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"Okay, so you want to learn about them more?" asked a familiar voice.
A familiar boy and girl wearing a red Ace Savvy tee-shirt, and a orange zip up jacket, blue jeans, gray socks with blue and red stripes, and white sports shoes with red stripes, and blue sweatshirt and blue pants same shoes though, respectively each of the person's. They were walking through the halls of the school, no one was around currently so they talk about their situation.
"Yes. I mean they're my enemies too and vice versa."
"Okay, Card Countess is a sorceress with magic, as you saw a few days ago. Blackjack is her henchman, he's a menacing and terrifying hitman, he never quits when given a goal. He's mute because I cut out his vocal cords one time, for sure I thought I killed him."
Jenny raised her eyebrow. "You tried to kill him?!"
"In self defense! He attacked me first, almost darn killed me! Guess he survived somehow, now just mute. But there's more than just the Countess and Blackjack."
"There's more?!"
"Yes, there's Flash Card. His "flash cards" possess the power to create doubles of anyone he can think of. There's Old Maid, Serpent Eyes, and Card Shark... But I they're serving their sentences somewhere outside ONC City, so it's just Card Countess, Blackjack and Flash Card."
"Really just three? Pff! That's nothing, I could just round them up and take them to the slammer faster than... Something in my past that I don't want to talk about." Jenny started at the end speaking uncomfortably.
"Jenny, you don't get it." Lincoln's voice turned dark cold, making anyone nearby flinch, "You. Just. Don't. Get. It. These guys were mainly my enemies before you came along, and trust me, I'm speaking from experience, they are not easy to beat. Believe it!"
"Well if what you're saying is true, then we have a... Maybe serious problem on our hands." Jenny solemnly says.
"Of course they're a serious problem! It's not like they just rob banks, it's more than that. They kill, they steal, they kidnap, they torture, they do whenever malevolent thing possible, it's only pure luck that I was able to beat them."
"And I'm supposed to believe you on that?" Jenny said skeptically.
"Is this proof enough?" Lincoln held up a video of him and the villains, backing up his claim.
Jenny nods, "Fair enough."
"Jenny, if we're gonna work together, we're going to need communications with each other." Lincoln proposed.
"And what do you suggest?"
"This."
Lincoln, from behind, pulls out a circle shaped object and hands it to Jenny.
Jenny looks down at her left hand which holds the object, confused turns to Lincoln.
"What is it?" She asked.
"It's my own version of a 'Musique'." Lincoln explained.
Jenny's expression, turned from her usual normal self, to an excited fan girl about these kinds of things. "Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! You made this? Wow!"
Lincoln nods, "I made it myself, build it with a box of scraps... In a cave. The regular ones are frickin expensive! So... There! I made it, plus that's not the only one I made so you can have it."
"Oh thank you Lincoln!"
"You're welcome Jen. It has some features the original musique doesn't. It has a app for heroes like us."
Jenny's eyes go wide, "There's an app for that?"
"Yep! The world is full of superheroes... Living with normal people, so they have their own media, private from the normal media."
"Cool!"
The circle musique started blinking while emitting beeps repeatedly. "What's this?" Jenny asked.
"That's the crime alert, pull it up like it's a holographic map." Lincoln said.
Jenny did as Lincoln said, and there it was holographic screen showing one of ONC's bridges, which looked similar to London's Bridge. It seemed at the moment to have smoke coming out the top floors windows, it was something worth checking out.
"Lincoln?" Jenny asked.
"Yeah?"
"What time is it?"
Lincoln pulled up his left sleeve to reveal a orange wrist watch, it outright said '10:57 AM'
"It's almost the beginning of the fourth period. You thinking about going over there?"
Jenny smirks like it was any more obvious, "You've read my mind."
Lincoln and Jenny then fist bump and they run off down the halls.
Both teens were in their secret alter egos, Ace Savvy and XJ-9 respectively. They were on top of a building that's near a distance away from the bridge, which was still burning, now surrounded by smog in the air.
"Alright we gotta get there fast. Wanna hop on?" XJ-9 offered.
Ace shakes his head, "No I'm good, I can get there no problem. Watch me."
Ace Savvy then took lots of steps back, even nearing an edge of the other side of the roof, then he took off sprinting fast, then as soon as he jumped off, he spreads his cape and activates it's gliding mode, gliding towards the bridge.
XJ-9 meanwhile, just flies there in a jiffy. Ace Savvy was gliding when he just now entered the smog area, it was hard to see in there, so he activated his infrared vision.
When Ace landed on the roof, he deactivated the glide mode just as XJ-9 simply lands right beside him.
"Okay Jen, you take the left, I'll take the right okay?"
XJ-9 nodded.
Both teens go opposite of each other, Ace Savvy grabs the ledge of the roof and just drops and swings through the open window, like the outside. It was visibly filled with smog so he kept his vision on infrared. The source of the fire wasn't in the room he was in, but it definitely was close. As he walks through the room he notices an open wall.
