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Hidaya couldn’t go to sleep so she stayed up, occasionally running her hand through her sleeping new lover’s hair. Finally, something good happened to her, but chances were now she couldn’t stay because sooner or later Sam would find her and probably try to hurt him just to spite her. As much as she would’ve liked to stay, she also did not want to endanger another innocent soul. She got up and started looking for the swat uniform she had on before. She found it in the bathroom, put it on and climbed out the window. She jumped from the sill onto a fire escape across the alley. She climbed to the top, looked back briefly, whispered “goodbye” and ran off.\n\nBill woke up shortly after to find he was alone now. He checked in the bathroom and found the uniform was gone. He ran back out and that’s when he saw the window was open. He put on a shirt and jeans and ran downstairs to the garage. He remembered that the truck was wrecked from earlier. Luckily, Jonathan had just gotten home.\n\n“Bill, Bill! You have got to see this!”\n\nHe ran up to Bill excitedly.\n\n“I did it!”\n“Uhhh…”\n“At the theatre, I found one of those little stone thingies and look!”\n\nHe pulled up his shirt to show that he had indeed gained one of those tattoos.\n\n“That’s nice but I need your car real quick.”\n“What my lil’ baby? Why? Where’s your truck?”\n“It’s not working right now.”\n\nHe opened the garage to show him.\n\n“Whoa, what happened?”\n“I met a girl.”\n“Okay, what does that have to do with-”\n“I hit her with my truck, we had sex, in between is a little hazy.”\n“Wait you and a girl? Damn and all this time I thought you were playing hard to get.”\n“Can we please get back to the task at hand here?”\n“All right but I’m driving; no one touches my baby.”\n\nBack at the bar, Jacob was still waiting for answers. The seal, Peter pulled up a chair and sat down. He offered Jacob a seat which he gladly took.\n\n“Okay, now what do you know so far about your powers?”\n“Not really that much I just got them last week.”\n“You telling me you’re a fucking noob? If that’s the case then you are definitely not one of his guys.”\n“Who’s guys?”\n“The Marksmen” said Cherry “They all work for a crime lord named Jerome Marks!”\n“Shut up, Cherry! You know its bad luck if you say his name!” \n“But he may be the spot of good luck we’ve all been needing.”\n\nShe put her arms around Jacob and rubbed his ears. Suddenly, there was a loud crash from outside and who else could it be but Jimmy and his team. Pete checked through a peephole on the door.\n\n“Oh shit, it’s Darrell!”\n\nJacob pushed him over to see.\n\n“Who?!”\n“Jimmy Lee Darrell, one of the captains of Jerome’s Marksmen and my ex.”\n“Your ex; oh for fuck’s sake!”\n\nHe put his hand on the knob prepared to go out but she stopped him.\n\n“You can’t go out, you said it yourself you’re still new to your own powers; he’s too strong for you now; he’ll kill you!”\n“I’ll go see what he wants, you two sit tight.” Pete said in a hushed voice.\n\nHe locked the door as he exited.\n\n“Mr. Darrell, what’s going on?”\n\nOne of Jimmy’s overzealous subordinates made a move but a quick snapping of his fingers put him back in place. He gave the nervous sea mammal one of his patented smirks. He barked out orders to his team.\n\n“You three watch the front door, you three watch my back, and two of you crowd control and you; my glove.”\n\nA black case was brought to him right away; he opened it and took out a black, leather glove with long razor blades sticking out from the tips of the fingers. He put it on and then he swiftly slashed himself across the chest and belly. He said in a maniacal laugh\n\n“I get to me have some fun tonight.”\n\nHe summoned a big gust of wind which brought Pete right up to him. He kicked him in his fat gut.\n\n“Now, I want you all to tell me your most honest answers to a couple of questions I have prepared for you and just so you know wrong answers will result in a severe reduction in points.”\n\nHis cuts healed as his mood slightly softened. He combed his greased up hair as he began to ask.\n\n“First question, who here is aware of a bizarre murder in Waco where six young people working for my employer were mercilessly killed while going about they’re daily work of mugging people? No one? That’s easily understandable. Okay then, question number two, who has noticed a slight change in the local color? By which I mean, is there anyone new here?”\n“Well, there was that rat character that was in here earlier.”\n\nHis ears perked up.\n\n“A rat you say? Would you kindly inform me of where he went?”\n\nPete foolishly tried to jump him only to be restrained by two marksmen.\n\n“What did I just fucking say old man?”\n“You won’t hurt him; you can’t even touch him.”\n\nHe spat in his eye; Jimmy calmly wiped it off.\n\n“Ew, you been eating sushi? Oh that’s nasty. Now where was I?”\n\nIn the backroom, Jacob and Cherry had been watching the events unfold through the peephole. He’d had enough of this display. He took off his jacket and gave it to Cherry.