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Family of two.
Chapter 35: Ace Savvy and the Night Club.
(Deck City.)
The night is still and everything seems quite, too quite. Then someone stands atop the tallest tower in the city, it is the Savviest Detective of the city, Ace Savvy (Lincoln.). He looks onto the city and sighs. "This is nice, the sound of peace and quiet and everyone enjoying what the night time brings them."
Then he hears an explosion and sighs. "Yep, looks like the night has something for me." He leaps off the tower and he tosses out a chain if cards which he uses as a lasso and he swings to another building and leaps over other structures.
Ace then uses his card communicator. "One-eyed Jack, what's the bet on ground level?"
From the ground level cop cars are inbound to the scene of the crime all while behind them is a large red and dollar themed monster truck, the High Roller and driving it is Ace Savvy's sidekick One-Eyed Jack (Clyde McBride).
"Ace, the cops and I are inbound to the national bank, someone must be making a score with some cash and they ain't placing their cards on the right table! The Commissioner is also inbound to the place."
"I'll be there soon One-Eyed Jack! Secure the perimeter and make sure the police do not compromise the place!"
Ace leaps across another building, but unknown to him someone teenage like watches from another building and smiles, she then takes off on her fog machine jet pack and follows him, secretly.
(Deck City, national bank or the first bank.)
Ace lands onto the ground and he sees One-Eyed Jack, the police set up tape everywhere. "Jack, what's the card in play? Anyone we seem to have gambled with?" The police keep the civilians and press away.
"We believe so, and we know who it is." One-Eyed Jack then shows Ace the goon all tied up.
"Wild card willy and his goons!" said Ace. "So he's behind this, what's his game to think he can just rob a bank tonight when the stakes aren't even high for him at the moment? And we sent him to rehab so he could change for the better! We talked to him about this!"
"I don't know Ace, but we have another problem. He has the bank manager in there with him, from what we know the man was just closing up the place and he was the last one in there" replied One-Eyed Jack. "Looks like Wild Card Willy scoped the scene and put his deck where it lies, and now he's cashing out!"
"Then let's take him down!" Ace and One-Eyed Jack use their card chain grappling hooks and head up to the roof, everyone cheers for them and the commissioner and the cops take away the injured goons.
Ace and Jack scale the roof and look around. "All clear" said One-Eyed Jack. They then see through the skylight and they spot their bad guy, Wild Car Willy and his goons are taking cash out of the safe.
Luckily the manager is unharmed and is just tied up in the corner. "Alright One-Eyed Jack, we're both going to have to find some way to make a diversion and then take down Willy for the big house!" said Ace.
"Always the good plan Ace, but those are way more goons than before and some of them look like robots." Ace and Jack see that the two bigger goons are mechanical and don't look like the typical goons Wild Card Willy normally goes for.
The two robot goons are two feet bigger than the normal Wild Card Willy goons, they have large muscular robotic arms, some random card patterns on their green colored bodies, and their feet are treads. They have one single eye and no mouths on their dome heads.
"This is not normal for Wild Card Willy" said Ace. "He would never use robots."
"Unless he was given the bots from someone." Ace and One-Eyed Jack turn around and are in combat stance and they look to the figure in the shadows.
"Who the heck are you and what are you doing here?" asked Ace.
"No time for some chatter dudes, we got some bad guys to take down. You needed a diversion, so let it be me!" The figure then takes off on her jet pack and she breaks through the sky light. "Hey! Up here meat heads!"
"What the heck?! Take that person down!" yelled Wild Card Willy. The goons then start throwing bags of the money, but the figure dodges and then tackles three of the goons.
Then the robots come in and their single eyes glow. "Prepare to be terminated." But then they're struck to the heads by cards which explode.
Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack land down and ready for a fight. "Not so fast Wild Card Willy! You and you're crew aren't going anywhere!"
