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Chapter 2 - CHAPTER 2: Heist

On planet Earth, in a secret facility of Kangaroo Corps located in South-East Australia. Lei Shi laid in the air vent of the roof of the third underground floor.

Through an opening, he looked at a black and white, foot tall and 8-inch wide egg that was placed on an elevated platform in the center of the room that he was in the vent of, as he waited for his partner, who was also his twin brother, to hack the facility's system and deactivate its defenses.

"Hey, it's getting hot in here Leng Shi" said Lei Shi into the microphone of his earpiece.

"Calm down guy, wait for her to undress before you eat her" replied Leng Shi into the microphone of his own. He was standing in the control room of the building and was camouflaged as he stood between two male surveillance personnel that were seated in front of a control panel.

"That's the last straw you motherfucker!" yelled the second surveillance personnel, a female, as she stood and slapped the unsuspecting male personnel that was seated beside her, at the same time sending the lollipop he was sucking flying through the air, and causing him to crash on the floor as his swivel chair tipped.

"Oh my God, not again you guys, this is the third..." said the third personnel, a male that was seated at the other side of the male personnel who just got slapped and had crashed on the ground.

"Shut up, you foul-mouthed bastard!" interrupted the female personnel "Gosh, what did I ever do that cursed me to be in the same group with these two bastards?" added the woman questioningly as she looked at the ceiling supposedly in an attempt to see God.

"Hey, watch your words miss. Remember, I'm your superior" chided the second male personnel as he also stood up from his seat.

"I wonder what kind of superior talks about undressing his female subordinate?" retorted the female personnel with a mocking tone

"When have I ever...?" asked the male personnel who was her superior. "What kind of false accusation is this?" he added with a frown on his face because he didn't remember saying such a thing and would never want to say such because other than the facts that he wasn't attracted to her and that he was her superior, he was famed for his reputation of being an upright man with a decent character. It was this character that got him his current job and made him her superior, so he wouldn't want to compromise it in anyway and definitely wouldn't want someone else to tarnish it through some slander.

"Don't try to play dumb!" exclaimed the woman with soaring fury as she saw her superior's righteous expression. "How did I end up here? Why did I take this shift?" asked the woman vocally to herself in a vexed tone as she remembered that the reason she took her current shift was because the original personnel that was supposed to take the shift rushed home after suddenly developing a running stomach and she, who was free at the time, jumped at the opportunity because she wanted to work with her much admired superior, to gather experience and conveniently earn some more money.

But on hindsight, that seemed to be a foolish decision on her part because other than being disappointed at finding out that her superior wasn't as decent as he was famed and was rather a foul-mouthed rogue in a uniform, she was angry that rather than gaining experience, all she got was a hungry stomach and vulgar curses.

"Firstly, one of you bastards ate my packaged dinner, then pretended to not know about it when I asked. As if that wasn't enough, one of you later secretly remarked that If a bitch was hungry, it should just say so, no need to bark. Secondly, one of you rogues farted, and after that you both said that you weren't the culprit, and then later one of you anonymously asked if I enjoyed having my ass ripped. Now this? Oh hell NO! I've had it!" yelled the woman as she breathed heavily, clearly out of breath from her continuous shouting.

"Your false accusations are getting out of hand miss" asserted the male that was their superior with a hint of annoyance in his voice.

"Speaking of hands, why the fuck did you slap me?" questioned the male personnel that was slapped as he struggled to his feet unsteadily while he glared at the female personnel hatefully.

"Because you deserved it, you Bastard!" answered the female personnel.

"Why you little..." said the male personnel as he charged at the female personnel that slapped him.

"Men shouldn't lay their hands on women in a fit of rage" said the male personnel that was their superior as he caught the charging male personnel by the arm and tossed him to the floor in the opposite direction. "And women should control their emotions and shouldn't spout profanities" added him as he turned to look at the female personnel who already took a defensive posture in preparation to intercept the male personnel that was charging at her.

