ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 8: RUMBLE AT THE MALL
The next day the students had the day off from training, because the Danger Room was still under repairs.
When the students found out about not just how but who wrecked it, they all thanked Vince for getting them out of training, apparently after their failure against him, Logan had planned to run them into the ground to toughen them up.
Now that the Danger Room was wrecked, they had a 'stay of execution' as several of them more then once said.
Scott however was the exception, being the leader of the group he needed to get them ready, because if they went up against another mutant as powerful as Vincent, he wanted them ready.
So on the 'day off' he was in the danger room, helping to put it back together again.
Vincent however decided that he needed to get out. He hadn't left the mansion since he came to Bayville, and was feeling a little bit cooped up.
He went down stairs to the living room and saw several of the students lounging around.
"Hey can I ask you guys a question? Is there anything to do in this town, cause I'm getting a little bored and I think it's time I got a look of this town eh?" Vincent asked not to anyone in particular.
Kitty was the first to speak up. "Sure there is we could, like, check out the mall, and I've been dying to get an excuse to go, anyone else in?"
Surprisingly Rogue spoke up. "Sure, Ah needed to check out the music store, and I need to get a few things."
"Ja and I need a new shirt." Kurt spoke up next.
"Like, why do you need a new one, don't you usually just wear them until they get ruined?" Kitty asked curiously.
Kurt slightly blushed. "Vell you see there was an accident vas an accident vith my favorite shirt."
"What, Amanda ripped it off in the heat of passion?" Vincent asked him, with a wolf like smile.
"VHAT!" Kurt actually fell off the chair he had been on, and unto his back. "NEIN, ve haven't done anyzing like THAT!" If it was possible Kurt's fur was actually turning red.
Kitty however was rolling on the floor from laughing so hard, and was having trouble breathing.
Even Rogue was suppressing her own laughs at Kurt's reaction with her hand over her mouth.
"Hier Vincent how could you even zink that! She vould never do somezing like that!"
Vince couldn't stop his own laughter at that, and starting laughing alone with the others.
Kurt looked around and saw that the others were all laughing, turned to Vincent, and in a deadpan voice said. "You are an evil, evil man."
Vince was able to get control of himself but still had a smile on, he just gave a shrug. "Hey, no ones all good Kurt, and you got to admit you set yourself up good for that one."
Kurt just had to smile. He had to admit he did set himself up. "Ja, I guess I did, but you know I vill have to get you back for zat, recht (right)?"
"Oh I look forward to it blue dude, I look forward to it." Vince good- naturedly said.
Kitty had finally gotten over her laughing fit, and had gotten up. "Well like let's get going then, I want to get to the mall, and hurry before it gets too crowded."
They all went to their rooms to either get their wallets or purses, Vince snagged the car keys to the van on his way out. When he got close to the van Kitty caught up to him.
"Hey Vince, can I like drive us there, I really need the practice, and that way you'll know the way back to the mansion when you drive us back, okay?" Kitty pleaded with him, she was giving him her puppy dog eyes.
Vincent had to cave in, not only was it reasonable, since he didn't know were the mall was exactly, but the look she was giving him, was way too persuasive. 'What harm could it do?' he thought. Little did he know he would soon regret those words.
Vincent gave her a shrug and tossed the keys to her. She gave a happy squeal and ran off to the drivers seat.
He got into the front passenger seat, the other two were already back there, and were a little confused as to why he wasn't driving.
"Uh Vincent you do know that the diving vheel is on the other side?" Kurt asked him.
"Yeah I know but I'm not driving us there." He responded.
"Vell if your not then who....oh mein got no." Kurt finished as he realized who was going to drive. "Please tell me you didn't give Kachten the keys?"
At that moment Kitty got into the drivers seat, and as Vincent looked back he could see both Rogue and Kurt frantically trying to get their seat belts on, and what was really worrying Vince, was the Rogue looked paler than usual.
At this his strong survival instincts told him two things. First he shouldn't have given her the damn keys, and secondly he better get his seatbelt on. NOW.
"All right here we GO!" Kitty exclaimed, like we was about to start drag racing.
