Opening File: Daniel Robitaille
Daniel Robitaille is a rogue Huntsman who is wanted for crimes such as murder and theft. He has no team and works only for anyone willing to pay him. He lost one arm in battle and has since replaced it with a mechanical arm with a huge hook sickle attached to it.
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Opening File: Barry Dylan
Barry is a murdering psychopath who works for mobster Len Trexler, who is mutilated by Archer after he drives a car over his legs, resulting in them having to be amputated. He is augmented by Krieger and is a real pain in the ass/nemesis for Archer. Barry sometimes talks to himself and calls himself 'Other Barry.' Occasionally he refers to himself in the third person. In addition to conversing with himself, he has also been known to speak to, but not with, his gun.
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Xxx
As soon as he was done rescuing a bunch of Chinese women from a life of slavery and prostitution Archer immediately headed over to the city morgue to claim Woodhouse's body.
There was still one last thing he had to do.
On the roof of their office Archer set up two chairs, a cooler filled with the most expensive Scotch he could get his hands on and a fill carton of cigarettes. He made sure Woodhouse was dressed in his trademark blue suit after having made sure the wounds wouldn't bleed out for what was about to happen.
"Okay, Woodhouse." Archer sat next to the body. "Time to say goodbye."
He placed his hand on his partner's shoulder and there was a flash of light that traveled down Woodhouse's body. Slowly the body twitched and the eyes slowly opened.
He was disorientated at first but as the memories slowly came back he looked over, smiling a bit when he saw Archer. "Sterling…"
"Hey buddy." Archer smiled back, retracting his hand. "I think we got a good five to ten minutes before this starts killing me or whatever poor rodents or birds that are close by."
"In the case…" Woodhouse eyed the cooler, specifically the bottle of Scotch surrounded by ice. "Time for one last drink."
Archer quickly poured himself and his partner two glasses and put some ice cubes before the two made a toast and slowly sipped their cold drinks. "Oh man, that's the stuff."
"Right?" Woodhouse chuckled. "So, about my message…"
"Yeah…" Archer trailed off.
"Let me guess, you got sidetracked again." Woodhouse said knowingly.
"I swear I was going to open it and then find the bastard." Archer said, tugging his collar.
"Before or after the hair cut?"
"Come on, man. Lana was there I wanted to have an excuse to see her again…" Archer decided to stop with the excuse. "Sorry. I know you always tell me to focus."
"I do." Woodhouse sipped his drink. "But I knew you would use your Semblance on me for at least this."
"So who was it? Who did it?" Archer glanced at the man who raised him.
Woodhouse lit his cigar and took a deep breath before answering. "Barry Dylan, Trexler's right hand man."
"Him?" Archer's eyes widened. "I ran over his ankles when I drove away with those girls he was helping Trexler smuggle into the country. I had him right there…If I had known-"
"I'll take the loss of his legs." Woodhouse lowered his cigar.
"Not good enough. Why'd he do it? Did you owe him money?" Archer questioned.
"No. He did it simply because he wanted to watch my lights go out." Woodhouse closed his eyes as he took another sip.
"WHAT?!" Archer stood up. "He up and murdered you just like that!"
"His words and I remember clearly, Sterling." Woodhouse tapped his head. "I'm old and dead but I still remember well enough."
"That bastard is so dead when I see him again." Archer sat back down. "I'll find out which hospital has him and-"
"He won't be in a hospital, not a public one anyway." Woodhouse interrupted calmly. "By Trexler will have had him shipped to GrimmFall."
"GrimmFall?" Archer looked at Woodhouse. "Why there? There's no way he'd last long with Sebben and those heroes breathing down his neck."
"The envelope I left you…It contained details to a deal between Len Trexler and the Red Caps." Woodhouse explained. "Specifically Robin Redcap Junior."
"The son of the head of the Redcaps?" Archer recalled. "What deal?"
"The Redcaps have a large shipment of weapons, Dust and slaves being imported somewhere in GrimmFall. Trexler is one of the buyers and he wanted Barry there to make sure he gets his money's worth. Breaking his ankles won't stop Barry or Trexler for very long. You remember that bar tender in your mother's den?" Woodhouse explained as he poured himself another drink.
"Kriegar? That Nazi-" Archer stopped when he realized what Woodhouse was saying. "He's going to turn Barry into a cyborg?!"
