The War Ch3 a Little Fun

Story by Sid burn on SoFurry

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#3 of The War


Here you guys go, took me a little longer.

Marcus walked through the Warfang market; he was helping Spyro and Cynder. There had been numerous reports of pickpockets and other things going on down by the market, and he was helping them out. Just yesterday he met them and was already helping them. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary, the streets were full, some dragons, cat-humans, and moles. There weren't that many dragons; they were still trickling in, coming out of there hiding spots now that the war that happened some time ago was over. He was still in his combat gear, a remnant from the war of 2089 which was a tan/green color, a little lighter, he had a few of the weapons out and ready. The shotgun had beanbag rounds in them incase the persons ran. He pressed the connect button on his helmet headset.

"You guys see anything yet?" he asked sweeping his eyes from vendor to vender, person to person, making sure that there wasn't anything bad going on.

"No, Marcus I haven't seen anything yet," Cynder said pressing the button on her head set, she was on south side of the mark. Marcus was on the north, the market was about a mile long. Her headset was one of the Nano tech's they fit to the size of the user, just like some of the equipment. "If I see anything I'll let you guys now right away."

"Good," Marcus said smiling, "Just watch out, I know the way people like this work. Back where I came from this was common. Death was common in it too." This was good, they were all working in sync, this was the sign of a good team. Caelia was atop one of the towers over looking the market place. She had a pair of bincos, a combat knife if anyone messed with her, a ballistic knife which was no longer banned in the US in 2024, her pistols, and a Barrett 98 Bravo sniper rifle. She had different mags with her. The mags were a variety of beanbag, Stun bullets, titanium tips, slug, normal, diamond tips, Magnum round, ballistic tip, and rubber bullets. The rifle was fixed with a telescope sight on the top. She was armed and dangerous.

"So far so good, haven't spotted anything yet," Caelia said as she looked through her Bincos. "Yo, Spyro how's your side of the district?" he was around the same area as Marcus.

"I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary yet, but I know their here. I can feel it." He said looking around. Marcus slowed his walking down as he came up to the busier section of the market, where all the problems had been reported. A young male leopard fell into step behind him and brushed up against him, the lightining fast fingers delving into his pocket only to come out empty. The young male then quickly increased speed brushing up against a young red female dragon. Marcus saw the young male take a small bag of golden crystals (Money) out of the pouch on the side of her leg.

"Hey you pick pocket asshole stop there!" Marcus yelled, the young male gasped in surprise and took off running! "I found a pickpocket and am chasing him now, down to the south end of the Market, need help to intercept!" he yelled into the headset as he chased after the kid. The young male started to knock down stands, barrels, and people to slow Marcus down. That didn't work so well, all it did was make Marcus want to persue him more!

"I see him; want me to take him down? I have the stun bullets in the rifle now." Caelia said as she tracked the young male leopard. The sight marker plastered on his head.

"No, not yet, he is running somewhere. Maybe to his hide out where all his friends are, keep a good watch on him. Move if you have too but don't lose him." Marcus yelled, jumping over another crowd of knocked down people. The young male took a left into an alley which Marcus went into; he found that it was empty! He looked up to see him pass over head; he grabbed his grapple gun and fired. It yanked him to the flat roof top of the two story building. "Stop or I will fire on you!" Marcus yelled at the leopard, he didn't stop.

"Guys need your help, he is on the roof. He is fast!" Marcus yelled again, since he was a Genome solider it would take longer for him to tire when running.

"I see him, moving to intercept!" Cynder exclaimed, as she hovered in the air, Marcus unslung his Mossberg 500 Persuader, aimed at the young male and fired. The young male jumped when it heard the load CRACK! Of the round being shot off, it plowed into the back of the young male. Getting a loud cry of pain as the round impacted with his back, he stumbled and nearly fell but kept on running! Jumping over more roofs, yells of astonishment could be heard all around as Marcus chased after the kid.

Marcus just about had enough of this and wanted to end it now, "Alright that's it! Take him down Caelia!" he said, as he shot another round at the young male, it missed by an inch!

