Family
Chapter 444 Shootout
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. This is just a story for fun.
In a town of Waterfall there was a bright flash of light as a couple dozen humanoid figures wearing blue and grey armor appeared pointing guns at Rogue and Lil' Hunter. There was some clapping from the crowd of armed individuals as a large fat bald man with a black mustache wearing a white shirt, black tie, black suit jacket, black pants, and black shoes stepped out.
"Black Stache!" Swore Rogue.
The man identified as Black Stache smirked as he pulled out a cigar, placed it in his mouth, and lite it. Black Stache took a few puffs on the cigar, before he pulled it out and spoke.
"Hello Officer Rogue. I see you found dear Lil' Hunter. Now then we can get down to business. I know the two of you have been investigating me and a few of my colleagues for awhile and I know you collected some evidence on us."
"I remember now! You lured me to a chemical plant and tried to kill me!" Snarled Lil' Hunter.
"Yes I admit that was me. You surviving and escaping was a sloppy job on my part. Now I'm here to finish the job." Said Black Stache.
"Not going to happen." Said Rogue with a glare.
"Well the way I see it there's two ways this can end for you. You can surrender to me quietly, hand over all your evidence, and cease all your investigations or we can just have you gunned down and framed as corrupt cops." Said Black Stache.
"How about instead you surrender yourself to our custody." Said Lil' Hunter as he and Rogue pointed their weapons at Black Stache and his troops.
"It's always the hard way with you clean and righteous types. If you want to go out in a blaze of glory, I'll be more then happy to oblige you!" Said Black Stache as he pulled out a couple of pistols and pointed them at Rogue and Lil' Hunter along with his troops.
Everyone prepared for a shootout, but before anyone could pull a trigger a couple of black ball bombs with fuses and smiley faces rolled onto the scene curtsey of Nyx. The bombs exploded blanketing the area in smoke. All the shooters were confused at first, but then they began to fire their weapons. It was complete chaos! Lil' Hunter and Rogue stumbled into a couple of the armored troops and quickly blasted them knocking them to the ground. The troops sparked and spasmed on the ground revealing themselves to be robots. Another two troopers appeared and pointed their guns at Lil' Hunter and Rogue, but before they could fire their guns, Samantha appeared behind them and slammed their heads together making them collapse to the ground in a heap. Samantha stared down at the sparking troopers and quickly figured out they were robots. She called to her allies.
"Hey these jerks in the armor are robots! So there's no need to hold back your punches!"
The others heard and started to go to town on the troopers. Chi shot a couple with her guns, before she changed into a raptor and ripped a another couple apart, Kai delivered some powerful karate moves and threw a few troopers with her psychic powers, Nyx made eggs and toasters fall out of the air on the troopers, Ying flew about pecking them, Elise in her armored form whipped her tail about and threw knives, and Sly leaped about swinging his sword. Toriel, Jenka, and Sheo stood on the sidelines and waited to see the outcome.
"Why are you helping us? This isn't your fight." Said Rogue looking at Samantha.
"Oh we just like helping people takedown jerks and loudmouths. Wouldn't feel right to just stand by and let you two get killed, when could have helped." Said Samantha.
"We thank you for the assistance." Said Lil' Hunter.
"No problem." Said Samantha.
Soon all the troopers were taken down and the smoke cleared to reveal that Black Stache was the only one left standing holding two pistols and looking both angry and nervous.
"It's over Black Stache! Surrender!" Said Lil' Hunter.
Black Stache gritted his teeth and put one of his guns away, before he reached into his pocket and pulled out what appeared to be a remote. A crazed grin appeared on the dirty cop's face as he spoke.
"I must admit y'all took me by surprise. Wasn't expecting any outside interference, especially from some powerful people like these. I should have brought some more droids with me, but hey this gives me the chance to bring out this bad boy."
Black Stache pressed a button on the remote. A black swirling portal opened up in the air green and grey robot head with bits of rust on it and glowing red eyes flew out. The head had rocket beneath it, a right arm that ended with a gatling gun, and a left arm that ended in a drill.
"May I present Remington the God of Guns!" Said Black Stache.
"God of Guns?" Asked Chi.
"Looks like just a regular gun toting robot to me." Said Nyx.
"I see I need to educate you a little bit. You see there's a universe were the inhabitants have become completely obsessed with material things like guns, makeup, fast food, pills, and other things. Those obsessions turned into worship and it was so strong that the obsessions eventually manifested into gods!" Said Black Stache.
"How do you have something like a God of Guns under your control?" Demanded Rogue.
"We simply followed the gun nuts and they lead us to Remington, after that we showed we had better guns and superior gun knowledge and Remington followed us back to base, where we studied him and learned to control his energy." Said Black Stache.
"Don't think this overgrown toy is going to save you!" Said Lil' Hunter.
"Oh will see about that! Remington open fire!" Yelled Black Stache.