Vincent had managed to get his seatbelt on just before they phased through the gates. 'Okay mental note Vincent, NEVER EVER LET THIS GIRL DRIVE!' Vince thought.
Normally it takes about fifteen minutes to get to the mall, but with Kitty driving they were there in five.
Rogue and Kurt who had been on a few of Kitty's joyrides were a little uneasy getting out of the van, but Vincent however could barley stand. He managed to get to a bench, and collapsed onto it.
Rogue and Kurt came up to him, they knew exactly how he felt.
"Ah guess no one told ya of Kitty's drivin' yet huh?" Rogue asked him.
Vince just shook his head, he was still working to get his ability to speak back.
"Man I thought that some von who vas invulnerable vouldn't fear somzing like that?" Kurt half joked, half asked him.
Vince looked up at Kurt then. "You know before today I would have to agree with you Fuzzy, seeing as how if we had crashed I would definitely have survived, but man, my entire life flashed before my eyes, and I always thought that was JUST an expression."
"Vell any good memorizes you relived?" Kurt asked trying to lighten the mood.
"Not as many as I would have liked." Vincent said more to himself than to Kurt.
"Hey guys that was fun, hey Vincent are you ,like, OK?" She asked seeing Vincent in a heap on the bench.
"I uh, I think I just need to sit here for a little while, that drive...uh...was a little..." He tried to look for a nice way of saying maniac driving, but couldn't.
"HEY! My driving is not that bad, I've actually gotten better."
'THAT WAS BETTER?' Vince was shocked at the news. 'If that was BETTER, I'd hate to she her WORST.
"Look Ah think he should leave him alone to get over it, let's face it Kitty, first time driving with ya is a little intense." Rogue told her.
"Hey it is not, and what is this pick on Kitty day or something?" At that point Kitty began to start pouting.
Rogue rolled her eyes at that, she hated it when she did that. "Vincent you goin' ta be OK here for a while?"
Vince just nodded his head.
"Well, we'll meet ya later inside, when your feelin' up to it. Meet us in the food court in about an hour, OK?" Rogue asked him.
"Sure I could use a little time, I'll catch up." Vince gave them one of his good-natured smiles.
They left him there and went inside, it took Vincent about ten minutes to pull himself together. He got up and started to go to the front doors when, he was stopped by someone shouting.
"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU JERK!"
Vincent hurried over to where he heard the shouting come from. He saw several boys giving a rough time to three people.
One of the guys had a girl of about 17, who had brown hair, wearing punk style clothes, being grabbed by the arm.
"Come on Pam, why hang out with these losers when you can be with a stud like me."
"Because I don't go out with cavemen Steve, so get over it." The girl named Pam said.
Steve didn't take kindly to that, and gripped both of her arms. "What did you say slut!" He pushed her down to her other friends. One was a blond girl with jeans, and a plain white T-shirt. She was holding a kid with the same color hair as her, whose lip was slightly bruised. The kid seemed to be about only 14.
At that point Vincent had had enough. He despised people who hurt others for either their amusement, or because they could. It was time for him to step in.
"Well I think that's enough of that." He put a little ice into his words for effect.
They turned around and saw him, they didn't think much of him though.
"Buzz off, this isn't any of your business." One of them said.
"I beg to differ, I'm MAKING it my business, so this is what your going to do, you are all going to apologize to them, or I kick all your asses, wither way I win."
"Hey Duncan can you believe this guy?" One of them said to a tall blonde guy, who really looked like the kind of guy you just hated, for being a jerk.
"You think you can take all of us on? Hey most of us were on the High School football team you know, we kicked guys like you around for fun." He had this superior attitude about him saying this, that just rubbed Vince the wrong way even more.
Vincent got this predatory like grin on his face then. "Well why doesn't that surprise me." He said sarcastically "Well are we going to have a fight here or not, my friends are already inside and I don't want to keep them waiting."
Pam was using the distraction this new guy was giving her to quietly get over to Amy and her little brother Joseph. "Are you two all right?" she asked them quietly. She didn't want to get the attention of those jerks.
