Operation S.A.D. Chapter 3: A Fight Against Terror

Holy f**king shit this is amazing!

You did X perfectly, overconfident and stupid, but Xnile a bit off but that's fine, this chapter is peak writing

Sorry, I couldn't do much of Xnile tho

Yeah that was fine, But the way you did X was practically spot on

Thx man

Meanwhile, somewhere in a greasy fast-food restaurant, X and Xnile munch on their scrumptious meals. X is having some kind of beef burger, while Xnile got his hands on a large pack of cheesy fries. Crunching down on the bits in their mouth, they licked their own lips.

"Wow!", Xnile cheered, "This food is shit!".

"Xnile, bro.", shouted X, "You're enjoying it just as I am! Don't go hating!".

"Whatever you say dude... Why are we here anyway?".

"Have you not seen the news? Ten people have-".

"Died in one single night. Yeah! I know! What about it?".

"You clearly know what that means then...", X grinned with a smug look.

Xnile finishes the rest of his meal. Next, he looks down and loudly burps for 5 seconds.

" 'Scuse me...", Xnile pardoned himself while rubbing his food-stained mouth.

"Dude! Whoever did this must've been VERY powerful, and I feel like we should fight him, ya know?", X yapped, ignoring Xnile.

"X! I know you're crazy, but come on! Don't you think you've fought enough this year?", he argued while licking his cheesy fingers.

"Dude! There is never enough for me!", he smiled, "Besides, it's been a while since I fought someone!".

The two eat the rest of their food, and exit the restaurant to talk more about the incident. Xnile quietly chuckled, surprised and amused by X's spirit to keep battling on and on. Except for the fact that he knows they're his enemy, X didn't give a single, damn care about who he fought. He battled a lot of people before then, so this shouldn't be less than a challenge to him.

One question came to mind however...

"So... How are we gonna find this maniac?", Xnile asked, still grinning.

"Xnile. You know how!", yelled X, "All we gotta do is search for some clues, or sense some weird, high energy levels!".

"Sure! Sounds simple enough!", sarcastically said Xnile, "I'm very certain we can find our enemy in no tim- and you're already jumping over buildings! Brilliant!".

"You coming or not?!", shouted X from far away as he's hopping on top of buildings to get a good sight.

Xnile sighs, and giggles again. He joins X in the adventurous search for the mysterious murderer. Having high hopes already, the two looked everywhere for the man, but nothing came up to their success. Big, spooky alleyways? Nada! Sewer tunnels? Zilch! Trash cans, or rubbish bins (Or whatever you guys call these things)? Zippo! Anywhere else that's ridiculous other than these things? Zero!

Soon after then, the dark night fell, and the street lights began to glimmer again. Here we have X and Xnile still filled with energy, but losing faith in finding the heartless murderer. In less than a minute, things begin to get rowdy between the two.

"Goddammit, X! Why did I even agree to help with your bullshit plan?!", Xnile scowled at him.

"Well, it was worth the damn search! Maybe, he escaped off to a different area!", X argued.

The two Xylones stopped, and stood in a spot. They looked at the moon. A pretty sight. Pretty full. Pretty...

"I love it, don't you?", X said with his eye fixated on the white moon.

"Yeah... It's beautiful...", Xnile said, "Reminds me of Xia."

"Maybe we should... I dunno. Get home and eat dinner?".

"Oh? Giving up already?".

"Shut up! It's been seven hours since we had lunch. My wife and kid is probably waiting for me, unless they already ate."

"Pretty sure they did, bro. This isn't like you, X. Not as adventurous as I thought you'd be."

"Just back then, you wanted me to quit fighting."

"I did not!"

"You did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Whatever..."

Suddenly, the lamp posts started flashing out, and turned their lights off. As they did, their glass shattered. Hearing this, X and Xnile stopped talking, as the street gradually darkened around them. X tried to check the time on his watch, but couldn't see anything. He lit up a flame and saw the short hand precisely on 11. Damn. Has it been that long?

He looked at Xnile, who was busy smiling at something.

"Xnile. What the hell are you looking at?", questioned X.

"I guess he found us...", said Xnile.

"Who?".

X turned around to see somebody standing like a statue in the distance. A black figure, with a white mask, painted in red, yellow, and blue shapes.

"Who would've known it was him all along?", Xnile asked himself.

"You...", X said.

"Yes... Me!", nodded back the figure, "Been some time since I saw you...".

