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ROB'ed for pleasure in Worm by BatRou-Dawg

Misc » Book X-overs Rated: M, English, Drama & Humor, Words: 267k+, Favs: 112, Follows: 129, Published: Jan 26, 2023 Updated: Feb 8, 2023

30Chapter 10

Lisa*

I watch the news grimly, ten random attacks from ABB to different locations, twenty seven deaths not counting the bombers, all thanks to a madwoman. Brian had left to check on his sister, the damn girl could be a unending source of trouble. Bitch is lying on her room recovering from her capture, including a beating that she took by some ABB thugs.

It was during those moments that I hated my lack of guts, we had left the thugs with just a beating, not killing them, and those weren't forced grunts. 'I partly want to blame Benji for it, but it is our fault that he had to fight Lung that early on his career.' If it wasn't their job at the casino Lung wouldn't be after them, which caused Benji to go and stop their deaths.

My secure phone rings, it was Coil, likely wanting another piece of them, the chaos was likely advancing his plans. "Tattletale." I say when the line connects.

"How is the progress of Captain Ninja's induction into my team?" Coil asks in his usual tone.

"Slow." I answer honestly, Benji is already rather successful and is gaining a reputation as a strong cape, the protection of a team is quickly losing value as an enticement. "His goals don't match ours, he believes himself to be a hero regardless of his public reputation, money isn't enough of a enticement either, as he looted the ABB and the Empire for cash, his debut week was busy and profitable. I am working him up, but progress is slow."

"I see." I hoped that was enough for now, especially given the chaos. "Try appealing that heroic side of his, give hints that the team can be converted with him inside while you try to make him turn sides."

"I will try that." Shaking my head at that plan, 'it won't work, if anything I would turn sides if Benji promised my safety from you.' "Make some sob story to lure him in."

"Make it happen." Coil said firmly. "I want him under my control, he is too valuable to be left alone and going rogue as he is, if his assassination skills are half as good as his combat skills, I want to guide him against my own targets."

'It is more likely that he will target you as soon as he learns about you,' I say to myself. 'Given what he did to Bakuda as soon as he lays eyes on you.'

"I don't care if you have to sleep with him." Coil continues, that idea was revolting just because he suggested it, if Benji's powers keep hers in check, sex might actually be enjoyable. "At these attacks continue to happen there will be a meeting soon, I want him there."

'Oh that I can guarantee,' I noted wryly, she would invite Benji herself. 'Just not that he will be part of the team.'

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Benji*

In mid chew I noticed something that made my blood run cold, at my hand is a baby-cut carrot, my mouth flooded with its taste, while I was okay with cooked carrots, I didn't like the taste, sure I liked carrot cake or carrot bread, but raw carrot wasn't something that I ate willingly.

Yet now reviewing my memories I realized all the little slips that went under the radar, all the times that I snacked on a carrot or an asparagus, the increase of greens on my plates and sandwiches, swallowing uncomfortably I register that the taste wasn't close to what I remembered, it was sweeter, without the raw notes and other facets that I disliked about it and other vegetables, it actually tasted good.

Then I go over other things and realize that I was losing myself, my meager thirty one years of age didn't match the seven hundred plus of Gucky, I never considered the issue of mental contamination or bleeding of memories when I asked for memories alongside the powers, I was still me, but the line between Gucky the beaver-rat and me the human was blurred, the force user memories were more technical and skill related than Gucky's and Ranma's didn't have the same impact and weight.

I also noticed that my own memories blurred with the memories of Benji Hebert, my real memories weren't fading, but amidst the more vibrant implanted memories, it was duller, if I wasn't careful I could actually lose myself into all of this and become just the template of a new person with my personality as the main, who I was just another set of memories and knowledge in the mix.

"I had to make it big." I complain taking another bite of the carrot and finishing it, "Had to have the memories of how to use the skills and the knowledge, the custom Ranma package just wasn't enough…" I pull a bottle of Gatorade from the fridge and wash down the taste of the vegetable and bitterness. "I hope to find some gangsters, I need to kill something now."