"You ain't stoppin' me Ace! Take em down boys!" The goons go after Ace and Jack, the two heroes manage to fight the goons off and beat the crud out of them.
The mysterious figure then creates a fog to blind the other goons and she kicks the two headless robots to them. The figure then takes off the sky and she drops down speakers and uses her card shaped axe to make a shockwave that knocks away some of the goons.
Ace smiles. "Wow. She is very impressive." Ace leaps over one of the goons and Jack makes the goon trip and he hits the door and goes unconscious. "Someone forgot to check their blind spots!"
"Couldn't agree more!" Ace turns around and he gets ensnared by Wild Card Willy. The man goes to the tied up super hero and is holding a net gun.
"Ace!" One-Eyed Jack goes to his partner, but he too gets ensnared. "Dang it!"
"End of the line Ace Savvy, looks like you're out of cards in the deck!" Wild Card Willy then turns the net cannon, into an actual cannon and it is loaded. "Any last words Ace Savvy?"
"Rock and Roll Wild Card!" The figure comes down and she kicks Wild Card Willy in the face and he hits the wall, the gun drops and triggers the net and Wild Card Willy gets ensnared.
The figure then uses a clubs shaped knife to cut Ace and Jack free. "You dudes okay?"
"Y-Yeah, we are. Thanks to you." They then see the fog clear and they see the mysterious figure.
The figure is a she. A pixie style haircut, white face paint with clubs around the eyes. Black fingerless gloves, a purple leotard, black leggings and long purple boots. She has a black X-shaped harness with a skeleton on the front which holds up the jetpack, she also has a black studded collar
She has a guitar that is the shape of a card with clubs at the corners.
"No problem, and the name is Night Club." (Luna Loud.)
They smile seeing her. "Well, it's nice to meet you Night Club. Never thought we'd see another superhero around, well a super heroine of course" said Ace.
"Nothing to it man, came here from Royal Woods and I have to track down some bad guy who may have ended up here, and I think your bad bet over there know where she might be!" said Bight Club.
"Are you sure?" asked One-Eyed Jack. "And who is this villain you are looking for?"
"The villain is a she and her name is the gambler. Before we get to the info on whose who, we need to talk to that Wild Card over there" replied Night Club.
All three of them go to the tied up bad guy. "Wait stop! Don't hurt me! Send me to rehab! Just don't let her get me!"
"So, the Gambler has met up with ya, makes sense since she gave you those bots" said Night Club. She then grabs Wild Card Willy by the collar and pins him to the wall. "Where is she brah?!"
"Whoa! Take it easy Night Club, this is my city you're in. Let Jack and I deal with this" said Ace Savvy.
Night Club sighs and she drops the villain, she leans on the wall and listens in. Ace and Jack are now in front of Wild Card Willy. "Alright Wild Card, this Gambler where is she and why are you working for her?" asked Ace.
"She said she would let me have everything I want and then she threatened to have me captured and force me to play my childhood game that made me into this! She knows my history!" cried Wild Card Willy. "She told me to rob this place and then come back with the cash, she left me the two robots to keep an eye on me! I swear that's all I know!"
Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack are shocked by this. "So, the Gambler uses mind games and information to get to those she recruits" said One-Eyed Jack. They then look to Night Club.
"And now you dudes see just how dangerous she truly is, and that's why I'm here" said Night Club as she calls back her speakers. "Gambler is a sick and twisted genius who makes the people of Royal Woods gamble on what they have left. It's sick and very much horrible and it usually ends with someone's life being taken by her sick and twisted experiments! It's my sworn duty to make sure she's taken down and sent to justice. The only person she can't get info on, is mine."
"Then I guess we'll have to team up to take down the gambler" said Ace Savvy. One-Eyed Jack also agrees to this.
"Then let's get more info." Night Club goes to Wild Card Willy. "Where is she? Where's the Gambler?"
