This chapter contains racism, offensive jokes about whatever, machismo of all kinds, as well as feminism of all kinds, perfectly balanced, violence of both sexes raw and hard. Plus, mild sexual parts.
Welcome to CartoonLand, a world where dreams come true as well as shattered, no matter where you come from it is like this everywhere in this world, however, we will focus on the most powerful country in this world the crazy states of CartoonLand, specifically in the state of New Land, where it overflows with wealth and power, a place where everyone wants to be, where all your dreams come true or get stolen, despite being the cradle of the country's economy, this is actually a tank full of sharks, where the strongest, boldest or cunning, crush and oppress the weak, although the weak also devour the strong when they have the opportunity, in this place there is an endless cold war, so that's why people like me are in charge that this country does not go to hell in five seconds. So welcome to the land of law and chaos.
The day after Duke defeated the disaster cat, Cole Carson, a humanoid rag doll, with a physical appearance very similar to that of Leon S. Kennedy from resident evil 4 including his characteristic clothing, the fabric of his body is brown, black buttons for eyes, his mouth is very similar to the Little big planet sack boys, his hair is the same as Leon's, only that the material it is made of is the hairs that fake scalps use. He lives in a humble red building, in the Gronx, on the 10th floor, near the subway that makes an unbearable noise, but he is used to it.
He wakes up like every morning, to the rhythm of different subgenres of punk, today it's the punk metal genre, he gets up, takes a bath with a special water so that it doesn't get inside his skin with soap, dries himself, changes, then has breakfast with toast, with bacon, eggs and pancakes but as he is a rag doll, they are made of the same material as he can't eat food fit for human consumption. He is reading the newspaper on his Smartphone and sees the news of what happened in happy hills.
—Damn you, Denise, I don't know how many members you have sucked to have that position, but that position was mine by right, I am a thousand times more qualified than you. —Cole exclaimed frustrated that he didn't belong to the normaliazers and added. —I'm sure Duke went and broke the bastard's mother, since Shanise told me he went there... enough of crying like a whiner, I need some punk metal, to calm this anger that lies inside me.
Cole prepares his lunch, puts it in the lunch box, also his backpack, takes his skateboard, puts on his headphones that are connected to an mp3 player, takes out his smart phone to see the traffic, to his misfortune it's hell, but at the same time he sees it as a good thing, so he goes down the stairs, takes his skateboard, goes down the stairs grind by the handles, until he gets to the second floor, He goes outside, before going to work on a skateboard, he passes by the public parking lot to see his vehicle which is similar to the iconic BMW M3 GTR from the Need for speed, most wanted saga but with the colors red and black, he enters skating but not before greeting the security guard who asks him if he is going to leave in a car, to which Cole says no, he just came to say goodbye to his vehicle and nothing else. He goes to where his car is and caresses it.
—I'm sorry, honey, but not today. —Said Cole who takes his skateboard and leaves the public parking lot skateboard.
He goes cruising the streets of the Gronx skateboard, cutting through the alleys doing skateboard tricks, until he reaches a steep slope, gaining speed, until, like a spider man, he makes a big jump to hook his strings to two buildings, thanks to gravity, the threads pull him to the opposite direction gaining more elastic potential energy to be thrown in that direction, he does not let go of the threads as it stretches his threads to the maximum, until they pull him to the right direction where he ends up being thrown at an extreme speed that allows him to go down the slope, managing to spot a truck towing vehicles had its ramps down , at the end of the slope where he manages to jump the ramp, evade a few buildings until he reaches the bridge, to do the aerial scorpion trick (which consists of being with the body face down suspended in the air, with the legs bent backwards with the hands holding the skateboard backwards) while looking at the cable carrying the bridge for a few seconds, until he makes a 360—degree turn, to continue doing a grind along the bridge carrying cables, he does a super jump to move to the next end and evade the bridge pylon, he continues doing grinds and jumps several times to continue doing skateboard tricks in the air all over the bridge.
Meanwhile his co—worker, Martin McClyde in a white Ford GT with blue stripes, manages to spot him, he honks his characteristic horn, he listens to the horn, continues on his way to evade the last pillar, grinds down the side section to go down the street, evading vehicles, to enter the bike lane, enters a building construction, doing tricks, leaving a side and go throw their threads, tighten them and be shot towards the cornices to do more grind, in addition to skateboard tricks, he begins to make super jumps with the skateboard to go from ledge to ledge to gain more height in addition to generate more speed, to then throw two threads, create a kind of vertical slingshot in the direction of the sky, stretching the threads until reaching the floor, he collides fists with Martin but leaves the thread to return to earth, he shoots into the sky, while doing multiple skateboard tricks, he activates an iron man type armor because he will be set on fire when he returns to earth, he leaves the planet to reach a space station where he meets an astronaut who is giving maintenance to a satellite, the astronaut turns around and sees Cole approaching him, both collide fists and the thread pulls him back, returning to the atmosphere of the earth, while on fire he continues doing tricks on his skateboard, until he passes by a passenger plane that sees him falling towards the city, until he evades the top of the Murphy tower, he does a super grind on the column of the tower, making a superhero landing on a target that Martin made in the street so he can land safe and sound, Martin tied the string to a fire hydrant that held all the potential elastic energy of the rope (in case you are wondering it is made of an unmatched quality), everyone who sees him applauds him for such a stunt, Cole bows to his audience, Martin pulls out a magnet and enters the tower, but not before taking all the string he left in the street.
