Chapter 4: Accelerate or XLR8
"Answer me, this why are we forced to work. Why must we pay money to eat. It's insane, can't we all just share. Look around the rich get fat, while the poor die. Where is the freedom in this world. Does it even exist, we're all just slaves to our work. And is work fun? No! How could it be, we do not want to work, PERIOD! That, is why I, Hammerhead, will change our society. I will make it so those that want to work will, while the rest are supported. We will create a utopian world, the Paradisers, lead by Hammerhead, will realize this!" The leader of the Paradisers yelled out in front of a giant Plaza. Him and his group were bald headed men in matching suits. But Hammerhead, had a large scar across his nose, his suit had flame patterns on it. The civilians simply ignored this group of losers who didn't wanna get a job.
"Boss, nobody's listening." One replied from the group.
"All these damn, idiots. They're not ready for us anyway! Let's go! That guy Zeniru's loaded. We'll wreck his posh penthouse and show everyone that we mean business! High-rise apartments are symbols of Inequality." Hammerhead shouted as they headed to 'Zenirus penthouse'.
"Yes sir!" The Paradisers replied in unison.
The Paradisers arrived in front of what they thought was Zenirus penthouse and gazed at the building in delight.
"What a show-off! This whole building is Zeniru's home." One Paradiser spoke with his large buckteeth.
Hammerhead trembled in anger as he saw the 'Penthouse', "There's no way in hell, he made so much money legally. It's unforgivable. Bring it down!" He yelled.
"Yes sir!" One Paradiser stepped forward raising his fist, the suit's forearm bloated up like a balloon. He rushed the building punching it sideways and watching as it was destroyed in mere seconds. His forearm returned to normal, "Target has been destroyed."
Hammerhead chuckled in delight as Zeniru's Penthouse was just reduced to rubble, "Man, these experimental battle suits, sure do pack a punch. I mean, sure, we had to steal them, but when it's all said and done, it was totally worth the risk!"
The buckteeth Paradiser was looking at a map, "Wait, that was the wrong building."
Hammerhead looked at him in anger as his shrilly voice continued, "My bad, boss. Actually, his house is a little further up."
Hammerhead not bothered by his lackey's mistake shouted, "Whatever! Everyone makes mistakes! But the important thing is to learn from them. Am I right?"
"Right, you are sir!"
"Then, onward to Zeniru's!" He screamed, "MOVE OUT!"
"YEAH!"
A little school boy wearing a light blue long waist jacket and dark blue shorts, a yellow satchel, and yellow hat. He was standing in front of a tree, sobbing. A green bicycle was parked right next to the tree.
Inside the tree was a man who looked to be 19, he wore a green helmet, goggles, light beige chest plates and shoulder pads. He wore a black jumpsuit, with gloves, armored covered pants, and boots. Around his waist was a white belt with a red and black wheel in the center. The man was reaching for the string on the red balloon that floated up into the tree. With the balloon in hand he came back down and handed it to the little boy.
He walked over to his green bicycle, removing the kickstand and hopped on, "You're amazing!" The little boy cried out to the cyclist hero, "Thanks alot bicycle guy!" He gave him a smile and a thumbs up before cycling away. Towards a giant smoke cloud that was in the distance.
Ben was at his computer doing some research on the new Sumo Slammers movie which comes out in two weeks. He had on black jeans, and a black hoodie that had the number 10 in green on the front. On the back of his hoodie, his last name 'Tennyson' was written above and the number 10 below it. When he heard the news come on, grabbing the remote he turned the volume up.
"The terriost group responsibile for Riots call themselves the Paradisers." The news women recalled the terriosts acts that happened moments ago.
"Paradisers? Sounds stupid, but the question is do I need to get involved?" Ben contemplated whether he should go out there and beat up these so called terriosts. He shrugged and turned his attention back to his computer.
