Chapter 24: Wandering Priest vs Number One Assassin

Ace and Harrison are about to fight each other, while the Lieutenant goes and looks for the Colonel.Harrison before he starts fighting telepathically reaches out to Eve, "Can you get me into contact with Teddy?"Eve agrees and tries to connect Harrison with Teddy so they can talk."Mr. Harrison this is Teddy."Harrison responds in his mind while he is stretching to fight the assassin pretending like he's not communicating with someone, "I got the assassin Ace in front of me."Teddy responds, "Good. How long do you think you can keep the assassin busy."Harrison continues to watch the assassin, "I'll be able to handle myself don't worry about me. Just focus on your task.Teddy smiles and responds, "Thank you, Mr. Harrison."Harrison finally shifts his attention towards Ace."So why are you here Ace?"Ace not doing anything but throwing up and down a knife, "Oh nothing just another job."Harrison responds back, "This seems a bit too showy for you. A bodyguard doesn't seem like a job that fits you."Ace chuckles, "You might be right, but I have my reasons priest. But seriously, let's get started I haven't had a good thrill in a while."Both Ace and Harrison get prepared to start fighting, meanwhile Christian and Teddy infiltrate the main tower. There were only a few guards in the tower itself and Christian was able to handle them relatively easily."This was easy, there were only about a handful of thugs."Teddy tells Christian to shush and then adds on, "Don't take it easy now, we have to still get to the top of the tower."Christian is now looking pretty bored, "Is there anything we should watch out for?""No, I don't think so. Since Melody is under my control, most of the security measures should be disabled."Christian then looks at Teddy and says, "Man, you're a smart guy do you know that.""Well, of course, I"m the son of the smartest person in the world."Christian then looked away and adds in, "No, I mean more than that. You were able to get that artificial intelligence and come up with this plan. I'm not sure if I could do that."Teddy is now very confused about why Christian is complimenting him. "Uh... thanks." Then all of a sudden Christian grabbed his shoulder and got up close, "That's WHY I WANT YOU TO JOIN ME and HELP ME BECOME KING!"Teddy with confusion all over his face responds, "What are you talking about?!?"Christian thinks to himself for a second and turns around and starts moving up the tower, "Don't worry about it let's go save your mother."Teddy still confused, "Wait!"Christian keeps walking, "Let's go."We transition back to both Ace and Harrison as they begin their fight.The fight starts off with Ace throwing a countless number of knives and kunai at Harrison. Harrison maneuvers out of the way and deflects others with his sword. Harrison then says something to Ace."Ace I know what your ability is so I'm absolutely the worst opponent you could go up against."Ace responds while hiding in the shadows throwing more and weapons at Harrison. "I'm aware, I'm not too keen on getting in drawn-out battles especially in situations I don't know 100% if I can win or not. However, as I said before, this is a special case. Besides priest, you're not fighting at your strongest either."Harrison continues to move to try to avoid staying in one spot and he laughs too, "You got me there. I guess I have my own reasonings as well."As Harrison continues to maneuver he ends up in a dark alleyway basically cornered. That's when a hand tries to touch Harrison from the darkness and Harrison then stabbed behind him where the hand is.The body he stabbed drops to the floor and it was one of the thugs. Then Ace speaks from the shadows."As terrifying as ever. You didn't even hesitate to kill that man."Harrison wipes the blood off his sword with a swinging motion, "Ironic words coming from an assassin. Anyway, despite both of us not fighting at full strength, as long as you don't touch me, you won't win. Besides he's not dead its just a shoulder."Ace throws another kunai which Harrison blocks with ease."You may be right priest, I'm in a tough spot. I guess I'll have to be crafty in dealing with you..."That's when the kunai Ace threw had a bomb attached to it and then exploded."A huge explosion went off which everyone noticed, but both Ace and Harrison weren't affected. As they both end up on a rooftop facing each other.Harrison has a few scratches and burns marks on his clothes, but overall he's fine. "Well, well. That was a bit surprising, it could've killed me." He says this as he wipes off the dust on himself.Ace responds, "Surely you jest. I know well enough that isn't enough to kill a man like you. Now shall we continue?"Then both Ace and Harrison disappear and continue their fight.While these two fight, the lieutenant continues to look for the Colonel and ends up finding him after beating up a thug."Colonel are you in here! Colonel!"She yells into a dark room underground after navigating the sewers. Inside she sees the Colonel just sitting in the cell with cuffs on and looking fairly weak."Sir are you alright."Colonel Johnston looks up at her and smiles, "I'm glad you're okay."Lt. Campos looks relieved for a second but then becomes serious again as she tries to free the Colonel."This room and cage don't seem too sturdy. I think as long as we get off those cuffs you should be able to free yourself."Lt. Campos then tries to use her ability, although she told Teddy and the rest her ability was perfect vision. That wasn't exactly correct. Although her vision is enhanced as well as her reaction speed, the true nature of her ability is called eagle vision giving her the ability to see everything within 360% of herself. However, the moment she tried to use it to find the keys she noticed it wasn't working at first but she looked at the table next to her and saw the key just sitting there. When she spotted the key she didn't really think too much about it and used it to free the Colonel's hands.The Colonel released himself and said, "That was convenient, I wonder why the assassin left it so close... Well, that doesn't matter, right now we have to focus on the assassin and Mr. J."Lt. Campos surprised that the Colonel knows about Mr. J and asks him how he knew.Colonel Johnston responds after he gets up and rubs his wrists, "Well the assassin has a big mouth you could say."Lt. Campos then asks the Colonel, "So how should we get out of here?"Colonel Johnston then starts building up a huge amount of flames, "We go up.""Up?"Colonel Johnston then fires a huge flame upwards breaking all the way to the surface, then the Colonel jumps up and sees Ace and Harrison in the middle of the fighting.Ace spots Colonel Johnston and greets him, "Welcome back Mr. Prodigy."Colonel Johnston with flames surrounding him, "Hello assassin."