—Cole, you like to draw attention to yourself. —Said Martin as they headed towards the front desk.
—ANH, that comes out on its own, let's go say hello to Mixie and Mice," Cole replied until they reach the front desk.
Mixie, is a fairy and Mice is a humanoid mouse who are the size of Stuart Little who man the front desk. They have a friendly conversation with them, asking them: How are you? how are you feeling? talking about their damned lives, until they ask about Duke, Mice tells him that he woke up in his office yesterday.
I'm sure he's working on the disaster cat case report...I'm going to kick that motherfucker's ass; I want to kick that S—Class's ass. —Martin exclaimed.
—Me too, there was a rampage of apocalyptic proportions, I wanted to put a hardcore punk to blow up the whole neighborhood... and it's not the first time he's done it, the bastard, but he's going to see now, what happens when we're not invited to the party. —Cole exclaimed indignantly.
Martin and Cole go to the elevator, press the button to the 8th floor, arrive at the floor, where they go to the business of bounty hunters and trial agents, Head—Hunters S.A. which is in front of Wornhole Buffet of lawyers and makes corner with The Law and Chaos Advanced Private Investigation. Cole goes to the bathroom, to put on a new cloth skin since the other one went bad, puts on his clothes, combs his hair to catch up with Martin, but he enters the store first.
—Good morning, pocket satellite monster, how are you doing in this miserable existence called life? —Said Martin, who was the first to enter the store.
—He said, "You can shove your greeting through the triumphal arch and why don't you do this world a favor and throw yourself off a bridge or blow your brains out with a shotgun blast. —Zatellizer replied.
—ZATELLIZER, MY LOVE. —Cole shouted as he came in, nudged Martin from behind to run over to her, jump onto her desk and land in her lap.
—COLE, MY PACHONCITOUS AND CARIÑOCITO DOLL, how is the best bounty hunter in the company? —Zatellizer replied.
—Yes .... bounty hunter, but he is a disgrace as head—hunters, if it wasn't for your favoritism towards him, you would have fired him long ago. —Martin interrupted.
This infuriates Cole, who gets off Zatellizer's lap and confronts Martin.
—But yes, I bust my ass catching crooks before the law to be tried as such. —Cole replied in anger.
—And one question, Cole, how many of those crooks, as you say, have been convicted by the law? —Martin answered full of confidence and pride.
Cole is speechless, as he doesn't know what to say to him until something occurs to him.
—Well...it's just that...it's not my fault that Wagner is the DAMN DEFENSE ATTORNEY IN EVERY SINGLE TRIAL I'VE EVER TRIED. —I whisper Cole at first, but then he exclaims, losing his patience.
—No, blame Wagner for this, it's his job, you pretty rag doll, you have a serious problem and that is that you are still a policeman, since you couldn't enter the ministry of normalization, you are not the same as before, Cole. —Martin answered, pointing at him and rubbing his face in the mistakes of his past.
—The reason why I did not return to the police is that they changed the superintendent, besides the new laws now seem absurd to me, so there is even more corruption than before, and I swore not to return until the situation improves. —Cole replied in the negative.
—That's a lie and you know it, the reason why you resigned is because you and your girlfriend Becky, were confronted against a caricature of class S, that almost defiled her, if it wasn't for the normalizers, for sure she wouldn't be with us anymore, so you decided to join them and they didn't choose you for some reason, if it wasn't because Duke made a recommendation for you to join us. —Martin answered.
—Recommendation that cost me dearly, because now I am a member of the biggest mafia family in town, the King family, now they can blackmail Becky because of me, my relationship with her puts her career at risk. —Cole replied.
—But that unfortunately is a tradition in this tower that belongs partly to them, besides, as far as I know it was only as a bodyguard...or not. —Martin answered and added. —And if it hurts her so much, break up with her.
—It was only as a bodyguard for her children, nothing more, I didn't get into illicit things, besides, but I didn't join the police to avoid a conflict of interest between the police and the King family, besides my pride doesn't allow it, fortunately you are the only ones who accepted me in the Murphy Tower, if you don't want me here I'll accept it and I'll leave. —Cole answered and added. —In Becky's case, it's complicated...very complicated...quite, it's easier to solve a Rubik's cube 20x20, than to break up with her.
—If you say so, Cole. —Martin answered and explained while he put his arm on his shoulder as a sign of confidence.