\n\n“You’re not seriously thinking about going out there are you?”\n\nHe looked back at Cherry.\n\n“There is one thing my father always said to me, that if I found someone in trouble, if I could help them then I do it!”\n\nHe began to convert.\n\n“You stay right here; don’t follow.”\n\nHe converted to full shadow form and sank down to the floor into a squirming puddle of pure darkness as he seeped through the cracks of the door. Jimmy froze when he saw this big black shape rise up from the ground and take the form of his quarry, the rat. \n\n“Hello, Jimmy heard you been looking for me, gosh I didn’t know I was such a popular guy!”\n“Yeah well, you know what they say about your fifteen minutes of fame and it’s about 14:59 for you, busta!”\n\nJacob made a move forward and Jimmy put one of the blades up to Pete’s neck.\n\n“You want him? Here he is come get’em; just hope you like him in the form of a bobble-head!”\n\nJacob thought briefly to himself and then he put his hands behind his back.\n\n“Hey now, whatchu doing? Stop that! You’re freaking me out, man!”\n\nThe seal, Pete was engulfed in darkness and disappeared from his grasp. He reappeared by Jacob.\n\n“Stay!”\n\nJimmy smiled oddly.\n\n“You’re some kind of slick shit aren’t you? And you're kinda cute too. It has been a long time since I’ve had a good sparring partner. How about you forget this whole righteous cliché and join us. You could have your own team. How’s black sound to you? And you and me? I’m sure we could be best buddies.”\n“Thanks, but no thanks, fucktart!”\n\nThat pissed him off for sure. Jimmy pointed the bladed glove at Jacob.\n\n“Ok, fine, be that way; just you remember I gave you a chance. I was offering you partnership, friendship and the occasional gay lovin’ when I’m not with the ladies so don’t you come crying to me!”\n\nHe turned as if to leave, then stopped.\n\n“One more thing, my foolish friend…”\n\nHe raised one arm and a blade of green wind energy formed from the air around his fist. He threw it at Pete and but Jacob quickly dispelled it with the Shadow Arm. It stretched across the room, grabbed Jimmy’s glove and gored a subordinate standing by him. He was lifted up into the air. He took off the glove, fell on the floor hard on his back and the Shadow Arm dissipated. The glove plunged into the floor mere inches away from Jimmy’s face. He sat up and looked back at the rat, somewhat surprised by this outburst of energy from such a novice.\n\n“Well, goddamn!” he laughed “If that’s what I gotta do to give you rise! Shit! I truly did not see that coming. You know what? I like you. I’m gonna let you live for just a little while longer. See if I can’t get more out of you. Hey, that little squirrel friend of yours seemed mighty fetching, perhaps I could check him out. Later, gator!”\n\nHe walked out of the bar laughing uproariously. After they left, Jacob let out a sigh of relief. Cherry came out amazed, but grateful. She bent down to cradle her dear friend, Pete, who was dazed but none the worst for wear. As he looked on, that’s when Jacob remembered his own friends back at the flat. Thinking they could be in danger now, he phased out through a wall without a single word.\n\nMeanwhile, at an apartment complex in Flour Bluff; Toronto-born beaver, Desiree Braun had just gotten out of the shower and was watching porn on the TV she shared with her roommate.\n\n“Oh yeah, shake that.”\n\nShe said to herself licking her lips. She opened up her bathrobe as the film got to be more intense. She began sucking her left nipple as her right hand moved below her waistline. She gasped as her fingers pushed through her folds. Her left hand went to the couch anchoring herself as she humped her right hand. Her other hand joined her right and she had doubled her pleasure. \n\n“Oh yes! Ah fuck! Yeah, fuck me raw!”\n\nShe heard the actors on the TV speaking her very thoughts.\n\nThen, there came a knock at the front door.\n\n“Oh for shit’s sake.”\n\nDesi uttered as she changed the channel to some mundane sports show and got up to answer, wiping her sticky fingers on her robe. She looked through the slot on the door.\n\n“Who is it?”\n“It’s your backup sex doll, open up.”\n“Oh Jillian baby, what are you doing in my sorry part of town, your old man finally kick you out, eh.?”\n“Actually we’re here by choice, could we please come in?” \n“We?”\n\nDesi released the locks and let in Jill and Isa.\n\n“You’re both here? What’s going on? Isa’s never gone this far from the manor.”\n“She asked me to come with her so I could finally see the world with my sister and you, my friend.”\n“Jill, is there something you are here for?”\n\nJill and Isa traded glances.\n\n“Well yes, do you remember last night in the park?”\n“Jesus, how could I forget? I had not figured you or myself even capable of beating up a bunch of old pervs like that though I guess it was a little help from your granddad, eh?”\n“You remember right after when I tripped and bumped my head on the closet door?”\n“Oh, definitely not the most graceful way to end a night of vigilantism.”