Just Another Job
Chapter 29: The Main Man
Previous Chapter Next ChapterA backhand from the Main Man sent Deathstroke spiraling back across the chamber, where he crashed into the side of the barrier that was protecting the source of all magic. With blood in his mouth and pain in his body he forced himself back up to his feet, though he didn't know what good trying to fight back would do. Lobo walked towards him, the same arrogant smirk on his face that he always wore.
"Man, when I woke up today I did not expect to get to kick your ass. Of course, before I knock your lights out how about a little catching up. How ya been since the Suicide Squad?" Lobo asked Deathstroke. The mercs response was to draw his sword and shift his feet, getting a smirk from Lobo. "Right to business, eh? I can respect that, we've both got other things that we'd rather be doing. I'll make this quick."
"Okay, but before you do that, you must tell me how you get your hair like this." Lobo looked over his shoulder to see a red and black clad mercenary resting on his shoulder (confusing Slade, who was certain that Wade had been wearing a different suit) and holding some of Lobo's braids in his hand. "After all, fighting in space and dealing with the scum of the worlds would give anyone split ends, but your hair here is as smooth and shiny as if it was new. You must tell me what moisturizer you use."
"It's on a planet called Galvin-5, a little place that is known for their fruits that can make a person look younger. Shit does wonders for my hair," Lobo replied with a smirk before he slammed the back of his fist into Deadpool's face, rocketing him off of Lobo's shoulder. Deadpool crashed skull-first into the wall and slumped to the ground, but was up a moment later.
"Alright Lobo, thanks for the tip. Now I'm going to cut that well moisturized head off of your shoulders and mount it in my bachelor pad!" Deadpool promised the main man.
"Yeah yeah, I'll get to you in a second," Lobo said without even looking at Wade, waving his hand at him like he was an annoying little child. Which wasn't that far from the truth. But the real prize to Lobo was Deathstroke, who was backing further away from Lobo as Lobo advanced. "Y'know something, one eyed wonder? I've always wanted to seriously go at it with you. I've heard plenty of people say that you're the greatest mercenary that they've ever faced. Including Supes. And I can't allow that to stand, letting people think that you're better than the Main Man. So I'm going to kill you."
"You're welcome to try," Deathstroke spat back, going over ever plan that he had ever come up with for beating Lobo. Of course, all of those plans had been on his world where he had traps and allies already in play to bring down Lobo. And while he might now be able to draw forth any weapon he wanted, Slade still hadn't perfected the technique, so he couldn't draw forth any of his really big guns. Which were the ones he needed to bring down Lobo.
"Wait, before you guys start I've got snacks!" Deadpool called out before he leapt onto Lobo's shoulders, dropped a sticky grenade into his face, and leapt over to Deathstroke right as the grenade when off, smothering Lobo's face in a massive explosion. "Now remember to chew slowly and no swimming until thirty minutes after you've eaten or a shark will kill you. Alright Daddy dearest, what's the plan?"
"That's Lobo, one of the more dangerous beings from my reality. He has strength and durability akin to Superman, while he also-"
"Yeah yeah, I know all of that. I read his Wiki in-between chapters. What I mean is how the hell do we stop someone with hair like that?" Deadpool asked as Lobo walked out from the smoke with the smile still on his face, envy in his voice that Lobo's hair was perfectly untouched.
"We have to find a way to wound him, then start burning away his body until there in nothing left," Deathstroke figured. "Have anything in your magic pocket that might be able to do the trick?"
"I've got a few of Tony's secret weapons, some godly belt and a few nukes. Would any of those help?"
"Those would maybe piss him off. Alright, hard way it is," Deathstroke replied as he grabbed a machine gun.
"Isn't that always the way it ends up? No matter hos sophisticated or advanced our weapons get, we always end up just poking people to death with a sharp object," Deadpool replied as he drew his two katanas. "You know this would be easier if you hadn't destroyed my special sword."
"And this fight would already be over if you hadn't destroyed my stone. Be quiet and-"
A chain wrapped itself around Deathstroke neck and a moment later Slade was whipped into the wall, shattering stone with his body. Lobo was on Deadpool a moment later, slamming a fist into Deadool's face with such force that Deadpool was nearly driven through the platform that was supporting him. In fact he would have if his head hadn't popped like a balloon from the impact.
"Come on DP, I heard you have a healing factor that even surpasses mine. I've been wanting to see if it's true for a long time. Don't disappoint me," Lobo said down to the decapitated body of Wade. Sure enough, Deadpool kicked up and slashed at Lobo a moment later, his head regrowing to show that Wade was now very pissed off. Lobo blocked the blades with his arms without any sign of injury, much to Deadpool's disbelief. "There we go! Head smashed in an your back up and kicking a moment later! That's what I want to see!"
Lobo grabbed Wade by the face, slammed him into the ground, and began to run forward while dragging Deadpool through layer after layer of metal. He then ripped Deadpool free of the metal, threw him into the air, and then slammed a fist into his body with such force that he slammed into the wall next to where Deathstroke had been. Lobo narrowed his eyes when he saw that the orange clad merc was missing and he began to spin his chain around while he searched the room.
"Come on Slade, running away? That ain't how ya do things," Lobo taunted into the air, glancing around for where Slade might be hiding. Lobo might have been stronger, faster and tougher than Slade, but what Lobo wasn't was a fool. He knew just how dangerous Slade was, even to a being like him.
"Alright, so you won't come out to play. Fine with me. Guess I'll take my prize and leave," Lobo said with a shrug as he began to walk towards the source fo all magic, what he was being paid to grab. He sensed a murderous intent and sidestepped just in time to avoid being impaled by Deathstroke's blade. Deahtstroke's one eye went wide as he realized that he had missed, before Lobo grabbed hold of the weapon and whipped it and the guy carrying it into the floor. Deathstroke hit hard enough to cause him to bounce, while Lobo ripped the weapon from his grasp and examined it.
