The distant sound of sirens filled the air, announcing the incoming cops while Tom and Jamie stood with locked eyes.
" Apart from that creepy smile of yours, I don't see what's so special about you that had my colleagues dying off like flies against a spoilt brat such as yourself." Jamie mused aloud with squinting eyes. "Especially not Fangs." He added.
"Spoilt brat huh, funny coming from someone who looks to be the same age as me." Tom brushed his hand across the side of his lips, whipping off a bit of blood.
"I'd like to take my time to end things with you right here and now but I doubt the cops will allow it. Also, you've seen my face and I can't possibly risk having my identity exposed, so you and that vigilante over there have to die."
His manner of speaking sounded so casual, but there were lingering hints of seriousness in his tone.
"Fuck the police." Tom lunged forward with incredible speed as he punched Jamie through the fence wall of his yard, reciprocating the blow dealt on him earlier.
He tapped on his wrist watch and he was immediately covered with nanotech, fully geared up as Ace right before Jamie who wondered what trick Tom was about to pull while he got on his feet.
Before Jamie knew what was happening, Ace was right in front of him and he landed another blow which dropped Jamie on the pavement of the road.
Ace took a paused then stared at the palm of both hands with slight confusion, his powers weren't working right.
He tried pulling Jamie towards him but his telekinesis didn't seem to be effective, same as the power punched he had thrown but they seemed ineffective.
Jamie got on his feet with a smile on his face. "Something wrong?" The sarcasm in his voice hinted he was responsible for what Ace was experiencing.
"Nothing to concern yourself with." Ace replied as both rushed towards each other. Ace threw a punch which Jamie easily dodged with a sudden duck, then landed an upper cut which lifted Ace from the ground before dropping on his back.
Jamie followed his attack with a kick to the gut, of which sent Ace crashing into a building across the street. Three police vehicles arrived at the scene of which officers took cover behind their car doors and with their guns trained at Jamie.
"Freeze, hands up in the air." An officer shouted at Jamie who rose both hands in the air to show he was unarmed.
"Get down on your knees." Another officer shouted, Jamie complied with the order and three officers cautiously approached him.
As one of the officers reached for the handcuffs on his belt, Jamie sprang up to his feet and speedily disarmed two as he shot the third on his chest.
The remaining officers opened fire and Jamie accelerated towards them as he weaved around the fired bullets, dodging each of them with precision then fired shots at the others shooting from behind the their cover.
As Ace made his way out of the building, he looked to the streetlight by the road and reached out his hand to it. The pole wigged a bit before being pulled towards him. "My powers seem fine." He muttered while assessing himself.
In the midst of the heated fire, Ace seemed to appear out of nowhere as he slammed the metal pole against Jamie's side. The force from the swing sent him crashing against the windscreen of a parked vehicle by the street.
Upon seeing Ace, the officers were sent into panic mode and shot at him while also requesting for backup.
Ace paid them no mind as he closed in on Jamie who had a smile on his face like he was starting to have fun. The bullets fired at Ace were rebounded back at their shooters, making their way through the body of the police vehicles, while some were through the bodies of the officers themselves.
"That's the spirit, kill anyone who dares to interfere." Jamie sounded a bit excited as he engaged Ace. They traded blow for blow, each punch of theirs carried similar weight likely to that of a super soldier.
Ace's punches were meant to be comparable to that of a Kryptonian since he amplifies the vector forces behind every blow, but they continuously got nullified the very instant they made contact with Jamie.
Jamie clearly had the upper hand in their fight since he was a skilled and experienced fighter, but mainly because Ace couldn't analyze him to combat his attacks with his deflective field which was ineffective against everyone of Jamie's attack.
He got Ace off balance and kicked him into the main road, of which he got hit by an incoming truck. The vehicle took heavy damage but Ace appeared to be perfectly fine.
Only direct attacks from Jamie were effective. On this note, he lifted the truck up in the air and quickly hurled it right at Jamie.
Jamie leaped over the incoming truck which exploded upon impact with the ground, affecting everyone and anything within the area as smoke engulfed the region.
The shockwave from the explosion sent Jamie off balance and Ace took the opportunity to fly up in the air and grabbed him by neck, attempting to electrocute him until he was too weak to fight back.
But the instant he laid hands on Jamie, he also began to fall back to the ground as if his powers were rendered void. So he settled on slamming Jamie against the wall of a nearby building.
Jamie maneuvered in midair and landed feet first against the building, as Ace's feet made contact with the ground he darted right at Jamie who did the same.
They engaged one another but Ace was the one sent flying back to the ground, and crashing against the hood of a moving car belonging to a civilian who was trying to escape the mercy of those two, it's tires screeched against the ground due to the sudden stop.
Ace looked into the vehicle and saw the unconscious driver who was bleeding from his head which was leaned against an airbag, then looked back to see Jamie taking accelerated steps towards him.
