Chapter 13
Bofoi knew the gig was up.
All that can be done now was prepare. He began typing in code into his computer. "Heroes association is going to regret their actions. They know there is NO association without me, my technology, my brilliance. It will be interesting to see how long they will last until they beg me to return."
The last bit of code was going into the computer, from there, all communication, warning systems and scanners will be taken offline until they give in and reinstate him. He was about to hit the enter button when everything was erased. All of his screens went blank but then, something appeared.
Texts began to appear on each screen, all with one sentence. "The hunt is on."
"What on earth…"
His security system went off, something was inside his fortress? Instantly the weapons were ready, he stood as he tried to look about his lab for any sign of moment. Something appeared to be in the shadows, and it moved nearly too fast to see. "Level dragon alert, level dragon alert. Targeting… targeting…"
He watched as all the red dots aimed right in one area. Bofoi's blood ran cold.
"How… how could you have found me?"
His smile widened. "I was the hero hunter after all." Garou began to look over the place, he smiled and nodded to his surroundings.
Garou walked out of the shadows without an ounce of fear. Bofoi however warned him. "One more step, and I will blow you apart! I will make certain you die this time!"
"Go on and try!"
He struck the button, the weapons went off and fired right at Garou. His lab smoked and smoldered from the intense firepower, but he didn't see any sign of Garou. "He should have known better, he is facing the man behind Metal Knight!" Then there was another blast of power! All his devices, his security systems were struck and destroyed! As the smoke cleared, he found Garou was unharmed! He merely brushed off the dust from the blast. His smile only grew.
"You should be terrified by now. Your computers will no longer work for you now, my daughter saw to that. She has been hacking your system ever since she came back from her little three-day venture. Also, that gum she was putting on your tin cans… wasn't gum. It was pliable nano technology. Lastly, I just took out your whole security systems. What are you going to do without your little toys now?"
Bofoi was stunned. "She couldn't have made that, now without me noticing!"
"Oh, but she did." Garou paused as he marveled at his surroundings. "She is going to LOVE this place when I gift it to her."
"Gift it? You are not taking my lab!"
Garou's smile vanished as his blank stare came over him. "I am rather grateful I listened to my mate in allowing our children to form their own little version of justice. It exposed you as the fraud hero you are. But, that's not my justice. The benefit of this though is quite, simplistic… and perfect for me." Garou paused as he slowly began to walk forward. "After everything you did, after your confession to the entire S Class and to Sitch. No one will come to help you now, even if you begged them to. No one… is going to stop me."
For the first time, Bofoi was terrified. He began to make a run for it, he has to get to his robots, any of them!
"Oh please, run, make this interesting for me!" called Garou. His voice echoed the lab, his laughter haunting as he stalked Bofoi. "Yes, run… hide, use whatever you can. Please, do so. I need a good hunt!"
Bofoi managed to get to his stock weapons. Ones he has yet to test, but was desperate enough to use them in his own lab. "Ooo weapons, yes, get your toys, bring out your toys!"
Garou sounded more and more crazed as the time passed, Bofoi tried to get his weapons to work, but found they refused to work. Nothing wants to work! None will answer his voice commands or act upon his codes. He froze when he saw Garou's shadow just around the corner from him. He could hear his monster feet scrap against the floor, and the hissing of his demonic tail. He went to the robots and attempted and overrides codes, the robots remained unresponsive!
There was no choice, he had to get out of the lab! Running as fast as he could now, he tried to stay ahead. He had to keep out of Garou's sight!
But, as he turned to see how far he was. He ran into something solid. Bofoi fell back only to look up and come face to face with Garou once more!
His eyes were crazed, as if madness itself possessed him. "You know, if I had died that day… I wouldn't have mind. If my mate and children lived… I would gladly die a happy man. I had a family to love, and one that loved me back. I died with a purpose, and I am more than happy to lay down my life for my family. But…" then he went on all fours, staring down the fallen hero. "What you did… it beyond my capability for forgiveness. You took MY CHILDREN! You attacked the MOTHER of my children… if you had killed them… any one of them… what I would have done… I would have become a god level threat! And it would all be on your head!"
"Please, don't hurt me! I will never come after your family again, I swear it!" begged Bofoi.
Garou shook his head. "You will never harm them again. I am making certain of that myself." Slowly, he stood once more, yet his tail was starting to slink out from behind him. "I have only said this once to one other… I don't eat human like things. But… there is a part of me that does!"
Bofoi tried to escape, he stumbled to get to his feet, yet was lashed at by Garou's tail, he hit the ground harder this time, then, he felt the pull.
Bofoi finally looked down… only to see Garou's demon tail swallowing him!
"NO! Please, no! Don't do this, you can't, you mustn't!"
There was no sympathy in Garou's eyes. "The day you attacked my children, to nearly let my oldest son bleed to death, to physically harm my daughter to stress my youngest son just so he could protect his siblings…. Then, making them think their parents were killed… no… and people called me the monster…" More and more did Bofoi vanish up into his tail, Garou began to lift him up off the ground, half of him was already in. The other half, not just yet.
He struggled and squirmed, begging and screaming for his life. "Please, I did it to help all of man kind, I did it for the peace of the world! I did it so no one will have to be afraid of anything anymore!"
There still was no mercy in Garou's eyes. "No you didn't. You did it all for yourself, and the expense of my family!" He paused. "You know, I never liked seeing my tail eat human like monsters. But this one time… I'm willing to make an exception!"
The mouth widened on the tail, Bofoi was barely able to keep himself out, but the mouth continued to stretch. His arms braced the sides in hopes of keeping himself alive! Yet, the tail refused to stop, the mouth continued to grow until his arms could no longer keep him out of the serpent tail's mouth! Garou watched as the last bit of Bofoi vanished up into it. He screamed aloud as the serpent's mouth closed and gave a gulp. He felt the weight of the body shift down the tail. Bofoi fought to his last breath. It took a little longer, but within ten minutes, and a flick, everything was back to normal with his body. He looked about the lab and gave but a nod.
"Alley is going to love this place."
