DESTROY: No more excuses

by Random Author of 98

(AU) After the events of No more heroes 2, Santa Destroy have became a secret war zone for ambitious assassins of all types and people trying to gain the spotlight. All targeting for the number one spot except for a few... (Contains violence, swears, and minor adult themes.)

6. THE SIDE QUEST

(DISCLAIMER: I do not own both series, just this story of mine.)

I'm on a roll here, ladies and gentlemen.

Because i kinda posted this one for my birthday today, which is January 15 1998!

This is probably going to be one of my fanfictions with the most chapters until another one pops up, but right now this is that story.

If you probably wondering if other characters from the EEnE series and No more Heroes duology might appear, then yeah they might appear but i need some time to think about where they might appear along the way, one by one.

Now that i have said what i wanted to say, on with the show.

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CHAPTER 5: SIDE MISSIONS THEN THE MAIN QUEST...fair enough.

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LOCATION: WOODCREAK SUBURBAN AREA, USA

MISSION: -YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED-

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After an excruciating duel with Gilbar Rogan and his small syndicate known as the SCYTHIAN CARTELS, all four passengers have now parted their own ways.

Nelly decides to help her father have a free ride back home before meeting up with Diana to ensure her future, Eddy went ahead by taking the pair of Black Fist Beam gauntlets just to be sold to the highest bidder at the black market auction site, and finally Ed/Baron went home plain tired as he drove his purple van and his looted motorcycle back into his garage.

Also i forgot to mention that the brand new Diner Ed and Eddy went to had one of god damn best Hotcakes in the entire district, not lying there as Ed was the one guy who have ordered the Special Ma's Hotcakes six times already with Eddy joining on the buffet.

Back in the present, he was tired as hell and slept through the night.

Now as the usual sunrise rose above the suburbs, Ed's sleeping trance was soon awoken up by his heavy metal alarm clock as always.

(ALARM CLOCK): "SMASH! KILL! SMASH! KILL! SMASH, KILL, DESTROY! BE MAD-"

Then Ed raised his fist and hit the snooze button as hard as he can, than he rose up and stretches his body in all directions to get some blood flowing before he could get off his bed and make his way into the bathroom to get cleaned up as usual.

After his showering, Ed went back to his bedroom and this time is different outfit as he wore a green shirt, his blue pants, and decides to wear his black flip-flops, then as before he could go downstairs, he decided to check up and opened the door of the spare room and it is still filled with...emptiness.

ED: 'Someday this room could be useful for something or else it would just be another storage room.'

So he closed the spare room's door and headed downstairs, which he then passed by a picture of a certain memory on top of a drawer which made Ed stop where he was going and picked the picture up.

The picture is composed of two people, one has waist length light ginger hair and is currently wearing an orange long sleeved blouse and she also appears to roll her eyes nonchalantly to another person taller than her that has his arm wrapped over her shoulder and this other person wore a short sleeved light blue shirt and has a ruffled short ginger red hair.

It was none other than Ed and his younger sister Sarah, this photo was taken back at Peach Creek where Sarah is now moving to New York city in order to pursue her fashion designer dream after finishing High School.

ED: 'I hope right now that i wanted to know how you are doing, Sarah? You get to create the most beautiful dresses while i got myself involve into assassination.'

After he puts the photo back into its place on top of the drawer, he then make his way to the kitchen and opened one of the cabinets and brought out a box of his favorite cereals, the chunky puff's franchise, which is now 100& 'Gluten' free.

After he poured his bowl with the cereals plus some fresh fridge milk, he then makes his way to the living room and turned the TV on as he eats his cereals as the TV presented the usual NEWS NETWORK 88 news channel for today.

(NEWS PROGRAM): "Good morning to you and everyone. This is your main source of daily news, the NEWS NETWORK 88, and I am your trustworthy newswoman Haley Windy, and the first news that we are about to get into is a sort of special event that has happened in Mississippi, and it is stated here that the deadly and brutal gang known as SCYTHIAN CARTELS was taken down by its own residential residents, who have managed to plan a risky but successful revolution against them, and now down from the ground there, we have a live reporter on the scene right now, and that is Huey Dallas. Dallas, do you read us?"

Then the scene changes to Mississippi, where a neatly combed blond haired man can be seen adjusting his dark gray suit until he looked straight into the camera.

(HUEY DALLAS): "That's right Hailey, the what was known as the poorest slum in Mississippi and was formerly under the iron fist of the SCYTHIAN CARTEL, and out of the blue, according to one of the residents here that at first part of the revolution, the SCYTHIAN members was putting up on a good fight and moments later, the surviving members of the SCYTHIAN's morale died down quickly when they all heard that they found their leader dead, and you can see behind me that the slum's residents are celebrating like it's early New Year's Eve over here."

Then the camera moves beside Huey as began to focus on what is happening behind his back and the viewers were greeted by the sight of many people partying due to their victory and one man manage to get up on a roof and wave his custom handmade American flag around to symbolize their successful rebellion, and then the camera looked into the sight of the SCYTHIAN CARTEL's main building as it has smoke coming out of the ground floor and smoke and fire belching out from the side, but Ed and the others knows that is the Interior Hangar.

(HUEY DALLAS): "And that's not only the news around here, the time the residents makes their way to the top floor, and there they found the body of the former cage fighting unbeatable champion Gilbar 'Black fist' Rogan, who was found dead due to a huge hole in his chest as if he was stabbed by a very sharp and hot blade of some kind, and now that the former champion is now declared dead, we can officially say that the residents of this here slum can start a new life and rest easy ahead."

Then Huey was suddenly pushed aside by a random resident, which he then look straight into the camera with a very happy face.

(SLUM RESIDENT): "THE BUILDING IS OURS B*TCH, THE BUILDING IS FINALLY OURS SUCKAS!"

Then the scene changes back to the newsroom with Haley, who right is trying not to laugh after what happened to her co-worker, after she suppressed the laughter, she then looks into the screen.

(NEWS PROGRAM): "Poor Dallas. Now before we head for further headlines cause coming up next is-"

But before it could go into commercials, Ed then closed off the TV for he had heard what he needed to hear right now after taking out Gilbar Rogan yesterday, and then he finish up his cereal before he washed the bowl in the kitchen completely cleaned off, and after all is set and done, he then makes his way into the basement.

ED: 'Residents gets all the credit, but atleast I made their unexpected revolution a little bit easier while I secretly take out Gilbar myself in the process.'

He thought about it as he walked down the stairs and he was rather a bit surprised that his presence is still not enough to earn himself a public image for now. So after he had opened up his PC monitor to check some certain messages, and it was empty as a jar of cookies...except there were no cookies in the first place, so he opened his SILENTBOX app and checked who is currently online, and surprisingly enough...J.A.C.K is online as usual.

So Ed began to bring up a conversation with his mysterious employer.

(ED):

So, please pray tell. How did I do on the news, J.A.C.K? You do saw the headline, did you?

(J.A.C.K):

Of course i saw it , Ed. So...The fight was a little bit challenging for you, isn't it?

(ED):

His punches hurts but here i am and I still made it in one piece...TA-DA!

(J.A.C.K):

Hey, take it easy there, kid. You still got a long way to go if you really want to reach the top of the chart before you get all cocky like your friend, Mr. Eddy.

(ED):

Alright, alright, i'm cool, completely cool. So what's next on the list, J.A.C.K?

(J.A.C.K):

Sadly, man. I currently don't have available opened missions for you right now...all but except for one side mission for you, if you are interested.

(ED):

Yeah, i could use a change of missions right now. Go ahead please.

(J.A.C.K):

Alright then just hold on a sec, cause I am sending the message that was sent to me this morning and it's hilarious for my taste, so that way I can send it to your monitor for you to see for yourself.

Then Ed heard the sound effect that meant that he has one new message right now, so he minimized the SILENTBOX and opened his inbox to see the one new message, which he then clicked it and it revealed to be a letter from someone.

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Dear Blue Vigilante the infamous,

If you are currently reading this, then you should know that I was really surprised by your sudden appearance, cause you see...how do i respectfully express my current issues to another assassin...well...you see those three criminals you have just eliminated...are in reality my main targets in order to accomplish my objectives.

I was the one who was going to eliminate them in the first place, and because of a simple imbecile like you have just appeared out of nowhere and completely destroyed my chance of gaining some reputation harshly, henceforth this just caused my superiors to lose all respects, expectations, and chances as they all decided to move on to my...certain relative, whom I despised so much!

So with all that anger now moving away and all that said after making this message.

In order to restore my honor and standing position within the association, heed my instructions.

You and me will duel on top of the Wayland Hotel roof, and you will meet me there at midnight. No accomplices, no police sneaking around, just the Blue Vigilante himself and me, and if you manage to refuse my proposal, then I will force you to fight me until I will resort by hunting down your friends and families one by one, and i will not go that far.

Remember, find me at the Wayland Hotel roof, exact midnight, and come alone.

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After reading the message that was sent by some anonymous user, this just made Ed slides down his chair as he exhaled an air of unluckiness due to the fact he might ruined someone's job and now he's about to face someone as skilled as him.

So he close the letter down and open up his SILENTBOX again.

(ED):

Ok...it looks i just ruined someone's job, huh?

(J.A.C.K):

Not really, Mr. Over-cautious. However if you by chance refuse to accept the user's demands, had do you expect that said user to hunt you down when he or she doesn't have a clue who the Blue vigilante is or who are his friends and families are in the first place?

(ED):

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(J.A.C.K.):

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(ED):

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(J.A.C.K.):

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(ED):

Ok, you got a good point right there. Now it looks like i can't be nervous on putting my relatives in danger.

(J.A.C.K):

See! Nothing to worry about. But I can see that you are ready to get some quick action, so why don't you go ahead if you want to.

