Wolf and Falcon Chapter 2

Inside the lair of the Metal Devil both the Devil himself and his lackey James Victors discuss their plans of destroying the world. They have decided that putting enchanted metal into the water supply will lead to a whole new fighting force for the now revived Metal Devil. “I demand an army, put grains of metal into the water supply so that the people are turned into Metal Minions from simply taking a drink from their precious water. When I issue a command with our enchanted metals are in their systems, I can make foolish humans my slaves!”

“But of course, my master, let's put it into the local lake where the bottled water comes from and watch them struggle against their new life as a servant of the Metal Devil.” James laughs with a sick sense of humor.

To say the Golden Games store was a mess would be an understatement. While the threat of a metal lizard monster has been dealt with, the damages caused by the monster put the game store in the red zone of financial bankruptcy. As both Michael and Ryan clean up where they could Michael is busy explaining the two magic belts in more detail.

“The belts are called the Magi Belts; they are magical as their name suggests and the responsibility of keeping them both safe is mine.” Michael is currently picking up and throwing away the broken game discs and bent metal shelves partly melted off. “My Father and his best friend used to use these belts at night to fight off the creatures known as Metal Monsters.”

“Okay, but why does the belt want you to say Henshin?” Ryan asked, still patching himself up after being thrown several times around the store and having burns under his clothes from the acid spit.

“I thought you watched Toku shows.”

“I know it means Transform in Japanese. I just don’t get why the belts want me to say that!”

“They're from Japan, duh.”

“Don’t duh me! Why did you get a gun with yours and I had to use my fists!?”

“Oh, I forgot to tell you how to summon your weapon.”

“Wait, I have a weapon? No wait, screw that! I am not fighting metal monsters just to work in a game store!”

“It’s in the contract, though.”

“What!?”

Michael goes to his desk and pulls out a copy of the employment contract for working in the store, he then pulls out a highlight and marks the part of the contract showing that indeed fighting metal monsters was an actual part of the contract.

“You can’t be serious.” was Ryan’s only response.

“Oh, I am serious.” was Michael’s response “Believe it or not I chose to hire you here solely for you to one day wear the belt.”

“Really?”

“Hell, no! I just didn’t expect my father’s weird story to be right!” Michael pulls Ryan and is now shoulder to shoulder. “Ryan, you're my best friend and I trust you.”

“But I am your only friend though.”

“The story goes like this…my father was an archeologist working in Japan and one day he found these belts and that suit of armor- Oh Shit! I forgot about the armor!”

“Oh, that’s right the break-in happened, and the Armor is now gone.”

Michael takes a deep breath and paces around the store going “Oh no no Oh no no no no no!” It seems the trouble isn’t over yet. Ryan walks over and grabs hold of Michael’s shoulders and says, “Calm down buddy, we can still call the police and have them search for it.”

“That wasn’t just a suit of armor Ryan…it was alive.”

“What!?”

“The history behind these belts was that a now-forgotten tribe of warriors sealed the devil himself into a suit of armor and my dad always warned me not to lose the armor.”

“So let me get this straight here, your father found two magical belts and a suit of armor that's somehow possessed by the Devil himself!?”

“Yes, I am afraid that is indeed what is happening right now. But maybe the devil isn’t free yet so let's follow your advice and get the police to help look for the armor.”

And so both Michael and Ryan called the local police and they are now on the lookout for the armor, so far it’s been hard to explain the game store being in a mess and why there was a suit of armor under the place but with a few white lies it was simple enough to avoid their “involvement” being known to the public, the only lead the police have is the same thief that was stealing all the change and metal objects around town. Seeing how it’s doubtful the police will drop everything and help search for a set of armor when the thief is still out there. So they both close the store for now and start searching for this devil-possessed armor themselves. Their search took them to the local park where they found a grizzly sight. Full Metal people are attacking people in the local attack people in the local park and absorb Michael was thankful for bringing the Magi Belts with him, he hands the Blue Wolf Belt to Ryan, and they both throw on the belts to their waists and shout out the magic word. “Henshin!” They both transform into the Breaking Wolf and the Flare Falcon and rush over to fight off the Metal Minions. “Ryan, you have a weapon with your Wolf Magi Belt. Pull it out of your Belt’s pocket dimension.”

“What?”

“Just pull it out of the gem Thing!”

Ryan reaches into his Blue Magi Belt’s gem thing and was shocked to find a pocket and a metal staff in said pocket. “Super Sweet!” Ryan is finally able to fight with a proper weapon. Then the Breaking Wolf began breaking heads with a few spins here and there. While this is happening, the duo gets surrounded by Metal Minions now back-to-back fighting many minions of a yet-to-be-seen enemy.

“This is bad, if this many metal monsters around the park that must mean the armor’s spirit has been released!” Michael says.

“You know where these things came from?”

“Not quite, it's just an assumption due to these things looking like the lizard that threw you around. Also, you already know how to use a bo-staff?”

“In truth, I learned how to use a bo-staff so I could imitate my favorite tokusatsu show hero.”

The duo continues the fight unaware that James Victors, steps into the fray and puts on a belt, and as they put it on their waist a ring of liquid metal forms around them. The ring worked similarly to the Magi Belts and soon covers the body of the user with a liquid metal forming a form of Armor for the thief. The armor had a set of small horns and a tail. This Dense Metal Imp armor had to be the one behind the minion attacks! The horned Metal Imp strikes at Ryan knocking him onto the ground as his claws attack Michael sparks fly as the metal claws strike at their suits. The Imp continues his punishment on Ryan with a fury of claw-like attacks.

“Hahaha! I love it when they scream out in pain!”

“What the hell!? Get off me!”

Suddenly a few flare bullets impact the Metal Imp’s back blasting them off of Ryan who has taken heavy damage from being assaulted. He then rushes toward Ryan and picks him up by hand. “Ryan, get up! Get up!” But while Michael was focused on Ryan a floating metal gauntlet punches Michael across the face sending him flying to the left of Ryan. Upon looking to his right Ryan sees the suit of armor unbound and attacking with floating limbs of metal. Michael is out cold and now Ryan has both the strange Metal Imp and a suit of devil-possessed armor. Things are looking bleak for both the Breaking Wolf and the Flare Falcon when suddenly a pair of voices call out. “Henshin!” two mysterious figures standing side by side a man and a woman. They both have glowing Magi Belts on their waists the man wears a belt that gifts him with the power of the Wind and the woman has a belt that gifts her the power of Lighting. Their form’s take on that of a Crow and Tiger. Their names are a mystery they seem dead set on aiding the two fallen heroes. The Tiger throws a whip at the suit of armor and binds it with electricity. The armor can be heard crying out in pain. The Crow flies in with a jetpack and kicks the Imp aside and continues his assault of kicks one after another. Ryan was impressed.

“Who are you guys?”