We were all in a pretty great mood after what we did last night, especially Leo. We tied everyone up and called the authorities. Luckily everyone was alive, Really with how we turned that hippo guy into minced meat I thought he would be dead?

We decided to get some food and after a bit of arguing we decided on Chinese. I asked if Leo wanted to crash with us but he said he needed to watch his mom so we dropped him off at the hospital. Now me and Mary are in the living room eating some Chinese food watching a shitty action flick.

“I still don’t understand how one guy can kill all these people,” Mary said as she loudly slurped her noodles.

“Hell he even killed a couple evolved and he’s just some guy”.

“Well evolved can be beat just takes the right skill and” I popped a dumpling into my mouth “motivation”.

“Yeah I guess I would throw hands Deadnaught if someone killed my dog”

We were silent for a bit afterwards as we watched a man in a suit keep killing people in more creative ways. Even if we didn't talk that much it was still nice to spend time with Mary, make sure to treasure this time with her it might be the only way you can remember her. Well it’s not like she's gonna die soon………wait who said th “sooo you’ve gotten pretty strong”.

I shook my head a bit as I regained my train of thought “yeah had a little help from Leo apparently he can make things more dense but when he used it on me kinda unlocked a new power”.

“Huh, for someone who keeps getting new powers like its hot cakes, how does it feel to know that your sister is still strong with you?” she smirked as I rolled my eyes.

“Sure but it’s not like we can test it out?”.

“Hmm maybe we can spar in the future?”.

“Maybe” we could use it, yeah……wait.

“So wanna hear something cool?” Mary said as she threw her takeout box into the trash she missed but she used a puff of air to knock it back into the can.

“Sure” I bounced my box off a nearby wall as it perfectly landed in the trash.

“Well I know where the underground are manufacturing their drugs”.

I immediately sat up and looked at her “what?”.

“I was able to get off one of the goons in the truck, took a couple shocks to make him spill”.

“You tortured him?”.

“Maybe” Mary said as she looked away.

I sighed “well tell me what he told you”

“Well he said it was a old toy factory near the edge of the city they got a couple evolved over there so it might be a bit of trouble but I think we could handle it”

“You just jinxed you know?”

“Did not”

“Did too”

She rolled her eyes as she hopped off the couch “well since some of us need sleep I’ll be heading off night Mole rat”.

“Night spark head” She gave me one last smirk before heading to her room and since I had nothing else better to do I spent the rest of the night watching movies until light finally started to flow past the blinds of the living room.

I already could hear Mary waking up and flailing a bit as I think she was trying to free herself from her blanket cocoon. I heard a thud then a couple seconds later I heard a couple more thuds as her door slammed open. “Fuck!” then I heard another thud “fuck! fuck! fuck! fuck! Fuck!” I turned to see what looked like a caterpillar cursing as they fell down the steps.

“Unnnnnnnnnngh” Said caterpillar laid there for several seconds in pain then squirmed over to the couch as I stared at Mary “sometimes being lazy isn’t always the best idea”.

“Can we swap powers for a bit? I'm really liking the idea of not being able to sleep. I always wake sooooooore”.

“Nah I prefer my powers over being a weather boy”.

Mary gave me a glare “hey weather manipulation is an awesome power have you've seen him in action?”.

“True true” he’s still a weather boy.

I walked to the kitchen and grabbed some chocho crips and poured us some cereal as I sat back next to her and handed her a bowl” “mmmmmmmm diabetic chocolate goodness” she quickly devoured the bowl of cereal as I flicked through different channels that were mostly cartoons or news channels.

“When are you gonna text Leo about the info?”.

“Probably when he's awake”

“He probably didn't get that much sleep because you know his mom”

“True”

“But yeah you should text him now”

“Why?”

“Because we're going to be hitting the factory next” smart take out their supplies.

Mary put her bowl on the table as she sat up “ok a lot of time when vigilantes are trying to weaken a gang they usually take out a couple of their hideouts and maybe even lock up some of their evolved like we did last night”.

