At a shipyard that was also a storage facility, Flynn and the others came out of some tunnels that closed up once they were out. The trio then snuck their way behind some shipping containers before Flynn whispered,"So this is the Lock & Dock. Way more pristine than I assumed it'd be."
"Anyone else find it weird that a shipyard is combined with a storage unit place?",Rika whispered.
"Actually it makes some sense considering how some of the imports and exports of Optima come from sea based trading.",J3T41N quietly explained to Rika, her nodding in response. Flynn, Rika, and J3T41N then moved further into the shipyard, staying out of any guards' sights. They then made their way to the top of a stack of shipping crates and they knelt down so they weren't seen. Flynn took out a pair of binoculars, Rika touched a small button on her goggles causing them to faintly glow light blue, and J3T41N squinted his eye causing his vision to zoom in. The trio watched in silence as they saw about a dozen guards, regular guys in tie dye armor, group up around one man with long blonde hair that had a tie dye suit on and a pair of rainbow rimmed glasses.
"I'm just gonna make a guess and say that the guy in the suit is Tri-dye. Man, he's tacky.",Rika said.
"Ya got that right lass. What kinda eejit still wears tie dye and expects to be taken seriously?",Flynn commented. J3T41N focused his vision on Tri-dye and began to hear what the man was saying. Tri-dye adjusted the lapels of his suit jacket then said with a foreign accent,"Does my suit look okay? I don't want to look sloppy during a deal."
One of the guards nodded and Tri-dye grinned before he stood up straight and said,"Okay fellas, be cool. This isn't our first time trading with Prometheus Quinn but always remember, he will kill you at the drop of a dime." as an armored van and three black muscle cars drove into the shipyard and stopped. Many guards that were like the ones on the train from the last chapter, stepped out of the cars and van then Harold and Farela stepped out of the van's front seat and walked up to Tri-dye. Tri-dye stretched out his arms then said,"Harold, Farela. So nice to see you both once again. How have you been?"
"We've been good, but we'll be better once we get what we came for.",Farela said in a commanding tone. Tri-dye chuckled nervously then said,"Blunt as always, Farela. Let's get down to business."
"Jet, what're they saying?",Flynn asked J3T41N while still looking through his binoculars.
"They're conducting the deal. Although this isn't their first interacting and it seems Tri-dye, is fearful of the man in orange and the woman in blue.",J3T41N explained.
"Yeah who're those two anyway? I've never seen em before.",Rika asked.
"I do not know anything about them save for their names; the orange one being Harold and the blue one being Farela.",J3T41N said.
Tri-dye's men brought a crate in between himself and the duo in front of him then he opened the crate, revealing the crate to be filled with greenish blue crystals ranging from being small to being rather big. Tri-dye smirked while saying,"As promised, four crates of these odd crystals."
"Good.",Farela said before she closed the crate and motioned for some of her guards to take it and the other three crates. Tri-dye grinned then said,"So, might I ask where my payment is?"
Harold put his shotgun to Tri-dye's chest then said, in a much deeper and mechanical voice,"Your payment is us letting you continue this operation. Don't get greedy."
Tri-dye gulped in fear but sighed in relief when Farela made Harold lower his gun. She then pulled out a syringe that had a hot pink liquid in it and handed it to Tri-dye before she said,"Make sure to not randomly stick someone with that. Don't want any of these idiots you call soldiers becoming an Xceeded."
"The woman known as Farela just said that she doesn't want Tri-dye to turn any of his men into something called an Xceeded.",J3T41N said to his comrades. Rika pressed the button on her goggles, causing them to return to normal, then she turned her head to Flynn and asked,"What's an Xceeded?"
"I, uh, I don't know.",Flynn said while putting away his binoculars. J3T41N continued to listen in on Tri-dye's conversation then his eye widened and he pushed Rika and Flynn to the side before jumping to another shipping crate, dodging a blast that caused a small explosion. The blast came from Harold's shoulder mounted turret then Harold looked at Tri-dye and said,"Your security sucks by the way. The Malevomen are here."
"Dammit, I owe Quinn some money now.",Farela said while putting her hand on her hip. Tri-dye looked up to see Flynn, J3T41N, and Rika then he called for his men to get them. Meanwhile, Harold and Farela got back into the van once it was loaded up. Farela then said to her guards,"Let's move out."
The van and the two cars then drove away as Tri-dye and his men began to go after the Malevomen. J3T41N, who had landed on one of trucks, looked around as several of Tri-dye's grunts climbed up to where he was. He punched one of the grunts in the chest then he tossed that man into two others, knocking all three out. J3T41N punched a grunt in the face four times then he jumped down to the ground and caused several grunts to be launched away from him.
Flynn was still on top of a shipping container stack and he was fighting several grunts. Flynn punched a grunt in the chest then he back kicked another in the chest. He then dodged a punch before pushing the grunt into another. Flynn back flipped in order to dodge a few punches from a grunt then he jumped up and spin kicked the grunt in the face, knocking them out. Flynn let out a satisfied chuckle then he moved down a container as more grunts came after him.
