Hello, everybody! Jack of Knaves coming at ya with a Henry Stickmin fanfiction. Henry was a recent discovery, and I have been obsessed with the collection ever since. And of course, I just HAD to write a fanfiction about it.
Now a few things to go over. First off, this fanfiction is an amalgamation of the Convict Allies, the Betrayed, and the Revenged endings, so that means Ellie is gonna be a cyborg too! Additionally, in this fanfic, Henry, despite being the Toppat Leader, doesn't actually know about the Jungle Base where the rocket is, as that was merely one of the MANY possibilities that was brought up during the meetings Henry had as the Toppat King. Also, Henry and Ellie aren't just going after Reginald and the Right Hand Man. No, they're going after all the Toppats. ALL OF THEM. Plus, in this universe, Henry and Ellie got plenty of time to burn the entire Toppat organization to the ground.
Also, I can indeed confirm that the GREATEST PLAAAAAAAAAN! and the Distraction Dance are going to be in this thing as well.
Also, I apologize for the temporary deletion and reupload of this story. I mistakenly assumed that the Wall was in Russia because of the guards and warden's Russian accents and what not, when in truth the Wall is in fact in Canada.
Well, I think that covers about everything. Let's get started!
Prologue: Convict Allies Betrayed!
Somewhere In Canada-The Wall Complex
Henry Stickmin, a white humanoid being wearing a black polo shirt, blue jeans, and black shoes, blinked as a bright light was turned on in his face, and he registered the feeling that his hands were bound not by handcuffs, but by some sort of metal contraption. And he was missing his pimped-out top hat that he'd gotten when he'd become the Toppat King. After a moment, Henry remembered the circumstances that had led him to this predicament.
While lounging about on his airship as the newly minted Toppat King, Henry had learned of the Ocean's Core Sapphire being put on display in Ottawa. And considering he had stolen a massive diamond, and had become the proud owner of a ruby the size of a refrigerator when he had outed Reginald Copperbottom as the leader of the Toppat Clan, a syndicate comprised of some of the best supercriminals in the known world, he just couldn't resist adding an oversized sapphire to his collection.
However, when he snuck into the exhibit where the sapphire was being kept, Henry was quick to discover that the whole thing had been a trap intended to capture him and the Toppats. The last thing he remembered before losing consciousness was a billy club colliding with the side of his skull.
"Ah, hello, Henry," a male voice with a thick Russian accent before a being similar to Henry with a gray beard and moustache wearing a stone gray uniform with black leather gloves and black fur-lined boots emerged from the shadows.
Must be the guy in charge of… wherever I am, thought Henry before the man in front of him continued talking.
"Welcome… to the Wall. I am Dmitri Petrov, warden of this facility," explained Dmitri. "Some of the most cunning and conniving criminal masterminds are kept here. And now, we have the infamous Henry Stickmin, the so-called Toppat King himself. You're going to be here for a long time. Gregori! Take him to a transfer cell. I need to finish making arrangements for his permanent cell."
A guard emerged from the shadows behind Henry and placed a cloth sack over Henry's head before yanking him up from the chair and leading him to what Henry could only assume was a holding cell of some kind. Once arriving at said cell, the guard removed the sack from Henry's head and pushed him forward.
"You wait here until transfer," the guard said before moving to block the open door leading into the cell.
As Henry blinked a couple times and looked around the cell, he was quick to discover that he was not alone there… and who he saw there made his heart skip a beat.
It was a woman around Henry's age with flaming red hair wearing a purple coat with a fur-lined hood and a black tank top underneath, tight and tattered blue jeans that seemed to enhance her figure, and black heeled boots.
Holy shit… if I can help her escape, then maybe, just maybe… she'll be my Toppat Queen! Then we'll be a regular Bonnie and Clyde, minus dying in a hail of gunfire, of course… but, how are we both gonna get out of here? thought Henry as he continued looking around the cell, and soon found a hatch on the ceiling.
Bingo, thought Henry before he made a few discreet noises to get the redheaded girl's attention. Once he had her attention, Henry subtly gestured towards the hatch on the ceiling. Quickly catching on, the woman gave Henry a leg up, allowing him to wrap his bound arms around a loose pipe and open the ceiling hatch with his foot and flipped his way into the vent above, where he smashed open his restraints with a nearby large rock.
As he looked at the tantalizing promise of freedom dead ahead, Henry found himself visited by an urge to abandon the woman who had just helped him escape the holding cell.