\n\nShe turned back to the porn and picked up a can of beer that had gone warm.\n\n“Oh hell, I’m getting another; you girls want anything?”\n“No, I’m good.” said Jill as she joined Isa on the couch who was too engrossed to notice.\n“You like what you see do you?”\n\nDesi came back with another beer.\n\n“So, you wanted to show me something right?”\n“Oh yes, now what I’m going to show you is very important. Isa, you must see this too.”\n“Okay…”\n\nThey all went into a closet. Desi turned on the light and Jill took off her top.\n\n“Whoa hey Jill, this is what was so important we had to come in here while my bubble-headed roommate is sleeping mere feet away?”\n“No, Desi look.”\n\nDesi saw the tattoo.\n\n“It came last night after I was knocked out and that’s not all; get dressed we’re going for a little walk.”\n\nThey were outside in the alley.\n\n“Okay, now give me something I can use.”\n“Jill!”\n“Yes, Isa.”\n\nIt was a pile of bricks and concrete blocks.\n\n“All right, give me room.”\n\nShe picked up a brick and squeezed until it was mere dust. Then, she picked up a heavy concrete block like it was a feathery down pillow and tossed it. The block took quite a long time to fall back down to where it landed as far as several feet away.\n\n“Ok, not convinced yet? Come out back to the park-!”\n“Ev’ning, ladies!”\n\nIt was a rough looking hedgehog wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans, green scarf and black ski hat.\n\n“Oh, even better a pervert.”\n\nShe whispered to Isa.\n\n“Just play along, like we practiced at home.”\n“How’re you fine ladies doing on such a fine night as this; and all alone too?”\n\nJill replied in a pseudo-cutesy voice.\n\n“Oh just waiting for someone big and strong; clearly you’re not it.”\n\nThis jerked his strings a bit.\n\n“You stupid bitches…” He muttered under his breath.\n\nHe pulled out a knife and grabbed Isa from behind.\n\n“Shut up! Okay now if any of you so much as screams, well then I can’t be held accountable for any mistakes that may and will occur.”\n\nHe then said to his captive.\n\n“You know, I’ve never had a lizard before.”\nThat’s when Jill said “You go any further with that knife and you shall rue the day you ever fucked with a Prescott.”\n“A Prescott? So what she’s rich or something?”\n“Yes something like that. But listen, you don’t want a little cherry like her do you? No, you would like someone who’s a little more experienced.”\n\nShe grabbed his hand gently and got him to let her sister go then, once she’s free, Jill pushed him with such force that it sent him flying across the alley to where he hit a parked car dazed and out of commission. All Desiree had to say was\n\n“Where the hell did all that come from?”\n\nAcross Corpus, it was now raining pretty hard. Hidaya was standing on the deck of the U.S.S. Lexington. Across from her were Sam Montague and six of his powersuits.\n\n“Sam, you fucked me over, why?”\n\nHe said nothing; instead he gave her back her laptop. Keeping her eye on him, she logged on and there was the answer.\n\n“I’ve been tagged?”\n“Our own superior put this hit on you, one of his best soldiers because you were getting too good and too close, we would all rather die than to allow a woman to continually embarrass us on OUR battlefield!”\n\nHe removed his armor from his left arm to display his birthmark.\n\n“My father, the great Samuel Montague started this organization with your father. But your old man kept making hasty decisions that cost excessive numbers. Why? Perhaps he figured that he couldn’t trust an otter with decisions. So my father killed him and he selflessly brought you up to be my wife, my loved one! You could have borne my legacy instead you only thinking of yourself found that fucking shard. So now, you could not just settle and become mine. You had to try and prove something, I can't begin to imagine what. You had to be an assassin. Sure I let you become an assassin; I even trained you but I just figured you would be dead within a week. Even at that, you have continued to humiliate me! Well, no more; two can play at this game.”\n\nHe took off his armor to show that he too had obtained a dragon's head tattoo.\n\n“We will both fight, no armor, no interference, any interference will be punished by death.”\n\nHidaya took off her swat armor and dropped it at her feet and took a few brief seconds to limber up. One powersuit had removed his helmet so he could act as referee. He raised his rifle into the air, both combatants took fighting stances.\n\n“Ready?! FIGHT!!”\n\nHe fired a single round into the sky and the fight began.\n\nBill and Jon had just arrived when they saw the light of rifle fire from the Lexington. Bill spoke as they got out.\n\n“Ok, you wait out here. I’m going up to see what that was.” \n“Wait, what if you need me? What if there’s something dangerous up there and you can’t take it on your own?”\nBill thought for a bit. “I’ll have to take that chance, you stay here, is that clear?”\n“Crystal.”