(ED):

You know that's exactly what i will do next today; let me see what do this guy or girl by a chance wants in the first place, alright?

(J.A.C.K):

Alright see you when you come back alive, remember to SURVIVE WELL.

So Ed then closes his monitor and heads out of the basement, and when he close the door to his basement, he then heard a vibration inside his pant's pockets, so he took his iPhone out and he found a new message coming from Eddy, so he opened it up.

(EDDY):

Hey man, if you free right now, not that i am forcing you or anything. Come meet me at the Jazzy Café' at the 67th revenue street, I have something that I need to split with you ever since after me and you had to teach that pimp 'Big Money' a valuable lesson.

So after he quickly understands the message from Eddy, Ed then goes to the door leading to the garage, but before he could leave, he looked through his main door's doorhole to see if there is anyone outside that could get his attention while he's outside his house, but he didn't worry much as he found no one is outside yet.

Then he looks at his pair of flip-flops and realized that he is gonna need better footwear if he's going outside, so he dashed to his bedroom quickly and removes his flip-flops and replaced them with a pair of black and green steel-toed boots just to be secured.

So with quick haste, he went to his garage and was now about to choose between his purple van...or...his looted motorcycle, and after looking and pointing at the two vehicles, he then chosen to roll with the purple van for now.

Why?

ED: 'I'm gonna need a helmet and a license to drive one in public, besides it was a one time gig but its different when it comes to laying low.'

That's why.

So he then gets in, starts the engine, and drove out of his garage after he closed it, and then he makes his way into the town of Woodcreak in order to find the mentioned address to meet up with Eddy.

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As he makes his way through the busy streets, he then saw a group of protesters complaining something about the SDPD themselves that needs to be disciplined and taken control of due to their current controversial methods of maintaining order, due to them expanding their divisions and hunting down rogue assassins and official assassins and especially dangerous criminal organization, and especially reports about them pushing aside safety laws and some involves hurting nearby civilians, just to kill their targets.

As mush as he wants to support their goals a little bit, but right now Ed doesn't want to get involve yet for the sake of his identity and reputation as Baron Killer, so without any events going on ahead, he then drove his way to the Jazzy café.

After parking the van into a sidewalk, he then saw the coffee bar in front of him and it seems bustling with customers, that is until he saw Eddy waving at him and signal him to come over.

So he look left and right to avoid incoming cars before he went straight to the café, and by the moment he went inside, the aroma of coffee and sweets filled his nose.

The entire interior of the cafe itself has the design of a 1950's feel, it has the checkered red and white tile floors, wallpapers which are all themed in stripes, comfortable chair stools by the serving counter, and of course the sounds of fresh pancakes being made in the kitchen.

ED: 'Now this place knows how to get someone's attention, by the sweet smell of roasted melted coffee beans, cheesecakes, and...GRAVY COATED RIBS!'

True to what he just saw, he basically saw a delicious looking displayed gravy coated ribs inside in one of the heater stands, but he could even try to get one right now thanks to his instinctively hungry stomach, he was then suddenly interrupted by a well-known associate shouting to the sides of his ears.

EDDY: "Hey Ed! I'm right over here, dummy!"

Just by hearing Eddy, he turned to the left and saw him seating at a sofa with a big coffee table in front of him, and this time his outfit is rather different today, because this time he is wearing a yellow T-shirt with a black vest over it, and he is still wearing his purple pants and he is now wearing black and white shoes, and he is holding a cup of cappuccino in his left hand.

EDDY: "Don't even think of getting one now, Ed. Cause' I get two before you got here; now sit so we can both atleast chill out for one day after all the insanity i have to see when i am with you."

So Ed sat besides Eddy, and when he saw the plate of the gravy coated ribs on their table, he immediately picked up the fork and began to gobble it like no tomorrow while Eddy casually sips on his cappuccino as he brought a rather fat envelope out of his vest and dropped it onto Ed's lap.

EDDY: "See that envelope? Guess what, someone actually bought two of our prized possessions; you know...the two things that were owned by... (Looks around to see if someone is listening to them) the bad people before you...took care of them."

ED: "I know what you mean, Eddy. So how much did we gain from it? I mean who's someone that eager to buy two at once?"

EDDY: "It's Quite a lot, but when I saw you in action while getting covered in 'red paint', I couldn't even think of leaving you rather empty handed...so go ahead, check it out."

So Ed stopped eating for a second and open the fat envelope up to reveal atleast 150,000$ inside of it, and this caused him to go bug-eyed just by looking at the load of cash that he quickly hide it between their seats and looked around to see if anyone else saw that amount of money that he is holding on, but gladly no one is looking at their direction.

Then he turned to Eddy with a surprised expression after looking at his reward.

ED: "A hundred Fifty grand? Good god, someone really bought those things for a hundred fifty grand."

EDDY: "Actually its originally 300,000$ when i first got the check. So I split it up for the two of us to get fair shares, I mean those things have some fearsome reputation to get that kind of price."

ED: "Well, this is enough for me to get some few things like me getting a bike license or getting that new washing machine that i saw at the mall, so what about you?"

EDDY: "With all these amount, I think I could get myself a...let's see...what is worth living in...oh I know, my own lodge!"

ED: "That's kinda a cool way to spend that much money. Though it could have been something more big than a lodge...what about a mansion?"

EDDY: "You have no...wait, yeah i could plan myself to get a damn mansion, man. It's about time I move out of the flat and get myself a damn mansion with my own plot of land like a true 100% rich boy, and then we shall see who's a try hard now."

After all that is said before venturing out, Eddy drank his cup of cappuccino until it is empty while Ed finish off his gravy coated ribs, and then Ed puts the envelope into his pockets without anyone spotting them in action.

And after Eddy is done paying for the food, both of them went outside the café and then proceeds towards the purple van.

EDDY: "So, do we have any favors or objectives to finish something from J.A.C.K, Ed?"

ED: "Nope."

EDDY: "Nope? You mean there is no available shit to do for today? Wow, this is a first for us."

ED: "I know right. Well, except for one, and its a side mission."

EDDY: "Oh great, a side mission...as long as it involves cash on our hand, so what is it about?"

ED: "Its a threat letter sent for me, and apparently someone hates my guts after my time being Baron Killer. So, he or she wants to duel me on top of the Wayland Hotel roof at midnight for a decisive duel."

EDDY: "A duel? Well, isn't that a first. So what did you say next?"

ED: "Simple. I accept his or her proposal, so bring it."

EDDY: "Heh, I knew you're not gonna let a fight go undecided...wait, that kinda reminds me, do you remember the other day when I said that double-d went out to see someone named Kuroko."

ED: "Yeah, what's up with that?"

EDDY: "Apparently it's a she, and so she...and double-d...wants to meet Baron Killer, the real deal if possible, so you in?"

ED: "Hmm, we still got time before midnight. So where do they want to meet me?"

EDDY: "Around a place called the Vector Mechanics Center, and its a good thing that it is not far from here though."

ED: "Then let's hop in and get straight to it."

So Both of them got in the purple van and made their into the corners of the town of Woodcreak, and after many twists and turns at afternoon while at the same time flipping angry drivers off by the courtesy of Eddy's attitude just to find one place, then sooner or later they have found the place that they were looking for.

They saw a two story building that looks like a shaggy yet sleek garage with two garage doors, complete with a neon sign that clearly says VECTOR MECHANICS CENTER and some of the lights just flicker every ten seconds, so Ed parked into one of the building's alleys and switch onto his assassin's outfit until he becomes Baron Killer again, then after closing up the van and proceeded their way to the building, they both stopped at the main entrance.

EDDY: "Ok man, so...how are we gonna do this, we walk in casually or is it going to be you making an entrance again?"

BARON KILLER: "Hmm...how about this? You walk in and distract for a moment while I will think of a way to improvise my entrance."

EDDY: "Again with you making a bullshit entrance? Fine alright, atleast make it a bit surprising."

BARON KILLER: "Sorry, can't promise that if i can't pull this off."

EDDY: "Just do what you do, alright."

Then Baron/Ed went running off to the side of the building and climbs into somewhere accessible, Eddy meanwhile adjusted his black vest straightly before enters through the front door with straight composure with a hint of smug.

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(VECTOR MECHANICS CENTER, INSIDE)

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As Eddy went inside the center, he was immediately impressed by what he sees inside.

Because the inside of this Center was filled to the brim with unfinished metal works, recently fixed automobiles and other cars that needed some fixing, small car engines hanging from the ceiling with their chains or cranes, the gray floor are littered with either papers, oil slicks or metal scrap parts, and the tables were filled with lots of metal contraption junks that were somehow combined and mixed with functional spare electronics.

So above all else, the entire looks like a messy combination of either a garage or an engineer's workshop.

Then as he was walking and admiring the metal works around him, he then saw two people, one man and one woman, who were both looking over something at one of the tables and also both were murmuring about something, but at this spot he's on he can't hear them from this distance.

EDDY: (Whistled to get their attention) "HEY, YOU TWO LOOKING FOR ME?!"

This sudden outburst out of nowhere that came from Eddy really does caught the two's attention as they stop what they were doing and turned around to see Eddy flashing a smile at them.

The man besides the woman has a fair Caucasian skin complexion, currently seems to be wearing a black beanie hat over his head but has strokes of black hair that can be seen poking from the back of his hat, on top he wears a white baggy long-sleeved shirt with a red wrist cuffs, black slacks with knee paddings and black steel toed shoes, and it was none other than Eddward Newton or Edd...or also known Double-D among his closest peers, used to be the former brains of the Eds and is now an achieving scientist and engineer for public services...with no luck at all.

