Octavia, or Oc as her mother once called her...
When she was still alive...
Watched the gangsters with fury building up within her.
This was going to be the third time gangsters destroyed her world.
First it was her home planet, Doctavia.
Then she escaped it's destruction and was sent on a space pod to a new land, Podgea, by her mother when she was only three years old.
She was raised by a man who she saw as her father and was happy for her next 15 years.
But her happiness didn't last.
The kingdom of Podgea fell..
To a being of pure evil known only as EEL.
She escaped a coup by the hands of this creature on the same space pod from so long ago and she ended up on this moon with these villagers.
Oc's tale was a tragic one..
But it's not over yet.
And now it was this little village this little one of Podgea's moons, Coconutta.
She never could find a home, and now the one she finally came across is being threatened.
By gangsters no less.
Now it was time to make them pay.
Damn! Humpty is sure taking his sweet time with taking care of King. I really wanna see that traitor's head on a spike." A large savage looking woman with long red mane like hair wearing a fur coat said with a slight grin revealing her rows and rows of sharp yellow teeth.
Give my brother time Beastilia. King is a weakling. His threat level isn't even up to a thousand. This should be a piece pf cake to him." A lanky weak looking man wearing nerdy glasses said with no emotion in his voice.
Don't go overestimating your weak ass brother mon ami Dumpty! We all know without King around anymore he's our weakest link. He better prove himself or I'll personally put him in his place!" A shirtless muscular man with a long top hat and handlebar mustache shouted with a french accent.
Beastilia, Dumpty and worst of all, Blind Matt. They were the enforcers of the DonDon gang. They were Oc's targets right now.
She watched them from a bush nearby as they strolled across the village looking for villagers to kill and overheard their conversation.
Especially about King.
She tried attacking them before, when they first arrived. She was looking for coconuts in the forest right outside the village and they attacked.
She tired to fight back. To defend her home with the sword her father gave her a long time ago.
However she lost, got captured and watched as they invaded. She watched as they wreaked havoc all over the village.
Except one individual in particular. For some reason, he didn't seem so excited with invading. Sadly that didn't stop the rest from killing and destroying her new home with glee written all over their faces.
Luckily, led by the king and queen, the villagers headed to a safe zone and have been hiding ever since.
But it was only q matter of time.
She lost all hope of saving her home...
That is until one of them set her free. She attacked him at first but he didn't even resist her. That's when she realized he was the uninterested one from earlier. He only pulled her close and whispered into her ear.
"Save them all. Please. Before Don gets to them."
She let him go hurried to save her village.
She didn't know why he saved her, but she thanked him in her head.
Now hiding behind a villager's hoise, she watched these gangsters with immense killing intent.
And that's where she is now.
Suddenly she noticed a little bird fly towards the trio of gangsters.
And fuse into Dumpty's arm.
Hmmm. Looks like those villages got some guts after all! I thought they were gonna stay hidden forever." Dumpy said with an emotionless face.
Ooh! Whatever that bird of yours told you must be good if its got you smiling Dumpty!"
Smile? What smile?! I looks as expressionless as ever. Mon ami Dumpty smiling?! That would sure be a sight for sore eyes!" Matt said with a laugh.
"It seems all the males villagers left their little hideout to attack us." Dumpty informed her.
In that case, I guess its time for le massacre!" Matt said with a chuckle.
They were gonna kill her people.
But Oc wasn't gonna let that happen.
Not again.
As for yours truly, I was walking across the dome shaped coconut huts spread across the village with King. I was flexing my new arm made purely of bubblegum and King gave a little chuckle.
You really are feeling this thing aren't you? Really liked my hard work?" King said with a smug look on his face
Hehe.. All I'm gonna say is your pretty good at your craft." I said with an even more smug look on my face.
We slowly started acting like we've known each other for years.
I bugged him.
But in a good way.
We barely knew each other but we had only one goal, defeat the DonDon gang.
"Why do you want to defeat this DonDon gang King?" I asked him with genuine curiosity.
"What brought this about? Why do you want to beat them?" King retorted defensively.
"Because they took my Sky whale and a member of my gang!"
You have a gang? We only found you and the Lizardian girl in the whale."
Well that's my gang obviously!"
King immediately burst into his weird "Gugugu" laughter which made me laugh more than it annoyed me.
"Hehe.. I gotta say, your laugh sucks man!"
"Gugugu... Not the first time I've been told that." King soon gave and slight pause and looked at me for a bit and then spoke with fear written in his voice.
"Listen, I don't like long stories so Imma just cut to the chase. I was a bored rich kid looking for some excitement in my life. I ran away from home and joined the DonDon gang soon after. But soon I realized how sadistic these guys where."
"Sadistic?"
"Yeah. I know it's pretty common in the crime scene but these guys are a whole new breed of fucked up."
Why do you say that?"
"Trust me. You don't wanna know. Lemme just say when I found out what their boss, Don, was planning on doing to this moon and it's inhabitants I wanted out of the gang. That didn't sit right with him so he captured me and tried to have me killed by feeding me my Gum Collector.."
"I'm guessing that plan was a bust."
Well you guessed right. The collector didn't kill me as it was supposed to since that's what happens when you eat a Collector but it mutated me into a half man half gum mutant instead. With my new found powers I escaped and even managed to break out some girl they captured. However that didn't go unnoticed and they sent their weakest member to deal with me. That's basically how I met you."
"Well it's all ancient history now. As of now I gotta save my gang!" I said with boat loads of conviction my voice.