"They've destroyed a high-rise building in City F, and the situation seems to be spiraling out of control. I'm recieving word that we've just learned the identity of their leader." She stated, Ben had his eyes on the computer, but his instincts kicked in and his eyes went back to his television as he saw a picture of the known culprit, "This is Hammerhead, a B-class criminal who's been involved in several violent incidents in the past. He's a man of large stature standing at 6'6 feet tall and weighing 462 pounds."
"Sheesh, man weighs a ton." Ben quipped as he gazed at the leader of these so called Paradisers. He had a cone shaped head, evil look on his face, and a large scar across his nose.
"According to one eyewitness report, he fought twenty men in a street brawl and sent each them to the hospital."
"Interesting, but still I think the police or other so called hero's can handle this one. No need to get involved and risk my identity being revealed." Ben stated as he went back to his research.
"The Paradisers sent the following message directly to this tv station." She replied, "It states and I quote 'We will continue to riot until food, clothing, and shelter free of charge to those who do not work.' Like their leader Hammerhead, the group is made up of unemployed young men, report's also state they have shaven heads. Making them not only uniform in appearance, but quite intimidating."
Ben rolled his eyes, "Lazy bastards, get jobs instead of rioting what's the point nothings gonna change." He stated.
"Report's also state that multiple experimental battle suits have been stolen by said terriosts. With these suits they're all have the strengths of hundreds of men." She replied.
"UGHH!" Ben finally groaned having enough of this. He turned off his computer and tv, "I'll stop these losers myself." He stated as he put his shoes on and walked out the front door.
In an emerald flash, Ben turned into a crimson red and white Manta Ray alien, from his head, to the upper part of his chest, and his arms were crimson red while the rest of his chest and down was white. He had white patagia hidden underneath his arms. He had two large horns on his forehead, and two smaller ones underneath his mouth, his feet were black, and a tail spourted from his back side. The Omnitrix badge rested in the middle of his chest, "JETRAY!" The Aerophibian cried out as he launched into the air at blinding speeds making his way to City F, "Hopefully I can make it in time." He replied as he zoomed through the air.
In City F, the police were in full riot gear trying to contain the situation, but nothing seemed to be working with their battle suits. Large smoke clouds filled the air as, the police were launched into the air. The civilians trembled in fear and raced away screaming.
"The Paradisers are here! Run for your lives!"
"Man, they're tough." An officer replied, "They're not gonna back down."
Hammerhead laughed as he and his crew forced their way through the police officers laughing maniacally.
"It's too dangerous!" Another officer shouted.
Soon a green bicycle came into view, "Stop right there, you thugs!" The group of terrorists turned around in confusion as the cyclist of justice came in.
Hopping off his bicycle, he kicked down the kickstand, and rushed in front of the group of terrorists with his fists raised, "The Bicyclist for Justice, Mumen Rider is here!" The hero known as Mumen Rider stated valiantly.
"Mumen Rider has come to save us!" A girls voice broke out in happiness.
"There's nothing to fear with him around!"
The crowd of citizens started chanting for the cyclist hero. Hammerhead and his group looked down on the hero, "A hero, huh? What a joke!"
"Here I come!" Mumen Rider shouted as he launched towards the group of villains.
A blow to the face, and Mumen Rider was laying in the street blood leaking from his face. His bike was also knocked over. A women's scream echoed through the streets as the hero laid unconscious.
"Somebody call an ambulance!"
A giant white Penthouse sat leisurely in the busy streets of City F, what made it so noticeable was a giant gold turd that sat on the roof of the penthouse.
"Mr. Zeniru, you must flee!" Zeniru's butler cried out begging for his master to escape with his life intact.
Inside the top floor of the penthouse was a very spacious room, the walls were purple with gold trimmings, two large white columns stood in front of the very large doors. Over to the left rested a small table, with two chairs on the opposite sides. On the right was a large couch.
