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Subpar Enforcers: Let's Be Vigilantes

"You want to become a Hero for Hire so you can pay off your rent?" In this world where Superheroes with various supernatural powers, are common, and battle villains on a daily basis, in order to keep the peace, Jack Bravo is a young man living on minimal wage trying to make ends meet. However under a twist of fate he is fired from his job, on the same day he saves a group of people from a rouge Monster with his very own superpower. As Thanks they pay him for the loss of his job. After finding out he can get paid for saving people his mind is made up... Jack takes up the mantle of Bad Wolf, and begins his journey to the top trying to become the Number One Hero, and join the top Hero Team, The Enforcers! Can a Superhero who is only in it for the money become a great hero? And what happens when Jack's own demons, and his strange past begins to catch up to him... The start of a new Career! A Tale of Superpowers, Heroes, Villains, Friends, Enemies, and Monsters Alike! It All Starts Here! Subpar Enforcers: Let's Be Vigilantes Want to buy me food? You can support me on Paypal here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RainyLiquid2020

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Doctor Animole

Rebeca, and Shelly, let out loud screams as they were dragged down the long sewer tunnels. Their feet didn't touch the ground and they were seemingly floating through the air. On their shoulders was large pale white hands that lifted them up off the ground and somehow carried them.

"W... What the hell!" Shelly yelled with wide fearful eyes.

In front of them a hand floated by itself. It fired up towards the air and slammed its knuckles into the sewer gate blasting them off of and sending it spinning high into the air. The hands then raised up carrying Rebeca, and Shelly up and out of the hole in the floor.

The hands let go of them dropping them down into the ground as they let out low groans of pain, as Shelly held onto Rebeca trying to keep the girl safe.

They were seemingly in an abandoned part of the city. "T... This is a part of the city that has been..." Shelly said her body shaking. The world had changed a lot when superpowers emerged. Tech, and power, rising up quicker and quicker. Here in the Red Nation there were a total of 30 cities. Oleander was one such city. Only 30 cities were required. These cities were massive housing an insane population of nearly 10 million each, giving the Red Nation a population of 300 million either being humans, superpowered humans, monsters, or aliens. Naturally due to how large these cities were some streets, which were massive in nature going on for miles, were abandoned.

The reasons varied.

Either there was a monster attack that totaled the city or something else like a radiation leak that made the block impossible to live on. Whatever the case there were many blocks that within time would be broken down and rebuilt over.

Where they stood was one of these.

The street was lined with vast cracks and all the trees were dead and rotted away. Many of the buildings were torn down and shattered into rubble and the air smelled fowl. Many cars were flipped over and torn up all over the place. In fact... There was only a single building that was still standing.

An old stone lab.

It still looked highly beat up covered in cracks and rust as well as stains. But unlike the other buildings it was at the very least still standing tall. That was more than could be said for the other ones.

"W... Where are we?" Rebeca asked a small bit of fear in her voice as she clung to Shelly.

"I... I don't know..." Shelly said shuddering as the hands floated around them. She held the little girl closer to her and watched the many hands move around them faster and faster. "Stay next to me... Until Klarc or that hero girl get to us-"

"Sir Mittens!" Rebeca suddenly cried out making Shelly turn as the little girls eyes went wide and she tried to move out of the teens arm. Shelly grabbed Rebeca pulling her back as her eyes went wide when she saw what was ahead of them.

In front of the stone lab several monsters could be seen slowly stalking out of the shadows...

No... They weren't monsters... Shelly thought they were at first, but as she looked at them she quickly realized that they were animals. At first she thought they were wolves, and lions but no... They were cats and dogs that had been mutated and altered. As if you were to take the common house owned dog and stretch its bones and flesh out until it was the size of a large wolf. Same with the cats which had been stretched and grown to be the size of lions their flesh and bones bent. Their eyes looked crazy and they seemed to twitch as if they were in a lot of pain.

But...

They were still nothing compared to the pale man who stood in front of them. The one with the strange helmet and a wide grin on his face. In his arms he held Sir Mittens, Rebeca's cat, who seemingly hadn't been harmed.

His lips nearly twisted into a smirk as he stared at them. "Greetings clothed apes." The man announced staring at the two girls. Shelly didn't say anything slowly sitting Rebeca down and reaching for a random rusty pipe which she held up nervously as if she was ready to swing it, but knew that it really wouldn't do much... "Oh? Intending to fight?" The man asked his smile fading.

Shelly stared at the pipe before her eyes slowly went down to where a metal watched was wrapped around her wrist. "T... Trust me. You really don't want to do anything crazy." She said her voice cracking a little.

