Before I went home I went to several shops and got all the parts I needed to build my new arsenal. When I got home I grabbed the blueprints aka my notebook and went to the shed in the back and got to work. What I needed was something to help regulate my strength, a new melee weapon, a regulator for my chaos breath and some extra gadgets just in case.
As soon as I had all the materials in front of me I felt myself enter a daze as I quickly started building. I didn't know how much time and The thoughts of how I was building everything and the science rushed past my mind. By the time it was done the materials were replaced with several items.
The first one was a black plated face mask that covered the mouth, cheeks and nose; it also had a dial on the left side along with several little canisters on the side. This mask lets me control the flow of my chaos breath. Essentially when I turn this dial I can make the breath weaker, letting me shoot out a less lethal blast. It can also make the blast wider or a more focused beam. It has a couple other features like it being armored and it can open up so I can use my earth breath and consume blood for blood tracking.
After that there was a pair of fingerless gloves. Well, I couldn’t call them gloves more like fingerless gauntlets since they went up to the end of my forearms. They were made from a slick metal covered in a purple circuit pattern. Going from the back of my hand to near the end of my elbow were a set of silver plates. Around the palm area were several glowing circles that glowed brighter if I pressed my finger down on it in a certain pattern. These gauntlets are made from the kinetic gun and similar to the mask help regulate my strength so I don’t shatter peoples bones when I hit them but they can also amplify my striking forces too. Finally I can summon some kinetic shields not that much bigger than a buckler but they can absorb kinetic energy making the shields bigger or I can release through my punches.
The biggest item is next it's called the thunder at and it kinda looks like a mix between a bat and a kanabo, my favorite weapon. It was a couple feet long having a similar design to the gauntlets being a silver color with blue and purple circuits. It also had several silver and golden rings and at the end it was round and covered in a purple web like pattern. The handle of the bat also had the little purple circles and with a certain pattern of taps I can cause this thing to spark off with electricity at varying levels. I can also use the gloves to charge up the bat with kinetic energy making it hit harder and even add a bit of extra defense and if I charge it with enough kinetic energy I can fire off a powerful blast at the end of the bat double the strength of the kinetic gun and more focused.
I also made a few extra items such as bolas, smoke bombs, a net gun, a couple self super heated knives ect and oh yes can’t forget the ball bearings, Those were effective and fun!. I did make some modifications, I can charge them up with kinetic energy letting me throw them with more force. I also made some that explode if I throw them hard enough using a mix of gunpowder and a special mix of chemicals that with enough friction and exposure to air ignite the gunpowder.
I looked at all the gear in front of me and smiled. It wasn't the best but for me I felt pride in being able to make this, for a beginner it's pretty good work. I looked outside and saw it around 5:54 and I was a bit surprised thought it would be night by the time I was done guess I got time to work on my next costume.
If I was going out tonight I wanted to make a better costume So I got to work. I went to my room and grabbed some of my darkest clothes, some elbow pads and knee pads and went back to the shed. I looked through the shelves until I found a box filled with old spray cans. Mary went through a spray painting phase about a couple years back; she wasn’t actually that bad.
I put a bandana around my nose and mouth as I thought of several designs I could make. Eventually a design hits me as I grab the red spray can and start drawing. I decided to go for something simple as I sprayed a set of blood fangs on the front of the hoodie along with blood claws marks on the upper sleeves and thigh thigh area of the pants. After that I drew a mix of a croc and wolf skull on the back with blood fangs and drew some white teeth on the metal face mask, black and red my favorite.
It was a bit of edgy design but it was still cool to me and didn’t take me that long to do so I spent the next couple hours relaxing. I took a nice hot shower and relaxed all my muscles. After that I made some mac n cheese and watched some tv in my room. Once it was night outside I walked downstairs and saw Mary and Rachel on the couch. They were focused on watching some horror movies as Mary was trying to act tough but was scared while Rachel was laughing at the special effects.
