The Ace

"So this is where we stand eh?" Ace observed looking about and looking across from him. There stood two young kids, and a Police Captain.

"Ya know I was freed not too long ago." Ace shared, "But I was asked to do a favor before I could go ahead and run some more rough shed, so I thought I'd come by hope you don't mind!" Ace smiled, "Also what a cool setting to fight in such a tall building right?! Imagine the beauty of how everything is going to fall apart and burn down!"

"Kids you may want to stay back for this..." Schriver informed walking up and drawing his blade, he also took off his leather jacket and prepared himself.

"Sorry Captain, but I cannot let you just fight him alone. As potential Pro Heroes, we must fight along side you!" Garrett aimed his finger at Ace.

"Your finger? Pointing is rude ya know!" Ace crossed his arms over his chest, "Didn't your Mother tea-"

"Pistol!" Garrett shouted releasing a beam of green energy over at Ace.

"Whoa hold up!" Ace ducked away, and for some reason the green beam of energy faded for a brief moment before reaching Ace, then reappeared right behind him and it continued on before blasting into a wall.

"What the-?!" Garrett was in shock at how his attack was rendered useless.

"Whew that was rather close! Almost hit me a bit..." Ace turned around and was punched straight in the face by Schriver. Ace was sent rolling back and crashed into a wall.

"Vulcan get out of here now!" Schriver shouted, "This guy is a real threat! Trust me!"

"Captain, we can tag team this together..." Garrett responded.

"Sorry Cap! But I have a question..." Schriver looked down.

"Is this your card?" Ace held up a red 5 of diamonds.

"No..." Schriver drew back his blade, "It's not!" He then thrust his sword down at Ace. Ace rolled back and sighed.

"Well damn, I thought that might have been it!" Ace pouted, "But no need to try and stab me over it!"

"Ha!" Schriver swung his blade a few more times and Ace rolled out of the way with ease and jumped to his feet as he stood in the a glimpse of light for our heroes to be able to see him more clear. Ace had been dressed in an all white suit from the dress shirt, to his pants, to his shoes, even all white gloves. A black tie, along with an all black ski mask, a pair of black sunglasses. Finally a white top hat with a black ribbon that had a spade card in it.

"Ace..." Schriver gritted his teeth, "You don't remember much do you?"

"I do not!" Ace responded, "Glad you remembered that for me!"

"Vulcan...this Villain is named Ace. He's a powerful enemy, his Quirk is very sporadic and different. I still don't have a full understanding of it, but he was captured some time ago with the help of Xerox and other Pro Heroes. It's going to take a lot to catch him again."

"Like what?" Garrett asked.

"Thanks for speaking so highly of me Cap! Especially cause I have a hard time remembering a lot of things, like I don't remember you catching me and putting me in prison! But..." Ace pulled out a cane and from the cane he took out a thin serrated blade, "The fact that I let someone as pathetic as you even lay a finger on me is insulting to my fucking existence!" Ace rushed forward and raised his blade. Schriver swung his sword and the two clashed, Ace pushed the Police Captain and set him crashing back.

"Gah!"

"Pistol!" Garrett fired off another shot of green energy. Ace raised his blade, yet the same thing happened. The beam disappeared then reappeared behind Ace. Ace threw his sword at Garrett and snapped his fingers.

"Hehe..." Ace snickered, "I like your arm, you don't need it do you?"

"Huh?" Garrett looked down and suddenly saw Ace's blade piercing his shoulder, "What the hell?!"

"Vulcan I told you to leave!" Schriver rushed at Ace once more.

"Oh you coming to pick your card?" Ace raised a deck of cards then threw one, "Here take your pick I think that's a black eight of hearts!" Schriver cut the card in half and got ready to slash him down.

"Well...I'll that as a no!" Ace jumped up in the air over Schriver then stomped right down on his back.

"Captain!" Garrett shouted in shock. He went to pulled out the blade, but it was already gone.

"I'll take that back!" Ace snickered as he raised his sword aiming it right at Schriver's spine, "He doesn't need this to walk does he?"

"Leave him be!" Garrett rushed in and slammed his metal arm into the side of the head of the villain. Ace was sent soaring back and crashed into a building wall once more.

"D-Damn it kid..." Schriver stood up, "You have to leave! He'll kill us both!"

"As a hero I refuse to run, we need to capture him and find out who freed him." Garrett pieced together.

"You underestimate the villain we are facing. He is not something to take lightly."

"Well I would still need to engage in combat enable to pass on this information to others." Garrett looked up to see Ace before him with his blade raised.

"This isn't whack a mole where ya hit me once and I go away!" Ace brought his blade down and Garrett raised his metal arm to defend himself, but something strange had happened. Ace's blade had flickered for a second and next thing Garrett knew he had multiple cuts along side the opposite side of his body. Blood sprayed and he was in slight shock.

