The Bad Hero
Chapter 46: Return of the frienemy
Previous Chapter Next ChapterStealing and consuming energy was easy; however, harnessing and using it was proving to be a much more difficult task. With enough energy to destroy an entire small structure filling her body, Leach was ding everything in her power to use it properly.
"Come on, focus!" Tumor shouted to the small filly. "Let it build up in your horn, then fire!"
Leach grunted at performing this task, but within the next minute she managed to direct all of the energy in her body into her horn. Her horn was glowing a bright red color as it became charged.
"Good, now look at me and shoot it as hard as you can." He instructed.
The filly's eyes locked onto her father. It took a second to get it to work, but eventually she was able to fire a condensed ball of energy at her father with amazing speed. He almost didn't have time to catch it as he reach up and locked the orb into his hands. The sheer force of the shot was enough to push him back several feet, leaving two lines in the dirt where his feet had dragged in an attempt to stop himself.
Tumor looked down at the orb, then up to his daughter with a smile on his face. "Woo! That's what I'm talking about!" He cheered as his body consumed the orb.
Leach was exhausted, doing this had taken allot out of her, but she would recharge in time. She was fairly proud of herself for finally accomplishing this attack. Her father had been helping her try to get it right for several days now. All attempts failed, except this one. All that was left now was to reduce how long it took for her to actually use it.
Tumor could feel a familiar presence in the distance. The energy of his brother Jack was emanating powerfully just a few yards away, as well as one other one that he recognized but could not identify.
He looked over and squinted his eyes, catching a glimpse of two bipedal silhouettes. One of them was clearly Jack, he could tell just by looking at him, the other was still unidentifiable.
There was a nagging feeling in his head that he knew who this was, but for some reason he just couldn't remember.
Jack made it up to Tumor and Leach with anther human beside him. The man wore an odd form of attire. His cloths were silver in color with numerous black designs across them. He wore a pair of shorts over his legs and a short sleeve jacket over his T-shirt.
"Lucy, I'm home!" The man spoke with enthusiasm, a shit eating smirk plastered across his face.
Suddenly, it all clicked. This was the guy who randomly showed up out of nowhere and royally rekt him, before dumping his body in a bog. For so long he had been told that the whole experience was nothing but a dream, yet here he was.
"Fucking Game Assassin..." Tumor muttered under his breath, shooting the man a death glare.
Leach looked up to her father, then to the weird human standing beside her uncle. "Daddy, who's this?"
Before Tumor could speak, Jack threw an arm around Game and spoke for him. "This is Game Assassin, Game for short. He's a buddy of ours who's been gone for a good while."
Game looks down at Leach and raises a hand. "Yo, what's up?"
She waved awkwardly at the man, not quite feeling confident in whether or not she could trust him or not. He could be dangerous...or a pervert.
Game moves closer to Leach and gets down on a knee, scanning her with his eyes. "What's your name, little one?"
Leach glances over at her father. She can see his hands balled up into fists and glowing red. If something happened she knew he would defend her. She puts her attention back on to Game and introduced herself. "My name is Leach."
He hums to himself as he processes the information. "Cute name. I take it the walking battery over there is your father."
Leach snorts as she tried to hold in a laugh. She had never thought about it until now, but her father was quite literally a walking battery. The thought itself was pretty amusing, but she could practically feel her father's anger pulsing through the air. He must not like this guy. But, why?
Game looks up at Tumor, he could tell he wasn't happy. Would that stop him from being his normal goofy self?
[Fuck no it wouldn't! I would know, I'm talking to the guy right now. :P ]
He smirks at the filly's father. "So how've you been Energizer? Still pissed off about that whole, dumping you in a lake, thing?"
Thinking back, every attack Tumor made with his powers was reflected back at him with almost double the damage. His abilities were useless to him when it came to this guy. So, he chose the next best thing.
Tumor walked over to Game's kneeling form, pushing his daughter back a few steps, before socking him straight in the jaw.
Game fell back, rubbing at the now aching appendage. "I'm gonna take that as a yes." He said as he slid his leg out, kicking the back of Tumor's feet and causing him to collapse. In one fluid motion Game had succeeded with his attack and managed to flip himself back into a standing position.
