Bad Blood Panther Chapter 4: Reminder
*Mystic Ruins: Ace's House: Ace's POV*
I yawn quietly, the morning just being upon us. What time was it exactly I wonder? As I lightly walk down the stairs I run the last few days through my head...I've not only broken out of a mental institution for the 30th time, I've always taken it upon myself to up this girl...Ginger. I know hardly anything about her, who her family is, her past, nothing. I only know a very few things, one being that her father is an absolute scumbag, but I digress. I walk into the kitchen and open the fridge, pulling out some of the pizza that is left over and begin to munch on it as I continue to think. To top it off, Swift, someone who I thought was dead, up and attacks me yesterday with thoughts of revenge...ugh, my life is just becoming a complicated mess now.
I quickly finish the slice in my hand, looking over at the table as I notice a piece of paper that wasn't there last night. I pick up the note and begin to read it out loud, "Dear Ace, I found yet another job for your lazy ass, get over to Westopolis and look for a Mr. Johns, he'll be waiting for you in the park near the middle of the city. Signed, Chuck." I crack a smile, he must've written this when he was pretty tired, given the langauge. I crumple the note up and throw it in the garbage before I snatch some paper and a pencil off of the table, writing a note of my own for Ginger before signing it and walking out the door. Hopefully this job won't take me very long...
*Westopolis Park: Ace's POV*
I walk quietly through the park, it still being rather early in the morning as I do. I come to a stop near a bench and sit down, deciding that this would be a good spot to rest for a moment..."Are you Ace?" A man asks me as he walks up. I look up at him, he's a middle to late aged fox with brown fur and blue eyes, but that's about all I can tell since he's wearing a large trenchcoat and a fedora over his head. "Yes, that'd be me..." I replied without enthussiasm. If this guy was my client, great. If he was a threat, then I'd kill him, plain and simple. "I'm glad you showed up, I was worried you wouldn't." The man says before handing me a file, which I look at in interest before grabbing and opening the folder. I started the read the base instructions, there has been a group of gangsters terrorizing the population recently, and for some damn reason the police haven't done a god damn thing about it. My job was to find these punks and put a stop to them, one way or the other.
"Think you can do it?" The man asks me, causing me to scoff. "Think? This is childs play." I say standing up and walking the opposite direction, already sensing a large group of people with bad intentions of in the distance. I'll be done in 5 minutes tops.
*Westopolis: West side of the city: Ace's POV*
I started walking down an alleyway toward the direction that I felt the energies, judging by the feel of it, none of these guys even knew what Chaos Energy is, let alone know how to harness its power. I walk up to a rather large steel door, should I take the quiet approach, or just announce their doom to them? I decide that this time, I'll pick them off one by one, jumping up into a nearby vent and ripping the grate off, crawling into the vent as I make sure to stay as quiet as possible. I can hear the sound of screaming and laughing below, probably from the gangsters and their current prey. I enter the room quiet and drift over to the shadows in a nearby corner, waiting for the right time to strike.
One of the ugly bastards, a male feline, drunkenly stumbles over around my area. I quickly pull him into the darkness, covering his mouth and snapping his neck. "Hey, did anyone hear that?" The male pitbull asked aloud, having heard the snap. "Yeah...it sounds like it came from over there." A male lizard comments, him, the pitbull, and a female hedgehog all walk over to where I WAS, seeing the dead body and beginning to freak out. I smirked as they did, looking down at them from above. This was going to be fun. Just then, five more goons ran in from the other room, all of them being foxes. "SPREAD OUT! Find the bastard who did this now!" The pitbull yells, everyone running around looking for me.
I quickly toss a bomb down onto him, the small thing bopping him in the head before it explodes with just enough force for his head to come clean off. The others continue to freak after seeing that, some of them going for the door. The second they do I mow them down with a string of gunfire before quickly vanishing again, the only ones remaining now being one of the foxes and the female hedgehog. "P-Please...don't...kill us..." The hedgehog says, before she's quickly taken down to the ground by the fox. "Wh-WHAT ARE YOU-" She's cut off by the fox holding her hands behind her back with one hand, and shoving his tongue down her mouth while he gropes her breasts.
I instantly scowl, what a disgraceful creature. The fox pulls his lips back and smiles widely, "If I'm gonna die, then I'm gonna make sure I feel damn good before I do!" He yells at her, releasing her breasts as he takes off his pants, causing the hedgehog to go wide eyed from fear. "Now bitch, I hope you're ready to satisfy me before your death!" He screams, just before I put a bullet into the back of his head, causing him to collapse onto the hedgehog who shoves him off, breathing heavily as she does. I descend down onto the ground, approaching the girl slowly as she backs up in fear. I point the gun at her head, "So...what did you all do to drag attention to yourselves, murder? Rape?" I ask her as she wildly shakes her head, "We-we only sold some drugs! Oh god..." She starts to break down, "Don't kill me..." My eyebrow cocks for a moment as I look around the area.
