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Chapter 28: Shit's About to go Down! (Part Five)
Rico made it back to the chemicals vats with a bloody wound on his right abdomen. It seems Ronald must have landed a good shot as he was escaping. His right hand clutches the wound as he climbs up the catwalk above the chemicals. His walking gain him a limp, but he made his way to a pumping vat. Before he can turn the wheel, he is meet with a ninja star, nearly cutting off his left hand.
Turning his head, he spotted Joseph, katana in his hands. "I still got unfinished business with you." He said.
"Doesn't that category falls Ronald?" Rico said, breathing slowly. The wound was stopping the blood. He remove his hand from it. "He's the guy you should be killing! He had his brother kill your parents, not me!" His hand move over to the top of his rod, feeling a small button in his fingers.
"Do you really think your talk is gonna prevent me from sliding your head off?" Joseph move ahead, his blade bangs against the railing.
"No, but this will!" Rico's rod is shoot out like a cannon. Joseph move his body quickly before seeing the rod in the kingpin's head having a solid blade.
Rico roar, charging his cane sword at Joseph. He brings the katana up, clashing his blade. Joseph take a few steps back and going a bit further of slashing a cut in Rico's left arm.
"You little brat!" Rico screamed. His blade stopped him from cutting off his head, like as Joseph was planning to. The cane sword leave a cut mark on the bars, missing his target. Joseph took the opportunity of sending his leg down and break the sword. Rico loses his balance and fell to the ground.
Now defenseless, Rico scoot away from the hardcore vigilante, his right eye leaking tears. "Please! Please, don't kill me!"
"I waited a long time to end the man who purge this world of your filth." Joseph's hand grip on the blade and a look in his eyes suggesting that he was finally gonna end kingpin's wrath.
"We can work out on a deal! Money. Jewelry. Woman! I can provide you with all that! Just tell me what you want!"
"Your head."
"My head isn't really worth. What about my vice dens?! I can tell you where my dens are!" Unknowingly to Joseph, too focus on killing the kingpin, Rico's left hand sink inside the jacket. "Just please let me go!"
"You call yourself a king," Joseph look at him without any shred of pity. "At least die like one; all your buddies we killed or put away didn't beg to be lived. Take a look at Victor DeSoto, for example. He didn't beg after my friend burn his dick off. Maybe Ron was right about you. You may be an important crime boss, but you're nothing but a coward who hides behind his wealth and send assassins to do your job. You haven't even had the guts to your old master."
This was it. That was when Rico pulls out a pistol with a 'Shut up!' A few rounds were fired. Joseph didn't have time as the bullets hit him, but the bulletproof vest stopped them. However, one of the bullets hit him in the shoulder. Rico's right eye saw the broken cane sword on the floor; he grab the one with a two inch piece and the the handle. With a fury rage, he stab on Joseph's chest. Though it didn't hurt him at first, but after the first five or six stabs. Joseph can feel the blade broken through the vest and got his flesh.
"You're just jealous cause I'm more wealthy and powerful while you're just a puck in a mask who fucks in on my business!" Rico screamed, pushing the blade further to his heart.
But the hero pushes his body against the bars, dropping the blade. The katana was pointed at the kingpin's neck. Joseph narrow his eyes at him, which he return the gesture back.
"What are you waiting for?" Rico stated. "Cut off my head! This is what you've been waiting for! Do it!"
The stare off only lasted ten seconds before he got an answer from the hero. "No," He lowers his katana down. "I'm not gonna kill you this way."
Surprise and a little relief, Rico asked with some fear in him and gaining his confidence back "Then what are you gonna do?"
"I'm gonna leave you with all the crimes and pain your buddies have committed." Joseph then kick Rico's chest hard enough to break the bars of the catwalk. The kingpin scream as he falls in a vat of chemical. The reign of Rico 'King' Wilson was finally done.
Joseph started down at the vat where he finally ended the kingpin's life until a familiar voice call out.
"Well done!"
Joseph look to his right and saw Ronald on the ground with seven of his troopers behind with their weapons up.
"It's about time you finally did the deed, kid! The king is finally dead!" Ronald bellowed. Joseph didn't reply back, only glared at the last crime boss. "Oh, don't give me that. You should be proud! That man was too dangerous to be kept alive! He's got connections to the police; he would've walk away before a trial can begin!"