“Yeah?”

“Well that can help but if you aren’t hitting the vitals parts of the gang they can always make more supplies or find more evolved by ether giving desperate mutants what seemed to be a better life or freeing small time villains but if you hit the vital points like their ability to make and sell drugs or take out there heavy hitters it will be hard for them to recover and while there recovering the police or more experience heroes can do the rest” huh she actually knows her stuff, yeah.

Mary grinned “and if we hit the factory not only do we take out there drug operations we’ll also take of any of the evolved that are guarding the place” Mary formed a bird made of ice in each hand “two birds” she then smashes her hands together “one stone” as she held a small round piece of ice in her hands.

I gave a small clap “you getting better at your ice creation”.

She gave a small bow “thank you I've been practicing at making more detailed constructs”.

“But yeah I’m going to come with a plan and actually get Leo a actual costume and hero gear” Mary removed herself from her blanket cocoon as she was now sporting a pair of cat pajamas “so I’ll be gone for the day so you do whatever you do when I’m not around” like getting into life death situations?

I wave her off as Mary quickly changes into her typical rock attire and leaves as I give a quick text to Leo just giving him a heads up on Mary's plans. The only response I get is a simple k I shrug as I lay against the couch and flick through a couple channels until I find a very nostalgic cartoon “welcome back to Beowulf:young blood on Mania TV!”.

I always thought it was a bit disrespectful that they made a story of a young soldier turned super powered veteran into a young hot head teenager who accidentally finds a magical sword. I regained my thought process I had to admit this show was a bit disrespectful.

Even if it was disrespectful it was still mindless entertainment and like the sheep I am I enjoy mindless entertainment. I was also eating some cereal straight from the box as the sheep I am. After a couple minutes I remembered something so I held up my hand, summoned the heat gauntlet onto it and flexed my hand.

At first nothing happens as I do feel my hand become steel but the gauntlet looked the same. I tried again but this time I tried imagining the gauntlet turning to steel so I closed my eyes and after several seconds I opened my eyes aaaaaand it was still the same. “Hmmm, let's try something different” this time instead of imagining the gauntlet turning to steel I simply imagine a liquid metal slowly forming into a metal gauntlet.

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I opened my eyes to see the familiar sight of the steel gauntlet as I quickly returned it back to normal. I send the gauntlet back to my inventory as pocket dimension its a fucking pocket dimension call it that or don’t use it at all! I felt my train of thought get back on the rails as I sent the gauntlet back to my pocket dimension, I really need to deal with that it's getting annoying.

I grabbed the remote and imagined liquid metal slowly forming into a similar object as I opened my eyes to see the remote was now a grey color and had scale-like pattern on everything but the buttons hell it even still worked. I returned the remote back to normal and tried the process again with my eyes open. It was a bit harder but I repeated the process several times.

After that I spent the next couple hours wandering around the house writing some designs in my notebook making some food watching reruns of beowulf:young blood, that show went on for way too long. I was hanging off the couch when I heard the front door open.

“Huh I expected something bigger” Heard Leo’s voice guess she brought him along though he stayed to watch his mom.

“What, you expected us to live in a big old mansion?” and there's Mary and she's carrying several bags.

“Well with who your Parents I expected them to be loaded” we are.

“We are, it's just our parents don't want any attention since you know secret identities”.

“Ah makes sense oh hey Richard” Leo said as he gave me a wave.

“Find anything good on tv?”

I shrugged “just reruns of old cartoons”

“Ah ok well I got some stuff for Leo”

“Anything cool?”

“Besides some basic equipment I was able to convince Rachel to make something for our friend here”. Mary said as she pulled out a cardboard box as I could see the excitement in Leo's eyes.

“Since our star man here can’t use that gravity manipulation to help him consistently move around I got Rachel to make him some g” Before Mary could finish Leo snatch the box from her hands he pulled out its contents “Grappling hooks!”. Even with Leo saying out loud what they were I was still a bit confused at the design of the grappling hooks. At first they seemed like normal black armored gloves with protective padding on the knuckles and fingers but when he fully pulled them out of the box they seemed more like gauntlets.

