A Bad Guy

The tension in the air was pretty high as I was the center of attention as all police officers looked ready to fire at any second. Leo looked shocked and Mia well I couldn’t see her face but I think she was shocked too.

“I thought you were a hero?” Leo took a step back as I could see the worry and hints of distrust in his eyes.

“I am, it's just things are a lot more complicated than you think”.

“That doesn’t explain anything” Mia spoke up as I could see a couple police police officers getting itchy trigger fingers.

“I’ll explain later after we deal with this” and that was gonna be a hassle since If I tell the truth Whale Shark might kill these two, well future me can deal with that, let's focus on the present, yeah let’s roast some pigs.

“I will only repeat one more time to get on the ground or we will use force!” the police officer in the front of the group shouted at us as I took a deep breath.

I felt air feel my lungs as I quickly compressed it down and at the same time I turned the dial on my mask. Before any of the police officers could fire their weapons a wide blast of compressed air fired from my mouth and knocked them onto their asses, should have used fire. “Let’s go” I said as I grabbed Leo and Mia dragging them quickly past the groaning Police.

They were quickly recovering and weren’t gonna be happy with us when they fully got up so I immediately went for one of their vehicles. Well I tried too as when we left the building I almost ran into a police officer who barely stopped in front of me. With a quick glance I could see there was another group outside and a couple armored vans. I turned to the short police officer as they looked behind me at their slowly recovering friends.

Leo quickly stepped in front of me “Hey sir this is just one big misunderstanding if you give us a second to explain we can put this all under the r” The short police officer lifted up there weapon and shot Leo. Leo started spasming as the electricity flowed through him as he fell back with a thud as he hit the ground.

Not even a second later the police officer aimed at me as their buddies behind mimicked the action as they all fired. I felt everything slow down as I quickly grabbed Mia and tossed her into the air as I felt my hands shift into steel. I turned to see the bolts of electricity flying towards me as I quickly swiped my claws forward. The electricity dispersed as soon as I touched it and without wasting another second I started swiping away any bolt of electricity that would hit me.

Normally I would just run out of the way but I still haven't fully recovered yet from when I fought the commander and the fight with death hand didn’t help either. As I ended that train of thought and quickly knocked away the last bolt. Afterwards I held up my arms as Mia fell into them a scream. She looked like she was about to punch me but I quickly put her onto her feet as I could hear Leo getting up with a groan.

I heard several steps behind us as officers in the Diner finally got up off their asses and now we were completely surrounded, this is just gonna keep getting worse I just know it. I definitely wouldn’t be able to block all the bolts this time not only because we're surrounded but they know I can block the bolts so they’ll just keep firing. Well the simplest solution is to dig your claws and teeth into their soft flesh and let that sweet life nectar empower you. Just imagine it, all the different blood types, they would make you so much stronger just imagine it, faster than a bullet, strong enough to destroy a truck with a single punch and you would just feel so g NO!.

I smack the sides of my head with my fists to push away the thoughts, I’m a hero not a great one but still a hero and these people are just doing their jobs they're not monsters. Leo and Mia were giving strange looks at what looked like an attempt to knock myself out. I took one more deep breath as everything quickly slowed down around me. I felt my heart beat faster as the adrenaline poured through my veins as I felt more energetic, show time.

I turned my perception and reaction time to their new limits as everything seemed to freeze as if time had stopped. I quickly summoned a mace in each hand as I threw them up in the air as I could already see the police sluggishly lifting up their weapons to fire. When the maces were high enough in the air I summoned two ball bearings into my hand.

I launched the ball bearings into the crowd of police surrounding us as the metal balls bashed into the helmets of two police officers cracking it. The balls quickly bounced into the air glowing with a yellow aura as they smashed into each mace. The scarlet shockwaves were already rippling through the air as I quickly grabbed Mia and Leo and dropped all three of us to the as the force of the ball bearings knowed the two maces into each other.

I felt everything return to normal speed as the surrounding area was painted a deep scarlet red. It didn’t sound like a bomb, no more like when you drop a metal pipe onto a metal floor, a constant ring sound vibrating through the air. Quickly after the sound came I felt a blast of wind slam into my back pushing me, Leo and Mia further into the ground.

