A/N: Here we go! Enjoy! :D
Chapter IV
The giant metal legs creaked forward slowly, and Hawk slowly made his way forward.
"With you, there is no way I could possibly lose."
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About twenty minutes later, Kendall and Logan appeared out of their room, fully clothed this time, walking down to get some breakfast. By the time they arrived, James had finished and Carlos just finished his third helping, and both of them were on the couch playing video games.
There was a loud "OH! IN YOUR FACE!" that could be heard, and everyone looked to see Carlos doing a victory dance and gloating to James.
"Whatever," James said, picking up a remote and changing it to TV.
Just as he was about to change the channel from the news, though, he stopped, saying, "Oh my god. Guys, come see this!"
Everyone gathered around the TV curiously, thinking it was probably something about hair products or modeling jobs.
"No way…" seemed to be the consensus, though, as they all watched the news story.
The anchorman, a middle aged, brunet man with wrinkles and a serious expression, was saying, "For those who have just tuned in, there has been a sighting of a large metal contraption, assumed to have the purpose of destruction, headed towards the city. At its helm sits an African American man, who has yet to be identified. Police are on their way to confronting this man, and as soon as we get more details, we will inform you of them; the police have told us to tell you, though, that they will soon have the situation under control, and not to panic. I repeat: do not panic."
There was a hushed silence in the apartment as everyone took the news in, until Kendall spoke up. "Guys, this is our fault! We have to stop him!"
"No! You boys are not going anywhere!" Mama Knight said firmly.
"Yeah, and this is not your fault!" Katie said quietly, and everyone jumped a little, having not noticed her arrival. "Just because he was sent to prison twice because he was trying to get revenge on you, doesn't mean it was your fault."
"I kinda get what Kendall is saying." Logan said, "I mean, I do kind of feel responsible for this whole thing. And I feel like…useless if we just sit back and do nothing."
"This is not a cat stuck in a tree you guys! This is a war machine! This isn't something we could just show up, throw a couple of rocks at, and then leave!" Mrs. Knight said.
Carlos suddenly spoke, in a more assertive tone than usual, "I agree with your mom, Kendall. This thing could probably smash us with one swift move; I don't wanna be crushed!"
"Well we can't just let people die!" James said.
"People are gonna die Jamie?" Carlos asked, tears forming in his eyes.
"Nobody's gonna die!" Kendall said, giving James a glare for upsetting the naive latino.
"Well we should at least be there to make sure!" James said, ignoring Kendall's silent chastise.
"No means no!" Mrs. Knight said. "I want you boys to go find something to do in the apartment that will take your minds off of it." As she noticed Kendall about to speak once more, she added, "And that is final!"
Everyone grumbled to themselves, getting up and heading in different directions.
Kendall went up to his room, frustrated at feeling so helpless.
HE laid down on his bed, thinking to himself, when a knock on the door took him out of his thoughts.
"Come in." he said.
It was Logan. The smart boy slowly tiptoed in, closing the door quietly, obviously trying to be unnoticed by everyone else in the apartment.
"I know what she said, Kendall, but I think we should go anyways."
"What? Are you Kidding?" Kendall replied incredulously. Logan was always the goody two-shoes, and for him to be suggesting something like sneaking out, was pretty serious.
"I am completely serious," he said, confirming Kendal's thoughts. "I am going no matter what. Whether or not you join me is your choice."
"No, you are not going alone! And seeing how I obviously can't stop you, count me in!"
"Good, James is coming to. Here's the plan…"
FIVE MINUTES LATER:
Logan finished telling Kendall his plan, and Kendall smiled. It was a great plan, after all.
They were just about to get ready, when there was another soft knock at the door.
"Yeah?" both boys said in unison.
Carlos walked in, closing the door.
"Are you guys really leaving?" he asked, a sad look on his face.
"No, why would you think that?" Logan replied. The less Carlos knew, the better, because no matter how cute and innocent the boy was, he was also quite the tattletale.
"James told me." Carlos said simply.
Both Kendall and Logan sighed, mentally regretting inviting James.
"Fine, we're going, but we'll be fine, so please, please don't tell."
"I won't." Carlos whispered. But then, unexpectedly, he said, "I wanna come with you guys."
"Sorry, buddy, Too dangerous. Plus we need you here to protect Mama Knight and Katie." Logan said.
At the first part, Carlos was getting ready to protest, but upon hearing of his duties, he nodded, feeling like he was doing something important.
