The Hit
Metro City, some random bar, 23:03 pm, A man wearing an expensive walked in and went straight for the bar.
He sat down and ordered, "Scotch on the rocks."
The bartender handed it to him, "Don't see fellas like you around here. What's your business?"
"I've been hired to find a man who lives around here." he replied.
'What's his name? Maybe I could help with some compensation." the bartender said with a smile.
"Oh, I already know where he is." he took a drink, "You are Markus Smith right?" he replied.
The Bartender face became worried, "I don't know what your talking about."
"Your really going to make me do this." he replied.
The bartender ran out of the bar, the man followed him. He made his way to a alley, where he ran into a dead end.
The man walked to the entrance of the alley holding a gun with a silencer on it and waked in closer, "Your wife sends her regards."
He shot him in the head. He pulled out his phone while walking out of the alley, he called a woman "The job is done, wire the rest of the money to my account." he checked his phone for the transfer, "It's here. This is the last time we will contact each other, goodbye."
He walked out of the alley. A limo pulled up next to him, a window opened, a man wearing a metal collar revealed himself "Chris Farmsworth, I see your still up to your old tricks."
"Shark, I see your still A's top lap dog." he replied.
"Enough small talk." Shark ordered, "I have a job for you."
"Who do you want me to knock off?" asked Chris.
Shark handed him a folder, "The Crimson Chin."
"A superhero! I'm good but not that good, sorry Shark but I decline." he replied.
"This is not a request." the mysterious individuel declared from the shadows of the limo.
"Mr A! Of course I'll take the contract, but I'll need heavier weapons." Chris replied a bit scared.
"I'll handle that." A replied.
"If I may ask what brought on the need to take down the Chin?" Chris asked.
"Since his appearance, criminals have been to afraid to do much of anything, but recently he's been distracted fighting super criminals, that's what I need from you to distract him and if possible kill him." A answered.
"You don't have to worry about anything." Chris said with a smile.
The next day, at 08:15 am, Charles was sitting at his desk at his dealing with his tax's.
"Okay I've maneged to deal with the electricity, water and heating bills but why the hell did you have to take a second mogage on the house dad." Charles said to himself rubbing his head.
"Knock, knock." Lisa said while knocking.
"Come in." Charles replied.
Lisa entered the room holding a trey with a sandwich and juice.
"How are you doing?" she asked.
"Well if I don't figure out how I'm going to pay the mogage dad put on the house we'll be homeless in a few months." he answered beginning to sloach on his chair.
"Don't worry you'll figure something out." she reassured him.
"So what's up with you?" asked Charles.
"Well my winter formal is in a week and since I'm in student council I'm in charge of finding suitable chaperones." she answered.
"So you want me to do it?" Charles asked.
"Yes, I'm begging you, if you don't agree Mrs Kim will Chaperone and no one wants that." she pleaded.
"Fine I'll do it, who else volunteered?" asked Charles.
"My friend Veronica's sister Beverly." she answered, "You know she just graduated Met U with a journalism degree."
"Your point." Charles asked.
"Charles you haven't been on a date since dad died, I'm worried you've put your life on hold just for me." she replied.
Charles stood up, "Believe me kid, your not the reason I haven't gone out with somebody."
"Then what is?" she asked.
"You could say I've taken on other responsiblities." he answered.
"Will you at least think about going out with Beverly?" Lisa asked.
"Fine, I'll think about it." Charles answered, "Look at the time I'll be late." He picked up his sandwich and rushed out the house.
Chris entered a warehouse in an unknown location and met Ron Hambone.
Chris walked torwards him, "So you're the guy who's going to give me my gear."
"My good sir, this isn't simple gear, it is a titanium steel alloy armor unlike anything scene before." Ron replied.
"Fine really fancy gear. " Chris said sarcastically.
Ron frowned at him, Shark entered and said, "Alright you mukes, front and centre." he pulled out a laptop and revealed a video chat with the silhouette of the Mr A, "Gentlemen lets try to be civil. Mr Hambone give Mr Farmsworth the armor."
Ron handed Chris a suit case, Chris opened it, "What the hell is this."
"Mr A asked me to create a super villain to fight the Chin, since the media named my first one the Iron Lung, I thought this one would be themed as well."
"But really this!" Chris complained, "Couldn't you come up with something better?"
"Mr Farmsworth, I hired you to attack the Crimson Chin not be a runway model put on the suit." Mr A ordered.
"Fine." he folded.
"It runs in these." Ron said handing him a suit case of viles, "They're amo for the suit, good for 300 shots a vile."
Later that morning at the Blabbity the editor and chief was talking to some of his reporters. He spoke to a few and finally got to Charles, Taylor and Sam.
"Brown I want you to go to Santium City to cover the Adam West story, Gibbs cover the City hall beat and Indigo there's a jumper on 33rd street get there as quick as you can. What are you all waiting for a please, get out there and get me my stories." he ordered.