He stumped his foot on the ground and a spear made of rock carved out from the earth and it levitated up to knee level, then hurled it at Jamie with great force and precision. It moved so quickly across the air that Jamie was almost unable to dodge it on time, so he reached out his right arm to shield himself.
The spear seemed to hit an invincible wall right before it could come in direct contact with his hand, then it crumbled back to mere chunks of earth.
"He does negate my abilities." Ace muttered with a sly smirk. With confirmation to this, he had gotten a perfect understanding of Jamie's powers and an idea of how to put an end to their little cat and mouse situation came to him.
"It's impossible to see your face behind that mask of yours, but I can tell you're having as much fun as I am." Jamie stated with a mischievous smile on his face, then darted at Ace with superhuman like speed.
Ace lowered himself and placed both hands on the ground, he proceeded to pull down the towering building right behind Jamie. The building wasted no time to crumble as Ace influenced the speed of its decomposed foundations and direction of its fall towards him and Jamie who was headed right at him.
The idea was to grab and negate Ace's powers and see how he might fare against an attack of he's own doing.
Ace made a cut of the road pavement along with the ground like he was peeling the top layer of the earth over a wide area as he made a wall right in front and elevated towering walls at either sides of Jamie who leaped off into the air in attempt of jumping over the bolder, but was met with a descending tanker.
A large and rolling bolder in front of him, a building that was close to squatting him like a bug right behind and above him, then a tanker falling to send him right back to the ground just at the point of he's escape.
At the heat of the moment, Jamie made contact with the falling tanker and ran along it's body as he jumped over the bolder which was about crushing him. Luckily for him he made it in time and the building smashed the tanker which led to an explosion that was contained by the building and the elevated earth walls.
Jamie rolled along the ground and up to his feet, so as to kill the momentum from his fall.
"That was cutting it quite close." Jamie wasn't expecting Ace to pull up some kind of trap but wanted an head on fight against him. Suddenly, a third party joined their little gathering.
"Who are you and what do you think you're doing to my city." The tone of a stern and serious voice came from behind, Jamie turned around to see the Caped Crusader and Nightwing behind him and ready to fight.
Guess who's back and now a graduate, that's right.....Me!
Thank you all for your patience so far.
The Gotham PD took immediate actions and made preparations to evacuate and seal off the area where Jamie was currently caught in with the heroes.
"Fuck, not these clowns who like to play dress up." Jamie sounded disappointed upon seeing both heroes, then glanced around in search of Ace.
"Stand down, you've caused enough damage to this city already." Nightwing warned, taking on a stance as both carefully observed his every move while he got to his feet.
"Shouldn't you two be in bed?" Ace voice came from the top of the rubbles of the collapsed building. "You should go back to your cave and not butt into other people's business." He added.
"He's not alone." Batman informed Nightwing as he took a firmer stance. His mind and body remembered what happened the last time he confronted Ace, and this had him even more alert than he was with Jamie.
"There you are. I was starting to think you've abandoned your play mate, lil ol' me." Jamie remarked upon seeing Ace, not paying mind to the vigilante heroes who had confronted him.
"Don't even think of making any stupid move blondie." Nightwing seemed cautious of Jamie already, but didn't know where he stood with Ace. Normally Ace was branded a criminal but he was of great help to them heroes against Darksied.
"You two need to stand down." Batman said to them both, not wanting to instigate anything that might lead to Ace engaging them in a fight.
"Or what? You'll make us?" Ace replied with clear sarcasm as Jamie burst into a laugh, fully aware there was no way the two could.
Batman squinted his eyes upon Ace's remark but said nothing in response. "You both should return back to your cave, there's nothing to see here. Just two dudes trying to kill each other, and having fun while doing so." Ace added, then dropped down from the top pile of rubbles.
"Then take it out of the city, you both are causing more damage than a natural disaster might do." Batman was surprised to see some kid was actually going toe-to-toe with Ace who staged Superman in a fight.
"Get out, like right now." Nightwing added, pulling out his escrima sticks to solidify his stance as they crackled with electricity.
"Huh, you think you could win against me in a fight with tasers?" Jamie's laugh at this was clearly sarcastic as it seemed like a bad joke to him. "Put down those sticks lil man, before you hurt yourself." Jamie added, suddenly sounding a bit serious.
"Do not engage him." Batman warned Nightwing, still cautious as to what Ace might do since he had always been unpredictable and difficult to read even when he often appeared carefree.
Police choppers hovered above the air and shun its bright light upon Ace and Jamie since they were responsible for the destruction of the city that evening and with the Bat attempting to diffuse the situation.
Nightwing knew better than to disobey Batman's orders but something about Jamie's personality just ticked him the wrong way, yet he refrained from engaging. "That's right, listen to your Bat daddy little bird." Jamie chipped at him with a taunting remark, pushing his buttons some more.