I walked to the backyard without them even noticing I was walking by. I hope they have a nice night while I go beat the shit out of people. Once I got the shed I quickly put on the pants and strap some black knee pads on. Then I put a bulletproof vest over my white t, got this from the self defense store. I put on the hoodie afterwards as I grabbed some puts that I turned into steel tipped boots with metal bottoms with small spikes on them to help me climb and do parkour better. I put on the gauntlets as I pressed my fingers as they glowed with a purple glow. I grabbed my belt and filled each pouch and holster with all the gadgets I got and grabbed a strap with a holster around my chest and put The thunder bat in.
I grab the face mask and attach to my face as it tightens enough to where it wouldn’t fall off and I grab goggles that Mary gave me during our last patrol and put them on. I flipped the hood up as I got a good look at myself. I was a bit intimidating but that can be very useful, plus it’s fun seeing people shit themselves when they look at us.
I left the shed and immediately left the yard and started sprinting as I left the district pretty quickly. As soon as I left the central district I tuned up my senses and started searching for anything going on. I heard the city around me the people enjoying their nights as It was mostly quiet until eventually I heard a gunshot.
I crossed the city block in only a couple seconds as I landed in an alleyway. I saw a man in a well dressed suit shoot holding his bleeding shoulder. There was a young boy with tears in his eyes near him. Next to them was a woman in a nice dress with tears in her eyes as a man in a ski mask was holding a gun to her chest while holding her necklace.
A back alley robbery, how original, well time to do some hero work. I grabbed a ball bearing and flick it towards the wall near the man. The ball bounces off the wall hitting right into the hand that was holding the woman's necklace making a satisfying cracking noise. I could see the robber's finger slowly pull around the trigger as I dash forward and smack my hand into the robber's face and with my other hand I grab the gun.
He flies into the side of the alleyway knock out and I smirk as the kinetic gauntlets are working perfectly. I drop the gun and turn to the woman with the pearl necklace and the man with the bullet wound in his shoulder. The boy near their father has wonder in his eyes.
“Don’t head down alleyways at night looking like you just left a gala never ends well”. I jumped out of the alleyway before they could say a word and kept running across different buildings. For some reason I felt like I prevented something really important from being created huh probably nothing.
I keep running as I look for the next crime that the amazing whatever my superhero name is gonna be can solve. I smell something this time, something acidic as I turn my head towards a bakery? I do a mental shrug as I dash in the direction of the smell. Let's see what's going on over here.
I start to hear what sounds like a fight as the acidic smell gets stronger as I land on top of a roof as I what i expected.
“Stop running and just stay still so I can blast you!” I see a person wearing a dark blue spandex costume covered in accurate looking stars and is wearing a steel helmet with a dark black glass face. He seemed to be a guy and was decently built and didn’t really have a deep voice, their hands were also glowing.
“I don’t want to die so no!” running away from Spandex was a person in a green hazmat suit and a gas mask. She seemed to be pretty tall and thin and had a lighter voice.
“It won’t kill just put you in the hospital”
“This is America with the hospital bills, death is better!” Hazmat yells as she barely dodge a blast of energy that spandex throws at them.
“Fuck you!” spandex yells
“No fuck you!” hazmat yells in response
“Double fuck you”
“That doesn't even make sense!” Hazmat jumps behind a car as she dodge another blast.
I sat there watching them argue and run around as occasionally Hazmat through globs of this black liquid that seem to melt anything it touches. It was fucking hilarious I wish I had some popcorn to munch while I watch these 2 dumbass argue and throw stuff at each other. I guess this is what a fight between 2 newbies looks like and I love it.
It may be funny but they were causing a lot of property damage and with their powers when one hits the other they're gonna be either very hurt or dead. Should I intervene or should I leave and let this be someone else's problem?, BOOM!
A car explodes as Hazmat accidentally hits it and causes it to explode somehow. I sigh as I dig in my belt pouches and pull out a ball bearing and pull back my arm and like a baseball player I throw it.
