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“Hey!” Yelled out, an underground Pro Hero
“Come and get me!”, I yelled to him, as I dodged pro’s, capture weapon.
This was a normal situation for the two, as this was the Vigilante: Cloud.
I was running across the rooftops, affectionately out running the so called heroes of this world. I was out on my normal patrol, stopping crime and drug deals. And well out running all the heroes who had crushed my dream all those years ago. As I had gotten a good long distance from them, it was around 4 in the morning, and the end of my normal patrol time. I went back to my house which was a good 3 miles away from my patrol route. I did that so the heroes could not find me. Good thing too, if they did I would have to go to the hospital and foster care systems. I was only 16 years old after all. This all started when I was 7 years old. I was attacked by this villain who wanted me to be their skin suit. But unfortunately for the villain, the #1 hero came to my aid, and saved me. At that time I was his number one fan, as such I asked a very important question. One which I had ever since I wanted to be a hero.
“Can I be a hero without a power?”, I asked the hero who saved me, and was now on a very large rooftop with me
“No, my boy,” He answered, “It is too dangerous for a non-power user. Try something else.”
After he said that, he jumped off the roof and left me there, with my dream shattered. He was very lucky that I had not jumped that day, but as time went on, it was about 3 months after that, when my “parents” vanished and left me to fend for myself, at the age of 7. They left me about $20 to live off of, until I could get a job, but where we lived you can’t get a job until you are 15 years old. I decided that I would from that moment on, become a hero for the people. No one would suffer as I had, I would be a vigilante. And good thing too, I could not get arrested. As it says in the Dictionary, a vigilante is the illegal use of one’s powers for heroism.
It was a good thing I don’t have any power. I was fast and a people watcher. I was also pretty good at evading and analyzing people's powers. When I got home, he was there. My very best friend, who had helped me through all of my life and helped me to become who I was. He was also my partner in crime, James.
He too, had given up on the heroes of this world, all of them but one. But that is for later. James was in charge of all the hardware, gadgets, hacking and anything digital. He was extremely talented at hacking, I would think if I did not know any better, that he was a real hacker. He was basically the brains behind the whole vigilante thing. He comes from a very abusive family, and a poor childhood. We became friends when I helped him one day, with his injuries and I followed him around from then on. We would also be together, when one was present the other would be nearby. I basically kidnapped him when I wanted to be an vigilant, and he was all for it. He even had a bag already packed and ready to go, saying that he was going to run away at some point. I told him on that day that we could leave when we were 12 years old, so that he had more knowledge and experience in what we were doing. He of course agreed, and we started over years of training and practicing for the day we would reveal ourselves to the world. We had an agreement that we would reveal ourselves when we were 12 years old. I know that is young but we really wanted to start, and the sooner the better. After the first year or so of doing this, we had gotten pretty used to the way the heroes would act. And we even had ways to come back at them. It was, for the lack of words, it was fun. I loved running across the rooftops, feeling the wind in my hair, it was heavenly.
I was on my normal patrol, when James came on the earpieces we had made to communicate with each other, to let me know that someone was right behind me. He yelled, before I turned around, “OMG! Girl! It’s our favorite Pro Hero! The Underground Hero: BlackNight!”
I could hear him fangirling from the other side of the earpiece. I slowly turned around to come face to face with him. He was in his hero costume, which was black and gray, with shades of dark blue. He even had his signature capture weapon, the dark blue with white dots scarf. It took all of my mental energy to not fangirl in front of him. So instead I said to him with my vigilante persona, “Hey~, what are you up to? BlackNight?”
I got an, “How are you?” from the hero. To say that surprised me would be a lie. I have come across this hero before and needless to say, at that time James’s earpiece was not working, and we had yet to “set up”, or more like hack into the security cameras around the normal patrol route. So he could not see him.
“I am good, thank for asking,” I replied
“Well time to go,” I said while I was about to jump off the building and leave the hero there. But unfortunately, the hero shot out his capture weapon and caught me. Needless to say, I was surprised. This was the first time in our whole career that I had been caught by a Pro. So of course I needed to think of a way out, and as I did BlackNight brought me over to him and hugged me? ‘Wait, What?!’, I thought. He hugged me, and surprisingly I hugged back. It had been a long while since I had gotten a hug from anyone but James. He then let go and called out, “How have you been Cat?”
Cat was my vigilance name. So I responded with an, “Good”, as I sat down and stared into the night sky. It was pertinently clear and beautiful that night. So I said to BlackNight, “Hey, what would you do if you found an, let’s say 16 year old runway, who had ran from an abusive family, and had no were to go, but to stay with his best friend?”