While the woman besides Eddward has a brighter skin tone than Edd, she has short messy blonde hair, green eyes and black mascara underneath her eyes, sleeveless light pink shirt that has been attached with multiple tool bags, wears a pair of mechanic's gloves, dark green cargo pants, and white and red shoes, she also wears a necklace with a peace symbol, she was Kuroko Vector, owner of the Vector Center, cute but a little bit harsh.

EDDY: "You know for a guy who has been obsessed about cleaning for the past years. I didn't think you would actually throw that habit away in order to work in this dump."

EDDWARD: "EDDY, my dear man in arms! Its good to see you around again! How's life?"

EDDY: "Fly and fresh as always, Double-D. Now come here, and show me some love, my brother!"

As Edd got closer to Eddy, then they perform some well-synchronized handshakes, high-fives, low-fives, and then finished it all off with a hard brofist, then Eddy hugged him and patted his back, and meanwhile at the back, Kuroko however was not having a good first impression after seeing Eddward's close friend.

KUROKO: "I hate to interrupt your moment. So are you both done with your Bromance moment now, boys?"

This causes the two men to break off their reunion hug quicker than an eye can see, and after realizing that Kuroko was watching the whole ordeal, Eddward fixes his composure for a proper introduction and Eddy pulls out a pocket comb to fix up his hair real quick and slick.

EDDWARD: "Oh Eddy i forgot to introduce to you my partner. This is Kuroko Lindy Vector, she's the woman who I work for as an engineering assistant."

EDDY: "Well, nice to meet you. Never noticed your partner has a Doll face. Damn, did anyone ever tell you that you have a close resemblance to a barbie doll, baby?"

All three of them were silent after hearing his line, save for someone accidentally tripping over a garbage can outside the building but it might be just a hobo looking for scraps or a stray cat fucking around, thus making Eddward shed a sweat from his forehead after hearing him say that line.

Eddy was waiting for some sort of comeback, while Kuroko crossed her arms and looked at him with a stern expression taped on her face.

What Eddy didn't know is that Kuroko has a tendency to push off other guys when she already has someone in her love life.

Which means that after she ease off her pose and walked up straight to Eddy, she suddenly immediately out of nowhere kicked him in the-

EDDY: "OW F-F-FUCK! SHIT! NOT MY BALLS OF PRIVACY! WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE MY DAMN BALLS! JESUS! MY BALLS, MAN! MY dear treasure Balls..."

After he felt that one very dearly in a hard way, he fell to the floor as he try to ease the pain by covering it with his two hands, and this moment caused Edd to be shock and surprised, while Kuroko dust off her shoes after she performed it.

KUROKO: "Sorry Eddy, but I already have a fiancee and i am not going to break the promise, so you can forget about calling me up with a dumb one-liner and a nickname. Also me resembling a barbie doll, hell no."

EDDWARD: "Ma'am! Was that really necessary?! Eddy, are you alright?! I'll grab some ice bags, just keep rubbing it off!"

KUROKO: "Trust me Eddward, once you have a strong bond with your desired love one, it is either up to you or your lover to make that bond strong as a titanium until the end."

EDDWARD: "Miss Kuroko, i appreciate your relationship advice. NOT IF IT INVOLVES KICKING SOMEONE STRAIGHT INTO THEIR PELVIS! Its just too uncivilized and unnecessary!"

EDDY: "Help...Jesus lord...help...its like a waterfall inside."

So Eddward helps Eddy back to his feet after he grabbed a bag of cold ice at the Center's freezer box, which Eddy took it with grant and placed it on his crotch thus feeling relief at maximum, and then both men went over to Kuroko with Eddy having an angry yet slightly scared expression.

EDDY: "So...besides cracking up my egg rolls, which i must say you have quite a good kick...you two said that you wanted to meet up with the Blue Killer."

KUROKO: "Indeed we do, Eddy."

EDDY: "Seriously though...i am starting to hate you right now."

KUROKO: "You're welcome, but don't worry about me, cause' you'll get over it. Trust me."

Eddy was about to bad-mouth Kuroko, but still feeling the agonizing physical trauma within his testicles, he should keep it for himself if he doesn't want pair of eggs to be completely cracked apart.

EDDWARD: "Quite so, Miss Kuroko here was just browsing the web until she visited the main website of the United Assassins Association, there we both found out that Baron Killer made it on the list in the top 10 mysterious assassins, whom he made it by still being in 10th place. So since you, Eddy, are the one who actually knows him or gotten close to him personally, we both would like to know more about him."

KUROKO: "I would really love to meet him up close right now, but is he here for real? Just to be sure, you know."

EDDY: "Well...about the Baron...let's just say he's right now right about-"

*LIGHTS WENT OUT*

Suddenly the entire center's lights went out in an instant, causing all three to look around in confusion. Then they heard a sound of a bag filled with ice cubes fell on the floor with 'SLOSH' sound, and this made Kuroko grabbed a nearby long wrench on a workstation as a means of self defense.

EDDWARD: "DEAR LORD, A BLACKOUT!?"

EDDY: "Dude, you didn't have to shout you know."

KUROKO: "Damn it, I knew something is wrong with the Electrical generator. This is what we get for overlooking simple things."

EDDY: "Shit. I think I dropped the ice bag. (Tripped over something metallic) Damn! If only we have a flashlight around here."

EDDWARD: "Well, it is a good thing we have another back-up generator in situations like this. So please excuse me while I try to find that accursed flashlight of ours."

While it is still dark, Eddy could hear Eddward accidentally pushing some things off their tables and causing them to land on the ground with resulting loud noises, and soon enough, Eddy then saw a bright white light shining straight against his eyes which caused him to shield his eyes against a glimmering light.

EDDY: "HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU POINT THE LIGHT!"

EDDWARD: "Forgive me Eddy, this won't take a minute. So do you mind if both of you stay where you are while I go turn the back-up generator on, please."

KUROKO: "Wow. Since when did you act as a Babysitter all of a sudden?"

What Kuroko didn't know is that the moment she said 'Babysitter', Eddy then gain an embarrassing flashback about the time he thought the girl he's about to date tonight is right at his front door, but it was Nazz who was going to babysit him like he was a little kid.

It's a good thing that was the past but not today since he had finally moves besides that embarrassing past...almost a bit.

As Eddward points his Flashlight to a door and entered it for to go to the basements, Eddy swore he heard a window suddenly opened and then it was closed quickly, and finally when Eddward turned the generator back on, the entire place were now shined back with its bright ceiling lights.

*LIGHTS WENT BACK ON*

And just as Eddward was coming back upstairs, Eddy decided to talk to Kuroko in a rather casual way in other to avoid getting any further troubles with this questionable hooked up woman.

EDDY: "So, Miss Kuroko...what's the history with this place of yours? Cause' knowing my fair share of getting into places that i shouldn't be in the first place, its good to know a thing or two about what place have i gotten myself into."

KUROKO: "Hmm, where do I even start about my place? Oh, I know where~. You see my active dad was kinda a technological freak a bit too much, and he is also mechanic brainiac type of guy too. So when he opened this garage up, my mother and I move in with him and it's there my dad taught me everything he knows about building useful shits and the same type of shits that can help you or do some damage, and after the day my dad passed away years ago, it was just me and mom that were left to handle this place by ourselves."

EDDY: "Damn, your parents are something else. Yet i can't almost say the same thing about my folks either."

KUROKO: "Hey, if you a genius dad that graduated from one of the finest colleges around for tech-brains like him, while my mother used to work for a really smart woman named Naomi, the same woman who have been rumored to supply the 'Crownless King' years ago with the necessary equipments and weapons when he was aiming for the top spot two times already. Although she was never heard from ever again up till today."

BARON KILLER: "So, where did your mom go now?"

Just by hearing the Blue Killer's voice, Eddy and Kuroko suddenly both jumped away from the source and turned their heads at him and both were shocked, where he is just leaning against a black and red car while he is holding his short sword's handle as it is attached to his waist.

Plus, he had a ripe expired banana skin resting on top of his head, thus explaining the sound of trash cans accidentally being pushed or tripped over earlier outside the building.

KUROKO: "SHIT MAN, WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?!"

BARON KILLER: "Just out of the blue...get it?"

Sadly, nobody laughed at his little joke since he just made it up just now when he just appeared in front of them.

EDDY: "Damn it, man! Is this your idea of an entrance, Baron? Shutting off the lights and appearing like a generic psycho killer in a cheap B-rated movie!"

BARON KILLER: "I kinda have many choices on how to get in, but out of all those choices. I picked this way. Even though the alleyway was a bit crowded for me, but hey, i met a kitty cat and he was not friendly!"

KUROKO: "Hold on a second. Eddy just called you Baron? As in you are the infamous and mysterious Baron Killer? You are the lone assassin who just took out two notorious gangs by himself!?"

BARON KILLER: "Well actually Eddy and a few others helped me take down the entire SCYTHIAN CARTEL, while me myself actually took down the entire Hocus-Pocus gang myself. They were easy to take out that i could just let them go, but i can't risk them gaining more power and grounds."

KUROKO: "Oh my god, it's you. Oh my god...ohmygod, ohmygod, ohmygod, it really is you! This has to be my best introduction to a real assassin that is right in front of me for the first time!"

BARON KILLER: "Your first time? So you haven't met any real assassins at all?"

KUROKO: "None at all when i look back. I have always wanted to meet up with an assassin, any real ones at all! Just once until I met the guy who actually made it in the top 10 list of the most mysterious assassins on their website!"

BARON KILLER: "Hold up! You said I made it in a top 10 list of being mysterious...really? You are not joking, are you?"

KUROKO: "Oh, you don't believe me. Just look at it for yourself, just look at it and you'll believe me!"