The man stepped forward still holding the cat as he ran his fingers through it. "I won't let any of you be leaving." He grinned. "I'd normally have the time to escape but you guys were able to find me faster than I could pack all my gear up... Worse yet you killed two of my babies! I won't let any of you get away!"

"Babies... You mean those monsters?"

"Those 'Monsters' were mine!" He yelled out making Shelly flinch. "I am Doctor Animole! I'm the man who's going to remake this world! I've found it! The Equation Of Life! The Hyper Gene! Look at what happened when I injected it into these animals! Look what they have become! I made them bigger! Stronger! Faster! They're perfect now aren't they!"

"Y... You did this to these animals..." Shelly said anger flashing onto her face as she glared at the man.

"Of course I did! I'm making them better!" He announced giving a twisted grin. "I haven't mastered it yet but soon. Soon I can gain even more. Oh. And don't worry." His grin grew as the monstrous beasts began to slowly step towards them. "I'm not going to kill either of you. After all. Good bait is always alive..."

***

"They're gone!" Animilia hissed our a scowl crossing her face as her and Bad Wolf watched as the block of ice broke away.

"Crap!" Bad Wolf yelled throwing his hands into the air. "I suck at this!" He suddenly stopped when he heard a strange sound. Him and Animilia turned finding a metal hand crashing into a wall several times before it dropped to the ground. "What the hell is that thing?"

Animila strolled over to it picking it up as she looked it over a small frown crossing onto her face. "This is one of 'his' items."

"His? You mean that Doctor Animal asshole?"

"Doctor Animole. And yes." She nodded standing back up and throwing the hand into the ground breaking it to pieces as it shattered. "I told you already. He's my nemesis."

Bad Wolf nodded his head. "Yeah. Cause all great heroes have a good nemesis right. Someone who is your equal that you always have cool fights with and use to get famous right! You beat them up, then throw them into jail, so they can break out and do it again."

"What? Don't be an idiot." She sighed. "I'd kill that asshole if I get the chance."

"What!"

"You think I'm a hero because I want to be... No. I do this because if I don't people could get hurt. I never asked to have my powers... That man... Doctor Animole... Him and my parents... Well let's just say it's his fault I have these animal based superpowers. And now because of him I either have to do nothing and watch as crime causes more issues or suck it up and save people because it's the decent thing any good natured human would do... And are you listening?"

"Huh?" Bad Wolf looked up from his phone. "Oh yeah. Great power and all that yeah whatever. I was trying to call someone but I don't have a signal down here. How about you?" He asked placing the phone back in his pocket.

Animilia shrugged. "No phone. I don't have pockets."

"Oh. Well I was gonna ask for help but it looks like that won't be happening. We're on our own."

"I see... Well. Can your left arm do that weird sensing thing you had earlier?"

"Yeah but we won't need it. I memorized the tunnels. We just need to go down that straight tunnel then make a left and get to the street above. He should be up there. I think?"

"Alright. Well. Before we move forward I need too know just what are your powers?" She asked. "Mine allow me to change my lower half into various animal forms as I said earlier. If we're working together I should understand what you can do."

Bad Wolf hummed nodding his head as he held his hands up to her. "Well. I have my own powers though they're not as good as they used to be since I sort of neglected them for a few years. I'm slightly stronger, faster, and more durable, then your average human but honestly not by much. I can change my flesh into metal but only on my left arm and it can do a few random things. Really though it doesn't matter. What does is my ring here! Fire and Ice based superpowers hell yeah! Apparently only strong ass people like me can wear it so it's pretty dope."

"I see... Got it. I'll work that into a future plan and think about that if I should use it. In that case. We should be quick about this." Animilia nodded. Her leg came out slamming into Bad Wolf's ankle causing him to let out a loud yelp as he began to fall. Before he hit the ground she grabbed him and lifted him up with her freakishly inhuman strength as her lower half glowed and morphed into her flea form once more. She blasted down the tunnel at a high speed as Bad Wolf let out a loud yell of panic from how fast he moved.

"Ahh! I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die!"

Animilia turned down the tunnel at a fast speed as she bent her back and jumped into the air holding him tightly as she kicked out with her powerful legs. Her legs slammed into the stone roof cracking it into the roof and breaking past it at a fast speed and shattering through the stone ceiling as her and Bad Wolf came to a sliding stop on the street above right where Shelly, and Rebeca had been taken, though now the girls were gone.

"Heads up. Spooky lab in front of us." Animilia said flatly.