I could tell he had to think about it, he was staring off into space, like what I would do before I had my meds. After a long while of uninterrupted silence, all except for the crying I could hear James doing. He knew what I was doing. I have been doing it for a long time now. I have been trying to find my friend a safe home, then just living with me.
BlackNight replied with, “I would adopt both of them. No questions asked.”
He then looked at me with very concerned eyes, when I gave him what he was looking for,
“I have this friend who is in that situation I just gave you, but I am fine.”, I let the silence sink in for a moment then said, “Come to this apartment tomorrow with your husband at noon.”
I gave him a piece of a single paper that had the address on it, and jumped. I opened my hugglider, and flew back home to my best friend. When I got there he was waiting in the living room with questions for me. So I answered his every question. At the end of it, he was really happy, he even said that he will continue to help me with my vigilante activities. Because he can’t sleep, he has insomnia. At least he is as healthy as he can be. The next day, I had gotten James’s items in order and packed up, ready to go. I was waiting at the address I gave to Pro Hero, while my friend was waiting at the base for me to bring him there. As it was night, it was the perfect time to do this. After all it was night, and no one was out and about. I waited a good hour before the Hero came. He was in his hero suit, no doubt about that.
When he arrived, I called out waving my hand, “Yo! Over here.”
Turning my way he said, “Where is he? Cat.”
I looked at him with a “really” face, and said, “Did you expect me to bring him here? Out in the open, where his family could see?”
He, of course, rolled his eyes, not believing me, and said very monotonically, but I could hear the worry in his voice, “So, where is he, then?”, as he cock his brow.
I only stated, as I waved my hand to indicate to him to follow me, “This way.”
I led him to my house, which was also my base, so I would have to relocate after this. But here we were standing in front of my door which led to the kitchen. As I opened this door, I had a very bad feeling. When the door was opened a strong smell came out of the room. Recognizing what the smell was, I ran into the house, only to find my best friend, laying on the floor with someone standing over him. I immediately knew who HE was.
I thought as I brought out my digger, ‘that BITCH really came back’.
I was beyond angry, I was pissed. HE was actually here, HE was hurting my best friend. It was time for HIM to die. Angry quickly took me over as I rushed in to stab him. But before I could he was somehow able to dodge and escape through a black portal that seemed to suck him away. It seemed that HE knew this would happen, HE was completely calm and collected. After I was snapped out of my mind, I realized that James was not there anymore. And I started to run out, but right as i did something hit me full force and I passed out. I already knew who it was, after all I had once loved these heroes. The person was the, R-Rated Hero: Sleep. His powers allowed him to make sleep gas from his body to knock out his enemies. I had wanted to protect him, he was my only friend, ever since I was declared powerless. He never cared for that. He was a good person.
When I came too, I was in what seemed to be an interrogation room with three Pro Hero’s, and the best detective there is, Detective Sun. His power allows him to know if someone is telling the truth or telling a lie. That power is a very handy one, if I do say so myself, in which case I do. I giggled to myself as I thought this, but that was my unfortunate mistake as that had alerted the detective and the Pros that I was awake and ready to be questioned.
“So,” said Sun looking at me with his brow rised, “You are the vigilante Cat?”
“Yes.”, I stated
True
“How old are you?”, Sun questioned
“16.”, I said complying with him
True
“Ok, good.”, Sun said then questioned, “Is that boy with you your partner in your work?”
“No.”, I said looking away
False
“That’s a lie,” Sun said, “what is your name?”
“You do not need to know.”, I said not wanting my identity to be known
False
“That’s a lie,”Sun said, and then asked “Do you have parents?”
“No”, I stated bluntly
True/False
‘Weird’, Sun thought before saying, “Well since you and your partner are underage to be living alone, you will have to be put in the foster care system.”
You could see the horror on our faces before BlackNight said, “That will not be necessary, I plan on adopting them both.”
Everyone and when I say everyone I mean everyone looked at the Pro Hero when he said that. He gave off a look of, ‘Go ahead and try me, I dare you. These kids are mine’. I could feel something burning up inside of me, something I was unfamiliar with.
I chose to ignore it to say, “Why?”, very weakly.
But before someone could answer, I realized what I had just said, the clearly shock on my face. I bolted right out of the room, not wanting to deal with them in any way shape or form. I ran and ran until I thought I was far enough from them, but I was not, BlackNight was right behind me. As I saw him and ran even more, right up to the point where I lost him, which was good. I decided that since he knew where I lived I would stay on the go, forever moving. Good thing I still keep my day job, which was working at a coffee shop.
*years later*
I looked over at the calendar to note what day it was, ‘Wow’, I thought, ‘how has it really been two years since that day? Man time flies by’.
Two years ago.
I was at my coffee shop, when suddenly Sun showed up needing shelter, and me being me, I gave it.
The end?