Okay so it's been a while but I'm back. I have to apologize again, a combination of being busy as hell coupled with laziness and plus writers block have made it difficult to sit down and type for prolonged periods. Not to mention the fact that this was a huge pain in the ass to write, I'm not even kidding, I had to do a little a day to keep my motivation going and I have no idea why is was so hard.

Now I would like to inform you guys that I will be wrapping this story up in the coming chapters. I find myself unable to think up more filler, and I feel that the finale will be up and coming. It will probably take place within the next five to ten chapters or so, and if there is enough interest and people want it I will write a sequel story, but I guess what I'm trying to say is 'hold on guys, I'm almost done.'

I appreciate all the waiting and all the love you guys have given, it really makes me feel good to read your reviews and I look forward to writing more Kickass stories in the coming days. Like I said, it's time to start wrapping this up... this will be the second to last filler chapter, the next one after this will be a quick snipped into each of our heroes current lives, that will take place next chapter, so I hope you enjoy.


Fall of a Hero, Rise of a Legend.

Chapter 46

"This is gonna be fucking sweet!" Mindy said with a huge grin plastered on her face.

"Yeah! I can't wait to watch you kick some ass!" Sarah agreed happily.

"Language!" Marcus hissed at the two girls. Who both cringed at hearing him.

Mindy couldn't help but grin as she glanced around the wide open training room, in the JF Headquarters, she watched as her fellow members of Justice Forever, were either chatting amongst each other, placing bets, or getting ready for a fight.

Everyone had been excited when Dave and Mindy had told them about their little impromptu tournament, where anyone could challenge anyone.

Mindy was especially excited seeing as how this was her chance to get a rematch with Samuel, in front of everyone, and she was really looking forward to seeing how much she'd improved.

"I'm telling you, it'll be fun!" Dave said with a laugh as he and Doc Mathew were walking into the room.

"Yeah... I'm sure it will be. You know, your idea of 'fun' just means more work for me." Doc Mathew muttered with a tired look.

"Hey Doc, Don't worry so much, the only one I plan on sending to the infirmity is Todd." Dave replied just loud enough for Todd to overhear.

"Anytime, anywhere, boss man." Todd replied with a grin.

"Alright... since I know I'm gonna be stuck all night, setting broken bones, can you assholes at least tape up your hands, so I don't have to spend extra time setting your broken ass fingers?" Doc Mathew stated, it wasn't a question.

"Oh don't worry doc, we plan on it." Dave replied.

"Yeah, don't worry so much doc, I mean look as some of these assholes, do you really think any of us are stupid enough to try and punch Alex in those chiseled iron peeks he calls abs, without having our knuckles taped? … that would just be stupid." Mindy added, with a smile.

"Seriously... it would probably take like five punches to his abs, before your fists looked like chunky hamburger meat." Dave agreed.

"I will take that as a compliment." Alex stated as he walked by them.

"Shit I didn't even know he was in here." Dave cringed.

"Look, just avoid punching each other in kidneys, the last thing I need is you assholes bitching about pissing blood." Mathew ordered as he turned and headed off towards the infirmary, probably to cry to himself about all the goddamn work, he would have to do later.

"No promises." Dave called out after him, as he turned around and looked at everyone in the room.

They all seemed to be in good spirits, which was always nice to see. It wasn't often that everyone was in such a good mood, usually someone was a little tweaked off about something, but not today.

"Hey there hot stuff. You ready for this?" Mindy asked as she stood next to him.

"Sure.. how about you? Got your eyes on anyone?" Dave asked in reply.

"Other then you? … A few." Mindy replied with a smirk.

"Me? … ah and I though we would save our fight for the bedroom." Dave stated in mock pain.

"Ha... you wish. Today I'm gonna show the rest of these assholes who really runs things." Mindy hummed out as her grin grew larger.

"Great! You know I'm trapped right? If I kick your ass then I'm a dick who beat up a girl, and if I lose, then I'm a wimp who got his ass kicked by a girl." Dave muttered.