Remington pointed his gatling gun down at the heroes and began to shoot at them. All the heroes yelled and scattered to avoid being shot. Samantha grabbed Nyx and leaped high into the air as Ying flew after them, Kai grabbed Chi and they dove into the shadow of a building together, Lil' Hunter grabbed Rogue and they flew into the air, and Elise, Toriel, Jenka, Sly, and Sheo dove behind a building for cover. Remington's bullets tore up the ground in the area, and a couple of buildings up killing a few unlucky monsters inside and causing a great commotion.
In the distance Undyne, Gata, Fern, Heckapoo, BMO, and Soos had been making their way to the town, when they saw Remington floating above it and a couple of the buildings collapse.
"A giant robot is wrecking the town!" Yelled Undyne.
"Time to transform BMO." Said Gata.
"Transform!" Yelled BMO as he changed into his mech form and Gata jumped into the cockpit.
Undyne jumped onto BMO's right shoulder and Heckapoo and Fern jumped onto the left shoulder.
"This is going to be dangerous, it's probably best for you to walk to town, while we fly on ahead." Said Gata looking at Soos.
"Got it." Said Soos with a nod.
BMO rocketed on ahead as Soos began to walk towards the town. Soos walked a few dozen yards, when the ground beneath him suddenly gave away and he fell about twelve feet and landed in a garbage pile in some kind of cavern.
"Ouch! Where the heck am I?" Said Soos as he pulled himself out of the garbage.
"You foolish fool! You shall know the foolishness of your folly by falling into my lair!" Yelled a voice from the shadows.
"Who's there?" Asked Soos looking around.
"Who am I? Who am I?! I am the most feared criminal in the entire Underground! Monsters fear my name! I am the Mad Dummy!" Said the voice as a figure jumped out of the shadow.
Soos found himself facing a brown dummy with a set of upper teeth on the torso, a set of eyes on the head, nostrils on the nose, and a single leg.
"Um I'm new to the Underground and I've heard of a ton of dangerous people, but I've never heard of anyone called Mad Dummy." Said Soos.
The Mad Dummy's mouth dropped and he looked both shocked and hurt at this news.
"So sorry about falling into your lair and all that. Can I just leave? I promise not to tell anyone about where your lair is and I'll tell everyone about my encounter with you and how dangerous you are. Surly that'll help your reputation." Said Soos trying to edge his way around the dummy.
"No dice pal! Do you take me for a fool?! I'll just kill you and use your corpse as a way to show the rest of the Underground how dangerous I am! Now face the wrath of my power and my army!" Yelled Mad Dummy.
As soon as he said this a dozen smaller popped out of the garbage and surrounded Soos. Mad Dummy laughed as the dummies fired glowing red dust balls at Soos. Soos yelped as he dove to the ground and the attacks flew overhead and struck Mad Dummy instead! Mad Dummy yelled in pain as he stumbled back. His body split into pieces before they resembled again.
"Aaaaaaa! You dummies watch where you're aiming! Don't shoot me! Now hit the other guy!" Yelled Mad Dummy.
The dummies fired their attacks again as Soos scrambled to his feet. Soos dodged and weaved to avoid getting hit and the attacks struck Mad Dummy again making him cry in pain. Soos looked around for anything he could use as a weapon, but he couldn't find anything. The dummies launched their attacks agin and again Soos avoided them and they struck the Mad Dummy. This patterned happened a few more times, until Mad Dummy finally lost his patience and called out to his minions.
"Hey guys!"
The dummies faced their boss.
"Dummies. Dummies! DUMMIES! Remember how I said NOT to shoot me? Well... FAILURES! You're fired! You're all being REPLACED!" Said Mad Dummy.
The now unemployed dummies looked sad as they left the area. Mad Dummy faced Soos.
"Now you will face my true power. Relying on people who aren't garbage!"
There was a clanking sound as a dozen robots that looked like dummies arrived on the scene and surrounded Soos.
"Dummy bot! Magic missile!" Order Mad Dummy to his minions.
The robot dummies fired tiny metal missiles at Soos, who screamed and ran around the area. Unlike the previous attacks the missiles followed Soos around the area. Soos ran and took sharp turns, but the missiles continued after. He ran towards Mad Dummy and at the last second he twisted and turned and the missiles flew by him and struck Mad Dummy making him yell in pain. The robot dummies fired more missiles and Soos lured them towards Mad Dummy striking him again.
"No way...! These guys are even worse then the other guys!" Thought Mad Dummy before delivering a glare to the robot dummies.
It was time for Mad Dummy to deal with Soos himself. If you wanted something done right you had to do it yourself.
"I don't need friends to deal with you! I got KNIVES!" Yelled Mad Dummy as produced a large wicked looking knife that hovered near him.
Mad Dummy hurled the knife at Soos, who leaped out of the way. The knife clattered against a pile of scrap metal. Soos turned to Mad Dummy expecting him to produce more knives, but the attacker had an odd and embarrassed look on his face.
"I'm...out of knives." Said Mad Dummy.
There was a minute of awkward silence and Mad Dummy regained his composure.
"But it doesn't matter! You're not getting out of here alive!"
Mad Dummy began to laugh and then what appeared to be large raindrops fell on him making him yell in pain.
"What the heck is this?! Acid rain?! Oh, forget it. I'm out of here!" Said Mad Dummy as he and the robot dummies left the area.