"Now that he's dead, I assume you can finally take over the business?" He asked.
"The chemical dealings are dead, right after Rico fall in! It's worthless now! After we killed you, we can finally leave this place and have your friends to deal with the cops! I'm starting over again; the DeSoto family legacy can finally be regain!"
"This was never about helping our family wasn't it?" A new voice call out. Everyone look to see Tobias, or Reaper 2.0, in his samurai-like armor from a catwalk.
Ronald didn't look apologetic to his former nephew. "Sorry about this, Tobias, but that's how this works when your father first deals with us. But hey, I won't let you or your folks rot in prison. I still got rid of those charges these people put your mom and dad from your actions. Just give it six months for all of this to blow over, and your entire family will be out."
"Like hell!" Warrior-Cat's voice call out as his shield was thrown at one troop in the head. The rest of the Crossbones Bandits open fired. Rico's men came through the door and fight off the bandits.
"Shit!" Ronald shouted, running behind one of the vats close to him. He got out a radio phone from his jacket and shouted "Dispatch to my area! We need reinforcements!"
"Copy that!"
Outside of the mansion, the helicopter the bandits were in flew over to where their boss and fellows are. Up to where another location of the hideout, the pilot flip the switch to activate the rocket missiles from the chopper. Five of them were fired, blowing up another hole. From down below is where the battle is at. Three of the bandits were secured in a hookline over their belts and jump out, safely landing to the ground with their submarine-guns ready.
The heroes suit bounce off the bullets hitting them, but this prove to be fatal due to they're standing in a room with vats of chemicals. And one of those bullets can trigger a major fire that could destroy the entire house.
Fly-Man uses his goggles to magnetize the chopper. Activating his wings, he flew up. The pilot in the chopper saw him behind the bulletproof windows. Despite being alarmed that he can fly to his level, he turn it around and fire more missiles at the hero. Fly-Man move to avoid being hit (or killed) by one.
Flying to where he meets the pilot, his forearm shoot a small cylinder-like object through the window. The pilot pick it up, seeing the tip of it rapidly blinking red before purple smoke surrounded him. The chopper flew around, losing its control. Fly-Man then flew at the tail of the chopper and fire a laser blast from the base of his hand, cutting it off.
The three soldiers with the cable line attach to the chopper didn't notices what was happening above. The chopper fall down to its left. The cable line snatch, and sent the troopers at the fork of a wall, crushing their chests. Fly-Man saw it landing at what he suspected as the garage before a huge explosion erupted.
"Damn it!" Ron exclaimed, losing his getaway vehicle. He turn to Senator Sulter, who was cowering in his hiding spot. He grab his jacket and pull him in to meet his scare expression. "How long does the cops show up?!"
"Fifteen minutes!" He scream back.
"That's it! I've seen quite enough! Time for Plan B!" Ronald lead down to unzipped the duffle bag and took out a C-2 bomb with a timer. He put it on the vat and set the timer before launching the countdown.
Sulter see the time before turning to Ronald, "Five minutes? That's not enough time."
"What choice do I have?" He sees three of the troopers and call them out when one of them saw him waving his hand. "We're in Plan B. Let's move out."
"Understood." One of them nodded, and the bandits move forward.
Yellow-Death swing his spike bat at Captain Cruncher, who block it with his fork staff. He laugh evilly "Come on, I'm bat crazy!" Then a fire ball set his entire body on fire, courtesy of Bunny-Magician.
"Check it out, Scott!" He was behind the villain, who was still alive. "A fry banana!" Captain Cruncher then stab him in the body and ate the head before splitting out.
"Ew, too ripe!" The villain was sent flying into the chemicals.
Rico's men follow Ronald's team with Elmore's Warriors behind him. However, Warrior-Cat had caught a glimpse of his old rival during the fight before he vanished. Figuring where he is, he climb on the catwalk and ran to see Tobias.
Eight minutes earlier, right after the three armies went down into the hole, Colored-Cluster, Nightmare-Cat, Dark-Dasher, Rainbow-Forcer and Killa stay behind to fight a battle on their own.
