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"Yeah, well, I'm full of them..." John muttered to himself as he walked over to the vault door. It was your typical hollywood round vault door - the thing had multiple spikes coming out from the door into the door mount, a big wheel in the center, and a giant hinge on the right which had been the nekojin teller's concern.

Approaching the hinge, John scrutinised it for a moment - before wrapping his big hands around it, his fingers actually digging into the metal as he grit his teeth and began to pull, the muscles standing out in his arm and neck as he pulled back, actually leaning backwards as beads of sweat formed on his forehead -

Before the hinge finally gave, several of the bolts on the left cracking open with a loud ping, before the rest gave with a pang, John stumbling back with his prize in hand - the hinge to the door.

It was a small victory, however - the locks themselves would be the biggest problem. But at least now he had one less point of resistance to worry about.

He jumped suddenly as the vault door boomed again, the frame actually buckling slightly. "Odin's beard..." John whispered to himself, before backing up to the back of the vault. He'd get maybe two good strong strides before he reached the vault door - barely enough, but if he just punched the crap out of the door he'd be left with a busted left hand and a very sore right hand.

He backed all the way up to the safety deposit boxes, pressing his back to them as he looked down to Raven and winked confidently to her - before shoving off, his feet pounding into the ground as he took two great steps, grabbed his right hand with his left and turned his shoulder to the vault door -

BOOM

The sound reverberated around the entire vault, causing John's ears to ring as he staggered back, shaking his head to clear the stars dancing in front of his eyes. He shook his arm, revolving it a little - his charge had dented the vault door outward, the entire thing buckling like it had been hit by a great hammer. One last push should do it.

Looking down to Raven again as he backed up to the boxes - "I take you to the nicest places huh?" - he took off once more, clearing the tiny toom in only one stride now, putting all his considerable weight into his ram this time -

BOOOOOOOM

The vault door, the locks pulled out by the first ram, buckled and fell outward as John slammed into it, crushing whatever had been behind it underneath it as the door and John hit the ground outside the vault.

John sat up, dusting himself off as he turned his head to call back to Raven. "Hey, that was easier then I - "

Before the sound of someone shucking the pump of a shotgun made him turn back to look forward, his eyes wide -

Before someone shot him in the chest with a twelve-gauge shotgun.

The sound of the gunshot echoed throughout the entire bank as John staggered back into the vault, clutching his chest with a look of surprise - before he tripped over the chair and fell onto his back with a grunt, a red blossom blooming on his chest.

The bank robber stepped into the doorframe of the vault, his eyes wide in fear as he pumped the shuck of his shotgun, the little red shell smoking as it flew out of the chamber. "W-what the ********?!"

"W-what?! Hoyl s**t!" The bank robber cried as he saw Raven cowering behind the table, seeing the look of fear in her face. "D-donnt move lady!"

Next to them, John groaned, writhing on the ground a little, coughing as he did. The bank robber leveled the shotgun back to john, now obviously freaking the ******** out. "W-what the hell man?! Dont move!"

"...You...you little s**t..." John growled painfully, pushing himself back to sit up against the safety deposit boxes. "...You ******** shot me..." He muttered, looking down at the basket-ball shaped welt in his chest, blood dribbling out of the wound to stain his new clothes.

"Y-yeah, and i'll puit another in your face unless you dont move!" The man cried, stepping forward to put the shotgun into John's face. "I mean it, man, sit still!"

John smirked suddenly, looking the man dead in the eye as he was focused on John. "You're distracted, kid..."

"Aye...' John agreed, having pushed himself to his feet to stand beside her, placing a hand on her shoulder to keep himself upright, the other hand pressed to the red welt on his chest.

The biggest thing were the pellets in his skin - he felt them moving around in there, that was the biggest thing. The boy had caught him by surprise, knocking the wind out of him completely - if Raven hadn't stopped him, he surely would've killed John out of pure principle - nobody would leave a man who could ram seveal tonnes of steel around if they were trying to rob a bank.

Obviously, though, he had undeestimated the red-raven haired beauty cowering behind the table. John looked down to her, his face a mix of confusion and intruige. "...That was it, wasn't it?" He asked quietly. "...Thats how you do it?"

Before she had time to answer though, the two of them would hear a noise behind them - John turned his head to watch the vault door lift off the ground, whatever he had squashed picking it up and shifting it off its body, to let it slam into the ground.

What lifted up was nothing human, nothing of this plain. It had purple, translucent skin, veins and muscle evident beneath. It had the head of a dog with mutliple tounges, like tendrils, which writhed and slithered from its mouth, which dripped a deep purple ichor. It had brutish hands, long arms like a gorrila, and powerful legs. Its breath was ragged, wheezing from it's chest. As it looked at Raven and John, four eyes swiveled to latch onto them, the yellow goats-eyes narrowing slightly as it spied them.

"By the gods..." John breathed as the demon stepped forward, placing one hand on the edge of the doorframe and opening its mouth, its tendril-tounges seeming to slither and writh in its mouth at them, as if tasting the air...

When she lifted her hand off his chest, he erupted from the spot, the pellets flying from his feet as he ran the two strides forth to slam into the beast, wrapping his arms around the monster's chest as he rammed it off the doorframe and into the wall outside the vault, the concrete shattering under the power of the ram.

