Chapter 4
Lost Hero
Captain Ironic Eraser looked at the sky from the roof of his apartment. Someone is killing the council. I need E's expertise.
"Captain Eraser!" a voice cried. It was Pete
"What's up, Pete?" Captain Eraser asked while turning around to look at him.
"I think I know who's killing off the council!" he exclaimed.
"Really?" Captain Eraser asked amazed. "Who?"
"I think it's this Pikmin called E!" Pete said
Captain Eraser frowned. "No it can't be E!" he argued
"But it is Captain! There was a murder last night and they have all DNA from the victim's house and if you might have guessed it all pointed to E!"
Impossible, thought Captain Eraser. E's never shown his face in his life.
"Consider the fact that there were DNA prints all over the place and gunshot residue left on a red tie at the crime scene. It all points to E!" Pete cried
"We should eliminate him!" Pete said sternly.
Captain Eraser paused. "Well if he is the guy who's been doing this, I agree with you, but what are you good for?"
Pete thought for a moment. He got me.
"Well," Pete said, "I can be your sidekick!"
Captain Eraser looked at Pete. "What's a sidekick?"
"YOU don't know what a sidekick is?" Pete exclaimed. "Oh, this is unbelievable!"
"Go ahead," Captain Eraser said. "I could use a good definition of a sidekick,"
"A sidekick is the next best thing to a hero!" Pete started. "Sidekicks are meant for comic relief and having ready plot devices when heroes are stuck. Sidekicks share DIVERSIONARY TACTICS with heroes!"
"And who on this very planet would have a sidekick?" Captain Eraser asked.
Pete stared, and said "um…well there's Pikbat and Robin, and um…I guess that's all I know."
"I thought so," Captain Eraser said. "But I guess I'll have to take you."
"YAY! I mean, thank you sir!" Pete saluted.
Half a mile away in Precinct 15, E was brought onto trial. You might think, WHAT ALREADY? But with that evidence, E was put on a death row.
"This court is now adjourned."
E, with officers surrounding him was brought into the court, with a bag cast upon his head. The court was a shiny wooden one, with the jury of Pikmin and the judge. The judge was Vice Chancellor Black. They finally arrived in front of the judge's table
"State your name," Judge Black commanded.
"E, your honor."
"Your real name," Judge Black said.
E sighed. "David Callaway."
"Thank you. Mr. Callaway, you are charged of a 3rd degree of murder."
"That doesn't make sense your honor," E or David replied. "I didn't kill anyone else."
"But you killed Governor Jack Reese, Mr. Callaway," Judge Black sneered.
"And you're next your honor," David said chillingly.
Judge Black glared at him. "Not if I kill you first, Mr. Callaway. Take him to the chair."
"I hereby sentence you to death by the chair!" Judge Black announced to the jury.
He then slammed his mini hammer onto the table.
Many of the jury were frustrated that they were brought to the court for no specific reason at all. E, if you prefer, did not hear anything else after he was sentenced. The officers grabbed him by the flower that stuck out on the top of his bag and strapped him onto the chair. E didn't show any sign of struggle at all. It was like it was another day, lazing at home, except, a mean judge glared at him and he was going to die instead of enjoying his day at home. An officer, who was a blue Pikmin, put the electrical cap on him. He muttered something and went out of the electrical room.
"Hey judge!" the officer called out.
Judge Black turned around.
"If you know what I mean, I'm not into gore and burnt smell of Pikmin flesh."
Judge Black rolled his eyes. "Whatever," he said.
The officer left the room. The electrifying process was about to begin. They set up everything and counted down from ten. After a few seconds E cried, "WAIT!" The officer counting down stopped. "Last requests maybe," E suggested.
The officer looked at Judge Black. "Alright, alright," he said, "what do you want to say?"
E grinned. "Cap," he simply said.
Judge Black signaled the officer that he could electrocute E. The officer pulled the lever and it happened, there was a flash of darkness and then E was gone. At that moment, Judge Black dropped dead.
"Hey, I hear you escaped. Are you doing alright?" Captain Eraser was talking on his cell phone. "Alright, good to know that you're alive, see ya." Captain Eraser ended the conversation. "Hey Pete, we don't have to go eliminate E," he said. "He's already dead." They were in Captain Eraser's civilian car driving towards a pin-pointed location mapped on his radar. Just in a second, a red Pikmin landed on the front of Captain Eraser's car.
"Eraser!" the red Pikmin shouted.
