A/N: I can't believe how quickly I was able to get this done! This is like, two or three days after a chapter of Paradox, and this is coming out relatively well. I hope everyone likes this chapter! Since I've gotten this out quickly, I'll get the A/n over with quickly. Without further ado, here's:

The Puppet Master: Chapter Six: Maxi Unleashes his rage and Meets the Black Lastation Business Lady

"Shoot..." Maxi checked his watch. He'd spent too much time with Blanc. "I gotta get going, Blanc... though... we can talk some other time, right?" her eyes lit up. "Here, let's exchange cell-phone numbers, that should keep us in touch." Blanc eagerly pulled out her phone and exchanged numbers with Maxi. "Can I come back tomorrow? Would that be okay?" he asked, quite eager himself to be able to spend more time with her. She nodded and smiled.

"You're welcome in my library at any time, Maxi. Well... so long as Mina's okay with you as well?" she turned to the assistant who gave a smiling thumbs up. She turned to him, and they stood, face to face for a while, unsure of what to do. Maxi could have left, but it felt... incomplete... Suddenly, Maxi's spine shook. A chill ran down his spine and he whipped around, his hand out, just in time to hear a bang, like a gunshot. His hand turned and cupped the air in a unique fashion, whirling about with just the right timing to catch the bullet. It burned his hand and he dropped it to the floor and looked at his aggressor. From the point where the bullet hit the floor, Maxi heard a faint hissing sound, and he looked down at the bullet to see a small dark crystal burning the floor. He looked back up at the thug. That was no normal bullet. He got serious disturbingly quick and lunged at the man, grabbing him, spinning him around and slamming his face into the wall. The man's neck bent in an interesting way, but Maxi didn't have time to check whether or not the thug was dead, a few more, accompanied by several things that he could only describe as monsters, had surrounded the entrance to the building. "Maxi?" Blanc asked from inside.

"Just stay back, I'll handle this." he said with confidence. Blanc growled a bit.

"That's not what I was going to say, I was going to ask whether or not you wanted a bit of help." Maxi didn't even think about such an obvious question.

"Well, sure. I wouldn't mind it I guess." he said nonchalantly. Blanc turned to Mina who grabbed a staff and hopped over the desk. Blanc brilliantly flashed out in a beam of light, and a girl, much like Blanc, simply with red eyes and white hair, and a bodysuit that Maxi recognized as an alloy material. He wasn't sure what the alloy was, but it seemed to be stronger than titanium, yet lighter than a feather. "Nice armor." he commented. She glared at him.

"Quit staring." she replied. He simply shrugged and threw a pebble into the face of a nearby monster, bursting it into pixels.

"I mean sure, I wasn't staring in the first place, but I guess... wait, how do you do less of a something that you were not doing already?" Blanc simply looked over at him, giving him the stereotypical, 'please close the hole in your face before I sew it shut' sort of look. Maxi decided to ask questions about both that and the transformation later. He grabbed another stone, punched a thug in the face, then dropped another monster with the stone. Well this could wind up being a little bit longer than he'd originally anticipated, but it seemed to be going just fine. With Blanc wielding her axe and slashing through monster after monster like she didn't give a damn, and Mina launching icicles and freezing winds everywhere, everything seemed to be mostly under control. Maxi pulled out of his bag, a small box. He tossed the box up in the air, and it unfolded while it spun. When it landed in front of him, he had a fully functioning exoskeleton suit at his command. He punched a monster in the face, the exosuit giving his punch so much force that the monster simply exploded into pixels on contact. Maxi debated turning the power down a bit later, but decided to keep it high for situations like this. Suddenly, it seemed like they were being overwhelmed. "Alright, let's see how they like this!" Maxi threw four small wooden boxes into the air, each unfolding into a puppet of himself. When the puppets landed, each of the four drew a bow and began to aim and launch saw blades from their bows into the crowds of monsters. Now with the strength of seven people working at once, they found the job much easier. When the monsters were finally cleared, a woman in witch's garb, and with violet-gray skin, floated down into the center of the street. In one fell swoop, she felled all four of Maxi's puppets, Mina, and Blanc. Maxi managed to stay standing, but only just. His exoskeleton shattered, leaving him only to his normal strength. He was breathing ragged, and the witch simply smiled.

