The whole world, except City F, was mourning. One of the Five, The Chill, was dead! Everyone could still not believe how easily he was killed. They had seen his fights and knew what he could do so seeing this one was like seeing a movie version where his powers had been nerfed down. The Supers Response Department, SRD, had examined the place carefully and they concluded that The Chill's killer weakened him by covering him with high temperatures otherwise this fight would have frozen the place and the people over. But they left out the part where they concluded that the mercenary saved every civilian in the Province's life! But villians could not let that news go unchecked so they spread it out.
Then, the rest of the Five went into an emergency meeting and discussed what to do now. No reporters were supposed to be there when the meeting went on and four hours later, the leader, Checkmate, came out to give the verdict. He was one of the most intelligent men on the planet and he used this intelligence to be a very lethal hero to villians.
"After four hours of delegation, the remaining members of the Five have come to a conclusion of what to do. First, we recognize this new mercenary as a real threat to both heroes and villians no matter their power. We have tried to search for him using Madam Seer's powers but she said she had been tortured for two hundred years inside his mindscape when she found him. In addition to flight, super strength, thermal manipulation and teleportation, we concluded he is a very powerful telepath. Anyone who hired this man will be hunted down by us specifically and killed, hero, civilian or villian. The Golden Mercenary is now a high risk threat in our headquarters.
"Second, we have decided to hold a recruit for a new member to fill in the shoes of The Chill in the Five's headquarters. We know you might think it is too early but we have to do this or the two Cities he looks over will be lost to villians. So, if you are a hero and you think you can do a good job as The Chill or an even better job then come to Heroes Paradise in Province 1 and we will see what you can do. Have a good day and please, pray for our fallen comrade, The Chill."
Nicklaus was brushing his teeth doing a funny dance listening to a song that closely resembled 'I Feel Good' from his earth. From there, he brushed his hair with a metal comb for like his skin, his hair was tough too. Finished with his oral and hair hygiene, he wore some clothes and looked at himself on the mirror once again.
He looked dashing in the street clothes he had on. He winked at himself and got out of the apartment as the song was ending. Once he locked the door, the door next to his opened. He looked behind and saw the girl he bumped into three days ago. There was a moment of awkward silence for a moment before she broke it.
"You live here too?" she asked him. Nicklaus was cursing the MC aura he had on him from Demicruses.
"Just moved in from out of Province," he answered her. She nodded then locked her door. Nicklaus walked towards the elevator for he was living on the tenth floor. He punched the ground floor button but before the door closed, a hand stopped them. They swang open again and the girl got in and glared at him for a moment before looking away. Nicklaus looked at her and wondered what her problem was. She never told him to hold the elevator, why was she mad at him.
"So, stairs, right? Who needs them," he said, trying to diffuse the situation.
"Are you trying to call me out of shape?" she asked him.
"No...Wow, you girls sure do over think," he said then knew he had opened a can of worms. Surprisingly, she just glared at him and went back to staring at the door. Nicklaus shrugged then swang back and forth at his feet ackwardly.
The elevator finally reached the ground floor and the two passengers happily got out. Nicklaus walked the opposite direction from the street and entered into an alley. There, be located Lagertha and teleported to her. He found her enjoying a mountain lion the size of a bull, but it had nothing on her. Her strength was equal to a Niravan Rank, 3 Stage cultivator so this was a humiliating one sided massacre. Lagertha joyfully ran to him and snuggled her head all over him. He rubbed her favourite place back to get her to calm down.
"Good to see you are not doing anything impulsive. I have good news, though. I completed my first task and now, we are loaded. I brought you some exotic meat to eat," he told her then a large chunk of meat felt in front of her. Lagertha non hesitantly tore through it and immediately fell in love with it. "That's a monster I hunted just for you, enjoy." He rubbed her head softly then teleported back to his apartment. The reason he walked out first was just out of caution. Never underestimate humans, he knows that from all the movies humans won against aliens that had enough technological prowess to make them look like cave men.
He then proceeded to etch runes onto his newly bought wallet. He connected it to the space ring on his ring. Once he touched the wallet, ten a hundred dollar bills would instantly appear in there. He had been paid fully for his work and there was no treachery there. He proceeded to teleport back to the alley and walked out. It had not taken him more than five minutes to do all that so it was still somehow believable he walked through the alley in five minutes.
He flagged down a taxi and they headed to a café, his favourite one. Once there, he ordered for some fries, a burger and soda. He ate them while scrolling the internet. The news was about The Chill's death mostly. The video of him killing him had been uploaded, removed then uploaded once again until they were tired. He watched the video and just realized how intimidating he was in the armour.
First, The Chill flew out of the building through the studio. Then, he appeared breaking through the wall so that he can pass comfortably. He looked at the people there and the silence he gave them was nerve wrecking. He proceeded to fight The Chill outside and when the mini tornado covered them, he could see how fidgety the people were. To his point of view, he wanted to break The Chill's neck but the slippery bastard dodged so he hit him with his elbow, throwing him down. He heard bones breaking and the hero staggered out of the mini tornado painfully. Nicklaus saw an axe near his feet so he picked it up and threw it at him. It went through his backbone, making the hero stop and fall to his knees. That's when he came out, pulled the axe out of the poor bastard then beheaded him.
