Tales From Pioneer City: Detecto Part 2 - Date With Danger!



This is a story of the big city. A big city divided into little cities. And a woman. Not a mere mortal woman, but a hot woman. A woman so hot that if my pants weren't made of asbestos they'd burst into flames. A woman so hot that the sun looks at her and says "Damn girl! You are HOT!"

And she was all mine. But only one thing stood in the way to my happiness. Her husband. A sicko named Socko. Clearly she had come to me to get him out of the way. Perhaps to kill him... Or was it arrest him? The details were a bit hazy, she had left before giving me any.

Still they didn't call me Detecto for nothing, it was my name.

I hit the streets, pounding the pavement. Next time I would look both ways before crossing. My contacts came up with nothing, so I tried my glasses. It so happened that he liked to hang out at a dive called 'The Iron Bar'. A place so scummy that even lawyers weren't welcome. From there I followed the trail of pulpy bodies.

Socko was a big man, but it would be more fair to say he was a huge man. I recognised his face from the steroid commercials on TV, he used to play the 'After' guy.

"Hey buddy! Can I buy you a neck?" I played it cool.

The veins on his forehead throbbed like he had marbles for blood and not blood for blood.

"What for you mock Socko in dark dark night?"

"Let's just say that I need you out of the way so I can score with your wife."

He flexed and raised his hammer high. Even his muscles had muscles. It was time to break out the big guns. But I was a HUmar and we don't use guns. We use swords. It was time to break out the big swords. He charged. A few well placed hits and it was all over.

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I opened my eyes. It was august. Once they finish that spleen transplant I'm back on the case.



Next week in Part #3 : Detecto takes on the might of the L.A.W. (Legion of Amazing Women).