Zeniru scoffed at this bulters request. He wore a white and purple bathrobe, had fluffy blonde hair, tanned complexion, large lips, a bit on the husky side, and a gold chain wrapped around his neck, "What, are you kidding? I can't do that. Running away from terrorists would hurt my reputation."
"There's no need to leave." Another voice interrupted the two's conversation which made both men face the unidentified voice.
Sitting on a window sill, next to a white grand piano, was a man who looked to be in his early twenties. He wore a black jumpsuit with silver armor around his arms and chest. He wore large boots, long purple scarf, and a sword strapped to his back. He had long black hair wrapped up, with some of his bangs hanging out, greenish bluish eyes, and two purple lines underneath his eyes, "Not while I'm around. You're quite the lucky man having this occur while I'm still under contract."
"You're just one bodyguard, you can't-" The butler stated scared that his master was gonna lose his life today.
"Whoa, Sonic, that's the spirit! But are you sure you can handle them by yourself? The men coming are-" Zeniru started, but was interrupted as the man now known as Sonic vanished into thin air and appeared behind the two older men.
"Of course, I can." He replied his arms crossed over his chest. The two older men leaped back in surprise as he appeared behind them, "You should be concerned with their lives, so start thinking of a way to dispose of the pile of dead bodies. I'm about to make." Sonic stated, while the two man shuddered in fear on what was about to happen, "The Paradisers, a bunch of upstarts! Lucky enough to be equipped with some new type of battle suit. But they're led by that B-class criminal Hammerhead. He might have some back bone."
The Paradisers soon entered the woods and gazed through it as they could see Zeniru's penthouse from their current location.
"Boss, look. You can see Zeniru's building from across the woods. People call it 'The Golden Turd'." The bucktooth Paradiser explained as some of the members laughed at the 'Golden Turd'.
Eagerness spread across his face as he amped them up, "Alright, let's go!" Hammerhead shouted.
Making there way across a small gorge, they spotted a bricked mailbox. The shadow on the mailbox moved, picking up trouble Hammerhead stopped, "Something's wrong." He threw up his hand to stop them from moving.
"I've been waiting for you, Hammerhead." A voice echoed and out the mailbox's shadow came Sonic, but his mask was pulled above his mouth, "Zeniru sent me."
Hammerhead chuckled at the ninja as he walked towards the group of terrorists.
"Let me start out by saying this. No opponent of mine has ever escaped alive, not once. I plan on keeping it that way. When it comes to my job I'm a perfectionist. But if you surrender right now, I'll let you live." He stated arrogantly as he pulled his mask down, "So what's it gonna be, then?"
Not afraid of the ninja, Hammerhead yelled at his men, "GO!" His forces started running forward closing the distance on the hired bodyguard.
In a blur of speed, Sonic raced forward reaching his hand towards his katanna, he drew it and slashed one of the Paradisers heads clean off. In what looked like a bolt of lightning he dashed through them slashing there heads off. Sonic made quick work of each member of the Paradisers as there heads went flying off. Using the gorge, he dashed off the sides of the boulders and started slaughtering the rest of the Paradisers.
Seeing his comrades being killed, Hammerhead had a look of fright, 'What is this? What's going on?'
"Why is every-" The final member of the Paradisers started, but was soon cut off as his head went flying from his body.
Hammerhead ducked in between his battlesuits arms and started freaking out, 'Holy crap!' He thought as a slash mark appeared on battle suits right arm, "BASTARD!!!" He screamed as he smashed his large arms into the ground, destroying the ground, and the gorge around them.
"What's this? Trying to intimidate me?" He mocked him, "You can't see me, can you?" The ninja sneered as he was upside down in a tree.
Feeling his killing intent, he picked up a large rock and hauled it at where he was hiding, "There you are!" Smiling evilly, he dodged the attack. But the rock hit the branch and soon was launched into the air.