"I'm sure that's how all the other dudes are feeling too." Mindy said as she patted him on the back.

"Yeah." Dave muttered again.

"Oh, come on Dave, would it help if I dressed up as Hit Girl? That way you can at least say you got your ass kicked by a superhero?" Mindy asked in a mocking tone.

"Maybe I'll just referee this bitch." Dave said to himself.

"Hey no... everyone else is fighting you can't puss out now." Mindy chided.

"Yeah, yeah... I wont. I still gotta make good on my taunt to Todd." Dave replied.

"Great!" Mindy yipped as she walked over to Lucy and Miranda.

'Okay... This should be fun!' Dave thought.

Dave took the moment to glance around at everyone. While they were all doing different things, he could sense an underlying excitement flowing through the group. They were all eager to test themselves, to show where they were in their training.

Everyone was eager to show their rivals just how strong they were, and just how far they'd come.

"Alright guys gather round." Dave ordered after a moment of thought.

"Kay, here's how this is going to work, same rules as 'Fight Club', right down your name and who you want to fight on a piece of paper, we'll draw from a hat and do this one at a time. To keep it fair no one can fight twice in a row, and we'll keep going till everyone is sick and tired. You can refuse a fight but know that unless a legitimate reason is given, or a rematch is scheduled, the group reserves the right to call you a bitch... Any questions?" Dave asked as he finished explaining things to everyone.

No questions were asked as the group got to work, writing down whom they wanted to fight.

A few minutes later and they were ready to begin.

First match ended up being between Marty and Eileigh.

"This is going to rock! Kick his ass!" Mindy cheered, excitedly.

"Alright, on my count of three," Crystal, whom was reffing the fights, stated.

"Don't hold back." Eileigh told her boyfriend with a smirk.

"Right... I'll try not to." Marty replied.

"Right, One, Two, Three!" Crystal called the beginning of the match, and Eileigh immediately went on the offensive.

While Eileigh was fast and nimble, Marty was heavy and tough.

Eileigh immediately laid into him with a swift kick to the chest. Marty blocked the strike but was forced back a foot from the blow. Eileigh kept him on the defensive, and she got in close and delivered a few quick jabs, towards his face.

Marty kept blocking just waiting for an opening to present itself, when he saw one, and struck out with a heavy jab. Eileigh saw it coming and immediately tried to sidestep it, causing the blow to land on her shoulder, instead of her chest, where it had been aimed.

Marty looked shocked for a second that, the strike had landed, when suddenly his girlfriend, locked eyes with him, as an evil smirk appeared on her face.

Eileigh's retaliation for the strike, was instant, she immediately kicked high, delivering a shot to the side of his head, eliciting a cry of mock pain, from the crowd.

Marty stumbled back muttering profanity as his world started to spin.

Eileigh didn't cease her assault. Mindy had taught her to never give her opponent a moments rest.

She dashed forward delivered a drop kick to Marty's chest, knocking him to the ground, she then immediately pounced on him and pinned him down.

"Fuck!" Marty mumbled, winded from the drop kick.

"You give?" Eileigh asked, with a devilish smirk.

"Fuck! Yes! God dammit! You spend way to much time with Hit-Girl." Marty whined as he tried to regain his breath.

"Girls one, Guys Zero!" Miranda cheered.

"Great going Archer!" Mindy said as Eileigh got to her feet dragging Marty with her.

"God damn... that was fast." Todd snickered as Marty wandered over to him.

"Hey... F off, at least I lost to my girlfriend. I can live with that. Your ass is gonna get wrecked by Dave and I guarantee it's going to hurt a lot more." Marty Fired back.

"Great going girl." Mindy high-fived Eileigh as she walked by.

"Thanks." Eileigh replied with a happy grin on her face.

"Okay... new rule I just came up with," Dave began, drawing everyone's attention, "None of these fight are going to degrade into a live sex act, I just wanna make that clear, as we have quite a few promiscuous couples and there are children present."