"You got it chief." Charles answered before they left.
"Indigo! Stop calling me Chief!" he shouted.
A man standing on the edge of a five story buiding.
A police officer with a mega phone called out, "Sir please come down you have so much to live for!"
"No I don't!" screamed the man, "I've lost everything; my job, my wife and my children."
"Maybe you could find sonething else to live for." said the Chin as he hovered down above the man.
The crowd was was looking up in astonishment at the sight of the Chin.
"What do you know, your a superhero, you have powers normal men like me couldn't even fathom , what do you know about loss?" the man asked.
"I lost someone too, my father he was important to me and even though I had all this power I was powerless to save him, that is why I've dedicated my life to helping people, you could turn things around in your life too." replied the Chin.
"Do you really think so?" asked the man.
"Yes I do." replied the Chin.
"Can I have a hug?" asked the man.
"Weird request but okay." replied the Chin.
The Chin went in and hugged the man, the crowd began to clap, then suddenly the Chin felt a piercing pain in his back.
"What the..." the Chin said to the man.
"He was really right about you, nothing but a bleeding heart, one woo is me story and you completely let your guard down." the man whispered to the Chin.
The man had literally stabbed the Chin in the back with a cresent shaped blade. He kicked the Chin off the roof. The crowd screamed in shock.
The Chin landed on the sidewalk, one police officers ran up to him, "Are you okay?"
"Ya I'm...get out the way!" the Chin screamed as he pushed the police officer to the side as the man jumped off the building landing unscathed.
"Who are you?" asked the Chin.
"No one important." he answered as he pushed a button on his wrist, revealing Chris wearing silver armor with what seemed to be fingers or toenails on his head as a helmet, shoulders as shoulder pads, forearms as arm canons and a visor covering his eyes, "But sadly you can call me the Titanium Toenail."
"The Titanium Toenail! Wow what a name." the Chin said as he pulled the blade from his back.
"It wasn't my idea and anyway who are you to judge Crimson Chin." the Toenail said in his defense.
"Touché." the Chin retorted.
The Toenail lauched a cresent shaped blade at the Chin which he easily caught but cut himself in the process.
"Ahh!..What are those things made of?" screamed the Chin.
"Don't know, but they seem to do the trick." he answered with pride.
The Toenail shot mutiple cresent blades at the Chin, which the chin dodged with his speed, "Your going to have to do better than that, if you want to hit me."
"I guess your right." the Toenail replied. He pointed his right arm at a woman and fired.
The Chin quickily reacted and took the shot for the woman, "Ahh!" he screamed." as the blade went into his shoulder.
"You see Chin, that's your weakness, with your powers you could of crushed me in seconds, but you want to do thing the non lethal way, protecting as many people as you can that is why you can't beat guys like me." the Toenail gloated, he then began firing his blades in multiple direction, each going for a civilian.
The Chin used his speed to try and redirect some of the blades, he did for most of them but the ones he couldn't pierced his thy, chest and waist. The Chin collapsed from the pain.
The Toenail walked up to the Chin and lifted with a choke, "You see if you didn't think about those sorry people, maybe you could of beaten me." an even longer cresent blade formed in his hand and he stabbed the Chin in the chest.
The crowd looked in horror, some even began to to tear up.
The Toenail threw the Chin into the bay, The cops got out thier gun, "Freeze!"
The Toenail smiled and fired multiple blades killing the the police officers. Satisfied with himself, a jet pack formed on his back and he flew off.
In the bay the Chin swam himself to the shore breathing heavily his wounds rapidly healing, "Good...Thing...I Have...A healing factor.
He changed back into Charles and went back to the Daily Blabbity.
Charles walked into the building to find everyone waiting for him. Johnsons assistant walked up to him, "The boss wants to talk to you."
Charles walked into Johnson's office, "You wanted something chief."
"Ya I heard what happened, is the Chin really dead." asked Johnson.
"No it's not true." answered Charles.
"How could you know that?" Johnson asked "A dozen witnesses saw the Chin being stabbed."
"Trust me chief, every other newspaper is going to talk about the Chin's death, we'll be talking about how he deafeated the Titanium Toenail." Charles reassured Johnson.
"You're saying you have a lead?" asked Johnson.
"Defintely." Charles answered.
Johnson thought about for a minute, "Fine but if you don't bring me something in the next few hours I'm running The Death of The Crimson Chin."
"You got it chief." Charles replied.
"And Charles." Johnson called to him, before he left.
"Yes chief." responded Charles.
"Don't call me Chief!" he screamed.
Charles smiled and left the office.
Later that night, at 19:32 pm, two criminals were loading stolen computers into a truck.
Criminal 1 said "Get them in quick, I don't know how much time we have left."
"What are you so worried about, we didn't trip any alarms and everybody know's the Chin is out of commision." replied criminal 2.
"Oh really!" the Chin said hovering over them with his costume torn.
"Oh crap!" said criminal 2.