Jack backed up, planning on enjoying the scenes to come.
Leach backed away as well, eyes wide as she did so. She had never seen her father get into an actual fight. To be honest, the thought itself kind of scared her.
Tumor used his energy to propel himself upward, allowing him to get back up on his feet. He raised his hands and cracked his knuckles, preparing himself for an oncoming shit-storm.
In the background the two could hear cheering coming from Jack. "Woo! Kick his ass, Game!"
"Fuck you! Who's side are you on!?" Tumor shouted to his brother.
"The guy who's actually gonna win!" He replied before turning his attention to his niece. "Ten bits says your dad gets fucked up."
Leach glared at her uncle with a confident smirk. "You're on!"
Tumor charged at Game, swinging his fist with enough force to break an elephant's neck.
It wasn't hard to see this coming, so Game quickly dodged it and stretched out one of his legs. This caused his opponent to stumble and face plant directly into the ground.
He grunted as he hit the dirt, once again propelling himself upward with his energy. His arms began to glow as he filled them with energy and began swinging rapidly at Game.
This was a bit more difficult to handle. With Tumor's fists coming at him like lightning bolts he wasn't able to dodge every punch thrown at him. However, the hits themselves didn't do too much damage as he was just swinging blindly and not hitting any particular weak points. He waited for an opening, which took a hot minute to show up, but still came. Using this to his advantage he swung an uppercut into Tumor's gut.
Tumor stopped for a moment and clutched his stomach, soon finding his head being smashed into an oncoming knee. His mind went a little fuzzy from the last hit and he fell to the ground, landing on his ass.
"What's wrong battery, out of juice already?" Game teased.
Tumor growled at this, leaning forward and shooting his body into Game. Once he had him in his grasp he launched them into the air. The two flew around in circles, swinging and kick at each other all the while.
Twilight and Maud were having a peaceful night day about the town. They had previously agreed to go out shopping together since she had moved to Ponyville. Maud didn't mind, she could use another set of eyes to help her find materials to finish refurbishing the house.
They were in the middle of talking about color coordination and designs when an odd sound pierced their ears. It was almost as if something were falling...and screaming...
Suddenly, two figures fell from the sky, landing directly in front of Twilight.
The princess screamed out of shock and dove behind Maud, basically using her as a meat shield.
[Wow, bitch!]
Tumor threw Game into the air, who landed on the other side of the crater with a light thud.
Game lifted his head to see Twilight damn near cowering behind Maud. "Hey ladies, how's it going?" He asked nonchalantly.
Tumor's body shot out of the crater, levitating just above Game. Momentarily forgetting about his opponents abilities, he shot a large orb of energy at him. The orb was reflected off of Game and crashed into Tumor, sending his body flying elsewhere.
"I'd love to stay and chat," Game began, once again speaking to the mares, "but I've got a battery to drain." He got back to his feet and started sprinting at a break neck speed after Tumor.
Twilight rose up from her hiding place and walked in front of Maud, who didn't seem fazed by everything that had just happened.
"Woah, that was intense." She said in her usual dull tone.
Tumor's body crash landed in front of his own home, leaving a streak of torn gravel in his yard. He pulled himself back up, only to be met with Game zooming directly into him. Their bodies crashed into the ground and rolled several times before finally coming to a stop. Tumor was pinning Game down to the ground. His hands were holding Game's arms down, so he couldn't attack with those, and his powers were still out of the question.
With a quick jerk of his neck he unleashed a devastating head-butt onto Game, leaving him slightly dazed.
Jack soon flew over with Leach in his arms so they could continue watching the fight. He released the filly so they could move and stand on their respective sides as they cheered on their bets.
Game was getting slightly annoyed with how the fight was going and promptly threw Tumor off of him and into the side of the house. It was enough for it to make some noise, but not enough to break the structure.
As he got back up, he walked over to Tumor with a grin on his face. "That all you got?"
Right as he said this he felt a sharp pain in his leg and fell to his knees.