\n\nMeanwhile, Hidaya and Sam were deeply locked in battle. Sam sensed a break in her pattern and hit her full force in the belly with his elbow. She was winded and showing clear signs of pain. He picked her up by the hair and she kneed him in the groin. Then, she wrapped her legs around his waist and threw him into the crowd of powersuits. Despite a few scrapes and some cracked ribs, he was okay. Not much of the same could be said for the subordinate he landed on. His back was broken. Sam got up with some strain.\n\n“When does this shit start healing?”\n“Not when part of your mind is still focused on fighting!”\n\nShe, of course, didn’t allow him the chance to heal. She laid him out once more with a bicycle kick to the head. He was on his back motionless. Suddenly, he grabbed her foot and twisted it snapping her ankle. Now, she herself was on her back. He got on top of her and began to strangle her. Tears formed in her eyes as her whole life flashed before her. Then unexpectedly, he kissed her on the mouth and she returned the kiss with an embrace.\n\n“See?! You remember how happy in love we were before you decided it was okay to spit on my father’s organization? I have lost all of his favor because of you!”\n“What are you going to do then? Rape me? Are you really that desperate to get back daddy’s love?”\n“No, this is not for him. I just want to feel your warmth once more before you cross over.”\n\nHe ripped off the front of her shirt and began to nuzzle and nip at her breasts. He rubbed her crotch while keeping one hand still firmly around her neck. Then, there was excruciating pain in his chest region as she jabbed her claws in and gripped his ribs then began channeling some energy. Suddenly, he started laughing. \n\n“You stupid bitch! Do you really want to do that?”\n\nShe hesitated for a moment.\n\n“I forgot to mention what my shard gave to me.”\n\nHis hand around her throat was channeling energy as well. His shard gave him the ability to copy other people’s powers. She stopped what she was doing and he continued on doing what he was already planning to do. He had torn the fabric on her underwear with his fingers when there were foot steps behind them.\n\n“What is it now?!”\n\nHe stopped and looked up to see a strange opossum standing over him.\n\n“You get the fuck off her now!”\n“Well, well Sinclair is this what you’ve been doing since we last met?”\n\nHe got up and walked towards this odd stranger.\n\n“Well you’ve certainly got quite a set of cannonballs to be standing here looking at me like that.”\n\nBill punched him in the face.\n\n“That’s a fucking cheap shot!”\n\nHe punched Bill back.\n\n“You should not have come after me! You’ve know idea what he’s capable of!”\n“Yes and he shall have plenty of time to think it over when it’s the hereafter!”\n\nHe blew a hole in Bill’s body and he dropped to the ground dead.\n\n“NO! No, no, Sam I swear I will kill you! I will fucking obliterate you! You have taken from me now!”\n\nThen, the body began to disintegrate.\n\n“Hey now, what’s going on here?”\n\nThree more Bills jumped up from all sides of the ship and quickly went about taking out the remaining powersuits. A fourth one, the real one, grabbed Hidaya while Sam was distracted. Sam turned just in time to see them leave. They made it back to Jonathan’s Camaro but he was nowhere to be seen. Then, all of a sudden there was a whole army of Powersuits at the front and the back of them.\n\n“Well, I suppose it’s been a good run.”\n“Yeah, wouldn’t you know it? I finally meet a girl that I would risk my own life for and now we are both going to die.”\n“Oh, now I see, well what would you suggest ‘love’?”\n“We give’em hell, babe!”\n\nThen all of a sudden, a large boulder came flying out of nowhere and wiped out a full quarter of the front. Its many broken pieces flew back and forth as if they had minds of their own. More powersuits were taken out by the rapidly moving pieces. Taking advantage of the confusion, Hidaya began tossing energy blasts at any powersuit that got too close. Bill bit down on his arm and spit some blood on the ground to produce some clones and ordered them to defend the perimeter. He looked around while everyone else was fighting around him. There on the side of the road was Jonathan and his tattoo was glowing. Eventually, the onslaught came to an end. Sam stepped over the bodies of his troops, walked up to Bill and Hidaya. Before he could lay a hand on either one, he was struck on the head by a rock. With his forehead bleeding where he was hit, he turned to see the squirrel mentally creating and controlling rocks. So now he had three shardbeasts opposing him. This new one had a particularly devastating power. Knowing when he’s been beat, he ordered his few remaining troops to dissipate, which they did on their jetpacks. He took one last disgusted look at the three then activated his own jetpack.\n\nWhen the coast seemed clear, the three all took a breath only to realize they’re being watched. The fighting had attracted a crowd of onlookers.\n\nTo be continued...\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Chapter VI

