After what had gone down, word of this will go and spread for a hunt on the imp assassin, and also angers someone very powerful in hell, and as if they already have one other imp problem, the other one from the past is back. Enjoy reading this newly posted chapter folks.

Helluva Loud Adventures.
"Resurfaced foe from before."

(May 3. Leni and Lori's place, Royal Woods Michigan.)

This is where they have all gathered. Blitz, Lincoln, Loona, Luna, Lori, Leni, Charlie, Vaggie, and of course, Lucifer. They were told about what had gone down the other day, and they do not fucking like this at all.

Leni sighs. "Can't believe that imp is back, but targeting Lincoln instead."

Lori scoffs. "I literally thought he would stay dead or rot away wherever he would be hiding, but no. Apparently, he literally doesn't die so easily, then again he is an assassin."

"Yeah? Well, so are we" replied Blitz. "He's not getting away the next fucking time he comes back, and I wanna be the one to put that son of a bitch down. Is his horse still around or something?"

Lincoln then speaks. "Yeah, he told me that his trusty steed Bombproof is fine, and alright. But still, even though he is back, he wasn't prepared for what I could do. I mean, I managed to beat him and send him off wounded, and yet he managed to escape and he looked sorta surprised."

"Makes sense, bro" replied Luna. "We have been training for some time, and have become stronger and stronger, improving ourselves and making sure we don't get dropped on by someone who thinks they can come back. Striker, he might not be the only one, even though we don't know if there is anyone else who wants to come back and take us down."

"Still, the situation is not looking good" replied Charlie, and she explains. "Striker got the chance to ambush, and he went with the idea of I.M.P coming to get their payment after they do their assassination job, you guys know where I'm getting with this right?"

Loona sighs and she nods. "Yeah, Striker will come back again, only next time he might kill the client and trick us and get the drop on us. We can't let that shit happen, all hell is turning out bad ever since the other day, and Striker will do it again."

Vaggie then speaks. "That means you guys cannot just go off and meet with the client, or clients alone to get paid. He might come up with something else, and it doesn't seem like he was hired to kill Lincoln the other day, the whole thing seems to be..."

"Revenge..." Lucifer looks out the window, and he is not happy. "Striker is out for revenge, after all I am the one who made him a wanted imp with one helluva fucking bounty on his head. He aided the Von Eldritch siblings to taking my granddaughters, and he wants to get even with Lincoln Silva Hound. No offense, but he is a future overlord, and was dangerous enough to prove he can kick ass."

He then looks to the others. "This whole incident with Striker coming back, is just the leverage that we need. Well, mostly myself and my family. If you should all go and retrieve the payment from a client, I can have my best forces secretly tag along, and then we can ambush him and bring him to me dead or alive."

They are all surprised to hear this, then Loona speaks. "Sir now that is a good plan, but chances he might know that we're all onto him."

"Then we have Tannins and Athena send something in stealth that can get an aerial view and track down his location" replied Blitz. "I mean, they gotta have some fancy stealth shit that..."

"Observers" replied Lincoln. "Days ago, the last day of April I went to visit them and they showed me the new tech that FutureTech let them use, they're called Observers, and they are not man-made, they're alien made. They're robotic scouts that can go invisible and track down hidden or stealth threats. They can send them to come with us."

Lucifer grins. "Now we have a fucking good plan." They all continue to talk about this plan and issue, Lincoln gets a message on his phone and he checks on who it is from, and once again it is another gig.

Client: Tom McGinnis.
A 47 year old man, and loving husband and father who was the owner of a large company called McGinnis Industry located in Wichita. A former man who was in jail for sexual harassment, but changed his ways, which all began during his delinquent teen years. He went back home, but only to find his wife, and his children dead, and then he was killed. He resides in the Hazbin Hotel now.

Target: Sean Banks.
A 33 year old man, and master thief and well-known in the Southern states of the country, he is mostly wanted in Rhode Island because he managed to break into every store, bank and house and gets away, but he also kills people who have seen him. He is also notorious for kidnapping women, and raping them, especially teenage girls. He is insane, and a danger to everyone.

Results: Brutally kill this man, and leave his corpse dangling over a cliff for the buzzards, record the whole thing for double the payment.