The Aerophibian finally arrived in City F, "Alright, if I was a terrorist, where would I be?" He said to himself as he saw a large rock hit and destroy the Golden Turd. Jetray looked over from where the rock was thrown and saw a massive dust cloud in the woods across from the building, "There you are."
The Manta Ray alien flew through the air heading towards the woods. The civilians below looked up in awe as they caught a glance of Jetray zooming above them.
"What's that?"
"Whatever it is, it sure is fast."
Sonic landed on the ground a few feet away from Hammerhead chuckling, but soon was broken out of his amusement when another large rock came flying towards him. He dodged that rock and took to the trees, "So he decided to fight instead of run."
Multiple boulders were thrown at him, being faster he dodged every single one of them like they were nothing. Sonic let out a large smile then quickly pulled back, 'Oops, there goes my bad habit again.'
Hammerhead laughed at the trapped ninja, "You're just a little dog bought by Zeniru's money. You really think someone like me who's fighting for a noble cause can lose to a guns-for-hire dog like you?!"
Sonic looked at how the boulders were placed, "I see what he's up to. It's just as I thought. He's a complete fool. He could have at least tried to arrange the rocks in a less obvious way.' The ninja thought as Hammerhead lifted up a massive boulder.
"There are plenty more rocks were these came from! And if you don't stop me, they're just gonna keep on coming!" He shouted having finally put a stop to Sonic's speed.
"Let me guess. You think you'll be able to deal with my speed, if you know which direction I'm coming from? How utterly pathetic, but I'll play along. In fact, I'll take you..." He stated as he dug his feet into the dirt and dashed through the opening, "Head on!" He shouted as he hit the sound barrier making him go even faster. He hit the sound barrier once more closing the distance on Hammerhead as he had the boulder ready and over his head.
'He's too fast. I can't see him. But it doesn't matter.' He thought as he dropped the boulder and lifted up the tree he knocked down, 'I'VE GOT THIS!'
"GOTCHA!" He yelled as he slammed the tree straight through the narrow path causing another dust storm, "Think about how stupid you are to face off against the likes of me on your way down to hell!" He shouted, but a kunai was soon thrown into his skull bringing him down.
Sonic had thrown a kunai into the back of his head and brought out his phone, dialing Zeniru's number, "It's over. Yeah. Unfortunately I couldn't go easy on them." He looked away from his body and focused on the call, "Yes, Hammerhead's body is over here as well. I'll head back now." He replied as he looked back over to see the giant bald leader gone, "The corpse is gone?"
'Whew, that was close! It's a good thing that ninja freak hit me in the head. Luckily, my skull's always been several times thicker than a normal person's. Damn it. I don't know who that bastard was, but one day I'm gonna kill him!' He thought racing through the woods when suddenly green lasers shot out across the ground in front of him, making him stop dead in his tracks, "What the hell?!"
Jetray flew above the terrorist leader, "With the stolen armored suit, to the pointed head, and scar on your nose. I'm gonna take a wild guess here and say your Hammerhead."
"A talking monster?! How do you know my name?" Hammerhead yelled a bit creeped out that this flying Manta Ray thing knew his name.
"Simple, I saw you on the news earlier and came to stop you." Jetray stated then looked around, noticing he was alone, "Where are all your friends?"
"They were killed, what's it to you?!"
"Killed? By who?"
"Some ninja hired by Zeniru. I slipped past him while he was on the phone. Now get outta my way!" He yelled at the Aerophibian.
"Nah, I'm not going anywhere. Infact." He slammed his hand onto his Omnitrix badge and in a emerald light, Hammerhead shielded his eyes from the light show as a large figure hit the ground making it tremble a bit.
Hammerhead opened his eyes again in the Manta Ray's place was a large red figure that had four yellow eyes, large incisors poking from his mouth, a large black line that went from his forehead to his chin. He wore a white and black sleeveless jumpsuit, two massive arms and two smaller arms with black fingerless gloves. He had two toes, with the same green and black hourglass badge in the middle of his chest, "FOUR ARMS!" The large red four armed monster yelled out.
