Prologue 2:

It was nighttime down in the city of Vale. The streets were very silent as there no cars driving around nor there were any people at the moment. There was a lone figure walking in the middle of the street though. The only sound that rang were their footsteps and the sounds of a music coming from a small building.

"Heh, I thought I could find some dust in this city but I think I may have stumbled down the wrong road a few ways back." The voice sounded masculine. He walked into the light of a street post revealing his outfit. He had silvery-gray hair partly slicked back while unkempt in the front with gray eyes, wearing a slate gray and black two-tone partial zip jacket with a black undershirt that covers his upper body with black pants and black combat boots. He had sets rerebraces and vambraces protecting his arms and a small pouch hanging off his single notched belt around his waist. His boots have a firing mechanism inside allowing him to shoot explosive rounds.

"Where am I gonna find dust now if all the stores are closed on almost every street in this city?" he asked aloud. He hadn't been here that long, he just arrived in the city four days ago after the failed attempt on his life by his own father. He had taken him down by himself but now he was parentless, he had no known relatives that lived near them. So, he took all his father's money and packed up and left the damn place. Now he here he was wondering around aimlessly looking for dust and not one shop was open right now.

"Then again who in their right minds would visit a dust shop at this time of day?" he thought to himself before hearing loud nightclub music coming from a building up ahead of him. He sees strobing lights change colors every few seconds.

"Well it like dad once said, 'If you need any info on the city, just ask the rats.' Although I wouldn't refer to the people as rats, then again I haven't been to a city like this before so I don't know what to expect." He thought to himself.

He walked down to the strobing lights and saw the door wide open with a guard standing next to it. "Excuse but I can you tell me where the nearest Dust shop is from here, I'm a little lost?" he asked the guard.

"Get lost punk!" he shouted.

"Whoa whoa, now take it easy can we just talk this out like men?" the silver-haired kid asked while waving his defensively.

"Either get lost or you're gonna regret it!" the guard threatened

"*Sigh* look man, we can do this the easy way or the hard way I prefer the easy way, don't you?" the kid warned him casually but instead got a laugh out of the guard.

"Okay kid. If you think you're so tough then give me your best shot!" the guard challenged.

"Well I warned you." He said. Before the guard knew it, he felt a swift kick to the chin and was knocked into the air and then felt a heel of a foot slam down on his head hard enough to send him crashing down to the pavement.

The silver-haired kid landed on his feet and shook his head at the downed guard. "Don't mess with me. The name's Mercury, mess with me and you get a taste of steel. Remember that." He proudly said before walking into the club leaving the guard behind.

Junior's Nightclub:

He was walking through the dark hallways with only the lights as his source of seeing anything in front of him. He stopped at the door and looked up at the sign flashing different colors every few seconds.

"Junior's Nightclub huh? This should be interesting." Mercury said casually as he walked to the door as it opened itself revealing the floor to him. As he walked in he saw a bar to his right with some people sitting down while others were on the dancefloor and to his left he saw a stage with a few instruments on it but there was no one performing, and to his middle there was a grid dancefloor changing colors every often. Up above it was a shiny ball reflecting lights all around the place.

"This place ain't so bad, may not like the people in here but you can't argue with the music." He thought shrugging his shoulders. "Now let's see here, if I was the owner of this place what would make me tick?" Mercury thought trying to figure out how he could draw attention without making too much of a scene.

"I guess I'll figure it out when I ask." He said as he walked down the steps and made his way to the bar. As he did he gained some stares from other people mostly the ones that looked like henchman in black suits with outlined with red and black ties. Actually, now that he thought about it this entire place is full of them there weren't any regular people around here.

"This feels foreign to me. It's not just that I've never been here before but I remember hearing this area being more energetic when I was little." He thought as he continued walking. "What happened?"

He arrived at the bar and sat down, he was approached by a man with a rough beard and was wearing the same suit but his interior was white while everything else was black except his tie which was red.

"What can I get for you, young man?" the bartender asked.

