"Come, wait until we know more."
"Fine, but if that car is there when I get back out here, I will be ripping doors off and kicking ass."
"Yes, dear. We all know you're mad, but getting all crazy now isn't going to help us. Come, let's go inside, and here is what the chief has to say."
I gave the SUV one last glare and then turned to go follow everyone back into the building. This was stupid, we just clearly let two thugs go without even processing them. Now, I knew what I was about to hear, and that made me even madder. This was going to be some song and dance about how this guy is the big boss of the cities underground and he could barely see us.
Bring it, this has now become personal. First, that old bag stole our suspect, and now, the damn cop that sent us on this mission makes us let some of the bad guys go. To top it all of it was guaranteed that this boss pervert was going to be coming after the girls, not me.
I Walked into the building and headed into Branson's office and the door closed behind me. Branson was sitting at his desk with his head in his hands, so I took a seat on his desk, but he didn't flinch. This was bothering him more than I had expected, so I waited for him to speak, but I didn't move.
"I never thought this would actually lead back to the city's mayor."
"What? The mayor is the one they are talking about?"
"Yes, those two bodyguards work for the mayor as Mrs. Petties bodyguards. You have stumbled into a shit storm that I have seemed to put you in. I don't really know what to say at this point, you know the song and dance for something like this. The man is untouchable."
"Why? Just because nobody wants to touch him? Just point me in the right direction and I will do the touching!"
"Yeah, if it was that easy I would have done it myself, but this guy is immortal."
"What? How can a N...a person be immortal? What makes him that way?"
"People have tried to kill him in the past using all types of weapons, but everything passes through him. He is easy to find, he never leaves his office on the top of tower five."
"What is tower five?" Latisha asked from behind me.
"The towers have no numbers, but it is the order you defeat them, meaning that you need to defeat all the towers, each of the bodyguards and members has made it through the towers. You want to try to kill the unkillable? Then you have to defeat those towers, but you don't have to, you can just leave this city and move onto the next one."
"Leave? Not an option, I have friends trapped inside those towers, and I kicked the hornet's nest, so I will be the one to fix the problem. Fine, four more towers? We got this, but I won't be playing by the rules anymore, if I see any of the bodyguards or black SUVs, I'll be making a mess and then cleaning it up. These people all made their choice to follow this man, and without them, he has no power."
"I can't stop you, no one here can, your group is in a whole other class, but just know that Hyde, wasn't able to kill him nor any of the other Leaders that have been this way."
"I am not my brother, we both have different ways of doing things. I will defeat the mayor, you can count on it, but when I do, I want that damn greasy Dry Cleaner run out of town and two put up in his place!"
"That's a strange request. But he is part of the Mayor's group so, If the mayor goes, he will foreshore be run out of town. Fine, if you can do it great, but I can't help you with this. You are all on your own from this point on," Branson finished trying to wave us out the door, but Sandra put the bag of vibrators on the desk and then glared at Branson.
Branson rolled his eyes, and then reached into a drawer in his desk and pulled out an envelope. The letter only said 'one of these' on the front of it, and I took it from him, but he stopped me as I tried to open it.
"Save it for later, when you're back at home. It's not weird, but it will be helpful for you all I think."
After that, we were shooed out of the building, but the black SUV was gone. That was fine, I had a direction now, and I knew what I had to do. I would take down this damn perverted mayor, even if it might just be to prove I was the better brother!
Chapter 224: Melting Tension
"So, we all agree on what we need to do?"
"Beat the towers, rescue our friends, and kill the unkillable? Ya, totally agree, but, just one little thing. How do you plan to kill the mayor?" Aquina asked, walking up to me.
"I need to find more information out, but I think it's going to have to be one of those on-the-spot decisions. That is a ways away, we still have to get to these other towers."
"Then we need more than what the armory has for armor, we need to go shopping," Grace declared, pointing a finger at me.
"You can take two with you to shop, but the other three are coming with me to do the next tower."
"That is a pretty good idea Mr. Leader, Kierra, and Aquina, let's go, those for can go get some experience," Grace said, giving me her suggestive eyebrow wiggle before she turned to leave.
I rolled my eyes and looked at the group with a half-smile.
"Let's head back to the hot tub place and grab out stuff and get changed, then we can head for the next tower, Okay?"
The girls all looked at me and started walking in that direction. Wow, it was like they had all pulled the short straw, rough. Well, it is what it is, I started walking, looking at the ground, but then I ran into a faceful of the chest. This wouldn't be a bad way to go, drowned in a sea of breasts, but it was a nice refresher that I wasn't that short of a straw, just the other one.
I recovered to a standing position from the breast faceplant and the girls were all grinning at me. Well, Carly was glaring at me, so that was good enough.