"Now then, White Heart, Let's have that power, shall we?" she grabbed Blanc, and Blanc screamed out in pain, reverting back to her normal form. Seeing this filled Maxi with rage. Mina was out cold, and there was no one to help him. The witch walked over to him. "And just who are you?" she asked. "Mayhaps you are the hero they were looking for to save them? Fat chance, kid. You're nothing but a boy. I could kill you here and now if I wanted to, don't forget it."

"Try and harm him and I'll tear you to pieces!" the witch looked up just in time to catch a flying show in the face. Felicia Landed next to Maxi, checking him over. "Maxi! Are you alright?! That witch is going to-" Felicia was cut off as Maxi grabbed two daggers, the handguns, and the pebble from her, all in the blink of an eye, and burst forwards in a blast of speed, towards the witch. Filled with rage, he launched himself into the air, and spun, lining himself up and dropping his elbow in a viscous spiraling motion, rocketing the witch back to the ground. Maxi landed on the floor with a thud a yard or two away.

"Hey, bro! Heads up!" Kupo lobbed the capsule over to Maxi, and Maxi took it in his hand, the capsule elongating into a cyan and black spear when it landed in his hand. Three girls, who Maxi figured to be Blanc, Vert, and Neptune, except in that weird form that Blanc had done, landed at the ready, but they were seemingly surprised that most of the work had already been done. The witch rose and glared at Maxi.

"I am the witch Arfoire, boy! You cannot defeat me so easily." she hissed. Maxi glared right back, his rage-blooded glare making the witch recoil out of fear.

"Good, I wasn't done beating the shit out of you yet. One hit is hardly enough." he spun the spearing in a circular motion, the blade swishing by so quickly that it appeared as a disc. When he brought it to a stop, the blade seemed to glow with energy, and he brandished it, ready to drop Arfoire like the villain she was. She rushed in, a staff in her hand, and they went at each other at a blinding pace, clashing and swinging at each other, some hits connecting, some getting parried, and others simply missing completely. When the backed away, it wasn;t by choice, it was by Maxi's forceful blow to her staff, kocking both of them back. Arfoire's body suddenly erupted with slashes and she fell to one knee, holding her body, blood spilling to the ground. Maxi stepped in and viciously swung upwards in a rending motion, any more force behind the blow would've been enough to remove the witch's head from her body entirely. She fell on her back, several yards away, knocked back a good distance. Maxi collapsed his spear and put the capsule in his pocket. "Now get out of my face before I decide to end this here and now." The witch obliged, teleporting away. Maxi shambled back over to his party, Felicia and Kupo running over to assist him in walking. The other three seemed to be busy checking over Blanc and Mina. Maxi sighed heavily. "Felicia, Kupo, let's get them back to the house to run medical checks on them. Not to mention, to get some sleep as well. Let's get going." Suddenly, Maxi heard the wailing of police sirens. "Shit. I'll deal with them. Felicia, get everyone else out of here." Felicia nodded and threw out her arms, light flashing, and all but Maxi disappearing. As the Police drew nearer, Maxi put up his hands. Luckily, Felicia had taken all the weapons with her, but Maxi was sort of standing amongst the body of a bunch of thugs.

"Freeze! This is the police!" an officer yelled from his car.

"No shit!" Maxi yelled back.

"We have you surrounded! Surrender yourself!"

"My hands are already up, what else do you fucking want?!" Maxi held out his hands, allowing himself to be cuffed, and complying with everything the officer said, making small talk with him on the way back to the station. The officer took him out of the car and and turned him around to look at him, face to face.

