Chivalry of a Failed Knight Fundriche Enterprise
May/1/2023
For those fans that remember the original character in my last fanfiction (Alistair Fundsriche). This story has the character shedding light on his father starting and expanding his empire.
The day starts off with the main characters, Stella,Ikki, and Shizuku soothing their aching muscles in an Onsen. The three knights have nothing but praise for the spa, treating it like its healing potion from a video game.
Stella: The deep-tissue massage activated just the right pressure points, I totally forgot about my back pains.
Shizuku: With those huge jugs you'll have more soon, sweater . Stella turned up the setting on Shizuku's massage chair, turning her to mindless goo.
Ikki: This is one impressive spa, japanese, greek, and swedish decor, which reminds me to add a huge tip to the bill.
Alistair: (Dropping in from the ceiling in a chinese silk bathrobe) There is no bill my friend, this spa is owned by yours truly, and it is a treat by me. Enjoy yourselves.
Ikki: Wow, you own this entire building, your father must be quite liberal with your allowance, A-star.
A-star: Of course I am a large part of why my father has his empire, would any of you want to hear the story of my family's success?
Stella: If you're footing the bill, then I'd watch paint dry for you.
A-star: Wonderful, it starts off back in Detroit, MI my hometown where my father Arlo was Mst. Sergeant in the military, but the town was plagued with, violence, drugs, etc. Seeing my father and mother as reasons to do good, and fight back, I went out and took on gangs with or without police backing. Little did I know my father showed up and decided to observe my skills as a future knight. At the end my metal manipulation let me cuff them and leave them for the feds.
When my father saw me beating down gangsters and burning their stashes of drugs he was… impressed. One of them, still conscious, had something to say to us.
Gangbanger: You, punk-ass superhero wannabes think you can take us down, we are like a corporation, this is like a franchise, one of many locations, the guys in charge can have more thugs, more drugs, and have the cops, and media look away from it all.
Arlo: I became a soldier to fight back against people that think the world belongs to them, and to help people I love, if things go my way then I'd use millions of people wasting their lives with crimes, to do something good, like I did and join the military. At that moment, the I A-star had an idea.
A-star: Wait a minute, dad, he said that there are tons of criminals, there's a butt-load of money and an army to do the bidding of evil rich folks. If we squeeze this guy we find out where the top is, who's in charge.
Cut back to the spa, their group is joined by the flamboyant, Alice. As well as the newshound Kagami, with a waterproof recorder in her cleavage.
Alice: Hello, all my apologies that I'm late, but please continue the story for me, I'm sure I would enjoy it, A-star.
Kagami: Heck, yeah, I can already make a title, The Vigilante Knight of Hagun Origin: A slum dweller to prince of an Empire.
Ikki: Long as usual, but she is good at her job, however I think this is something that should be confidential.
Kagami: Really but this story is worthy of national, maybe international status. I could win prize's friend as for this.
A-star: Well, I will tell you what, if you hold off on writing, then I will fund your newspaper and maybe get you an internship at my father's tv channels.
Kagami turned off her recorder and they all waited for the rest of the story.
Continuing where Alistair left off, back in Detroit, there was a skyscraper housing a meeting of the city's top crime lords, discussing business.
Crime boss #1: Well after cannabis went legal, we need something else to fill the void, I have been investing in shipping, as we speak a boatload of Koreans are being flown in for free labor, prostitution, whatever we want.
Crime boss #2: Those people at customs are cheap to pay off, next is the police and the list goes on, what's for lunch?
Suddenly the silverware on the table had levitated and surrounded the throat of the men and women.
Capo #1: Oh, damn it, there must be a blazer in here, call securit.. aah( The silverware morphed into a chain choking him).
Alistair, living out a fantasy from many movies, jumped in from the bullet-proof windows, coated in an armor covering the torso, forearms, legs, head and groin.
*Alistar: Sorry, to break up your meal ladies and gents, but you gluttons have made our city look in the nice version "bad", you all have a ton of money and use it to pamper yourselves, soon it will be used to rebuild Detroit. You all know about us "Psychics" or as they say in Japan "Blazers", I am using my powers for good. I would like you all to meet my friend, Lily, another psychic. She has power to alter electricity and the impulses in your brains are electric.
Crime Boss 1: Wait, kid this is a business, you can join us here, a bruiser like you will be great.
A-star: Lily, lobotomize them, after they change personalities, get them to sign over their business to my dad's new security company… "Diamond Secure".
Cutting back to the Spa again, where the others have strong opinions of what happened.
Stella: Wow, that is one heck of a hostile takeover, it reminds me of the wars that Vermillion was involved in, but yours was done fast.
Shizuku: With methods like that, you put other corporations to shame but, your company is international, how do you get all that money from a few drug bosses and pimps?
A-star: That was just the tip of it, with the money and connections, we contacted the prison parole board, and the D.A. to get some foot-soldiers. We gave personality-alterations to the high level thugs, like on death row, or life in prison. Then the ex-cons were given personality alterations courtesy of the sixteen-year-old korean-american, girl Lily, they were granted parole and given jobs at Diamond Secure.
They kept others crooks at bay around the city, cleaned up the litter and rebuilt the buildings and communities they had a part in wrecking. My dad bought the buildings when they cost very little, and thanks to the fixer-uppers property values rose.
After that there was a big showdown, a Capo of my one of the crime syndicates showed up also a Blazers, his name "Cyrus Hunt" aka "Horde" a Blazer with the power to make clones of himself. Right when my father was getting a Key to the City, he attacked my dad.
Horde: Arlo, you want an army, I'm here, but can you handle it?
As the swat team protecting the event intervened they were overwhelmed by sheer volume and the clones healed fast.
Ikki: Your father was in some real danger wasn't he, how did it end for your family?
A-star: You see, I was ready to use some moves that I saw in anime. First, I crashed down onto the pavement, and smashed them away. As they reasimpled, I leaped in and used debris from a wrecked building to shoot at the clones until the original was knocked Horde was on his knees asking her mercy, but he pulled out a knife to get in my dad Arlo, jumped in and used his giant key to knock out the crook.
The crowd ate it up, then with more points as a hero, he sponsored politicians around the State, who got into higher positions or stayed in their positions thanks to Dad, implementing his prisoner to private soldier plan. Then my dad and I spread his company to other States expanding Diamond Inc. That is how we came to be the tycoons we are now.
Alice: My that was, quite the tale, prisoners, brain surgery, big business, I may visit your home someday.
A-star: Well, Nagi, if you get the surgery then we could discuss something.
Stella: That is some business plan, do you have plans to take over the world?
A-star: Nope, we just have plans to help out in crime-ridden slums, and give back to the community.
Kagami: I think that I am going to rebrand and leave out some details. "A-star, the Altruistic advocate for the community, and business tycoon, changes the world."
The group decided to finish their soak in the hot springs, and other treatments then headed back to Hagun in the Fundsrich limo. They were all happy with the new vigilante Knight even with his colorful past.