"I'm looking for the owner of this place, I need to ask him something. I can ask anyone in here but I keep gaining all these stares, plus there is you but you look busy at the moment." Mercury answered him.

"Well your looking at him. As it says on the label the name's Junior what you looking for?" Junior asked him.

"I'm looking for the nearest Dust shop around here but almost every street down here is closed." Mercury told him before continuing.

"I also find strange that there are no cars running around this area, I haven't been in the city for that long but I hear this area is usually lively almost every day. So I got two questions for ya? What happened around here that made this place so quiet and where is the nearest Dust shop?" Mercury asked very carefully as he noticed a few men around the place standing up.

Junior noticed too as carefully whispered to the kid. "If you want to know more about this place come back in the morning around nine will you?" he asked him not wanting to make a scene.

"Just what is he trying to hide?" he thought before answering and noticed the henchman started to move in on them.

"Be careful kid, if you leave now Antonio and his crew won't bother you." Junior said trying to give Mercury a chance to escape who only smirked at his response.

"I'm assuming he's the guy in red right?" he asked him sarcastically while Junior nodded at him.

"Oh don't worry about that pops, I can take care of myself." He thought before answering.

"Sorry sir, but I don't think I'll be leaving anytime soon. Also, you should go in the back if you forgot something, or in the least duck." Mercury whispered back as the henchman were getting closer. Junior just nodded and then pretending to say that he forgot something and went into the back going past the curtains.

Mercury just sat casually as the group suddenly huddled around him leaving no escape. He wasn't surprised at this at all as he knew that it was about to get loud in the next few seconds.

"Hello gentlemen, how may I help you?" he asked. A man came out in front of them standing out from the rest as he had as he was wearing red. "This must be Antonio."

"You know there's a price for people like you to come and enter our turf here punk?" he asked Mercury who seemed unfazed by his presence.

"No but could you oh so tell me what it is since you decided to be rude and interrupt my train of thought." Mercury said as he used hand gestures at the man. The group just laughed at him before continuing.

"Well you little punk, people here have to pay 100 Lien to get inside this joint." Mercury simply raised his eyebrow at this.

"Geez 100 Lien, that seems a little overkill don't you think?" he asked only to have a foot in his face.

"Do you think we care about that punk, why don't you just pay up like everyone else or something bad will happen to you?" Antonio threatened. Mercury was unfazed by this though,

"Remove your foot would you, I would like to leave in peace or I'm warning you the only thing I'll pay is my foot right up your asses." Mercury replied his voice turning cold.

"Try us." Those were the last words the red man said before getting blasted into the stage at high speed from receiving a hard kick to the jaw. The group stopped laughing and looked back at Mercury who had his foot high up in the air revealing his boot that was letting out steam meaning he fired a dust shot.

One of the men got out of their shock and charged at Mercury with a baton. "You're gonna pay for that you punk!" he shouted as he brought down the baton towards his head. Mercury saw this and blocked the weapon with his forearm and then did a roundhouse kick to the attacker sending him into 3 other guys as they all fell.

They all charged at the silver haired kid who just smiled in excitement. Mercury got into a stance ready for an attack as one of them charged forward and swung a punch and him. Mercury dodged with ease as he grabbed the man's arm and flipped him over his shoulder.

Two others came after him from his sides with batons in their hands. Mercury blocked them both with his forearms and sent multiple kicks to them both. He did the leg, chest then head and then grabbed both of them and smashed their bodies into each other before doing a dropkick to both of their sides sending them flying.

Mercury was on the floor and heard multiple clicks go off, he looked up and saw three men with assault rifles aimed at him. They fired as he got up off the floor and then ran to the sides dodging each bullet very fast. He ran around them very fast making hard for them to keep up as they fired at their own men. Mercury appeared behind one of them and tapped their shoulder. That one turned around and was about to fire but was too late as Mercury swat the gun out of his hand and sweep his leg quickly and sent a hard kick to his chest knocking him with the other two gunmen and sending them to the ground.

Mercury looked around and saw that the ones standing, were rushing at him out at once. He just shook his head. "They never learn, do they?" he muttered to himself before he jumped up high in the air.