“FUCK!” They both yell as The ball bounces off a nearby pole hits spandex in the face, bounces off the glass and hits Hazmat in the head. I hop down with a thud and walk over to them as I get ready for a potential migraine. I tune my hearing to see when the police will arrive and I hear nothing nearby, guess they're busy.
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“Ok now that's a villain” what?
“Yeah a bit edgy looking too” Fuck that guy.
I turn around and see hazmat and spandex getting up looking ready to fight. I guess they think I’m a villain and can't blame them. I did technically attack them and haven’t said a word yet………I should say something.
“Hey I’m just trying to stop you guys from causing anymore dam”
“Seriously, his outfit sucks. Did a 15 year old make it?” Spandex says, ow
“I’m wearing a hazmat suit and your wearing fucking spandex but at least we don’t like someones oc named blood steel” now I’m starting to get pissed.
“Oh shit! Uh, temporary truce man?” Spandex seemed to jump back in fear. I was confused on why he was scared until I noticed my fingers were steel claws now, fuck must of activated when I got angry.
“Temp truce” Hazmat hands engulfed in black acidic liquid while Spandex hands glowed with white light.
Great now I gotta fight dumb and dumber but you know what? I can work with this these too seem pretty weak so I’ll just fuck around with until the police get here or I knock them out.
I lifted up my hand and beckoned them to me as like I expected they both tried to blast me emphasize on tried. I activated the kinetic shields and knocked the energy blast but the acid actually seems to burn the energy shield a bit huh neat. I ran forward and was already in front of them and I smacked them both in the face with barely any force. Hazmat tries to hit me with a spray of acid but I jump into the air onto her head and jump off them dodging a blast from spandex and said blast hits Hazmat knocking her across the ground.
“Shit! Sorry” I pull out a ball bearing and flick at him as hits him in the foot “motherfucker!” then bounces of a nearby car then hits him in the other foot “Fuck” and hits Hazmat who was trying to get back up knocking her back down as it bounces back into my hand, trick shot!. Fall to the ground as a white energy blast goes above me and I could hear spandex cursing.
I jump onto my feet as I spin around, grab my net gun and shoot Spandex with it. It wraps around him as he falls to the ground he starts to charge up another blast but stops when I put the thunder bat near his head.
“You guys done?”
“Yeah” they both speak as Hazmat rubs there head
“Now as I was saying earlier I was trying to stop you too from causing any more damage” I remove the net off spandex as I toss him over near Hazmat.
“So You're not a Villain?” I stare at spandex.
“No I’m jack the ripper” I start to rub my temples.
“So Can you explain what happened?”
“Well It was my first night out and I was on patrol everything was going fine until I saw this villain try to rob that bakery” Spandex points at Hazmat.
“Screw you! I was just getting some apple fritters”
“Why were you getting apple fritters in a hazmat suit!?”
“Well excuse me, some of us have powers that we can’t fully turn off Because If I don’t wear this people will die around me!”
“Well I’m sorry I didn’t know it was very dumb of me to assume!”
“Thanks, I accept your apology!”
“Can you two please be quiet!?” I yell as they both shut up.
“Thanks now I suggest you two get moving because the police will be here and I’ll explain what happen and then you’ll be in trouble”
“How do you know?” Hazmat asks
“I can hear your heartbeat and it’s beating pretty quick right now” after I said that they both get up and start scrambling away oh yeah I lied about the police I just wanted them to leave the area.
Now enough with the filler let’s find something actually important to deal with as I ran away from the scene as I wonder If I'll see those 2 again. I move around the district for 30 minutes looking around and finding nothing interesting or that hasn’t been handled so I sit on top of a billboard bored out of my mind. I toss a knife into the air and catch it as I move it between my fingers. I toss it to my other hand and toss it into the air again.
I was getting antsy at this point as I guess today was a pretty slow night. I wonder if whale shark has got some bullshit for me to deal with. I quickly look around and spot some cat looking at me as it just sits there staring. I sit up and pat the cat on the head as it starts to purr. I relax there as The cat sits on my lap as I just look at the beautiful night sky.