"If he's paid." Woodhouse took a sip. "Trexler will want to go to war if he suspects this was a hit by Mallory or one of the other mob bosses but he'll want to finish his deal with the Redcaps to have the firepower."
"So the best way to take him and Barry down would be to stop their deal." Archer picked up his glass and downed half the contents. "All right, I'm in. I'll make them both pay."
"I suppose I have no chance of talking you out of this?" Woodhouse rhetorically asked.
"Nope."
Woodhouse smiled nonetheless as the two stared up at the night sky. "I thought as much. Still, I think I got everything in order so I have no regrets."
"Like what?" Archer could not help but ask.
"Well, I made sure my will was ready a few years ago. By the way, if you see Miss Poovey be sure to tell her I said thank you for that night in the Tunt mansion with that red haired woman."
"Wait-What?!" Archer looked at Woodhouse with shocked wide eyes. "You and Pam and that crazy chick?!"
"Yep. The three of us and some drugs thrown in the mix. I do admit I regret destroying that woman's marriage…On the other hand it was one of the best nights I ever had." Woodhouse said with a dumb smile.
"Okay, I need some extra drinks." Archer quickly poured himself another glass and then started drinking from the bottle.
"I left Miss Poovey a cookbook for all of my recipes and a special pair of pink furry cuffs for Miss Vandertunt…If she is found alive." Woodhouse continued nonchalantly. "And if you run into a Mister Ray, tell him thank you for that wonderful night in the bathroom at your mother's club."
Archer started choking after he heard that. "Se-Seriously?!"
Woodhouse shrugged. "It was mostly done to spite Mallory. Speaking of I am sure she will be most furious if she is present when my lawyer reveals the testimony I left behind, aside from what was done in her club's bathroom."
"Why? Did you do something to make her mad? Without telling me?" Archer was now interested.
"Admittedly I was torn since I faithfully served her ever since she entered my bar and gave birth to you while killing a man." Woodhouse began.
"Figures." Archer muttered.
"But after witnessing all her horrible plans and ideas, including how she treated you, under the delusion she is some kind of high ranked elite woman that deserved everything handed to her on a platter while doing as little as possible…Or in her case doing as many men as possible." Woodhouse continued.
"Burn!" Archer laughed.
"Since I am nearly done I might as well confess. I stole her password to access several of her hidden accounts and donated them to places like several orphanages in Ireland because of how much she hates the Irish."
"Whoa!" Archer gaped.
"I also donated to several places and institutes that conduct research into sexually transmitted disease." Woodhouse grinned. "No surprise on that one."
"Another burn! We have a burn unit up here!" Archer laughed.
"Another was to charities for drug rehabilitation. I never could get clean," Woodhouse admitted as he took another whiff of his cigarette. "But I hope others will. As for the rest I donated them to hospitals and retirement homes in England, including the ones where my old unit lived after the war."
"Damn Woodhouse…" Archer said with a small but admiring smile. "And all of this right out from mother's nose?"
"She really should learn to use a different password aside from 'Duchess'." Woodhouse chuckled at the fact Mallory continued. "And learn to do her own tax work."
"Right!" Archer laughed, patting his partner on the shoulder. "Anything else?"
"Yes. I gave a few millions to some gay rights organizations just because I know how much she hates them and how much she hates that Ray character." Woodhouse nodded and chuckled. "If only because she actually hates him because she's afraid he attracts more men than her."
"Woodhouse…I think you just earned the top seat in heaven with an entire choir dedicated to you." Archer said with an admiring smile. "Anything else?"
"Yes, actually." Woodhouse pulled out small envelope. "This is for you."
Archer took it. "What is it?"
"Something I have worked on several decades. It wasn't easy but it narrows down to who your father might be." Woodhouse answered.
"What?" Archer looked at the envelope in shock. "Really?"
"It's not a one hundred percent conclusion. I had to dig deep into Mallory's past and we both know how difficult that is." Woodhouse mumbled the last part. "I could be wrong but I narrowed it down to at least one suspect."
"Woodhouse," Archer wrapped an arm around the old man's shoulder, pulling him in for a one-sided hug. "You are the best."
"I try to be." Woodhouse chuckled. "I'm glad I got this chance."
"Me too, Woodhouse." Archer said as they both leaned back, enjoying their drinks together one last time as the time limit for Archer's Semblance neared the end. "Woodhouse."
"Yes?"
"I'm going to miss the shit out of you, buddy."
