The City Is My Hunting Ground

Chapter 22: Surprise to Be Sure

It is much easier to control them... with my hand around their throats

Ziggs felt getting pulled to somewhere. He prayed that it was Warwick who was pulling.

"Was that your plan? Seriously?"

That voice was definitely Warwick.

"Just use your nose and get us out of here. Let's continue talking then."

They managed to reach the exit in the smoke caused by the so-called explosive.

...

"Why didn't you ask Urgot's lair's location from them?" Rumble asked.

Tristana was a little shocked. "Rats. I forgot! Did they leave already?"

"Yes", Teemo spoke the truth. "But don't you worry, I'm here too."

"Not in the cage, but laughing at you", Rumble continued the old poem known very well in Bandle City.

Both boys laughed.

It's good to see Teemo isn't being mean to him anymore. This trip has surely revealed new sides from everyone.

"Do you really know something, Teemo?" she asked.

"Oh yeah. I heard from Edger that it's located in the west side of the Sewer level. And it is huge."

Rumble turned his robot on. "Are we just going to raid the whole base by three people? We'd need an army."

"Teemo?"

"Yes ma'am!" Teemo said and pulled three stickers from his pocket.

"What are those?" asked Rumble.

"I got them from Ekko. They look like the Dreadnought tattoos. We're gonna go undercover!"

They put the stickers to their palms. A tattoo can't be put to fur, and palms are one of the only places a yordle doesn't have fur. Tristana thought a little and put the 'tattoo' to her ear instead.

"Yea, bois. I love tattoos!"

Teemo squinted his eyes and whispered to Rumble: "She always says that when she sees a tattoo, but she still doesn't have one."

"Okay, let's go!"

The walk to the elevator was pretty quiet. Everyone was nervous.

"Oh, I forgot, this doesn't go to the sewer level. How do we get there?" Rumble wondered.

"That's where the name comes. From the sewers."

Rumble jumped from his robot. "Then I have to leave her here. She wouldn't endure it."

"Can't anyone steal it if you leave her here?" Tristana asked.

"She has an automatic defense system."

The yordles walked to the elevator and pressed the button of the bottom level.

...

"Darn it! I was close!" Camille mumbled to herself.

She was cloaked in dust and wounded to forehead. She didn't feel the pain, only the blood flowing down her face.

"Eeb! Bring my rubber hand and prepare a bath!"

"Yes, my lady!" came the response. Servants of the wealthy never complain.

A few minutes later, Camille sat in a nice hot bath. She had to remove her prosthetic limbs and toggle the force field on her chest to avoid getting eletrocuted. She used a rubber prosthetic to drink.

"Open the line to emission department. I want to talk to the leader."

Moments later, a small robot carrying with a phone integrated to it appeared. Camille took the phone and started speaking.

"Can you hear, Kommo?"

"Yes."

"What filter percent you are currently using?"

"Sixty, my lady."

"Turn the emergency pipes on and switch the filter to zero."

Kommo gasped. "Y-yes, my lady."

...

Ziggs and Warwick sat comfortably in Warwick's hideout. Warwick was eating a pile of cutlets. Ziggs was drinking coffee.

"So, now it's time to talk. You first", Warwick growled. "Explain your plan."

Ziggs took another sip. "I kinda knew Urgot would shoot the charge, based on my own perceptions. Also, that sword-legged one was closer than us, so we could sneak away if I blackened the vision of them. I always carry a smoke bomb."

Warwick shrugged.

"Your turn. Tell me about Urgot."

"Alright", he said while stretching. "I'll first tell his background."

(All lines before the # mark are Warwick's)

"This is everything Urgot has told to me. He doesn't think I can warn anyone, since everyone fears me. Urgot was a noxian executioner once."

"One day, he was lured to a trap by the noxian Grand General himself, Swain. They considered him a threat since he was so strong and knew a lot of secrets."

"He was taken to the infamous Dredge, where he worked as a slave, digging materials used in Chemtech. His philosophies changed during that time, and he also became the number one man in the prison. Just before breaking the gates open, he changed his legs to the ones you have seen now."

"When the prison was finally broken, he was a changed man. The thoughts of strength and ruling he had adopted from Noxus had changed to the philosophy of Chaos. Only the strong survive."

"As a free man, he went on a personal mission to eliminate all Chem-Barons. Not because of grudges, but because of their money and power. They bring order to this hell known as Zaun, law to the lawless. Many of them are my targets too, but not everyone. Some of them can even be considered as good people."

"But for some time, he has only hunted original Chem-Barons and their descendants."

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"Why? Are they more powerful or something?"

Warwick finished his last cutlet. "Now, listen carefully..."