Colored-Cluster fired a lightning blast from her gun, but Rainbow-Forcer jump high enough to avoid it. Seeing him coming at her like a meteorite, she backflips safety away, about five feet. Titan Wilson ran forward in hyper speed; Rally duck, nearly getting hit by his punch. She blasted another ray of lighting at her former brother. The ray misses as Titan flips his body around.
Meanwhile, Killa growl, punching one of the twins, who separated both from the attack. Dark-Dasher goes around him, punching his back. Killa felt what he thinks were tiny insect bites; he turn his fist at her, but instead of hitting Lexy, his hand was grab by Nightmare-Cat. Dark-Dasher went up behind her brother's back and hit across his face.
Colored-Cluster yelped after being kick in the chest, sending her across the room. Rainbow-Forcer crack his neck and his left knuckle while chuckle evilly.
"Oh, I can't wait to beat you more than I've did to you all those times," He started.
Colored-Cluster was scared, but remember she still have her gun. She saw it, right next to her brother, who was not seeing it. Getting up while bending her knees, Titan's walk went into a ran before jumping like a frog with his left fist pull back. Colored-Cluster roll over, making Titan breaking the floor. She grabs the gun in the hand and switches the barrel to the elemental color purple. As her brother turn around to see his target, he did a jump that was gonna be his final one. Gaining the advantage, Rally fires a purple ray at the bottom of his right feet. She jump behind and watch as her brother landed, but something happened. The adhesive on Titan's right foot broke once it made contact on the floor.
"Ahhh!" Titan screamed, now on his knee. "Goddamn it! You bitch; you broke my leg!"
"Which means I can finally do this," Rally declared, switching the barrel before firing an orange ray at Titan's last exoskeletal suit's leg, blowing it up. Then more rays were fired.
Titan was now powerless without the suit. Instead of begging like any regular villain would do, he started laughing.
"What are you gonna do, kill me?" He asked while on his knees.
"No," Rally replied back, switching the barrel to the one color she wanted to try. A smirk form in her face, making Titan stopped laughing. "But you are gonna lose it big time," A black ray shot out from her cluster gun and hit Titan. Moments later, he felt a large amount of something hot and moist coming out from his pants. He can feel all of his stomach being push up to his ass and passes out in his own filth.
"That's for all the things you've done to me." She stated, before turning her head to the other battlefield.
Killa grabs Dark-Dasher after sensing her coming from his left. Once from being hit by her attacks with her speed, he knows where she could be next. A lighting ray shoot him in the face, knocking Lexy down and being safety catch by her brother.
The last assassin now stares at the three crime-fighters, including Rally. He looked at Rico's son, now suitless, unconscious and...in a pile of his own shit. Despite being annoyed that he never had a chance against his own sister, he smile grimly at the thought of his kill record going to be grand.
"If that smile suggest that you'll have the chance to kill us," Rally stated, gripping her gun. Dante put Lexy down and stated at the last assassin. "Then you're wrong."
Killa's grin didn't die on his face, "We'll see, brat." He throws his fist at her; Dark-Dasher rushes in to save her. Nightmare-Cat slashes at his face. Killa yelled, his face earns four marks across. Enrage, the assassin slam his fist at his stomach, nearly making him cough blood. He then threw his body to the other side.
Dark-Dasher super speed and throw multiple punches at his lower stomach. He didn't flinch at each punch. Colored-Cluster switches the barrel of her gun and a fire ray hit his left forearm. The arm was covered with almost fifth degree burn. Killa smash both of his fists at the back of Lexy before slapping Rally in face hard enough to knock her down.
Warrior-Cat was now the other direction of the lair, in another hallway. Along the way, he stopped seeing a ladder in front of him. Looking up, he sees a door with a wheel in the center. He climbs up and turn the wheel to the left until he pushes the door open.
He found himself outside of the lair, in a helicopter stand. Closing the door with his foot, he look around to see Tobias, only he only found a large helicopter in front of him.
Then he hear his voice.
"Up here, cat."
Warrior-Cat turn and saw Tobias, or Reaper 2.0, standing in one of the helicopter blades. He jump down and lands on the floor. Grinning, he spray his arms wide open, "Well, here we are. You wanted me; now you got me." The feline cat can only glare at his rival, "Like what you done with that outfit. And I see you got a new arm," He pointed at the new robotic right arm. "Did you and your team really come here to stop us?"