So Kuroko ran up to the computer, like a happy little kid who got its first Christmas present or visiting a candy for the first time, as she browse the web until she found the main website of the U.A.A and opened up one of their lists, then she gestured both Eddy and Baron Killer over to her to take a look at the screen in front of them.

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TOP 10 CURRENT MYSTERIOUS ASSASSINS IN PUBLIC

10.) Baron Killer

-Unknown vigilante that killed the entire Hocus-Pocus Gang, the Scythian Cartels, and the Stallion Gang. Locations seems to be random at sorts.

9.) Francis the hooker

- Known to be a ladies man, he has the skills of hooking his target close to him and eliminating him or her in the process, his location is somewhere in the darkest streets of Santa Destroy.

8.) Yashiro the Silver Bear

- Reported to be the last of his clan's members, notorious for wearing a mechanized silver armor with the insignia of his clan, his location is jumping all around Asia.

7.) Johnny quad shots

- A total gun addict, reported to have owned a massive arsenal of weaponry that varies from short to long range capability, he especially own some illegal weapons from the black market, his location is unknown.

6.) Thomas 'Shadowhide' Maverick

- Described as an American ninja, he hides at night and uses the shadows to hide his presence; location is last seen in New York.

5.) Hakim the golden teller

- An Indian-originated assassin who have rumored to see into his own future, disappeared from the association years ago until he was last seen again in India.

4.) Desperado Longshot

- Russia originated, former K.G.B agent, records have spoken of his deadly long range accuracy; last known location is in the scorching desert of Mexico.

3.) Lady Funk

- Rumored to be the apprentice of the 'crownless king', teenage origins, reported to be African-American and highly skilled with her beam powered 'soul' katana, last known location is somewhere in the United States of America.

2.) Fahrend the wandering mercenary

- A highly dangerous German outworker, he just kill any types of hostile groups and then takes everything from them, rumored that he believes that he came from another parallel dimension, its location is last seen in England.

1.) Nether the itinerant walking nightmare

- An unknown candidate, no signs of reports and eye witnesses even though it is on duty, its location is unknown completely.

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Just by looking at the list, Eddy then lightly slap Baron on his shoulder due to his accomplishment in a friendly manner, even though it's not an important thing while Baron himself is smiling underneath his mask.

EDDY: "Well I'll be damn Baron, it looks like you're gonna make some reputation out of your line of work. You are doing a fine good job, i can tell."

BARON KILLER: "Oh stop it you. Even though i do most of the work, you help out a lot from time to time."

EDDY: "Hey, you are not wrong there. Without me, we would have ran out of that sweet moolahs."

Then they heard some footsteps coming down from the basement door, but all three knew who it was as Eddward came out of the door, and but before he could say anything else, he then saw the Blue Killer with his own eyes.

KUROKO: "Hey, Eddward. We got a new guest and you will never guess who is-"

EDDWARD: "Y-y-y-you're Baron Killer?!"

BARON KILLER: "That's right. The one and only."

EDDWARD: "Oh Joy, I knew you're gonna come for a visit after hearing all about your line of work!"

Then Eddward puts his flashlight on a table and walked up to the Blue Killer just to shook his gloved hand, thus making Baron Killer smile like a buffoon underneath, and then Kuroko pushed the brains of the trio aside since she had enough of these moments already.

KUROKO: "Alright Eddward break it up, you can can all be joyous when we are done here." (Looks at Baron Killer) "Do you wanna know the reason why we want to meet up with you eye to eye, Mr. Baron?"

BARON KILLER: "Besides having to dress up just to have a dramatic entrance for you two. Sure."

KUROKO: "It is about the weapon you are using and the outfit you are wearing right now. So according to the description of your profile, the weapon you are wielding is considered the new product rival of the Beam Katana series while your entire dress itself seems to be theorized that its composed of something very durable and yet light enough to let you move around like a modern ninja, so to confirm that theory, is that all true?"

EDDY: "Is that the reason why you want this 'guy' here, the same 'guy' right here that is capable of wiping out an entire gang! All just because you two wanted to study his stuff?"

EDDWARD: "Not only to study his sets of equipments, we were thinking if we could help...enhancing the entire mechanics and efficiently to make him gain more appreciation...and survive longer, important that is."

EDDY: "Well Baron, you don't mind if these two would tinker around with your stuff, would you?"

BARON KILLER: "Hey sure you can! I mean i could use some upgrades knowing my situation right now, but please be careful with the Tongue's blade, they are way more sharper and hotter than you think."

KUROKO: "Wait, what is the name of your Beam weapon?"

BARON KILLER: "It was called the Diablos Tongue, because its Beam mode was hot as hell when it sliced through human skin, and it also so hot that it can cut through some metals if not too careful."

So Baron unclipped the sword off his waist and gave it to Kuroko and Edd, which they then get to be impressed by the schematics of the entire short sword's exterior.

EDDWARD: "Where is the Beam mode you mentioned?"

BARON KILLER: "Point it up, cause' the entire thing is dangerous when it hits your skin."

So Kuroko holds the short sword until it is pointing up in the ceiling, then Baron pressed the button on the sword's handle, which caused the top part of the sword to slide down and split apart to let out its signature long blue beam of scorching plasma energy, which made the both engineers to get panic-stricken by the sword's Beam energy.

KUROKO: "Okay...alright...i will admit, this beam is fucking hot as hell; I mean...I could feel the fucking heat just from this distance."

EDDWARD: "How amazing! Not only the exterior design seems to look simple, but the entire Beam energy contraption within is cleverly combined with it, what great ingenuity."

KUROKO: "Alright tell me Mr. Baron, what else this sweet blade of yours could do besides being activated?"

BARON KILLER: "Then please kindly give it to me. Also do you have anything I could test on something within your workshop, cause' this next skill I learned involves taking out something really far from me, which is basically my long range skill."

KUROKO: "Oh, you want to destroy something? Ok, then try it over to that shitty metal sculpture of mine over there; it wasn't my best piece anyway, so please go ahead."

So Baron grabs his Beam sword out of the young female mechanic's gloved hands before he spotted a certain ugly looking metal humanoid(?) sculpture thing in the corner of the workshop.

BARON KILLER: "Also, do you mind stepping back away from me a little bit, because this will require a bit of focus and concentration."

Then he swings his beam sword behind his back and waited for it to be pulsated with dark blue energy, and when he focused at the sculpture's body, he then swung it forward and launched a dark blue energy ring towards it, slicing the entire sculpture diagonally as it fell apart before he then switched it back to its short sword mode.

KUROKO: "That…was…bitching!"

EDDWARD: "My words how did you do that?"

BARON KILLER: "Uhm...as far as i can remember accordingly to the creator of this blade, the handle absorbs the electrical currents inside my body and passing it through the handle and converting it into an energy Beam until it is colored dark blue, and that means I can shoot out my 'Beam Saucers' when I focus enough...hey, what do you know? I just gave my long range attack a brand new nickname."

EDDWARD: "By jolly, that has got to be the strangest part I heard about a Beam weapon! Even for a Beam sword, that is quite absurd."

EDDY: "That's...kinda what I said when he explained it after he shows it to me. Still seems to boggle my head on how the hell it works."

KUROKO: "Wait, now that I think about it. I think I can give your Diablos a new mode, so it should take about 10 minutes to complete. Just need figure the schematics on the way."

EDDWARD: "Of course, just by looking at your short sword's mode, I think me and her could make it less suspicious when you carry it around. It's our specialty."

BARON KILLER: "Alright, that sounds good enough to hear for me!"

EDDY: "Hold on, hold on a minute, hold on a damn second! What's the catch after this? You are not scamming us for this, are ya?"

KUROKO: "Of course not, Mr. Dipshit. Since he is on the top list, I could give this mode on the house, no joke. But here's the exception! The next time we meet again, the next one is gonna cost some cash, lots of them, plus some discount from me. I mean come on, this place needs some fresh dollars to keep it running it up."

EDDWARD: "With all that said asides. Do we have an agreement, Eddy?"

EDDY: "Hell, you know me, Double-D! It's a deal, and it better not cost a lot."

KUROKO: "No promises kept intact."

EDDY: "You saying something?"

KUROKO: "Just bring in the cash next time, alright."

BARON KILLER: "I'll take it, but please finish it as soon as possible if you can. The person who waits for my company is not going to wait any longer."

KUROKO: "Oh, so you got a date with someone lucky?"

BARON KILLER: "Someone who might possibly wants to cut my head off, then yes he or she is lucky to meet me."

EDDWARD: "Good lord, tough job isn't it?"

EDDY: "Relax Double-D, knowing Baron here, there's nothing he can handle and that is 100% guaranteed."

BARON KILLER: "More like 75%..."

Then Baron gave Kuroko the Diablos Tongue, which she then began to work on it with every tool at her table at the ready, and Eddward is checking over the computer to analyze Baron's Beam sword, and this goes on for 10 whole minutes while both Eddy and Baron were both chilling out in the workshop to pass the time.

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(1 HOUR LATER, WAYLAND HOTEL, =UNDER CONSTRUCTION=)

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After saying their quick goodbyes to the duo of gear monkeys and leaving the center, they both then drove their way into another part of Woodcreak until they reach a silent community area that has no signs of cars and people going on about their businesses.

The purple van then stops at their destination; it was a 15-feet story tall incomplete building that says WAYLAND HOTEL at the front; it is also complete with construction vehicles from every side and building materials, especially the strange part that nobody is around to patrol the construction site as if it was left abandoned at first sight.

After Baron finished adjusting his mask and his hood, he opened the passenger's door and steps out the van before he takes a good look at the tall incomplete building in front of him together with the nightly starry skies and the clear full moon, making the quiet place seems beautiful to look at besides than being dead silent.