"You watching the death of The Chill? Funny how everyone is devastated by his death just because he was killed by an upcoming mercenary," a girl said. He looked up and saw a girl in some street clothes that were quite revealing looking at him.
"I was just curious about how none of the people here could even call for help from the other members of the Five," he told her. She smiled at this.
"People have this blind faith in superheroes it is becoming unhealthy. Some of the things heroes do are just ridiculous," she said.
"I know. I saw a superhero painting an old lady's house because she said she did not like the previous paint," he said. The girl laughed at this.
"Name's Jill,"
"Nicklaus," he said and shook her hand.
"New in town?"
"Just moved from out of the Province,"
"Don't worry about security here, Spark Plug is one of the best heroes out there," she told him.
"So I've heard but I'm not here to compare heroes. So, Ms Jill..."
"Just Jill,"
"How can I help you?"
"Well, buying me a cup of coffee would be grand," she said. Nicklaus nodded at her with a smile.
An hour later, the two were in his apartment making out fiercely. She literary tore the t-shirt he had on and ran her fingers all over his chest and stomach feeling his muscles and abs. Nicklaus removed her jumper, leaving her with a bra. His fingers naughtily ran over her breasts and removed her bra without missing a heartbeat. She suddenly rolled him and she came on top. She smiled towards him and went in full beast mode, at least she tried.
By her seventh c*m, Nicklaus was still not breathing heavily. He rolled to her top and went on beast mode on her until she could just kiss him. He unloaded out of her when the second hour came and she just slept after that. Nicklaus felt the pain from his balls as this was his first time coming out of sex and not wet dreams. He never felt pleasure like that before but he had good control over his emotions. He lay next to her as she put her head on his chest. He fell asleep too.
It was night time when someone knocked at the door. Groggily, Nicklaus got out of bed, wore a pair of pants and went to the door. When he opened it, he saw the girl next door. She wanted to say something but just gazed at his chest and abs unconsciously. He snapped his fingers at her face waking her up from her fantasy.
"C...can I borrow your wine opener? Mine broke," she stammered. Nicklaus went to his kitchen, took a cockscrew from a cabinet and gave it to her.
"Goodnight," he said then closed the door and went back to sleep.
The following day, Jill was woken up by sun rays. She shielded her eyes then noticed she was sleeping in bed with another person. She looked beside her and saw the guy who pushed her into a realm she never felt before. Before, she could have said she had met all men, the most one had taken without stopping was forty five minutes. But this time, she had gone on for two hours and then just blacked out! If it wasn't so pleasurable she would have called it molestation. She then saw his ripped body and just couldn't resist kissing his abs one by one.
Nicklaus woke up when he felt someone kissing his stomach. He looked down and saw Jill so engrossed with it she did not notice him. Once she was done, she proceeded to his chest. That's when she noticed he was awake. She then French kissed him and it quickly turned into another session. Nicklaus controlled himself well this time so Jill was not broken.
"That was mind-blowing," she said as she lay beside him, panting and sweating. It had taken them another hour.
"I'll say," Nicklaus told her. "Want to go again?" She looked at him then burst out laughing. She got out of the bed and went to the shower. Nicklaus just watched her walk and gave himself a mental pat on the back.
"You coming?" he heard ask him. He smiled and went in after her. They controlled themselves this time so they just made out. After that, she dressed in his jeans and V-neck. She made coffee which they drank together.
"So, what do you do?" she asked him.
"I am currently searching. I did a job the other day it is surprisingly well paying. I work for the government," he told her. "You?"
"I try to stay far away from records as possible," she answered him.
"You a hacker then?" he asked her.
"You gonna arrest me?" she cooed. Nicklaus bit her neck playfully.
"Unless I have to handcuff you to my bed," he whispered into her ear. She kissed him once again before pulling away before he retaliated.
"That's cheating," he called out.
"You are going to make me late for a thing I have later one," she said as she neatly folded her clothes and put them in a bag. Nicklaus frowned at this for the personality she showed him was not how he portrayed these actions. She showed a wild and carefree personality but here, he could see from her actions discipline and order and from the way her expression was this was not something new so he decided to check her memory. His eyebrows raised in amazement at what he saw.
"Let me escort you out," he said. She just flashed him a cute smile and followed him to the elevator. Once inside, she removed the smile on her face and her face scrunched up in disgust.
"How many more of these fools must I sleep with so that the boss can get his pawn? One more and I might as well make myself a whore," she said under her breath.
Inside the apartment, Nicklaus went through the memories he got from her mind. She was one of a hacker terrorist group calling themselves Screeners. They were after some government ghost department and his profile was perfect for it. He had no past records, he was perfectly fit, went through a perfectly cut timetable and lived in quite a well off apartment. They just had to send one of their informer, Jill, to him and she revealed his identity. He just shook his head start this and went to watch TV.