"I...I...think so, what about you Joseph are you OK?" She looked at his lip, it was swelling slightly but looked okay. He got that from one of the bullies. He tried to stop them but one of them threw a punch and Joseph had went down.
She now looked at the new boy. He was tall, dark haired, and from what she could see he was kind of build, not like a body builder built, more like a swimmer type of build. But he was still outnumbered.
"Pam do you know who that is?" She hopped Pam knew this boy, maybe he was the new boy in her life, she went through them fast enough at times.
"Sorry don't know him, I just hope that pretty face of his isn't messed up after they beat the living Hell out of him, that would be kind of a waste."
Amy would have rolled her eyes if she wasn't so scared, her friend just couldn't stop to check out every guy she thought was cute.
They all looked on to see the boy standing vary calmly, yet showed no fear, in fact he looked like he was going to enjoy what was going to happen. "Well whoever he is, he's going to regret being stupid enough to play 'Knight in shining amour' today." Pam said.
What happened next no one expected to happen.
The first of the guys went straight at Vincent with a powerful punch, but all Vincent did was block the blow with his arm, and used his opponents momentum to his advantage, by grabbing the back of his head, and swinging him around and into one of his friends gut, that was coming towards them.
They both went down onto the ground hard. The others stopped in their tracks for a second surprised that two of them were already down.
Vincent took this time to capitalize on their reaction. He ran up to the group and spun into the air doing a 360 and at the end sent his foot and leg out, which hit one of them in the temple.
When he landed he didn't stop his momentum for a second. He immediately spun around on his right foot and sent a round house kick to another on in the head.
Vince then switch feet and tried to do the same to the one on his right with his left foot, but the other guy was ready and sent his head back in time. However he didn't move his feet back so, when Vincent came around his spin, he continued to spin again, but this time he used his right leg for a swipe kick.
This caught his opponent by surprise and he landed on his back. He was about to get up when Vincent was already over him, and sent blow to just under the ribcage to knock the wind out of him.
The one he had knock down earlier had gotten up and was coming at Vincent with a vengeance. He came at Vincent from behind, but he was making so much noise that Vince had no trouble hearing him come.
Vince turned around to see a fist coming at his head. He easily dodged under the blow, and have him a solid shot to the gut. As he clutched his stomach, Vince sent an elbow into his temple knocking him out.
Now all that was left was both Steve and Duncan. Both of them had shocked expressions on their face. Vince saw this and gave them his predatory smile again. He decided to make them mad, to make them come at him.
So he gave them the finger, and boy did that work. Both of them went to shocked to outraged in less than a second. Steve came at Vincent then. Vince just put his hands behind his back waiting for the attack.
Steve let loose a string of punches all of which Vincent easily dodged. Vince decided to finish this so he dodged under a right cross, and sent a leg into Steve's gut. As Steve bent over, Vince gave him a smile before bringing in right foot into the side of Steve's face.
He hit the ground cold, and now all that was left was Duncan. Duncan was livid, both that this guy was interfering in their business, but he was making a joke out of them. Duncan then bent slightly like he had done in football, and charged him head on, like he was playing football again.
Vince saw that he was going for a tackle and when Duncan was within reach, Vince grabbed him by the shoulders, and fell onto his back. He used Duncan's momentum and his foot on Duncan's chest to send the former football player onto his back a several feet away.
Vincent then sent his legs over his head and kicked out, jumping into the air and landing on top his feet. He turned around to see Duncan getting onto his knees. The last thing Duncan Mathews saw before the lights went out was the bottom of a foot heading towards his face.
Amy, Pam, and Joseph were too stunned to move. All their mouths just hung open at the site of all of those bullies on the ground and this mysterious boy there completely unharmed.
"Wow, that was awesome." Joseph whispered to himself out loud.
"Damn who knew the guy was freaking Bruce Lee." Was Pam's only response.
This mysterious guy came up to them, he looked at Joseph's lip with concern. "Is everyone here alright?" he asked them all.
"Uh, yeah I think so." Pam said she didn't know exactly what to say.