Showdown on the Blue Ghost

It was late into the night. Hidaya couldn’t go to sleep so she stayed up, occasionally running her hand through her sleeping new lover’s hair.  Finally,  something good happened to her, but chances were now she couldn’t stay because sooner or later Sam would find her and probably try to hurt him just to spite her.  As much as she would’ve liked to stay, she also did not want to endanger another innocent soul.  She got up and started looking for the swat uniform she had on before.  She found it in the bathroom, put it on and climbed out the window.  She jumped from the sill onto a fire escape across the alley.  She climbed to the top, looked back briefly, whispered “goodbye” and ran off.

Bill woke up shortly after to find he was alone now.  He checked in the bathroom and found the uniform was gone.  He ran back out and that’s when he saw the window was open.  He put on a shirt and jeans and ran downstairs to the garage.  He remembered that the truck was wrecked from earlier.  Luckily, Jonathan had just gotten home.

“Bill, Bill!  You have got to see this!”

He ran up to Bill excitedly.

“I did it!”
“Uhhh…”
“At the theatre, I found one of those little stone thingies and look!”

He pulled up his shirt to show that he had indeed gained one of those tattoos.

“That’s nice but I need your car real quick.”
“What my lil’ baby?  Why?  Where’s your truck?”
“It’s not working right now.”

He opened the garage to show him.

“Whoa, what happened?”
“I met a girl.”
“Okay, what does that have to do with-”
“I hit her with my truck, we had sex, in between is a little hazy.”
“Wait you and a girl?  Damn and all this time I thought you were playing hard to get.”
“Can we please get back to the task at hand here?”
“All right but I’m driving; no one touches my baby.”

Back at the bar, Jacob was still waiting for answers. The seal, Peter pulled up a chair and sat down.  He offered Jacob a seat which he gladly took.

“Okay, now what do you know so far about your powers?”
“Not really that much I just got them last week.”
“You telling me you’re a fucking noob?  If that’s the case then you are definitely not one of his guys.”
“Who’s guys?”
“The Marksmen” said Cherry “They all work for a crime lord named Jerome Marks!”
“Shut up, Cherry!  You know its bad luck if you say his name!”
“But he may be the spot of good luck we’ve all been needing.”

She put her arms around Jacob and rubbed his ears.  Suddenly, there was a loud crash from outside and who else could it be but Jimmy and his team.  Pete checked through a peephole on the door.

“Oh shit, it’s Darrell!”

Jacob pushed him over to see.

“Who?!”
“Jimmy Lee Darrell, one of the captains of Jerome’s Marksmen and my ex.”
“Your ex; oh for fuck’s sake!”

He put his hand on the knob prepared to go out but she stopped him.

“You can’t go out, you said it yourself you’re still new to your own powers; he’s too strong for you now; he’ll kill you!”
“I’ll go see what he wants, you two sit tight.” Pete said in a hushed voice.

He locked the door as he exited.

“Mr. Darrell, what’s going on?”

One of Jimmy’s overzealous subordinates made a move but a quick snapping of his fingers put him back in place.  He gave the nervous sea mammal one of his patented smirks.  He barked out orders to his team.

“You three watch the front door, you three watch my back, and two of you crowd control and you; my glove.”

A black case was brought to him right away; he opened it and took out a black, leather glove with long razor blades sticking out from the tips of the fingers.  He put it on and then he swiftly slashed himself across the chest and belly. He said in a maniacal laugh

“I get to me have some fun tonight.”

He summoned a big gust of wind which brought Pete right up to him.  He kicked him in his fat gut.

“Now, I want you all to tell me your most honest answers to a couple of questions I have prepared for you and just so you know wrong answers will result in a severe reduction in points.”

His cuts healed as his mood slightly softened.  He combed his greased up hair as he began to ask.

“First question, who here is aware of a bizarre murder in Waco where six young people working for my employer were mercilessly killed while going about they’re daily work of mugging people?  No one?  That’s easily understandable.  Okay then, question number two, who has noticed a slight change in the local color? By which I mean, is there anyone new here?”
“Well, there was that rat character that was in here earlier.”

His ears perked up.

“A rat you say?  Would you kindly inform me of where he went?”

