Old Habits Die Hard (CORE and Wilson W)

The moon shone upon Ace's window, the light revealed the remains of a bad nights sleep, bed sheets were strewn around the room and the trail of pyjamas shown that someone had second thoughts about going to sleep. Ace pulled on a t-shirt and stepped over to the kitchen, he pulled a large porcelain pot out from under the sink. The word COFFEE was written across it in playful black letters. Ace heaved a deep sigh, he hadn't been sleeping well for a while, in fact, he hadn't been sleeping well at all. School had him occupied during the day and up until recently, his nights had been occupied by clearing the tracks of his former self, he was proud of the job he'd done, it wasn't anything that people who knew him couldn't follow, but it was enough not to be double-taken by every Tom, Bill and Harry who had a half a brain on their head. Ace drummed his fingers on the lid of the pot, contemplating opening it, he felt the drain getting to him, but he couldn't get to sleep. He gripped the pot around it's lid, hesitating once more, he stared out the window, watching the city from the 7th floor of an apartment building. LA was never the prettiest city, but under the blanket of a full moon it could have been. Ace pondered for a second, "I wonder how far the fire exit is from my window…" Ace didn't wait much longer to find out.

Ace pulled his body in closer to the building as he edged around the side to the fire escape. Ace was a little uneasy, he'd done more dangerous stuff than this before, but that was years ago. However, when Ace's feet were both planted firmly on the fire exit, the old ways started running back to him. A grin spread across Ace's face, a grin he hadn't had since two years previously, when he'd last took off over the streets of LA, that fateful day when he lost his powers. Ace stared at the gap between the two buildings, i was a meter across and maybe 3 meters down. "I could make that." Ace pulled himself up to the railing of the escape and launched himself off the edge. A roll carried his weight forward as he hit the roof of the opposing building. He sprung up, continuing the run along the buildings, using his knowledge of the local streets to find his way around.

Ace was however, still rusty on the old running thing, so he would inevitably make a mistake, not a huge one, but a mistake all the same. While running parallel to one of the main streets along a rooftop, Ace managed to miss a jump and fall down to the alleyway below. Luckily for Ace, it was a short fall, 2 storeys at most. Unluckily for Ace however, he landed in the trash of today's eaters of Wong's Chinese Palace.
"Gross" Ace groaned as he pulled himself up from a split bag full of leftover fried rice and moo shoo pork. Ace was about to climb back up when he heard someone coming from the opposite direction of the alley, 'I can't let them see me, that would be too suspicious' thought Ace, so he crouched down behind a bag of god knows what to watch the oncoming person trail through. There were two people, one rather big one and another rather small. They both carried small guns with them, this would be suspicious, if it wasn't 2am in the morning in LA. The big one scratched his head with the grip of his gun. "The boss'll be proud of us on this one. Won't he Blinky?" the big one bellowed.
"Quiet you bumbling idiot!" snapped the little one "We aren't done with the job yet, we still need to get inside. And don't call me Blinky! It's degrading!" Without another word said between the two, the strangest thing happened. The big one tapped 3 times on the dumpster rhythmically and the top flew open. The big one gestured to the little one to jump in and he begrudgingly accepted, followed quickly by the big one. After that, they were gone, the lid flipped quickly shut and Ace was alone again in the alley. Something was up here, and Ace would be dammed if he didn't find out. Ace removed himself from the bags and dusted himself off. He was just about to knock on the dumpster when he heard footsteps behind him.

"Shit" Ace cursed.

"HALT HUMAN!" CORE appeared, phasing through the wall of a building that formed the alley. "I am required by interspace law to inform you that the laser pointed at your head right now is classified as a weaponized Mark I constant wave beam, and could pass clear through the head of most humans."

ERRoR | UNaBLE tO IDeNTIFY

CORE hadn't the ability to feel emotions, but sensing the error, his visor changed to a blazing red color, that lit the alley. "IDENTIFY," he droned with increasing volume, "IDENTIFY, IDENTIFY, IDENTIFY YOURSELF IMMEDIATELY!" His left palm was pointing towards Ace's head, and it began to glow purple.