And then they were gone, leaving Carlos. Little did they know, though, that leaving him behind would be a choice that saved their lives.
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As Hawk got closer and closer to downtown Los Angeles, crushing whatever lay in his path, he savored the screams of horror and disbelief. This made all of the prison time worthwhile; it made him truly happy for the first time in his life.
It wasn't until he actually reached the city that things got fun though.
Police cars swarmed around him, telling him to stop and get down immediately. When he wouldn't though, they would raise their guns and shoot bullet after bullet, but they had no effect on his beautiful monster. Then they would call reinforcements, and the cycle would repeat.
In the meantime, Hawk took the mighty arms of his beast and swung them down, crashing building after building after building, stomping on civilians and spilling their guts, causing business after business to crumple and then implode.
Police unit after police unit showed up, trying desperately to stop him, following as he went down each street and caused destruction.
Eventually, the SWAT team was even called in, but even they couldn't stop the mighty machine.
Hawk was laughing hysterically, never having felt this much glee in his entire life. The world was blurry through his tears of joy, only making the destruction more rampant and plentiful.
But the rain to his parade came when there was a loud thud on the roof above him, and he looked up.
It was the blond one, dressed in his stupid superhero costume. He growled and swung his machine wildly, but the kid just wouldn't let go. The stupid Slapshot, or whatever he was called, just wouldn't budge.
Hawk finally had to get up, waling below where the pestering kid was standing, reaching up and pulling a door to the roof, which he climbed outside and got on top of.
The kid immediately smacked one of his hockey stick boomerangs across Hawk's face, but not waiting for a response, immediately smacking him in the other direction with his other boomerang.
He kept up like this, smacking him over and over again, causing him to bleed and causing teeth to fly out every so often.
He finally gathered up his strength and tried to punch back, but his wrists were grabbed by something. He could just barely see out of his peripheral vision a blur of purple, and coupling that with the feel of cotton surrounding his wrists, realized it was the pretty one. Bandana Man, as they had called him.
Meanwhile, as Hawk got the living crap beat out of him, the Surgeon appeared towards the bottom of the machine, ignoring the protests of the police and climbing up into it, getting right to work trying to disable it.
Up on top, Slapshot finally ceased on the smacking, realizing his victim had been tortured enough, and Bandana Man continued to hold on with his beloved bandanas.
But without being smacked, Hawk finally gathered his strength, throwing his head forward, and throwing Bandana Man in front of him.
He snaked out of his bandana cuffs, punching his opponent harshly in the stomach, throwing puch after punch to his face and wherever else he could manage.
Slapshot raced over to help his friend, but Hawk just pushed him hard, causing him to stumble and slip off of the edge of the machine, luckily getting caught by a nearby police officer.
The police were to stunned to do anything, not realizing now was the opportunity to shoot Hawk and end this.
Hawk punched Bandana Man over and over, causing him to collapse then when his enemy was weakest, slipped a knife out of his jacket and raised it up, about to stab his foe.
But just then, he felt a shoe kick his hand, causing the knife to go sliding off to the side, falling to the ground.
Hawk looked up, seeing a redheaded woman whom he had never seen before.
He stood up, preparing to fight the woman, but then the police seemed to realize they had guns, and raised them, aiming for him.
They underestimated him though, because he had planned the whole thing out, and just as they pulled the trigger, he grabbed the woman and swung her in front of him, and the bullet hit her in her side, blood immediately visible.
Just as he thought he had won, and prepared to get back into his machine, the whole thing groaned and lowered, collapsing on the ground.
The Surgeon hopped out of the machine, and Hawk growled.
"You may have beaten me today." He yelled. "But this was only part of my plan. This city will be mine, and you all will suffer. I'll be watching you. Maybe from afar, maybe up close, but I will be watching all of you nonetheless, watching like a hawk."
And with that, he threw down two of his signature smoke bombs, disappearing before the police could catch him.
They attempted to run forward and catch him, but out of nowhere a crowd of strong, burly men dressed as hawks appeared and fought the police off.
Meanwhile, down the street stood a small girl, brown locks blowing in the breeze. Tears started forming in her eyes as she whispered, "Kendall? Logan? MOM?"
She started to shake with desperate sobs.
After what seemed like an eternity of crying, a large man with orange-tinted sunglassed showed up, grabbing the small girl and pulling her into his embrace.
"What happened Katie?" he said frantically.
"WHAT HAPPENED, DAMNIT?"
A/N: Thanks for reading, hooray for my longest chapter yet, wow that was intense, please review, see you later! :P
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