The rest of the gauntlet was a large rectangular shape seemingly made from a dark copper steel mix. I also noticed the metal was folded adding extra durability and weight heavy for a human but an extra boost to an evolved punch. The final detail on the gauntlets was that just above the back of hands attached to the metal rectangle was a metal egg shaped object and was about the same object.

“These babies will make it a breeze to move around well until I figure out how to fly, hell I’ll still probably use them still” Leo was giddy as he quickly put on the gauntlet and Mary stepped back a couple feet as placed her bags onto a table.

“Wanna see them in action?” definitely, not really.

“Uh sure I guess” I said somehow with the perfect mix of interest and disinterest.

Leo held his arm and held towards the kitchen closing one eye as he grinned as he gripped his hand tightly as I could see with a dim dark purple light. I slowed my perception as the egg shaped object shot out as a thick steel cable followed it. I could hear several clicks as the metal egg slowly opened into 4 parts as I could see a spike shoot out as it stabbed into the box of choco chips inside the trashcan and as the cable was pulled back the box came with it.

The box smacked into Leo as a small smirk formed on Mary’s face but Leo either didn’t care or noticed as he still had a big old grin on his face “grappling hooks”.

“Yeah they're pretty cool, well everything Rachel makes is awesome”.

The stuff we make is cool too “I can make cool stuff too”.

Mary raised an eyebrow “is that jealousy I spot Richy?”.

“Shush”

“Whatever you say” Mary said with very obvious sarcasm as she started to gig through her bags.

“Wait Leo I thought you’d stay at the hospital to watch your mom?”.

“Oh Mary actually took care of that”.

“How?”

“She's having one of her friends watch her” wonder if it's that Tora kid? It would be very awkward if I had to talk to him again, especially after our last talk.

“So when are we heading out?” Leo said as he put away the grappling gauntlets into the box.

“Yeah I would like to know that too”.

Mary turned to us “well The underground definitely works at night and maybe if they're paranoid enough they might have an extra evolved at the factory”.

“Is that bad?”

“Yes and no”

“Yes in that will have more to deal with and no in that if we can take down the factory we can put more of the Undergrounds evolved into the slammer”.

“Also” Mary said as she pulled out a belt with multiple pouches and some still-tipped climbing boots from one of the bags “I was able to dig up info on different members of the underground” Huh guess Mary is good at info gathering.

“Spill it”

“Well most of it was pretty basic but I was able to gather info on the 3 heavy hitters of the underground” Mary checked her phone and quickly turned to face us.

“The first is Shadowgardin pitch black skin wears a dress hard to tell if there a boy or girl well if the name didn’t make it obvious they got shadow powers and” I held up a hand “Mary you can stop there I already dealt with them”

“Oh uh well I guess I will move onto the next guy” Mary held up her phone to reveal a guy wearing what seemed to be an orange and red race car driver suit helmet and all with flame patterns on his arms, legs and helmet and the photo depicted him sitting on top of a melted police van. “this would be hot streak enhancer generator hybrid who can move high speeds while engulfing himself in fire that is hot enough to melt metal” god I already hated fighting speedsters enough and then god decided to give them fire powers to o yaaaaay.

“Finally we got from what I was able to find the boss's right hand man” She switched to another photo as a man in full police swat gear came into view “this is bloody justice he was pretty respected hero named pursuit he was always a bit violent but still a good guy but one day he beat a villain to death and was found out to be doped up on giants blood so he was kicked out of the hero teamed he was apart of” and was eventually picked up by the underground.

Mary switched to another photo showing blood justice standing over several hero corpses each one looking like they had a building dropped on them and several had handcuffs on them as he held a bloody baton and riot shields each hand. “He's probably the deadliest member besides probably the head of the underground since not only is he a trained fighter, he's a wild card and a pretty stacked one at that”.