>>I know it is difficult for you to keep the quota, but remember that this job is not for people like you, Cole, we are not only bounty hunters, we are head—hunters, we give assistance to people who have problems to resolve a conflict through the judiciary, however the real business is that the plaintiff wins the trial since our goal is that the defendant is guilty, We make a small commission on the judgment, in addition to the bets we make in the association without our clients realizing it since that is where the real profit lies, so don't get like that someday you will get rid of your bad streak with Wagner since he is not invincible, I know why I tell you, so, if we kick Duke's ass, why don't we participate in the mess of the disaster cat.
—Thank you, Martin, let's go break Duke's mother, although my grudge with Wagner, I will never forget it...NEVER. —I whisper and then Cole exclaims.
—As you wish, let's leave our things in our office, let's punch up and go visit Duke in his business. —Martin replied.
They both go to their cubicles, leave their things well organized, then leave the office and the business.
—Remember you have a quota to meet, guys, especially your Cole, you've been off target for several days. —Zatellizer exclaimed as they walked out of there.
This does not sit well with Cole, as what he says is true, but it starts to get worse, when Cole stands in the doorway of Wagner's law firm, he stands for a few seconds with a murderous look, the poor secretary is terrified to see Cole's figure, through the window, Martin pulls him out of there.
—It's eight o'clock in the morning, don't be traumatizing the secretary at this hour please. —Martin can't help but laugh, until he bursts out laughing.
—I need to let that bitch know my hatred, my resentment and my thirst for revenge. Cole answered in a Batman—like voice.
—Yeah, let's go, I'm going to get something. —Martin replied, unable to stop laughing.
—Give me a second, please. —Cole answered while giving a terrifying look at the glass of the buffet door, suddenly I hear a scream of terror and dishes breaking on the floor.
—READY," Cole whispered with a victory pose.
—You're bad, Cole. —Said Martin laughing his head off.
—Not evil...Diabolical," Cole replied as I laughed evilly.
Martin can't stop his laughter, then Cole also joins in the laughter and they both grab the door with a clenched fist of Duke's business to enter. The door opens on its own with a creak of terror. They are shocked, they walk in as if nothing, everything is dark, nothing is visible, then the door slams shut, Cole is startled and jumps into Martin's arms.
—Shanise, don't start, it's 8:15 in the morning. —I exclaim Martin who is carrying Cole.
Until someone shouts, who, from behind Martin, until he looks at her from behind, there was no one, someone opens the horizontal blinds where the sunlight comes out and blinds them, someone knocks them to the floor. Until Shanise appears and squats down.
—If they think they are going to enter my business, making a mess, just like that, they are completely wrong. —Said Shanise, who had a broom as a weapon.
—It's technically Duke's business, not yours, Shanise," Cole replied, getting up from the floor.
—Well, I'm the one who's here right now, so it's my business now. —Shanise replied.
—As you wish, Shanise, and Duke, you know where he is, according to what Mixie and Mice told me, he woke up here, right. —Martin answered, who also got up.
—He is in the file room, sleeping like a dormouse in a metal chair, with multiple file cabinets open. —Shanise replied.
—Well, we're in luck, Cole. —Martin replied, as they get up from the floor, Shanise walks over to a pile of stuff on top of a sheet.
—Yes, very lucky, and tell me... —Responded Shanise as she reveals the inside of the sheet, which holds a pile of hardcore wrestling weapons (metal trash cans, tables, metal chairs, boards with barbed wires, kendo sticks, tack covers, etc.) and asks. —Which of these beautiful things do you want to use?
—You don't think it's too excessive, I understand you hate it, but this is overkill. —Cole replied.
—Yes, of course, we've broken his mother with worse things. —Martin answered. —
—Yeah... (evil laugh) you're right, I'm going to take this. —Cole replied as he grabbed two trashes can lids, Martin grabbed a metal chair and Shanise for some reason pulled out her taser.
—I think I'm regretting this. —Cole said as he saw Shanise pressing the button on her taser several times.
—If you don't try it, it will be worse. —Cole follows them, where he is sleeping, they tiptoe in, until they get close to him, Cole puts the metal trash can lids on him from side to side and at the same time sticks them on his head as if they were musical crash cymbals causing duke's head to shake to the rhythm of the cymbals, Shanise, with a relentless thirst for evil, electrocutes him with the taser at full power in the crotch, causing him to fall to the ground, knocking him out.
Once on the floor, Martin, Shanise and Cole kick him on the floor brutally, besides Shanise constantly electrocuting him at full power with the taser from time to time, however, they did not count on Duke's resistance who loses his patience, he takes out of his bag a lighter, lights it and sticks it to Cole's pants, causing him to catch fire a little, this scares Cole who tries to take it off, then kicks Martin in the crotch, then grabs Shanise's hand with the taser, breaks her wrist, takes the taser from her, in an act of merciless revenge, hits the taser right in the crotch, exactly in the clitoris, which causes her to start having an orgasm and to have ahegao typefaces, until she faints.
—Thank you for getting me up, so let's get to work, follow me to the meeting room, as we need to talk business. —Said Duke, while he takes a fire extinguisher, hits Cole who is on fire, shoots him with the extinguisher until he empties it completely creating a mountain of foam, organizes all the papers that fortunately did not burn and takes the three of them dragging them by the hair to the meeting room.