"You cheating brat!" Jack shouted to Leach. He had watched her levitate a bat over and smack Game in the back of the leg.
Leach stuck her tongue out at Jack.
"Alright, that's how you wanna play?" Jack picked up a rock and hurled it at Tumor's face. It struck with enough force to knock him on to his back.
Leach gasped at this, her previous reaction soon being followed by a light growl. Her horn began to light up as she charged her next attack, filling it with a stream of energy. An orb began to form just in front of her head and she shot it at Game.
Tumor was pulling himself up just in time to watch the orb collide with Game, then reflect off of him, and smack into his own face. Once again, he had been brought down.
The filly had no idea that Game had the ability to reflect whatever was sent at him, so this came as a great shock to her; especially since it had bounced directly into her father and knocked him dead on his ass.
Game couldn't help but nearly bust his gut laughing. That was all too perfect; the timing, the angle, the contact. Everything was going pretty great for him.
With all of the commotion that had ensued during this small battle, a presence was awoken. One so deadly, so powerful, so angry that it could bring about the apocalypse by simply grinding its teeth.
Carrot Top exited her home with a fire in her eyes. "ENOUGH!!!"
Everyone froze at the sound of her screams, their bodies tensing up and their minds entering a silent panic. This was not going to end well and they knew it.
Carrot Top stomped over, her first target being her daughter. She grabbed the filly and gave her a light shove towards the house. "Inside, now!"
Leach nodded and was gone in the blink of an eye.
The mare's attention then became fixated on the conduit who had given her a daughter. She worked her way over to him just as he was pulling himself back to his feet.
Before Tumor could even get his feet on the ground he felt Carrot's hoof punch him in the nose with enough force to send him back into the dirt. "What the hell were you thinking!?"
[Maybe you should just stay down. It might be more beneficial for your health.]
Once again, Game started laughing. However, his laughter was cut off just as quickly as it had started when Carrot Top back-hoofed him in the face. "You're not out of the woods either, punk!"
[Ha!]
Carrot Top's gaze moved to Jack, who raised his hands in the air defensively as if a cop had just caught him stealing. "You, leave, now!"
Jack obeyed, taking off in a ball of fire and flying back toward the castle.
Once that was taken care of, Carrot Top looked over at the two humanoids with an angered expression glued to her face. "Now, you two better start explaining what you were just doing and why. And do it quickly!"
Tumor was still laying on the ground, just staring up into the sky while contemplating several different escape routes as to avoid the wrath of the ginger horse.
Game got back up to his feet. "Well, I can see I have overstayed my welcome. I think I'll just leave." He said, turning around to walk away.
"No you don't!" Carrot Top shouted before a bright flash of light shined in front of Game, the shock of its sudden appearance causing her to freeze in her place.
The light started off small then began to stretch until it was the size of a door. The center split open revealing a small room and another human just on the other side who appeared to be typing on a laptop.
The human looked over at game. "Hey, buddy!"
"What's up, Evil?" Game asked with a smile.
"Just finishing up this chapter. I'd ask how your trip went, but I already know. Just one of the many perks of being a god." :P
Game chuckled and walked through the portal, sparing one last look at the Pony and her conduit boy toy. He looked over at Lord Evil, who just smiled back at him.
The two then raised their middle fingers at Tumor and Carrot.
Before either of them could react to the rude display, the portal closed and they were gone.
[Later fuckers!]
Tumor looked over to Carrot Top, who seemed to be stuck in a state of shock. Her jaw was practically hanging to the ground. He sighed and pulled himself back onto his feet before walking over and throwing the mare over her shoulder. She still showed no response as he did this. He figured it was for the best.
With that little mess finally shrugged off, he carried Carrot Top back into the house. All that was left now was for him to wait until she came to then brace himself for the chewing of a lifetime. And not even the fun kind.
Next Chapter: Loyalty and family Estimated time remaining: 28 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Sorry for the delay to everyone reading. Sorry to Game especially. This was supposed to be posted a few days ago, but work got in the way, then I got really sick and ended up being a corpse all day & night. It was a bitch. So, again, sorry :P