"Goddammit..." cursed the male personnel who was tossed to the floor as he opened his eyes to see his lost lollipop in front of his face.

With his anger swelling from consecutively being knocked down twice by two people, he picked up his lollipop, put it back in his mouth, and got up with a fierce gaze. "What'd ya do that for?" he asked the other male personnel.

"Hol' up Poland" said the male personnel that was the superior to the man he tossed to the floor.

"Gee, you could've said that a bit earlier, Huo Feng. Say, at least maybe before you tossed me to the floor" replied the annoyed Poland as he raised his fist into the air in front of him, and took a step towards the male personnel that was his superior.

"No, not that. Something's not right" said Huo Feng as he warily looked around.

"Of course, this definitely isn't right, she's the one who slapped me and I'm the one getting tossed down for it?" complained Poland as he glared at the female personnel.

"Wait a minute..." said Huo Feng as only now, after sweeping his gaze through his surroundings did he notice a flash drive that was connected to the control panel right from the moment Poland was slapped.

His eyes widened upon noticing a golden Chinese 'King' character inscribed on the flash drive, and that discovery caused him to immediately scream "Shit, Pound the Alarm!!!"

As the words were leaving his mouth, he simultaneously pulled out a foot-long gun from the back of his waist, which, as soon as he had touched, began to undergo a series of transformations that by the time he pointed it to the space beside the flash drive, the originally foot-long gun had transformed into a five-foot long, one-foot wide gun that looked like the thruster of fighter jet.

*KABOOM* Huo Feng fired without the slightest hesitation.

The control room was half destroyed along with a huge chunk of the facility, leaving the part behind Huo Feng as the only intact part.

To everyone surprise, especially the female personnel's, a humanoid figurine slowly came to view as the flames dissipated. It was a tall masked man with a Black and Blue High Tech Body Suit (HTB Suit for short).

"Hahahaha..." the exposed man laughed as he clapped his hands.

"As expected of the Flame Knight, Huo Feng" said Leng Shi as he released cold gas into the space around him which doused the originally blazing flames. "You're perceptiveness is rivaled only by your strength" he added.

"Save me the crap talk Frost King, Leng Shi" said Huo Feng before he continued "No wonder I couldn't see you through my infrared vision, your suit releases coldness that helps you hide from it. However, although I was informed that you'd be coming, I never thought you'd actually be stupid enough to. But since you've come, be prepared to leave your life behind".

Upon talking to that point Huo Feng triggered his HTB Suit to be donned. The suit emerged from a black device which looked like a flexible segmented metal sword sheath that was aligned to his spine. It enveloped him starting from his back, to his chest, to his arms, then it connected with two bracelets around his wrists which had already formed gloves around his hands. Some parts of the suit came from the belt he was wearing which was made of similar material to the device on his back. It formed a trouser, then connected to shin guards which had already formed Boots around his feet.

After Huo Feng's almost instantaneous transformation, he looked towards the female personnel, who was already retrieving her hand from pushing a red button on the wall, and was now also wearing her HTB Suit, he then said "With this explosion, and the activation of the alarm, all the warriors of Kangaroo Corps together with the bounty hunters interested with the bounty placed on you from your previous escapades will swarm here to kill you" he paused to laugh and continued "At the time they arrive, you won't be able to escape even if you were given wings. But fear not, I won't give them the chance to, because by the time they arrive, not even your corpse will remain".

BOOM!

Out of nowhere, a meter-wide ball made of special steel, with a chain attached to it, suddenly crash on Leng Shi like a meteor.

Taking a horse-stance, Leng Shi pulled his hand back and punched with his fist, sending the ball flying back the way it came. And with a thud the ball fell beside a man that was also wearing a HTB suit. This man was the male personnel that was slapped by the woman, yes, it was Poland. And that ball was the head of his weapon, a Giant-mace.

"Well if it isn't Lollipop Poland. You're gonna be a tough nut to crack" said Leng Shi upon seeing Poland with a smirk on his face, and his HTB suit already donned.

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