He didn't stand on ceremony - pulling back with his steel hand pressed into the monster's sternum, he slammed his right fist into the beasts stomach, the powerful blows causing the wall behind it to crumble even more, the tranluscent skin showing the torn muscles and shattering bones -

Before the monster slammed both palms into John's head, clapping it's hands over his ears, the blow causing john to stumble back, his face screwed up in agony - as the thing suddenly stepped forward and kicked out, slamming it's foot inot his stomach and sending him flying into the air, hitting the doorframe so hard he buckled it, his body flipping around to hit the ground with a thud, not moving for a moment...

...Before he coughed, gingerly pushing himself to his feet, tottering slightly before shaking his head, sparks flying as he reaffirmed himself.

Down the hall, the machine-gun toting bank robber, wondering what was going on, watched as John picked himself up, the monster opening its maw to hiss at him. Immediantly the robber turned and fled, running up the stairs to the other machinegun weilding man.

"Gods Tom, there's security down there! I thought you said you got rid of them!" He cried, Tom turning from his guarding point on the hostages to yell at the other.

"I ******** told you Chirs, i put a hex on each and every one of them - they're all sick at home with the flu or something! Why else do you think we got this far?!"

"Well, i just saw some big ******** take on the Kryptkey demon from the vault, so you missed someone!"

The monster took one step forward as John flew through the air - to receive an arrow to the chest just above the heart, the creature emitting a piercing squeal as the arrow lanced it's flesh - before electrocuting it severely, the sudden shot of electricity causing all of it's muscles to tense before falling limp, the thing falling to a knee, it's breath coming hard from its writhing maw.

John, not one to stand idle when an oppertunity presented itself, advanced again, running up to the creature to slam it into the wall again - but this time his hand curled around the arrow in it's chest and unleashed a shock that was several times more powerful then the one it had received. It's flesh cooked as John poured it on, his eyes narrow as the thing shook and jerked under the pressure he was putting on it - before it lifted it's arms again...

...But this time he was ready. The thing swung, but John ripped the arrow from it's chest and swung around, the lumberous creature's swing flying high as he ducked around it - to stab the arrow into the side of the thing's head, the creature howling in pain as it fell to it's knees -

Before John hooked his arms under the thing's armpits and pressed his knee into the creature's back, causing the creature to be defenceless as John pulled back with his arms and pushed forward with his knee, presenting it's chest to Raven. "Give it to him Rae!" He shouted as his skin began to spark, lightening skittering across his flesh as he prepared to shock the creature again...

****

Upstairs, Tom and Chirs watched on the secuirty monitors as John pinned the demon, Chirs becoming more and more agitated as he watched the Kryptkey get pummeled. "Gods man, there's two of them in there, and they're gonna come up here and obliterate us man!"

"Can you just shut up for one minute and watch, you nancy p***k?!" Tom shouted at Chirs, the trembling bank robber flinching at the shout, the hostages mewling quietly amongst themselves when they saw Tom's confident smile. "Thats a Kryptkey demon man...they're so ******** its not funny."

The arrow buried itself in the creatures maw, the tendrils writhing around it as it unleashed it's charge directly into the creature's head - as John put another 50,000 volts directly into it's body, gritting his teeth as he pumped watt after watt into it...

...Before dropping it's limp body, the creature twitching and smoking - but not dissapaiting.

"...Beating the ******** out of it isn't going to work." John growled as he walked over to the vault door, gripping it in both hands and dragging it over to the slowly regenerating creature as it began to move more freely, grunting in exertion as he spoke. "You're a -hrr- priestess -hrk- you got any dispel magic, or -rrf- unsummon magic?"

Before she could answer, John's shoulder muscles corded considerably as he hefted the impossibly heavy vault door over his head, his face red and his arm trembling with the exertion - before bringing the door down on the squirming demon hard, crushing it underneath, just like before. "That should buy us a minute or so..."

****

Tom shook his head, grabbing his assault rifle, pointing to Chirs. "Keep an eye on the hostages, i'm gonna go see what I can do to em..."

"You're nuts! You're gonna take em on with a M4?"

"Please Chirs..." Tom said sarcastically as he walked out of the tellers row. "...i'm more then a man with a gun."

John caught the sword, looking down at it - it was puny in his hand, but it would do the job. "Alright....ready?" He asked as he placed his foot against the slowly moving vault door, lifting the sword up high.

"One...two..." He started, bracing himself to kick the vault door across, revealing the monster's head and it's ultimate demise -

Before an assault rifle reported, the bullets slamming into his chest before he could lower his steel arm, waving it before him to protect his face and head as he threw himself into the vault, out of the gunman's sights, to slam into the floor heavily, dropping the sword on the ground.

John roared, pushing himself to his feet, flattened bullets dropping out of his ruined shirt and pants from where they'd pancaked against his tough skin - he would have some severe bruising for a week, that was damn sure.

Outside, Tom took his position at the corner leading up to the bank, his smoking gun trained on the vault room. He was motionless, waiting for something to happen so he could shoot it - and waiting for the monster underneath the vault door to move it so it could resume its rampage...