章節 237: CHAPTER 234
It was valentine and Tom had plans with Rachel for the entire evening. Although she tries not to show her fun side every now and then but Rachel actually enjoys certain activities that amuses kids and teenagers alike.
He took her on a date to a Love Carnival and she had been smiling nonstop, unable to contain her excitement as she occasionally munched on cotton candy.
It was the perfect evening for fun between lovers, at least so he hoped until seeing Dick and his merry crew making their way towards them. "Oh, hey Rae." Gar greeted us as he waved at them with a chummy smile on his face.
"You've got to me kidding me." She remarked, clearly surprised by their sudden appearance. "What the fuck are you freaks doing here?" Tom questioned, making known how unpleasant he found their presence.
Taking a couple of steps forward, Dick reached out his hand as he gestured for Tom to chill while he spoke. "Relax kid, we aren't here to intrude."
"Oh, here's an idea. Why don't you all fuck off and we call it a day. How about that?" Tom couldn't let them turn his date into some groupie hangout session.
"This dude might not be so bad after all." Acqualad audibly muttered with a smirk tugged to the side of his lips like he agreed with Tom.
"Don't encourage him." Connor cautioned, crossing both arms as he exuded some sort of boy scout aura.
"I know it seems like we are crashing your date, but we're not." Kori stepped in.
"That's right. You've had a lot of buzz going on in the city lately and you are helping Gotham in whatever way you can. As someone who grew up in this city, I just want to say, keep up the good work. And we do appreciate your efforts." He extended an handshake of which Tom just stood there, staring at his hand for a couple seconds.
"Sure, I do it because I want to. Not for appreciations or recognition." He replied, responding to his handshake while Rachel still seemed pissed off from their intrusion.
She pulled Gar to the side. "Let's have a little talk, shall we." She said to him as she dragged him aside, leaving Tom with Kori and Dick who seem to have a lot to say to him. All in a lame attempt to actually try getting to be a bit more friendly with him.
"You all tracked me down here didn't you?" She asked with an infuriated tone, seething as to their invasion, interrupting her perfect date that evening.
"It was all Dick's idea and when Kori realized you were at the Carnival, she suggested a team outing and that's how we ended up coming here." Gar replied her with a nervous smile on him. Rachel looked over at Acqualad who was the odd ball among the bunch, cocking up a brow.
"Don't look at me, I was dragged into this. I'd rather spend the evening doing something else entirely." He remarked, clearly against him being there.
Without saying another word Rachel walked up to Tom and grabbed him by his arm, breaking the small talk Dick and Kori seemed to be having with him.
"We'll be going now, do not follow us." She said to everyone before pulling Tom away. "Told you crashing her date was a bad idea." Acqualad commented, clearly stating the obvious to everyone.
….
About half an hour later, Tom and Rachel just got off from the Ferris Wheel and she was currently seated on a bench, eating a snack while Tom went to go get her a drink.
"Hey beautiful." A voice came from right next to her as she noticed two guys approach her. Looking their way, one of them took a seat on the bench, sitting right next to her while the other just hovered around like some wingman.
"It's sad to see a girl seated alone at a Love Carnival, especially on valentine night. Allow me to at least make the night a more exciting one for you." She just stared at him without saying a word, completely dumbfounded. It was either he didn't recognize her as a superhero or he was a dude with quite some balls to be that confident.
"I'm Stephen by the way." He introduced himself as he extended his hand for a friendly handshake, but only got a stare down in response.
"Seems you're really shy around strangers, that's alright because….." Stephen was suddenly cut off by his wingman. "Steph, I think we should get going now."
"Not now dude, can't you see I'm talking with someone." He replied, not taking his eyes off Rachel.
"There's a guy standing right ahead and he's been glaring at you." He informed him as Tom approached them with drinks in hand, rather than stare daggers at Stephen, he had on a more neutral look.
"Here." He handed Rachel one of the drinks, while Stephan decided to act like some dickhead to assert dominance.