"Yeah... Samuel's innocent psyche can't handle that kind of profanity." Qiang joked, causing most of the heroes to burst into laughter, while Qiang received a lightning fast kick to the back of the knee, courtesy of Samuel.

"How did that feel?" Jerramy asked, as Qiang winced in pain.

"You should know." Qiang fired back, to which Jerramy just hung his head in defeat.

"Alright, who's next?" Dave asked, as Sarah drew another name from the hat. 'Ace versus Aiko'

"Son of a bitch." Ace muttered as he stepped into the ring.

"Kick his ass bitch." Mindy cheered for Aiko.

"Do I need to get you a shock collar?" Marcus asked, giving Mindy a stern look.

"What?" Mindy asked, pretending not to know what she was being scolded for.

"I seriously hope one of you chose to fight the other." Dave muttered, to which Mindy's face lit up in excitement and she dashed off to find a pen.

"I will make you pay for that." Marcus muttered darkly, while Dave just laughed.

"Alright on my three." Crystal said as Ace and Aiko made it to the ring.

"Don't hold back." Ace said with a smirk.

Aiko simply smirked and cocked an eyebrow as she muttered ditto.

"Alright, One, Two, Three!" Crystal called, and so the ass kicking commenced.

Truthfully poor Ace never stood a chance, while he was an awesome street fighter, Aiko was a martial arts prodigy, and while the fight did last longer then Marty's it wasn't that hard to see who was dominating the whole thing, so yeah, his ass was very quickly pinned to the floor, and the match was over.

"That was awesome!" Todd muttered.

"Sure was." Donald agreed with a grin.

"Fuck! That hurt!" Ace whined as he struggled to his feet, Aiko standing over him smirking.

"You did good man, better then Marty at least." Dave called out to him.

"Hey I'd like to see you do better." Marty replied indignantly.

"Against Mindy? … No I think I prefer life." Dave responded.

"How did that feel?" Duncan asked as Ace hopped out of the ring.

"Not fun." Ace replied sheepishly as he sat on one of the chairs around the room.

"Alright next is Dave versus Todd." Crystal called out.

"Sweet." Todd said with a grin as he hopped into the ring.

"Let's see just how much you've improved." Dave told him with a smirk.

"Alright on my three." Crystal told them as she counted down.

And so the next fight began, Todd had improved immensely since he first began, enough to make any average street thug think twice about getting into a brawl, with him, but Dave had improved more. The two traded blows, and both fought in a similar fashion.

Both were large and strong. And while neither was the fastest individual in the group, they were both some of the toughest.

The fight raged on for almost ten minutes, both trading blows, both taking some pretty good hits, Dave had a busted lip, and It was pretty obvious that Todd was going to have a black eye, but neither would relent.

The fight finally came to an end when Todd kicked high, and Dave caught his strike, twisted his leg, forced his body to fall, where he quickly dove on top of Todd and pinned him down.

"Nice!" Mindy cheered.

"That was cool!" Sarah shouted gleefully.

"Nice fight..." Dave said with a smirk as he helped Todd to his feet.

"Thanks... looks like I still got more work to do to catch up." Todd replied.

"Keep workin' at it, you'll get there eventually." Dave told him with a smile.

"Yeah yeah." Todd muttered.

"Okay next up is Miranda versus Katie." Crystal informed them.

"Sweet! Let's see what you got." Miranda stated happily as she hopped into the ring.

"Alright." Katie replied as she went to join her.

"Good luck." Alex said to Katie as she made for the ring, she simply looked back at him and smirked.

"Alright ladies, on you know the drill, on my three." Crystal told them before counting down.

The second the match started, Katie was on the offensive, she had grown a lot faster, under Mindy's and Alex's tutelage.

Though Miranda was no slouch either, and while she lacked the same kind of flare Katie had developed since she began training, she was by no means a light weight.

The two woman fought with great speed, and in an eerily reminiscent manner, as Mindy. Both were quick, with there strikes, and kept moving, neither seemed to have the advantage over the other. For three minutes the two traded strikes neither gaining much of an advantage.

"They've both gotten good." Dave commented as he watched the fight intently.