Pete foolishly tried to jump him only to be restrained by two marksmen.

“What did I just fucking say old man?”
“You won’t hurt him; you can’t even touch him.”

He spat in his eye; Jimmy calmly wiped it off.

“Ew, you been eating sushi? Oh that’s nasty. Now where was I?”

In the backroom, Jacob and Cherry had been watching the events unfold through the peephole. He’d had enough of this display.  He took off his jacket and gave it to Cherry.

“You’re not seriously thinking about going out there are you?”

He looked back at Cherry.

“There is one thing my father always said to me, that if I found someone in trouble, if I could help them then I do it!”

He began to convert.

“You stay right here; don’t follow.”

He converted to full shadow form and sank down to the floor into a squirming puddle of pure darkness as he seeped through the cracks of the door.  Jimmy froze when he saw this big black shape rise up from the ground and take the form of his quarry, the rat.

“Hello, Jimmy heard you been looking for me, gosh I didn’t know I was such a popular guy!”
“Yeah well, you know what they say about your fifteen minutes of fame and it’s about 14:59 for you, busta!”

Jacob made a move forward and Jimmy put one of the blades up to Pete’s neck.

“You want him? Here he is come get’em; just hope you like him in the form of a bobble-head!”

Jacob thought briefly to himself and then he put his hands behind his back.

“Hey now, whatchu doing? Stop that! You’re freaking me out, man!”

The seal, Pete was engulfed in darkness and disappeared from his grasp.  He reappeared by Jacob.

“Stay!”

Jimmy smiled oddly.

“You’re some kind of slick shit aren’t you?  And you're kinda cute too.  It has been a long time since I’ve had a good sparring partner. How about you forget this whole righteous cliché and join us.  You could have your own team.  How’s black sound to you?  And you and me?  I’m sure we could be best buddies.”
“Thanks, but no thanks, fucktart!”

That pissed him off for sure.  Jimmy pointed the bladed glove at Jacob.

“Ok, fine, be that way; just you remember I gave you a chance.  I was offering you partnership, friendship and the occasional gay lovin’ when I’m not with the ladies so don’t you come crying to me!”

He turned as if to leave, then stopped.

“One more thing, my foolish friend…”

He raised one arm and a blade of green wind energy formed from the air around his fist.  He threw it at Pete and but Jacob quickly dispelled it with the Shadow Arm.  It stretched across the room, grabbed Jimmy’s glove and gored a subordinate standing by him.  He was lifted up into the air.  He took off the glove, fell on the floor hard on his back and the Shadow Arm dissipated.  The glove plunged into the floor mere inches away from Jimmy’s face.  He sat up and looked back at the rat, somewhat surprised by this outburst of energy from such a novice.

“Well, goddamn!” he laughed “If that’s what I gotta do to give you rise!  Shit!  I truly did not see that coming.  You know what?  I like you. I’m gonna let you live for just a little while longer.  See if I can’t get more out of you.  Hey, that little squirrel friend of yours seemed mighty fetching, perhaps I could check him out.  Later, gator!”

He walked out of the bar laughing uproariously.  After they left, Jacob let out a sigh of relief.  Cherry came out amazed, but grateful.  She bent down to cradle her dear friend, Pete, who was dazed but none the worst for wear.  As he looked on, that’s when Jacob remembered his own friends back at the flat.  Thinking they could be in danger now, he phased out through a wall without a single word.

Meanwhile, at an apartment complex in Flour Bluff; Toronto-born beaver, Desiree Braun had just gotten out of the shower and was watching porn on the TV she shared with her roommate.

“Oh yeah, shake that.”

She said to herself licking her lips.  She opened up her bathrobe as the film got to be more intense.  She began sucking her left nipple as her right hand moved below her waistline.  She gasped as her fingers pushed through her folds.  Her left hand went to the couch anchoring herself as she humped her right hand.  Her other hand joined her right and she had doubled her pleasure.

“Oh yes!  Ah fuck!  Yeah, fuck me raw!”

She heard the actors on the TV speaking her very thoughts.

Then, there came a knock at the front door.

“Oh for shit’s sake.”

Desi uttered as she changed the channel to some mundane sports show and got up to answer, wiping her sticky fingers on her robe.  She looked through the slot on the door.

“Who is it?”
“It’s your backup sex doll, open up.”
“Oh Jillian baby, what are you doing in my sorry part of town, your old man finally kick you out, eh.?”
“Actually we’re here by choice, could we please come in?”
“We?”

Desi released the locks and let in Jill and Isa.

“You’re both here?  What’s going on?  Isa’s never gone this far from the manor.”
“She asked me to come with her so I could finally see the world with my sister and you, my friend.”
“Jill, is there something you are here for?”