Xxx
"Raven, get out of here and go find the truck. Here's my tablet that's locked on to their signal. It will tell you when you're getting close." Extor whispered as he handed his tablet over to Raven.
"What about you?" Raven asked.
"Don't worry about us! Worry about those people and taking down Junior!" Scotty replied.
Raven stood there for only another moment before she nodded and flew off.
"Hey! Where do you think your going?" The man in the other robot as it started to walk in the direction of where Blake was going, but was stopped when Scotty the large robot back.
"Leave her alone! She's not involved in this! If you truly believe those pieces of tin can actually stand up to Team SEKR then BRING IT ON!" Scotty yelled as he collided with the two suits of armor.
But the combined power of the two Butchers threw Scotty back through the wall and was thrown deeper into the abandoned metal mill. As he picked himself back up, he saw that he was surrounded with old machines made to melt down and create metal. As he looked back in the direction where he was thrown from he saw that the Butchers were tearing down the rest of the wall to make their way inside.
Scotty knew that these two guys weren't going to be pushovers. He looked over next to him and saw one large machine that was nailed to the ground. He ran over to it as he promptly tore it out of the ground, turned to the Butchers and threw it at them. However they were prepared as one of the Butchers jumped forward and created a giant red steaming hot chainsaw from the robots limb and cut the machine in half.
"Oh boy." Scotty gulped as the Butcher sped over towards the Scotsman with so much force that he was plowing his way through all of the abandoned machines.
As the Butcher came closer Scotty thought fast as he flipped over the charging Butcher, and while in mid-air fired his Gatling Leg in its back causing it to fall down face first. Scotty looked back and was about to pat himself on the back. But before he knew it the other Butcher came charging in and grabbed ahold of Double D by his neck with one hand and started tightening his grip around Scotty's throat.
"Hands off!" Keanu jumped in and slashed the Butcher's visor. distracting the Butcher and giving Scotty the best opportunity to jump back as Extor activated his wrist sonic cannons.
A powerful blast of sound blew the Butcher away causing it to crash through dozens of abandoned machinery. They quickly turned to the other Butcher that was still on the side fire missiles but Extor quickly counters with a flurry of miniature missiles that locked on to and destroyed the other missiles. Before that Butcher could react Scotty fired his Gatling leg at the robot, all scoring direct hits. But before Scotty could celebrate or do anything else something slashed into his back, as he looked back he saw that it was the Butcher that Keanu blinded and he shot in the back.
The Butcher quickly reached its hand out at Scotty, picking him up and throwing him into the ceiling. As Double D came back down due to gravity the Butcher knocked him into another part of the building, crashing into other machines.
"Okay, this isn't funny anymore." Scotty muttered as he started to pick himself up yet again, he saw the Butcher charging towards him.
Scotty quickly jumped out of the way as Rino transformed his suitcase into miniature miniguns as he aimed at the titans and started firing at it while running. However this was nothing more than an annoyance to the Butcher as it continued its best to try and charge at the thief. Rino and Scotty kept jumping out of the way as he and Scotty started to use heavier weaponry such as heavy duty sniper rounds, shotgun blasts, grenades launcher, plasma blasts, and even a flame thrower which actually started to eat away at the Butcher and started to make it lose power. The Butcher then revealed a new feature as it disconnected it's arms, transformed them into chainsaws attached to strong cables, and started slashing them around the entire building wreaking the walls and machines of the building.
"This isn't fair!" Rino yelled as he and Scotty started to dodge the giant incoming chainsaws.
Having enough of this as Rino threw some sort of device at one of the incoming chainsaws that magnetized both of the chainsaws together, causing immobility.
"What... What did you do?!" The Butcher asked as Rino sped forward.
"A magnetization device I've been working on. Works nicely wouldn't you say?" The thief asked as he flew straight at him and took out a small lightning blade before he started to slash at the cables cutting them off of the machine.
The man inside the Butcher suit started to panic as he started to press every button in the hull of the suit to try and escape. Scotty got to the front of the suit and grasped at the entering point of the suit. With enough force, he soon tore off the front of the robot suit, revealing the man inside. Scotty reached inside and tossed the Redcap pilot out.
Scotty then looked inside the suit as he looked for a self-destruct button which he found a second later. "I don't understand WHY people install the self-destruction option anyway."