"Oh, thanks man." He remarked, reaching to collect the drinks from Tom. "If you like those hands of your, I advice you keep them to yourself if you do not want to lose them." Tom menacingly remarked with clearly audible disdain in his tone, and with his almost glowing crimson pupils which sent chills down the spine of Stephen as he locked eyes with him.
That moment Stephen felt his throat tighten from as sweat dripped down his face. "Come on man, we're out of here." He signaled his wingman and they walked away, looking back to see Rachel smiling gleefully as Tom handed her the drink.
"You didn't have to be a meanie, he was just being a guy." Rachel took a sip from her drink after teasing him, watching Tom take a seat right next to her as she blushed over what he did.
"More like a douchebag." He replied. 'He kind of reminded me of my old self from my previous life.' Tom muttered to himself.
"Did you say something?" She questioned, bringing her face closer into his personal space, acting like a cute girlfriend as she sipped her drink through her straw.
"I was really hoping he would stand up to me, so I let him off with a broken finger or two." Upon hearing this, Rachel let out a small laugh, pleased with how protective he could be over her.
….
At a significant distance from the couple, Fang and Charlotte sat at the front of a shop. He relaxed his back and elbows against the counter of the shop as he made subtle glances at Tom who seemed to be having a good time.
"Poor kid is unaware his life is about coming to an end, killing him at a place like this would just be seen as a successful follow up from the previous assassination attempt on his life." Fang said to Charlotte who just wanted the job done quickly, so they could go on with their lovers night, wanting some intimacy and some good fuck after on.
"Just get on with it already." She remarked while playing a game at the shop, wanting to win a stuffed animal she found to be cute.
"Yeah, yeah, here we go." Fang nonchalantly replied, fondling with a silver in hand until it morphed into the shape of a bullet.
"Here we go." He signaled before flicking his finger and sent the bullet right at Tom, managing to avoid obstacles like a professional sniper.
Taking notice of the incoming unknown object, Tom stretched out a bit, letting out a brief yawn. "That's a first, I've never seen you tired before." Rachel stated.
"No fucking way!" Fang remarked in disbelief. "What? You missed?" Charlotte asked, confused as to the disbelieving expression on his face, something she hasn't seen on him before.
"You should probably join up with your friends, I'm sorry to end our date here but I have to attend to something right now." Rachel seemed to have questions but just held back her tongue and shook her head in compliance.
"It's alright, but you have to make it up to me sometime." She replied in understanding as she gave him a kiss, waved him goodbye before walking away.
Reaching his left arm across his face as if to scratch on his ear while he held a drink with his other arm, he spoke into his wrist watch. "They are here as expected, time to move. Look towards the south east direction from my position and you should spot them."
"Roger that." Leo confirmed, dressed in his signature Captain Cold get up. "Also, heroes are around so we are taking this somewhere else according to plan." Tom informed both of them, wanting to avoid civilian casualties and interruption from the heroes.
"Roger that." They both replied, moving on to the rendezvous point.
"Here we go again." Fang quietly announced to Charlotte before launching another, while she observed Tom to see why Fang previously had an unfamiliar expression on his face.
This time around Tom caught the silver bullet in the palm of his hand, raising up his hand to show both of them as he looked in their direction.
"What in the actual hell." She muttered in disbelief as they both watched Tom complacently get up and walking towards the exit, stopping to look back at them before walking out.
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章節 238: CHAPTER 235
They followed him to the parking lot where Tom zoomed off in his motorcycle. Fang and Charlotte immediately hopped into a car, embarking on a high speed chase after him.
They chased him down a path which went through the forest, as Charlotte kept shooting fireballs at him. He weaved and swerved left and right while dodging the array of fireballs which exploded upon collision with the surroundings.
"Cut off his path." Fang instructed while chasing Tom's tail. She spotted a massive tree ahead and gathered an immerse amount of combusted flames before launching it at the tree.
Upon impact, the tree croaked and fell, cutting Tom's path. He made an immediate turn as he changed direction, driving all the way towards a dead end. "We've got him now, there's a cliff up ahead." Said Fang with a confident look on his face. "There's no way he can make that jump." Charlotte added.