Once in the meeting room, Duke sits waiting for them to join in, painfully getting up and sitting in their respective seats.
—HOW DARE YOU, TO LEAVE US OUT OF THE DISASTER CAT CASE. —Cole shouted, pointing at him with anger and indignation.
—Exactly, Duke, didn't you get us into this in the first place, aren't we friends? —Martin exclaimed in all seriousness, but at the end he felt disappointed and hurt.
—I called Zatellizer, and she told me that Cole was working like crazy because he was behind with his quota, as a bounty hunter and that applies to Martin who was also in the same thing only you look for easy victims to manipulate. —Said Duke.
—Ahhh...yeah, now that I remember, I was killing myself like a dog in my job since I needed money, fortunately I got good money, especially that asshole Wagner, didn't touch me in the hearings, so I had a good run. —Cole, who was buried in fire extinguisher foam, even takes out his cell phone and sees Duke's missed calls, from previous days, Shanise brings a giant dryer from I don't know where, which removes the foam from Cole, besides bringing him, scissors, needle and new thread as well as new pants, with which she cuts the burned part, puts a patch on him and puts on the new pants.
—That's right, Zatellizer had told me about it, now that I remember, I'm sorry for doubting you, but now, what information could you get from that case? —Martin asked.
—Until Kaede and Becky are with us, I will not tell you anything, it is important that we are all together, by the way, what happened with Becky, I have not seen her lately. —Duke answered.
—No, not at all, I just want to take some time alone, since she is very..." Cole answered.
—She's unbearable, toxic, fussy, unbearable, restless, unhappy..." Martin interrupted Cole.
—No, she is not like that, I know it is very difficult to get along with her, but I don't consider her like that, besides I wanted to give myself some time alone, because I like to be alone from time to time, you know me, but don't worry, I will go back to her, she knows it and you know it. —Cole explained.
—If you've seen the news, you'll notice that lately there are a lot of explosions, death and destruction everywhere. —Martin replied.
—Yes, I watch the news too, what's up with that. —Cole answered.
That woman is crazy, her level of ultra—violence is at the nth degree, give her a dose of love, to calm her down... and NOW. —Martin exclaimed.
—Yes, and more than that I was shopping on my lunch break, and that whore spent the whole way looking at me badly, in her Pontiac firebird trans am chatterbox, telling me everything on the street, please go back to her. —Shanise replied with a tone of trauma and desperation.
—I don't care about her, I want to be alone, I'll go back to her later. —Cole exclaimed angrily, making things clear.
—All right, Cole, as you want, so if there is any interesting business that you want to tell me about, you can do it, although the disaster cat case gave me a lot of money, to pay the bills, Shanise's salary, among other things, I am planning to put more staff to the business, to better distribute the functions, so tell me, guys that you have me again. —Duke replied.
—I like you to finally get off your damn ass Duke, this business has been in the red, lately, so, yeah, I have a business that can benefit all three of us, I'm talking big money, you want to hear it. —Martin replied.
—I hear you, Martin. —Duke replied.
—I need to look for the laptop with the information, come on Cole, I need you to accompany me to the business to look for it. —Said Martin as they left to look for the laptop in the store, they left the store, leaving Duke and Shanise alone.
They both remain silent.
—Duke..." Shanise whispered very sorry.
—Don't worry, there are cameras in the store, so, if you do something, you know what will happen to you, because I can accept this kind of childishness to them, because I have known them for a long time, but you are between a rock and a hard place, Shanise, so think well, your next move. —Duke replied.
—Oh... so you're threatening me, Mcduckwell," Shanise replied.
—No, I'm just telling it like it is, unless you have some way of convincing me otherwise. —Duke replied.
—Don't worry Duke Mcduckwell, I know how to keep guys like you at bay, I'm coming now. —Shanise exclaimed as she left the locker room.
—And now he's going to come with this woneja. —Duke thought.
Until she comes out, dressed in Kaede's signature outfit (a purple shirt, with a plunging neckline, with a blood red pants and jacket combination, with her box buckle belt with her initials), and even an EMCA facial mask that perfectly recreates (a blonde—haired Japanese woman, with gradient crimson eyes), the head of the person she is disguised as. Shanise disguised as Kaede tries to seduce and convince Duke not to do anything to her or retaliate against her, he is about to give in, but Martin and Cole enter with the laptop, when they realize that Duke is being seduced by Kaede.
—But what the hell is going on here, who the hell is she? —Cole asked confused and dumbfounded.
—Shanise, you should stop disguising yourself as Kaede, because when we go to look for her and she sees that, on the security cameras, she notices that you are dressed as her and you are cuddling up to him like this.... Well, I don't want to imagine what will happen to you when she finds out! —Martin replied.
Poor Shanise starts to imagine all kinds of tortures that Kaede can do to her when she comes, to the point that she ends up traumatized, she runs to the dressing room and goes back to being herself again and goes to the reception.