Hammerhead looked at him in shock, 'How'd he do that?!'
The Tetramand looked up at him with a scowl on his face, "Let's see how sturdy those battle suits are, shall we?" Hammerhead gritted his teeth in anger, him and his comrades did their best to steal those suits and he was mocking him.
Hammerhead charged Four Arms as the two collided in a test of strength. Four Arms narrowed his eyes as Hammerhead seemed to be giving it his all, "Are you serious?"
Confused by his question he answered , "What?"
"Is this all the strength you've got? Cuz if it is I'm downright disappointed." The Tetramand stated as he pushed the cone headed villain backwards.
"I'm not done yet!" He yelled as he bloated up his right arm like a balloon and rushed the Tetramand and threw his arm forward, "Cocky bastard."
"Who's cocky?" Four Arms stated as he raised his large right arm up and caught that attack like it was nothing, "Is that all you've got? Cuz it's my turn right, now let me show you what a real punch feels like." Cocking his large left arm back he threw it into Hammerhead's armored covered chest, knocking the wind out of him as well as shattering the armor into pieces. The battle suits aren't really durable, but against the Tetramand's strength it shattered like glass.
Not imaging the monster had that much strength dropped to his knees. Four Arms looked at him as he didn't have anything on underneath that battle suit, "If I let you go, promise me you'll never terrorise anything or anyone ever again. And if you break this promise I will find you, understand?" Four Arms glared at the villain.
"YE-YES! I swear!" He stuttered as he cowered in fear from the large monster.
"Get outta here." He stated as Hammerhead got up and took off deeper into woods stark naked. He sighed and crossed his arms over his chest, "What a waste of time. Knew I should have stayed home." He said, but quickly heard the wind pressure change.
A clang echoed throughout the woods as the katanna broke upon contact against the Tetramand's hardened skin. Sonic was shocked when his katanna broke against this monster. He hopped away quickly as he looked him up and down.
"Was that really necessary?" Four Arms stated as he looked down at the broken pieces of his katanna and then looked back at the man.
"Your one of the terrorists, aren't you?" He stated as he placed his broken katanna back in its sheathe.
"Do I look like a terrorist?" Four Arms questioned until an answer sprung into his head, "Don't answer that!"
"I don't care what you are, I'm still gonna eliminate you. I'll tell you my name before I kill you. I'm called Speed-O-Sound Sonic." He revealed as he let out sinister smile.
"Speed-O-Sound Sonic? What kind of name is that?" Four Arms laughed as Sonic gritted his teeth as he mocked his name.
"Keep laughing, I'll make sure to mount your head on my wall." His grin widened as he vanished catching Four Arms attention.
'He's fast.' He looked around as his eyes couldn't keep up with him. Sonic threw a punch at the Tetramand's face, "You may be fast, but your strength is a joke." Four Arms stated as he looked a Sonic. The ninja gritted his teeth as he started launching a fury of attacks at the unscathed Tetramand. Four Arms remained unfazed by the ninja's attack. Sonic stood in front of the four armed monstrosity panting slightly.
"How can you still be standing after all those attacks?!" He shouted at alien hero.
"Simple, because all you have is speed, but if it's a speed battle you want then it's a speed battle you'll get." He smacked his badge and an emerald light blinded Sonic.
In Four Arms place, was a blue velociraptor in a black and white jumpsuit, cone shaped head with a black visor, blue and black striped tail. Black clawed hands, with sharp blades on his elbows. His dino-like feet was standing on two wheels, with the green and black hourglass badge on his chest, "XLR8!" The Kineceleran exclaimed as his visor slid up revealing his blue face, green eyes, and black lines trailing around his eyes and mouth, "Let's see if you can keep up." The Kineceleran's visor slid down and zoomed off in black and blue blur.