Everybody stop to look at him as Mercury was about as high as the giant disco ball. As gravity was pulling him down, Mercury did a forward somersault all the way down before letting out one of his feet as he fired a wind dust gun from it and it slammed down into the ground sending shockwaves and sending all men flying from him.

Mercury got up as he dusted his hands off before feeling a hit to his back come from behind and was sent a few feet away from his position. The red man got up sometime, and was standing with a long crowbar in his hands held together like a staff.

"I told you punk, you either pay up or die, which do you prefer?" he smirked at Mercury. Mercury was silent as he got up off the floor and his combat boots were sizzling. He turned around and look at the men with a mean look. Antonio then rushed towards him and started his barrage of attacks.

He swung at Mercury's head a few times but missed all of them and then jumped to do an overhead attack only for Mercury to block with his arms but was sent back from the force of the attack skidding his feet a bit. Mercury was then hit in the stomach coughing spit feeling the wind knocked out of him and stammered trying to regain his footing before Antonio hit him in the

"I told you, to stop calling me a punk did I not." He said scaring the red man. Mercury held out his arms breathing slowly as the gears in his boots started rotating faster than before and a whistle came through them. Before Antonio could ask where the noise was coming from, the whistling became louder like a tea kettle releasing steam as Mercury pulled his arms back and steam came out of his boots filling the entire room and blinding Antonio but Mercury could see clear as day.

"Try this on for size you bastard." He thought as he disappeared making Antonio look in disbelief as steam now blinded his eyesight. He held his crowbar staff together as he cautiously looked around himself before hearing running from behind. He turned around and swung only to hit nothing but air, he heard the noise again come from the side and swung missing his target.

"Come on show yourself you little punk!" he said arrogantly as he heard a gunshot come from in front of him and barely dodged in nick of time as it went by his face and hit the wall, air ruffling his hair. He looked at the direction of the shot and saw Mercury who was standing his arms crossed with steam coming out of his boots and then evaporating into thin air.

Antonio was about to rush forward but Mercury appeared before him with blinding speed and started his assault. He sent a barrage of kicks as Antonio tried to block them all but Mercury's kicks were faster and before he the knew it the crowbar was knocked out of his hand. Mercury then sent another barrage of kicks to his midsection before doing a backflip kick towards Antoino's chin and the impact sent him high in the air.

Mercury then got on his hands and started spinning around and around forming multiple wind bullets and sent them to Antonio in midair. The said man cried out in pain as each one hit him, Mercury stopped spinning and landed on his feet before doing a rocket boost from his shotgun boots towards the man.

Antonio noticed him as everything went in slow motion, Mercury was there in the blink of an eye as he was in the form of sending an overhead kick to him. Time sped up and the hit made contact sending Antonio down to the bar destroying the wood as its remnants flew all over the place and resounding boom echoed across the building.

Mercury came down landing on his feet and dusted himself off. "And that's a wrap." He walked over to the destroyed bar where Junior was waiting for him looking unharmed.

"Sorry about the place." He apologized.

"Heh heh, no need to be sorry about it young man. I'm just glad that there are some people out there willing to help this town." Junior told him. Mercury shrugged his shoulders and started walking towards the exit.

"I wouldn't exactly call myself a hero, I say vigilante is more like it." He thought about saying but let it go anyway.

"Well either way I got news for ya. The nearest dust shop from here is about two blocks down south and to the east. If you see a cake shop then you're in the right spot since it's right next to it." Junior said as Mercury waved back.

"Thanks. By the way.." Junior looked back at him to hear what he had to say.

"Tell your story about this place next time, and if you need help with other goons like these, I'll be around, Later." He finished as he waved to him and walked out to the exit.

He was outside and saw the guard from earlier still knocked out. "Hmph." He shrugged his shoulders and he put his hands behind his head and walk off to the dust shop while whistling a tune.

"Something tells me things are going to get more fun and dangerous around here, just my type of work." Mercury thought while grinning as walked off into the night as the moon faded over his figure.

Edited on 12/31/17