Jill and Isa traded glances.

“Well yes, do you remember last night in the park?”
“Jesus, how could I forget?  I had not figured you or myself even capable of beating up a bunch of old pervs like that though I guess it was a little help from your granddad, eh?”
“You remember right after when I tripped and bumped my head on the closet door?”
“Oh, definitely not the most graceful way to end a night of vigilantism.”

She turned back to the porn and picked up a can of beer that had gone warm.

“Oh hell, I’m getting another; you girls want anything?”
“No, I’m good.” said Jill as she joined Isa on the couch who was too engrossed to notice.
“You like what you see do you?”

Desi came back with another beer.

“So, you wanted to show me something right?”
“Oh yes, now what I’m going to show you is very important.  Isa, you must see this too.”
“Okay…”

They all went into a closet.  Desi turned on the light and Jill took off her top.

“Whoa hey Jill, this is what was so important we had to come in here while my bubble-headed roommate is sleeping mere feet away?”
“No, Desi look.”

Desi saw the tattoo.

“It came last night after I was knocked out and that’s not all; get dressed we’re going for a little walk.”

They were outside in the alley.

“Okay, now give me something I can use.”
“Jill!”
“Yes, Isa.”

It was a pile of bricks and concrete blocks.

“All right, give me room.”

She picked up a brick and squeezed until it was mere dust. Then, she picked up a heavy concrete block like it was a feathery down pillow and tossed it.  The block took quite a long time to fall back down to where it landed as far as several feet away.

“Ok, not convinced yet?  Come out back to the park-!”
“Ev’ning, ladies!”

It was a rough looking hedgehog wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans, green scarf and black ski hat.

“Oh, even better a pervert.”

She whispered to Isa.

“Just play along, like we practiced at home.”
“How’re you fine ladies doing on such a fine night as this; and all alone too?”

Jill replied in a pseudo-cutesy voice.

“Oh just waiting for someone big and strong; clearly you’re not it.”

This jerked his strings a bit.

“You stupid bitches…” He muttered under his breath.

He pulled out a knife and grabbed Isa from behind.

“Shut up!  Okay now if any of you so much as screams, well then I can’t be held accountable for any mistakes that may and will occur.”

He then said to his captive.

“You know, I’ve never had a lizard before.”
That’s when Jill said “You go any further with that knife and you shall rue the day you ever fucked with a Prescott.”
“A Prescott?  So what she’s rich or something?”
“Yes something like that.  But listen, you don’t want a little cherry like her do you?  No, you would like someone who’s a little more experienced.”

She grabbed his hand gently and got him to let her sister go then, once she’s free, Jill pushed him with such force that it sent him flying across the alley to where he hit a parked car dazed and out of commission.  All Desiree had to say was

“Where the hell did all that come from?”

Across Corpus, it was now raining pretty hard.  Hidaya was standing on the deck of the U.S.S. Lexington.  Across from her were Sam Montague and six of his powersuits.

“Sam, you fucked me over, why?”

He said nothing; instead he gave her back her laptop.  Keeping her eye on him, she logged on and there was the answer.

“I’ve been tagged?”
“Our own superior put this hit on you, one of his best soldiers because you were getting too good and too close, we would all rather die than to allow a woman to continually embarrass us on OUR battlefield!”

He removed his armor from his left arm to display his birthmark.

“My father, the great Samuel Montague started this organization with your father.  But your old man kept making hasty decisions that cost excessive numbers.  Why?  Perhaps he figured that he couldn’t trust an otter with decisions.  So my father killed him and he selflessly brought you up to be my wife, my loved one!  You could have borne my legacy instead you only thinking of yourself found that fucking shard.  So now, you could not just settle and become mine. You had to try and prove something, I can't begin to imagine what. You had to be an assassin.  Sure I let you become an assassin; I even trained you but I just figured you would be dead within a week.  Even at that, you have continued to humiliate me!  Well, no more; two can play at this game.”

He took off his armor to show that he too had obtained a dragon's head tattoo.

“We will both fight, no armor, no interference, any interference will be punished by death.”

Hidaya took off her swat armor and dropped it at her feet and took a few brief seconds to limber up.  One powersuit had removed his helmet so he could act as referee.  He raised his rifle into the air, both combatants took fighting stances.

“Ready?! FIGHT!!”

He fired a single round into the sky and the fight began.

Bill and Jon had just arrived when they saw the light of rifle fire from the Lexington.  Bill spoke as they got out.