Tom didn't stop and kept driving at top speed even after seeing the cliff up ahead. "it works out quite well for us if the bastard just killed himself." Charlotte kept firing at him, guiding him towards the edge of the cliff.
He kept at it until tge last second, of which he planned his feet to tge ground and drifted along tge edge of tge cliff to make a U-turn, jumping off his bike and sending it right at the incoming car.
"Get out!" Fang yelled at Charlotte as they both opened the doors and jumped out of the vehicle. It collided with the bike and the windscreen was smashed by it.
"You little prick, you cost me my ride." Fang remarked as he looked down at Tom with disdain, while Charlotte seemed pissed because they were at the middle of nowhere with no functioning vehicle as the car and motorcycle had taken heavy damage.
"Well, I could say the same for you two." Tom replied with his back towards the cliff's end, acting like he was indeed cornered as they could hear the sound of the raging tides smashing against the rocks beneath the cliff.
"You ran all the way out here this time of the night just to corner yourself, give up and I'll make it quick…Although I would prefer it if you resisted with all your might and show me what your mad of." He said as him and Charlotte cautiously closed in on Tom, unsure of when he might use his telekinesis against them.
"I wouldn't mind being chased down by that cougar, but it's just weird being chased down by some dude on Grey dreadlocks." Fang cocked up and eye brow upon hearing Tom's remark, but Charlotte took offense at being called a Cougar.
"A cougar??...Fang, stay back. I'll barbecue his dick and shove it right back in his mouth. Maybe that would teach him to treat an older lady with respect." Pissed off by Tom's statement, she rose her hand up in the air and fired a fireball at Tom.
An earth pillar emerged from the ground and intercepted the fireball, neutralizing it on impact. "Told you there was something more to this kid." Fang exclaimed. "I think you should step back and let me handle this, we just have to throw him down the cliff and it's over for him." He added, unsure if it was safe for Charlotte to engage Tom as they were ignorant of whatever tricks he might have up his sleeves.
"Shut up and stay back Fang, this one is mine." She replied with a fierce look in her eyes as she fired some more at Tom. Pillars of rock continuously intercepted each and everyone of them, shielding Tom from her attacks.
"You seem so emotional about this, I guess it must be that time of the month for you, seeing as your emotions are all over the place." Tom taunted, poking at her as Pyro types had one common weakness, and that was how very short their temper usually was.
Tom's statement seemed to hit her the wrong way and she raged on. Charlotte dashed towards Tom, not caring about his unknown abilities as she believed Fang had her back.
She fired flames at him in the sharp of arrows, while Fang simultaneously launched a couple of silver bullets around Tom, in hopes of catching him off guard.
But this time Tom let the arrow flames get close to him and deflected them with his arms, also telekinetically sending the silver bullets from behind him and towards Charlotte who jumped into the air with a flaming fist.
Fang noticed the change of trajectory due to some external force acting upon the bullets as they completely missed Tom and about burying themselves into Charlotte's gut.
That instant he was able to stop the bullet in place, but several spiky rock pillars emerged from the ground and headed for Charlotte. She smashed one with her fist but was forced to use he flames to maneuver mid air and fall back.
"I know you two are members of the Sparrows, and reason you're both still alive is because I have a couple of questions for you two." Their eyes widened upon hearing Tom utter those words, surprised as to how he got to know about them.
"How did you get to know who we are? We've never made ourselves known around you, and it's completely impossible to deduce our identity because the group known as the Sparrows do not exist in any sort of records." Fang's curiosity was piqued by Tom's claim and knowledge of their organization.
"There's nothing to think about, he's a dead man anyway." Charlotte remarked, irritated by Tom's effortless resilience and how he seemed too relaxed. Like he somehow had the upp
er hand even when clearly at a disadvantage.
"First question….Who placed the kill order for my head?" Tom asked, averting glances between both of them as he observed for any subtle change in body language.