"I think it would be a good idea if we went inside before the goon squad here wakes up and decide to go for round two." As he pointed a thumb over his shoulder.
The three got up and with Vincent went into the mall. Those guys in the parking lot wouldn't think to cause trouble with all the mall security men around there.
"So I didn't catch your name stranger, or do you have one?" Pam asked Vincent.
Vincent smiled at her joke he could tell she was a live one. "My name's Vincent Freeman, I just moved to Bayville a few days ago."
"Really? Where from?" She asked him.
"Toronto, I guess you could say I'm a foreign exchange student."
"You DO know it's summer, hence no school."
Vincent just shrugged. "What can I say I like to start early." Amy gave him a look like he was out of his mind, Joseph looked confused, while Pam was laughing her ass off.
"Damn Vincent, you are a strange one you know that? Well I'm Pam, this is my best friend Amy and her little brother Joseph, but he's cool." Pam said through her laughter.
Vince nodded to each of them.
Amy was slightly nervous, even though he had come to their rescue she was always shy and nervous around new people. She was the complete opposite of her best friend Pam in every way, yet they were still best friends.
"Um...did you r....r...really have someone friends waiting here like you said earlier, because if you just moved here that was pretty fast to already have friends." Amy finally got out.
Vincent just shrugged again. "What can I say I make friends as easily as I make enemies."
Pam smirked at that. "Yeah what do you do, come to the rescue of people in trouble all the time?"
"Occasionally" Vince stated.
Pam started laughing again, never knowing Vincent was only half joking at that.
"Well let's see if we can help you find these friends of yours, it's the least we could do since you helped us out." Pam said linking her arm in his.
"Oh Lord no, not again. Pamela why do you have to flirt with every guy?' Amy thought to herself while rolling her eyes.
They spent the next hour looking for the others, but didn't find them. Vince told them they were supposed to meet in the food court later, so they went there, and ordered. Vince didn't see them yet so they sat at a set of tables.
"So where did you learn to fight like that?" Joseph asked Vince.
"Well my Sensei, Master Kensuke, was a member of a family clan of samurai dating back over 800 years, and he taught me everything he knew about his family's art." Vince told him.
"Wow, I started Tae Kwon Doe last week what style was that you used." Joseph was getting excited, he was always into martial arts, and now he had found a person who was really good at it. 'Maybe he can give me some pointers' he hoped.
"Well technically it's a type a karate, but over the years a few moves from jujitsu, tai chi, and a few other arts have been incorporated into the art." He answered him.
"Cool, what level are you?"
"Well I'm a black belt, because I've mastered a lot of the moves and have trained for about nine years."
Just then Amy's eyes widened. Pam saw this and was worried. "Amy what is it?"
"Look it's some of those people." She pointed.
They turned around to see her pointed at Rogue, Kitty and Kurt. Amanda was also with them, apparently they had mat up in the mall and she had joined them.
"Why what's wrong with those people?" Vince asked them, he kept his voice innocent, even though he had an idea why.
"Those people over there are mutants. We had classes with some of them in school. They're no good." Pam says.
"Really what do they do, use their powers on people, or bully people around like those jerks I laid out?" Vincent asked them.
"Well no, they don't....it's just that all the trouble mutants seem to cause, they're always on the news destroying things." Amy said, she was evidently scared of the mutants across the room.
"So other than the media, which you can always trust." Vince said sarcastically. "Do any of you have any personally negative experiences?"
They all looked at each other, no they hadn't they realized.
"Well when a mutant actually does something nice for me, I'll...I'll give them a chance." Pam said in a disgruntled tone.
"Well I hope so Pam." Vince got up and took his try with him.
"Where are you going Vince?" She asked him.
"I'm going over to my friends they're most likely starting to worry about me eh? Oh and just remember Pam, besides our powers we mutants are just like everyone else, there are bad mutants but there are also good ones." With that he smiled to them and left them with their mouths open the second time that day.
Joseph was the first to talk. "He...he....was...a....mutant?!"
The others still could believe it.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 9: NEW FRIENDS?