"I agree, those two are some of the hardest working individuals here." Duncan agreed.

"They both know, what it's like to feel weak. Neither wants to ever endure pain like that again." Dave replied.

"Very true." Duncan said with a nod as he watched the fight continue.

The fight came to a quite sudden end when Katie side stepped one of Miranda's strikes, caught her arm, threw her to the ground and pinned her arm behind her back.

"That was sudden." Marty commented.

"Nicely done ladies." Crystal cheered for them as she declared Katie the winner.

"Damn... didn't see that coming, good job." Miranda said as Katie helped her to her feet.

"Thanks... that was a great fight, I'm looking forward to our rematch." Katie replied as the two exited the ring.

"Ditto." Miranda replied as she massaged her shoulder.

"Good fight." Alex said as Katie walked up next to him.

"Thanks." Katie replied with a happy smile.

"Oh my goddess you're not hurt are you?" Andrew doted on Miranda.

"I'm fine don't worry about it." Miranda replied with a smile.

And so the fights continued from there. Next was Jon and Duncan. Both ex soldiers entered the ring shook and hands, and proceeded to kick the ever loving shit out of each other.

Both being soldiers from the same army, meant that they both fought in a similar fashion, the fight lasted a good ten minutes before, Duncan got the upper hand and got Jon into a headlock, ending the fight.

Next was Jash and Raine. The twins entered the ring with viscous smirks on their faces, both were ready to go all out against each other, and they definitely did.

As always the twins fought viciously, and by the end of it, both were beaten and bloody, their fight ended with a double knockout when both caught each others arms and then head-butt each other so hard they knocked themselves out. Later the twins would proclaim that they were happy with the results and looked forward to their rematch.

Next was Qiang versus Alex. To even the fight out they gave Alex a set on brass knuckles so that it would be a fair fight against Qiang's metal hand. To say this fight was awesome would be an understatement. Both men were physically strong, and both were insanely tough.

The two traded blows for about fifteen minutes neither gave ground and the never lost their flare. Both men fought with a great deal of ferocity, and it kept the rest of the group enraptured watching the two muscle bound men duking it out. If you had to compare it to something it would be like watching Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting, in their primes. Each strike was loud and reverberated, as the two traded blows. Both were insanely tough so neither was to prone on dodging.

The fight kept going, everyone watched with bated breath, waiting to see who would finally win, no one was able to tell who had the upper hand, as both fighters held looks of confidence and neither looked to be tiring.

The end of the long fight came when Alex caught one of Qiang's strikes and swiftly kicked his leg out from under him, forcing Qiang to the floor where Alex pinned him down.

"Holy shit, that was awesome." Todd gawked.

"Damn straight." Dave replied with a grin.

And from there the fights continued, three and a half hours of cheering each other on. Three and a half hours of broken noses, missing teeth, and black eyes. After Alex and Qiang, was Mindy versus Lucy, which ended in less then a minute, as Mindy never went easy on anyone. After that Andrew fought Andrei, which was yet another clash of the titans. It ended both men surrendering after fifteen minutes of fighting. And it continued from there.

Eventually Mindy got to fight Marcus, which was probably one of Mindy's favorite fights of the day. It lasted a god five minutes, Marcus was good, but of course Mindy was better, the smile never left her face the whole time the fight was going on.

Of course Mindy ended up the victor, but everyone could tell that Marcus left the ring in good spirits, it wasn't often that he and Mindy trained together, as Marcus was more of a ranged fighter, while Mindy was better suited in close range.

Probably the most awesome fight was between Jerramy and Samuel, the two were both in excellent form and neither gave an inch to the other. Picture any awesome martial arts movie where you have two insanely skilled fighters going at it, and you'd be arriving in the ball park of what this fight was like.

It was by far the longest fight, lasting over twenty minutes, and Jerramy definitely wasn't holding back at all, in the end though the older brother still retained his title, the fight ended when Samuel delivered a spin kick directly to Jerramy's head, dropping him to the ground dazed and confused.

