章節 8: The Steel Sultan Part 1
The doors were kicked open, "Hit the fucking floor! Now!" Four armed men entered the bank, wearing masks, "What did I fucking say?!" The civilians panicked and did as they said as one of the men began zip tying their hands behind their backs, "Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt, understood?" He didn't expect an answer, "J, get a teller, G, go with and fill the damn bags," He locked the doors and the other man chained it shut as the two of the men grabbed a teller and went into the back room, "We aren't here for you or your lives, we are here for the government's money, nothing else," He heard an alarm go off, "Fuck sake, X, get that fucking teller and open a hole from his mouth to the back of his head."
"You got it, A," He pulled out a large pistol and hopped onto the desks, "Which one of you fuckers did it? Huh? Tell me or I'll just kill all of you," They didn't answer, "Sure thing," 5 shot boomed in the room and blood spatters were seen on the back wall, behind the desks.
"Let this remind you all, we don't like messing around, now, get up! All of you! And move to the back, if you don't, you fucking die, move!" He kept his gun aimed at the door as the civilians moved to the back room with X, "Come at me, pigs."
He saw a man walk up to the door and then try the door, "Don't come in, Pig! I'll blast you to hell!" The man tried the door and A aimed at the door with his rifle before the man let go of the door and turned around before leaving, "Fucking faulty bots, stupid programming," A few seconds later, the wall of the bank shattered and an enhanced slammed into him. The man grabbed him and lifted him from the floor as electricity jumped around him, "What, argh, the hell?" The man swung his fist at the man and turned the metal figure's head to the side before it turned back to him and electricity focused around the man's arm and flowed into the man and then the man began straining and then passed out as he let go of him as the three others came out to see him standing next to the passed out man. They aimed their guns at him nearly instantly.
"Who the fuck are you?"
"I am Victor Gale, why?"
"What type of pig are you?"
"If you are talking about cops, I am not one of them," Bolts of electricity jumped around him, "But they will be coming soon," The bolts focused to one of Victor's hands. He began laughing as the three men looked at each other confused, "And you'll be taken in without any resistance," He slammed his metal fist into the floor and bolts jumped to their bodies and they fell unconscious to the floor, dropping their guns and their several bags of loot. He walked towards the bodies as his electricity died down and then began dragging the bodies to the middle of the room, propping them up with each other and tying their hands and ankles to the person next to them. He turned his head and saw police sirens, "Have fun, whoever you are," He walked out of the hole he had blasted in through as the cops began looking into the doors, leaving as if he had never been there.
Victor was an enhanced man, living in the city-state of Gallbatonia, a rich country that had natural people, enhanced, and bots. In the past there had been tensions between those groups, but as time went on, those problems had disappeared, but now, there was a different problem. He lived in a part of the city nicknamed the "Outer Ring", a part of the city that was so crime infested, the police never went in for regular checks and only went when there is an emergency call or alarm signal. He wasn't part of the police force, but acted using a prototype he had made while working as a government engineer to make justice and to protect the unfortunate in the Outer Ring.
Victor pushed the door to a shitty, one room apartment. There was a portable stove that was his permanent stove that sat next to rusty fridge and a bed that was simply a mattress on the floor and an old, clunky TV sitting in front of his bed. His wall was covered with newspaper pages talking about the Steel Sultan and the Vigilante of the Outer Ring. He opened his fridge and grabbed a can of beer before turning on the TV and cracking open his can. He was about to sit down when someone banged on his door, "Who is it?"
"Please, sir, help me, they are coming," He opened the door and a girl looked up at him, "Please sir," He moved out of the way and let her in, before closing the door, "Thank you, sir."
"Victor's the name."
"Thank you, Victor," She said before her eyes fell on his newspaper wall, he gestured for her to sit, "On your bed?"
"Do I have a chair for you?"
"No, thank you."
"Who is they?"
"The DR3, they killed my parents, and I got away."
"What was a drug gang doing with you family?"
"I don't know, but I don't want to stay here forever, I will leave in a bit."
"No."
"What?"
"You are not safe."
"And what can you do about the things that happen outside of your home?"
"I don't know, I want to try."
"You can't, Mr. Victor," She sighed, "I am a dead woman walking, DR3 isn't going to let up on me."
"If you want to go, go, but I must ask you first."
"What is it?"
"Do you have a phone?"
"Why?"
"To call me if you need help, whenever you need help."
"That would be the same as calling the cops."
"If that is what you think, my number is 734 12 43 67, if you need it."
"Can you repeat that?"
"734, 12, 43, 67."
"Thank you, for the thought."
"Of course, just remember to call when you need help."