"I …. I don't know anymore" replied Wild Card Willy. "We were at the old docks, but then she said she's going to make her way elsewhere and her bots would give me the coordinates. She busted me out of jail to play this mean game!"
Ace goes to Wild Card Willy. "You aren't the bad guy here Willy, I told you to take in rehabilitation classes and then you were threatened and black mailed. I'll make sure a good word is given to you."
Wild Card Willy sheds some tears. "Thank you Ace and Jack, I just wanted to change. I had no choice."
"We know, now come on. Let's tell the cops what really happened" said One-Eyed Jack, they then help Wild Card Willy up his feet and untie him. "Did the Gambler get to your goons as well?"
"No, they just thought this was for the cash. But it's not" replied Wild Card Willy. They then head outside of the bank.
(Later.)
Wild Card Willy goes into the squad car and is going to be sent back to rehabilitation so he could change. Ace and Jack told the cops and Commissioner Ronald F. Lush about the situation and he's going to send out an alert of the Gambler and her presence in the city.
Ace and Jack see the Night Club leaning onto their ride and they go to her. "So, what are we waiting for? Let's get to your Fortress of Solitaire and get things done."
Ace and Jack are shocked. "How do you know where our hideout is?" asked One-Eyed Jack.
"Sorry dudes, but I needed to do some scooping on the bets of what you guys do and I am impressed about the crimes you guys go through, I just fend off whatever maniacal bad guy I face back in my city" replied Night Club.
Ace sighs. "Very well then, let's drive!" They all enter the High Roller and they drive off.
"I dig the wheels you guys got on this thing, sure is one rich deal with all the gadgets and things you boys got" said The Night Club.
"How much of us do you know about?" asked One-Eyed Jack as they drive for their secret hideout.
(The Fortress of Solitaire.)
"Whoa! Lot of stuff you boys got, sure wish I had a sweet crib like this" said Night Club as she looks around. "Though the many suits of Ace are kinda too much."
"These suits are of different purposes" replied Ace Savvy. "Winter, deserts, night operations and camouflage, though I am planning on making a suit that could fit all of it, but it's not easy for jack and myself to do."
"Okay, so what's with Wild Card Willy?" asked Night Club. "I thought you dudes were enemies or something?"
"We were, but as it turns out Wild Card Willy was just handed the wrong play and had a very miserable childhood. So, he agreed to some rehabilitation and wants to come clean, we wanted to give him a spot to be a hero like us, but he said he wants to shuffle the right way and take it with some emotional talking first" replied Ace Savvy. "He's doing the right thing."
Night Club is shocked by this. "Huh, did not see that one coming. My villains don't have miserable backstories, they don't open up to me and they'd rather do what they want and spread chaos throughout Royal Woods."
They then go to the main computer and see what they should know for locations. "What about your bad guys? Who are they? Besides the Gambler?" asked One-Eyed Jack as he starts searching for the docks of the city.
Night Club then tells them the villains she faced in the town of Royal Woods.
"Well, there is Lady Sergeant Boss Lady and yes that is one long name but that was her choice. There's the Negative 11 though she's not much of a threat and more of a thief for clothing and vandalizing them. Jokester Quinn, now she's a maniac seeing people suffer through her pranks. Then we got the Spade digger, she tends to commit crimes when it comes to burying the whole town."
"The Royal Emissaries, the king and queen who think they rule the town, but in truth their just a bunch of misguided dorks who think they can do what they want and at most times they rally the villains to team up against me, but it usually ends with them fighting each other because none of them get along."
"There's the Pink Pageant Diva and her twin the Roughian Reptile Gal, those two are complete opposites, and yet they're related. One is mutated with the powers of some attention hogging peacock and one is a freaking alligator who likes to wrestle and mess with anything car related."
Night Club then looks away in anger. "But then there is the one who I dub thee the worst of them all, she calls herself the Sports Luckiteer! She employs people into paranoia into believing some kind of sports superstition, which gives her the edge to win at sports. All she does is make people turn on each other so she may take the sports winning and the locations, her hideout is way too easy for me to find, the abandoned softball park somewhere outside of Royal Woods. Man I hate that chick!"