"Sweet sword you got here. I can feel all of the magical energies that it's got," Lobo said, before he grabbed it with both hands and drove the flat side against his knee, snapping the blade in half. "Too bad that it's got nothing on the Main Man. Now then, time to wrap this up."
"My thoughts exactly!"
Before Lobo could respond, Deadpool pinned a stretchy material to the side of Lobo. He then began to run all around the mercenary, tangling him with the material as Lobo swiped at Deadpool, aiming to take off his head once again. Yet after a few trips around the Lobo, Lobo was completely entangled by the stretchy material. He strained against it with a might that could match Superman, yet he found that the bounds wouldn't break. "What the hell is going on? Why...can't I...break this?!"
"Because, my large and muscular friend, these are bonds made of the strongest material known to my reality. Not Adamantium, not Vibranium, no, nothing as weak as those. These bonds are made out of the Hulk's pants!" Deadpool laughed as Lobo hopped backward, trying to escape his bonds. Wade was at Slade's side a moment later, helping him to his feet. "Don't worry Eyepatchy the Pirate, I think that will hold him off for a little bit."
"Is the Hulk the strongest being in your world?"
"One of them."
"Has he ever held a blackhole or moved so fast that he rewound time?"
"Um, no. That's incredibly, stupidly overpowered."
"Then Lobo should escape any-"
Just as Deathstroke had predicted, a moment later Lobo ripped his pants to freedom, before he turned to face the two mercenaries with the smirk that he had been wearing gone from his face. "Hey ass face, did you wash those pants before you wrapped me up in them?"
"Um, no? Why would I do that."
"Alright, that's it. No more mister nice guy," Lobo snarled before he drew forth his shot gun and aimed it at the pair. Deathstroke knew what was coming and threw himself out of the way, while Deadpool was too busy trying to read what was engraved on the side of the gun to move. The twin barrels fired at once and ripped apart Deadpool's body, spraying pieces of him all across the room.
Deathstroke knew that wouldn't be enough to keep Wade down, at this point he was starting to wonder if Wade was truly immortal, but the bigger problem was that he was down an ally to fight against Lobo with. Lobo turned his eyes towards Slade and a moment later the chain lashed out once more, wrapping itself around Slade's arm. With a single yank Deathstroke was ripped off his feet and dragged over to Lobo, who hoisted him up like a fish he had just caught.
Lobo smiled at Slade, who drove a fist into the side of Lobo's face in response. Lobo let out a laugh at the defiance of Deathstroke, before he started to Hulk slam him back and forth across the ground. Bones broke, organs ruptured and all around Slade had a bad time as he was slammed back and forth. After a few moments of being slammed around, Lobo lifted Deathstroke once more, with the merc being far more lip and lifeless this time around.
"Well see, that wasn't so hard, was it?" Lobo laughed at Deathstroke before blowing smoke into the helmet of the mercenary. Deathstroke didn't bother to response. While he also had a healing factor, it was nowhere near as quick or efficient as Deadpool's or Lobo's, meaning that it would be quite a while before he was back in fighting shape. And by that point he would either be dead or captured. Neither of which he could afford at the moment.
"Leave my daddy alone you big meanie!" Deadpool exclaimed as he flung himself back into the battle. Lobo snarled at the return of Deadpool and threw out a punch to finish him, but Wade ducked under the blow and found himself in a spot that he believed to be Lobo's weakness. So he lashed out with a kick and drove his leg right in the crotch of Lobo. "Haha, take that!"
Lobo's response was to raise an eyebrow at Deadpool, who slowly lowered his leg to the ground as he realized that his surefire plan had failed. Lobo the lashed out with his on leg and caught Deadpool in his little man, kicking him between the legs hard enough to rocket Deadpool up to the ceiling, which he bounced off of, before falling back down to be grabbed by Lobo.
"Wade, wake up!" Deathstroke snarled over at Wade, who replied in a tone so high that only dogs could understand what he was saying. "I know that wasn't enough to kill you. Believe me, I wish it was."
"No point...in living...anymore..." Deadpool managed to spit out.
"Now that we've gone through the motions and you've both realized that fighting me is as pointless as killing a superhero and expecting them to stay dead, how about we wrap this up?" Lobo asked the both of them. Deathstroke tried feebly to fight back, but a headbutt from Lobo put an end to that. Deadpool was far too dead inside to even try. "See what happens when we all work together? Now give me just a second to grab that source thingy and then...what the hell is that?"
Deadpool and Deathstroke both looked up so see a small, alicorn baby resting on Slade's head, glaring at Lobo with all the ferocity a toddler could muster. For a brief moment all Lobo could do was stare in disbelief at the small pony, before both Deadpool and Slade vanished in a flash of magic. Lobo looked down at his empty hands before he turned around to see where they had gone.
The both of them laid on the ground and standing between them and Lobo was a group of ponies, all of who stared him down with looks of determination and power. Six Ambassadors, three princesses, the captain of the guard and one very angry foal that had managed to come along anyway, despite her parents trying to stop her. And all stood against Lobo.
"Okay, who the fuck are you guys?" Lobo asked, legitimately confused.
"Pinkie! You came for me! All of you fucks did!" Deadpool said with tears pouring out of his mask.
"Of course we did. We're hear to save our friend!" Pinkie said as she and the others began to glow with harmonic magic, illuminating the room with magic and power. The six Ambassadors, the three princesses and the captain of the guard all stood triumphant, there to save the man that had saved them. "We're here to save Deadpool!"
"And what about Slade?" Lobo asked.
"Screw him."
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