"Damn it!" Schriver jumped up and swung his sword, Ace clashed with him causing the two of them to battle around the hall way. Ace ran up the side of the walls to try and gain the higher ground, but Schriver was quick enough to counter and jump up with him. They began bouncing off the walls.

"This is the most fun I've had in a sword fight in a while!" Ace laughed wildly as he stood upside down on the ceiling and clashed swords with Schriver. Schriver jumped up and the force of both swords clanging caused the ceiling to crack slightly.

"Such power! You would think I'd remember fighting you!" Ace laughed, "But if not...that just means you're as fucking weak as I think you are!" Ace grimaced wickedly, "So die!" His sword teleported out of his hands and Ace leaned back avoiding Schriver's sword. Ace's own blade appeared behind Schriver, to which Ace pulled out his deck of cards.

"Are these your cards!" Ace threw a handful of cards in Garrett's direction, then shoved a handful in front of Schriver.

"What the hell?" Garrett was confused. He then recognized Ace was behind Schriver and his blade at hand. Ace slashed Schriver's back swiftly causing blood sprayed from the man's back.

"Captain!" Garrett was in shock as he watched the police Captain fall to the ground.

"Gaaah!" Schriver called out in pain, Ace stomped on his wounded back and smiled.

"V-Vulcan..." Schriver muttered looking at the student down the hallway, "R-Run..."

"Ya know...you probably should have listened." Ace looked down at Garrett, "He obviously wasn't strong enough to make it to the next world...so he dies here rightfully so! A lamb, and just when I thought he was going to be different! He was going to be strong! He dies with the rest of this fucking world! And you're next!"

"Damn it..." Garrett gritted his teeth as he began to think:

"He defeated the Captain so easily...how could he? How strong is this guy? What's his Quirk even? It has to do with some sort of teleportation..."

"Rifle!" Garrett aimed his finger and fired off a concentrated purple beam at Ace.

"You like guns huh?" Ace stuck his blade in the ground, "Maybe we can play whose the better sharp shooter!" Ace pulled out a revolver from behind him and twirled it for a moment before taking aim, "So let's play huh!"

"Who are you and what do you want? What kind of Quirk do you have?" Garrett bit his lip.

"My name is Ace...I can't tell you much because I don't know much. All I can tell you is that I was freed from two good folks. They were part of some mighty cool group called...like...The Elite? I didn't get their names but because they let me out I'm doing them a favor by being here!"

"The...Elite?" Garrett muttered.

"Yeah! Cool name right?! Anyway...they freed me, thus allowing me..." Ace took aim at Garrett with his revolver, "To start my purge and welcoming a new world! Your Captain friend might have been lucky to see it, but seeing as apparently we've encountered before, if he didn't make the cut then. Then he's not going to make it now!"

"H-how dare you speak of Captain Schriver like that! To disrespect-"

Disrespect him?! You mean like this!" Ace aimed his revolver at Schriver's body lying on the ground. He then pulled the trigger and three shots were fired into the body.

"Captain!" Garrett shouted, "Gatling!" Garrett fired off a barrage of red energy shots. Ace turned and aimed his gun right at Garrett, he pulled the trigger once. Quickly Garrett raised his metal arm and used it to deflect the bullet averting his eyes from Ace.

"Now again...you don't need that arm right?!" Ace then swung his sword aiming at the shoulder of Garrett, "Come on Winter Soldier! I just want to see how much I can sell it for!" Ace laughed.

"Raa!" Garrett punched Ace and sent him skidding across the floor. Ace jumped up to his feet to come to a stop before smiling.

"Hard puncher! I like it! Hahahaha! You should join the movement!"

"Movement? Of what murder?!" Garrett barked, "I am the hero in training Vulcan! I refuse to join anything you are apart of!"

"But it's for the better!" Ace told him, "I promise! I want to see the world get better! I want the world to be better, there are too many weak minded, and weak bodied people. We can fix that, the world can be healed! But no wound can be healed without a little blood. It's through the blood of the weak that the strong survive! And it's through that survival we are able to move on and become better!"

"You're wrong..." Was Garrett's rebuttal, "Those with Quirks who are strong enough, have the right to usher in proper justice to make the world a better place! Without the need of taking lives!"

"But who says your justice is right?" Ace raised his eyebrow.

"What?" Garrett was taken back by this.

"What?" Ace smiled, "Never thought it about? Why are you right? You can do all the security you want kiddo! You can execute justice to perfection, but it will never work because the best way to get people to do what you want is out of fear. The weak fear the strong so they run from us, but for a world where only the strong survive will be the best of worlds because we will all be equal! So...Vulcan..." Ace raised his gun and lifted his blade, "What makes you right?!" Garrett was taken back for a second as he was thinking on how to answer.