Ace Savvy moved closer towards the wall. "Fore!" said by someone familiar
What he didn't expect was when a figure came from around the wall, it was the Card Countess. Her unexpected appearance scared Ace Savvy.
"What The F-!"
He was cut off from the countess using her psionic energy manipulation to blast him across the burning room, breaking through walls in the process. He hit rock bottom once he hits a brick wall, fell face first. Ace stood up slowly, feeling an amount of pain in the process. "So!... You caused this?!"
"Of course! Me and Blackjack wanted your attention somehow, plus we always hated this bridge."
"Okay, me and XJ-9 will stop you both!"
"Is that so? What if I have the advantage?"
"Impossible! You bad guys always lose! It's the tradition that's never been broken before."
"Um remember that one movie where half the universe is dead by a snap?"
"You had to remind me of that? Well I'm not the one committing pedophilia." Ace Savvy shot back
"You son of a gun!"
Ace Savvy then saw from his perspective in slow motion as he moved. The countess was using her psi energy again, this time throwing some debris at him, he barely dodged every one of them. He slowly approached her and pulled back her arm, ready to strike the first hit to the face... Then he got hit by a debris, followed by a funny yelp from him.
"Not cool!" Ace Savvy yelled as he fell back to the ground.
'I wonder how Jenny's doing?' He thought.
Meanwhile, XJ-9 was checking out the way other side of the building, she was searching the fire so she could extinguish it and stop this tower from falling down to the people on the bridge.
Her HUD was seeing through the smoke, then she got closer towards the smoke, then eventually she found the fire, her arms turned into fire extinguishers and right away she puts out the fire as the white creamy agent does it's job. Eventually the fire was put out and all the smoke was gone.
"A job well done." XJ-9 said to herself so proudly.
Then one of her antennas on her helmet turned into a mini satellite dish as she heard footsteps and a familiar growling.
It worried her, so she turned around.
There she saw Blackjack pouncing towards her, she briefly widened her mechanical visor in shock before being grabbed by him, he lifted her in the air then grabs her throat and slams her to the ground, then once she got up, he uses both his legs and kicked XJ-9 out the window.
Outside, XJ-9 landed down on one of the horizontal walkways above the actual bridge.
She turned her head and sighed in frustration, as she quickly got up, only to see Blackjack already running towards her, basically in her face.
He swings his left leg to her face, she staggers back a little, he swings the same leg to hit her left thigh, causing her to fall a little bit. He does it again, this time for the side of her head.
XJ-9 rolled her hands into fists, blocks a kick and tried to thrust her fists forward to him, only for him to catch the fist. He then turns his back towards her, still having the fist in his hand, he then pulls her arm over his shoulder, causing XJ-9 herself to go over the shoulder too.
She fell to the ground but in a millisecond, got into a pose and moves to the same when he thrusts his punch towards him.
Ace Savvy was still moving side to side, dodging every debris Card Countess throws at him, eventually, he pounced at her, but was frozen in the air by her psi energy.
He was forcefully thrown out the window. In the air, Ace Savvy took out his grapple and shoots it in the direction of the building, swinging around the tower bridge, just about seeing XJ-9 fighting Blackjack.
XJ-9 still dodged his attacks, then Blackjack threw his punch to her chest, causing her to to fall back a lot, a few feet away from him. She tried to stand up, but she felt an extremely amount of pain as Ace Savvy suddenly appeared right in her perspective.
"Alright, tag team switch." Ace Savvy said.
Ace Savvy ran towards Blackjack. "What's up danger!?" Ace quipped.
Ace jumped and kicks Blackjack with his left leg, then with his right leg, then his left leg again, all in one second. Ace Savvy landed and then sweep his leg towards both of Blackjack's legs, causing him to drop down, he quickly gets up, not playing around this time.
Card Countess went out a window, XJ-9 grabbed her and throws her to the other horizontal walkway, she started kicking her butt.
Blackjack then flip kicks Ace Savvy and then runs, jumps, does the corkscrew flip, then ends with a kick to Ace Savvy's face. This caused Ace Savvy to be out cold, and fall to the side, falling down towards the bridge below. XJ-9 took noticed, letting her guard down for the slightest bit second. Which was a mistake as the countess had her arm out, using her psionic energy to grab XJ-9 and push her back to the wall.
Ace's mechanical lenses widened as he awoken midfalling, he takes out his grapple and uses it to get up to the walkway fast, only to be kicked to the glass below, face first too.
Kicked right in the back of the head, how embarrassing.
Both XJ-9 and Ace Savvy were incapacitated this time, XJ-9 was decapitated but is still alive obviously, even the Countess acknowledges the role reversal fact, doing an evil chuckle in the process.
"How does it feel to be the one eating dirt now?" Card Countess asked.