BARON KILLER: "Are you okay with you staying here and watching over the van, Eddy?"

EDDY: "...You know what, how about I join on the inside of this building? I mean who knows what I could find to past the time?"

BARON KILLER: "Alright then, strange as that sounds like, you can come...but please just leave the fighting to me."

So Eddy turned the alarm on in the van in case of someone dumb enough to steal their ride home before he joined the Blue Killer ahead, but as they are about to enter the hotel, they were both greeted with a locked gate.

EDDY: "Of course...there's gotta be someone smart enough to lock the entire place...will you do the honors, Ed?"

The one new thing that was added to Baron Killer's outfit is the brand new brown sheath behind his waist, it holds his Diablos tongue in its brand new dagger mode, so he took it out and pressed a hidden button on the side of the handle as it turned into a short sword, which he then used to strike the pad lock apart hard enough, and thus opening the gate for them.

EDDY: "Something tells me your dagger mode is just the tip of the iceberg; let us hope those two brainiacs could think of something more for that blade of yours, cause' i can't wait what they have in store for us."

BARON KILLER: "I really kinda like it; it makes it even easier for espionage missions."

Now they made their way inside the building, and when they are now inside of the building's interior, both of them spotted two elevators, one is fully functional and the other is under construction, even though the stairs on both sides of the hallway seems complete.

BARON KILLER: "Going up?"

EDDY: "Go ahead; I'll check the building out."

So Baron enters the working elevator and pressed the roof maintenance button and proceeds to go up the building, leaving Eddy alone at the ground floor.

EDDY: 'Alright then, let's see if there anything good in this hotel while he is kicking someone's ass.'

As Eddy goes up the stairs, he then brings out his pair of gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints behind while he now starts to loot around the construction site, hoping to find something valuable.

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(ELEVATOR GOING TO THE ROOFTOP)

(RANDOM ELEVATOR MUSIC STARTS)

As the elevator that Baron is riding on right now is making its way up to the rooftops, Baron pass the time as he was leaning against the metallic wall while his right hand is inside within his light grey pant's pocket to ease the pressure ahead while the other one is carefully holding onto his sword which is in its dagger mode and was casually flipping it around to kill the boredom.

BARON KILLER: 'Gotta admit, those two made a great job adding a new mode for my blade, and with their added help, it could make me stand on top of the chart's list much more faster.'

Then he puts the dagger back into its brand new sheath and waits patiently just to reach his destination, and then just as about he was about to ready himself.

Suddenly, the picture of his hometown flashed through his mind as he was wandering to his own thoughts, the peaceful small suburbia and the nostalgic iconic dead end street of Peach Creek.

BARON KILLER: 'I wonder how the others are doing back home; I hope Sarah is doing well in collage right now with Jimmy helping her on along the way. Now that i think about, hope Rolf's farm market grew big enough soon...miss those chickens of his.'

Soon after his reminiscence of his old hometown, the leaning against the wall then transitioned to him now sitting on the floor, and then he was laying down on the ground while checking out the Diablos Tongue in its brand new dagger mode, until...

*DING*

BARON KILLER: "It's time to rock and roll, Killer...showtime."

Shoulders cracked wide, check. Head stretches, check. Arm stretches, check. Torso twisting, check. Slapping himself to stay awake a few times, check.

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(WAYLAND HOTEL, ROOFTOP)

When the elevator doors slides wide open, Baron then walked out and then began to inspect his surroundings from left to right.

The roof was pretty big and it was wide enough to allow open spaces in order to run everywhere, another thing he notices are the four columns of concrete thick poles in all four corners of the rooftop.

When he then looked up, he saw two interconnected cable wires that are attached to all four columns thus forming a X-shape above him and four more cable wires that are attached to the four poles, but in a square like formation.

But that is not all, because one thing caught his eyes and that is in front of him, it was a lone figure standing on the edge of the roof with its back facing Baron Killer.

The figure has elbow-length red hair that is being gracefully blown away by the winds like dancing flowers, it's wearing a dark reddish and gray patterned bodysuit with silver knee-length leggings, and another thing that strikes out most is the big strange piece of equipment behind its back.

From what Baron could best describe on what he is seeing, it is some kind of a white contraption that has two sets of rolled carbon wires attached by the shoulders and it has two hook like spears that were both pointing up, then it has a small turbine steam engine pointing downwards to probably propel upwards, and also the fact that the figure is holding two glowing green Beam katanas on both hands, and then he saw that one of the figure's arms has an attached gauntlet that shoots out shurikens, due to the tube full of shurikens being exposed.

So Baron took out his Diablos Tongue and turned it into its short sword mode as he walks towards the challenger with caution.

BARON KILLER: "For a location, you did pick a really pretty spot to meet up. You're the one who wants to challenge me, right?"

Then the red haired figure turned its head around slowly to reveal a face of a young woman in her early 20's, pale complexion, sharp lustrous yellow eyes, except her nose and mouth is covered by a silver mask that is connected to her dark red bodysuit.

THE CHALLENGER: "So...you are the one? The mysterious Blue Vigilante, am i right? You better not be an impostor just to waste my time."

BARON KILLER: "Wow, i can't believe my reputation really spreads quickly...then yes I am the one you are looking for. Not just a guy with a questionable attire, but a guy with the skills to kill...no pun intended."

THE CHALLENGER: (She sighs) "Baron, Baron, Baron...you have no idea how much you hurt me dearly, do you? Those...three people...were my main targets to help me advance through the list and finally beat my sister to it...allow me to re-cap those people. Glorious Stallion, Antonio Sandfield, and Gilbar Rogan, those three...yes, those three! You just have to appear out of nowhere and ruin it all for me."

BARON KILLER: "...Wait, what? Those three? You were meant to take out those three? By the time i encountered, they were already marked to death!"

THE CHALLENGER: "It's such a pity then. Now here I am...about to prove myself to the association itself that I can still be worthy enough to move up the ranking list..."

Then the woman does a backward jump flip and lands back on the roof, then she began to walk towards Baron Killer with her eyes still close and her red hair is still flowing with the wind as it was breezing gently, and when Baron saw her standing at a fair distance away from him, she then open her eyes to reveal her sharp yellow eyes, staring sharply at the Blue Killer.

THE CHALLENGER: "I would prove it...to all their fucking expressionless faces that I, Valencia Mary Luftwaffe, will take the Blue Vigilante himself down and regain my position, status, and potentials! Then now my sister can show some little bit of respect for where i stand!"

BARON KILLER: "Ok, please listen to me Miss Valencia. I...am sorry that I had to take those three people down, but can't you see that there are far more people that are much, much worse than those three crooks!"

VALENCIA: "...I know that...but didn't you know...killing another assassin or making them yield can boost your recognition up than taking down those mischief makers...so if I were you Blue Vigilante...the fight for supremacy has begun."

BARON KILLER: "You know what..No, you know what...this isn't worth shedding some violence over someone who gets salty, so therefore this duel is a waste of my time, so it was nice to meet you but see ya."

As Baron quickly turns around and began heading back to the elevator, and this just made Valencia crossed her brows as she watched her only chance to regain her standing ovation back into the association, who just casually walks back to the elevator which he came out from.

VALENCIA: "Oh come on...you...You dare TURN YOUR BACK ON ME, YOU...YOU...YOU COWARD! Unbelievable!"

BARON KILLER: "Uh-uh, i am not listening to you, random crazy red haired lady. I am out of here, alright. I'm out!"

Just as Baron is about to enter the elevator, the instincts within him suddenly had sparked in his mind as he swings his short sword around when he turned around and saw three red-tipped shurikens coming at him, which he easily blocks all three incoming projectiles away from him, and then he saw Valencia pointing her gauntlet covered left arm at him as the slim horizontal holes, where the shooting stars came out from, was letting out a trail of smokes.

Then she let her left arm down and raised her own right arm in order to point her green Beam katana at him with pure honest angry eyes.

VALENCIA: "YOU RUINED MY CAREER, YOU ROGUE FICKFRESSE SCHWEINHUND! This time…I won't fail to show my full potential. This time i won't hesitate to sharpen my talents after i am done skinning you alive."

BARON KILLER: "You know what lady, but first! Please no skinning anyone alive tonight! Second, if it is a fight you want...then it is a fight you...will get. So i am warning you though, this will involve me not holding back just because i don't want to be skinned alive..."

VALENCIA: "Then that makes this duel more sweeter. Now...let us both see which of the two assassins here will walk out of this hotel alive."

BARON KILLER: "...Then I, Baron Killer, will harshly accept your duel, Madam Valencia. If any one of dies here, then i am going to feel sorry for you and for myself."

VALENCIA: "Well then, Baron Killer." (Looks up into the skies)"It is a beautiful night up here, too bad the entire rooftops is going to be painted with your blood or mine...BRING IT!"

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(INSIDE THE WAYLAND HOTEL, 2nd FLOOR)

Eddy has no idea where this group of angry Hobos even came from!

Just a few moments ago he was just casually checking out every rooms and all he could find is an empty room, except some has building equipments and unused construction materials, and then out of the blue he was suddenly surrounded by a bunch literal angry Hobos who just jumps from out of nowhere and they all began to beat him to death!

So as of right now, Eddy and the group of literal angry Hobos were all duking out within the hallways of the 2nd floor.

Eddy's face was really filled with bruises from the Hobo group's savage punches, while some of the Hobos were already spitting blood out of their mouths as they began to circle around poor Eddy in order to get a huge jump on him.

EDDY: "Son of a little...ALRIGHT EVERYONE; WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT YOU ALL BEATING MY FACE UP! Don't tell me you bunch of Hobos live in this dump!"