He pressed the button with the suit starting to emit a beeping noise that grew faster and faster. As Scotty looked over he saw that the other Butcher from before was walking in. The Scotsman grabbed a hold of the empty about to self-destruct robotic suit and picked it up, holding the massive suit over his head. As the Butcher took another step closer Scotty tossed the suit at the Butcher creating a large explosion in the process.
But a moment later everyone saw that the robot was still moving towards them.
"Hahahahahahaha! Nice try! Did you really think that little explosion would stop me?" The Burtcher asked stepping closer as Scotty and the others became annoyed.
"Okay... THAT didn't work. Perhaps I should now try out one of my new inventions." Extor whispered as he walked forward.
But before the Butcher could attack Extor turned on his wrist blasters as he fired upon the robot forcing it back as he walked closer. But the laser wasn't meant to destroy the Butcher, it was only a distraction. As Extor grew close enough he stopped firing and dashed forward, quickly jumping on the Butcher and placing something on its shoulder. But quickly, the Butcher grabbed Extor by his foot and threw him back to the ground.
Extor looked back up at the metallic goliath as it towered over him. "Was that the best you got?"
"It was called a distraction Einstein." Extor said smiling.
The man in the Butcher suit gave a confused look as he heard beeping. He looked over at his left shoulder where the beeping was coming from and saw some sort of metal device on his shoulder. Before the Butcher knew it, he was launched out of the roof of the building and continued to fly into the sky while screaming. The device in his shoulder was actually a super powerful jet that caused him to fly into the sky.
Extor picked himself up as he said. "Hopefully the device will run out of fuel before it reaches the Earth's orbit. Hopefully."
"Nice work." Scotty sheathed his sword. "Now that they are done we got to catch up with the lass."
"Thanks for the help, Archer-" Keanu turned around but saw Archer and Pam were gone. "…They bailed on us!"
"Should have figured." Rino held his suitcase over his shoulder. "Still we need to hurry. Those Redcaps got a head start on us."
"There should still be enough time to make it to the docks." Scotty said as he slashed the air with his sword, creating a portal to the docks.
Xxx
"I can't believe all of our goodies were blown up like that! The rest of our men out cold! Dad's gonna be pissed!" Said Robin Junior as he was sitting in the passenger seat of the truck a Redcap was driving.
"Don't worry sir. With the Technos these people are worth, we'll still be swimming in a pool of Technos." Said the driver.
"It was ORIGINALLY a SEA! But... I guess it's still better than nothing. The only thing that's making me even keep my cool now is the thought of the Butchers massacring those WANKERS!" Yelled Junior as before he knew it, something hit the side of the truck.
"What is it this time?!" Junior looked out the window of the truck to see Raven who was after them, hurling anything she could pick up with her powers at them.
"HOW MANY BLOODY TIMES DO I NEED TO KILL THE SAME STUPID TYKE?!" Junior yelled as he took out his Crimson Crime in its tommy gun mode and aimed it out the window and started firing.
Luckily Raven was dodging every bullet as she was running. But as they got close to the docs, Raven just disappeared in front of Robin Junior's eyes. She just vanished like she was a shadow.
"What the-!? What just happened?! What happened to her!?" Yelled Robin as he got his answer as something hit the roof of the car.
"What the-?! Get off of me truck!" Yelled Junior as he started firing at the truck ceiling.
"A little difficult to drive when a gun is going off right next to you." Commented the Red Cap driver.
"Just die already!" Yelled Junior as he kept firing.
But Raven jumped off of the roof of the truck and jumped in front of the shield window stunning Junior and the driver, using her powers to hit the brakes as they drove on top of the docks.
"WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE ALREADY!?" Screamed Robin Junior as the truck drove through several shipping containers.
As it finally stopped the Redcap driver and Robin Junior flew through the broken wind shield and fell onto the docks.
As Raven softly landed on the ground, she looked around to see the truck itself wreaked but the container attached to the end of it was totally undamaged. "Thank goodness..."
She then turned around and saw the Red Cap driver knocked out face first on the docs floor and saw a bit of a blood trail leading from a spot closer to the truck, moving farther away from it. As her eyes tracked the blood trail she saw a very injured Redcap Junior who was dragging himself away from Blake, still holding onto his weapon.
"You... Hehehe... Do you really think you've won you stupid girl? The Red Caps still hold a TON of territory and power in GrimmFall. I'M the son of the boss of ALL the Red Caps, and when he hears what has happened tonight!? He's gonna order the execution of every stinking Faunus we find, or ANYONE in general we just don't like!" Laughed Junior as he was still dragging himself away slowly.
