Assault on Honest
They had been here before many times.
It was always the same; eat something, get a job, do the job, get paid.
Rinse and repeat.
For almost four years, the Jeagers had been coming to the home of Mayor Honest, always for professional reasons.
But this time was different: Now it was personal.
Their best friend and intelligence officer lay in a hospital bed with severly burnt legs and a rotting arm because the man they were targeting had let his bastard of a son run wild. Said son had been friends with a pedophile clown that had targeted Empire City's children…said friend's students among them.
The whole situation would've been terrifying, even if one didn't have the full context.
The five strongest Teigu users in service to the city were effectively going rouge. And their first target; their old boss, who was for all intents and purposes, dead from overeating.
"Never thought I'd ever get the chance to see this."
The Jeagers turned to see their guest for this special occasion; a blonde, voluptuous, lion-like dancer in a tube top and baggy pants with boots who had won the heart of their dear friend and had her own reasons for being here:
An hour earlier…
"…wait, what?" Leone had asked her boss in confirmation for what her schedule for the day was.
"You are to accompany the Jeagers in destroying Honest's residence." Najenda repeated herself. "Then you have the rest of the day to go and see Run."
That order had shocked the blonde woman. Her boss was a consummate professional, refusing to let her or anyone else's emotions affect her work
"Is there something wrong, Leone?" The silver haired woman asked, genuine concern present in her voice and one eye. "I thought you'd be….?".
"Oh don't worry; I heard ya boss, just…confused." Leone replied. "I thought Esdeath was paying us for this hit, not actually getting her team involved. And this job's kind of personal for me….can't say I'll be very subtle about it. Heck, I might even get in the Jeager's way if I…"
"I'm not asking for subtley." Najenda mused. "An in fact, I'm giving you this job because of your connection to it."
"We all like Run, kitten." Bulat explained. "And if anyone deserves what's coming to him, it's Honest. And since he's in the hospital, his girlfriend is the one most likely in need of a…what's where the words you used again, Mine? You said something great this morning before breakfast."
"…A therapeutic and cathartic ass-whooping of the highest order." The pink haired girl and Tatsumi said together.
"Thanks, kids." The Thousand Man Handler smiled.
"No prob, bro." Tatsumi smiled.
"And this situation also benefits both parties." Susanoo mused. "Bols told me that the Jeagers are going to empty out all of Honest's possessions. And I do mean all."
That bit of information got everyone's attention.
"Dirty dealings, receipts, phone calls, emails….his own vault." Akame said aloud. "One way or another, his reign will end today."
"So," Lubbock summarized. "On top of getting a front row seat to seeing the mayor's house crumble and his dirty laundry exposed…our big, bad puddy tat gets to take part in all the chaos."
He then felt the temperature in the room drop as Leone's mood darkened
"Lub…."
"Y-yeah…?" He whimpered
"Only Runnie gets to call me that." Leone growled at him as she cracked her knuckles
"…No, he doesn't." Sheele said after giving that a moment, deflating Leone's murderous mood.
"Just bring back some info we can use to prove the mayor knew about that kidnapping ring we stopped when we started out." Chelsea smirked
"Leone." Sheele said as she sharpened her scissors. "Make it hurt."
The cat like dancer smirked viciously
"Oh don't worry. I will."
Present day
"To be perfectly honest, this has been coming for a long time." Esdeath smirked, giddy with anticipation. "Honest was getting a little more slimey than tricky for my taste."
"And let's be real here." Kurome grumbled as she chomped on her last cookie before work. "He was going to pull the rug under us soon enough."
Wave nodded in agreement. Leone noted that her Runnie's best friend had been uncharacteristically quiet throughout the whole day, as if he was only half there.
"To think the mayor himself is such a villain." Seyru mentioned, her voice nowhere near as energetic as it usually was. Wave gently patted her shoulder while Koro whined in concern. The girl pet her dog gently
"A unstylishly true fact of life; the top dogs are often the worst scumbags around." Dr. Stylish said before looking up and turning his attention to Honest's mansion. "And speaking of unstylish….Look at that hideous paintjob! The atrocious ornaments! And the landscaping? Gross! How on earth did I, the great Dr. Styish, ever tolerate such an awful place?"
The Jeagers looked at their scientist member with a mix of looks that were either grateful at his attempt to keep them from falling deeper into depression, or asking if he was being serious about everything that was transpiring.
"Let's go over the plan one more time." Esdeath said. "We go in, empty Honest's computers and brag any book that appears vlaubable."
"I got that covered!" Honest pulled out several terabytes from his pocket.
"Then we find and empty his vault. Kurome, that'll be your job."
The cookie-munching swordswoman nodded in understanding.