Seeing this makes Lincoln think. 'Perhaps we all shouldn't partake in this, perhaps some of us should do this and the rest can take a break. We need to have a meeting about this and how it might turn out.'

(Somewhere in Royal Woods.)

Yeah, another fight is underway and it is high above Royal Woods, as the newly rebuilt and modified Airship from Sir Pentious is engaged in a heavy duty aerial conflict. The large thing has his face, and has more anti-air guns and rockets, and the FutureTech aerial forces are trying their best to send this thing down, and they release the new aircraft, the Liberator.

Lady Ace flies by them, and she dodges the missiles, she even catches one and she throws it back and this destroys one of the rocket launchers, and then she lands a few blasts, doing some damage to the rest of the anti-air guns. She then catches one of the Egg Bois in their planes, and she throws them back making the side of this monster aircraft take some damage.

'This is getting intense, and glad everyone in town is safe from this carnage, but why the heck did he come out high above and not come down low to the town?' Lady Ace then flies away from three Egg Bois planes.

Explanation: Something went wrong with Sir Pentious' teleportat5ion device, and instead of being above the town of Royal Woods, he was teleported high above the town above the clouds.

Lady Ace then makes the two planes crash into each other, and then she grabs an Egg Bois from his plane, and she throws the little guy and he is sent towards another plane and it blows up. Lady Ace then flies past some Viking Fighters and MiG Fighters, and then she throws another Egg Bois plane, and it hits the glass of the airships cockpit.

This angers Sir Pentious. "When we do get back to base, I need to get to run another maintenance on my own fucking portal machine! Fuck, this sucks!" He then pushes a button, and laser cannons start to shoot, but they malfunction and shoot each other, and this angers him. "Are you fucking kidding me?!"

Sir Pentious then pushes another button and now the airship is covered in spikes, and hooks and it has some harpoon cannons ready to engage, but Lady Ace flies over, and she catches the harpoon before it hits any of the friendly forces. "Not today, Egg-Ward!"

Sir Pentious yells. "It's Sir Pentious! Stop calling me... Oh shit..." The harpoon is sent to the cockpit, but it doesn't fully break through. "Ha! What as that supposed to do?"

Lady Ace smirks and she crosses her arms, and the harpoon gun reels in what it caught, but it instead is pulling the harpoon that is stuck to the cockpit of the airship itself, and this causes the whole thing to slowly tilt and crushing the left side. "No, no! No!" Sir Pentious tries to stop it, but the cannon is jammed.

Sir Pentious pushes a button, which makes the harpoon gun eject from the airship, but the damage has been done, and while he was occupied, Allied Air forces managed to send in some Century Bombers to sneak above, and land a carpet bombing run onto the top side, damaging the rotors and thrusters of this airship.

Then Sir Pentious feels like the airship is falling, but then he feels it is going back up. "Wait, what the fuck?" He then realizes, Lady Ace is below the aircraft, and she is using all of her strength and she is glowing bright light blue, she then sends the aircraft to the upper atmosphere, and this makes Sir Pentious panic and he puts on a space suit.

All aircraft lock onto the airship, and they open fire and so does Lady Ace, their barrage is constant, and they eventually land a hit and the whole thing explodes. Lady Ace puts her arm in front of her, and she manages to catch Sir Pentious, who is dazed. "Looks like this day, I managed to catch you. It is over."

But Sir Pentious snaps out of it. "Not over till I win, and I will win next time!" He then gropes the chest of Lady Ace, this alarms her, and she accidentally let's go of Sir Pentious, he has a device, and he opens up a portal and goes through.

Lady Ace growls and she is pissed off at what he just did. 'Despite everything being Ace-Okay, that little piece of filth of gonna get what's coming to him the next time he comes back!'

"To be continued in the next chapter folks!"
A/N: Striker resurfacing is now getting everyone on edge, and they need to find this guy and put him down, and apparently Sir Pentious is not giving up either. I hope that you all enjoyed reading this newly posted chapter folks, and a huge thanks to "Marvelomac1010" and "Avenger44" for coming together and setting up the next kill.

Date made: 2/16/23.