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Miss Militia*

Getting the order to deploy never offended me this much before, Clockblocker called it a wild ninja run after Captain Ninja's afternoon busting the chops of the Empire 88, and now that the baseball cap wearing cape is trying his hardest to diminish the damage caused by the ABB attacks they are ordered to go and try capture him.

I had watched the fresh cape going toe to toe with a boosted Lung, Oni Lee showing a unusual amount of brains tossed the crippled gang leader into the middle of a fight, that caused the man's wounds to heal in an astonishing rate, as his pyrokinesis forced them to fight.

Adding Oni Lee into the equation alongside twenty armed ABB thugs it was a hard fight, Captain Ninja announced his arrival booting Oni Lee in the face and throwing his blades at Lung, saving Battery from a vicious clawing from the –by then- half dragon man.

Armsmaster looked both constipated and like he ate a lemon, but Captain Ninja became Lung's focus giving her and her allies the needed breathing room to fight, the rogue hero took a beating and a half, two close explosions and lost one of his swords, but the entire time he herded Lung away from the damaged convoy and the wounded PRT personal, despite how they had treated him.

I had watched Lung escaping after having his huge draconic snout sliced in half vertically, with half of his offensive potential lost, Captain Ninja couldn't deal enough damage fast enough, but he still cost Lung half an arm and another hand, Captain Ninja had proven –if just to myself- that he was indeed a hero, as he chose to protect a SUV filled with a soccer mom and her kids from a explosive fire blast than try take Lung down.

He had left when they had approached, it didn't take x-ray vision to see the disgust that he had when seeing Armsmaster, the barely restrained will to do to the tinker what he did to Lung. 'It takes real courage to walk away like that.'

The VTOL touches down, we learned to not try to approach Captain Ninja by air after he shot down the second VTOL with what was supposed to be a melee weapon, the hatch opens and Assault rushes out of it followed by Battery, Armsmaster, Triumph and then myself.

The aircraft flies off and as it distances I could finally hear the sound of gunshots, explosions, screams of pain and the very distinctive note of slicing lightsabers, it was much lower than what the movies showed, 'Likely because the blades aren't the same shape.'

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Benji*

I knew that I was taking my frustrations out on those gang bangers, it wasn't really satisfying, the lightsaber's lack of striking feedback made the feeling of hitting things minimal, force push and lighting lacked the needed bashing your face in kind of feeling, I had made peace with my method, I knew that I wasn't going to be a beloved hero, I was no man's superman, but I could be a Batman or a Punisher, feared by criminals and villains, respected by few, including a few heroes.

A flash of a grievous death apears on my mind's eye, I Force uppercut the cause of said death into the air hard, sending him dozes of meters away, in the apex of the flight the man bursts into a energy ball that vaporizes the edges of the roofs of the closest buildings, fortunately nothing else. 'Poor man, at least his death was painless.'

With no idea if the sudden 'explosions' were caused by Bakuda who somehow miraculously survived being crushed into a third of her original size and stabbed, cut and crushed by her car, or by some devious scorched earth protocol to be activated by her death, of if another ABB had a detonator and was triggering them.

'I wonder if whoever is causing the explosions can tell the best moments for it.' My answer is given when a thug explodes into vacuum blades killing the other thugs around him, under the cover of a car, parrying a bullet I notice the approaching VTOL, I had two options, stay and keep fighting, risking myself with the PRT, or leave and find the next hot spot.

Timing it just right I pick a small canister from my chest rig and throw down on the street hard, it explodes in smoke and I teleport away.

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Miss Militia*

"God dammit!" Assault cursed as Captain Ninja vanishes into a burst of smoke, just like ninjas of fiction, either by masking a high speed motion or some sort of teleportation, it wasn't hard to figure that he timed it just right, taunting us.