What few realized about Kurome was that, as Akame's little sister, she had been put through the same kind of hellish training….and with her addiction to cookies and desserts, shed trained her ears to pick some the slight differences in rustling packages or how boxes were opened. This made her one of the best safe-crackers in Empire City.
"…as for the staff…" Esdeath wrapped up, looking to Leone.
The blonde woman pulled out several files, each decorated with a picture.
"These are all the ones we found with no dirty laundry." Leone explained. "Everyone else is free game."
Esdeath, Seyru and Leone all grinned in anticipation just as the ground began to shake slightly.
"And here comes the reception." Bols said, pointing to the figures that approached their party: Hulking, oversized deformed men in armor with large weapons growled at the trespassers, who each reached for their weapons.
"The Hell? Danger Beast Rejects?" Leone guessed.
"Nope. The Elites." Kurome sighed. "Like me and sis, street rats picked up the streets and taught to kill. These guys are the toughest and physically strongest of the lot; so Honest had them hooked up on painkillers and trained to obey without thought. Technically, they're just like Honest is now, just mobile."
"Well that kinda takes the fun out of it." Leone pouted. She loved the sensation of breaking faces and hearing them shriek or groan.
Those words got Esdeath's attention.
"Kurome?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm terribly sorry, but…could you repeat that last bit, please?"
"…T-they're just like Honest is now, just mobile?" Kurome repeated herself, growing uncomfortable. Her comrades and Leone soon shared the feeling as Esdeath's smile grew more and more.
"Are you saying that….?" Esdeath asked for clarification. "A woman like myself…trained and experimenting in practically every single way of killing and inflicting pain known to man…who has had to supress that instinct…every….single…day! No matter what I do, they won't die?"
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"…I immediately regret telling you that." Kurome whined.
Seconds later, screams and giant towers of ice, filled with the squriming bodies of the guards, erupthed in the manison's garden.
Esdeath laughed evilly the whole time as she ran up them, hacking and slashing and throwing shivs at anything unfortunate enough to get in her way.
"…Anybody else shit themselves?" Stylish asked as he continued recording the whole thing
…
"You know, if he didn't say it, I would." Wave mused.
XXX
Slamming the last guard halfway through the wall, Leone came to the bedroom of the target. While the Jeagers were emptying anything of value, she'd been given/demanded the honour of making sure Honest stayed dead.
She deactivated Lionelle and unbuckled the belt to put it away, knowing she wouldn't need her lion-strength to handle this. Besides….she wanted to do this herself.
She kicked down the door and readied for the single most pleasurable beat-down she'd ever deliver in her life….
Only one problem:
The bed was empty.
"Hey guys?" Leone asked, pressing the comm-link in her ear.
"Yes?" Esdeath asked. "Finished already…?"
"There's no body."
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….
"What?" Bols asked.
"There's no bod…"
"Why hello…"
Freezing for a second, Leone turned to see something that filled her with fury, confusion….and a twitch of fear:
Honest up and on his feet, salivating.
"What is a lovely lady like you doing here?" The mayor asked, his words oozing with evil intent. "I don't believe my new concubine is to be delivered for another week or so…not that I'm complaining, mind you."
"Found him." Leone whispered back into the comm-link as she stepped back. "He's up and about."
"Oh, an assassin?" Honest smirked. "I was actually starting to wonder when someone'd.."
"Do you require assistance, citizen Leone?" Seyru asked.
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"Why are the Jeagers…?" Honest growled.
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"I fucked this up, didn't I?" Seyru asked before the clunking of metallic limbs could be heard.
Honest's glare lightened onto Leone, his eyes filling with lust
"Well…how about we get to business?" He smirked. "You came to kill me….but you're far too lovely for me to simply eat…."
His jaw suddenly loosened and he revealed rows of sharp teeth.
"…don't strugg…"
Leone slammed her fist into man's nose, sending him back to the floor.
"Sorry old fart." She growled. "Only one man gets to touch this bod, and you're not even a third as cute as him."
Honest's digsuting smirk grew even more as he reached for something
"Well then, I'll just have to make him disappear…but first, I need my breakfast."
He fired a shot that Leone dodged before putting his ringed finger out: The eye on the ring opened and fired a beam at Leone…but nothing happened.
"What?"
Leone took advantage of the man's confusion and raced towards him, raining blow after blow, but they were blocked.
"You're name is Leone right? Syura mentioned you… I'm surprised he didn't get to you yet." Honest smirked. "Then again, that stupid son of mine…"
"…Is dead."
Honest turned to see the Jeagers glaring at him, then processed the words that had left Wave's mouth
"D-d-d-d-dead?" Honest's eyes watered
"I killed him myself." Bols admitted with pride.
Tears fell down Honest's cheeks before he screamed at the sky.
"WAAH! SYURA! HOW COULD YOU GO AND LEAVE DADDY ALL ALONE?!"