I felt some peace as I let myself relax a bit. Maybe there will be something big tomorrow night. I then start to hear something, a low whistling noise that gets louder and louder until I grip my head as It feels like my head is about to burst open. I shut off my hearing as I look around and see nothing in the immediate area, there coming.
I enhance sight more as I give another look and spot a glare in a window about a block away fuck a sniper and I can’t here ay bullets coming. Usually when you spot a sniper it’s already too late so my best best bet they already took the shot and since it’s already been a couple seconds so the bullet is about to hit me in 1 2 3. I shoot up my arms as The kinetic shield barely activates as Bullet hits into it stopping it.
Another thing about snipers once you know where they are there kinda fuck, I know from experience. I place the cat down and leap from the billboard onto another building as I start leaping from different buildings at high speeds. I tune my sight to give myself perfect night vision as I see another bullet flying towards me as I sidestep and I’m only a couple feet away from the sniper.
I feel something hit me in the side as I crash to the side as I feel blood leak from my newly made bullet hole. I turn to see a group of men in their building. They all wore black body suits covered in dark armored plates on their arms, shoulders, chest, abdominal area thighs and wore a set of armored gauntlets and boots. their helmets fully covering their heads fully with dark red visors. They all had what seemed to be assault rifles as they aimed them at me. I started to turn my hearing, I then turned it back up and the noise was gone as I heard a radio was on.
“Target has been spotted and seems to have unlocked a higher percentage than predicted” The voice sounded robotic and the radio seemed to be inside the helmet. “Remember everyone no lethal damage because then you’ll be the one taken home” Guess they're trying to capture, maybe they're related to the people that shot at me when I found steel drake's body these guys got much better gear though.
I grab a ball bearing from a different pouch as I launch near the group of people and as soon as it impacts the ground near them it explodes. Several of them get knocked back as I leap over land in front of the group, show time. There are around 10 people there, 4 knock on their asses and my best bet is more on the way.
One of the armored men lifts their rifle to fire but I grab the barrel and pull them as I slam my fist into their solar plexus and spin around slamming the man into another one knocking them to the ground. I hear several of the armed men lift their rifles to fire as I spin around turning my fingers to steel and swipe at their rifles. I cut through the steel barrels like butter as with a step I fire out several jabs. I strike true and my fist bends their metal helmets and shatters the glass visors.
One of the armored men pulls out a knife and runs at me as another stands behind me as They aim their rifle. I jump into the air as I shoot my left foot into the man with knife face and my right into the man with the rifle's face breaking their helmets. When I land back on the ground I grab the man on my left knife and the man on my right rifle. I stab the man on my right in the foot as I spin around around and slam the rifle into the man on the left head. I then turn to the screaming man and bonk him on the head knocking him out.
I hear several bullets shoot through the air towards me as I leap forward dodging the hail of bullets as I turn and see 4 armored men left. I take a deep breath as I take a deep breath and feel the lighting form in my lungs as I turn the dial on my face mask as the plates shift around allowing for wider spread as I breath out. The lighting arks out and slams into the remaining men causing them to spasims and fall to the ground.
I hear a wheezing noise as I turn my head just in time to dodge a sniper bullet as I turn to look at the sniper. I couldn’t see their face but I could tell they were shitting bricks as I leaped towards the window. I feel the glass splinter then shatter shooting glass shards everywhere as I land in what looks like an old living room with the sniper in front of me and over 12 goons identical from the ones I just demolished, some this time with shotguns. They point their guns at me as I slowly stand up, the stand off my favorite part!.
“Don’t move a fucking a fucking inch or we will shoot!” I stared at a goon with a shotgun in the front of the group.
“Drop all your weapons and get on your knees!”
“Ok” I slowly put my hands near my belt clip as I took a deep breath and I felt heat build up in my throat as I opened my mouth. I shoot out a large fireball knocking everyone back before they could even shoot a single bullet. I pull out a ball bearing as 7 people get up as I put my finger on a glowing circle on the metal ball as my gauntlet glows purple then the ball bearing.