"Roger that," Caelia said in a cheery tone, she tracked the leopard with the sight. He was in for a world of pain! She aimed for the chest and squeezed the trigger. There was a resounding Crack-BOOM! As the bullet fired but the young male wouldn't here the gun shot until it was too late. The Stun bullet screamed towards the leopard as he neared the end off another roof top. He jumped and landed on the other side with a roll; he picked himself up only to get knocked down by the stun bullet. Its sharp barbs piercing his skin, sending 1000 volts of shocking power into him which was going to hurt badly..

He screamed out in pain, and somehow ripped it off, but didn't get far when he was shot with another beanbag round. Marcus put his foot on the young male's chest.

"Don't fucking move or I'll blow your head off!" he commanded, the kid struggled to break free so Marcus smacked the butt of the gun in his face and said it again. But this time put the barrel of the gun less than three inches from the kids face. Cynder landed right next to him. Marcus slung the rifle over his shoulder and grabbed the Young male by the collar of his shirt. "You're coming with me and you're going to give back that ladies money, got it? Or do I have to shoot you again?" he said in a threatening tone.

"No sir," the young male said in a scared voice. Too bad the guy didn't piss himself with fear that would have been funny.

"Good, because if you run, next time you wont be so lucky." Cynder growled, as Marcus put a pair of plastic handcuffs that only got tighter if you tired to break free and would only break if 500lbs of pressure was applied to it. The only way to get them off was to cut them.

Marcus didn't let go off the young male as the red dragoness he had stolen from earlier approached them, he could feel the kid move with panic, wondering what was going to happen next.

"Here is your money back miss," he said in a kind tone handing her the money, "Now, don't you have something to say to this nice lady?"

"Fuck off," the leopard said and spit of the ground, a very bad move. The butt of Marcus's shotgun hit him in the head. "OK! I'm sorry!" he yelped.

"Thank you for your help," the young dragoness said with a soft smile, "If I would have caught him I would have beaten him senseless. He should be in jail for his crimes."

"Don't worry he will get what's coming to him." Spyro said looking at the pickpocket with disgust. With that she said her goodbyes and was on her way. They took the pickpocket to the Warfang jail. Where he was put behind bars and would wait until a court date for his sentence. Which would be hard labor or a long time in the slammer.

"That was kinda fun." Cynder whistled that was her, Caelia's, and Spyro's first time chasing someone like that.

"Yea that was, much like my first time on Sulsta 12. Which is one of the many planets that my kind live on now." Marcus remarked with a smile, looking at the city, he check the time on his watch, it was around 12:30. "You guys want to get a bite to eat?" he asked, he was hungry anyway; all he had for breakfast was a mushroom cap full of sweet berries.

"Yea," Spyro replied, "I can see that you're all as hungry as I am. Caelia looks hungry enough to eat a whole sheep." Caelia licked her lips at the though of eating lamb, she had eaten King Gyro's before. It was one of her instant favorites.

"So where are we going? It's your choice, since I don't know where to eat." Marcus said lifting up his sunglasses and looking at the purple dragon. It took him only a second to think and they were off.

"Thank you." Spyro said as he handed the female dragon cook twenty gold crystals. They picked up the turkey legs, they were smoked turkey legs.

"No problem, come back anytime!" The cook said with a smile and waved to them as they left. They waved back.

"Wow, this is very good!" Marcus said with a mouth full of turkey leg. He took another bite into it. This was a hundred times better than Lu's cooking.

"I thought you said it was rude to talk with a mouth full of food?" Caelia joked, her mouth full of food also. Cynder giggle a bit.

"Rules are meant to be broken," Marcus grinned, "sometimes...." That got a snicker out of Spyro, and a small laugh out of Cynder.

"Hey, Marcus what is it like where you come from?" Spyro asked, curious.

"Well, I was born on earth. It's a very nice place, since we have torn down the useless stuff and let the earth grow back to normal. Don't be fooled by how nice it looks, there are criminals, murders, a lot of bad people there. But the good people are in larger numbers than the bad. All in all it is a nice place to live. But I can tell I like this place a lot more." He took another bite of the turkey leg, enjoying the rich flavor. This place was amazing, everyone was nice, he felt like he was born here. He fit in well with everyone they didn't seem to mind him. Although they were a bit curious as to what he was.

"I don't really know much about it, since I have spent my life at the Compound with Marcus, its too dangerous out there, for me. But he does take me out to some nice places, even took me on some of his missions." Caelia said as she took another bite of the large turkey leg.