He wasn't going to go anywhere. Raven just glared at him silently as she turned around and walked to the back of the truck. As she opened up the back of the truck and opened up the door, she was shown the faces of dozens of scared and dirty looking Human, Mobians and Faunus.
They cowered away from Raven before she said. "Woah, woah! Don't be afraid! I'm not here to hurt you! You don't have to worry about the Red Caps anymore! Your free."
She handed one of the people a wallet that was filled with thousands of Technos. She managed to snatch it off the ground near Robin Junior as he tried to crawl away. They slowly stepped out as what looked to be the leader looked at Raven and uttered the words. "Thank you..." After that all of them walked off.
There must've been over sixty people in that huge truck, people and Faunus, parents and children, and everything else in between. Raven managed a small smile as she saw them walk off. But she still had some business to attend to as she turned around and walked back over to the injured 'prince of crime' as she stood fifteen feet away from him and glared at him. Robin just smiled showing his bleeding teeth looking at the girl.
But before either of them could say anything else, they both heard something and watched as a blue portal appeared between them and from it emerged Team SEKR.
"What? How did you escape the Butchers!?" Yelled Robin.
"We tore apart the first ones suit and left him for the authorities. And for the other one, I hope he's not in another galaxy by now." Extor muttered the last part.
"What was that?" Raven asked.
"Nothing!"
Robin still laid injured on the floor as he looked up and saw a crane was holding a huge shipping crate right above Raven. He smiled as he pulled out his Crimson Crime and shot the wires that were holding the large shipping crate. Scotty was the first one to see this as he saw the crate falling.
"LASS! LOOK OUT!" Scotty as the crate was only a few feet above Raven, ready to crush her.
But Scotty came speeding in and shoved Raven out of the way, resulting in the crate falling on him. Raven stared in complete shock at what had just happened. She then heard the laughing of Robin as she turned around to face him, furious.
"Hahahaha! Boo who! The Scotsman is DEAD! Hahahahahaha! Stupid bug- AHHHH!" Robin wasn't able to speak as Raven walked up to Robin Junior and kicked him so hard in the face that she broke his jaw.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!... I tink ya brook mi jwa... Ye buich..." Said Robin Junior as Raven came back one more time and kicked Ricky in the head, knocking him out cold.
"SHUT UP!"
"Besides, that's not nearly enough." Rino said as he pointed at the crate.
Everyone watched as the crate was slowly lifted up by an uninjured Scotty who only looked mildly annoyed.
"I knew that would not work. Our team leader is a bit of a…As kids would say: bad ass." Extor remarked.
Scotty tossed the crate aside and slowly walked up to the frightened Robin Junior. "That all you got?"
"Ah, Scotty." Keanu suddenly looked up. "I don't think so."
Everyone looked up and watched as a dozen more robots, different from the Butchers hovered in the sky above them before slowly landing on the ground, surrounding Team SEKR and their wounded enemy.
"We'll be taking him off your hands now." This came from the leader who turned out to be a man in a metallic suit with slight blur and red marks on it, along with a helmet with glowed red eyes and a robe that covered the lower front and back areas of the body like an ancient warrior.
Nearby the Redcap driver slowly looked up, lifting up her crimson hat.
"This is not good." The driver was none other than the world's best female spy, Carmen Sandiego who disguised herself as a Redcap to infiltrate the organization.
Only things now seemed to take an unexpected turn.
And not for the better she suspected.
Xxx
"Where is he? He's got to be here."
"Archer?" Pam asked as she followed her wayward partner back into the factory. "Who are you looking for?"
"That son of a bitch Barry who killed Woodhouse. He's supposed to be here." Archer replied as he kicked another door down. "Come on out Barry and I'll make it quick!"
"Funny you should say that. We were thinking the same thing."
Archer and Pam spun around, spotting two men encased in shadows with one of them having a huge metal hook for a hand. The first one to step out was a man with blond hair around the same age as Archer, having…what looked like robotic arms and legs. The second was a man around 6'4 tall with black short hair and dark skin, a thick overcoat, black clothing under it and a giant sickle hook where his right hand was supposed to be.
"Well, not so much quick as watching the light die out in your eyes, Archer." Barry Dylan chuckled. "And this here is my buddy, Danny. Hired by Trexler to help me kill you."
"I don't disclose my clients to my targets." Daniel Robitaille said as he and Barry took another step closer…