Midday, he received a call. He looked at the ID and saw it was a hero! The last person he thought would call him was a hero after what he had done. Nonetheless, he picked up the phone.
"Hello, Mr Hero, how can I kill for you?" The other side was silent for a bit.
"Uhmm, I am going against my moral code and asking you if you can kill another hero," the hero said. Nicklaus lock space around him to make it soundproof.
"As I say, no hero is too strong, no villian is too evil," Nicklaus said.
"I want you to kill another hero from City E, Province E-12. The hero's name is Mud Slide. I would like him dead in two to three hours," the hero said. Nicklaus wanted to tell him about his down payment but a suitcase appeared in front of him. He looked at the money inside and scoffed at this.
"He'll be dead by the end of deadline," he said and hang up. Immediately, he searched for Mud Slide using his Spatial and Mind Law then found him. There, he searched his mind and saw the hero was dirty. He sighed then looked at the money once again. He saw tiny trackers in every batch and wondered whether he seemed stupid to them. But, be still got the job so he had to do it. He wore his armour immediately, his cape the strapped Tsune on his left hip. With that, he just teleported to Mud Slide's location.
The hero Mud Slide was a celebrated hero in City E Province E-12. He had been on the front lines with the police taking down drugs from the street and today was one of those moments. He had just used his powers to trap down a whole gang of criminals when the Golden Mercenary appeared in front of him. Him, the police, reporters and the trapped criminals looked at him with abated breaths, waititfor his next move. Was he there for Mud Slide, one of the criminals, one of the cops or a reporter?
Nicklaus unsheathed Tsune then went towards the trapped criminals who felt as if their souls were about to leave their bodies in fright. They knew the hero Mud Slide might not killing them in front of people and the police too. But this guy here was powerful enough to kill on of the Five and was still alive and now he might be after one of them. Nicklaus let Tsune touch the mud trapping them and suddenly, the mud softened and flowed away like water.
"If you dare bring drugs into this neighborhood again I will reap your souls," he warned them. The ten nodded and ran off. Mud Slide wanted to say something but Nicklaus pointed Tsune at him.
"But you, parading in your uniform, preaching about justice and honor while you are a criminal. Don't deny it, the whole lot of you have skeletons in your closets, even those great Fives you worship. The only heroes I would never go after even for a billion dollars is Spark Plug of City E, Province E-27, and Trickster of City A, Province A-1. The rest are fair game," Nicklaus said. Mud Slide panicked at this as reporters were having quite the field day from this.
"You are now a criminal..."
"Criminals are just people who do not have the strength to defend themselves. I can destroy this planet so that I will be the only one who is left. What does that make me? Innocent because there's noone who can say otherwise. That's what you heroes are. You hide in your rights and do things that can put a civilian behind bars and claim it's in the name of justice. Like my employer. He thinks he is clever enough, hiring me to kill you then expose my location and that will be his legacy, capturing the Golden Mercenary after I kill you. The Five will appoint him as one of them but they will ignore the fact that he broke the rule they out out about noone should hire me. His name is Mad Rocket and after I am done with you, I will skin him alive next," Nicklaus said.
Mud Slide stumped hard on the ground and it suddenly became as soft as jelly. Nicklaus just scoffed and touched the ground with Tsune. Suddenly, ice spread all over and when it reached Mud Slide, ice spike as tall as as four storey buildings shot out and skewered him to shreds. Nicklaus jumped again then teleported away. He found Mad Rocket just about to board a plane in his civilian identity. Nicklaus got hold of him by his collar and threw him out of the plane and onto the runway.
Mad Rocket almost shit his pants when he saw who he was. As if by just divine coincidence, a TV crew were filming something nearby so when they saw this happening, they turned their attention towards them.
"When I was growing up, I did not like heroes, or villians. I liked antiheroes because they got the work done. Heroes are two side bellied, villians are too evil. Then, I came to realize a hero is still human so they will be susceptible to human emotions. They will kill when forced too, they will lie when convenient and they will cover up when they are in trouble. I spent quite a long time searching for heroes I could never kill and to my surprise, there are only two and both of them are applying to be a larger member of the community that will taint them.
"But you, ohohohoh. You have been quite the naighty one, going in brothels, enjoying underage girls and boys too! You have been the naughty bee, haven't you," Nicklaus told him.
"Please, spare me. I will pay you anything,"
"Relax, I'm not gonna kill you. I was just merely trying to remind you that I can get to you anytime I want. Now, you are to send me fifty million for the death of Mud Slide and five million more to replace the one you sent me. Until then, you are safe. Then, I can't promise. Oh, in case you get the wise idea of staying with my money for months and years just to be alive, you only have twenty four hours to do that and then, you are fair game anyways but this time, I will really come after you and saint fire and lightning on you quite literally." With that, Nicklaus disappeared