"Who in the Pikmin in heaven's name are you?" Eraser asked frustrated about his damaged car.
"Refer to me as Dragon Noth!" the red Pikmin commanded.
"Well "Dragon Noth, you're about to get your dirty feet out of my car!" Captain Eraser bellowed. "Pete! Take the wheel!"
And it was Pete's turn to do the driving. Captain Eraser immediately got out of the car and on top of it. "GET YOUR FEET OUT OF MY CAR!" Captain Eraser cried as he punched Dragon Noth onto the top of a truck. Apparently they were of the street and onto the highway. Captain Eraser joined Dragon Noth on top of the truck and a violent scenario took place. As Eraser got on Dragon Noth kicked him on the face. Blood streamed down his face. Eraser flip kicked Dragon Noth and got on the truck.
"Who sent you?" Eraser yelled, but his question was completely ignored. Dragon Noth sent an unexpected fire punch to his stomach. Eraser bent down in pain as Dragon Noth did an uppercut that sent him flying to the back of the truck. Eraser grabbed the end with his dear life. His legs were air bound. The truck was moving too fast. Soon the wind would've blown him off. But quickly he flips back onto the truck and continues with the quarrel. "There's no reason to fight!" Eraser cried.
"My superior sent me," Dragon Noth said.
Then suddenly an image popped into his head. The traitor. Red Frenzy. Or should I say, Fatman. Dragon Noth was Jerry, why couldn't he have thought of that earlier? It didn't matter to him now. All that mattered was to eliminate Red Frenzy's hit man. Pete drove nearer to the truck. Then randomly finding a bat he threw that bat upwards and Captain Eraser, successfully catching it.
"Time to kick some BUTT!" he said maniacally.
Dragon Noth's evil grin slowly turned into a face of regret of ever joining up with his boss. Happily, Captain Eraser whacked Dragon Noth on the head repeatedly. With no mask to bear the burden, Dragon Noth endured major pain and finally when Captain Eraser finally got bored, he electrified the bat giving it electrical powers and whacking him out of the truck. Dragon Noth, hitting a car, jumped back on. Captain Eraser, who was about to jump back into his car turned around and sighed
"You have an annoying persistence Jerry!" Captain Eraser said annoyed.
Dragon Noth laughed. "It's not me you're going to be sharing the pain with!" he shouted.
He pressed a button on his utility belt and out came a horrible monster. A humongous shoe.
"Until we meet again Captain!" He saluted and flew away.
Captain Eraser stared at an inevitable doom that he was about to face. The shoe roared, releasing an unbearable shoe smell signaling that the human who used that shoe never washed his feet. The shoe took more steps towards Captain Eraser. Eraser sucked up what was mostly left of his heroicness and closed his eyes. A few seconds later he opened them but not with the regular eyes he had before he closed them. It was a dark red symbolizing evil. He forced an evil grin.
If you read a profile in the Pikmin history it is that when super heroes like these meet up with monsters with horrible body odor, (or in this case shoe odor), you would know that this is the sign of insanity. "Bring it on ya friggin' shoe!" Captain Eraser said chillingly.
The shoe roared again and it began wrapping Captain Eraser with its shoelaces. Captain Eraser savagely bit of the shoelaces and spat them back at the shoe. The shoe, now regretting of ever being a shoe, tried to bite our hero. Its fangs were green and it gleamed in the sun. "So that's how you wanna play eh?" Pressing one of his utility buttons he grabbed a large pair of scissors that came out of his belt and cried "It's SHOE HUNTING SEASON!" The shoe stared with eyes that popped out randomly, at the humongous scissors that were about to strike him. Having no choice at all, a self destruct button hidden inside the very bowels of the shoe was activated. Nothing. Nothing at all but a scissor piercing through the leather coating. The monster was tamed and Captain Eraser retained is residual self.
Suddenly the truck turned around into a bus far in front. God save me now, Eraser thought. He closed his eyes and prayed like he would never pray again in his entire life. Then it happened. The trucks collided into each other sending our hero flying towards his doom. Pete jumped out of the car knowing that the truck beside him would also finish him off too. Just then an incoming car was about to hit Pete. Fortunately he was saved randomly by a fast moving jet. The jet raced towards Captain Eraser taking him by his shirt and taking off.
Who was this mysterious jet who saved them, who? Superman?
"Who are you?" Pete asked.
"You can call me David Calloway."
And like that, they flew off into the sun as the trucks flame slowly vanquished from the wind.