"Ha...Good one." Ace weighed on with a laugh. Nightwing who was often cool and collected on and off duty, was starting to get pissed off by Jamie who seemed too comfortable regarding his situation.
"Don't let him get to you." Batman yet again tried to calm his brewing temper. "Members of the Justice League just made their way into Gotham in response to your summon, and will be there any minute now." Alfred's voice reverberated through their coms.
"This has nothing to do with me and doesn't interest me." Jamie said as he turned to Ace. "I'll be going now, but will be back to pick up from where we left off and end things once and for all." He added before attempted to leave the scene.
"What's wrong blondie, are you scared? That's right, run with your tail between your legs, back to the little shit hole you crawled out from." Nightwing pushed back in hopes of buying enough time for the league to arrive and arrest both of them for their crimes that evening, especially Ace who's been declared wanted for a long while now.
"Say what, bird boy?" Jamie stopped in his track, then turned around with a playful smirk on his face. "You heard me..." Before anyone knew it, Nightwing was sent flying off by a punch to the face as he crashed against the side of a vehicle which was already upside down.
"Nightwing!" Batman called out to him as he dropped to the ground, holding on to his side while groaning a bit. "That was fast." Nightwing muttered as he picked up his escrima sticks, clearly phased by Jamie's unbelievable speed of which he was able to avoid the first blow but unable dodge the second one even with his quick reflexes.
Jamie took a casual step forward, then paused to look upon Nightwing like he lost interest in any attempt of a follow-up attack. But instantly launched himself at Nightwing with a clenched fist.
Batman shut his grapple hook to grab Jamie's leg and stop him on his tracks but Ace influenced its trajectory so it make a U-turn and straight at Batman who dodged it on time. Jamie released his blow but a ghostly green wall manifested between him and he's target.
Batman was a bit relieved to see that, but to their greatest surprise, Jamie's fist broke through the wall like glass and landed a solid blow against Nightwing's chest as he once again collided with the vehicle behind him and pushing it further with every blow dealt by Jamie's continuous assaults.
A green chain wrapped around him and stopped the barrage of blows against Nightwing who coughed out a bit of blood, but he was unable to catch his breath for long as the chains also shattered before their eyes.
'So he's also able to negate the power of the Lantern's ring, that's quite interesting.' Ace thought to himself as he continued to study Jamie's powers, even though he had thought of a reasonable weakness already.
This time around Nightwing was able to counter Jamie's attacks and landed a couple of blows himself, at first they seemed evenly matched as they traded blows but on closer look Jamie had a more superior strength and speed.
Green Lantern was shocked to see his presumably solid constructs shatter like glass before his eyes, then flew down to Batman's side. "Who's that kid and how can he do that?" He asked Batman, yet kept an eye on Ace who so far hadn't made any sort of move.
Wonder Woman and Cyborg also arrived at the scene but Superman and Martian Manhunter wasn't available due to some mission off world.
"Surrender." Wonder Woman commanded as she interrupted their fight with a blow against Jamie. Pushed back into a distance, he looked around to see he was outnumbered by the heroes.
The wise call was to make an immediate retreat but his team members were all dead and there's no telling when next he might get the chance to have as much fun as he was having at the moment.
"Remember, you were warned against acting in discordance to the rules shown to you and now you would be dealt accordingly." Wonder Woman announced to Ace who stood surrounded by Batman, Cyborg and Green Lantern.
"You agreed to some rules by these monkeys playing dress up?" Jamie questioned Ace with a doubtful tone, convinced there was no way someone as free as he was, could ever coincide with the heroes or conform to some set of rules.
"I literally told them to go fuck themselves in the ass with their so-called law." Ace replied, not wanting a fight with the league because it wasn't profitable to him in anyway but they were there to take him in for the breach to some law he never agreed to.
"Seems you have no intentions of peacefully coming with us." Cyborg stated the obvious, his laser gun trained at Ace.
"Of course not." Ace replied, still sounding very relaxed with little to no regard to his situation as they all took their battle stance in preparation to engage him.
"Then we have no choice but to use force on you both." Wonder Woman held up her shield and sword in each hand.
"Of course you all have the choice of letting me go, but you hide behind your hypocritical sense of justice as some reason to bring me into custody." Ace winked at Jamie who was waiting to confirm if they were fighting off the interrupting heroes, or retreating for the time being so they put an end to things some other time.
"Justice League, subdue them and bring both into custody. Use lethal force if necessary." Wonder Woman commanded before darting at Ace with her sword in hand.
Green Lantern saw this as an opportunity to get back at Ace for what he did to him at their last confrontation, while Cyborg also readied himself to fight against Ace the avowed Tyrant, leaving Jamie to mercy of the Bat duo.
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