“Ok, you wait out here.  I’m going up to see what that was.”
“Wait, what if you need me?  What if there’s something dangerous up there and you can’t take it on your own?”
Bill thought for a bit. “I’ll have to take that chance, you stay here, is that clear?”
“Crystal.”

Meanwhile, Hidaya and Sam were deeply locked in battle. Sam sensed a break in her pattern and hit her full force in the belly with his elbow.  She was winded and showing clear signs of pain.  He picked her up by the hair and she kneed him in the groin. Then, she wrapped her legs around his waist and threw him into the crowd of powersuits.  Despite a few scrapes and some cracked ribs, he was okay. Not much of the same could be said for the subordinate he landed on.  His back was broken. Sam got up with some strain.

“When does this shit start healing?”
“Not when part of your mind is still focused on fighting!”

She, of course, didn’t allow him the chance to heal.  She laid him out once more with a bicycle kick to the head.  He was on his back motionless.  Suddenly,  he grabbed her foot and twisted it snapping her ankle.  Now, she herself was on her back.  He got on top of her and began to strangle her.  Tears formed in her eyes as her whole life flashed before her.  Then unexpectedly, he kissed her on the mouth and she returned the kiss with an embrace.

“See?!  You remember how happy in love we were before you decided it was okay to spit on my father’s organization?  I have lost all of his favor because of you!”
“What are you going to do then?  Rape me?  Are you really that desperate to get back daddy’s love?”
“No, this is not for him.  I just want to feel your warmth once more before you cross over.”

He ripped off the front of her shirt and began to nuzzle and nip at her breasts.  He rubbed her crotch while keeping one hand still firmly around her neck.  Then, there was excruciating pain in his chest region as she jabbed her claws in and gripped his ribs then began channeling some energy.  Suddenly, he started laughing.

“You stupid bitch! Do you really want to do that?”

She hesitated for a moment.

“I forgot to mention what my shard gave to me.”

His hand around her throat was channeling energy as well. His shard gave him the ability to copy other people’s powers.  She stopped what she was doing and he continued on doing what he was already planning to do.  He had torn the fabric on her underwear with his fingers when there were foot steps behind them.

“What is it now?!”

He stopped and looked up to see a strange opossum standing over him.

“You get the fuck off her now!”
“Well, well Sinclair is this what you’ve been doing since we last met?”

He got up and walked towards this odd stranger.

“Well you’ve certainly got quite a set of cannonballs to be standing here looking at me like that.”

Bill punched him in the face.

“That’s a fucking cheap shot!”

He punched Bill back.

“You should not have come after me! You’ve know idea what he’s capable of!”
“Yes and he shall have plenty of time to think it over when it’s the hereafter!”

He blew a hole in Bill’s body and he dropped to the ground dead.

“NO!  No, no, Sam I swear I will kill you!  I will fucking obliterate you!  You have taken from me now!”

Then, the body began to disintegrate.

“Hey now, what’s going on here?”

Three more Bills jumped up from all sides of the ship and quickly went about taking out the remaining powersuits.  A fourth one, the real one, grabbed Hidaya while Sam was distracted.  Sam turned just in time to see them leave.  They made it back to Jonathan’s Camaro but he was nowhere to be seen.  Then, all of a sudden there was a whole army of Powersuits at the front and the back of them.

“Well, I suppose it’s been a good run.”
“Yeah, wouldn’t you know it?  I finally meet a girl that I would risk my own life for and now we are both going to die.”
“Oh, now I see, well what would you suggest ‘love’?”
“We give’em hell, babe!”

Then all of a sudden, a large boulder came flying out of nowhere and wiped out a full quarter of the front.  Its many broken pieces flew back and forth as if they had minds of their own.  More powersuits were taken out by the rapidly moving pieces. Taking advantage of the confusion, Hidaya began tossing energy blasts at any powersuit that got too close.  Bill bit down on his arm and spit some blood on the ground to produce some clones and ordered them to defend the perimeter.  He looked around while everyone else was fighting around him.  There on the side of the road was Jonathan and his tattoo was glowing.  Eventually, the onslaught came to an end.   Sam stepped over the bodies of his troops, walked up to Bill and Hidaya. Before he could lay a hand on either one, he was struck on the head by a rock.  With his forehead bleeding where he was hit, he turned to see the squirrel mentally creating and controlling rocks.  So now he had three shardbeasts opposing him.  This new one had a particularly devastating power.  Knowing when he’s been beat, he ordered his few remaining troops to dissipate, which they did on their jetpacks.  He took one last disgusted look at the three then activated his own jetpack.

When the coast seemed clear, the three all took a breath only to realize they’re being watched. The fighting had attracted a crowd of onlookers.

To be continued...

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