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CHAPTER 8: RUMBLE AT THE MALL
The next day the students had the day off from training, because the Danger Room was still under repairs.
When the students found out about not just how but who wrecked it, they all thanked Vince for getting them out of training, apparently after their failure against him, Logan had planned to run them into the ground to toughen them up.
Now that the Danger Room was wrecked, they had a 'stay of execution' as several of them more then once said.
Scott however was the exception, being the leader of the group he needed to get them ready, because if they went up against another mutant as powerful as Vincent, he wanted them ready.
So on the 'day off' he was in the danger room, helping to put it back together again.
Vincent however decided that he needed to get out. He hadn't left the mansion since he came to Bayville, and was feeling a little bit cooped up.
He went down stairs to the living room and saw several of the students lounging around.
"Hey can I ask you guys a question? Is there anything to do in this town, cause I'm getting a little bored and I think it's time I got a look of this town eh?" Vincent asked not to anyone in particular.
Kitty was the first to speak up. "Sure there is we could, like, check out the mall, and I've been dying to get an excuse to go, anyone else in?"
Surprisingly Rogue spoke up. "Sure, Ah needed to check out the music store, and I need to get a few things."
"Ja and I need a new shirt." Kurt spoke up next.
"Like, why do you need a new one, don't you usually just wear them until they get ruined?" Kitty asked curiously.
Kurt slightly blushed. "Vell you see there was an accident vas an accident vith my favorite shirt."
"What, Amanda ripped it off in the heat of passion?" Vincent asked him, with a wolf like smile.
"VHAT!" Kurt actually fell off the chair he had been on, and unto his back. "NEIN, ve haven't done anyzing like THAT!" If it was possible Kurt's fur was actually turning red.
Kitty however was rolling on the floor from laughing so hard, and was having trouble breathing.
Even Rogue was suppressing her own laughs at Kurt's reaction with her hand over her mouth.
"Hier Vincent how could you even zink that! She vould never do somezing like that!"
Vince couldn't stop his own laughter at that, and starting laughing alone with the others.
Kurt looked around and saw that the others were all laughing, turned to Vincent, and in a deadpan voice said. "You are an evil, evil man."
Vince was able to get control of himself but still had a smile on, he just gave a shrug. "Hey, no ones all good Kurt, and you got to admit you set yourself up good for that one."
Kurt just had to smile. He had to admit he did set himself up. "Ja, I guess I did, but you know I vill have to get you back for zat, recht (right)?"
"Oh I look forward to it blue dude, I look forward to it." Vince good- naturedly said.
Kitty had finally gotten over her laughing fit, and had gotten up. "Well like let's get going then, I want to get to the mall, and hurry before it gets too crowded."
They all went to their rooms to either get their wallets or purses, Vince snagged the car keys to the van on his way out. When he got close to the van Kitty caught up to him.
"Hey Vince, can I like drive us there, I really need the practice, and that way you'll know the way back to the mansion when you drive us back, okay?" Kitty pleaded with him, she was giving him her puppy dog eyes.
Vincent had to cave in, not only was it reasonable, since he didn't know were the mall was exactly, but the look she was giving him, was way too persuasive. 'What harm could it do?' he thought. Little did he know he would soon regret those words.
Vincent gave her a shrug and tossed the keys to her. She gave a happy squeal and ran off to the drivers seat.
He got into the front passenger seat, the other two were already back there, and were a little confused as to why he wasn't driving.
"Uh Vincent you do know that the diving vheel is on the other side?" Kurt asked him.
"Yeah I know but I'm not driving us there." He responded.
"Vell if your not then who....oh mein got no." Kurt finished as he realized who was going to drive. "Please tell me you didn't give Kachten the keys?"
At that moment Kitty got into the drivers seat, and as Vincent looked back he could see both Rogue and Kurt frantically trying to get their seat belts on, and what was really worrying Vince, was the Rogue looked paler than usual.
At this his strong survival instincts told him two things. First he shouldn't have given her the damn keys, and secondly he better get his seatbelt on. NOW.