Once I said that, only one thought filled King's head. "This guy is pretty interesting."
King looked at me in silence for a bit and out of nowhere, asked a peculiar question.
"So this uh.. gang of yours, is it open to new members?"
"Yeah! I'm open to anyone joining really. Why do you ask?"
"Can I join?"
I stopped in my tracks when I heard that.
"Why are you asking me now of all times?"
"Y..yeah I know you just met me but listen, my whole life was dictated to me by my crappy dad and it was boring as hell. All I want is someone interesting to lead my way and I don't know why but my whole body is telling me that person is you." King declared and looked me dead in the eye and even I had to admit, I got a little intimidated.
"What? When we met ain't got anything to do with it. We're gonna fight a bunch of gangsters right now so is this really the best time for this?" I said boldly which surprised King.
"Dunno. What I do know is that its the perfect time for a gang war." King said grinning to expose his glowing light pink teeth with "KING" written boldly on them and extending his hand towards me.
Yes it is... Partner." I replied after a long silence.
But I quickly picked up a strange scent immediately our hands touched.
What's wrong? You seem tense bro." King asked in concern.
"I'm picking up a scent. It smells like crime." I muttered as I grabbed King and hoised him onto my back with the new bubblegum arm he gave me.
I ran with incredible speed towards the other side of the village where I picked up the scent of three hostiles.
King quickly hid us both behind one of the nearby coconut domes.
There were three of them. A skinny guy with over sized glasses and an emotionless look on his face, a shirtless muscular top hat wearing prick with a handle bar mustache and a savage looking girl with a severely unkept mane.
Just when I was about to rush them, King trapped me in a bubble.
"What the hell man?"
"Shhhh! I knew you were gonna get us killed. Listen and listen well 'boss'. As you may know, a Collector's main ability is to convert Willpower from their users into whatever it is they collect."
I merely nodded in agreement since I had no idea.
But they also have a secondary ability. They can scan the Willpower of other beings and convert them to numerical values. What we call Threat levels. These can tell the destructive potential of a being with stats like power and strength being the key focus."
I only nodded as he explained this all to me.
Surprisingly I wasn't bored. The only thing ringing in my head was what my threat level was.
"Stuff like hacks and special abilities are completely overlooked so this method of scaling is a little off. But it sure us effective. As Im looking at you now, you have a threat level of 1500. You could level this entire moon if you put your mind to it actually."
"Yeah! So let me at them!" I said trying to break out of the bubble which not only trapped me but heavily muffled my voice.
You don't get it do you? The last guy we fought who is the weakest guy in the gang had a Threat level of 2000! See what I'm getting at here?"
He was right. I was pretty weak by these guy's standards and I realized I needed to hang back for a while. That didn't stop my instincts from going wild though. Now I was having an internal battle to suppress my fighting spirit.
Although King had a few tiny bubbles float around the trio of gangsters to keep surveillance, he still kept his eye on me and gave me a good look and noticed...
"Huh.. that's weird. When I first met him, his Threat level was only 1000. When did it rise to 1500? Now that I mention it, I can't feel the gum arm! D..did it fuse to his body?!" He thought.
King tried to move my arm up and down to know avail. So his theory was right. It fused to my body instead. He could only wonder what it did to my body now considering the Threat level boost.
As King stared at me, I noticed another smell close by and then, something crazy happened. So crazy I warned King as fast as I could.
King. I get the memo, I'm pretty damn weak. But did she get it?" I said, pointing to the scene playing before us.
A fit yet busty black girl with black T-shirt and baggy trousers jumped out of a nearby coconut dome and try to slice one of the gangsters with a sword!
Oh! Did I say sword? I meant a giant freaking spatula! Like the one used for cooking but the size of a long scythe.
However, spatula or not her attacked got stopped by the top hat prick with nothing but a finger and one hand tied behind his back.
Literally.
"Mon ami Dumpty! What's the level on this one?" The prick said in a nice french accent.
"800" Dumpty said, disillusioned from the whole situation in general.
"Only 800?! What a waste! You cant even destroy this pitiful little moon with that! You utter waste of space! It's time I get you CHOPPED!!!"
The prick, Blind Matt, raised his hand to reveal a circular dial with a pair scissors painted roughly on it and sent it coming towards the girl.
I looked on in rare awe at what happened next though. King appeared from our hiding spot and saved her by riding a giant bubble he made fast enough to intercept his attack.
"KING?!!?" The top hatted asshole, Matt, shouted in fury at the gum bending man!
"Gugu... So this is the second time I saved you. I really do need a medal for this!" King said as the girl realized who saved her.
"You again?!" She shouted in shock.
"Yep! The King of Bubblegum in the flesh!"
"Wh..what are you doing here?! Leave me! I won't let you interfere with my mission!"
"Mission? Is it to stop these guys? Don't bother resisting lady. Because it's mine too! And I got an ally to help deal with our enemies!" King said with a smirk which got Oc to look away on annoyance.
Speaking of enemies, look out!"
Once Oc shouted, King looked a second too late and had his head close enough to Matts straitened hand to get cut off.
But luckily, The attack was blocked just in time.
"Enemies eh? Yeah that's what my ally is for..."
I appeared before the two teens and blocked the attack with my Bubblegum arm!
"Wh..who the hell is this?" Oc asked King in bewilderment.
"The name's Spike Dogtooth! Remember it!"
The End....THE FOR NOW!!!