Sonic seeing an opportunity for a worthy opponent sped after him. The two speedsters clashed reportedly as they both gradually started getting faster. XLR8 ran out the woods with Sonic following him, they took to the streets of City F. The civilians were going about there everyday lives, but soon two large gusts of wind blew past them. Sonic threw multiple kunai's at the Kineceleran, but with his enhanced reflexes he dodged it before they hit him.
"Missed me, missed me, now you gotta kiss me!" XLR8 taunted as he zoomed into a neighboring city. Sonic was getting angry that he couldn't hit him. They stopped in an abandoned building on the edge of City E. XLR8's visor slid up revealing his face, "You're quite fast, had me on my toes."
"I've finally found a worthy adversary. You said your name was XLR8, correct?" Sonic admitted as he found a challenge in the Kineceleran, "After I kill you I'll go after that pest Hammerhead. So let's go all out!" He stated with a large sinister grin on his face.
"Fine, you might be able to keep up with regular XLR8, but let's see if you can keep up with-" The Kineceleran stated as he slammed his clawed-hand onto his Omnitrix badge, four prongs shot out as a blinding emerald light blinded the ninja. His blue skin turned emerald green, his body grew five feet taller, his cone shaped head became armored plated with three large green spikes racing on top of it. The blades on his elbows got longer and sharper, his once blue and black tail was now green and black, slightly bigger, he has multiple spikes race from the top of his back to the middle of his tail, with a giant green razored blade at the end of it. His black and white jumpsuit was armor plated. He had on shoulder pads. His legs were more muscular than his deevolved state. His visor was black with a large green screen. Sporting the evolved Omnitrix badge in the middle of his chest, "ULTIMATE XLR8!" The evolved Kineceleran exclaimed as the ninja gazed upon the evolved creature.
"Catch me, if you can." The hyper-evolved Kineceleran smirked as his visor slid down and within a blink of an eye, he vanished into thin air.
Looking around wide eyed, Sonic started whipping his head around in shock, "WHAT?! WHERE'D HE GO?!"
A sudden flash hit struck him in the jaw, stumbling back Sonic saw the hyper-evolved Kineceleran wave, before vanishing. He raced after him, as the two blurs clashed again, but this time Ultimate XLR8 had the upper hand not just in speed, but in strength as well. XLR8 kneed the ninja in his chest, knocking the wind out of him and then launching him through a brick wall.
"I'm sorry, was that too fast? Want me to slow down a bit?" The hyper-evolved Kineceleran mocked as Sonic started climbing out of the wall, coughing from the dust cloud.
"Don't look down on me." He coughed out as his ninja garb was tearing in various places.
"Just surrender and this fight can end. If you don't I won't hold back." He replied with a stern look on his face.
"I won't surrender! You'll have to kill me first!" Sonic yelled.
"Your funeral." His visor slid down and within another blink of an eye, he vanished. He appeared behind him and grabbed him by his head and slammed him into the wall running his face into the bricks. He sent him into a stone pillar and was soon kicked straight through it.
Sonic coughed up blood as the hyper-evolved Kineceleran grabbed hold of his shirt, "I won't kill you. That'd be too easy. Remember my name for the rest of your life, because I'm the one who defeated you." After his lecture, Sonic slowly fell unconscious.
Ultimate XLR8 looked at the beaten ninja and shrugged, "Not my problem, time to go home." His visor slid down and rushed straight out the building and into the streets of City F heading back to City Z.
The citizens felt a huge gust of wind blow past them, but when they turned to look at him. He was already ten blocks away. The hyper-evolved Kineceleran smirked, as he zoomed straight through Cities I-Y in a matter of seconds and soon arrived in City Z.
He arrived outside his apartment when two emerald lights erupted and in the hyper-evolved Kineceleran's place was the shaggy haired alien hero, "Man, what a waste of time." He sighed as he opened his door to see a tall blonde figure in his apartment wearing a pink apron.
"Welcome home, Master."
To Be Continued...