"You know, son, I've half a mind to let you go right here. You don't seem like a criminal to me, but rules is rules, so you know how it is. I'll try to help you out though. My son works for you, ya know that?"

"Oh really?" Maxi inquired, genuinely curious, "What's his name?"

"Name's Joe, same as mine."

"Ah, Joe. Yes I know him, I saw him just earlier today, in fact. He's a hard worker, that kid." Joe the officer chuckled hoarsely.

"Ah, sure is. He wanted to be an officer like his old man, but he didn't have the physical build for it."

"That so?" things like that were what they exchanged as they progressed. Eventually, Maxi found himself in an interrogation room, and he sat back, waiting for his interrogator to enter the room. A young person walked into the room, short blue hair, and a business suit on their person. "Evening, Ma'am." he said to her. Her eyes instantly got curious.

"Oh? You're not going to refer to me as a male like all the others? I'm impressed already." the girl responded. "The name is Kei, Kei Jinguji. I would say I'm going to interrogate you, but I think we already know all we need to know." Maxi raised an eyebrow.

"Oh?" mayhaps this would go much smoother than he had anticipated? "Is there something I'm missing?"

"Maybe, though let me explain this to you. You felled about twenty thugs all on your own, and that's with no weapons. We have biological readings that you have a brother, who possesses the same, if not better physicality than you do. You committed no crime, and you brought the thugs down for us, so what is there for me to ask you that can't wait?" Kei asked him. He liked her already. "Just know that I may need to call for your help again sometime, that's all. Other than that, just keep me in mind, yes? Here's my phone number. Call me if you have questions. I may have one for you later. Do me a favor and keep your door open, I'll need to talk to you later this evening." Maxi nodded.

"Certainly. I'm glad you and I think the same way." he told her. She smiled and offered her hand.

"Let me escort you out so you don't get lost, and the officers won't think you're escaping." Maxi nodded.

"That would definitely help. I think the Police Station is the one public building that I haven't been in very many times."Kei giggled a bit.

"I would certainly hope not. I'd like to think you're a guy who doesn't do the wrong thing." Maxi laughed.

"At least I haven't gotten caught yet." Kei laughed back, and showed him out of the station.

"Just remember to keep the door open for me?" he nodded.

"Later, Kei." and with that, he headed off back towards his home.

When he got there, Maxi was greeted by seven friendly faces, those being Felicia, Kupo, Noire, and Neptune, those which he expected, and also Vert, Blanc, and Mina, those he was not expecting. Suddewnly, someone tapped him on the shoulder. It was Kei. "Good to see we're all here for the most part. We'll take care of who we're missing later. For now, let's talk, Maxi."

Maxi sat at his table, everyone sitting, drinking, and eating food. Now that they were done eating, Kei sat up. "So now that you've served us dinner, and that was a supreme meal by the way, my compliments to the chef, Felicia." Felicia gave a wide smile and a nod of the head. Kei turned to Maxi. "So now, Maxi, I want you not to take this the wrong way..."

"Sure, I hardly ever take anything badly. You can ask Felicia, I've got the heart of a small boy." Kei raised her eyebrows.

"Oh really? Is that true?" Maxi nodded earnestly.

"Oh sure it is. I keep it in a glass jar in the back of my closet." Every head in the room turned to him. "Gods, it's a Robert Bloch joke, people." Blanc raised an eyebrow in question.

"I though it was a Stephen King quote?" she inquired. Maxi shook his head.

"Common mistake, he borrowed it. Nonetheless, what's this issue that you're afraid of me taking badly?" he asked, turning back to Kei. "I doubt anything could surprise me at this point."

"Well then, if you're so confident, all of us here would like to move in with you." Kei said as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

"Yeah sure, why not?" Maxi responded, equally nonchalantly. It was sort of his specialty. Now it was Kei's turn to be surprised.

"Er... what?" she asked quickly. Maxi shrugged.