"Oh...nothing?" Ace was now in front Garrett.

"What the-" Garrett suddenly felt a cold blade ease through his skin and looked down as in slow motion a spray of blood leave his body. He felt his eyes get wide. This villain, whatever Quirk he had. Made him on a different level. Especially with how easy he handled Captain Schriver who was now on the floor laying out in his own blood. Garrett stumbled back away from Ace who had swung his sword to get some of the heavy does of blood off of it.

"Fucking sheep..." Ace muttered.

"What the hell..." Garrett looked at his chest and up at Ace once more.

"Here...you die!" Ace licked his lips and ran forward.

"No!" Suddenly Ace felt a crushing blow in his abdomen that sent him stumbling back.

"W-what the..."

"Vulcan you're going to need to sit down, we got help on the way."

"W-who?" Vulcan looked down, "P-phantom? I forgot you were here!"

"Yeah that is...kind of my Quirk." Kasper sweat dropped, "Anyway I got Schriver, and was able to get some help while you guys fought him. Also got some information on him."

"You sure work fast."

"His name is Ace, his Quirk is known as Reality Check."

Quirk: Reality Check; This Quirk allows the User some handle on reality warping. It appears mostly in the form of various levels of teleportation. The levels extend to conscious levels of teleportation and subconscious levels that even the User cannot control. When focused The User can teleport anything smaller than them, though not without being drained of energy. Also the larger the objects the more energy it takes from The User. The User can even teleport themselves, but the User can only teleport themselves and larger objects if they are not being supervised. Thus making it difficult for them in larger people settings.

This Quirk can even alter the User's memories due to them being victims of various visions of the past and even small temporary glimpses into the future, looking at results and possibilities. This Quirk can even alter and shift things such as the direction of oncoming fire such as bullets, and other firearms. This Quirk may have no directly offensive capabilities, and relies heavily on being unseen, yet it's unpredictability to opponents and even to the User of this Quirk as well, making them difficult to fight in general.

"Hehe...more sheep huuuuuhhhh?" Ace licked his lips, "And you know about my Quirk?" He began walking down the hallway twirling his sword and fooling around with his Revolver.

"Well...I'm going to kill you all! None of you will make it out!"

"Freeze!" Suddenly Lucio came in and behind him were multiple Pro Heroes.

"Hmm? Well damn!" Ace pouted, "Guess I'll make my way out of here!" Ace then dashed for the window and jumped clean out.

"After him!" Lucio demanded. The Pro Heroes chased after Ace and looked out the window to see him missing.

"Damn..." Lucio bit his lips, "Kids you all okay? Schriver!" He checked on all of them.

"He's with The Elite.." Garrett muttered.

"Well then..." Lucio looked at him, "We're going to have a lot to talk about."

Blazer was leading his group consisting of Ashley, Mori, and Esra surrounding Dr. Hadley. They sun had came up and it was time for them to keep moving. Unable to keep in contact with Stark and his team it was best for them to keep moving as best they could. Dr. Hadley had looked around rather fearful of being attacked again.

"So..Blazer..." Dr. Hadley spoke.

"Yeah Doctor?" Blazer did not turn to give the doctor his attention, but had let him known that it was there.

"What do you know about...The Elite? I'm curious to them, or what the Hero Hunter was like. What kind of Quirk did he use?"

"Quirk?" Blazer scoffed.

"Yeah...what kind of power did he have? How strong was he? Was an Emitter? Was he a Transformation type? A Mutant type? Maybe that's why he wears his armor?"

"His Quirk? I wish I could tell you." Blazer tsked.

"What?" Mori was in a bit of shock, "Did he not use it against you? I figured he didn't use it on us for sure, but to not use it against yourself and Professor Stark?"

"I can't tell if he didn't use it or if it was in use the whole time." Blazer admitted, "It could have been a Speed Quirk for all I know. He was fast enough to keep up with myself and Xerox."

"He was really able to keep up with the both of you?" Dr. Hadley began tapping his finger on his chin, "Incredible, maybe it was a Speed Quirk."

"He kept up and succeeded in his reaction time." Blazer broke down, "He was quick, swift, agile, smart. He held back. As much as we did."

"As much?" Esra repeated, "You held back aye? What for? You could easily have beaten him then Boss, right?"

"Hmph, I should have swallowed him in a bright burning hell." Blazer gritted his teeth, "Xerox had warned me before hand while we were all tied up, that once freed that we shouldn't use all of our power. Not with everyone nearby at risk. So next time I see that Hero Hunter I'm going to burn him to ash!"