"And why should we answer that?" Fang asked, but Tom already noticed a slight twitch from Charlotte when he asked the question.
"I have pissed off quite a lot of people and if I were to be killed, I would like to know which of them had the balls to do something about it. Even though it is indeed a pointless effort." Tom replied, taking on a more relaxed and nonchalant stance.
"There's something I didn't expect to see. From the news interviews you seemed like some good hearted humanitarian with no ill intent, but meeting you now makes me wonder if you actually do those things from the goodness of your heart."
Something about Tom just did not add up for Fang so he decided to converse in an attempt of uncovering what kind of person he might be that the heir to the League personally requested his death rather than have the League kill Tom themselves.
"Who knows, I might have some secret agenda. Which leads me to my second question, where is Jamie? I would like to put an end to this façade and as we all know, a snake isn't dead until the head is chopped off." Hearing Tom call their leader's name came as a shock to them both.
"He knows too much, he has to die." Fang said to Charlotte who nodded on agreement as they were unsure of what exactly Tom knew and how he got to know them.
"I will end this sucker." Charlotte leaped into the air with fire like boosters beneath her feet which launched her to a considerable height up in the air.
She gathered an intense amount of combusted flames between both palm of her hands and blasted it at Tom like some attack from the Dragon Ball series.
They noticed the flame hit Tom and seemed to blast against an invisible shield, but they assumed it to be him trying to use his telekinesis to create some mental shield. "This is the end of you brat, burn to a crisp." She muttered as she intensified the blast with all her strength to break through whatever shield protecting Tom.
As she fell back to the ground, the flames seemed to create a small pillar of flames around Tom and just as they wondered what the fuck was going on, the flames compressed in size and shot right back at her in a beam-like state, blasting her off her feet.
"Char!!" Fang called out as he made way towards her. Luckily he caught her before she made impact with the ground, but unfortunately she was in pretty bad state. A part of her face, her neck, down to her right thigh had suffered fourth degree burns.
"You're going to be alright." Fang said to her, gently holding her on his arms as she struggled to breath through the unbearable pain.
He looked at Tom with rage filled eyes, it was the first time Tom saw emotions in his eyes since their confrontation and it was exactly what he wanted. Seeing as she was actually Fang's weakness like he suspected, he ripped her off Fang's arms with his telekinetic grip and had her covering over the cliff and above the raging night tides.
"Stop, let her go." Fang pleaded, well aware any mishaps would absolutely lead to her death.
"Why should I? You both stalked me and made multiple attempts on my life, why should I let her go when the table have turned in my favor?" Tom questioned, watching as the rage he saw earlier had turned into something else.
He was scared to lose Charlotte, and was willing to do whatever it took to save her so he thought of making a deal he hoped Tom would consider. "Let her go, I will help you fake your death and assist you in moving somewhere far away." He pleaded with a deal, hoping Tom agreed and would engage him the moment Charlotte was safe back on ground.
"Please, just let her go and it would be like this never happened. I would help you with whatever you need, you could start a new life and no one would know you're still alive." He added as Tom seemed to consider his request.
"I don't care about that, give me answers to both questions I asked earlier."
"Of all things you could ask for, you picked the ones I'm unable o answer." Fang replied, gritting his teeth as the feeling of helplessness seemed to overwhelmed him. "Then say goodbye to this hot chick." Tom replied with an intentional pun.
"Jamie never moves a lot, never in one place for top long and we only get out orders through his representative. We don't get to meet him." Fang lied, not wiling to sell out his boss and comrade.
"That's unfortunate, how about the benefactor?" Tom asked for the identity of the person who so desperately wanted him dead.
"Only our boss knows that, we get instructions and carry them out accordingly without further questions. We never get any information concerning the benefactor."
"I guess what I'm asking is beyond you. You want me to let her go right? Hopefully you can save her before it's too late." Tom said to him with an understanding tone.
"Yes." He replied, hoping Tom was as naïve as he sounded.
"There, I let her go." Tom casually announced to him, letting go of his influence upon her as Charlotte freely fell to her death.
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