Rika was now on an outward catwalk and she kneed a grunt in the balls before slamming their head into a guard rail. She then punched a grunt in the stomach before throwing the grunt into the wall. Rika was then picked up from behind and she began flailing erratically before she head butted the grunt in the nose. The grunt let go of Rika, and she immediately turned around and tackled the person to the ground before punching them in the face many times. Rika stood up and she took out the handle of her gun, it changed back into her rifle, then she aimed it and fired a grenade out from the lower barrel. The grenade exploded and caused the group of grunts to be tased and they all fell down. Rika chuckled then said,"Oh I'm so good with this thing." confidently.
Tri-dye hid behind a crate in fear then he heard nothing but silence and he peeked his head out to see all of his men were on the ground unconscious. He got back behind the crate then he heard Flynn say,"You can come out boyo. We aren't gonna hurt ya."
Tri-dye stood up and turned to the Malevomen before saying,"Why hello there. You three must be the infamous Malevomen I've heard about."
"We are them, now start spilling or I shoot your kneecaps.",Rika said while aiming her rifle at Tri-dye's kneecaps. Tri-dye put his hands up in fear then he said,"Okay, okay. I'll tell you whatever you want to know, just please don't shoot me."
Flynn made Rika put her rifle away then he said to her,"No kneecapin' the lad, yet. You go look around and make sure there are no more guards."
"Aw what?! Why do I?",Rika said in an annoyed manner.
"Because someone has to and I don't want you gettin' trigger happy. Now get.",Flynn said authoritatively to Rika. Rika grumbled then she had her rifle change back into the handle and put it away as she walked away from the group. Flynn sighed then said,"Now as for you Tri-dye, fitting name btw, tell us why you've been giving these crystals to Helimax."
"Oh that's simple. See Helimax offered me a deal about three months ago which basically said that if I was to hand over any of the weird crystals I find, then they'd allow me to continue my rather lucrative drug operation with no interference from the police.",Tri-dye explained.
"What kinda drugs do ya pedal?",Flynn questioned.
"Why the top of the line drugs. Meth, cocaine, I even sell pleasure drugs on some occasions. Those ones sell great at parties.",Tri-dye said with a satisfied grin. He was then grabbed by his neck by J3T41N, who then said,"I find your joy in selling poison to others deplorable and wish to do nothing more than throw you into the ocean with a boulder strapped to your ankle."
Tri-dye gulped in fear then he looked at Flynn as the Irishman said,"What the bigun 'ere is sayin' is that you better tell us what that syringe ya got is filled with or. Well as he said, he'll toss you over the docks with a boulder strapped to your ankles."
Meanwhile, Rika was standing near the edge of a dock. She then tossed a rock into the water while grumbling,"Stupid Flynn. Always acting like he knows more than me. He wouldn't be such a know it all if Mason was here. He'd back me up."
Rika sighed then she knelt down and looked at her reflection in the water before saying,"Oh who am I kidding. Mason would just tell me I'm being a brat then thump me and I'd listen to him. Although I'd like to listen to him, because he's not Flynn."
Rika sighed once more before saying,"I wish you were here Mason. You'd know exactly what to say."
Suddenly, Rika heard crashing coming from behind her and she stood up while turning around. She then heard loud thuds coming from where Flynn and J3T41N were before she saw both her comrades come flying around the corner and tumble on the ground. Rika ran to her friends while saying,"What the heck happened?!"
"Look out!",Flynn said as he tackled Rika to the ground, just in time for them to not be hit by a crate that flew at them. Rika gulped then she, Flynn and J3T41N regrouped and Rika said,"What is that thing?!"
What Rika was staring at was a large monstrous four armed man that had red skin, blue eyes, green and pink hair, and violet and orange armor on its chest, shins, and arms.
"That is Tri-dye after he injected himself with that syringe. As you can see, it turned him into a bloody monster.",Flynn said as he took out his change grenade. J3T41N and Rika took out their change grenades then the trio said,"Change grenade, cultivate." as they pulled the pins of the grenades.
Tri-dye growled then he was kicked in the chin by Corruptred before he was shot several times by Vileyellow and punched in the stomach by Hatefulblue. Tri-dye punched Hatefulblue back into a shipping container then swung at Corruptred several times, with the man using his agility to dodge the attacks. Vileyellow shot at Tri-dye several times, and he growled before picking up a forklift and throwing at her. Vileyellow gasped then she jumped behind a shipping container to dodge the forklift. She turned her rifle back into a handle and put it away while saying,"Okay that's not working as well as I thought it would. New plan Rika."
Vileyellow then looked to her left to see Hatefulblue crash down right next to her. She helped up the blue Malevoman while asking,"You okay Jet?"
"I am in pain at several points.",Hatefulblue said.
"You feel pain?",Vileyellow questioned.
"To some degree, it takes a great amount of force in order for me to feel it. Why I even have pain receptors at all, I cannot tell you.",Hatefulblue said, sounding a bit irritated at this fact. Vileyellow nodded then she and Hatefulblue moved out of the way as Tri-dye charged through the shipping container they were behind, having Corruptred on his shoulders. Corruptred jumped off of Tri-dye and landed in between both of his comrades then he said,"What're you eejit's doin'?!"