No, I can't do that, thought Henry as he shook his head. Such dishonorable and selfish actions would disgrace the name of the Toppat Clan. Besides, knowing how my luck can be sometimes, if I did that, I'd probably end up getting tossed off my airship and end up in some kind of civil war with her or something.
And with that, Henry promptly turned on his heel and lowered the ladder leading into the hatch down and helped the woman into the vent before helping her with her restraints.
"Thanks," the woman said. "I'm Ellie, by the way. Ellie Rose," Ellie said as she held out her hand.
"Henry Stickmin," said Henry as he shook Ellie's hand.
"Wait a minute… Henry Stickmin? As in, the Toppat King, that Henry Stickmin?" asked Ellie, a surprised look on her face.
Henry thumped his chest. "Toppat for life, babe," he said before shooting Ellie a sly smirk. "Interested in being my Queen once we get outta here?"
Ellie chuckled. "How about we get out of this hellhole first, and after that, you buy me dinner. After that, we'll see," she said.
Henry chuckled. "Fair enough. Shall we?" he said as he made a sweeping gesture forward.
Ellie smiled as she and Henry made their way through the vent, eventually coming out of a floor hatch, where they caught sight of a pair of complex guards chatting it up as they stood guard in the hallway where Henry was certain that he and Ellie needed to go
Quickly taking cover behind a conveniently-placed box, Ellie turned to Henry. "Got any ideas, Stickmin?" she asked.
"Hmm… we could cause a distraction?" Henry suggested.
"Hmm…" said Ellie as she thought about that idea…
…
"HEY, GUARDS! PAY ATTENTION TO ME AND LOOK AT WHAT I'M DOING!" Henry shouted at the top of his lungs before he started doing a cheerful little dance, swinging his arms from side to side, clapping his hands, and lifting his legs high into the air.
The guards looked at Henry for a few moments before they dropped their weapons and started doing the same dance as Henry, as Ellie watched on, flabbergasted, before she shrugged and started doing the dance as well, effectively rendering the distraction idea a failure.
…
"Um, actually, how about we just do a synchronized take down?" suggested Ellie.
"Yeah, that's probably a better idea," admitted Henry before he and Ellie crept out from behind the box and hid around the corners of the hallway where the guards were standing. On Ellie's cue, the two criminals leapt out from behind the corners and put the guards in sleeper holds. Or at least, Ellie did, while Henry just slammed the head of the guard he'd grabbed into the ground, knocking him out cold with authority.
Once the guard she had in her sleeper hold passed out, Ellie dropped his body and shot Henry with an unamused look on her face. "Really, Stickmin? A knockout smash? Wouldn't be surprised if the whole prison heard that," she grumbled.
"Well, to be honest, I was never any good at sleeper holds and stealth takedowns. At least, not without a heavy object like a massive diamond or something," said Henry as he bent down and searched the guard he'd knocked out. "Let's see here…" he muttered as he searched the guard's pockets until he eventually found his cell phone. "Aha! There we are… heh, the idiot didn't even bother setting a passcode or one of those drawing unlock things… let's see here…" muttered Henry as he typed in a phone number.
"Uh, Henry? What're you doing?" asked Ellie.
"Calling us a big, red, air taxi out of Canada..." said Henry. "Come on, Reggie, pick up…"
Canadian Airspace-Toppat Airship-Cockpit
Reginald Copperbottom, the former leader, now deputy of the Toppat Clan, clad in all the trappings of a moustache-twirling supercriminal, that being a black fedora, a long black overcoat with a golden watch on a chain in the pocket of the black vest he wore underneath his coat in addition to a white dress shirt, black dress pants, and black heeled boots, lounged back in his seat, eyes closed and smiling confidently to himself. Well, that is, until he felt and heard his cell phone go off.
"Yes, hello?" said Reginald as he answered the phone.
"Hey, Reggie, it's me, Henry," said Henry's voice on the other end of the line.
Reginald felt a small twinge of annoyance at being called Reggie. However, he ignored it as he replied to his boss, as much as he was loathed to call his usurper such. "Henry? We haven't heard from you since the sapphire heist went south! Where are you?"
"I'm trying to escape a Canadian prison complex called the Wall. I need you to have the airship waiting nearby for a quick exit from Canada, pronto-like," said Henry.
"On it, boss," said Reginald.
"Thanks. Oh, and Reggie? Get a nice pink top hat ready. Bringing aboard a new recruit that I think will prove to be an asset to the clan," Henry said before the line hung up.