"Well... It tastes like diabetes!" Ace Savvy quipped.
"Oh, like your ugly hair? C'mon be serious for once instead of having something that's trying to be humorous coming out of that big mouth of yours."
"You're gonna... Gonna..." Ace Savvy tried to say something, but couldn't think of something given his current situation.
"Pity, just some sad ol teen, trying to be like his father. By the way where is your father? Is he rotting in the ditch like the piece of garbage he is?" Card Countess mocked.
"You're Dead!"
Ace Savvy got up, activated the blade on the back of his hand and outright sprints towards her. He would've been one step closer to slicing that neck, had Blackjack not kick him in the chest, knocking him back.
"Still a pity. You had so much potential being like us, such potential wasted, it's such a shame that you have to die."
Card Countess then hand her hand up and pointed to Ace, signaling Blackjack to execute them.
They then heard something, a roar that sounded like a tiger, a certain tiger as some know. They looked around, searching the source of the roar, only to finally turned their heads up.
That's where they saw an incoming fist, attached to chains, it punched the Countess in the face, knocking her down. Blackjack looked to the figure who landed in front of the two heroes.
It was someone around their age, sixteen to the least, he had a brown mask that has white furry sideburns, tiger-like ears and a letter 'T' on the forehead, and mechanical lenses. His suit is completely black with red stars on his gloves, brown boots, a red bandanna on his neck which also doubles as a scarf, and gray metallic claws. His belt buckle had a 'T' on it.
"Hola ahí! It is I! El Héroe Tigre from the Miracle District! Excuse me mal villainó, could go lay down feel the end of my boot please?"
As always, Blackjack doesn't say a word. Not a single word.
El Héroe Tigre takes this silence as a no to his quipping question. "No? Alright tu funeral." He activates his retractable claws and sprints at him. So did Blackjack.
As he approached him, El Héroe Tigre unexpectedly to Blackjack, slides between his legs, then stood up swiftly and raised his legs from the ground and uses the strength in the muscles in his legs to thrust them forward, kicking the back of Blackjack. Blackjack is knocked forward and fell face first on the glass.
El Héroe Tigre then uses both of his grappling hook hands to put both Card Countess and Blackjack together, uses a spare rope he had, ties them both together, then swings the remaining rope, therefore swinging both villains, in a circle until he decides to let go, they were thrown off, going into a direction away from the bridge, swearing this is not end.
"Okay, took care of those villains? Check! Stole that guys wallet? Check! Checking out the other heroes? Working on it." El Héroe Tigre said.
Ace Savvy during all this, was reattaching XJ-9's head back, and succeeded the second El Héroe Tigre took care of both villains.
"There you go! All better, you okay Jen?" Ace Savvy asked
"Yeah, I'm okay Linc. Just felt a major amount of pain that's all." XJ-9 smiled in an attempt to reassure.
"Okay, now your just making me worry a bit more."
"I said I'm okay! I'm fine, I'm a robot okay."
"Yeah, a robot who has emotions and can feel pain. Can you move?"
"Linc, I said I'm fine. I can move just fi- Ow!"
XJ-9 tried to get up but she still felt a major pain where her right ankle is supposed to be. "C'mon, I'll help you up." Ace Savvy offered.
"Yeah... I think that'll be best." XJ-9 agreed.
Ace Savvy then brought XJ-9 to her feet, with XJ-9's right foot up so she wouldn't feel the pain again if it touch the ground, her arm over his shoulder and his arm over hers.
That's where El Héroe Tigre comes in. "Tú chicos bien?" he asked in Spanish.
"Sí, estamos bien." Ace Savvy responded back in Spanish.
"Okay, you need help?" El Héroe Tigre offered.
Lincoln smiles as he gestured to Jenny, "Well you could start by helping me carry my friend to safety."
"Okay."
El Héroe Tigre went over and had his arm over XJ-9's shoulder, and he put her arm over his shoulder. Giving her more moral support. As both boys are carrying the robot girl to safety, XJ-9 had a few things to ask.
"Where did you come from?"
"I saw the fire from my district, I wasn't gonna let anyone die."
"Sooo... Are you like another hero?"
"Of sorts, yeah."
"You want to join our alliance? I mean if you're not busy or anything."
"Eh, I've got no plans." El Héroe Tigre accepted her offer.
"Great! Now they're outnumbered two to three." Ace Savvy remarked.
"You've said it." XJ-9 agreed.
"Soo are you two dating or like a thing?" El Héroe Tigre asked.
"No. We actually just met a week ago." Ace Savvy denied.
"Yeah, plus it's not like we like each other, i mean i already have a boyfriend."
"Bien entonces, so when do we start?"
"Pretty soon." Ace Savvy responded
End of Chapter
Credit for Fanfictionranger for beta reading this story.
Credit goes to Smoking Wrecker for suggesting El Tigre's I introduction