Chapter 20: The hitman
The dawn was coming. Bugs and Lola walked out of the building. Everything had been planned. Lola was still asking herself why she agreed to this. Any other member of the A.C.P.D wouldn't hesitate arresting them. Normally she would have done it to, but there is still so little she knew. She was still not sure what side these people are on, but if this is going as planned; Sam and Rocky would be behind bars at no time. In addition, Lola couldn't really explain it, but the was something about Bugs, something that made her trust him.
"See you later Lo." Bugs said.
"You really seem to have much faith in me. How can you know that I won't take you guys in after this is finished?" Lola asked.
"I can't, but let's just say that something tells me that I can count on you."
"That kind of faith can be dangerous in this city."
"I know, but I take my chances."
Bugs gave Lola a warm smile. That made Lola smile back. However, that moment quickly disappeared when Bugs noticed a red light at Lola's head. Bugs ran to Lola and pushed her away before a projectile flew through the air and made an injury on bugs' shoulder. It didn't hit her, fortunately.
"What the hell!" She yelled.
At the top of a building, a tiny figure became frustrated that the bullet missed it's target.
"Ahhh. You made me miss. I NEVER MISS." The figure said.
Bugs and Lola ran into the building again.
Inside the building at the highest floor, Sylvester laughed continuous of what happened to Daffy.
"Would you stop that. It wasn't that funny." Daffy said annoyed.
"Yes it was. I have never seen anyone do that to you (laugh). You should have seen the look on your face." Sylvester said while he kept laughing. "I really wish I had camera."
"I swear if you tell this to anyone I'm gonna kick your…" Daffy said before he heard a gunshot. "What was that?"
Then Sylvester's gauntlet started ringing. He pressed a button, revealing a holographic screen of Bugs.
"Bugs?" Sylvester said. "What going on?"
"Sniper!" Bugs yelled. "On the rooftop at the building in front of you. Get him."
Sylvester shut down the screen.
"Come on Daf."
Daffy and Sylvester got up to the roof, where they spotted a tiny figure with a sniper rifle.
The figure aimed at Lola again, but she was pulled inside the building she came from.
Inside the building where Bugs just pulled Lola back in, Lola took her gun cover at the door.
"Don't bother Lola. Daffy and Sylvester will handle this." Bugs said. Groaning a little.
She saw the figure on the roof ran, followed by Daffy and Sylvester. She then put her gun back, and noticed the wound Bugs got.
"Bugs. Your shoulder." Lola said.
"It's nothing. I've tried worse. I just need to keep you saf… keep you safe…"
Bugs started crumbling.
"Bugs? BUGS!" Lola said as she ran to Bugs.
Lola gripped Bugs before he fell to the ground. Suddenly his face turned pale, and the veins at his throat started getting visible. It came from his wound. Lola had seen these symptoms before and she understood what happened immediately.
The bullets was poisoned.
At the rooftops
Daffy and Sylvester ran after the little figure from rooftop to rooftop until he found a high place at the roof he was on and then he stooped. The figure took his sniper riffle, activated its laser, and aimed it at Daffy. However, before the figure pulled the trigger, Daffy managed to take cover behind a chimney. Sylvester took cover as well.
"Great, what now?" Daffy asked.
"Don't worry. I got this." Sylvester said as he took another one of these knife-like objects. However, this one was curved, like some kind of boomerang. He used the laser to estimate the shooters position, then he threw it to the side of the building, away from the shooter, but like a boomerang, it's direction changed. The result was it hit the shooters rifle and electrified it. The shooter drooped his rifle and moaned in pain.
Daffy and Sylvester came out of their hideouts.
"You lost your weapon. Show yourself!" Sylvester yelled.
When the figure stopped moaning, he tried to run, he started staring at the cat and the duck.
"Well, I supposed an introduction is in order." The figure said. Then he jumped from his shooting place and walked slowly to them.