I throw the ball as It bounces against one goon head knocking him to the ground then it bounces to another then another then another until everyone is on the ground unconscious. The ball bonus back to my hand as I wonder if my ability to ricochet things is an actual power hmm something to deal with later.
I turn to see the sniper running down The stairs as I walk over to one of the unconscious goons and take there belt it holds a pistol with a couple clips of ammo I take the clips and put them into of my pouches as I cock the pistol as It just feels right to hold, guns my love you have returned to me.
I walk down the stairs as I hear several sets of footsteps running up. I spot 3 goons with shotguns as I whip my arm up and fire several bullets into their calves making them fall to their knees as they yell in pain. I walk over and pistol whip the first one then the second one and the third one as I Walk down the stairs. I get close to the bottom of the stairs as I stop and tune my hearing.
I hear around 5 people breathing outside the door as I holster the pistol and tune my face mask as The plates shift to be focused in one direction as I take a deep breath as air feels my lungs. I let out a blast of wind knocking the food off its hinges sending it into the five goons knocking them into a wall breaking it. I walk into a hallway as I turn to see the sniper stare at me like a deer in headlights as I give them a small wave. Instead of returning the wave like a normal person they run down another flight of stairs, rude. They should be heading to the bottom floor and I hear about 5 more goons just below welp time to make a entrance.
I lift up my fist and amp it with the kinetic force of the gauntlets, turn my fists to steal and slam them into the floor breaking through it. “Oh shi” I rush to the ground and land on someone as I turn to see 4 goons behind me already firing at me with their rifles. I activate the kinetic shields as I run forward. Bullets rain towards me as I swipe my left arm to block several bullets that were going for the side and heart then I swipe my right arm to block several bullets going for my liver, shoulder and knee. As soon as I get close I leap into the air as I slam my arms into the ground and release all the kinetic energy I stored up creating a purple pulse of energy knocking the goons away as they slam into a desk, some walls and even a bench, this is why tech is the best.
I then turn to see sniper running out the front door as I sigh as I wonder what I did to make so scared of me? I run out the door as I spot an armored truck skidding into the driveway as Sniper runs toward the vehicle. I Pull out one of my knives and throw it at sniper. It slashes their shoulder spraying blood across the ground as they jump into the truck as it drives away. It’s better to let them get away so they can get to whatever base they are staying at and maybe I can get some actual information there.
I walk over to the blood knife as I pull it out of the ground as I move the dial on my mask pulling all the plates back. I stick my tongue out and lick the knife clean as I swallow the sweet delicious blood. I see the bloody steps form as I hear sirens in the distance and I start running.
After running for what feels like an hour I get to the upper district as I run across several buildings until I spot where the bloody steps lead. A train yard where I can see several abandoned trains along with several armored trucks with dozens of people with that same black plated armor moving boxes onto a cargo train. There is one person who seems to be the leader who hears more plated and high tech gear with a cross shape visor and a set of silver gauntlets with red gems on the knuckles.
He’s giving orders and telling people to be careful with the gear and if they break anything there paychecks will be a kettle skinnier. Eventually sniper walks up to him and tells him the holder demolished all the soldiers and they barely got away. Commander tells everyone to be on alert as he gestures with several people holding what seem to be portable rail guns to keep watch just in case the holder appears.
I do spot something that confirms my suspicions as I spot several goons carrying silver containers identical to the one I found steel drake in, bingo. I crack my neck as it is time to kick some ass and finally get some answers on what's happening to me and what any of this means. I start moving as the train gets loaded up and starts heading off as I jump onto the back of the train.
After a couple minutes I open the steel door on the car and walk in. I walk in on nearly 3 dozen goons and all at once they turn towards me. “Sup” they all immediately pull out weapons and run towards me as I pull out my thunder bat and get ready to kick some ass.