"Okay, let's go!"
By the time we got back out from the empty hot tub house and to the next tower, we decided to sit and have a small picnic, just not as exciting as the last. As we ate, I noticed one of the black SUVs driving by, but it was always far away, and I didn't want to start bringing guns out yet. Everyone finished their meals and Latisha and I explained the things that happened last time.
Carly looked a bit worried, but I summoned the Jet-Ax, and handed it to her, showing her how it worked and then how to summon the earth armor. After that, I showed the Living Rock Chains to Sandra and then her Sand Sword, and then I got Latisha hooked up with the Basic R-type sword and she pulled out Aquina's Water Pistol.
Now that the girls were all set, it was time for my single item! Cape At Hand, The original armory! I latched it around my shoulders and looked at the girls, they looked ready to kick to ass! Well, maybe not in spirit, but they had the right gear.
"Let's get going so we can have some time to relax after!"
"You know, Dave, this is really turning into a job," Latisha complained as we walked up to the sliding automatic door like the last one, but it was now shut down for repairs.
"Turning into a job? You have no idea, this is our job until we can figure out why we are all here in the first place, and how we can stop it."
"You don't want to leave if we figure out how? Go back to where we came from?" Sandra asked me.
"I don't know, I had an experience with what I thought was the real world a couple games ago, and I thought I grew up on the earth, but that's just another game world. Still, even if the earth is real, I have played there and it's only one life. I don't want to lose all of you and there aren't enough lifetimes in infinity for me to get enough time with all of you."
The girls went silent after that, looking back and forth from each other. Then they changed, but not in a magical or a transforming way. Tension melted off them, worry fell away; something had I had said had changed something deep inside of each of them. Every one of them now looked ready to kick some ass, body, mind, and spirit!
My reassurance that I wasn't going to leave them if I found a way to get back to wherever it is this all started from, that I wouldn't take it. That was true, but I would put an end to the one cause of all of this, so I might have to go back to the beginning in order to sto
p this. The thing was, I didn't even know if there was a beginning, what if this was an endless loop that had no start or ends? Stupid thoughts, but valid.
I walked forward and the door opened revealing a black staircase going down; this was different. Last time it had been at the bottom of the building's floor, the lobby area, but this time there was no cloak and dagger. I guess the first one was just to get you in the door, after that you were already knee-deep in the muck, so no point in trying to hide it now.
We all walked in together, and the door closed behind us, plunging us into darkness. Right away, torches on the walls heading down the stairway lit up. I was sure there were none there before, but there was no point in trying to reason with game logic.
"Okay, this is different from last time so keep your guard up. We have no idea about what will be ahead, but this smells like a dungeon."
Carly sniffed the air.
"I can't smell anything, what are you going on about?"
I rolled my eyes. This was going to be quite the adventure with these three. This part made me think of Serina and Emera, and Tilly, with our dungeon adventure, but then I groaned, remembering how it actually went. I reached out to the side and grabbed a shot of vodka and downed it while the girls weren't looking.
Here is to hoping that it wasn't the same!
Chapter 225: Better Score
We didn't have to walk far to get to the first room, and it was empty, but there was a door at the end of the room.
"Do you think this room is a trap?" Sandra asked, squatting down and looking around the floor.
"I don't think so, but let me go first, and then you guys follow, that way we can turn and make our way back the same path."
I walked first down the center and then the girls followed behind me. I watched my step, but there wasn't anything obvious that was standing out, so I moved to the door. I held my hand for everyone to wait until I opened the door, but the moment I touched the door the world froze and I got crazy out of body experience, seeing myself and the girls in the room and the door had a ten on it and I had a seven on me. The girls each had an eleven and two eighteens, very funny Game.
The door exploded, but I turned into a brick wall, blocking the entire blast, but turning back fast to be in the middle of the smoke and falling rumble. I coughed and hacked and the girls rushed forward to see if I was okay. I waved them off as I brushed myself clean and cleared my throat of the shit I just took in when I changed back. The ability was life-saving, but not foolproof, a person could still get captured without the magic doing anything.
"So, Sandra or Latisha, I think you two should check for traps, Carly...you stay with me, we are supposed to hint things, I think."
"What makes you say that?" Carly asked, scowling at me.
"They have eighteen for intelligence stats without any help, I have seven, you have eleven."
"So where are the things to hit?" Carly said without missing a beat.
"In here"
Sandra called from inside the next room, so both of us rushed over, but it was only a pair of goblin so the two of us went in to swing, and that thing happened again.
My stat was at twenty-two with just my fist and no help, feels a good moment as I smashed through the first goblin with an eight. The Jet-Ax smashed the head off the other goblin like it was paper, but she had a whopping fifty-five with that thing. Wait no, it's getting smaller and it's at fifty-eighth now.