After he put his cell phone back in his pocket, Reginald couldn't help but allow an evil smile across his face. This was it. This was the chance he had been waiting for these last few months… the chance to dispose of Henry Stickmin and take back his crown as the Toppat King. As he plotted a course for the outskirts of the Wall Complex, Reginald couldn't help but feel excited at the prospect of looking Stickmin in the eyes as he took everything he had ever worked for back… as for the new girlfriend he was bringing with him… well, she might as well be named "collateral damage."
Back With Henry and Ellie…
"A pink hat? Really, Henry?" asked Ellie with a raised eyebrow as Henry tossed down the cell phone.
"I'm sorry, did you want one in a different color? We do have an impressive collection of hats in a large variety of designer colors you know," quipped Henry, causing Ellie to chuckle.
"Don't worry about it, I like pink. But, we should really focus on getting the hell out of dodge," said Ellie.
"Right you are, Ellie. Let's go!" said Henry as he and Ellie made their way down the hall and into what seemed to be one of the cell blocks, and quickly found their path blocked by what seemed to be an empty guard control room.
"Hmm…" Ellie said thoughtfully as she looked through the control room and noticed a hatch on the ceiling. "If we can get you up there, you can open that hatch, drop in, and open this door."
"And how are we gonna do that?" asked Henry.
"That's easy. I'll use the Force and lift you up there," replied Ellie.
"That's not how the Force works! Besides, the Force doesn't even exist in-urgk! Gak! Ack! Hurrgh!" Henry tried to say before he suddenly felt invisible talons crushing his windpipe as his feet were lifted off the ground.
"Did you just underestimate my power?" asked Ellie who had her eyes closed and had her hand out in a cupping motion as she moved it to lift Henry off of the ground and place him over the guard control room. "Because if so… I find your lack of faith disturbing."
With that, Ellie opened her eyes and opened her hand, causing Henry to drop down on top of the guard control room, where he took several deep gulps of air. Once he was feeling better, Henry gave Ellie the thumbs up and opened the roof hatch and dropped in. Once inside, Henry made his way over to the control console and pressed a button, which not only opened the control room door, but opened the door to literally every single cell and room in the complex.
Quickly looking around, Ellie grabbed a hold of Henry's arm. "Quick, in here!" she said as she pulled Henry into another room. Unfortunately, the two of them were spotted by a pair of guards, forcing them to duck behind a couple of boxes.
"Hold it right there, inmates!" one of the guards said as he and his ally cocked their guns.
Looking around as quickly as they could, Henry found a sniper rifle and a grenade, while Ellie found a crossbow and a taser. Thinking quickly, Henry grabbed the sniper rifle while Ellie grabbed the taser, only for it to misfire and accidentally shoot Henry, who fired the sniper rifle and scored critical hits on the guards before firing a shot into the air, dropping the rifle and dropping to his knees.
"Oh my god, Henry! I'm so sorry!" said Ellie as she ran over to Henry's side and helped him up.
"Eh, don't worry about it. Not the first time I've been tased, and when you've been in the game as long as I have, you kinda build up a natural tolerance to it… still hurts, though," said Henry. "Come on, let's get moving!"
Henry and Ellie then took off running from the scene, though not before grabbing the two dead guards' hats. It wasn't long afterward that the duo found their progress impeded once again, this time by a pair of guards that were chatting it up in the elevator that they needed to get into in order to escape about the mass breakout that was currently underway.
"Psst, Henry!" whispered Ellie as she showed Henry the guard hats she grabbed. "I just grabbed these. Maybe they'll come in handy."
"Hmm…" Henry said thoughtfully as he grabbed one of the hats. "Let's toss 'em. See if we can lure the guards away from the elevator."
Ellie nodded, and the two escapees tossed the guards' hats away. And sure enough, it managed to lure the guards out of the elevator, where they found a different group of convicts in the elevator next door, allowing Ellie and Henry to sneak past and use the elevator to slip away.
Ellie breathed a sigh of relief as the elevator started to move. "Almost out of here… just need to find ourselves a ride past the gate, link up with your Toppat buddies, and get as far away from Canada as possible," she said as she leaned back against the wall.
Henry cleared his throat. "Uh, Ellie? Mind if I ask you something?" he asked.
"Shoot," said Ellie.
"Do you, uh… have any other Jedi or Sith Lord powers that I should be aware of?" asked Henry.