Daffy and Sylvester could now see the shooter clearly. He was a bald man and half as tall as they were. He was wearing a military suit with armored chest piece, magazines with ammunition and grenades. He had some a laser-sighted eye patch on his right eye and his left eye was uncovered, revealing his eye color was blue. He also had some kind of tiny turrets on his wrist.
"Wait. I've seen your faces before." The tiny man said. "You're part of… Well I just want you guys to know that I'm a big fan of you guys work."
"Thanks, and you are?" Daffy asked.
"You're the detectives. Figure it out."
"Well that's not fair, since you apparently know who we are." Sylvester said.
"But why spoil the big mystery. Besides, you'll only know me as the man who ended you. After all, it's not many who get the change to kill legends."
"I thought you could only be a legend when you die." Daffy said.
"An easy problem to fix." The man said as he aimed his wrist turrets at then and opened fire at them.
Daffy and Sylvester took cover before any of the bullets hit them. Then the man pressed a button on his eye patch a laser activated a laser. He walked slowly to their hideouts, ready to fire.
"Hiding again. Come on. I expected more from people of your reputation." The man said, laughing a little. "Don't tell me you're scared."
"Come and get us." Sylvester said.
"You are the one behind the assassination at the police station aren't you?" Daffy asked.
The man stopped walking. He wouldn't go any further. Because if just half of what he have heard of these was true. There was no doubt they had a plan. So he made plan himself. He took a grenade from his magazine and rolled it to were the voices came from. His plan was simple: The explosion or just the sight of the grenade should force then into the open. In that way, he could take them down.
"Be ready for a blast." The man said, aiming at the duck and the cat's hideout and waited for them to come out.
"Think again." Daffy said through a microphone hooked to a 'dagger' at where the grenade was about to explode.
When the explosion started, the bald man was surprised to see that no came out. Then he heard someone jump behind him, He turned around to the cat throwing a claw with a rope. The man tried fire at the car, but the hook hit the wrist-turret he was aiming with. Then the cat threw the other end of the rope with a dagger the ground of the roof. Then the duck came with another one of these 'rope claw' as well and did the exact same thing with his other wrist-turret, but threw the end at the opposite direction. These ropes he was captured in started pulling at the tiny bald man, forcing him to cross his arms and go on his knees.
"Alright pal, it's time we had a talk." Sylvester said, showing his claws.
The bald man tried to get free, but he couldn't.
"Why did you try to kill us?" Sylvester asked.
The bald man made little laugh.
"Not you just her." He said.
"The detective?" Daffy said. "Why are you after her?"
"Oh yeah, why would a hired gun do that. Could be because someone paid me to."
"Gun of hire huh?" Sylvester said. "Who hired you?"
The bald mercenary just made a weak laugh.
"Come on, you know I can't tell you that."
"If you really have heard about us." Daffy began. "You would know how got we are to beat a confession out of people."
"I'm sure you are, but I'm also sure that your attention is required elsewhere."
"Huh?"
"I may have failed to miss my target, but there will be a death tonight." The mercenary said while trying to reactivate his wrist-turrets. Daffy and Sylvester didn't noticed.
"What are you talking about?" Sylvester asked.
"Your grey long-eared friend. I shoot him with a curare-bullet. The poison is in his body and it will only be a matter of time before it finish him."
Daffy and Sylvester started getting angry.
"Why should we believe you?" Daffy asked.
"Help your friend, or don't. It's your decision to make. Besides have better things to do then be here." The mercenary said. After he said that, he opened fire with his turrets at the ropes nailed to the ground and got free. Then opened fire at Daffy and Sylvester who took cover once again.
"Chao." He said as he jumped of the roof and disappeared.
Daffy and Sylvester came out of their hideout and ran to the edge of the building to look after him, but he was nowhere to be seen.
"He couldn't have gone far come on." Sylvester said.
"No. If what that mercenary said is true, Bugs could be in danger. We must go back after him come on."