I let the other two check the door while Carly came over to me with a big smile, so I gave her a head pat and a kiss on the forehead that made her go up on her tippy toes. I heard the door click, and I turned to look and see that Latisha and Sandra had the twenties over their heads now. So, points for working together? I wonder what other things you could get points for? I imagined Grace's eyebrow raise and then rolled my eyes at my own internal joke.
The next area was a hall with five rooms, with doors that were all unlocked, and empty. At least they were until Carly and I walked into one and the door closed on us. This was par for the course, but then four bright orange lizardmen jumped out at us and time slowed.
First red twenties popped about their heads and we had a pair of yellow fives. The time went back and all the lizards rushed us before we could defend, but right as they were about to hit us I reached behind my back and grabbed a handle, feeling plates moving to cover over my arm. Time froze again, and the lizards all had fourteen above their heads were white, strange.
Then I saw what was over our heads. Carly was a nice gold with her hundred and twenty, but I was three question marks, in black, making it hard to even see in the darkroom. Time snapped back, and I finished my motions of pulling whatever the hell was attaching itself…OH GOD!
[A-Type Weapon: Dragon Claw] Activated!
Lightning pain shot into my arm, making me see white as my arm whipped around like it had a mind of its own. Carly screamed, but when the light cleared and the pain died down, I could see she was fine, and the air was filled with dark particles. Her eyes were glued on my arm, but before I could follow the motions to see what was there, an ear-splitting roar came from my arm.
All The black particles sucked towards my arms as more pain ripped through me, but I could feel more power come to me. I looked down to see from my elbow down it was covered in silvery red metallic scales that turned into clawed hands. The thing that was making the noise, that had now stopped, along with the pain, was a tear in my palm.
"What is that thing? Those lizards, it, a dragon's head ate them all! I thought it was going to attack me, but it flew past me and killed the lizard that was about to attack me!"
"I don't know what it is, an A-Type, but I don't know what that means,"
The door clicked open and the other two peeked their heads in to see if we were okay, I waved to them and Carly ran over to tell them all about it. I looked down at my arm again; just what was this thing?
'That thing is a rare Type weapon called an Adaptation Type. That means that it will adapt to your body over time and become one with you! You will get a lot stronger, but it's gonna cost you in pain. This thing will get easier, but you're integrating a monster into your body, so expect some turbulence. Still, quite the pull and just the item someone with the Cheaters quirk is suited for. This will be very useful in the future, so feed the beast!' -Dansie.
Great, I was in for a world of pain, but if it meant getting stronger, then I would bear it with a smile!
Chapter 226: Voracious
The Dragon Claw sunk into my skin and my normal hand was just left, but I could still feel it there like something sleeping inside of me. The feeling was pretty distracting, but I pulled my attention back to the girls, who were all looking at me. I knew what question was coming next and I stopped them before anyone could ask me, again.
"I'm okay, This new weapon is voracious and it's going to take some getting used to, but it's supposed to make me stronger. I just have to bear the pain, for now, pain is worth the gain!"
I reached out to the side to grab a drink, but nothing came to my hand. I looked at my wrist and then my other.
"NO!" I yelled in frustration stamping my foot down. "Dammit, I knew this thing was too good!"
"What's wrong?" Latisha asked, coming over to me, putting a hand on my arm.
"When I got the new weapon, the bracelets disappeared, or the weapon ate them, I'm not really sure."
'Yeah, don't try to use the Armory without fully integrating with an A-Type weapon.' -Dansei.
I got a cold chill that ran up my back, and that was because that was too cape covering it. Already knowing, with my heart in the bottom of my stomach, I reached back. Nothing, my heart fell into my shoe. Out of everything I had got this entire time I had played, there was nothing like the Cape At Hand, and now it was gone, but maybe this was its limits.
I let out a long sigh, no more tricks, for now, I was back to just hitting stuff, Dave, not like I was the key thinker, but Bhan's ability was overly helpful, to the poin
t where I had started to rely on it. The same could be said about my brother's power, most of the time it would just close back up before I thought to close it. The cape was a real kick in the pants, hopefully, I wouldn't need another weapon for a while.
"Do you think we should get going? A new door opened up in the wall at the end of the room, and we checked the entrance for traps," Sandra said, motioning for the door.
I nodded and left the room, Carly was out already, and I joined the rest of the group as we headed into the next room. Inside there were five stone statues that looked like manikins, but as I, the last one entered the room the wall closed and the statues began to change. Each one of them, except for one that stepped back became a clone of us in every way. My clone even hands a flat grey version of my new Dragon Claw, the same color as all of them.
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