"I didn't expect you to get here this fast," Tombstone said.
Jack's four eyes locked onto him. "It's over. Surrender."
"Surrender?"
With a sneer he picked up a bottle of wine and took a sip. He set it down slowly and looked at Jack properly for the first time.
"Who are you. Why are you destroying my business. Who sent you." Each question came out flat and separate, like he was used to getting answers.
Jack looked at him for a second.
"I don't need to answer to a criminal boss."
"Do you know who you're messing with—"
"Stop the talk and surrender. Or I won't mind making Tombstone a real tomb."
With four arms he cracked his knuckles, ready to fight.
The smile on Tombstone's face was gone.
"Who do you think you are?"
With that he grabbed the wine bottle and threw it straight at Jack.
Jack caught it with one hand, looked at it for a moment, and took a sip.
"Not bad. But needs more flavour."
He set it down.
The mockery in Jack's eyes was the last thing Tombstone needed to see. He attacked.
Fast — genuinely fast, faster than a man that size had any right to be. He crossed the room in two steps and hit Four Arms dead center with his full weight behind it.
Jack didn't move. Not a single step back.
One of his four hands shot forward and closed around Tombstone's throat. He lifted him clean off the ground without straining. Tombstone's hands went to Jack's wrist immediately, grip like iron, trying to break it. But it didn't break.
Seeing him utterly weak Jack was about to knock him out when —
Creak. Creak.
BOOM.
The ceiling came down.
Without a single warning an entire section of concrete and steel collapsed directly above Four Arms. Seeing this, Jack threw Tombstone aside and caught the heavy steel and concrete with his arms. Even the ground cracked under the weight surrounding him.
Dust poured down in sheets. For a moment the entire weight of the collapsed section pressed down on him and even Four Arms' legs bent slightly under it.
He held it.
Tombstone was lying nearby, coughing in the dust. Then from the gap the collapse had opened in the far wall a figure stepped through slowly, gauntlets up, eyes on Jack.
It was Shocker.
He looked at Tombstone on the floor. Then at Jack holding up a collapsed ceiling section with four arms. His expression didn't change much.
"I didn't expect you to lose to that guy so quickly. Pathetic." He spoke to Tombstone in an arrogant tone as Tombstone got up.
"Are you insane — you could have killed me with him standing right there."
Shocker glanced at Jack who was holding up more than fifty tons of steel and concrete with four arms.
"Pity. He's stronger than I thought."
"Shut up and attack him now, fool."
"You don't order me," said Shocker.
A beat passed between them. Then with that settled or unsettled they both turned and attacked Four Arms anyway.
But due to the heavy weight Jack was trying to throw the steel aside and these two idiots were attacking him at the same time. If he dropped it they would definitely get crushed.
Their attacks kept coming and the annoyance built fast.
Four Arms roared.
With full force he threw the entire steel and concrete to the other side of the room.
"Ahhh—"
Shocker didn't get a chance to react. Jack crossed the distance in one jump, grabbed him with two hands, lifted him and drove him into the wall once, hard. Then again. The gauntlets sparked but with each heavy punch Shocker went further down until he stopped moving entirely.
Jack set him down and turned around.
Seeing what had happened to Shocker, Tombstone's face went pale. His eyes went to the gap where the door used to be and his feet started moving toward it.
"Where do you think you're going, Stone."
Tombstone stopped. He turned around slowly and put both hands up.
"No no — let's make peace, brother. I'll give you my entire wealth—"
Before he could finish Jack knocked him unconscious too.
He went down and didn't move.
The entire building was silent.
Jack straightened up and looked around the room. Then at the edge of his vision the system panel appeared quietly.
[ Heroic Action Confirmed ]
[ Major Criminal Operation Dismantled ]
[ Reward: +80 Hero Points ]
[ Hero Points: 200 ]
[Hero Points reached 200.]
[New alien unlocked.]
[New alien available: 1].
[Do you want to unlock new alien now?]
Seeing the notification Jack was very excited.
Is there even a need to ask? Open. Open it.
The system showed the new alien.
"I know it, system. You must have helped me pick this one right?"
[ No, host. This is completely random. ]
But Jack was very excited. Because with this new alien he could complete his plan and take things to the next level.
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