Both tried to run in different directions. The Chin used his speed to knock out criminal 2 and grab criminal 1 holding him against a wall, "Usually I would kick your asses and get you sent to jail, but I'll let you go under two conditions."
"What is it, Mr Chin?" asked criminal 1 cowaring.
"One, put the computer's back, and two, tell the Toenail I'm looking for him. Got it!" the Chin told him.
Criminal 1 knodded in agreement.
"I better not see your face again." the Chin warned him.
He knodded in agreement again.
The Chin supersped away from him.
Chris was enjoying a drink at a local bar called McClairon's, when Shark walked in.
Chris asked, "What do you want Shark?"
"You didn't finish the job Farmsworh." he answered.
"What!? I stabbed that bastard in the heart and threw him in the bay. There's no way he's alive." Chris protested.
"According to our sources he's alive and well, guess your not as good as you claim to be." Shark replied smugley.
Chris frowned in response.
Having done everything in his power to attract the attention of the Toenail, Charles went home to get some rest.
He entered his room and checked his chest wound in the mirror. It was almost completely healed, "Just a few more minutes and it will be good." he said to himself.
He walked over to his desk to find the bills still staring at him, "Oh boy, what am I going to do."
Lisa was about to walk in and spotted her brother struggling with the bills, she quickily left to make a call.
Charles got up and turned on his T.V.
It was the news the Titanium Toenail had taken a mall movie theater hostage.
Charles changed into the Crimson Chin and flew off.
The Toenail was holding a group of people hostage waiting for the Chin.
"Now, none of you try be heroes here or well you know." he told the hostages.
Outside the mall the police had set up a perimeter around the mall
"How are we going to handle this." asked an officer to a detective.
"I don't know, his armor is bullet proof and we can't risk the hostages." replied the detective.
"Wish the Chin was still around." commented the officer.
"Me too." replied the detective.
Then suddenly a red streak went past them, "Was that..." the officer said in suprise.
"The Chin." the detective replied with a smile.
The Chin crashed threw the door and struck the Toenail, sending him flying and crashing into the screen.
The Chin used his speed to quickily get all the hostages out.
The Toenail got up and said, "I got to say this armor is impressive, I barely felt that."
"What do you have against me anyway, Toenail?" asked the Chin.
"Nothing really, I was given a job and I'm doing it." answered the Toenail.
"By who?" asked the Chin.
"Now that will be telling, and one thing I'm not, is a snitch." the Toenail replied, he proceeded to fire multiple blades at the Chin.
The Chin maneged to dodge most of them, only being scratched on his shoulder. He then fired his heat vision at the Toenail.
The Toenail was blasted back leaving a scrocth mark on his Chest, "I see you came to play." he fired more as if they were boomerangs, The Chin dodged them but they turned around striking him in the back.
"Ahh!" the Chin screamed.
The Toenail then launched two blades from his forearm canons attached to chains, striking him in the shoulders.
The Chin used his heat vision to cut the chains, he then rushed at the Toenail and struck him hard with his chin sending him through the building and into the street.
The cops knowing what was about to happen quickily rushed and got the civilians out of the way. The Toenail got up and screamed, "Is that the best you got!?"
"No! This is!" the Chin answered, he dug out the blades from his shoulders and used them to cut off the Toenails arm canons.
"What!?" the Toenail screamed in shock.
"Figured if these could cut through my skin, they could cut through your armor." the Chin said with a smile. The Chin proceeded to rush at the Toenail multiple times each time tearing off a piece of his armor. in the end the Toenail had barely any armor left.
"You can't do this." the Toenail screamed in panic.
"I think I just did." the Chin replied before punching Chris knocking him out.
The detective went up to Chris putting hand cuffs on him, "Thanks Chin for apprehending this criminal."
"No problem detective." the Chin replied as he rubbed his shoulders.
"You okay?" the detective asked "We have medics if you need one."
"Ya, I'm okay, all I need is rest and besides nothing they have will work on me." replied the Chin before he flew off.
The Chin went home, wrote the story and E-mailed it to Johnson and went to bed.
That morning Charles was eating breakfeast with Lisa, when he heard a knock on the door.
"Who could that be?" asked Charles.
Lisa shrugged her shoulders pretending not to know who it was.
Charles went to open the door, to find it was his and Lisa's older brother Ryan.
"Ryan!?" Charles said in suprise.
"Got to say bro I read your article and it's interesting." he replied holding Charles's newspaper.
Ron was brought to A, "I'm sorry Mr A about the Titanium Toenail's failure."
"No need Mr Hambone. If anything you had a big success, you maneged to injure him, here are your next test subjects." he replied.
Olga and Coslo walked forward, "When do we start." Olga asked.
Charles and Lisa's brother didn't see that coming wonder what's going to happen next.
Next Episode Title: Old Wounds
Synopsis: The Chin has to deal with the arrival of his estranged brother Ryan while dealing with the new villian H2Olga