—NAH....let her do it, this way my spirits are lifted a little, since I can't live without her, I miss her so much, I'm nobody without her, lately I'm feeling a little.... depressive. —Duke said he misses her.
—Hell but what a Simp, I can't believe you're leaving the world alone because Kaede is going on vacation for a while, take this as a way to give you your space, enjoy some solitude, look at me, I left Becky for a moment to enjoy the solitude, to give myself some space, she needs her space too, Duke, she'll be fine. —Cole replied.
No wonder Becky's bitch, she's more unbearable than ever, one day I found her in a terrible mood, but nothing, Cole, I understand that you are a full—fledged sigma, but not everyone behaves the same way as you, there are people who have so many demons and situations where loneliness is one of the most lethal killers in this world, depression, especially what happened to Duke's mother when her husband succumbed to insanity after Malcolm Shredder's case, you should fuck with Shanise you should from time to time, she has a very good body as she keeps herself well, plus she is humanoid and rabbits are very good for sex or where do you think you found her in the first place. —Martin explained.
—You should stop meddling in people's pasts, don't you think, Martin. —Shanise replied menacingly as she listened to everything Martin said.
—Ya, Madam and gentlemen, stop fighting and let's talk business, so get everything ready to start. —Duke said.
—Yes, my commander. —Cole replied.
—If any client calls me tell them I'm in a meeting, that also includes the physical clients that come here. —Duke said, opening the door a little and then sticking his head out.
—I understand Duke. —Shanise said as she returns to her position and puts on her headset.
Duke finishes closing the door, both Cole and Martin prepare the presentation, Cole is testing the projector and the control, while Martin finds the file with the slides in the laptop, until they get it, they do the corresponding tests and start the presentation.
—As you will see Duke, in the Candyville district, there have been several murders and horrible kidnappings lately, there have been several sightings of unidentified humanoid beings..." Cole explained and was interrupted by Duke.
—Let me guess, they think he's a Gulabon, how much do they want for his head? —Duke interrupts. —Three million dollars, Honey, that's a pretty good reward, isn't it? —Martin replied.
—Yes, but the real profit is at the bookmaker, depending on the bookmaker how much could be doubled or tripled. —Duke asked.
—According to the bookmaker, our reward could be doubled if the judge's verdict finds him guilty, but if they find him not guilty, it could be quadrupled. —Cole replied.
—Twelve million to find him innocent, that's a lot of money, but that's very difficult, especially with the evidence that has been found at the crime scenes proving against him, so I see it as more feasible to bet against him. —Martin replied as greed is consuming him and added. —Although, you and your father already have experience in such cases of that nature, no, I imagine you must know, if he could have an alibi for him to be innocent.
—Yes there is one, since this kind of cases is not new in Candyville, there are many arguments and proofs that can give him for innocent, I will work on it to see if we can earn those four million, but I will work on my side, even so, who are the ones who put the reward and his lawyer? —Duke asked.
—Apparently, it's the families of the victims of the sweet men's kidnappings and murders and the lawyer is Wagner's nemesis, Jenna Jade. —Cole replied.
—Perfect, I will do my best to see if we can earn that twelve million, when are we going to Candyville, gentlemen. —Asked Duke.
—Right now, I saw on the news this morning, that there was another victim, it would be number ten this week, so what are we going, on foot, by subway or by vehicle... I propose to go by vehicle, I want to get there in style. —Martin proposed.
—I prefer to go by skateboard since I left the vehicle at home, besides gas is very expensive lately, I don't like to go to the subway because of the incident with that loose thread... that was a shitty day, I don't know, having to go back to my house, to get my vehicle and to go to Candyville... I don't know. —Cole questioned.
—You have like a fortnight without using your vehicle, you live in your own building, you are always up to date with your payments and you have a lot of money, why don't you risk it all like me, you can take the Accelerator highway to get to Candyville faster, stop being cheap, have fun for once. —Martin replied.
—All right, I'll go with you to get my vehicle, to have a race, is that okay with you and have Duke go ahead. —Cole replied.
—It's fine with me, go and pick up everything Cole, so Duke, we'll wait for you there, we'll leave, with your permission. —Martin answered while Cole turned off and disconnected everything, besides leaving everything tidy in the living room, they leave the store and then go back to theirs, while they get ready to leave.
Duke is left alone in the living room, he begins to celebrate the case he is going to work on.
Finally, a serious case, I'm tired of all these minor and meaningless cases, although if I think about it, this case is Martin and Cole's, not my business, if only I could find a client that aligned with this case would be very beneficial for me, because with that I can compensate the part that I will lose, the company takes twenty—five percent of what is earned in catching the crook... —Duke exclaimed, while dancing with happiness, although he remained thoughtful about that part.
Shanise knocks on the door of the meeting room, Duke tells her to come in.
—I have a case for you, Duke. —Shanise said.
—If it's not a Candyville case, schedule an appointment," Duke replied.
—Well, thank God, because she's a Gulabon who's looking for her husband. —Shanise replied.
—All right, I'll take it, where is the client on the phone or.... —Asked Duke in a serious tone but excited.