HOBO LEADER: "Buddy, ya just came in the worst time of yer life! Once we are done beating you up, we are gonna have roasted taco rats all night long right after we ransack your wallet and clothes, mister!"

EDDY: "Uh-uh, nobody messes with this Eddy except the ladies! Now put em all up, you psychopaths!"

Then Eddy charged at the leading Hobo with all his strength, but the leading Hobo does the same and both of them were locked by their own arms, then Eddy drags both of them into the room besides them, crashing through the locked door and landing harshly onto the floor of a somewhat finished bedroom, then the leading Hobo lifts Eddy up and threw him against an empty closet and crashed through the inside.

Then Eddy looks up and sees a group of empty clothes hangers, so he grabs one before he pulled himself out of the closet, then he raised the hanger he got against the leading Hobo's neck that causes both of them to land back on the floor, but the man is struggling to push the hanger back until he use his foot to push Eddy off and landed into a door-less bathroom, then the man realize that he is still holding the hanger, and so he threw it away but all of a sudden...

EDDY: "YOU HOMELESS BUFFALO, BITCH!"

The enraged Eddy burst out of the bathroom and grabs the leading Hobo by the waist and lifts him up as if he was running like an angry bull, and then they both crashed through the rooms walls multiple times until they entered another one, and then another one, and another one, and after crashing through the walls seven times, both of them landed into a room with construction equipments and materials.

As Eddy let go of the man, he then saw a hacksaw in one of the toolboxes and picked it up, but before he could use it to silence the Hobo...

A ladder was then smashed on the side of his chest, causing him to twirl in pain while also letting go of the hacksaw he is holding on, after getting his standings back up, he saw the leading Hobo carrying a mini-ladder with his hands, and when he is about to swing it at him again, Eddy then quickly slide kicked the leading Hobo by the legs and causing him to fall on the floor and therefore letting go of the mini-ladder, and when Eddy jumps on top of the man to beat some senses into him.

HOBO LEADER: "I don't think so, buddy! Used to be in the army, ya know!"

The man grabs an empty paint bucket by the handles and swings it into Eddy's head, thus pushing him off his body, but as he stands up, he then felt a searing pain in one of his feet and let out a painful howl.

It was the moment Eddy grabs a screwdriver and stabs the man by the right foot, piercing through the shoe and into his foot.

While the Leading Hobo was squirming in pain as the screwdriver was lodged deep into his foot, an empty syringe with little pieces of liquid inside suddenly fell off his dirty ragged coat as he struggling to remove the lodged screwdriver.

Eddy picked up the empty syringe after it was rolled towards him and inspects the liquid, and it was at this moment more Hobos began to surround the two of them again.

EDDY: "So, you folks dosed yourselves with some Aqua Crack, huh? Wherever you get these shots really did fuck up your senses, no joke. Looks like you guys won't be able to think properly at this moment right now."

The moment the Hobo leader finally removes the screwdriver and used it to arm himself, he and his Hobo gang all once again charged at Eddy once again full circle.

Eddy was more ready than ever against this shit.

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(WAYLAND HOTEL, ROOFTOP)

(RANDOM FIGHT MUSIC STARTS)

When Baron realize that Valencia's swordsmanship with her pair of green Beam katanas was actually way more challenging than he thought!

Meanwhile, Valencia herself is elegantly swinging her Beam Katanas around as she clashed hard against his Diablos short sword mode, so Baron decides to stop playing defensively at one counter-attack and moves in to get a clear strike with his short sword.

So Baron dashed around her before he was about to swing swiftly straight at her strange equipment on her back, but she instead twirled around by giving Baron a quick roundhouse to the head, but he didn't falter much after the impact as he moves closer and closer until he then grabs her by the neck, but she counterattack by snaking both of her legs into Baron's arm and leg-locking it to its place, then she mustered all her strength and twists the Blue Killer with her legs like an Alligator and watched him hit his head hard on the ground before she rolled away to safety and gets back up like it was nothing.

Then Valencia was about to slice his neck apart, but Baron ducked under the single Beam Katana swing and gave her chin one strong uppercut and causing her to launch upward and landed back on the ground painfully, but she shook the stinging pain off and push herself up as her pair of green Beam Katanas began to glow brighter, and then she runs towards Baron while her pair of Beam Katanas are making a trail of black scorch marks along the ground as she drags them both.

Baron then rolled to the side as the female assassin missed her target an aerial double diagonal slashes, and by the moment she landed, stop, and turned around, she then saw the Blue Vigilante jump up in the air while he is about to swing his short sword atop of her head, but she reacts quickly and crossed her two Beam Katanas together to stop the incoming downward strike from Baron Killer.

By the moment she felt the short sword collide atop on her Beam Katanas, she felt a violent raging aura as she was pushed to the ground and when she looks into the gray lenses on Baron's mask.

She swears that she just saw a GLIMPSES OF TWO RED CROSSES, and after not wanting to find out more as it goes on, she chose to slide swing one of her leg straight at his legs, thus causing him to lose his attack's momentum and turned his back on her after she dashed behind him, and this gave her a chance to attack him while he's still regaining his stances.

With the strength of a sledgehammer, Baron shot his leg backwards and upwards until it hits Valencia in the chin really hard, which almost break her entire head if she didn't dodged it quickly, thus causing her to back off and re-adjusted her silver mask back on, then she saw Baron pressed the button on his short sword's handle and the blade splits apart and slides down before it then lets out its signature searing blue plasma energy from the gap, turning it to its Beam sword mode.

Seeing his short sword transformed into a Beam sword made Valencia re-take about her tactics after knowing that Baron has a deadly trump card within his own hands.

VALENCIA: "So now i understand. Now i know how you got rid of all of them...you have yourself a Beam weapon after all."

BARON KILLER: "Is that jealousy i hear from you? Your pretty much jealous are you, lady?"

VALENCIA: "Jealous? Me? No, no...I am not jealous at all...it is fair that you could have your own Beam sword and therefore...I ENVY IT, YOU FOOL!"

Then she pressed a button on her pair of green Beam katanas and they both suddenly lets out green hot flames surging from the blades itself, then she charge straight at him with both Beam flaming katanas pointing at his chest.

Not wanting to get stabbed and burn on the inside, Baron swings his Beam sword around and collided with both of her Beam flaming katanas, then they both began to give each other their own barrages of swings, slashes, stabbings, counter-swings, and a bit of grapples and punches, but sadly none are hitting their opponent's body as they both also parried, blocked, dodged or flipped acrobatically if given the opening chance.

As she back flipped away from the Blue Killer, she points her shuriken launcher at him and fired a short burst of around 4 ninja stars, and then Baron dodges to the left, even though one manages to leave a scratch by the side of his armored dress and began to run towards her.

So she lets out another burst of shurikens that is around 8 this time, but the same result happens as Baron used his Beam sword's hot plasma beam to protect him from the incoming projectiles as when it passed through the energy, therefore the shurikens then melted apart after it goes through it, luckily Barons outfit protected him from the hot melted shooting stars as some splattered against his chest and continues running towards Valencia with his Beam sword ready to swing her apart.

Then the strange equipment behind her back is starting to turn on itself, then the two hooks pointing up suddenly launched out of the machine and swings around onto one of the cable wires, then the single turbine steam engine pointing down then lets out a strong gust of propulsion as it launched her up in the air and landed gracefully on the cable wires with accuracy, then the two hooks retracted back into the device as she kneel.

This cause Baron to top running before screeching to a halt before he looks up into the X-shaped formation of the cable wires, then he saw Valencia kneeling on top of one of the cable wires and he swears that she's smiling arrogantly under that silver mouth guard.

BARON KILLER: "Really, lady? I knew that machine behind your back is gonna do something that's gonna tick me off, but being used to swing up? That's just cool, to be honest with you!"

VALENCIA: "My, my, is that jealousy i hear from you, Baron Killer?"

BARON KILLER: "What? NO! I'm not jealous of anything right! We both have cool Beam weapons, and yet...oh come on, you have an automatic hooking device on your back! How's that fair?"

VALENCIA: "Oh Baron, despite me having a more advance equipment than the both of us having Beam blades, it's a point." (Looks up) "You should know that tonight is a beautiful night...the moon is beautiful isn't it?"

So as both assassins have taken a quick look at the full moon, Valencia quickly ejects the empty tube inside her shuriken gauntlet and replaced it with a full stack of 12 shurikens into it and she does all of this without looking at it while Baron ejects the battery and replace in a fresh new battery into his Beam sword.

BARON KILLER: "Well, i gotta admit. It is a pretty sight for a moon."

VALENCIA: (Sighs) "I never thought that a duel like this could allow me to choose a proper place to set it all up...yet, this reminds me of the time when me and my sister were laying on top of our boat house while we are both watching the stars together...that was all before we both entered the U.A.A and after we both overcome dangerous missions and harsh trials upon deadly missions and life-shattering trials, she soon became the bitch of a sister that I know today."

BARON KILLER: "Yet, do you still love your sister after all of that, right? I kinda know how that feels except the assassination parts."

VALENCIA: "If I even still have enough love for her...God damn it, I was this...close...this close to get back at my sister and show her that I can catch up with her due to her being on a much higher level than me."

BARON KILLER: "Wow, you just got yourself a bit of a sibling rivalry...trust me lady, it is better to have a brother or a sister or being with friends by your side, rather than being alone even though you want some peace time for yourself."

That statement alone have just made Valencia close her eyes and let the cold winds swing against her red hair, all the while Baron secretly swings his Beam sword behind his back slowly and waited until it could turned dark blue, quietly readying up his 'Saucers'.

VALENCIA: "Baron, as much as i admire your gentle yet understandable words...you are still a killer and a rogue assassin and i can say the same to myself too...yet you speak with dignity and respect instead of being serious or full of intents...what makes you so different from us? Can you please...kindly tell me?"

