe unlike the other competitors.

The figure glanced up at the hovering Arma, bright ice blue eyes staring up at the crow. Arma backed off, flying back over to Karl. The figure followed her and slender hands picked up Karl's snapped head. His blank wide eyes stared in horror at nothing, a large hole in the left side of his head with the scar on his eye, the right side of his resin head smashed in.

"This will take awhile to pick up all the pieces." The figured mused with a slight smile holding up Karl's head.

Arma stared, her red eyes lightly up.

"I'm sorry Mr. Jack." Climber mumbled looking down at the ground.

"...That is... unfortunate. At least... we... tried..." Jack sighed.

On the other hand anyone who Karl had tried to kill were rejoicing. A little. The death of Ginger wasn't making anyone jump around at the news that Karl was dead but they were smiling. "I'm glad he's dead. The world doesn't need him." Mizuno grumbled. In the beginning he had thought Karl was going to help him, just to find out that Karl had no intention in helping anyone. The moment that Arma had changed into a sword Mizuno had hated Karl.

Annie was thinking much the same. Karl had killed Ginger, so it didn't concern her too much that she had destroyed the murderous statue. Chimbley pointed out that Annie had her wish, she could very well wish for Ginger's life back. Annie smiled, she was the winner so she won the wish.

"Well...there's nothing else... that we can do here." Jack said turning to the gargoyle behind him. "...Let's go Climber..."

Climber sadly looked up at the building Karl was left on, which toward above them because of the giant that the Law of Talos had created before they had stopped it. He climbed onto the back of the gargoyle next to Jack.

"Good bye everyone. See you Chimbley." Climber said with a soft smile. "Sure bye gov' " Chimbley said not really caring. Climber looked at Annie who was still holding Ginger. "Good luck." Climber said to her. Annie nodded, "I had to do what I did. Sorry about your friend." She didn't really sound that sorry. "Karl wasn't my friend." Climber said quietly.

"...Okay we're ready..." Jack said to the gargoyle. Spreading its wings it took off, Climber grabbed onto one of the spikes near him so he didn't fall off during takeoff. Once they were steady in the air Climber was confident enough to let go.

The ride was in silence and soon they were just slightly past the sand coloured city. "Don't worry Climber...That blue boy may... have been... right..." Jack said sadly. Climber couldn't tell if it was the fact of what happened to Karl or because that was how Jack usually was. "I–I still can't believe it though. I even tried bringing Arma back, b–but she didn't want to come." Climber shuttered at the memory of Arma attacking him. That bird was scary.

"...Hmm... do you hear that...?" Jack asked looking over his shoulder. Climber looked too, seeing a small black mass flying quickly towards them. "Arma!" Climber gasped as he saw the two red eyes. He was about to let her land on his arm when she shot past them and dove.

"Where–" Climber blinked as he saw where Arma had gone. Down bellow them was some weird flying contraption. It was a small pod like thing with blades spinning on top of it. There was a person sitting in it but it was too far away for Climber to see who it was. In the back of the pod was what looked like a bunch of rubble which Arma landed on, pecking at a large unusually shaped piece of rock. Maybe it was pieces of the city behind them.

But how could Climber not notice it wasn't brown, but some of the 'rubble' was blond?