Without making a single sound, the murderer slowly walked towards the two. The two shrugged at each other, and took a regular stroll to their enemy. Their breathing is indeed well-controlled, compared to their tight fists and sharp claws. Silhouette and Xnile smiled at each other, while X frowned, believing he can beat the shit out of Silhouette. No extra words were said from either of these guys, but their strange aura began to emerge.

Whoosh!

The fight begins, with X and Xnile leaping into the air, having flames on their fists, and ready to maul the man to death. Silhouette looked up and jumped too, with his claws coated in dark energy. He managed to catch one half of their fists, but was kicked in the hips. He didn't feel a thing. He twisted and swung the two around, and hurled them against a wall, before gracefully landing.

X came out of the wall, slightly scathed, and started running towards the villain. He grew a Xylone crystal in his right hand, and aimed it at the figure's chest. Out of the ground came a vicious pile of gigantic rocks thrown at him at a high speed. Silhouette elegantly dodged the rocks by hopping onto one after another. He lunged at X, who created a dual gauntlets out of Chrono blades.

Then, he gets shot out of sight by a large fire beam. X looked at Xnile who had his hand out.

"You know I had him!", he yelled.

"Not according to what I see.", he teased.

Xnile makes a spear, and launches it against Silhouette, who is being shoved by the beam. The spear reaches his tummy, and explodes. Silhouette falls down with his whole body burning in fire. Xnile giggles while crossing his arms.

"I guess I stole a kill!", he later joked.

"Yeah. Real funny.", grumbled X, "But don't celebrate just yet! Look!".

The flaring figure got up from the ground, and violently shook, causing the flames to disappear. He jumped in the air again, and pointed at the two with two glowing index fingers.

"Hell's Giant!", he shrieked.

Two strings of fire erupted and zoomed towards the two. They both separated and teleported to two different buildings. Seeing the strings expand into an explosion, enough to kill an average army, Xnile felt more amused by Silhouette's strange power.

"Now, this one's very interesting!", he shouted, trying to hear himself from the loud noise of the explosion.

He created two swords, and spotted Silhouette with an abnormally large knife standing on the tip of a roof. The enemy beckoned him to come, so he did. Xnile jumped into the air and clashed swords. X followed from behind, and joined in. Silhouette guarded himself from the attacks, but he received a few blows to the legs, and a cut to the skin of his hip. X went in front and gave a punch to the mask, branding two inches of a scratch on it.

Silhouette coated his knife in dark energy and swiftly swiped against their shoulders. He managed to shove Xnile out, leaving X alone. He quickly dropped his knife, and jumped onto X. He attempted to squeeze the hell out his head. X groaned in pain before he could throw Silhouette off the building. The masked man clung onto the wall of another with one hand, and thought of an ingenious idea. He looked at the thumb and fingers of his other hand, and made sure that all of them glowed at a high temperature.

"Underworld's Dwarves!", he chanted.

Recovering from the attempted squash, X got up only to see Silhouette aiming his fingers at him. His eyes widened.

"Oh shit...", he muttered.

He is then shot in the chest, and his whole body is launched off the building, falling down to soft grass.

"X!", shouted Xnile.

He looked back at Si- Wait. He's not there anymore. Where is he?

"Where the f*ck did that bastard run off to?!", Xnile panicked, trying to pick up his scent somewhere.

Nothing could be found, but he could still feel him standing somewhere, laughing. He looked around to see a glimpse of him, but nobody could be found.

Xnile then felt something grab his ankles. He looked down to see two white, grubby hands grabbing him, out of a hole composed of dark energy. Next, they pull him downwards. In he goes, plummeting down to a place of nowhere.

There, he finally found his opponent sitting on a table, drinking an empty cup of tea.

"Nice place, isn't it?", asked Silhouette waving nicely at Xnile.

"Yeah.. I guess.", replied Xnile, calming down.

He stared intriguingly at Silhouette, and queried an obvious one...

"Who the hell are you?".

"Ah. Ya know... I get that question A LOT!", he blabbered, "Everyone asks the same question over and over again. "Who are you?", "What's your name?", "Hibbity Hoo-Blah!"."

He cackled loudly and disgustingly, and threw his tea cup away. When he stopped, he eyed to Xnile straight in the face.

"Surely, you know already. Unless...", he quietly spoke, "You're talking about my real identity."

"Yeah! What else could I be talking about?", said Xnile pointing at Silhouette, "I wanna know who you are behind that goofy ass mask of yours."

"Heh... I don't think you'll ever know. Why should I answer to a freak-of-nature like you?".