"What do you mean by compound?" Cynder queried.

"I mean base, a very, very large base. It makes your place look like a small kiosk."

"Wow," Was all Spyro could say, "That must be huge." Marcus finished the off the last piece of meat on the stick and put it in the side of his pack.

"I'm gonna save this for some soup." He said with a grin, he knew how to make a good soup.

"I'm not seeing any more problems. I wonder if what just happened will scare them off." Cynder said as she calmly cowed down on her meal.

"Yea, I think we are done here for now," Marcus said in a leisurely tone, "Hey, do you think you guys could show some of this realm. I have no idea what's out here and where I can or can't go."

"Their really isn't anywhere you can't go, but there are some very dangerous places that you shouldn't go in alone." Spyro said it was slightly muffled by the food in his mouth.

"Cool, in a little bit I'm gonna take a look around..."

"Hey smooth skin!" a voice yelled out, the small group looked around and saw four big cat-humans in front of them. They did not look happy. Marcus pointed to himself, "Yea you! You're in a lot of deep shit now."

"Whys that?" Marcus asked confused, he had a feeling things were not going to end well.

"You put our friend in jail. We are one of the gangs that run this area, and since he isn't here to pick the money from people. We are going to take it from you!" One of the cats hissed. Marcus chuckled; they had no idea who they were messing with.

The sound of four large blades filled the air, everyone back away expect the two groups. The swords were long but not well taken care of.

Marcus laughed again, "why don't you put away those away before you hurt yourself."

"Why don't you come over here and make us!" one of they yelled in a cocky tone. Marcus looked around.

"Ok," he said he engaged his battle mode; it made him way faster and stronger, but it only lasted a short amount of time. He ran towards the cat-humans, faster than they could react. He grabbed two of them and smacked there heads together. Kicked another in the face, the last one swung at him but did expect what came next. He ripped the sword out of the cheetah's hands and started to bend it! When he was done it was a u shaped piece of metal. The cheetah started to back away when Marcus walked up very close to him and leaned in....

"BOO!" he yelled, scaring the group of cheetahs took of running with their tails between their legs. He flipped them off as they ran away; they would never run their gang again. He shut off his battle mode, it wasn't really needed but he wanted to make sure they wouldn't mess with anyone anymore.

"Man, those people were dumber than a box of rocks." Caelia said as they walked into hilly part of a plain not too far away from the dragon temple.

"No kidding," Cynder smirked, "When you attacked those guy like that, it was so fast!" she was excited at even talking about it.

"Hey you guys wanna see something cool?" Marcus asked, they were gonna be surprised.

"sure." They all said, Marcus grabbed out one of the vehicle Nanos pressed it and threw it down, it started to unfold and build up. They stared in amazement at what it turned into, it became a very old 197o Steel black charger with a blown over engine, that had over 1900HP.

"What is that?" Spyri asked utterly baffled.

"This," Marcus said as he put his hand on the car, "Is a 1970 Dodge charger with a blown over 1900HP super charger. Its a car. People used to race and still race with these ancient things. Time to see how powerful she really is!" he took a seat in the car while the three dragons watch with anticipation to see what happens next. This car had a fuel cell that would take fifty years to run empty. It had a hover car mode also. It did not pollute the air at all.

Marcus turned the key and the car roared to life, scaring the three dragons at first but that died away fast at the sheer excitement of seeing something like this!

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaa baaaaaaaaaaaabbby!!" Marcus yelled as he revved the engine. They looked over every bit off the car, it was a beautiful machine. "Now...time for the real fun..." he chuckled, the car was an automatic/manual. Popping the car into drive he floored it sending the car into a wheelie. It bounced in the air before coming back to the ground and speeding off leaving the three dragons to fly after it. They heard his scream of pure exhalation as he sped around doing donuts 360s and 180s.

"Now that looks like fun!" Cynder exclaimed as she watch Marcus hit a small jump and go flying into the air." Marcus heard her and smiled, he wished they could drive too. They would enjoy it. He looked down on the shifter and saw the hover button, he pressed it and the car was bounced into the air. Its speed doubled it could go very high in the air.

Caelia watched as the car zipped by going in circles, just by watching it made her dizzy, and then he stopped and landed next to them. He pressed the button to turn it back to its small size and got out.