Now getting a much better look, it looked more like a meth lab then a secret hideout. What this woman says is true...but then how did I get this job? Drug dealers were to be caught by the police or GUN, not have a fucking assassin like myself come and kill them all, granted it seems some of them had darker pasts then others. I take my gun off of her, causing her to relax, if only a TINY bit. "Listen to me, you run. Leave, and never come back here. You knew none of these people, and that's the story." I say to her, and as she goes to reply I cut her off, "Understand?" She looks at me, eyes full of fear as she nods her head. "Good, now get the fuck out of here." The girl bolts toward the door, flinging it open and starting to run to the end of the alleyway. Before she reaches it however, something outside fills her full of bullets, causing my eyes to widen as I run out the door myself.
When I do I see a robot floating in midair...looking like a metal version of me. "What...the...fu-" Before I can finish the machine fires at me, causing me to jump out of the way and use wall jumping to reach the nearest rooftop, the bot following me. "What the hell are you?!" I yell at the bot, actually getting a response. "METAL ACE." It says without emotion before charging me. I manage to hold my ground as it slams into me, Metal Ace?! This was like Metal Sonic all over again! I grunt and scream as I grab the bots arms, flinging it over my head in hopes of slamming it into a wall, only for it to kick me in the face and off of the building in mid swing. I slam into the ground painfully, looking up at the metallic menace as it descends upon me. "Alright you son of a bitch...let's go!"
*Third Person POV*
Ace jumps up to his feet and rockets toward Metal, swinging wildly at him as he does. Metal simply ducks and weaves through the attacks, kneeing Ace in the stomach once, causing the panther the kneel over in pain. Metal uses this to his advantage to uppercut Ace, sending him smashing through a nearby building. The person inside the building looks surprised as Ace makes an unexpeceted trip into their living room, before he jumps back out at Metal. Ace charges Chaos Energy into his hand as he falls down toward the robot, "CHAOS IMPACT!" He yells as he tries to hit Metal with the chaos enhanced attack, only for the robot to grab his forearm and slams him into the ground, before flying up into the air and him and spinning him around a few times. He then releases him, throwing him through several buildings as the panther creates a crater in the middle of the park that he was in about 15 minutes ago.
"Fucker..." Ace mutters to himself, barely moving out of the way from an energy blast sent by Metal. Ace grunts, this guy knew all of his moves and then some! But how? Ace stops on a dime and uses a nearby tree as momentum, soaring up toward Metal and headbutting him, causing Ace to send the robot flying while he held his head in pain as he lands back onto the ground. "SHIT! THAT HURTS LIKE A BITCH!" Ace yells as he rubs his head, realizing that headbutting a robot wasn't the smartest idea he's ever had. Metal wasn't giving him any time to recover though, the robot spin dashing at Ace and slamming into his stomach, causing the panther to cough up blood as well as be surprised at the technique. When the two hit the ground a large smoke cloud is created, making it impossible to see either of them.
When the cloud clears, Ace and Metal can be seen in a struggle, Ace bleeding from his head as Metal starts to overpower him. Ace then screams, "CHAOS BLAST!" A wave of energy blasts Metal back into a parks fountain, before Ace leaps after him and barrages him with Chaos Spears. "DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!" Ace screams at the machine, just before I rockets toward him and grabs his arm, smashing him through the remains of the fountain. Ace groans in pain as he makes his way back up to his feet, just barely avoiding a punch from Metal as he retailiates with a kick to Metal's leg, followed by a knee to his head and then punching him in the face with a Chaos Impact, sending the robot crashing through the park bench he sat in earlier.
"Get back up! I know you aren't done!" Ace yells, with the machine letting out an ominous sound. "You are right...YOU ARE DONE." Metal Ace drones, surprisng Ace with his competant speech before he impales the panther through his stomach, causing Ace's eyes to go wide. Metal then yanks his hand and out begins to walk away, leaving Ace bleeding out on the ground.
*About 20 minutes later...*
Ace groans as he starts to wake up, seeing an ambulence trying to carry him away. "Shit...I can't let them take me to a hospital...I'll be easily recognized..." Ace thinks to himself as he leaps up despite the pain, surprising the doctors as he teleports away from them.
*Mystic Ruins: Ace's house: Ace's POV*
I reappear at my house, on my knees as I stare at the ground, panting as the extreme pain starts to kick in. "Fuck...that robot did a number on me..." I mutter to myself as I struggle to look up, my face turning white as I do. "My house..." The entire thing was wrecked, holes throughout the walls and ceiling is all I could see from outside, but I could assume more damage was done inside. But that wasn't my immediate concern. "Ginger!" I yelled as I struggle to my feet, managing to knock down the door and stumble into the house. "Ginger! Ginger! GINGER!" I yell at the top of my lungs, receiving no response from the fox as I fall to my knees, my eyesight starting to fail me as I collapse onto the floor, "Ginger..."
To be Continued