"Because I can kick your ass if you don't!".

He laughed again, even more loudly.

"I'd LOVE to see you try!".

"Bring it on clown face!".

Xnile jumps to Silhouette as he throws hands with him.

In the meantime, we return back to the knocked-out X, who wakes up in the middle of the grass.

"Xnile? You there?", he called hoping for an answer.

...

Nothing.

He touched his chest to feel a five boiling marks, and sighed. He got up, looked at his hands, and concluded a reflection to himself.

...

"Guess I gotta show him my other specialities. Chaos... Share with me your power...", he whispered.

The air began to move violently as X levitated in the air, displaying some chaos energy spiralling around him. Next, he strengthened himself with the ability of Nova, a divine energy put between Demonic and Heavenly powers. He is one of the only few to ever achieve this sort of ability, but he hasn't had access to its full extent. A mix of chaos and nova would fare enough for him.

His hair danced in the air, as more power surged through his body. The aura around him glistened brightly as if it was daylight once again.

X checked the time on his wrist watch.

Half-past eleven. His wife and daughter must be sleeping without him. He smiled.

"I hope I come back home safe and sound...", he softly said to himself.

Out of the blue, a black portal formed behind him. He turned around to see Xnile falling out of the portal, bruised and bloodied. His nose and mouth bled. Holes can be seen lurking around near his shoulder and on his legs. He struggled to crawl to the floating X.

"Xnile! You okay?", bleated a rather shocked X.

"D-Don't worry about me!", he grumbled, "You should worry about HIM!".

"Alright, where is he?!".

A piece of shade towers over X and Xnile. X looks up to see a largely-muscled Silhouette falling down with a giant boulder down.

"WRRYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!", screamed Silhouette, holding the giant boulder.

X sighs with outshining confidence. He jumps up to the boulder, and destroys it at full speed. He rises against Silhouette, and swiftly smacks him down, causing an explosion of dirt to go everywhere. Xnile crawled away to a safe spot to heal himself of his unfortunate injuries.

X floats down to the ground, and sees the masked monster getting back up. Silhouette slowly lifts his hands up, summons his fork and knife behind him, and coats them in dark energy. Both of them seem to be floating in the air, regardless of their fat weight. Noticing this, X enters a guarding stance, and slowly circles around Silhouette, who strikes an attacking pose. You may not see it, but a sinister beam hides behind his mask, craving for a scrumptious murder.

He maliciously points a finger at X. Soon, the enlarged cutleries zoom towards him. The Xylone jumps right through a gap between them, and runs to him with chaos and nova energy flowing in his fists. As soon as he reaches him, X gives his mask another pummel, while Silhouette jabs him in the chest. Ignoring the pain, X continues with a simple, delicate combo: he elbows his neck, and roundhouse-kicks his hips.

Upon falling down, Silhouette stands up with two hands on the ground, and does three spinning kicks to the head, before doing an over-head kick, which X guards against with his arms. Silhouette spins backwards, and joined two hands together while stopping. The hands make a gun gesture, and their index fingers glow a burning sensation.

"Tommy's Toreador!", he chanted out words.

Next, many flame prills come flying out at X like bullets from a machine gun. He teleports beside each one of them, as to get closer. After this, he gives him a flurry of fists to the mask again. More cracks popped out, as the mask itself weakens. Apparently, it isn't supposed to receive damage from things like hard-hitters, but clearly X's attacks were tougher than expected.

Silhouette uppercut the man in the chin, and hurled him against a tree. X jumped back from its bark, and rocketed back to his sender, instantly kicking him in the chest. He stumbles back and tries to shoot him with more of "Hell's Giant" and "Underground Dwarves". However, he only managed to blow up three or four buildings, with no people inside them thankfully.

X rose behind him, with a fist on his back. He then shot him with a good, old Chaos blast, sending him into the sky. He shot him more with three or more Nova blasts. Fireworks abruptly boomed in the sky as the blasts blazed on Silhouette's body.

"Beautiful! BEAUTIFUL!", he exclaimed.

It was pretty obvious that he was enjoying this fight. He laughed in excitement and joy, as he kept shooting the flying body. Finally, he's had a moment where he can actually beat a supervillain. Things were ultimately according to what he wished for! Half a minute later, the burnt-out corpse crashed in front of the standing man.

"One body down...", he murmured, "Twelve more to go..."

"Kolmanis... Go! Find a man named "The Masked Silhouette"!"

