Chapter 31: Sweeeeet!
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Stillwell sighed as she got off the phone with Doppelgänger. Apparently the senator wasn't okay with being blindfolded or tied up so now they had nothing on him.
What's worse is Ashley informed her of the mission that Shifter decided to crash. Whatever crime team he has must have been paid double.
On the bright side they got footage of Starlight kicking Ripjaws ass and saving Deep, so there was that at least. Plus minimal damage meaning nothing out of pocket, this time.
Still it was clear the Shifter was going to be an enemy of Vought. An enemy who has equal footing against their heroes.
"Fuck." She swore as drone footage showed Diamondhead prevented a girl from committing suicide.
Without using reasons like religion, duty and other Vought like Ethos, Pathos and Logos.
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In another part of the building there was room. It was lit up entirely by SAD lamps and was empty.
Except in the middle was a large table with a grayish form on it. It opened it's single eye and jerked up slightly.
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Outside Vought
Ben was running around the city as XLR8 helping people and stopping crime. Suddenly he heard a cry.
"Helllllp me." With a sudden stop the Kineceleran looked around frantically. "What the heck was that?" Looks around and see's no signs of trouble, except maybe some potential paparazzi. With that he continued his patrol.
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Quito, Ecuador, Bellavista neighborhood
In one of the cities wealthiest neighborhoods a mansion was abandoned, seemingly after a party.
Only it wasn't abandoned, the people attending fled in terror as La Quimera raided another place. The beast as per usual was stuffing his face his face when his Wildmutt senses kicked in.
"Hmmm." The former New Yorker said as stepped in front of a door. "I wonder what's behind door number 1." Opens it and see's two young boys clinging onto each other.
"Oh kids." Kevin lamented in a bored tone. "Laaaame." He complains then goes back to food.
The two kids then slowly peer out and seeing that he's not gonna attack them try to leave.
Only instead of leaving the house they go to a door that's locked and struggle to open it.
La Quimera see's this and raises an eye brow. "What's down there!?" He demands to know.
"El sótano." The elder one says, backing away. "Tesoro." He adds pointing to the frantically hiding his brother behind his back.
"Treasure huh." Kevin smiled, having grown up in New York City he knew a bit of Spanish.
"Me likey." He says then goes the door and punches it open.
The stairway down is narrow so it would be annoying for him to go through, so he just punched the ground under him.
Once down there he illuminated the basement with his fire arm. He turned and saw large, expensive and state of the art safe. "Jackpot." He spoke then heard a sound behind him.
Turning around he aimed his arm and was ready to shoot a fire ball. Only to see a cage containing four women, all dirty and huddled at the back, terrified. "What?" Kevin asked then the lights turned on.
The two boys then came down and shouted several names and the girls responded.
"Whatever." Kevin scoffed and tore open the safe with ease. Inside was a stockpile of Ecuadorian and American bills. "Such hospitality." The mutated child said as he filled a bag of it.
Once he got a few bags he planned to burn it, like what he did to others. But then looked at the kids struggling to open the safe, then back to the still, large pile of money.
'They did help.' A small voice spoke in the back of his, sounding suspiciously familiar.
Walking up to the cage he grabbed the lock and pulled it, breaking it. The stunned children and occupants stared at him as he walked to a wall and broke down a hole.
"Thanks for the help." He commented before walking out as the six of them went to grab the cash and leave before the police or military came.
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With Ben
Upgrade floated down the alley where a couple of kids were picking on someone and asked.
"Do we have a problem here?" Then the three bullies took off, but Ben just walked to the downed kid with glass. "You ok?" He asks, helping him up.
"Fine." The kids replies in a sad tone, then looks to his destroyed project.
Upgrade notices this and grabs it, it had some electrical parts on it so he absorbed it momentarily.
Then seconds later gave it to the now smiling kid as he fixed it. "Let's get you home." Ben tells him and they start walking.
"I'm Andrew." The kid introduces as they start walking to his house.
"I'm Upgrade." Ben introduces as they exit.
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Homelander was waiting for Maeve so they could defeat this gunman together. When she stepped off she saw Homelander waiting patiently. But as they went inside they saw Stinkfly flying away with their target.
"Fuck!" Homelander grunted, the gunfire must've masked the buzzing of the wings.
"Great." Maeve groaned. "Stealing our shit again."
Down on the ground Ben hand the criminal to the local authorities. "Make better life choices." Stinkfly said before going up as News reporters tried to crowd him.
However they were distracted when Homelander came down, and being the show hog he gladly accepted their attention.
Meanwhile Stinkfly looked down and saw a college kid holding up his camera at him.
And not Homelander.
So he flew down and said. "Trade, an interview in exchange for you covering something of my choice."
"What?" The stunned kid replied.
"You're a journalist or a reporter right?" The bug alien asked, and the kid nodded. "You get an exclusive of me and in return I want you to do a report on something of my choosing."
"Yeah sweet. Totally." The kid agreed.
"Time for take off." Stinkfly say's as he picks up the kid to have a conversation elsewhere.
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