Ace and Jack are shocked. "Wow. You fight all of them? How do you even stay alive from the fights?"
"I work out, I train, I learn and I invent whatever I can to counter their bad stuff, though Gambler is not an easy fight, she's my number 2, no wait. Number 4 potential threat and hated enemy, she will get one step ahead of you and use whatever information she has against you, but I am always one step ahead of her. Until now."
"What about a sidekick, don't you have someone who helps you" asked One-Eyed Jack.
"Commissioner Lilian P. Ingerly, she runs the Royal Woods Police Department, well she runs all ten departments and she and I are good buds and we tend to tag tea, when facing the lesser threats" replied Night Club.
Just then the scanners go off. "Looks like there are ten docks that have an alarm going off" said Jack. "Gambler must be setting us up so we could fall into her traps."
"Then we need to figure out, where the heck could she be or better yet where is she not?" asked Ace. Then he has an idea. "Wait, Wild Card Willy said he met the Gambler at the docks, but I did not smell any sea water from him nor did I see any signs of sea water trails on the banks carpet!"
"Where are you getting at dude?" asked Night Club.
"Where I'm getting at is, Wild Card Willy already gave me the answer!" Ace goes to the monitor and he types the location. "There it is! The Science Docks, which is the name of an auditorium used for science fairs!"
"Wow! Good shuffle there Ace, so she was hiding at a place where it's named Docks and not an actual docks!" said One-Eyed Jack.
The Night Club snickers. "Wow, nice call and good detective skills man. You really are the Savviest Detective in the world."
"Thanks. Now come on, let's go and deal out some justice on her gambling schemes!" They then head to the High Roller and ride off.
(Science Docks Auditorium.)
The High Roller parks not too far and the three heroes come out and they check on the place. "Okay, so we need a plan to figure out on how to get in there and take her down" said Ace.
"Or just get caught." The turn around and all three of them are ambushed by robots, the very same ones only they are a bit taller now, and they have the nerdy voice of the Gambler. "I knew you'd figure out where I would be, so I came up with a backup plan to undermine your plans against me Ace, Jack and my resident nemesis, the Night Club!"
"You're going to jail Gambler, and that's final!" said Night Club as she readies her amps and her guitar.
All the robots laugh. "Unlikely of you to do so, since you cannot be able to defeat me this time, for I have gotten more information than you have ever claimed!" Then the robots spray out some kind of gas.
"Hold your breath guys!" said Ace. But then the robots grab them and force them to breathe it in.
The Night Club fends the robots off with her axe while holding her breath, but then she's grabbed and slammed onto the pavement. Night Club opens her eyes and she's next to an unconscious Ace Savvy, she reaches out to him and holds his hand. "A-Ace … Ace." She then blacks out.
Soon, Night Club opens her eyes after hearing someone calling out to her. "Night Club!" She sees Ace, and he's tied up and strapped to an anvil, alongside One-Eyed Jack.
Night Club sees she's also tied to an anvil as well and they see where they're standing on. "You gotta be kidding me? This thing again? Really?"
Both tied up parties are on a weighing scale, and underneath each one is a vat of acid. "Precisely!" Then they see her, the Gambler.
She's kinda short for a villain. Green unitard, white lab coat that is changing its patterns from the decks of the cards, red gloves, black shoes and square glasses, brown hair and she has a backpack with a mechanical arm helping her sale area she cannot reach.
"We meet once again Night Club, and I do so disregard to your loud noise" said Gambler. "And it appears you are no longer one step ahead of me."
"You are a sick, twisted and … Wait, this trap is for me?!" said Night Club.
"And it took you this long to figure it out" grinned the Gambler. "I knew you'd come after me, so I went here to manage a plan that would foil you into stopping me. Also, I do so admire how you always attempt to stop me, and at times they succeed, but not today!"