"All right here we GO!" Kitty exclaimed, like we was about to start drag racing.
Vincent had managed to get his seatbelt on just before they phased through the gates. 'Okay mental note Vincent, NEVER EVER LET THIS GIRL DRIVE!' Vince thought.
Normally it takes about fifteen minutes to get to the mall, but with Kitty driving they were there in five.
Rogue and Kurt who had been on a few of Kitty's joyrides were a little uneasy getting out of the van, but Vincent however could barley stand. He managed to get to a bench, and collapsed onto it.
Rogue and Kurt came up to him, they knew exactly how he felt.
"Ah guess no one told ya of Kitty's drivin' yet huh?" Rogue asked him.
Vince just shook his head, he was still working to get his ability to speak back.
"Man I thought that some von who vas invulnerable vouldn't fear somzing like that?" Kurt half joked, half asked him.
Vince looked up at Kurt then. "You know before today I would have to agree with you Fuzzy, seeing as how if we had crashed I would definitely have survived, but man, my entire life flashed before my eyes, and I always thought that was JUST an expression."
"Vell any good memorizes you relived?" Kurt asked trying to lighten the mood.
"Not as many as I would have liked." Vincent said more to himself than to Kurt.
"Hey guys that was fun, hey Vincent are you ,like, OK?" She asked seeing Vincent in a heap on the bench.
"I uh, I think I just need to sit here for a little while, that drive...uh...was a little..." He tried to look for a nice way of saying maniac driving, but couldn't.
"HEY! My driving is not that bad, I've actually gotten better."
'THAT WAS BETTER?' Vince was shocked at the news. 'If that was BETTER, I'd hate to she her WORST.
"Look Ah think he should leave him alone to get over it, let's face it Kitty, first time driving with ya is a little intense." Rogue told her.
"Hey it is not, and what is this pick on Kitty day or something?" At that point Kitty began to start pouting.
Rogue rolled her eyes at that, she hated it when she did that. "Vincent you goin' ta be OK here for a while?"
Vince just nodded his head.
"Well, we'll meet ya later inside, when your feelin' up to it. Meet us in the food court in about an hour, OK?" Rogue asked him.
"Sure I could use a little time, I'll catch up." Vince gave them one of his good-natured smiles.
They left him there and went inside, it took Vincent about ten minutes to pull himself together. He got up and started to go to the front doors when, he was stopped by someone shouting.
"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU JERK!"
Vincent hurried over to where he heard the shouting come from. He saw several boys giving a rough time to three people.
One of the guys had a girl of about 17, who had brown hair, wearing punk style clothes, being grabbed by the arm.
"Come on Pam, why hang out with these losers when you can be with a stud like me."
"Because I don't go out with cavemen Steve, so get over it." The girl named Pam said.
Steve didn't take kindly to that, and gripped both of her arms. "What did you say slut!" He pushed her down to her other friends. One was a blond girl with jeans, and a plain white T-shirt. She was holding a kid with the same color hair as her, whose lip was slightly bruised. The kid seemed to be about only 14.
At that point Vincent had had enough. He despised people who hurt others for either their amusement, or because they could. It was time for him to step in.
"Well I think that's enough of that." He put a little ice into his words for effect.
They turned around and saw him, they didn't think much of him though.
"Buzz off, this isn't any of your business." One of them said.
"I beg to differ, I'm MAKING it my business, so this is what your going to do, you are all going to apologize to them, or I kick all your asses, wither way I win."
"Hey Duncan can you believe this guy?" One of them said to a tall blonde guy, who really looked like the kind of guy you just hated, for being a jerk.
"You think you can take all of us on? Hey most of us were on the High School football team you know, we kicked guys like you around for fun." He had this superior attitude about him saying this, that just rubbed Vince the wrong way even more.
Vincent got this predatory like grin on his face then. "Well why doesn't that surprise me." He said sarcastically "Well are we going to have a fight here or not, my friends are already inside and I don't want to keep them waiting."
Pam was using the distraction this new guy was giving her to quietly get over to Amy and her little brother Joseph. "Are you two all right?" she asked them quietly. She didn't want to get the attention of those jerks.