"No," Warrior-Cat shake his head, and pointed his finger at him. "I came to fight you. One last time."
"Then what are you waiting for?"
Warrior-Cat fires his solar shield weapon; Reaper's armor created a shield to save him from the blast. Reaper ran and fires his arm blades from the top of his hands. The blades were destroyed by Warrior-Cat's shield. He then slide across to avoid a hit by the villain. The cat swing his leg at his back; the Reaper hits it with one of his three bladed hooks in each hands Warrior-Cat punches him and block a few slash before punching in the helmet.
"Time to see what this armor can do!" Warrior-Cat declared. The Reaper then focuses on his mind to trigger the macrobots from his armor. From the right and left side, they both shoot out from it like cannons. Warrior-Cat places his hand up and fired repulsor rays from out of it. It worked. The bugs were blown away.
The Reaper charges at him with his three bladed hooks. Warrior-Cat think fast and slam his shield against his blade. His back is switches to mini rockets that form out, making him slide across with Tobias' blades still holding the shield. Warrior-Cat then punches him in the stomach; the rockets stopped. This resulted the villain of being thrown out of the roof. However, the blades caught the edge, leaving him hang before lifting himself up.
"Impressive," He growled.
"Had enough?" Warrior-Cat asked.
"I'm just getting started!" He ducked away from the incoming blades. However, remembering back at the hotel, Warrior-Cat senses the blade will be coming back. He sees them, ready to hit (or stab) through. Warrior-Cat blasted a few with his repulsor rays, two with his shield and a final one by a punch with his new robotic arm.
"Arrgh!" Tobias scream, feeling his new armor isn't working like last time. He grabs one of the blades from the helicopter's tail and throw it at Warrior-Cat, which he slide it in half with his repulsor ray. The second blade is thrown; Warrior-Cat punches through it, nearly breaking it in half. Tobias, instead of ripping the blade off the tail, tear off the tail and sent it at Warrior-Cat. Warrior-Cat build his energy up from the reactor and a shot of solar beam blasted the tail.
Dark-Dasher breathed heavily as Killa smashes her brother to the ground. Colored-Cluster stand beside her; both girls have injuries, despite Lexy's riot gear being shield her body by regular punches and bullets.
"Damn, he's too strong!" Rally complained, feeling a few ribs might be broken. "Why did dad had to hired him?!"
"What you expect? He's a crime boss!" Lexy argue back.
"Girls, now isn't the time to talk!" Nightmare-Cat shouted, avoiding a hit from Killa. He stands between his legs till he sense him. Jumping back, he sank his claws at his back. A mixture of scream and agony escape from the assassin's mouth.
Rally turn to Lexy, saying "Can you handle another speed?"
"I can try," Lexy lean down on her left boots, "Except I think Killa may have crush some wires; I need some time to fix it."
"Hold my gun. I'm talking over," Rally throws her gun to Lexy, which she caught it with one hand, and her glowing green eyes switches to her rage eyes.
She charges at full speed at Killa, who was still trying to get Dante off his back. Her punch went into Killa's abs. His eyes widen, actually feeling the punch.
"You...bitch!" He struggled to breath as well as to speak, despite uttering one sentence. Rally's fist connected in his lower jaw. Dante, seeing him almost fall as he saw his back, got his claws out and scratches the assassin neck, almost hitting an artery. Killa swing his arm at one of them, but Colored-Cluster uses it to gain momentum and hit in the head. The neck was sketch, bleeding it further. Anymore and the head can be taken off like a dummy.
Dark-Dasher, now her boots are fixed, flashes to grab her brother and ran to the wall, where he let go of Dante to slam both of his feet against Killa's back. Colored-Cluster then punches his right shoulder, dislocating it. And finally, Dark-Dasher speed in front of the right arm, grabs it and pushes herself to drag his entire body into a wall.
Killa's body on the wall created small and large cracks before he got out and landed face flat on the floor.
"Did we kill him?" Colored-Cluster asked. However, her answer was answer too soon.