Samuel simply pinned him down with that same smug smirk he would wear whenever he did smile.

Though something interesting did happen when Samuel helped Jerramy to his feet, Dave thought he saw something like approval flash through Samuel's eyes. Dave guessed that Samuel was impressed by how much his brother had improved, and he guessed that previous matches between the two brothers was no where near this long, or impressive.

Dave's favorite fight came in the form of Mindy fighting Samuel towards the end of their little tournament.

To say Mindy was insanely focused on this fight would have been an understatement. The Fight in an of itself was intense, and heart-pounding. Unlike the first time Mindy had fought Samuel, this time she was in proper health, and excellent form. She fought to all her strengths, and kept light on her feet. Samuel offered no room for errors, he was fast, and deadly. So Mindy, kept moving, and used every ounce of her speed and flexibility.

Unlike all of his other fights, where he would maintain a healthy neutrality about it, you could tell that, just like with his fight against Jerramy, this fight was exciting for Samuel. The look of glee in his eyes as the two traded blows, the focused and determined look on his face, showed that he was giving Mindy every ounce of his attention.

The fight raged on, Everyone could tell, that Mindy was taking any risks, unlike most of the fights today, she was determined to win, not just show off.

The fight came to a screeching end, when Samuel hooked Mindy's leg with his and pulled it out from under her, he was quickly able to pin her to the ground ending the fight.

"Holy shit..." Todd muttered in awe.

"That was cool as hell." Marty said with a smirk.

"She's gotten good." Alex said, to which Katie nodded in agreement.

"You've improved." Samuel stated as he stared down at her.

"Yeah... not enough though." Mindy replied, with a bit of pain.

"Keep working on it. You'll be at Jerramy's level soon, and afterwords... well... we'll see." Samuel stated as he offered her his hand, an obvious sign of respect when coming from Samuel.

"Thanks... I look forward to the rematch." Mindy said as she stood.

"As do I." Samuel replied as he offered her a polite bow, before leaving the mat.

"How'd I look?" Mindy asked as she left the ring and approached Dave.

"Amazing... as always. You did a helluva lot better this time." Dave said with a smile, as he gave her a friendly pat on the back.

"Yeah, yeah. I'll get him next time." Mindy replied with a confident look.

"Damn straight you will." Dave agreed.

And from there the fight raged on. By the end of the tournament. The record was Samuel, 6-0, Alex 5-0 Mindy 5-1, Dave 4-2, and Crystal 4-2. the five of them had fought the most, and Samuel along with Alex had gone undefeated and since neither wanted to fight the other, they anointed Samuel the winner.

In the end, Neither Dave nor Mindy chose to fight each other, despite their teasing, when asked why, they both replied along the lines of, "Do you know how often we train together? I already know who would win."

After the tournament the group partied happily, they just wanted to unwind and have fun, and that's what they did. And aside from Doc Mathews having to patch up a few of the more roughed up members, the mood was pretty festive.

By the end of the night, Dave and Mindy found themselves back in their room, staring up at the ceiling both smiling to themselves, remembering the day they had just spent with everyone.

For Dave it would be an awesome reminder of just how close they all were, and how far they had come. While for Mindy this day helped her gauge herself and everyone else, she was sure as shit not going to lose to Samuel a third time, so she would increase her training and work her ass off.

"You have fun?" Dave asked.

"Hell yeah." Mindy replied with a happy smile.

"Good... well I hope we can do it again soon." Dave commented with a smile of his own.

"Ditto." Mindy agreed as she let her thoughts drift into memories of just how far JF had come in the past, and hopefully where they would end up in the future.

Dave kept the smile on his face as he drifted off, for tonight at least he could think about JF and all of his friends, today had been about them... and for tonight at least, he would keep Cain, The Order, Chris, and the legionnaires, away, and just focus on what was important... Justice Forever... his family.

END!


Alright... thank the LORD I AM FINISHED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I will reiterate... you have no idea how much of a pain in the ass this was to write... I mean this chapter in specific, not to update... anyway, let me know what you think and I'll see you soon TA!