"Let Ace and Jack go! They had nothing to do with this and leave this city alone!" yelled Gambler.
Gambler laughs evilly. "Not going to happen, today you will gamble everything you have if you wish to see your precious allies live!" She pushes the button and some gold bars drop next to Ace and Jack therefore making their side heavier.
"Oh boy!" said One-Eyed Jack. "We gotta get out of here Ace!"
"I'm working on it!" Ace pulls out his cards, but then he notices something. "These aren't my cards!"
"Exactly, I took the privilege of replacing your material playing tool inventions and replacing them with common cards, and not the legit ones, more like the minority class ones" replied Gambler.
"You fiend! Free us from these binds!" said One-Eyed Jack.
"Not until we play the game! Gamble for this Night Club!" said Gambler.
Night Club looks to Ace and Jack with worry. "Night Club, don't do it! Don't play her twisted game!" said Ace. "Don't give into her twisted idea!"
Night Club then lowers her head in shame. "Alright! Alright, I'll gamble." Ace and Jack gasp in shock.
Gambler smirks. "Perfect. Now, you will gamble all that you have to let your friends live. But this gamble is far different from the ones I implore the citizens of Royal Woods."
"Just get it over with you psychopath!" growled Night Club.
"I prefer the term, Sociopath. Now, tell me Night Club, who are you truly called? What is your identity?" asked Gambler. "For this is the one way to prove I have one and that I am the superior villain in all of Royal Woods, or better yet all of the world!"
"No! Night Club! Don't do it! A heroes code it to keep their identities safe!" yelled Ace, he tries his best to fight through his ropes.
Night Club just sheds tears, she has to do this. But some part of her fights this sick twisted game. Gamble smiles. "Yes, breaking you down just makes things even better." She then looks to the struggling card crime fighting duo. "Let's raise the stakes shall we?" She has a camera.
"Night Club, you will give your answer along with the one I asked you earlier with this next question. Who is your brother in Deck City? Who is his name? His real name and alter ego name?"
This makes them look in shock and Night Club looks to the Gambler. "Ho-How do you know?!"
Gambler snickers. "Best tell us, or your friends won't survive their acidic outcome." The other weighing scale starts to slowly lower.
"Stop! I'll tell you!" said Night Club. She looks to Ace and Jack with tears. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry guys."
"No." said Ace with tears of his own, some part of him was feeling as if he knows her. But where?
Night Club looks to Gambler, she then mumbles something. Gambler looks to the heroine confused. "What? I beg your pardon?"
Night Club mumbles again. "What? Raise your voice woman! The recorder can't even hear you!" Feeling frustrated she goes closer and listens to Night Club. "What did you say? You're real name and sibling?"
Night Club still has tears and she looks to Gambler with purple eyes. "Let's shuffle!"
Gambler looks confused. "That's not a ….." Then she gets hit in the head by Night Club's head and the robotic arm has its knife activated and it rips the ropes apart. "What the?! Outsmarted me again?! Curse my eager dim witted frustration!"
Night Club then grabs the knife and she tosses it to the other weighing scale and it hits the ropes and Ace and Jack leap off the weighing scale before the anvil falls into the acid pit. They then stand next to the Night Club. "You outsmarted her! Nice strategy!" said Ace.
Night Club comes down with her eyes glowing purple. "Thanks, she has a short term with her patience and I know how to play that game, besides not all geniuses are patient."
One-Eyed Jack notices something. "What's with your eyes?" Ace also sees this. "Are you okay?"
Night Club looks to herself in the pool of water. "Looks like my fire powers are back, didn't think they'd return."
"Fire powers?!" said Ace and Jack.
"Enough!" Gambler uses her backpack to get to the top catwalk. "Get them my robots!" The doors open and they see an army of robots that surround them.