—It's at the reception, apparently it took the form of a woman...or is it one, I don't know, you go and find out," Shanise replied.
—I don't care, one thing I do know is that the Gulabons don't have much idea of the prices on our planet, since they pay with their currency, the gludix, rare and valuable precious gems, if it wasn't for the big bureaucratic process required to change the gludix to our currency, we would solve many problems in this shitty world, but as always the bureaucracy ruins everything, while many businesses reject it, we do not. —Duke answered and went to his office to receive her.
—UFF... but what a good deal, hopefully it will be a lot of money, so I'm going to invite him to come to your office. —Shanise exclaims as Duke enters her office, she gets ready for the client, Shanise knocks on the door, Duke invites her in, she and the client go into the office then Shanise leaves them alone to discuss the case.
—My Gulabon name is Xen'wit but my new land name is Xena Johnson, a pleasure to meet you detective Mcduckwell. —Said Xena as the two shook hands, Duke invited her to sit down.
—It's a pleasure to have you come to our humble place, although your last name sounds familiar. Duke commented, while showing his true form, a pale green humanoid alien shapeshifter (very similar to the race of the Martian detective from DC).
—Yes, unfortunately my husband Kal'wit, better known as John Johnson or as you call him the Cookie Eater. —Said Xena.
—WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, the Cookie Eater is back to his old ways, but if that's impossible, he was cured of his addiction to cookies... you can't remove or add certain customs, habits or vices, among others, how on earth, could he be back to his old ways, my father and the cops stopped him after the Candyville disaster a long time ago, what happened this time? —Duke commented with an altered tone of indignation, frustration and disappointment.
—However, one day he went to work as he normally did and then he didn't come back, when I saw the news, apparently he was back to his old ways, I tried to stop him, but now his addiction is stronger than before, to the point that I never imagined he would become a cannibalistic candy killer. —Xena answered as the poor thing was about to burst into tears.
—Wait, candy, that wasn't cookies, so the other victims are also his.... him. —answered Duke who was stunned.
—YES...MY HUSBAND IS A MURDERER...WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS...— Xena cried, bursting into tears.
Duke is filled with rage and helplessness and has a memory of his father.
—You know son, forgive me for not coming to your school reunions, forgive me for spending quality time with you, but I want you to know that even though I'm not by your side, I want you to know that I'm out on the streets trying to make a better world for you. —Said Duke's father who had a young Duke sitting on his lap as they watch the city in the rain. He then moves on to another memory, where his father was awarded the Holmes awards, best detective, for his investigation on the Gulabon, plus when he was given the key to the city for stopping the Gulabons and reintegrating them back into society, plus giving him a place to live while little Duke held up the key to the city while sitting on his father's shoulders as the citizens applauded him.
—All that sacrifice, all those bad nights, all those nights in jail...ALL of it...for nothing! —Duke whispered as he gritted his teeth, clenched his fists in anger until....
—THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN CONSIDER HIM A MURDERER, IS ME. —Duke shouted as he struck fiercely with his fist from the side, poor Xena was startled and shocked by what he exclaimed. —My father was the one who saved the life of your husband and your people, I have no doubt that something very strange is going on around here, so I am going to prove to the city, not to everyone that your husband and your people who are victims of this corrupt bullshit system, so pay attention I can give asylum to your husband in the Gulabon embassy, so they can protect him from the head—hunters and the police but still your husband must be played in a court so the law and justice start to do their job.
Duke gives her a card, where it is there are some locations in a strange place.
—And what is this? —Xena asked.
—It is a special location where you will bring your vehicle, where some Gulabons belonging to the Gulabon Embassy, will take you and your husband to stay there, while I complete the case, I will make this clear, here you are going to sign this contract with me, where I commit myself body and soul to return your husband safe and sound, as well as finding him innocent, but if there is any information that you have not told me, that I need to know or anything else that may incriminate him, if the law convicts him, that is something that is out of my hands, besides that you are going to participate in this investigation, although whatever happens to him, thanks to me or not, I will be out of blame, are you willing to take the risk for your husband, yes or no. —Duke answered as he passed her the contract with a pencil for her to sign.
—I would do anything for him, so I told him in your hands, so I will trust you at all times. —Xena replied as she signed it without reading it.
—Perfect, now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do, I'll call you in advance so we can meet at the point, so be always ready when the time comes, a pleasure to meet you, Mistress Xena, have a happy rest of the day. —Duke replied as he led her out of the store.
—The pleasure is all mine, detective, we will keep in touch. —Xena replied as she exits the store and heads for the elevator.
Duke closes the door and goes to his office to pick up some things.
—Don't you think you should have identified, if what he says is true before accepting the case, I understand that you are hiding behind a contract, but you should know that there are laws that can neutralize the contract. —Shanise commented while helping him to pick up his things.