Killa slowly lifted himself up with a few groans. Never in his life as an assassin that no one can outmatch him, not even an entire army. Now three crime-fighters are this close of beating him. Killa's eyes narrow at them, letting out a low growl. He flinches as he move his right arm. The bone connected to his shoulder was dislodge. His growls grew more terror. He grab it and a loud and sicking sound was heard. The three heroes were shock with horror.
Killa lay out a satisfied smile and moving his right arm freely. "Ahh, that's better."
Ronald and his crew were out of the lair and went into Rico's private boats. He choices a yacht, and as the entire gang went in, he spotted a barrel of kerosene and knock one down, splitting the liquid on the boardwalk, where the heroes are still right behind him. He fire multiple bullets, creating a fire that spread in the kerosine. Ronald went inside the yacht and into the captain's deck where he starts off the engine.
The heroes almost stopped their chase, if not for Battle-Fish lifted both his fins and spray water from it to consume the fire. But it was too late. The Crossbones Bandits escape.
"They're getting away!" Night-Ninja cried.
"No, they're not," Science-Girl then tapped in on The Catship's control panels and lifted her left arm. The hovercraft from above the fight of Killa and Nightmare-Cat, Dark-Dasher and Colored-Cluster flew by itself to the location sent by Anais. It flew from where the yacht is and she commanded an order to the ship.
"Catship, laser beam."
A shot of red ray beam from a small cannon in the center hits the middle of the ship, and a few seconds, it got destroyed by an explosion.
Ronald and a few of his crew who survive floated up the surface and caught sight of the Catship in front of them. Before either of them can do something, a net was fired at them. The net was connected with a rope in the ship. The Catship hovers up, lifting the bandits like fish and flew to where the other heroes are. Once they were gone, David Sulter came out from a wreckage of the yacht and swim to another direction of the lair.
The Catship dispose of the net, dropping Ronald and his gang in the boardwalk. The leader was confronted with narrow looks and their arms raise in their faces. "You're through, Ronald," Jenny started, her blade right between his eyes.
"You bitch. I ain't going down like this. I'm Ronald DeSoto." Ronald got up, taking out a switchblade from his backside and proceed to stab the one of the brat who ruin his family's business.
Then Jenny slam her fist at Ronald's pelvis, making him open his mouth to release a high scream and dropping his blade. He fall down on the floor and grabs his groin with both of his hands.
"My nuts! You stupid bitch! You shatter my nuts! Ahhh!"
Gamble notices someone was missing from the group before asking "Where's your old pal Sulter?"
Senator Sulter finally manage to shore, into the place where Rico's planning to escape. He saw the submarine was still there, not knowing that the torpedos with the chemicals in them were dissolve, thanks to Science-Girl and Fly-Man. But he didn't care. He has enough craziness for one night. Thinking Ronald and his gang have been dealt with by Elmore's Warriors, Sutler's time of quitting the team was in motion. He was secretly pretending to go along with Ronald's plan because he had evidence that Sulter was working with the mob. All he knew was that the evidence they had against them were gone in the explosion, either from the yacht or the helicopter.
He went inside the submarine, closing the door behind him and went into the deck, turning off the engine. He felt glad that he'll survive this massacre and be held as hero to the public's eye. However, his dream was about to let down on him.
Back at the lab, the small timer on the C-2 bomb implanted by Ronald was close to denotation.
Jenny grab both of Ronald collar and started at his face. He talk slowly, still from the pain that Jenny had rupture his testacles.
"You stupid bitch...you think you and your brother won. But I have...a little firework in place."
"Firework? What firework?" She demanded.
Sulter pushes further on the submarine and right as he was close of getting out, the bomb exploded, triggering a reaction that took out the entire laboratory. Sulter felt the earthquake being vibrate. The stalagmites from above fall out from the ceiling and hit direct points of the ship. Sulter fell down. The pipe around the ship were leaking a combination of water, steam and gas. Before he can react of doing something, the pressure of the ship became too much and it rupture from the inside, destroying it and taking along a cowardly Senator.
Elmore's Warriors and The Crossbones Bandits both saw of what Ronald consider the biggest firework from Rico's laboratory.
Okay, so the next chapter will be the last chapter, of the conclusion. If the story doesn't end that, then the next chapter will be the aftermath. And you're finally gonna know which important character dies in the battle. Stick around for it! Sorry for making you all wait! NiteOwl18!