The assembled fighters looked down at the man, a twinge of pity in their…
"Oh well."
Honest stopped crying and acting as if nothing had happened.
…..
"He was useless anyways." Honest smirked, glancing at Leone. "I'll make a better son shortly. But…I take it he did something stupid that got you involved?"
"He attempted to massacre an entire circus and three quarters of the city's population, including innocent children and women." Seyru growled. "He was friends with the evil villain who destroyed Mr. Run's first class, along with others."
"He tried to rape my wife." Bols growled.
"He claimed the right to replace us." Stylish grumbled. "Without your signature."
"He called me useless." Esdeath said plainly, not really as angry as the others. "And what was the one rule of our agreement, Honest?"
The mayor thought long and hard before remembering:
Hurt the Jeagers and the contract is done.
"We've already cleared out your valut and records." Kurome said. "We'll need Run to decrypt them, but…"
Honest began laughing
"You seem to think you're leaving here alive. Now I get to have the smoursboard I've dreamt of…!"
"In hell."
Everyone turned to Wave, already in his Grand Chariot armor and glaring at Honest with more hatred than anyone had ever seen him direct.
"I'll keep him alive, Leone, don't worry." The Marine promised. "But you're not the only one pissed at what he did to Run."
Honest laughed again.
"And you think I'm scared of you?" He smirked. "You're the weakest of the Jeagers! Look at you; can't even protect your best friend, let alone his and your own whore."
Leone and Kurome glared at the man, but Wave shot them a glance as he pulled out two golden circles.
Everyone froze.
"Wait…." Honest realized
"That's Runnie's!" Leone snapped.
"Wave, stop!" Esdeath and Kurome demanded. "Do you have any idea what the stress…?"
"You can punish me later." Wave said coldly before shouting:
"MASTEMA!"
A bright light engulfed the area, and when it cleared, everyone's jaw dropped.
"What…?" Esdeath started.
"The…?" Kurome continued.
"Fucking…!?" Stylish and Leone swore together.
"Shit!?" Seyru finished.
"Language!" Bols said offhandedly.
Now adorning Grand Chariot were two blackened, angel like wings.
Wave was using TWO Teigu at the same time. And he was pissed off beyond reasoning.
Realizing this, Honest backed up ever so slightly, but slipped and fell. Wave marched forward, ignoring everyone and anything in his way. He stopped in front of Honest, who began to whimper.
"N-n-now wait a minute…W-Wave, was it?" The mayor smiled weakly. "T-there's no need for…"
"GRAND RISE!"
A kick to the chin sent Honest crashing through his roof and up through the air, his attacker right in front of him the whole time
"GRAND RUSH!"
A barrage of fists assaulted the mayor's face, breaking his nose and blackening his eyes. Wave palm thrusted him away and stretched Masetema's wings and folded them onto each other, their wing tip forward.
"GRAND STAB!"
Feather knives dug into Honest's flesh as the two Teigu wielder flew high and then stretched out a leg.
"GRAND FALL!"
An armored foot made contact wth Honest's crowns, shattered the decorate one and cracking the corrupt man's head open. As he began to descend back to the ground screaming, Honest had just enough time to see a glaring Wave growl one last pair of sentences to him.
"This is for my best friend. GRAND SLAM!"
The armoured Marine slammed right into the falling madman's side, sending him crashing into a pillar and breaking every bone in his body.
Wave returned to the ground and deactivated the two Teigu, falling to his knees as he began to sweat and pant.
"Guys…?" He asked his awestruck teammates. "Please…don't ever let me do that again. Or tell Run."
Kurome rushed to Wave's side and kissed his face.
"I am so proud of you." She smiled.
Honest let out a groan from all the pain his body was going through. He vainly attempted to crawl away, but a booted foot crushed one of his hands.
"Awww, going already?"
He looked up to see the woman he'd planned to rape smirk evilly at him as she cracked her knuckles.
"Ple!" Honest mumbled through his broken jaw, tears streaming down his face. "Any!"
Leone pasued, as if to give the man's pleas a thought.
"Anything?" She asked. "That's what your saying? Anything I want?"
Honest, thinking she was getting more to his level, nodded fervershlly and with hope…which died when he saw the utterly enraged look on the blonde woman's face.
"I want my Runnie to have never gotten hurt, you fat sack of shit." Leone growled.
A with a final, pitiful scream, Honest tried in vain to block the enraged blonde's punches. Blood soon splattered all over the area, and Leone grinned for every minute of it.
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"I think I like her even more, now." Esdeath announced.
"That's no surprise." Wave added.
I know I promised Run vs Champ, but this part just popped into my head and I figured I'd put it out there.
Read, review and enjoy, would ye kindly?
Be safe!