—As well as there are laws that do the opposite, if I did not do previous research, it is because I had already done it, I was aware of the case long before what happened with the disaster cat, a detective of law and chaos advanced research always comes before, analyzes the events that happen in their environment to be prepared for whatever, this type of cases my father has worked since time immemorial, and even since he was a Junior Detective, but the Guladon, humans, among other races have always had problems with the Candorians for the simple fact that they are very tasty, they are people made of candy, buildings, anything made of candy, it is paradise that you can eat practically everything. ...UMM...I think I got hungry. —Duke replied as he finished picking up his weapons.
—I hope we make a lot of money with this. —Shanise answered as she was putting his coat back on.
—You're going to change the money. —Duke asked as they looked at each other face to face.
—I'm going to waste a whole day of my life or maybe more, trying to change that, are you going to compensate me in a meaningful way? —Shanise said while seducing him.
—If you want, I'll treat you to a meal at a fancy restaurant of your choice, as a reward depending on how many days you last there. —Duke answered as he was leaving, but she grabbed his coat.
—You're not even going to give me a raise, Duke, but nothing..." Shanise answered while she kisses him on the beak, suddenly turns him around and kicks him out of the store and added. —NOW GET TO WORK, YOU DAMNED SLAVE OF THE SYSTEM, TAXES DON'T PAY THEMSELVES.
—You didn't have to pull me out like that. —Said Duke as he dusts himself off, sits up, looks at his watch, realizes it's been a long time since they left and added. —Shit, I'm late and Cole is too much of a pain in the ass when he's late.
Duke runs to the elevator but it is stopping at every floor, so he loses his patience, so he goes down the stairs, jumps with his briefcase that he uses as a skateboard to grind through all the floors until he reaches the parking lot, runs to his car, puts his suitcase in the passenger seat, puts on his seat belt, starts the car, accelerates at full power but without first passing through the security booth to put his access, Now he goes out at full speed, but a traffic jam stops him, so he takes a detour through several streets but all of them are full of traffic, so he goes first to the gas station to fill the gas tank although he has enough after returning from Happy hills, so he enters the gas station store but there are many people, so he has to wait a while, but not before taking a few bottles of water.
—Just when I'm leaving for the Accelerator highway, this has to happen, I hope Cole doesn't kill me. —Duke said that he is desperate, about ten minutes pass, because the cashier is fast, he pays for the bottles, in addition to the gasoline that he is going to put in his tank, he takes the bill and goes to fill the tank of his vehicle, while he drinks one of the bottles because there is a lot of heat in the environment, until he finally fills the tank, he starts his vehicle and accelerates to go to the Accelerator highway.
The Accelerator highway is an internal dimension that has new land to speed up the traffic, although with a great risk, if you love your gasoline is not recommended to go here because you can run out of gas on the way, if you do not go through the booster, plus there are many obstacles, since it is basically a giant and immense hotwheels track.
note: everyone who knows about hotwheels must know every hotwheels track reference that exists, just in case you want to tell me that I'm a plagiarist.
Duke with his vehicle is transported by a crane to a launcher, one of the operators of the track activates the launcher where he is, the vehicle shoots out at full speed, until it passes through several boosters gaining speed, the vehicle passes through several vertical and horizontal loops, plus several curves, until it meets Martin in his version of the (Ford GT) and Cole in his version of the (BMW M3 GTR) that are in different lanes Duke in the second lane. Martin in the first and Cole in the third.
—AJA...but look who we have here, so he went this way too. —Cole said as they are running on a four-lane divided track.
—I thought they had already arrived, at least. —Duke exclaimed angrily, but relieved in his soul.
—We had to leave the normal way, since all the dimensional highways were full, so we left the normal way, plus a little procrastination on the way because something told me you were going to be late, but nothing... —Martin exclaimed while driving. —WHOEVER GETS THERE FIRST PAYS FOR LUNCH.
Martin activates the nitro and goes at top speed taking several boosters.
—YOUR DAMN MOTHER IS GOING TO PAY FOR LUNCH. —Duke and Cole shout at the same time.
Both accelerate with the nitro until they reach several Boosters until almost reaching Martin, going first, he goes to intersection that the first to arrive flips a kind of switch that makes the loser to be changed lanes, in this case, Martin won the lead, flipping the switch causing Cole to change lanes to a track where there is a fierce shark that wants to devour him, but Cole leaves the track to fall into a launcher, the operator waits for the right moment to shoot, once he has the shark in his sights, he fires the launcher, the vehicle impacts against the shark knocking it down in the process, the operator pulls Cole out with a crane employed, a magnetic cage that prevents the vehicle from being scratched until he puts it in a launcher, which he activates shooting out at full speed to return to the race.
Duke fortunately was not diverted, so he is on his heels, so Martin with a stone thrower shoots a stone to activate a lever that diverts Duke to a track that has a Kraken as an obstacle, however, he was not going to stay with that one, so Duke shoots him with a teleporter gun, which sends him to a track that has a double crossed loop, with eight launchers loaded with vehicles ready to crush the poor vehicle that enters the track.
—That's cheating, Duke. —Martin exclaimed.
Duke plays dumb and pretends he doesn't know anything.