"I...I...think so, what about you Joseph are you OK?" She looked at his lip, it was swelling slightly but looked okay. He got that from one of the bullies. He tried to stop them but one of them threw a punch and Joseph had went down.
She now looked at the new boy. He was tall, dark haired, and from what she could see he was kind of build, not like a body builder built, more like a swimmer type of build. But he was still outnumbered.
"Pam do you know who that is?" She hopped Pam knew this boy, maybe he was the new boy in her life, she went through them fast enough at times.
"Sorry don't know him, I just hope that pretty face of his isn't messed up after they beat the living Hell out of him, that would be kind of a waste."
Amy would have rolled her eyes if she wasn't so scared, her friend just couldn't stop to check out every guy she thought was cute.
They all looked on to see the boy standing vary calmly, yet showed no fear, in fact he looked like he was going to enjoy what was going to happen. "Well whoever he is, he's going to regret being stupid enough to play 'Knight in shining amour' today." Pam said.
What happened next no one expected to happen.
The first of the guys went straight at Vincent with a powerful punch, but all Vincent did was block the blow with his arm, and used his opponents momentum to his advantage, by grabbing the back of his head, and swinging him around and into one of his friends gut, that was coming towards them.
They both went down onto the ground hard. The others stopped in their tracks for a second surprised that two of them were already down.
Vincent took this time to capitalize on their reaction. He ran up to the group and spun into the air doing a 360 and at the end sent his foot and leg out, which hit one of them in the temple.
When he landed he didn't stop his momentum for a second. He immediately spun around on his right foot and sent a round house kick to another on in the head.
Vince then switch feet and tried to do the same to the one on his right with his left foot, but the other guy was ready and sent his head back in time. However he didn't move his feet back so, when Vincent came around his spin, he continued to spin again, but this time he used his right leg for a swipe kick.
This caught his opponent by surprise and he landed on his back. He was about to get up when Vincent was already over him, and sent blow to just under the ribcage to knock the wind out of him.
The one he had knock down earlier had gotten up and was coming at Vincent with a vengeance. He came at Vincent from behind, but he was making so much noise that Vince had no trouble hearing him come.
Vince turned around to see a fist coming at his head. He easily dodged under the blow, and have him a solid shot to the gut. As he clutched his stomach, Vince sent an elbow into his temple knocking him out.
Now all that was left was both Steve and Duncan. Both of them had shocked expressions on their face. Vince saw this and gave them his predatory smile again. He decided to make them mad, to make them come at him.
So he gave them the finger, and boy did that work. Both of them went to shocked to outraged in less than a second. Steve came at Vincent then. Vince just put his hands behind his back waiting for the attack.
Steve let loose a string of punches all of which Vincent easily dodged. Vince decided to finish this so he dodged under a right cross, and sent a leg into Steve's gut. As Steve bent over, Vince gave him a smile before bringing in right foot into the side of Steve's face.
He hit the ground cold, and now all that was left was Duncan. Duncan was livid, both that this guy was interfering in their business, but he was making a joke out of them. Duncan then bent slightly like he had done in football, and charged him head on, like he was playing football again.
Vince saw that he was going for a tackle and when Duncan was within reach, Vince grabbed him by the shoulders, and fell onto his back. He used Duncan's momentum and his foot on Duncan's chest to send the former football player onto his back a several feet away.
Vincent then sent his legs over his head and kicked out, jumping into the air and landing on top his feet. He turned around to see Duncan getting onto his knees. The last thing Duncan Mathews saw before the lights went out was the bottom of a foot heading towards his face.
Amy, Pam, and Joseph were too stunned to move. All their mouths just hung open at the site of all of those bullies on the ground and this mysterious boy there completely unharmed.
"Wow, that was awesome." Joseph whispered to himself out loud.
"Damn who knew the guy was freaking Bruce Lee." Was Pam's only response.
This mysterious guy came up to them, he looked at Joseph's lip with concern. "Is everyone here alright?" he asked them all.