Night Club then calls back her axe, it breaks out of the vault and with it are the card tools from Ace and Jack. They are now armed for battle. All three of them look to each other and nod. "Let's deal out some justice!"
They then charge into battle. Punching, kicking, smashing, sending in cards attacks and letting out sick fiery rifts. They pretty much waste the whole robot army.
The Gambler sees this was not going well. "By all things beyond the gamblers wheel! Time for my getaway!" She activates her jet pack, but then she's grabbed by the foot by Night Club and her purple fire eyes aren't making her look friendly.
"Going somewhere?" Night Club then pulls her, hits her with the guitar and Gambler is send flying to Ace and Jack who then use their card chains to wrap her up and Ace throws a razor Ace of spades card and it damages the backpack.
"No! You heathen! I will get my revenge!" yelled Gambler.
All three heroes stand tall in front of her. Ace looks to Night Club. "You know me and Jack and what we do, so go ahead and say it."
Night Club smiles and looks to Gambler. "We just dealt you some justice!"
(Later.)
The cops arrive and so do the police from Royal Woods and the two commissioner's talk about what had transpired and they take the Gambler into their newly built heavy duty armored prison van. They make sure her mouth is covered and she is heavily guarded.
From the top of the building, Ace Savvy, One-Eyed Jack and the Night Club look onward and then they see Night Club walk away.
"Night Club, where are you going?" asked One-Eyed Jack.
She turns around. "Home, my work here is done and I should get back to my roots and snuff out the baddies there. But chances Gamble might come back here and take you dudes down, so I might come back to assist."
Ace then looks to Jack. "Jack, mind letting me and Night Club talk in private?"
One-Eyed Jack nods. "I'll be in the High Roller." One-Eyed Jack then leaps off the building and he gets to the ride.
Ace Savvy then goes towards Night Club. "Night Club, is there anything you wish to say to me? Something you know and yet somehow I feel like I know?"
Night Club smiles, she goes towards Ace and kneels down to him and she kisses his forehead. "All you need to know, is that no matter how far we are, I'll always be there to look after you." She then hands him a spade card communicator.
"If you ever need to talk or need some backup, then you can count on me to come to your aid. Always, little bro."
Ace is shocked. Night Club then gets up and is about to leave, but then Ace hugs her from behind. Night Club turns around and hugs her back.
"All this time …. I thought I was always alone, but I'm so glad we met and I hope we can meet up again!" said Ace.
Night Club chuckles. "Same, I'm glad I found you once again and after all these years, you have turned out into one cool hero, I'm proud of you Spade, my little brother."
They then break the hug, Ace Savvy then watches as Night Club takes off on her fog machine jet pack. "Till we meet again, big sister."
He then sees the communicator and it has a card, a V.I.P card to the next Lulu Nifty concert, which is coming to Deck City. 'Sooner than we think.'
(Real world.)
Luna closes the comic book and sheds a tear, she then gets up from the beanbag chair and she places the comic onto the studying desk, she then sees her son Lincoln fast asleep on his studying desk and in his pajamas. He finished his comic, the comic he plans to use to win the Ace Savvy comic making contest.
Luna strokes his hair and she smiles. "Good night my sweet little super hero, I know you're gonna win that contest my son."
Luna then picks up her son and she places him onto his bed and she tucks him in and she heats him whisper. "Momma, I love you momma."
Luna smiles and she kisses his forehead and she places the stuffed Polar bear next to him and she lays in the bed with him and she hugs him close and Lincoln snuggles close to his mom.
"Momma loves you too Linky, always and always."
Unknown to them, the comic with the image of Ace Savvy and Night Club smile as they look at each other. They share a bond closely similar to the real Ace Savvy and Night Club.
A/N: I had to come up with the name of the city where Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack live, and some of the characters you all know, sorry I labeled them as bad guys, but this is Lincoln after the whole bad luck thing after all. This will lead to the episode "Pulp Fiction". Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 6/27/20 – 6/28/20.