Chapter 12

"What the hell was that? You went all slasher horror film on those guys, what's your deal man?" Ashton said to Aiden after he regained his composure, having lost it at the sight of the ruthless way his partner dispatched the two Conduits.

"My deal!?" Aiden shouted, whipping around to look Ash in the face. "My 'deal' is that those two fuckheads were in my way, a mistake they paid for in full. Don't get soft on me Ash, I don't deal with soft. You get me?" Aiden said fiercely.

"Y-yea I got you man, loud and clear." Ashton said raising in hands in surrender.

Aiden gave him one last glare before turning around and pressing forward. "Good. Now this little expedition gave me an idea. We been going at this all wrong. The head of the FKD ain't gonna come out hiding unless we apply the right kind of pressure." Aiden gravity jumped onto a nearby roof and looked out at the city as Ash flew up next to him.

"And how do you figure we do that?"

"We go after his lieutenants. Once the people runnin' his operations are taken down he'll have nobody else to protect him, that's when we strike!" Aiden raised a clenched fist to emphasize his point. "I got a guy in the gang who can tell us how to draw out the fucks. We work our way up the food chain and in no time we'll have the boss man's head on a fuckin pike."

Ashton mulled over the plan with a hand on his chin. After a few moments he said, "I like it. That shit makes sense, it'll piss him right the fuck off once he starts losing all his money." He chuckled at thought of the bastard screaming his eyes out in anger.

Aiden smirked devilishly at the news. "I'm glad you like it, cause you ain't really have a choice." Placing his hands behind his back, Aiden turned his head sideways to look at his partner. "Now leave, I'll call you when my guy has some information to tell me." Ashton flamed on and flew off into the night sky leaving Aiden alone with his thoughts.

Aiden continued to stare out at the city thinking about the carnage he would soon wreak upon it. "When I get my hands on you asshole you're gonna wish ya mom never squeezed you out her wrinkly old pussy." Aiden laughed uncontrollably into air. The sound of his maniacal cackling echoed through the night, a clear sign that this city was going to witness chaos the likes of which had never been seen before.

The Next Day

"Please leave your message after the tone" *beep*

"Aiden? It's me again, Jessica. I haven't heard from you since yesterday, I'm getting a little worried, call me when you get the chance ok? I love you." With that she hung up the phone and let out a deep sigh.

"Where the hell are you?" She mumbled to herself, worry plastered across her face.

"What's got you so stressed sweetie?" Jessica's mom, Angelina said coming downstairs dressed in a pink fluffy robe. She went and sat next to her daughter, rubbing her back in a soothing manner.

"It's Aiden, I haven't heard from him since he left to go deal with those gang members yesterday. What something happened to him? What if he's really hurt and he can't use his powers to get back? What if…" She had started to go into a panic horrible scenarios playing out in her head about what could be wrong with her boyfriend, each scenario worst than the last.

"Jessica, sweetheart calm down, I'm sure Aiden is find, maybe he found another lead and he's dealing with it." Angelina said to her daughter, wrapping her arms around her to try and calm her. "Jess, your boyfriend is a badass Conduit with all sorts of crazy powers you don't have to worry about him ok?"

Jessica took a few seconds to calm herself thinking about what her mom said. "You're right… yea of course you're right, nothing's gonna take him down." She said a little more confidently, when she started to think about it Aiden was probably zipping through the city right now, looking for some gang member to beat down.

"That's the spirit baby girl, now I'm gonna go make breakfast. How do you feel about pancakes?" Angelina said lightheartedly making her way to the kitchen.

Back with Aiden

"You Dumb. Piece. Of Horse. SHIT!" Aiden yelled as he slammed the head of an FKD gang member into a brick wall, painting it with blood and brains. He had seen a few thugs walking around as he ran over the rooftops and decided to lessen the heard, even if it was by a very small margin. He flicked the blood from off his hands and cracked his knuckles, grinning in delight at the beaten and broken bodies of the gang members. He gravity jumped back onto the rooftop and proceeded on his power fueled parkour run through the city. His phone rang and he stopped in his tracks, checking to make sure it wasn't Jessica calling again he answered the phone.

"Hey uh Paradox? Yea I got that info you needed. The first dude you're gonna wanna take out is named Joe Braxton. He runs the drug business out of South Philly, he has two guys that answer to him. Mike Davis and Damon Anthony. If you start destroying their product they'll meet up at some place to hash things out, that's when you can get to em. They'll know where Joe's hiding and they'll tell you once you beat it out of an. I'm sure you can guess what to do next." Marcus explained to his boss over the phone.

"And how exactly do I start to with this? You know where I can find some of the product?"

"Yea of course I'll send you the locations."

"Good." And with that Aiden ended the call. A few seconds later a text message popped up on his phone with six addresses on it and a few instructions of how to find other stashes. Aiden placed the phone into his pocket and took off toward one of the addresses.

20 minutes later

Aiden landed on the roof of a building and look down below. There were about 10 thugs moving in and out of a little garage in a back alley. A few of them were loading boxes of some kinds of drugs into the boxcar of a white truck, while the others were guarding the perimeter.

After a few moments of surveying the situation, Aiden front flipped off the roof and landed in front of the gang members. After a few seconds of confusion the thugs raised their weapons and fired at the Conduit who just stood there as the bullets slammed into an invisible barricade, never once hitting him. When the enemy guns clicked signifying their depleted magazines, Aiden struck.

He zipped toward one thug while throwing a crescent shaped particle blade at another that sliced him in two. He gripped the thug he was moving towards by the throat and plunged his knife into the man's chest before yanking it out forcefully and stabbing him the face, once more he pulled his knife out and slit the man's throat. The other gang members who witness the brutal display stumbled backwards in horror, some falling flat on their assess. Aiden smirked menacingly and flung his knife through the air where it found purchase in the eye socket of another thug with a sickening crunch.

Aiden jumped through a portal, reappearing in the air and kicking a rather heavyweight thug in the back of the head knocking him to the ground. The Conduit grabbed the man's head and twisted it a full 180 degrees, his neck snapping loudly. He continued to decimate the remaining thugs in similarly brutal fashions, he even ripped the jaw off of one thug and beat another to death with it. When the battle was over and the blood had been spilt, he went and grabbed his knife out of the eye socket of the thug from earlier.

After destroying the drugs with a grenade he came up with the brilliant idea to leave a message for the FKD. Cutting open one of the thugs, he used the blood from the corpse to write on the wall "Paradox Was Here." Satisfied with his work, he gravity jumped into the air and took of towards the next location.

AN: Well It's been awhile. I kinda lost the plot of the story for a second so I had to rewrite this entire chapter. But everything's back on track now. I'm not sure how often the updates will come but they'll still be coming. Of that I am sure.