Bad Wolf was dropped by her as he landed on his butt his eyes wide as he stared at the large city. He stared at the lab that was in front of him a frown on his face. "If I was a gambler like Nick, it's a serious issue I've been meaning to have a talk with him about it, then I would say they're in there..." He stood up slowly as him and the woman began to walk towards the lab. It wasn't that large of a building but even than compared to the many torn down ones it was doing far better.

As soon as they stepped into the random lab, they both came to a stop staring into the first room. It was a large open room with nothing really in it. Well. Almost nothing. In the center of the room Rebeca, and Shelly, were both tied down to a chair with tape over their mouth unable to move. The rest of the room was an open space with nothing else in it just leaving the two of them alone in that room with Bad Wolf, and Animilia, standing in the entrance way.

"Hey so uh... I'm new to this hero thing but... This is a trap right?"

"Oh yeah. 100%" Animilia nodded stepping into the room. "Let's see what kind of trap it is this time."

"Is that safe?"

"Do you care?"

"Maybe. If it kills me?"

"It really doesn't matter right now."

"O... Oh... Okay?"

"For now let's just enter this lab and see what we're dealing with. Also if we see Doctor Animole I want to shove my foot up his ass so let me deal with him. You just try and get the two girls out of here. He's mine."

"Couldn't it be an explosive trap though?"

"I doubt it... He'd risk wiping his own lab out... He wouldn't do that. Not if it means blowing up his babies. And he wouldn't have time to get them all out or even escape himself." Animilia said stepping into the room as Bad Wolf followed. "For now let's just-"

The room suddenly began to shake as several loud cracks could be heard echoing throughout the room. Bad Wolf jumped towards the girl as fast as he could throwing out his right hand as a small thin wave of fire snapped the ropes freeing the two girls. Before he could grab them and get them out of the room though the cracks got louder as the ground beneath them began to break apart.

"I told you it wasn't an explosive trap-" Animilia yelled out right as the floor broke down completely and Bad Wolf, her, Shelly, and Rebeca all began to fall. Animila's legs turned into a giant spider as webs fired out wrapping around Shelly and Rebeca as she pulled them to her wrapping her arms around them and she used her eight legs to slow her fall down. As for Bad Wolf...

He slammed into the ground below face first as he let out a loud groan.

"I... Really... Really... Need to know figure out how to fly..." He sighed as Animilia landed down softly her legs turning back to normal.

"Thanks." Shelly nodded looking around. "Uh... Where are we?" They now stood in a large stone arena. The floor was made out of sand and was course and rough getting everywhere. Before they could even move the roof above them began to slowly seal shut with a large glass incasing blocking them off from the way they got back in. Standing behind the glass they saw the pale form of Doctor Animole standing behind it with a large grin on his face.

"Uh oh." Animilia sighed.

Doctor Animole gave a wide grin as he clicked a button causing the many speakers on it to go off. "Greetings Heroes. It has been a while hasn't it Animilia." Doctor Animole announced in an almost excited tone. "You two, plus those two girls are going to allow me to really test out the new Hyper Gene formula I've been working on!" He laughed. "Thanks to it I'll be able to get better data! So you can go ahead and rejoice-"

Animilia jumped up slamming her leg into the glass as it changed into the form of a zebra but the limb didn't even dent the glass as she dropped back down. Bad Wolf pointed his ring up shooting out flames but just like Animilia he couldn't dent it.

They were trapped.

"Sorry." Doctor Animole said in a smug tone. "I won't be letting any of you get out that easily. I have so much testing I need to get done and all of you are going to help me do it." He laughed as he ran his hand through Sir Mittens fur the cat hissing out and biting his hand but he didn't seem to notice.

"I... I'm scared..." Rebeca said hugging Shelly as she began to sob.

"It'll be okay." Shelly said shushing the crying girl. "The Heroes will save us... I hope."

Doctor Animole clicked a button causing the stone walls down below to begin to slowly slide open as loud growls could be heard. Bad Wolf and Animilia readied their gear as they went back to back and eyed up the new slots that formed open.

"I've been trying so hard to master it... The Hyper Gene. The Equation Of Life." Doctor Splitter grinned. "So let's see just how far my testing will get with each of you..."

As he said this several large twisted, cats, birds, and dogs, began to pull themselves out of the doorway and the stone walls closed behind them.

Bad Wolf let out a small hiss as he stared at the many, many, monsters that were now starting to pour out around them. There was at least a few dozen of them in total. Each one being the pet, or street cat, that had been abducted by this man and turned into these twisted monsters.

"Well." Bad Wolf said slowly. "This has been a really interesting first mission..."

And with that...

The animals charged them...

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