10 Chapter 10: It's a date

A brunette woman walked through a corporate office full of special agents with some files in her hands, as people greeted her.

She was checking the files about a supe's, Translucent's, disappearance, when she walked into her office and saw someone she hoped to never meet.

Butcher smiled with his signature cocky grin and said "Rayner, what a lovely day we're having!"

Rayner sighed and stomped over to her desk "What do you want, Butcher? We are investigating something important right now."

Butcher scoffed "What? Can't an old pal drop by to say hello and get a bit of scoop?" Rayner put down the files on her desk and turned towards Butcher "We are currently investigating the disappearance of a certain supe called Translucent. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?"

Butcher lifted a brow at that and said "The cunt's invisible! He could be standing in that bloody corner, cranking one out and we wouldn't even know."

Rayner rubbed her temples at Butcher's profanity and sighed. "Look, Butcher, I am busy. If you don't have anything important to say or some kind of invaluable information, then I'd like for you to leave."

The gruff man smirked and said "Oh I've got info for ya, alright. How about this for info. I've recently found a kid, a very good chap. Appeared out of thin air, probably a supe and guess what the first thing he tells me is?"

Rayner looked at Butcher with interest and wondered what exactly happened. If a super appeared in front of Butcher, either he or the supe would be dead and considering how the said super can teleport, it is unlikely for Butcher to kill him before being killed himself. so how exactly is he alive? "Get on with it. What exactly happened to the kid?"

Butcher looked cocky and swayed his hands a bit "Nothing much. Picked him up, gave him a cup of tea, helped him get a new identity and the lad works with the boys now."

Rayner sighed "Okay, I'm sorry for trying to throw you out. Tell me this big secret of yours."

"Oh, c'mon now Rayner, don't ruin the fun." Butcher stared at Rayner's deadpan face and sighed "Alright! Well, here's the thing, the kid is a natural born supe."

Rayner raised an eyebrow at Butcher and wondered where he is going with that "Which one isn't?"

Butcher laughed out loud and stared directly into Rayner's eyes and said "None of them!" The agent looked at Butcher, not understand what he meant by that and Butcher continued

"Supes aren't born. According to him, he is the first natural born supe on the planet and the rest are made using something called compound V. They inject people with it to give them powers. And here's the big thing, my boys are currently getting some as we speak."

Butcher go closer to Rayner and looked her dead in the eyes "Now, what do you think about that?" Rayner stared at Butcher and said "You get me some of that compound V and I'll get you whatever the fuck you want!"

Butcher smiled and turned around "Be here same time next week, love. I'll bring you some V and get you enough evidence to sue Vought to the ground."

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"Mphgghhgg!"

"Hey there Starlight, how've you been?" Mike answered his phone, as MM ran after Frenchie to hunt the deliverer down.

"Hey there, XLR8. I've been fine, thanks for asking. How are you settling in? I saw you on the news. You saved that guy from being run over by a truck, right?"

Mike chuckled "I got on the news? Damn, that's impressive for my first two weeks here."

"Mhgohgghhhj!" *There is no way this horrible timing wasn't scripted. Either there is a chronomancer about or I am the unluckiest guy this side of the multiverse.*

"Ya! I can't believe that. Hell, you didn't even stick around to get credited or anything and the whole of Vought is now wondering who this mysterious speedster is."

*That is interesting! I can probably infiltrate Vought and upload a Virus or something into their system and take control. That might not work, though. I do not know of the native computer language of this place or even if they have 3 bit systems or 2 bit ones. No, they most definitely have binary. 3 bit took me, Deus and Crocodile years to fully develop and functions on mending magic, it is impossible for these people to have it. Not even the empire get access to the plans behind it.*

Even though Mike almost formulated an entire infiltration plan, only half a second had actually passed in reality, so no one noticed any abnormality. Only one who could notice was busy seizing in pain anyway.

"Wow. I might actually manage to get into Vought! Hey, do you think I can replace A-train? His heart should be failing him considering how he has been running a lot lately AND taking enhancement drugs."

"Wait what? A-train is taking performance enhancement drugs?!" The voice on the other end sounded extremely surprised and almost in disbelief.

"Ya, of course he is. Wait, you didn't know?"

"mhphggghaaaaaaaa!" Hughie suddenly broke free and screamed his heart out.

"What was that?" Mike almost crushed his phone is frustration at this situation. "I'm currently with a few friends and they are doing the superhero equivalent of moaning into your friend's phone when they talk to their mom."

An audible chuckle could be heard from the other line, as Mike 'accidentally' didn't cover his phone well enough and yelled "Shut the fuck you you bunch of bastards. I really like this girl and you lot ain't doing me any favours!"

Starlight's chuckle could be heard from the other line as Mike stopped 'covering' the phone up and said "Sorry about that. I went to a different room. They probably won't do that again. So anyway, what's up? You free to go bowling?"

Starlight kicked her legs and giggled a bit before calming herself down and answering Mike "Ya sure! I mean, if you're free we can hang."

Mike shoved his hand directly into Hughie's mouth and clamped his hands down onto Hughie's gums, completely muffling him. "Ya, sure, how about later today in the afternoon? You know any good bowling places?"

Starlight trembled in excitement as she said "Ya! I know a great place. I go there a lot. I'll send you the location. How's 2pm today sound?"

Mike chuckled "Sounds good. See you soon Starlight."

"Annie."

Mike asked, confused "Excuse me?"

"My name's Annie, not Starlight."

Mike smiled "Pleased to meet you Annie. I'm Mike."

With a click, Mike hung up the call and frowned. *Worst fucking timing. Well, I have to concentrate on fixing Hughie now. I have about 2-3 hours before the date, so I can most definitely calm him down before then.*

A.N.

You won't get an extra chapter, but I'd appreciate your stone. Maybe I'll even be bold and ask for a review?!

I've seen a lot of Authors do like Q&A things, so imma do one as well. Ask a question as a comment or ask it directly on this and I'll answer it without giving spoilers in a Q&A chapter I'll release alongside the 11th chapter.

Ask about the current characters, future characters or whatever. Hell ask about Mike's original world, his original cannon story, the power system of classes if you feel like it.