'At least he softened things up for us here.' I told myself, part of me was angry at being evaded like that, another was relived that I wouldn't be forced to confront the dark hero. "Let's finish this fight." I command. "There are still ABB troopers around." The least that we could do now that we are out of the Rig is to fight, it would be bad PR not to, and that makes me smile, at least for the moment we could be heroes that we are meant and want to be and the brass wouldn't be able to complain about it

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Benji*

"I hate this world and everyone in it…" I bitch while sitting down in my comfy office chair, it was an exaggeration but matched my feelings well, three attacks in two hours were too much, even being short the fact that around a third of the attackers are forced conscripts that detonate randomly made the fighting way worse.

And there was the fact that the gauntlet was throwing my balance off a bit and the benehime style was considerably heavier than the tenchi style, after all being made of machined solid bronze did that, the tenchi style while lighter proved that relying on sheet metal wasn't the best solution, even when stuffed with polymer, too easy to damage.

'Then again for a first lightsaber it wasn't a bad thing.' I admitted to myself, the light blades before that one were all stepping stones in the learning process, figuring more and more tricks in building the system, to boosting performance and learning the tricks and cheats of building lightsabers.

The tenchi style was his first full sized application of that knowledge and experience, that it worked well and with no issues only showed that he learned well and how forgiving a lightsaber system is, 'One can jury rig a lightsaber from junk if you know how.' I had heard tales of jedi and sith building lightsabers from virtual trash or parts gathered in a regular workbench, some even replacing the usual crystals for glass or cheaper crystals for emergency quick and dirty sabers, they worked well and far beyond one would think that would when made of junk.

I would cannibalize the guts, guard and crystals of the tenchi style, possibly recreate it on bronze when having the time, the benihime worked as a fine bludgeon if needed thanks to its weight. Picking my phone I decide to bug Amy, after all she bugged me and prodded me to go and try stop the attacks, so I could bug her while taking a break myself, as long she isn't working on a emergency.

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Amy*

I smile when seeing the ID of the caller, it told me that Benji wasn't hurt, I had heard his interventions, though it saddens me that unfortunately Benji wasn't able to prevent the deaths of the ones being forced. "I take by the number that you aren't hurt, or I am wrong?"

"I am not hurt, just a touch sore from the workout." He replied, I like how our little relationship was informal, and at the present time, pleasantries just took needless time. "And you?"

"Enjoying a current lull." I answered leaning back against a wall in the staff's lounge, it was nice that I was considered an honorary staff member and got the same on site privileges as the nurses and doctors, I notice a nurse waving at me friendly, a tired smile that I knew all to well on her lips, I wave and smile back at her, nurse Simmons was one of my favorites, she is like everyone's grandmother, she made these wonderful cookies for the lounge for the coffee breaks. "Hoping that this mess will end soon."

"Same here girlfriend." That sounded so gay that made me chuckle, laughing came naturally with him, as much as annoyance, I couldn't remember having as much fun as I had with him, it was that long that my life became a such dreary thing? "Have you eaten yet?"

"I ate some peanut butter and oatmeal cookies a while ago," I answered, wondering why he was that dead set on watching my diet and general well being, which was nice. "And enough coffee to fuel a battleship." Which is true, emergencies like that drain me a lot, it was more of a mental weariness that comes first and then the physical one, coffee was a must, in large amounts, sweet, sweet black liquid. "And I turn that back at you."

"A couple of carrots and some spam." Benji answered making me frown. "Some Gatorade to wash it down, if things calm a little more I might make myself a sandwich, might raid an Empire location for arms and cash, as they might try and escalate this mess."

"At the current climate I don't think that you will have a easy time there boyfriend." I pointed out, with company in the room I couldn't be overt with his identity and actions. "I don't want to see you getting hurt."

"I can be subtle as needed girlfriend." He teased me. "Remember me sneaking in your room, now I bugged you enough, go take a nap or something, I got some sneaking to do."

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