At some place in a forest, Silhouette is seen limping, escaping from X.

"Perhaps I was ill-prepared...", he coughed in disappointment to himself.

He stopped and sat on a log. He took a deep breath to take some time off.

"It's alright...", he said to himself, "I still hold more tricks up my sleeve."

Unfortunately for him, X didn't give up. A circle of flames surround the masked murderer, and begins burning the trees. He looked around to see no exit out, except for one. He coats his claws in dark matter, and stabs the air. He gets a hold of something invisible in the air, and rips it out, making a black portal out of nowhere. He steps inside, as the wildfire draws near.

"He's gone!", X blurted, but he knows he's coming his way.

He went back into a violent stance, and waited for a risky tackle. For the time being, he turned silent, and closed his eyes to tap into the unknown, and tried to hear where he is.

...

...

...

"THERE!"

He shot an average fire projectile at a random bush. Before it could hit, Silhouette jumped out.

"You don't know when to f*cking give up, do you?! You piece of burning shit!", he said, trying to smirk his rage away.

"At least, I know I'm going to stop you once and for all!", X assured.

"Oh really?! What makes you think that?!".

"I don't know. But I have my hopes!".

"Bah! You don't know how much of an oblivious idiot you're easily becoming! But enough talk, the cloak is coming off!".

He put his hands out and strongly ripped out his outerwear. Next, he throttled the cloak at mach speed towards X, who instantaneously ducked down. Soon, a new look took over what was once a mysterious appearance. Silhouette wore a suit that was black and white. It was an average outfit that you would wear to a wedding or a funeral. Also, Silhouette showed a bald head, which its shape bared a somewhat similar appearance to that of a certain species. Getting back up, and ignoring Silhouette's new "drip", X threw a pack of laughs at him.

"Did you think taking off a cloak would change anything?!", he continued to cackle.

"oH No!! I'M ScARed!! A bIG, AnGrY mAn TooK oFf hIs ClOAk!!! I'M F*cKinG CoOkED FoR REal!!!!".

"You might want to turn around and see where my cloak went...", Silhouette said, "No. Really. You should."

X turned his head around, shaking it, believing that Silhouette would still lose...

However, his happy times came to an awkward end, as the smile faltered from his face, and converted into a look of horror. There, he saw the a row of twelve trees cut and smashed down by the thrown cloak. That cloak wasn't ordinary. Thanks to his overconfidence and him being "too caught" in the moment, X just wasn't able to hear them crash. But looking at them, he imagined how fast Silhouette could move without his cloak.

"You let your GUARD DOWN!", Silhouette snapped as he grabbed a hold of his back head.

"WHAT THE FU-".

Silhouette slammed X's head down to the ground. He added a stomp to the back, to make him stay down. Then, he grabbed him by the hood and catapulted the guy into a stone wall. There, X bled a lot from his head. He started to have a splitting headache from the damage he received. Relieving himself after some seconds, he sees Silhouette charging at him at a velocity much speedier than usual. It was even faster than X's average sprinting speed.

The unknown figure managed to grab his neck, and dragged him through the wall, inflicting more damage to the Xylone. After letting him go, he grew his claws, and slashed X numerous times. X bellowed in so much pain, as the monster's laugh grew colder.

"YOU THINK YOU'RE FUNNY HM?!", he chortled as he scratched his victim.

"WELL GUESS WHAT?! I AM HAVING THE LAST LAUGH! ME! THE ONE AND ONLY! YOURS TRULY! ME!".

And for his final trick, Silhouette summoned his fork, and raised it above X's head, ready to demolish his brain. X took one last look at the mysterious man before closing his vision down.

"Say goodbye, X!", yowled the white fiend as he was in the brink of killing him.

"Tekai... Tala... I'm... sorry...", he apologised in thought.

Suddenly, an arrow, which he didn't see since he was fixated on murdering X, shot out on his left. He grabbed it, thinking that it was a terrible shot. Out of nowhere, the arrow shockingly exploded, sending Silhouette flying towards a grass field.

"Xylex!", a familiar voice called out.

"X-Xnile?", stuttered the man.

"Hold on!".

Xnile, now regenerated, came to X in quite a rush, and picked his dying, blood-leaking body up. Surprised by the injuries, he looked for a way to escape.

"Shit! Time to get outta here!", he shouted.

Zero o' clock. The end of the battle. Xnile ran away with X in his arms. He hoped to find the best healing centre or hospital to him. Silhouette didn't plan to follow, but went missing during the final moments.

To be continued...