Soos blinked his eyes in confusion as what appeared to be a little ghost with a sad expression on it's face floated down and hovered before him.
"Sorry I interrupted you. As soon as I arrived, your friend left immediately. Oh no...you guys looked like you were having fun. Oh no... I just wanted to say hi. Oh no..." Said the ghost as he began to fade away.
"Wait dude!" Cried Soos.
The ghost stopped fading.
"Dude you didn't interrupt anything, you saved my life. I'm Soos. What's your name?" Said Soos.
"I'm Napstablook." Said the ghost.
"Nice to meet you Napstablook and thanks for the save." Said Soos.
"You're welcome. I...had no idea I was saving you." Said Napstablook.
"Well you did. So, Napstablook, I'm new around these parts and I'm trying to get to the town, you want to come with me?" Said Soos.
"Um...sure. I'd like that." Said Napstablook with a little smile.
Soos and Napstablook traveled through a tunnel together and they eventually made their back up to the surface and made their way towards town together.
In town Remington was still firing his gatling gun when he spotted Lil' Hunter and Rogue flying by and swatted them with his drill arm and knocked them to the ground. Lil' Hunter groaned as Rogue tried to drag him to safety. Remington saw the two and pointed his gun at them. He was about to fire, when BMO charged in and punched the God of Guns knocking him back. Remington recovered and stabbed at BMO with his drill arm, but Undyne leaped off of BMO and countered the drill with her spear. Sparks flew as the the two weapons collided. Neither God of Guns or Captain of the Royal Guard gave an inch as they pushed against each other. Then there was an explosion and both fighters flew back.
Undyne landed on the ground and skidded back and Remington flew back a few yards before he stopped himself. The God of Guns' drill was sparking and the tip of Undyne's spear was gone. Remington was prepared to attack with his gatling gun, when BMO and several Heckapoo clones rushed him, forcing the robot to turn his attention to them and shoot them with his gun. The clones burst into smoke and BMO stumbled back with a few smoking holes. At that moment the real Heckapoo and Fern appeared through a portal on Remington's head and Fern cut Remington's drill off at the joint, with his sword. The drill fell and hit the ground and Remington roared in both pain and rage as he shook around forcing Heckapoo and Fern to portal away.
Remington spun around in a circle firing his gatling gun forcing everyone to dive and cover to avoid getting hit. It was then Alcor flew in on the scene and struck the robot with both his cane and super strength sending the the robot crashing to the ground. Samantha grabbed the giant drill and raced towards the downed enemy. She leaped high into the air and smashed the tip of the drill into Remington's head! Remington's body began to spark as he let out one last scream before he exploded!
The battle was over.
Black Stache stood there utterly shocked and horrified. Before he could think about running Nyx conjured a hate cake and hit him in the face knocking him to the ground. Black Stache spluttered as he scrambled to his feet wiping the hate cake from his face, only to find himself facing Rogue. The bad cop tried to raise his gun, but Rogue slugged him in the face breaking his nose and knocking him out.
Soos and Napstablook arrived in town as everything was calming down. Elise healed Undyne injuries and went over to Lil' Hunter to heal him.
"How good of a healer are you?" Asked Lil' Hunter.
"Pretty good, though don't ask me to bring back the dead. That's something you don't want to see." Said Elise.
"Well maybe you can help with my other issues." Said Lil' Hunter as he removed his helmet.
Lil' Hunter looked like he once had a handsome human face with brown hair, but now the upper parts of his face had green scaly skin with three red eyes. Elise put her hands on the sides of Lil' Hunter's head and there was a flash of purple. Lil' Hunter's face began to change. The scales and third eye vanished and his two remaining eyes turned blue.
"I'm cured." Said Lil' Hunter looking at his reflection in a mirror.
"Thank you." Said Rogue.
"You're welcome." Said Elise.
Rogue and Lil' Hunter thanked everyone for their assistance and then they dragged a handcuffed Black Stache through a blue portal and vanished.
Undyne turned to Toriel and bowed her head to her and spoke.
"I am at your service Queen Toriel."
"Please there's no need to bow or call me queen Toriel. I do need your help though." Said Toriel.
"I'm all ears. Tell me what you need and I'll do everything in my power to see that it is done." Said Undyne with determination in her eyes.
As Toriel filled Undyne in on Isaac and Mom, Gata, BMO, and Soos were hanging with Alcor, Samantha, Nyx, Ying, Chi, and Kai. Though they might have been on different sides, they sorta saw each other as allies. Right now they were exchanging small bits of information and when Gata and her friend heard about the kidnapped Isaac, they decided to put their trip to Dr. Cranken on hold, until the child was recovered and reunited with Toriel.
"Well it sounds like you got quit a problem Toriel, luckily for you I know just the place we might get information on your missing kid." Said Toriel.
"Where's that?" Asked Toriel.
"The Lady Lucktopus Casino. Just have to call my deputy, Quote where were heading and will be on our way." Said Undyne pulling out a phone and making a quick call.
With that done the two groups joined together with a new destination and headed out towards it.
To be continued.
Glossary
Enter the Gungeon: Black Stache
Neon Abyss: Remington