Ellie laughed. "The only ones I've really been able to master are Force Choke and Force Lift, and I can't lift people without choking them. If I could figure out how to use Mind Trick, we'd be walking out of here scot-free with a brainwashed guard escort. As for having unlimited power…" she said before thrusting her hand forward in a clawed gesture, causing small sparks of lightning to fly from her fingertips, only for them to fizzle out before they got very far. "... yeah, my power is very, very limited. I can't figure out what the trigger or trick is for it at all…"
"Have you watched Star Wars in the time since you found out you were a legitimate Force-Sensitive?" asked Henry.
Ellie laughed. "Henry, we're wanted criminals. Not exactly a lot of time for leisure activities when you're always on the run," she said.
"Well, when we get on my airship and you've been officially inducted into the Toppats, that's gonna change," said Henry with a smirk as the elevator dinged. "This is our stop."
As soon as the elevator doors opened and Henry and Ellie stepped out, they were greeted by what looked like a warzone. The complex guards were chasing and shooting at inmates as they ran, drove around in vehicles, and were carried on the shoulders of and defended by a variety of animatronics that were themed after animals or circus performers as though they were the animatronics' king or something.
Henry and Ellie made a beeline for the gate, but before they could get very far, Gregori the guard caught sight of them and grabbed Ellie from behind, restraining her.
"Henry, help!" Ellie called, causing Henry to stop and turn around.
"Ellie!" cried Henry.
"Back to your cell, inmate!" snarled Gregori.
Henry growled in anger. "Hey, Gregori!" he yelled, causing the warden to stop and turn to face him… only for Henry to flip Gregori off… WITH BOTH HANDS!
Gregori frowned. "What, you think that will upset me! Oh, real mature-" he started to say, only to get hit from behind by one of his fellow guardsmen's vehicles, which somehow left Ellie completely unharmed.
"Thanks, I guess," Ellie said as she walked up to Henry. "Now, come on! Let's get out of here!"
Ellie and Henry made a beeline for a nearby motorcycle, which Henry jumped on and gestured for Ellie to climb on behind him. Only for Warden Dmitri to come flying out of nowhere and knock Henry off the bike.
"Well, if it isn't Henry," Dmitri said as Ellie jumped onto the motorcycle and began driving away. "There has not been an incident here in fifty years, not since I took charge of this complex. And yet, the day you show up, this happens. You are going to regret every-hm?" Dmitri started to say before hearing a vehicle approaching, before meeting the business end of a "No Entry" sign wielded by none other than Ellie, sending him flying backwards, knocking a few teeth out of his skull, and knocking the warden himself out cold.
"Come on," said Ellie as she held out her hand and helped Henry onto the bike. "We have a plane to catch."
And with that, Ellie and Henry sped off away from the Wall, with a few of the warden's men in hot pursuit.
As they sped along the winding cliffside road with bullets flying through the air, Henry saw a very welcome sight. "There's the airship!" he said, pointing at the big red airship with the decal of the word "Toppats" over a black top hat, coming in and parking a short ways away from a dead end that led to a straight, hundreds of feet fall off a cliff that neither of them had a chance of surviving. They would need an insane amount of luck in order to pull this off.
As they drew closer to the edge of the cliff, both Ellie and Henry stood up on the seat of the motorcycle. As the motorcycle veered off the edge of the cliff, Henry grabbed Ellie's hand in one hand while his other forearm was grabbed by Reginald.
"Reggie!" Henry said with a bright smile. "What are you waiting for, man?! Pull us up!"
Henry's face started to fall as he realized the look on Reginald's face wasn't exactly a friendly one. "Reggie…?" Henry asked, a hint of worry in his voice.
Reginald's evil smile grew wider as he spoke next. "In the words of Scar… long live the king. Oh, and, uh, God save the queen."
And with that, Reginald Copperbottom let go of Henry's forearm, sending both Henry and Ellie plummeting to what was sure to be their deaths. But it didn't stop there. The motorcycle that Henry and Ellie had jumped off of collided hard with a rocky outcropping, causing it to explode violently underneath them.
The last thing that Henry Stickmin and Ellie Rose were sure they'd know in this life was the numbing shock of betrayal, the searing heat and shrapnel of an exploding motorcycle, and the painful collision of their ruined bodies colliding with ice cold, very solid, ocean water.
And thus concludes the prologue! If you liked what you saw here, then please, fave, follow, review, and be sure to join us next time as Henry and Ellie find themselves back in the land of the living with their new cybernetic upgrades and meet Doctor V! See you then!