"Formulating an effective plan to beat Tri-dye. We have made little progress.",Hatefulblue said plainly.
"Oh really. Well then that actually makes up for me having to FIGHT THE BLOODY THING ME SELF!",Corruptred said, being very perturbed. He, Hatefulblue, and Vileyellow then looked towards Tri-dye as he began to stumble around then roared at them.
"Hmm, it would appear that whatever he took is beginning to wear off.",Hatefulblue said in a thoughtful tone. He then looked at Vileyellow and asked,"May you please shoot a grenade at his left foot."
"Sure.",Vileyellow said while taking out her rifle. Hatefulblue then charged at Tri-dye while Vileyellow shot a grenade at Tri-dye's foot, causing him to grab it in pain. Hatefulblue then jumped up and punched Tri-dye in his face, causing the monstrous man to fall onto his back unconscious. Hatefulblue dusted himself off then he looked back as Corruptred and Vileyellow came up to him, as Corruptred said,"Nice one Jet."
"It was nothing. I simply saw how he was becoming weaker and acted upon the opportunity.",Hatefulblue said.
"Still cool plan though.",Vileyellow said while putting her rifle away.
"Anyway, let's see if this guy will talk to us some more after his little spell.",Corruptred said. Suddenly, Tri-dye gagged and let out a pained roar before he disintegrated into dust, save for a small rectangular device. The device then projected a hologram of Prometheus Quinn and the hologram said,"Hey there Malevomen. How've ya been, haven't seen you in forever."
"Prometheus Quinn.",The three Malevomen said with anger as they all looked at the hologram. Prometheus' hologram chuckled then said,"Since this is playing, I'm gonna assume that that idiot Tri-dye actually took that syringe. Dumb bastard, I thought he'd use it but not that quickly." with an amused tone.
"You gave him that stuff knowing it would kill him. He was a comrade of yours.",Corruptred said with anger.
"Ha ha ha ha, oh that's funny. You think I cared if he was a comrade. No, Tri-dye was a means for me to show you three pukes what I'm capable of. 'Cause you see, I have many Xceeded scatter about the city, just waiting for me to activate their powers and sic em on you. If you don't want that to happen to all those poor saps then there's only one solution, give up. If you do then I may go easy on you.",Prometheus' hologram said in a charismatically sinister tone.
"Like we'd believe you'd do that. You'll just come after us no matter what we do.",Vileyellow said.
"Eh, you're not wrong. Ah well I tried to show mercy but as usual, you morons don't understand that villains always lose and that I am the hero. So I'll be seeing you three around. Oh and before I forget,",Prometheus' hologram said before motioning for someone to come to him. Harold came into the hologram dragging a rather tall man that had his hand chained behind his back and a sack hood over his head into the picture. Prometheus chuckled then punched the hooded man with his robot arm, causing the man to fall to the ground before Prometheus said,"Tell your commander that I have one of his little rats captive. Let's see how much torture he can take before he gives me the info I want."
The device then short circuited and the hologram disappeared. The Malevomen just looked at one another then left the scene as they heard the police approaching.
At Helimax in Prometheus' office, Prometheus laughed evilly as some guards dragged the hooded man away then he looked at Harold and said,"Nice job Harold. I really liked how you shot at those villains before even Farela noticed them." with a joyous tone.
"Dude, that was nothing. Especially since you gave me this sweet radar in my helmet.",Harold said in a friendly tone to Prometheus. Prometheus and Harold then high fived just as Farela walked in the room saying,"If you two are done being buddy buddy. May we get back to work."
"Now Farela, you know the motto. You must celebrate even the small victories.",Prometheus said as he turned to his friend. Farela sighed then said,"I get that but I've been frustrated because of those stupid Malevomen always getting away."
"Eh I understand that but, fret not my friend. Soon enough they'll be dead or better, I'll find out their identities and then they'll be dead.",Prometheus said while looking out of the window behind him.
"Hope that's soon.",Farela commented in a frustrated huff. This was when a blueish green energy blade was put to Farela's throat and she gasped in fear. Prometheus, who had the energy blade coming out of his forearm, glared at Farela then in a sinister voice said,"You aren't back talking me are you Far?"
"No, no I'm not.",Farela said in a shaky tone.
"Good. That's good. Because I'd hate to have to replace my top assassin and one third of the trio. Wouldn't that suck Harold.",Prometheus said in a voice that showed his sinister nature but also showed that he was enjoying this.
"Yeah, that would be terrible.",Harold said with a sinister smirk under his helmet. Prometheus then retracted the energy blade back into his arm and he gave Farela a hug before saying,"Now you behave yourself and be a good girl for me, understood."
"Yes, understood.",Farela said fearfully. Prometheus stepped away from Farela and nodded before he sat in his chair and said,"Now both of you leave please. I have some business to attend to."
"Understood boss.",Harold said with gusto before he left the room. Farela nodded then left the room with an angered expression on her face. Prometheus chuckled evilly then he began typing on his computer.