Picking the Nano off the ground Marcus set it in his pack, "That was fun; maybe sometime I will take you guys for a ride in one of them."

Marcus lay under a tree the shade covering him as he took a small nap. Spyro, Caelia and Cynder were playing a game of hide and seek; the Guardians were watching them play. It looked cute seeing them play their little game.

Four hours later....

Marcus slit the throat of the training dummy, they were in the sparring room, and the gold statue that was in the middle of the room was now under ground. The dummy fell to the ground with a soft thud, its blood trickling out of its neck.

"That's how you can do one form of a stealth kill." He explained as all the dragons watched, "This is another." He walked up to another dummy that was guarding nothing. It's back turned. It was an ape, Marcus got right behind it, and put both hands on the head and snapped it quickly! It sounded like a wet branch snapping.

Sparx grimaced at how quickly he broke its neck. But he was teaching them how to be stealthy and quite with their kills. So as to no risk detection by the enemy, if they ever had to use it, which hopefully was never.

Now it was Cynder's turn to show her fighting moves, but she wasn't fighting the dummies, she was fighting Marcus, they knew he was a skilled combatant and would be just the type of challenge she was looking for. He had only a stun rod with him, set to the lowest setting it would only sting when she got hit by it. That would be for fighting him when he was armed with a weapon.

"You ready?" Marcus asked as he tossed all the loose and heavy parts of his combat gear off, he even took of his vest. Cynder began to circle him as he got into his fighting stance. This was going to be fun...

"I'm ready, I hope you are a good fighter or this will be a quick fight." She laughed, she was very a quick girl, he could tell. Marcus did the come and get it gesture, Spyro, Caelia and the guardians were watching closely.

Cynder spit out a small ball of dark fire which Marcus simpily rolled out of the way, then dashed at her dodging more fire balls easily. She was starting to get a little mad, why I can't hit you she thought, she fired another ball of fire and it landed right in front of her hitting Marcus.

"Oh shi-!" was all she was able to say before he jumped out of the flames at tapped her with the stun rod. It stung a lot! She jumped when she felt the shock.

"You need to learn to control yourself, think like your enemy get in there head." Marcus said before jumping back to his side of the ring in one jump. "Tell me if you don't want me to hold back."

"No, don't hold back I want a good challenge!" Cynder yelled at him.

"Ok....your gonna be hurting after this and the next morning, I will have to hold back some," Marcus remarked, "Wait I want both you and Spyro to take me, and if you want to Caelia you can join in." They all jumped into the ring, all circling him in different directions. "I may be a Genome solider but that is only ten percent true. I had gene therapy to make me only a little bit stronger than I was. When you saw me bend that sword, I could do before I had it. All it did was make me a small bit better. I could endure more and last longer." He grabbed a small round ball out of his pocket and threw it to the ground just as they pouched at him. The ball exploded covering the ring in smoke, a grapple shot out of the smoke and latched onto the ceiling. It pulled Marcus to the top where he hid and waited for the smoke to clear.

The sound of people running into each other and running could be heard in the smoke. Sound of "OW", "Watch it" and "WHAT THE FUCK!" could be heard. It got a laugh out of the guardians. When the smoke cleared they looked around and didn't see Marcus any where until.....

He dropped down into the middle of the ring, they saw him. Spyro charged at him and got a good Whack on the head from the stun rod. Cynder pounced onto Marcus's back and grabbed on and would not let go. She didn't not expect what came next, she was thrown off when he did a back flip, grabbed her fore legs and threw her at the two dragons. But he was careful not to seriously hurt her. He ducked to see Caelia fly past where he had just stood. He tapped her under belly with the stun rod as she pasted overhead.

"Very sloppy, think before you act," Marcus said as he jumped into the air as Spyro tried to charge again when Cynder fired her dark fire again. He jumped pretty high!

"Damn he is good, he knows what we are going to do." Cynder grunted as she picked herself up from the ground after getting hit by the stun rod again.

"I know he is just that good." Caelia said with a grim smile, she had only been able to beat him once!

"Wait," Cynder said in a low voice, "I have an idea, I'll use my shadow power to distracted him and them you and Caelia attack him." it sounded like a good plan.

What are they doing Marcus thought as he looked as the three dragons as they whispered to each other.

"Ok, let's try it." Spyro grinned; they got ready to try it......