Wilson Aka Red , jumped from building to building in the city of LA. Tonight he was dressed as red , with his armor like suit on with his red bat on it and a red helmet that made his eyes look pure white with a beige colored biker jacket that was open. "Lets see what red can do tonight" red said as he continued to jump before he had heard a loud sound close by. Following the loud sound , he found a ally way occupied by a young male , like himself , and a robot. It seemed the robot had his hand pointed out at the boy and was about to fire something from its palm "got to hurry" red said as he flipped from the roof too infront of the young man.

"What is going on here?" He asked the robot and the young male , as the robots hand started to glow.

What Ace found when he turned around was not what he wanted to see. A robot had pointed a rather painful looking weapon at him. Ace felt his knees almost buckle to duck, but he second guessed himself, keeping his legs firm, but aware, incase he needed to move.The robot shouted a what sounded like a threat at Ace, though Ace didn't quite catch it, he was too busy looking at the fine piece of weaponary he had pointed at him. The robot demanded he "identify" himself, Ace knew what that meant, he'd met enough robots to know that if he didn't find a way to explain himself, or stall, in the next 30 seconds, his brain would be mere particles floating on the wind.

Before Ace could get a word in another character appeared next to him, some sort of red masked man, not that Ace really, had the time to look, gun being pointed at him and all. THis man also asked for the situation to be explained, Ace decided to address the human first. "Trust me, if i knew, i'd tell you" Ace said through the side of his lips, before addressing the robot directly "Yes, identify, really depends what you want identified, me? What part of me exactly, height, weight, tolerance of siblings, name? The answers to those are quite obvious, surely a robot such as yourself would be able to find that information, correct?" Ace felt his senses kick in, there was a place to run, but he'd have to be quick, judging by the design of the robot, very quick, and that wasn't even factoring in the man in red. 'Shit' Ace thought to himself.

"You are... Not Max Brokedell. You are not human. Identify yourself, that is your last warning." His visor glowed a little less, but it remained red. Stepping towards the man, he moved to grab him by the shoulder, while keeping the laser ((which is semi-integrated into his hand)) pointed towards his head. He took little notice of the man in red however, as his programming prevented him from focusing on anything other than unidentifiable entities when they were present. His Shade Drive hummed quietly in anticipation of danger, when he neared the newer figure, who it also had trouble recognizing.

ERrOR | MaXImUM NUmBER oF UNIdENTiFIED ENTiTIES EXEEDeD
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His next few steps were a little less certain.

Red looked at the robot as it continued to talk to the human male. "What to do what to do!" Red thought inside of his head , needing something to do real quickly before the man is killed. At the side of the male , he soon saw the robot walked up and grabbed the human by the shoulder. "I can't have this" red said as he quickly grabbed a few rocks from the ground next to him. He picked a few large ones up and with his 50% strength threw them at the head of the robot , hopefully distracting the robot and making dents on him.

Ace took a step back from the robot, looking at him in distain, this robot was clever, but he was cleverer. Ace rolled the robots hand off him. "Look, we've all come a long way here, i've just run a few blocks, i'd daresay you've come from another planet, judging by the way your workings are done, how about we all just settle down and not blow anyone's faces off." Ace was about to introduce himself when he spotted the man in Red bending down to pick something up 'Oh god no, bloody hell, please don't' thought Ace, all his work trying to talk down this robot was about to go to waste, all depending on the outcome of one person throwing rocks at a robot.

Ace would have continued worrying, if the dumpster hadn't made a large mechanical clattering, without thinking, Ace turned to face it, swiveling on his heels.

CORE phased through the incoming rocks as they came making sure that not one touched him, and turned to face the dumpster as well, lighting the whole thing red in his stare. "I could live with identifying you later, as long as you keep the red one under control." Stepping forward, he raised his left hand to point straight at it, and it began to glow a deep purple. "Whatever's about to happen, you two, fire first, ask questions later if it's a person, and you two go first if it's not."