Luckily we only had to endure it for a couple seconds as the scarlet light was quickly replaced by the light of the sun, PRAISE IT. “Is it over please tell it’s over?” I heard Leo whine. “Well I don’t feel like I’m about to get crushed by the wrath of the kool-aid man so yeah I think it's over” Mia answered him in a mocking tone as we all quickly stood up.

“Screw you, that was terrifying, felt like I had a boulder on me” Leo turned to me “and screw you for not warning us”. “Pussy” Mia muttered under her breath “ok now I’m kicking your ass” Leo hands and eyes glowed with the blue energy as Mia hands started to turn black.

I felt my brow twitch as I bonk both of them on the head getting a “Ow/fuck!” from them both. “Enough of that we already have enough shit to deal with and you too fighting isn’t helping you two can rip each other's throats out when we don’t have the police or a crime gang on our asses understood?”. Without a word they both nod as I turn and walk over to one of the unconscious police officers. I snatch one of their shock rifles and look it over, studying every detail, I don’t understand the hype behind high tech weaponry because a good old sniper rifle and knife can’t be hacked or made useless by an emp.

I used my electrical sense to spot any hidden mechanisms and I saw currents running in four particular areas. One went through the barrel and a small box near it wasn’t hard to figure out what those did but the other two were more interesting. There was small but complex current running near the back end of the gun, tracking device most likely. The other current ran through the handle and trigger of the gun, definitely a fingerprint scanner pretty useful when you get your gun snatched by a wannabe criminal.

I used my x-ray vision and technical knowledge as a developer to quickly remove the tracking device and print scanner and store the weapon in my inventory. I went from each officer quickly snatching any gear on them and removing the tracking devices on anything they probably couldn't track in my inventory but I will eventually take out so better be safe than sorry. I also found a couple grenades, smoke, flash, emp and even containment foam ones. I also found a vibro-knife and some high tech cuffs, this is definitely the making of a hoarder, good. I wanted to take their armor and helmets. I heard the armor was pretty tough and the helmets had some seriously good gear but there’s a reason police wear masks never knowing when a villain develops a vendetta against you.

“Are you robbing them?” I turned to Leo to see him glaring at me “yes, yes I am”. “And here I was thinking you were an actual hero” I sighed “they already think we destroyed the diner and I just assaulted them even If I didn’t do that much damage well I think I didn’t”.

“He’s not wrong” Mia shrugged as she walked over to one of the armored vans “so what's one more?” she patted the side of the van as I got the message. I walked over as I could see Leo dragged his hands across face and I could feel the smugness coming off Mia. She put her hand near the handle of the door as her gloved hand quickly became covered in that black sludge as the handle of the door quickly melted off.

I gently pulled the door open and as soon as it was opened I saw a bright flash and I felt my body immediately lock up. I felt every muscle in my body was contracting and it was getting hard..to...think. I then felt everything quickly return to normal as I blinked a couple times and saw Leo next to me, his hands glowing that bright blue.

“You ok?” Leo asked with a bit of worry mixed in with annoyance as I turned to see a police officer laying a couple feet away from the armored van on top of a bent car door and had a cracked chest plate. “I’ll live” was my only reply, Note to self use x-ray and thermal sense whenever I just got done with a fight it might not be fully over. I made sure there was no more surprise before we all got in the van “hey do we have the key for this thing” I answered Leo's question by ripping open the glove department pulled out some wires and quickly hotwired, his first case of grand theft auto I’m so proud.

“Ok do you know how to even dri” before Leo could even finish speaking we were already driving away from the destroyed diner “why did I even ask?”. The car ride was pretty silent, the only one speaking was Mia who kept giving me directions to where her family lived. Leo was dead silent, I could tell he was anxious he was constantly shaking his thigh and was staring at this odd little necklace in his hands. It was this silver infinity sign attached to a onyx black string but the infinity sign was square shaped. He was gently holding it and just blankly staring at it, it was actually a bit unnerving, maybe the wannabe boy scout has more issues than we thought.

I turned my eyes away from the road as we were in between the Middle district and the lower districts Mia said we were getting close. As we drove near a couple shops my hearing picked up something. Sirens, well I should have seen this coming “we got company” I pointed my thumb behind me as Leo and Mia quickly ran to the back.