"Why the fuck not? We've got the space. Felicia, get some guest rooms ready for me, will you?" Felicia teleported out of the room in a burst of energy to prepare the rooms. Kei pointed over to where Felicia had been just standing.

"Did she just...?"

"Teleport? Yeah, what of it?" Kei smiled as she leaned back on the table.

"You and I have a lot to talk about Maximilllian." she said, pointing a finger at him. He shrugged.

"Yeah? Get in line." he said casually. Felicia blipped back into the room.

"All done, Maxi!" she exclaimed. He gave her a thumbs up.

"Excellent job, Felicia." he kissed her cheek. Kei turned a bit red at the display of affection. "Now then, is there anything else you wanted to talk about, Kei?" Kei recovered her composure before giving him and answer.

"Eh... no. That will be all for now." she said, a bit shakily. Maxi gave a bit of a silent chuckle before heading off to bed, Felicia close behind him. When he got to his room, she entered with him. He turned to her.

"Something you need, Felicia?" he asked. She turned red... somehow...?

"Um... no. I just thought... you might like the company?" Maxi turned a bit red when he realized what she was implying.

"Sure. Especially if it's you." he said with a smile, and pressed his lips against hers. She eagerly pressed back, and eventually when they pulled apart, she was beaming like crazy. "Why don't you get changed for bed? I'll do the same." Felicia headed off to change, and Maxi changed into a white undershirt and some boxers. When Felicia came back, she was wearing similar garb, simply replacing the boxers with briefs, and the undershirt with a form fitting tank-top. Maxi pulled back the covers of the bed and held one arm out, as if holding a door for her. She slid under the covers, pulling him under behind herself. She held him close, and Maxi could feel himself getting red as he wrapped his arms around her in return, savoring the feeling of her body up to his. He relaxed, easing up as she hugged him. Maxi began to drift off, the warmth of Felicia's body making him drowsy. As he faded off to sleep, he reflected on the day.

He knew one thing for certain. Things were going to be a lot more exciting from now on. He was looking forward to it.

Ah, getting things done feels good. Is there any trivia for me to cover here? I dunno, Maxi, I think there's more comments. What have we got?

Maxi: Actually, we've only got one more that I can see right now. So here we go, Mr. Praixz Zer0 said: "its amazing how different the story feels with just one different character keep up the good work"
24: Well certainly! I'm glad you like the change! I really think, even though Maxi and Shugo are much different, Maxi fits the part quite well.

Maxi: Okay, We've also got a few questions from pre-readers and other people. You know, questions we can answer before they get asked. The first one is about that last scene with Felicia and I, like what inspired you to put that in?
24: I think it was mainly due to a lot of people irl requesting me to put in a bit more of a love scene. The reason I decided to use Maxi and Felicia is because Felicia is the only one who seems to have enough affinity with Maxi for the scene to fit. I know Felicia's an android, but she's practically a person in the way she functions. Oh and by the way, that is not a sex scene. They're just sleeping in the same bed. Calm down. I can here Noire yelling at me already...

Maxi: Riiight...? So another question: this one's from Vert actually, she wants to know why Blanc, Neptune, and Noire got an affection based scene, but she only got the cold shoulder from me on the first go.
24: You mean other than the fact that it was in the script? I think I explained this bit already? Whatever, in case we missed it the first time, or I just forgot it, Maxi is based off an actual person, and his initial reactions are one and the same with Maxi's, or at least they have been up and through this point. I might change that, I dunno.

Maxi: Cool, cool, Here's one from Myous, he wants to know why he wasn't in that scene.
24: That's my fault. I got carried away while writing this, Myous was supposed to be in this scene, then he just kind of wasn't because it ended too quickly. Oops.

Now that those are out of the way, I'm going to go make some lunch, so let's do this outro.

So then, I hope you all have a lovely evening, and, be it here or anywhere elsewhere, may we meet again upon another chapter. See ya!