"I probably will," She said as he check outside, "Is anyone there?"
"No, well, at whatever time, on whatever day, I'll be available, just call."
"Thank you, Victor, I will try to remember that."
章節 9: The Steel Sultan Part 2
A few days passed, but no phone call came, and he continued on his regular life until the 5th day after she had been at his house. He woke up the next morning and yawned, checking his phone, no calls, "I wonder what she got herself into, well, whatever," He turned on the TV and saw news, news about a kidnapped girl, "For fuck sake," He got out of bed as the news continued talking about how the girl was kidnapped in the middle of the wealth side of the city and they showed pictures of her and her name, "Mary Gold, interesting name, well, I gotta do something," He dialed onto his phone, "Good morning, Boss, it is me, Victor Gale."
"Good morning, Victor, what is it?"
"I need a few days off, can I take them?"
"Right now, yeah, you can, how many days?"
"A week or so."
"Are you sick or something?"
"No, but I have to do something important, that will require all my time."
"Okay, sure thing, hope you get to do what you wanted to do," He hung up the phone and a timer set off in Victor's head, he had 7 days to find her. He pulled on his pants and grabbed a jacket and another can of beer as the power turned off and shut off his TV, he rolled his eyes and left his apartment. He knew where to start, he had met an officer before, a high ranked officer that was specialized in organized crime and had saved the city on numerous occasions. He check his wallet and found a few thousand zepals, enough to get a ticket to the main city and then he knew where to go to find him.
He hopped onto the first bus and handed 3 bills to the driver who handed him a ticket. He stood near the front of the empty-ish bus and had fun making sparks jump from his index finger to his thumb. The ride was of about an hour to get the Regent Square, but he didn't care, he had promised to help Mary, and wasn't there to help her. He sighed as a thug entered the bus and didn't pay, "Hey, sir, you need to pay," The driver seemed new, not used to the Outer Ring. The thug stopped and drew a switch blade and moved back towards the driver.
"What did you say?" The thug grabbed the bus driver's collar and held the blade to stab him, "You should learn to shut your mouth."
"Let go of him," Victor finally spoke as sparks jumped from his fingers to his other hand, "Pay and move on."
"Who the fuck are you?" He lunged with the blade and Victor caught his wrist and slammed his metal knee into the man's gut and then disarmed him and twisted him to slam him to the floor and held him down by the arm and the throat, "What the hell?" Victor let electricity into his neck and knocked him out and then lifted him and tossed him out of the bus.
"Just drive, and try to get used to the Out, people here are different than in the city," Victor said, holding a handle near the driver's seat.
"Thank you for your help."
"No problem," He said normally, "Brutes like that are common, how long until Regent's Square?"
"45 minutes, Sir."
"Okay, thanks."
"Just doing my job."
"And I am just doing mine," He chuckled and sat down at the seat at the front of the bus, looking out the front. The bus soon found its way into the main city, leaving the slums of the Outer Rings. He stepped out of the bus and looked around at Regent square, a rich part of the city, "So, I need to go there."
A bot opened the door, "Oh, hello Victor, did Will invite you?"
"No, I came to ask for his help," Alex let him in.
"Honey, Victor is here, he needs to talk to you for some reason."
"Okay, let him in, I have time," Victor walked into the living room of the apartment and saw William Regent, a very enhanced man like himself, "Victor, how are you? Sit, sit, tell me, what do you need?"
"I need your help, I believe you have something that can help me."
"Really? What would you need from me?"
"I need a name, a place, an address, anything, anything you can get me."
"Why?"
"The DR3."
"What is telling you that you need to do this? What reason do you have for doing this?" Will said, drinking from a glass, "What happened with the DR3?"
"Do you watch the news?"
"The girl."
"Yes, the girl."
"What about her?"
"Well, a few days ago, I sheltered her to save her from the DR3, and I told her to call me if she needed my help, it seems she never was able to call me," Victor sighed, "I want to live up to my word."
"I know you are strong, but the DR3 has an army."
"I know, but I have a few tricks for that, just tell me if you have the things I want."
"I am not allowed to."
"But you will as this girl had her family killed and got captured without anyone to help her and will probably be abused until she ultimately dies, with the blood on your hands."
"That sounds like a threat."
"It isn't but I can leave and let you live with her death on your mind."
"13th, 24th, this is a warehouse the DR3 uses to create their products, the boss you will be able to find there is nicknamed Steel Executioner."
"Thank you, William, I am in debt to you."
"No, you are not, you owe me nothing."
"If that is what you want," Victor got up, "I have a lot of work to do now, have a good day, William, have a good day, Alex."
"Bye, Victor!"
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