BARON KILLER: "...Since you kinda asked it, missy. When I first became the Blue Killer and about to face mindless conflicts. I had to create my own code of standards, so that I can't become a genocidal bloodthirsty monster like some people i have met so far."

VALENCIA: "With kindness and curiosity, what is this standard codes of yours?"

BARON KILLER: "...I...kill those who deserve to be sent to death himself and I shall bestow my enemies with agonizing pain if they don't deserve to die too quickly...and also not hurting bystanders, the innocents, the broken, or those who were caught in the middle. In this battle that i am heading for, none shall be safe from my actions, but i'll be damned if i hate to bring in people that i love and admired into the fray, therefore i won't allow that whatever the stakes."

VALENCIA: "...You...are not just a simple rogue assassin with reasonable standards, how rare and respectable...instead of me killing you quickly, can we make this duel of ours last a bit longer?"

BARON: (Shrugs shoulders) "Sure, whatever floats your boat, Miss Valencia."

VALENCIA: (Stands up a little bit) "...So now Mr. Baron...shall we?"

BARON KILLER: "THINK FAST!"

Then Baron swings his Beam sword forward and shoots out a single 'Beam Saucer' straight to the cable wire where Valencia is standing on, and at the same time, she ran across the cable wire before it gets cut off as she then shoots out five shurikens towards the Blue Killer while in break speed, but he quickly dodged out of the firing sight by sliding to the right before doing a three point landing.

The single 'Beam Saucer' cuts that wire apart but Valencia manages to jumps off the wire before she fell down, Baron then saw that the remaining three wires are connected at the middle, so he quickly swings his Beam sword behind him again and waits for it release another pulsating dark blue energy.

While Baron is preparing another long-range attack to target one of the cable wires again, Valencia then landed on the top of a concrete pole that connects the three remaining cable wires before she jumps off the edge of the pole and lets her machine shoots out the two hooks and hooked on one of the square shaped formation cable wires.

Then she launched herself back up which made her pass the height limit of the concrete poles before she was high in the nightly skies, and then she saw Baron is about to release another 'Beam Saucer' as she looked down for a second, which she then aims her shuriken gauntlet at him and shoots out all seven of her shurikens at him.

So Baron swings his beam sword again and shoots out another 'Beam Saucer', thus successfully cuts into the middle of the three remaining cable wires, leaving only the square formation cable wires, but then he was too late to react as he felt six shurikens scratches or some almost pierced through his back, front, his arms and legs, but the material in his outfit managed to protect him from the sharp spinning projectiles as he receives scratches upon his suit, all but two shurikens stuck on his sleeve that which almost reached his skin.

Then Valencia landed on one of the square patterned cable wires, which she then quickly reloaded her shuriken gauntlet with a new tube of 12 shurikens, then she saw Baron pulling out the remaining two stuck shurikens off his sleeve and looked at it curiously until he then looks at her with his expressionless gray lenses.

Baron carefully align his arm that is carrying the shuriken, and when he found the direction he wants.

He then flings it with full force towards to Valencia's shuriken gauntlet and watched it slice through the entire equipment itself, thus causing the entire gauntlet to fizzle up with sparks and smokes, and this caused her to remove it off her arm and throws it to the roof's ground.

VALENCIA: 'It's time I finished this duel for goodness sakes!'

Then she jump off the cable wire she was standing on and landed on top of the elevator's roof before she jumps off again in order to receive her target with two downward slashes with her flaming Beam katana, but the Blue Killer parried both of them before he then pushed her off him and proceeds to slash across her chest, but the machine on her back shoots out the twin hooks and they both grabbed on to one of the square formation cable wires, and she was launched through the skies once again to avoid Baron's near killing move.

By the time she landed on the wire, she turned around and saw a dark blue energy ring blitzed by and sliced through the wire she is standing on to fell apart and this caused her to meet gravity as she began to fall down the 15-story feet building.

VALENCIA: 'As if i would allow myself to fall to my death just like that.'

She adjusted her entire body and aimed through the edge of the building quickly, and she quickly shoot out her twin hooks again to catch into something on the edge of the rooftop as she is about fall to her death, and luckily she caught something hard to pull on!

VALENCIA: 'Time to finish this now, Ba-'

Before she could finish her thoughts, something began to pull her up real hard, and it was so hard that it caused her to accidentally drop her two green Beam pyrotechnic katanas all the way to the ground!

VALENCIA: 'Something is pulling me up! Who would pull...ah shit, please tell me its not him!'

By the time she was pulled back on top of the rooftops, she then felt something grab her by the machine on her and pulls her up all the way until she was thrown high into the air and landed back down on the ground with a painful crash.

When she stands up to recuperate her senses, she felt the machine on her back gets hit by a scorching heat source 9 times at a fast pace until the device fell apart off her back, and when she look back...she was greeted by probably the most strongest punch in the face to her entire life ever since she was training as an Assassin for U.A.A.

After getting punched in the fact by a gloved hand, she went through psychedelic barrage of previous memories starting from growing in a Boat House with her older sister, their parents being mutilated alive, being adopted by the U.A.A, training with her sister, getting left in the dust by her way more superior sibling, most of her attempts of getting huge recognition failed, finding out who keeps on killing her targets, sets up an undisclosed location for the duel, and finally...getting punched in the face.

Floating through the dark void for a few minutes before she was taken to the real world.

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(FIGHT MUSIC STOPS AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS)

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When Valencia woke up and rubbed her forehead, she then saw the Blue Killer trying to put her destroyed device back together with no success at all, and when she silently crawls away to the elevator in order to escape while he's busy rebuilding the destroyed machine, she then felt something hot pointing at her back, and when she turned around slowly with caution.

It was Baron pointing his Beam sword at her back, but he does not seem to have any intentions of killing her here and now.

Besides the wind howling around the two assassins, the two stared at each other back and forth in order to know who would make the next move, and this goes on...for 1 minute.

Then one of them finally break the silence around them.

BARON KILLER: "Ding-ding-ding, we have a winner! No hard feelings right?"

VALENCIA: (She sighs with defeat) "It seems so...so what are you waiting for? End me...end this miserable walking pile of sins...what are you waiting for?! Kill me!"

So she watched as Baron is about to slice her head apart as she then closed her eyes and waited for her fate, and after a silent 10 seconds.

She felt nothing hitting nor burning against her skin, and i meant nothing at all really, then when she opened her eyes again, she just saw Baron turn off his Beam sword as it was turned back into its dagger mode and went back to arranging her destroyed device on the ground with little to no success at all.

VALENCIA: "You're...sparing me...why? I want to know why are you sparing someone like me?"

BARON KILLER: "Someone wants to know why, well look who's talking." (Picks up a roll of wires) "As much as i want to take you out here and now, you are just not worth getting killed by me, and just because I ruined your career doesn't mean you have to pick desperate choices in the future like instead of dueling me, we could have just talked it out. So therefore this duel doesn't deserve my judgment."

As Baron then began to just scoop up all of the pieces into his arm and turned around, he saw Valencia's eyes that have the expression of 'NOT FAIR!' that was due to her puppy eyes.

VALENCIA: "No, no, no, no, no, no! THIS ISN'T HOW IT SUPPOSES TO GO ON; ONE OF US HAS TO DIE ON THIS ARENA THAT I JUST CHOOSE!"

BARON KILLER: "Not my rules and not my problem, Miss Valencia."

So Baron then walk pass by her and proceed to walk to the elevator, but he stopped just as he was about to go down as he then heard a sniffle behind him, and when he looked back at his now-standing opponent, he then saw her eyes letting some tears flow down her cheeks and on top of her silver mask.

BARON KILLER: "Uhm, Miss...are you really crying? Oh no, did I do something wrong? Please forgive my-""

VALENCIA: "This...is a duel to the death...if I return to the association now and they just found out that you're still alive...I will be the fucking embarrassing dummkopf of all their jokes all over again and i fucking hate it, and if any chances that you should have killed me right there...I could have at least prove to my older sister that I have died with honor and fought till the end!"

BARON KILLER: "Whoa, whoa, calm down! Calm down, Miss Valencia. Remember when i said that we could talk this out, well...can we just talk this out like normal people?"

VALENCIA: "I'm telling you Baron. I don't...want to go back empty-handed and still come back still breathing! I rather...I...I...I rather die than become a fool to my sister and to my superiors!"

Then Baron puts the destroyed pieces back on the ground and then he began walking up to the crying whining woman in front of him.

VALENCIA: "If you are gonna kill me right now, then do it...DO IT! 'CAUSE THAT IS THE WAY THIS IS SUPPOSE TO WORK IN THE FIRST PLACE!"

As she saw Baron walking towards to her, she then closes her eyes and waited for her punishment with full acceptance of her fate.

VALENCIA: 'He's doing it…he's actually going to do it…I can feel him hugging me and its about to pierce my heart till I bleed to death, now I can…..wait…IS HE HUGGING ME?!'

When she opens her eyes, she would expect to be crushed to death by raw abnormal strength and it would all be over.

But instead what she saw was Baron hugging her in a really honest gentle grasp, with his head over her shoulder and his arms around her back; she can't help but blush by this unexpected action and soon enough, she then began to feel the nostalgic feeling of something long forgotten within her life.

BARON KILLER: "Uh, are you feeling alright?"

VALENCIA: "I…I…I feeling kind of lost...your hugging...it feels like my sister when were...just little kids."

BARON KILLER: "Do you really hate her so much, based on the letter you wrote to me? I mean you can't be that full of hatred."

But before he could hear her answer, he could hear her crying a bit louder and she started whimpering too, and as he stopped hugging her and moves to face her face to face.