"Uh, yeah I think so." Pam said she didn't know exactly what to say.
"I think it would be a good idea if we went inside before the goon squad here wakes up and decide to go for round two." As he pointed a thumb over his shoulder.
The three got up and with Vincent went into the mall. Those guys in the parking lot wouldn't think to cause trouble with all the mall security men around there.
"So I didn't catch your name stranger, or do you have one?" Pam asked Vincent.
Vincent smiled at her joke he could tell she was a live one. "My name's Vincent Freeman, I just moved to Bayville a few days ago."
"Really? Where from?" She asked him.
"Toronto, I guess you could say I'm a foreign exchange student."
"You DO know it's summer, hence no school."
Vincent just shrugged. "What can I say I like to start early." Amy gave him a look like he was out of his mind, Joseph looked confused, while Pam was laughing her ass off.
"Damn Vincent, you are a strange one you know that? Well I'm Pam, this is my best friend Amy and her little brother Joseph, but he's cool." Pam said through her laughter.
Vince nodded to each of them.
Amy was slightly nervous, even though he had come to their rescue she was always shy and nervous around new people. She was the complete opposite of her best friend Pam in every way, yet they were still best friends.
"Um...did you r....r...really have someone friends waiting here like you said earlier, because if you just moved here that was pretty fast to already have friends." Amy finally got out.
Vincent just shrugged again. "What can I say I make friends as easily as I make enemies."
Pam smirked at that. "Yeah what do you do, come to the rescue of people in trouble all the time?"
"Occasionally" Vince stated.
Pam started laughing again, never knowing Vincent was only half joking at that.
"Well let's see if we can help you find these friends of yours, it's the least we could do since you helped us out." Pam said linking her arm in his.
"Oh Lord no, not again. Pamela why do you have to flirt with every guy?' Amy thought to herself while rolling her eyes.
They spent the next hour looking for the others, but didn't find them. Vince told them they were supposed to meet in the food court later, so they went there, and ordered. Vince didn't see them yet so they sat at a set of tables.
"So where did you learn to fight like that?" Joseph asked Vince.
"Well my Sensei, Master Kensuke, was a member of a family clan of samurai dating back over 800 years, and he taught me everything he knew about his family's art." Vince told him.
"Wow, I started Tae Kwon Doe last week what style was that you used." Joseph was getting excited, he was always into martial arts, and now he had found a person who was really good at it. 'Maybe he can give me some pointers' he hoped.
"Well technically it's a type a karate, but over the years a few moves from jujitsu, tai chi, and a few other arts have been incorporated into the art." He answered him.
"Cool, what level are you?"
"Well I'm a black belt, because I've mastered a lot of the moves and have trained for about nine years."
Just then Amy's eyes widened. Pam saw this and was worried. "Amy what is it?"
"Look it's some of those people." She pointed.
They turned around to see her pointed at Rogue, Kitty and Kurt. Amanda was also with them, apparently they had mat up in the mall and she had joined them.
"Why what's wrong with those people?" Vince asked them, he kept his voice innocent, even though he had an idea why.
"Those people over there are mutants. We had classes with some of them in school. They're no good." Pam says.
"Really what do they do, use their powers on people, or bully people around like those jerks I laid out?" Vincent asked them.
"Well no, they don't....it's just that all the trouble mutants seem to cause, they're always on the news destroying things." Amy said, she was evidently scared of the mutants across the room.
"So other than the media, which you can always trust." Vince said sarcastically. "Do any of you have any personally negative experiences?"
They all looked at each other, no they hadn't they realized.
"Well when a mutant actually does something nice for me, I'll...I'll give them a chance." Pam said in a disgruntled tone.
"Well I hope so Pam." Vince got up and took his try with him.
"Where are you going Vince?" She asked him.
"I'm going over to my friends they're most likely starting to worry about me eh? Oh and just remember Pam, besides our powers we mutants are just like everyone else, there are bad mutants but there are also good ones." With that he smiled to them and left them with their mouths open the second time that day.
Joseph was the first to talk. "He...he....was...a....mutant?!"
The others still could believe it.
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