He also spots Cole who has the advantage, which causes him to turn the teleporting gun into a sniper, lengthening the barrel, he puts a scope on it, and increases the power of the beam, gets into shooting position and hits him with a perfect shot, Once they are temporarily out of circulation, Duke feels accomplished, even though he has to defeat the Kraken in front of him, he does not even flinch before the beast, so he takes out of his bag a sweet dreams gun, He shoots him and makes him sleep, so he leaves the track as if nothing, however he passes by a booster that stops him, a hand with a white glove touches his window, Duke opens the window and is hit in the face, a tremendous fine, for violating the rules of the highway since no weapons are allowed in the place, so he will have to defeat the Kraken five times with a launcher as God commands, this was not funny but in this way he feels confident, since he left them at a perfect distance, to accept his penalty in peace.
Cole is frustrated, full of anger that drives like a suicidal maniac at maximum speed, since Duke sent him on the other side of the highway, so he stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, in addition to taking every booster to gain speed to finish breaking the speed of sound and set the vehicle on fire. Meanwhile, poor Martin is in an infinite loop inside that double loop, to the point that he's sick of going around so many times despite being afraid of being beaten to a pulp by those vehicles.
—That despicable duck will pay dearly for me, even though those launchers are armed with vehicles ready to bury me in an amorphous metal ball. —Martin thought as he realized that Duke was finishing his penalty and added. —Duck shit, if you think I'm going to pay for your fucking lunch you are dead wrong.
Martin slows down to slow down as he jumps to change loops, all the launchers had him in their sights, they all fire at the same time, however, Martin activates his Class A Cartoon powers, causing time to slow down, he gets out of his vehicle, pulls out some nunchucks, does a brief warm up with the nunchucks, until he starts hitting vehicles at every possible angle to get him out of the loop, until he takes his car, leans on one he didn't hit, does a super jump carrying the vehicle in one hand to get out of the loop, swings down one of the tracks to get back on the straight track and back into the race.
Duke manages to finish his penalty, but Martin is on his heels, so he tries to lose him by going through several obstacles, but he won't let himself, until they look back.
—I'M BACK, MOTHERFUCKERS. —Cole shouted, coming with his car on fire, while he has the highway in a mess.
Duke and Martin scream in terror, to the point that their hearts and eyes pop out like in the cartoons, so they step on the accelerator, activate the turbo, the nitro, do everything possible so that Cole does not reach them until they reach the exit, but the three are perfectly aligned, where a camera takes a picture of them passing the finish line and then leave the highway.
Cole crashes into the Candyville sign causing the vehicle with him to turn to mush against the Candyville sign. since it is super reinforced, Duke and Martin stop, Martin pulls out a giant spatula and removes the mush vehicle which starts to spin around like a coin, until it falls face up, Cole gets out of the vehicle as if it were a two dimensional being, until he puts his thumb in his mouth to inflate himself to go back as before.
—FUCKING HELL, YOU FUCKING BASTARDS, BUT LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO MY CAR, I DEMAND THAT YOU REPAIR IT RIGHT NOW. —Cole shouted, exploding with anger.
Duke passes a can of spinach to Martin, he also takes one for him out of his coat, they both open it, swallow the spinach, this causes them to become super mechanics (like Popeye the sailor) before they start doing bizarre adventures poses, they rush towards the vehicle and repair it in no time. Cole is amazed at how the car looks; they describe the vehicle as if it were Discovery Channel's Overhaulin. Until the operator arrives, a fat, midget racer with a racing suit and a red helmet.
—Duke Mcduckwell, Martin McClyde, Cole Carson, right. —Asked the speedway operator.
Martin and Cole were about to make a run for it, but Duke grabs them by their coats, then they make a contortion with their bodies, to take off their coats and run away, but he catches them again by their shirts, a contortion, they take off their shirts until their hair is grabbed and they surrender.
—Yeah, that's us, Gage you're going to fine us as usual for the mess we made. —Said Martin as he and Cole put on their T—shirts and leather coats.
"Yes and no, Martin, because it was you who started the whole stone thrower thing, so take your ticket and your X's to the face," said Gage as he handed over his T—shirts and leather coats. —Gage answered, handing over his ticket and sticking an X on his face.
—and as you know it was me who started it, besides it's not like Duke is a cheater, Judas, two—faced, con man, how could someone like him, not have the decency and humility to invite us his best work and business partners, a measly lunch. —Martin replied contemptuously, contemptibly and playing the victim.
Duke, I know that everyone with a What the fuck face, he is so indignant that he wants to break Martin's mother at that moment, but Cole stopped him.
—And what about this, Martin McClyde," said Gage while showing him a tablet with the recording of Martin showing the moment where he uses the stone thrower and added. —Everything you say, not only applies to Duke, but to you, but to the nth degree, as well as all the Murphy Tower businesses that are a necessary evil, as well as all the corruption in this city, but anyway, Martin, you started it all, although Duke exceeded more than usual and poor Cole ended up getting the worst of it.
—That means I don't have a ticket, right? —Cole asked fearfully.