They opened the door as yep we were now officially in a police chase yay, YAY! “Fuck fuck fuck what should we do?” Leo was panicking “I don’t know we're already in enough trouble!” Mia was trying not to panic. I turned to look at the two “just keep them distracted I’ll drive us out of here” I started to press down on the gas pedal.

“How the hell do you want us to do that!?” they both yelled as I shrugged “Just figure out” I then immediately swerved to the left as I felt myself starting to grin. “PLEASE SLOW DOWN AND STOP THE VEHICLE OR WE WILL BE FORC” boom! Several cars swerved out of the way of a blue blast as Mia turned to Leo “what? He said to slow them down it’s not like I hit any of them”. “Well get ready to get shot at” Mia sighed as I could see her hands were shaking a bit.

As I made another quick turn onto another empty street I heard “Ok we have permission to fire” from one of the vehicles. I sighed “ok there about to shoot at us” I tuned my hearing as I was looking for a specific spot to drive. “WHAT!?” they both yelled again as bullets well bolts already started flying. They both immediately dropped as several bolts flew through the door as I turned the back of my head turned steel as I made another sharp turn this time to the left as the noise started getting louder.

The bolt that hit the back of my head did nothing as I heard Mia breath start to quicken as Leos did the opposite. Mia lifted up her hand as the black sludge started to pour from her hand but instead of pouring onto the ground it started to flow through the air.

It slowly started to move outwards until it formed into a three foot wide oval shape mass. Her breaths became a bit more haggard as the shield hardened and she stood up as another hail of bolts came again. The bolts did nothing but make the shield sizzle a bit as Mia was completely blocking everything. “Ok thank you, why didn’t you do this before?” Leo said as he slowly stood up. “Oh thank you Mia for not letting me get shot” Mia said in that same mocking tone “because it makes me really fucking tired and it doesn’t do well against FUCKING LAZOR BEAMS!”.

“Jeez I was just asking” Leo held up his hands in defense as turned to face the shield. “Can you open up a hole in it about this many inches wide?” He held up two fingers. “Sure I guess you like getting shocked so much that you want round two” a small opened up in the shield “shh and let me do what I’m good at”. Leo held up his index finger and middle finger pointed through the hole as another hole formed. “You need to see to shoot” Mia said as she seemed more tired “thanks” was the only thing Leo said before his eyes started glowing.

His fingers started to pulse with energy as each pulse went out it immediately went back into his fingers. As fingers stopped pulsing and his fingers shot back like a gun but it didn’t make a sound. The front tire of one of the cars popped in a flash as it served and crashed. He moved his fingers rapidly as half the cars chasing us were now stuck in walls or light posts.

“I hate doing” Leo heaved as he fell to his knees “makes me feel like shit”. “Ok we both use cool abilities but there's still a couple cars coming after us and we're both pretty exhausted so” Mia turns to me “what's your plan?”. “Don’t worry, we're already there” they both looked at me with a confused look as I made one last turn.

Leo’s eyes widened as we quickly drove into a farmers market as the people walking around grabbing their fruits and veggies just enjoying their day, I made steroid bees in one of these once. Well the people were enjoying their day as they all quickly turned their head towards us and quickly moved out of the way. Most of the police stopped but one really determined or just crazy officer started chasing after us.

I stuck my head out as people kept jumping out of the way “excuse me, coming through don’t mind us just going through a police chase” well everyone listened I think they jumped out of the way. As we moved through the crowds of people I kept constantly making turns causing Leo and Mia to get constantly thrown around. “Are you fucking ugh!” Leo gets thrown as I make another turn “crazy!?” Mia finishes barely keeping herself stable. I shrugged “dunno still up to the jury” they just blankly stared at me as I drove through a stall absolutely smashing it into bits.

I felt the car get shoved forward a bit forward as I steady the side view mirror to see the police officer is ramming into us guessing someone is wanting a promotion. Welp there ten dollar bonus can wait as I summon a ball bearing in my hand and I roll down the window. With a bit of effort I throw the ball bearing into a light post as it glows with yellow energy and flies towards the car.

