Wolf and Falcon Chapter 1 by Tommy Lovett

Chapter 1: A Break in

It was the dead of midnight when it happened, a thief broke into many houses and stores looking for and taking anything of value. They didn’t even care if the police were called because their body was not one of a mortal man and could bend and shape their form to do anything from hide in the tightest corners as a snake or pick the locks with a finger shaped like a key. But the only things this thief is taking are metallic items from pocket change to kitchen knives for what purpose only they know as they enter into what appears to be a video game store called Golden Games they sense something familiar to them,

“Could this place be the one?”

the thieving shapeshifter asked himself with a playful tone of voice. He goes straight to the cash register for the change as always and leaves the useless paper bills alone, it's after stealing from the register that the shapeshifter notices a trapdoor on the floor not far from the front desk. “That’s unusual, my senses tell me something big and metallic is under the floor of this store.”

The shapeshifter quickly opens up the trapdoor and follows the ladder down into the basement of the games store. He holds up a flashlight made of metal and turns it on. The light reveals a huge suit of metal armor, the color of the armor is as black as coal and the helm’s two horns point slightly back. The visor of the helm has six holes drilled into them. The shapeshifter immediately recognizes the armor and is for a moment at a loss for words.

“Master Metal Devil, oh what a happy day it must be to see you again!”

after saying that the metal shifter places his hand onto the metal suit of armor and his powers begin to work their magic.

“To think that you Lord Devil would be kept under a place like this. Fear not my great master for I can remove the seal placed on your new body and we can raise hell on Earth.”

The Armor slowly but surely begins to move and soon it gets up from his sitting position and stands for the first time in many years. The Helm’s visor glows red and a loud roaring cry echoes out into the midnight sky.

The next morning both Ryan and Michael are both speechless about the theft at Golden Games, they were upset but also confused

“Who breaks into a store just to steal change?”

Ryan is currently recounting the money while Michael looks frantic as he searches up and down for the suit of Armor.

“Damnit, where is it? How the hell does a thief carry off a huge suit of armor!?”

Ryan goes over to the Basement to comfort Michael. It was unlike Michael to be this emotional and the fact there was a break in at all was enough stress to put on his shoulders.

“Dude, I don’t know, I am just wondering why they took that old thing and not the majority of the money in the register!” Ryan says

“That armor was from my late father, he told me to never let anything happen to it! What am I going to do?”

Ryan Notices in the basement two belts handed on metal clothes hooks. Ryan walks up to the hanging belts when Michael quickly stops him with a hand.

“Don’t touch anything in this basement!” Michael was not in the mood for Ryan’s usual shenanigans. “These belts like the armor I couldn’t protect are not to be taken out of the basement for any reason.”

“Okay, Okay I understand, I was just curious...” Ryan explained “So do we just close the store or-” a loud metallic bang and the breaking of glass could be heard from the upper floor. Both Ryan and Michael climb the ladder back onto the ground level and see a huge metal orb crash landed right into the Gamestation 5 section of the store.

“Bro come on!” Ryan is heartbroken as he had to put those games on the shelf. Michael moves carefully and with intention. Examining the orb, he was just shocked…then he was angry. “WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?” he runs toward the broken window and starts shouting “Who the hell put this metal ball in my store!?” Ryan is still looking at it, like seriously who puts random giant metal balls and launches them into a local games store? As Ryan is still looking at it the orb starts to glow and transform into a human-like form!

“Michael, you may want to see this!” Ryan yells out, Michael looks behind him and just catches the part where the metal…thing turns into a Copper Lizard Man! “What the hell is happening now!?” The lizard punches at Ryan knocking him into the GBox games section of the store! Michael realizes that today may be the day to reveal the truth behind those belts his father gave him. He quickly tells Ryan; “Distract him for a bit, I have something to help with this!”

“Wait, What!?” Ryan is currently being thrown around the store by the Copper Lizard as Michael hurries into the basement level and grabs both of the mysterious belts, one red and the other blue. And rushes back up just in time to see Ryan being thrown yet again into the Nendo Twitch section. "Ryan, take this belt!” Michael calls out to catch this belt! And throws the belt and it lands right in front of him. Ryan confusedly says “A Belt!? Why!?” Michael steps toward the monster currently holding Ryan by the neck. Its shiny copper skin reflects the destroyed game store. Michael and throws the red jeweled belt onto his waist and with a snap the belt locks into place. A ring of Fire appears around the belt and extends up and down the wearer’s body Ryan looks on in shock and says “M-Michael!?” Michael’s response was simply…”Henshin!” The Fiery ring’s energy covers the entire body of Michael and with a blast of fire he reappears under the armor of the hero Flare Falcon! The monster tosses Ryan at the Flare Falcon. Falcon simply dodges Ryan and rushes the Copper Lizard and punches at the monster. Ryan, still recovering from the impact from the throw, puts on the blue jeweled belt and stands on his feet and takes in the scene of Michael fighting a monster straight out of those tokusatsu shows. Falcon pulls out his flare blaster and fires two rounds into the monster making the metal Lizard stumble back into a wall. Ryan finally snaps out of it when his own ring of Ice surrounds him and acts in the same manner as the other belt. Michael notices Ryan and says to him “Say Henshin and help me fight this thing.” “Henshin?” Ryan replied, triggering the seemingly voice-activated transformation of Ryan into the Breaking Wolf. “Whoa what's going on?” “Focus on the task at the end here Ryan, that suit should make fighting this thing easier.” Michael said, “Why do you have Toku show transformation belts!?” Ryan’s question gets no answer as the copper lizard attacks Ryan. Ryan blocks the first attack and then punches the lizard as a counterattack, and then Michael fires a few dozen rounds into the back of the lizard causing it to stumble around and into yet another section of goods on display. Ryan kicks the downed lizard to keep it from getting back up. The Lizard spits acid at Ryan burning his skin through the suit. Michael holds down the trigger on his flare blaster and charges up a powerful shot. “Ryan, hold that thing down!” Ryan taking action grabs the metal monster from behind and holds them down for Michael to connect a shot, Michael releases the trigger, and the flaming bullet shoots out of the gun and into the monster causing a small Explosion. The monster is no more and all that's left is a messed-up game store. Michael takes off his belt which undoes his transformation. Ryan follows suit and returns to a normal person and not a superhero. They both wondered what had just happened.

Meanwhile the Metal Devil and James Victors were watching with intent through a liquid metal pool in their lair showing the fight going on. The Devil is the first to speak, “why didn’t you take the belts? “

“Because they are made from leather not metal” James answered

“No matter, they can try and stop us, but it will be in vain, the destruction of this world will begin with us.”

It seems that both the Metal Devil and James Victors want to destroy the world. While Ryan and Michael both defeated the metal monster this time, they still don’t know who is responsible for bringing this monster to Golden Games or what the two villains are planning or that they even exist. Tune in next time on Wolf and Falcon to find out more.