Even though the silver mouth guard was covering her mouth and nose, he could clearly see her once pretty yellow eyes were now overflowing with tears, then she puts her head against Baron's chest and move her arms behind his back until she is now the one hugging him instead of him doing the hugging.

VALENCIA: "No...I don't hate her, to be honest. I just want...I just want her back. Back when she was all joyful...always had an positive outlook and...was fun to hangout with as sisters...that is all I want...I want my sister's...happy side back."

Then the Blue Vigilante move his gloved hand and brush her red hair down while rubbing her on the back in a brotherly way, causing him to remember his days with the Eds and his little sister's outburst everytime they fucked up as little kids too.

And now look where he is, making a grown woman anguish for someone to be with her, who was also scared of being left alone and being humiliated by others.

BARON KILLER: "Oh...so all you just want is to be back with your family, isn't it?"

VALENCIA: "Our parents were...mutilated...we want to find those bastards originally...and murder them all one by one...but my sister is liking all the damn attention and respects and the bloodshed...god damn it. I just want the way it's suppose to be...me and my sister would watch each other's back and hanging out wherever we go and just relax together...as family."

BARON KILLER: "Wanna know a fact? Not sure if i kinda told you already but I have a young little sister, too."

VALENCIA: "Not really. But really, you have a little sister too? What was she like?"

BARON KILLER: "She always has this famous iconic temper of hers everytime me and my friends screwed something up real bad, and yet she is sometimes nice to other people...also i should that her best friend since childhood is 90% gay by the way."

Hearing his casual description out of the blue kinda made Valencia chuckle a little as she soon she stopped crying...and she unexpectedly fell to sleep without even her and Baron realizing it.

BARON KILLER: 'Good god! She's asleep? I better get a move on before things get awkward.'

So he gently laid her on the ground nice and kindly, then he scoops back up the pieces of the destroyed equipment into his arms and went for the elevator, then he pressed the ground floor button and waited for it as he is using his hoodie as a make-shift basket to carry all of the pieces, just to cut him some slack right now.

BARON KILLER: 'I...kinda feel bad for her. Maybe letting her go back to the U.A.A empty-handed is a cruel fate, and yet it feels great to spare someone like her...now I need to put on my list that I should pay Sarah and Jimmy a visit from time to time right after i give this to Kuroko and Doubled...speaking of which, i wonder where Eddy is now?'

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(WAYLAND HOTEL, GROUND FLOOR)

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When the elevator doors slide opens, Baron was then greeted by a sight he is not expecting right now, so he just describes the entire scenario in three simple sentences.

As he looks up and expects a big hole for someone to fall in? CHECK.

When he looked down and expects two men fighting each other? CHECK.

He then looked around and saw multiple homeless people knocked out unconsciously? CHECK.

Basically this is what he sees right now, Eddy was on top of a dirty ragged coat wearing homeless man and he is really beating the life out of him with his two bare hands non-stop, and as for the hole in the ceiling...maybe they just commit a property-damage and survive the impact and continued to beat the shit out of each others faces.

As for the other unconscious hobos?

Meh, they will live to scavenge another day. As much as Ed is gonna admit it, Eddy really did took those brawling lessons last year quite too well.

BARON KILLER: "Come on Eddy, we are done here."

This caught Eddy's attention as he turn his head around to expose his bruised face with a black eye onto his right eye and had some minor cuts on his face, and as he turned to Baron, he gave the Hobo leader's face one last quick strong jab that resulted in knocking him out completely.

EDDY: "Baron, you made it! I kinda had some little trouble with this...guys, but I have taken care of it, and it's all by myself! So relax!"

So after Baron walked past the two beaten up men and the other knocked out hobos, Eddy then gets off the Hobo leader's body and gave his head a quick hard kick just to make sure he stays down for a while.

EDDY: "Damn you and your Aqua Cracks!"

Just as he was about to leave the premise, he went back to the body just give one more hard kick to its side before completely leaving the building.

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When they both get out of the incomplete hotel, Baron suddenly throws the pieces onto Eddy's arms and this almost caused him to almost toppled to the ground from the pile of sliced machine parts as he then walks over to the corner of the building which he remembered what happen during the entire duel with Valencia.

EDDY: "HEY BARON, WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE SOME RANDOM PATROL COPS SEES THIS PLACE!"

Just after a few seconds later, Baron then came back around the corner while holding a pair of green Beam Katanas on both hands and grabs a nearby cloth to wrap both swords in one place and carries it over his shoulder, and it was a good thing the flames were turned off after they were accidentally dropped off.

BARON KILLER: "Alright, I'm just gonna keep this two with me, if you don't mind?"

EDDY: "Okay those two blades of your I can understand, but what ABOUT ALL OF THIS JUNK YOU JUST THROWN AT ME?!"

BARON KILLER: "Oh those pieces. It used to be my opponent's equipment that was attached on her back, but I accidentally sliced it to pieces when i got close enough, and so I was thinking if double-d and Kuroko could make a way to replicate its designs back at the center?"

EDDY: "Oh, Fine...this pile of junks will better be worth something, Ed."

BARON KILLER: "What about the part where you would check out the building for something good?"

EDDY: "It was all cut short thanks to those drug-overdosed fucking hobos, who all just appeared out of nowhere and proceeds to kick my ass until it was me who were breaking his own bones, so I didn't have the time to loot the entire place as it all goes on!"

Then as they went back to the van, Baron opened up the back and puts the destroyed pieces into one of the plastic boxes compartments and placed the wrapped katanas into the floor before he moves to the passenger seat, and after Eddy went to the other side and entered the driver's seat, Baron then patted him on the back.

BARON KILLER: "Sorry that you had to go through all that rough troubles, man. Now that I shall promise that we are gonna hit the big golden spot one day or never at all until we reach another dead end!"

EDDY: "Ed, i'll be honest with ya. Sometimes some of your promises can be unreachable sometimes...but thanks for brightening me up, man. I needed it after getting my ass kick by homeless people."

BARON KILLER: "You fought a good fight though."

EDDY: "Street smarts. man. Streets smarts."

So with that positive statement said and done, the purple van's engine spark to life and they both drove out of that area and went back to the bustling night streets of Woodcreak.

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(WAYLAND HOTEL ROOFTOP)

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After relieving her confession to her opponent that she was suppose to kill and unexpectedly falling to sleep, she woke up two minutes later to find out that she is the only left on the roof.

VALENCIA: 'He's gone...go figure...damn, for the first time in my career; I don't know what to do right now...wait, what's that sound?'

When she looks around in the starry and cloudy sky, she then saw a helicopter flying into her position on top of the rooftops and when it got closer and turned sideways, it revealed that it has its own logo, but the most noticeable part is the big sleek word 'ARMORY'.

VALENCIA: 'Armory industries...more annoying corporate dogs...shit, I forgot that Baron destroyed my shuriken gauntlet, and that leaves me defenseless!'

Then the side door of the helicopter open wide and three people jump out and landed on the ground.

So from what Valencia could see, there was a tall figure wearing a long gray trenchcoat and a gray fedora, the middle seems to be a normal human and wears a gray business suit with combed back jet black hair, and the last one is female and slightly shorter than the human and she seems to be wearing a blue bodysuit with metallic areas and orange waist-length hair, but the most weirdest part about her is that she has a two pairs of orange and dark grey cat-ears.

VALENCIA: "Who are you three?! What do you want from me?! I had enough trouble for one night already!"

But after they show no sign of threatening gestures, the human in the middle walks up to her and offered her an open hand, which she unenthusiastically accept and was brought back to her feet.

VALENCIA: "If you were sent by the U.A.A. Please tell them that I had fucking enough of their principles and rules, because its time I move on!"

UNKNOWN MAN: "Wow, that's good to hear and I was about to ask you that question, miss."

VALENCIA: "Then answer my questions. Who...are...you?"

UNKNOWN MAN: "Since you ask 'nicely', the name's Adam, Adam Baronez, and I have come up with a once in a lifetime offer that could benefit your journey and my company in exchange of a simple favor."

VALENCIA: "...I'm listening, Mr. Adam."

ADAM BARONEZ: "I heard about you, Ms. Luftwaffe, you have dangerous talents hidden inside of you...especially the fact that I can do something beneficial about the opponent you just fought tonight...you know, Mr. Baron Killer himself."

VALENCIA: "...He's...a worthy fighter, to be honest. I am just some strong rookie within the association, so if it involves killing him now...then you have to force me to do it."

ADAM BARONEZ: "Woah, Kill him?! No, no, no, no, I have a much better idea, but please tell me, Ms. Valencia? If I gave you this guy's name, will you with great respect try to stand side by side by him for the time being until further...offerings?"

VALENCIA: "Me...learning something from the Blue Vigilante...I don't know, he did crush my pride into pieces."

EX-TEN: "Trust me madam, better accept his offer before he could throw in an irresistible opportunity."

ADAM BARONEZ: "Think about it! You accept this chance and then you could figure out a clean non-lethal way to get your sister back to the way it used to be. You and her. Like family as always. So, what do you-"

MAKU: "Too late, she started to think about it."

This caused Valencia to think about it in a deep trance until everything was silent except the breezing winds of the night, and after some major debating inside of her head for seconds until it was close minute, she then comes up with a final answer.

VALENCIA: "Tell me, Mr. Adam...who is this man you mentioned?"

MAKU: "Another smooth negotiation from the boss."

EX-TEN: "...That was strangely easy to go on."

ADAM BARONEZ: "Oh, this is gonna be great when you two get to know each other genuinely a bit more! Don't worry, the time reclaim your sense of standings will come back better than ever."

After that, Adam began to spread out the details of his unexpected offering until they both shook hands to the agreement.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ED BOYS!

1999 - 2009

20th Anniversary