Jackal

Stronghold settled on going left. He kept his eyes peeled for any potential threats but so far there was nothing big. He did however come to a door that was partially open. Walking cautiously, he nudged it open with the table leg, keeping himself braced for anything that could be inside. The door creaked open and Stronghold was greeted to an odd site. Laying on the ground was a bright, spandex suit with a red cape laying next to it. The cape had tears on it and the bright yellow spandex suit had a large hole in the stomach area. The left arm of the costume had a light blue glove laying next to it but the other did not. Both legs of the costume were cut off below the knees and there was no sign of a mask. There were old bloodstains covering the suit and there was no telling how long it had been here. Covering his mouth, Stronghold backed out of the room and closed the door and rested against it, trying to catch his breath. After a few minutes, he continued on, shaken by the experience. There were more doors down the hallway, each one opening up to a small cramped room, each one containing the torn apart remains of a costume of some sort placed in various positions. As he coninud, he was snapped out of his thoughts by the sound of maniacal laughter echoing out through of an open door at the end of a hallway. Stronghold backed against the wall and looked inside. The room was much bigger than any of the others and brightly lit. A metal cage took up the majority of the room, it had two doors, an entrance and an exit, and there was no way around it. Peering through the cage, Stronghold could see the source of the insane laughter holding his hand against the throat of a woman, she was tied up thoroughly and gagged, tied to a pillar with a small gray device laying beside her. Stepping into the room, Stronghold could see it was a bomb. He stormed inside. "LET HER GO!" He shouted. The man stood up. He was tall, taller than Stronghold and quite muscular but his face looked like a jackal or a hyena. He took in Stronghold and laughed again.

"I'll say it one more time: Let her go."
"Heeey kiddo. I'm the Jackal. Welcome to Level One."
"I didn't ask your name psycho."
"Awww, did somebody wake up on the wrong side of the bed? Nothing? Alright, fine, let's cut to the chase. See this girlie here? She's awfully close to this scary little bomb. When it goes off, she'll go all over the place. So you and me are gonna fight in this here cage. Man to man, no weapons. You have eight minutes to beat me and untie her before it goes off."
Stronghold set down the flashlight, table leg and wine glass and walked into the cage, taking a boxing stance. "I'll beat you and save the girl in three and then I want answers."
Jackal giggled as he walked into the cage. "Don't be so sure Stronghold. You can't save if you're bleeding on the ground."
Stronghold ran towards him only for Jackal to punch him across the face, knocking Stronghold to the floor. It was like a sledgehammer. He stayed on the ground for a moment in shock at feeling pain from an ordinary punch for the first time in forever. He reached up and felt his left cheek. "Annnnd he's dooowwnnn!" Jackal pumped his fists in the air. Shaking his head, Stronghold got up, ready to go again. Jackal kissed his fists and swung at him again. Stronghold ducked hi punches and then punched him across the face twice. Jackal recovered however and gave him a straight punch to the face, making Stronghold back away.He wiped the blood from his lip and ran forward, throwing punches at Jackal who avoided the punches and pulled back his own. Seeing it coming, Stronghold punched at the same time, a cross counter. Both of them fell back. Jackal wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "You little s-t!"
Stronghold didn't even waste time talking or wiping his mouth. The moment he recovered he charged the psycho head on and jump kicked at his stomach only for Jackal to grab his foot and flip him. Stronghold yelled out as he hit his back hard but nevertheless powered through it and leaped back to his feet. He ducked under a punch from Jackal and punched him hard in the ear and then followed it up by grabbing him and tackling him across the cage and against the metal bars and began punching his stomach repeatedly as Jackal tried to block him. Suddenly, he grabbed Stronghold by the back of his costume and swung him against the metal bars and then punched him down by hitting the back of Stronghold's head and began stomping on him. Stronghold put his arms over his face but Jackal just continued attacking him, laughing all the while. As he raised up leg for a very hard stomp, Stronghold seized his chance and  grabbed his leg, struggling with him and pushed him away. Jackal stumbled but caught his footing and watched Stronghold get up. Stronghold ignored the pain in his arms from blocking the stomps and rushed him, taking a punch in the face just for the chance to grab his hand, grabbed his other arm by the wrist and kneed Jackal in the groin and then again before pulling his head up the hair and giving him a very hard punch right in the face, breaking his nose. Jackal backhanded him across the face, making Stronghold let him go. The two glared at each other and just went on the attack, both of them going on the attack punching each other across the face and in the ribs, wherever they found a spot as they slugged it out, both of them spitting blood from the very hard punches and split lips. However, Jackal found himself being driven backwards slowly and then after another hard punch Jackal was knocked to the ground. Stronghold pulled his foot back and gave him a very hard kick in the face, knelt down, pulled him up and then gave him a brutal haymaker punch across the face, dropping him. Stronghold gave him another kick in the ribs before backing away. He had bloody cuts and bruises on his face and body but he was the victor. No time to sit down. He ran to the door, kicked it open and ran to the girl. Stronghold got behind her and began frantically undoing the knots, trying his best to ignore the sheer pain he was in. The bomb continued to count down. Four minutes left. It took him a minute to get each rope. He untied her arms and body and then ran around and got the ropes off of her legs. With no time to get the gag off her mouth or the rope of her eyes, he pulled her up and ran with her. Stronghold and the girl had almost gotten to the other side of the cage before the bomb exploded with enough force to make them both fly through the air, both hitting the ground hard and Stronghold covering the girl's body with his own the best he could. The blast was deafening and Stronghold's ears were ringing. The air was hot with the fire from the blast. Groaning, Stronghold picked himself up and pulled the gag and blinds off of the girl. Getting a better look now, it was apparent that girl was in her mid-teens with long black hair and dark green eyes. He also noticed that the girl had been viciously beaten prior to her rescue.
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It made him want to beat that psycho down all over again. Stronghold rested against the wall and forced a smile. "Hi. I'm Stronghold."