(6 years and 2 months ago)
Cactus Man's POV
It's not easy to be a villain in Miracle City anymore. Ever since Municipal President Mendez came into power, he has pretty much made things challenging to rob a bank, jewelry store, grocery store, or even a library. This is in large part to all his drones being all over the place, hidden mini cameras almost everywhere, and police stationed at every corner. I would also like to include the rise in heroes too, but we've been getting more villains here as well. Also, there is a divide amongst the heroes so that's something. As for me, even after every supervillain who had their secret identities revealed decided to leave Miracle City, I've been doing things like nothing has change. I never had a secret identity to begin with so this didn't affect me in any way. However, I've had to make a lot more cactus bandits than I usually had to do now a days. Some of them I use as my bodyguards and the others are used to distract police and/or heroes.
Right now, I'm with by cactus bandits and we're fighting against the police after we robbed a warehouse that is filled with police gear and their drones in order to sell it for. I figured I could use this gear to help me escape. I had my Cactus bandits grab as many guns and armor in order to put them on. I made sure that they loaded the guns with rubber bullets rather than metal bullets; I may be a supervillain but I'm not a murderer. I had my bandits begin their assault on the police while I made my escape. While trying to escape, I grew regular cactus plants on the police cars and some police that are chasing me and my bandits. I was starting to become overwhelmed until I noticed that some of the police were chasing after other villains rather than and some of my Cactus Bandits came back to me with a just few police officers chasing after them and we took care of them easily.
Back at my lair, which is an abandoned apartment complex in downtown Miracle City, I started to eat some dinner. I've had to live here ever since my original base, The Big Cactus, was taken down by the heroes working directly under Municipal President Mendez. I would have preferred that White Pantera and his team of heroes attacked me; at least they wouldn't have destroyed everything that I owned like that. The equipment that I managed to get was more than enough to pay for food, some new clothes, and maybe a super drill but that's it.
When I turned on the t.v, I watched as they talked about the new heroes and the new villains, but nothing about me at all. It felt like I was being ignored, forgotten, seen as unimportant. The only villains in my league that are even considered relevant and still here are Django and Che. I have to do something that going to make me relevant again or at the very least make appear on the newspaper or Villain's Quarterly. Before I went to bed, I looked at a recent picture of my parents that they sent me saying "We're proud of you!".
The next morning, I decided to do something that I should have done if for no other reason than to get attention: Rebuild my Cactus Base. Even if it's temporary, it's the only thing that I could think of right now. The first thing that I did is have my Cactus Bandits gather as many cactus plants that people had all over Miracle City and bring them to me. I had them all bring the cactuses into the sewer since that's where I could go to make the Big Cactus without being disturbed; it sure is stinky down here. Ironically, it was easy for me to steal the Cactuses from people since Django is doing something with the Miracle City volcano right now, which will provide me with a distraction.
As soon as I got enough cactuses, I had some of my Cactus Bandits come together with the Cactus plants and then began the process of creating a giant Cactus.
A few minutes later, the police arrived on the scene to try and arrest me and destroy my Cactus lair, but luckily my Cactus Bandits and I managed to fight them off with our weapons and bombs that we had in stock; we even managed to destroy 7 nearby buildings as a result. Since the fight with the police was intensifying too much, I decided to make my escape.
The next morning, I found out that my actions were overlooked in favor of Che's plan to turn all the high school seniors into zombies. It doesn't sound like much, but from what I heard these students are considered to be the "best and brightest" of Miracle City; I also read that he made them do a dance number during the robberies. I always thought zombies couldn't dance, but I guess they can. Before I could do anything else, someone knocked on my door and I answered it. It was a man with brown (Gunslinger) mustache, yellow eyes, a scar with the letter "W" on his right cheek, glasses, and he's wearing a black suit, dress pants, dress shoes, and white dress shirt.
"Are you Cactus Kid?" said the man
"Well yes, but I go by Cactus Man now. Who are you?" I asked
"I'm W." said W
"W? What's that stand for?" I asked
"That's not important right now. I need you to come with me." said W
"Are you some kind of hero or cop?" I asked with an intimidating tone
"No; I'm a supervillain/mercenary. I work for the Mustache Mafia and I've been tasked to bring you to the boss for what you've done." said W
"Cactus Bandits, attack." I said summoning my cactus Bandits
(My Bandits went for W. Unfortunately, W grabbed out his gun and fired 10 bullets into my cactus bandits. At first I laughed at this, but then suddenly my bandits imploded in an instant. I summoned more bandits but W. fired more bullets at them and made them imploded. Before I could do anything else, he fired a bullet at me; however, I didn't even feel a thing)
"In case you're wondering, that bullet wasn't meant to kill you; I have orders to bring you in alive." said W
"Then what does it…." I said before passing out
Then next thing I knew, I found myself tied up in a room, surrounded by the mustache mafia members. I also noticed a car battery, jumper cables, a gas container, a wrench, knives, a crowbar, a gun, and some other stuff. Then a door opened and I assumed that it was going to be Don Baffi, but instead it was Sophia, his granddaughter.
"Cactus Kid." said Sophia
"It's Cactus Man." I said
"Don't ever correct me!" Sophia shouted before hitting my right leg with a crowbar
"Ahhhhh! My leg!" I shouted
"Now Cactus Kid, I heard that you had a battle with the police that caused the destruction of 7 buildings." said Sophia
"Yep." I responded
"I didn't give you permission to speak!" Sophia shouted at me again but instead stabbed me in my left leg
"Ahhh! My other leg!" I screamed in pain
"Now then, you managed to destroy 7 buildings during your fight? Is that correct? You can talk now." said Sophia
"Yes. I did it to show everyone that I wasn't a wash out, to show up those new villains popping up in Miracle City, and to gain a spot in Villain's Quarterly." I said
"Aren't we all and there is nothing wrong with that….(with a very intimidating face) except when you destroy other villain's stuff in the process. Three of those buildings you destroyed belonged to me along with the contents of what was in those buildings. Do you know how much you cost me?" Sophia shouted at me
"3 million dollars' worth in damages?" I guessed
(Her goons then pushed the chair down, put a cloth on me, and then poured water on my face while this cloth is on my face; it felt like I was drowning.)
"Wrong! You cost me 144 million dollars' worth of damage." said Sophia
"How can three buildings and whatever was in those buildings cost that much?" I asked
"It's' best you don't know. Anyway, I can easily make the cops pay for what they've done, but because it was "your" actions that caused the damage you're going to pay for it. You and your Cactus Bandits are going to work for me until you pay off your debt." said Sophia
"I will do no such things and you can't make me." I said
"Do you really mean that or is that your pride as a supervillain talking?" Sophia asked getting in my face
"Both." I said with a scared tone
"Well, I admire that. However, I'm the new head of the Mustache Mafia and you just defied me, again. Now I get to do this." said Sophia
"Uh, why did you pull my pants down like that? What are you going to do with that car battery? What are you going to do with those jumper cables?" I asked as these things occurred
"This." Sophia said placing the jumper cables on my nuts
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" I shouted in intense pain
And thus began my days working for the Mustache Mafia.
From now on, any stories that relate to Sophia and Cactus Kid/Cactus Man will deal with both of them in the same story; they won't have anymore solo series (unless I deem it necessary) since their overall development will require them to be together from now on.