"That's what I like to hear!" Esra cheered on his Pro Hero Guide, "Blazer isn't a top hero for nothing!"

"Whatever Quirk he may or may not have does not matter, but if I get the chance next time. I'll end him."

"Mhm..." Dr. Hadley took in such information, "Now...what about The Elite?"

"Well what happened with The Elite?" Ashley asked, "Who did you all run into?"

"Some man named Crimson..." Mori replied, "Our encounter was brief, but he was strong."

"You could tell in the way of his movements." Esra added.

"He did carry himself a certain way..." Mori spoke softly, "Not so much in a manner that deemed him powerful, but just in a way that was...there just a difference that could be seen."

"He seemed very...sporadic...if I may add." Dr. Hadley mentioned, "It was kind of scary how strong he was."

"Thanks for remind us..." Mori and Esra said with heads hung low.

"It's not your kids fault for what was happening." Blazer assured.

"But we should have a plan the next time, should we not?" Ashley asked.

"There goes Rouge being so bright again!" Mori cheered Ashley happily, "Always one to think ahead!"

"Speaking of Ms. Rouge!" Dr. Hadley looked over to the rainbow haired girl, "Your Quirk!"

"Hmm?" Ashley looked at the doctor, "I'm guessing your appearance is heavily influenced by your Quirk. Does this mean your blood is paint as well? Your tears and everything? Even your atoms? Any fluids?"

"Wh-"

"You don't have to answer that Rouge! That's kind of weird to ask after all..." Mori clung onto Ashley's side eyeing the doctor.

"Yeah doc that's kind of odd, you got an obsession with Quirks obviously!" Esra sighed while placing his hands behind his head.

"Well it is my job!" Dr. Hadley chuckled sheepishly, "It's what has gotten me so far in my career is my never ending curiosity! I lust for knowledge!" He smiled.

"Hmm..." Blazer simply eyed the doctor.

"What got you started into science anyway doctor?" Esra eyed Hadley.

"I'll happily share!" Dr. Hadley smiled, "When I was younger I was always interested in...how things worked. I used to take apart clocks and other devices just to look inside. My curiosity eventually bested me once I had got involved in my academics! It had spawned and grew from simple machines and devices into people."

"Guessing that means you wanted to dissect people, you probably made alot of friends in school eh?" Esra teased.

"Well..." Dr. Hadley seemed reluctant to answer, "You would be correct there, I was the subject to heavy bullying just because I had heavy interest in the human body and how Quirk's formed. Though...all but one person was against me.."

"Ohhh that's when you met Lyric's Mom!" Mori smiled with joy of a seemingly happy story.

"That would be right!" Hadley confirmed, "Her name was Lola..." Dr. Hadley smiled, "She was so beautiful. Lyric looks just like her and it makes me so happy! She helped me with my studies and was always so supportive, she's the only one that understood my research..." Hadley began to hang his head.

"She sounds wonderful!" Mori clapped her hands together.

"Like you really have a good one on your hands!" Esra smiled nudging Hadley.

"I did..."

"Did..." Esra muttered.

"Great going Esra..." Mori pouted punching him on the top of his head.

"How was I supposed to know they aren't together?"

"She left me.." Hadley continued, "Me and Lyric...not by choice...she passed away shortly after Lyric was born. So she never got the chance to actually see her mother outside of pictures."

"See what you did!" Mori pushed Esra's head down in shame.

"Gaah! I'm telling you I promise I didn't mean it!" Esra whined.

"Stop it you two!" Ashley demanded, "Behave like the heroes we need to be."

"We're sorrryyy..." Mori and Esra sighed.

"Oh you kids!" A voice echoed. Everyone turned to see a large man falling from above crashing down in the street behind them.

"W-who are you?" Dr. Hadley was in awe at the man across from him.

"You folks...come in to my Wasteland huh? Well I'm here for Dr. Hadley, my brother says we can get a good price on him." The beastly sounding man said with a joy in his throat.

"What's your name?" Blazer demanded to know.

"Team formation!" Ashley called as she took in front and center in front of Dr. Hadley while Mori flanked behind her to the left, then flanked behind her to the right was Esra. In the middle of their triangle was Dr. Hadley, and besides them was Blazer.

"Me...I'm the Beast of the Wasteland..." The man was hunched over from his landing, but came to a slow stand with a wicked look in his eyes, "My name...is Blanco!"

Next Time: Schriver has been hurt, Garrett injured, a villain freed, and Ace has escaped. What will become of this new event?! Along with that Blazer and his team encounter Blanco! A man claiming to be The Beast of the Wasteland, he has come for Dr. Hadley. What kind of powers does he behold and how strong is he to believe he can fight against four heroes at once? Or are our heroes underestimating the arrival of the new threat?!

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