It shatters the window and a second later the car smashes into a melon stand and some old lady comes out screaming about why her melon stands keep getting destroyed or something. I have to admit this was kinda fun, maybe I should try street raci “EYES ON THE ROAD”. I gave my two back seat drivers an annoyed eyebrow as I turned to the road and saw that we were heading straight to a wall.

I slow my perception to a halt as I take a couple seconds to think about maybe there is a reason why I don’t drive much and how to get myself out of the situation my reckless driving caused. Oh idea, as everything slows down as I smash my fist into the front window shattering it into a hundred pieces. When everything returns to normal speeds I grab Mia and point out the window “spray”.

As if she read my mind she held up her hands and fired a blast acid. Waited only a second before it hit the wall as I took a deep breath and fired a blast of freezing air. When the two elements met the cold dominated the black sludge freezing it solid and at the right moment forming it into a ramp. I stomped on the gas launching us forward as slid onto the ramp and launched forward as we started soaring through the air. “I DON'T WANT TO DIE!” I heard Mia scream “THIS OS THE MOST STUPID WAY TO DIE EVER!” Leo yells, now that's just incorrect.

“HAHAHAHAHAHA THIS IS SO AWESOME” I couldn’t stop myself from laughing like a madman because this was just so fucking liberating, this guy gets it. After a couple seconds we headed towards a highway. It was not a soft landing as Leo and Mia fell back and I felt my neck pop as my head shot back. “Anyone who’s still alive say aye” After a second I got a weak “aye” from Mia and Leo as they both sat there.

“Is it over? Leo Asked as he slowly sat up holding his shoulder. “I think so?” Mia sat up and looked at me “no one please don’t say anything or will get jinx”.

We will sat there silent until I hear a helicopter?……of course they sent a helicopter. I started driving as the look in my companions' eyes told me they heard it too. “I think you jinx us” Leo said “just shut” Mia replied more tired than before.

As I drove through the streets I had to drive past several passing cars as I turned my head to see not only was there a helicopter there, nearly double the amount of cars that originally went after us. “Ok Mr super cool vigilante guy what the fuck are we gonna do now?” Mia said.

“Simple” summon a set of blue granade's with square buttons on the top “though these there emp’s” they nodded. With a press of a button they toss the now beeping grenades. They rolled across the ground as after about five seconds to be exact a large blue pulse shoots out and most of the cars start to slam into the deactivated cars.

“Hey, since they have gas and were already moving, why did the emp work?” Mia questioned. “Oh, all police vehicles don't run on gas anymore; they use special cores that really never run out of energy and let them not worry about running out of gas,” Leo said matter-of-factly. “Huh where did you learn that” said “oh my moms a police officer” I started to hear a buzzing noise, you forgot about something.

I turned to see the helicopter flying near us and it had what seemed to be a larger version of police shock rifles, oh yeah I did forget about that. The cannon then shot a pulse of energy at us as I quickly swerved out of the way as it crashed against the street.

Now I wonder how I’m gonna deal with this hmmmmmmm. I summon chaos into my hand and aim it out the window and switch the green ammo, lets see what this does. Let’s just hope this isn't acid, I pull the trigger as a green bullet shoots out and hits one of the helicopter's rotor blades. When the bullet impacts with the blade it explodes into a green blob that quickly wraps around the other blades stopping them.

Quickly the helicopter slams into the ground. “Are they dead?” Leo said as I heard the people in the helicopter's hearts were still beating, “there fine don’t worry” I think. Now that all the immediate problems were dealt with I started driving down the road at a much slower pace. “So Mia, do you have any idea how we're gonna convince your parents to leave the city”.

“Oh don’t worry with what we’ve been through it won't be that hard to convince them” I then turned to Leo “what about you?”. “Yeah that's gonna be a bit harder to explain since she doesn’t know I’m a hero haha”.

“Well, will figure that out when we get there now you two talk about whatever I’m gonna just focus on the road”. I didn’t even try to listen to their conversation as I just focused on the road. I was starting to realize something. I just made enemies with not only the underground but also the police. I wish things were simpler but I need to realize that is not a possibility for me anymore.

As I drove down the street I noticed something: the shadow of the car was much larger. I turned to see if it was getting cloudier or something but it was just a bright sunny day. I turned to the shadows as they started to shift and before I could do anything the shadows shot forward and slammed into my face as everything went black.