“Fuck me” I said out loud as I remember from one of mom and dads story of a wid card that nearly put them in the dirt. Wildcards are extremely deadly since they are similar to a mythic in that they don’t follow any other power type but unlike mythics wildcard powers are even more complicated and out of there meaning they can be really anything and that makes it really hard to deal with one in a fight but they all usually follow a theme that can make it easier to deal with it well at least a bit easier.

“Bloody justice has quite the tool kit. First if he binds your wrists in any way from handcuffs to his own hands as long as your wrists are bound you’ll start losing all will to fight or resist him”.

“Lets just hope he only uses that power for fights” Leo said with a grimace

“Yeah lets hope” I said agreement and if not we can shove that baton of his where the shone doesn't shine.

Mary rolled her eyes “Next he’s able to charge his riot shield with some sort of energy making it nearly indestructible, bullets, grenades hell even powers have a hard time getting through it and he can charge his baton with similar energy letting smash through pretty much anything no matter the durability next”

“Wait there's more?” Leo said in slight horror.

“Yeah, like I said this guy stacked, he was able to slaughter his whole team by himself,” Mayr said so casually it made sound like she was talking about her breakfast.

“Jesus let's pray we don’t have to fight him” Leo said as started to slowly mess around with his necklace.

“I can probably take him” Mary with a lot of confidence as if she wasn’t talking about how strong this guy as it was now my turn to roll my eyes”

“Next he has a minor variation of super speed and enhanced senses that grow stronger the longer chase after a target that was thought to be his only powers until you know the murder but finally there is his last deadliest power the one he used to fight off several members of the vanguard” I gulp a bit at that last comment, don't be worried the vanguard aren't that strong.

“Of course he can do that,” Leo said in a almost exacerbated tone.

“Well he didn't win so take that as it will but as I was saying his most deadliest power lets a create large dome that expands to surround him and his targets it can not be broken on the inside or outside and inside this field he can create clones of himself that have the powers and gear as him and there doesn’t seem to be a limit to how long he can keep this up”

“Yeah I’m not fighting him” Leo said as he gripped his necklace tighter.

“Well let's hope he’s not factory when we hit” Mary said as she gave a shrug.

“Well actually there is one more thing heard the underground has got a new evolved and no one knows what their power is let’s be prepared for that”

I just hate having to figure out new powers in a fight, I love it.

“Well that's out of the way I’m gonna relax until we gotta head out cya” Mary then left as me and Leo was left in silence.

Leo was the first one to break the silence “got any good video games”.

“I got several ok video games”.

“That works”.

For the next couple hours Me and Leo went through my game category as we tried and failed to think about the shit we were gonna get ourselves into. Eventually Mary came down as Me and Leo quickly finished our game and got into Mary’s car. After about twenty minutes of driving we stopped and drove into a parking lot as we got out of the car and made our way into an alleyway.

We all changed into our hero outfits as it was pretty easy for me and Mary since she only had to put on a chest plate and 4 bracelets while I had to summon my armor from my pocket dimension onto me. It took Leo a couple minutes as his new costumes consisted of him wearing parts of the high tech armor under a black shirt with a yin yang symbol painted on and dark camo cargo pants along with the grappling gauntlets, still tipped climbing boots and the utility belt.

Finally to finish up his new costume he wore a black duster coat and motorcycle helmet that also had a karma symbol on it “so how do I look?”.

I gave a thumbs up “looks good like the karma symbols” I could feel the smile off Leo.

We all quickly moved onto the roof of a nearby building as we all started moving on the rooftops. Leo moved with not much grace as he was pulled to one point to another stumbling everytime he landed. Mary was a lot more controlled with her movements using her power over air to slow her fall or shoot through the air. As always I was always being extra with my movements with how fast I could move. I could easily outpace Mary and Leo but I decided to do several tricks as I kept moving.

I spotted the old factory in the distance as I could see the remains of what looked like giant statues of different toys on top of it. Switching to thermal sight I could spot dozens of figure moving throughout the factory “bingo”