A Bad Guy

It’s been about an hour and it started getting dark, perfect for a robbery. I eventually learned everyone's names so that I can stop calling them by their nicknames I gave them. Pinky was Sam, Doug was Ryan and positive and negative were Aiden and Martin respectively.

They explain that pretty much they needed my help robbing some items from a museum and Ryan knew a guy who would give them more than enough money to pay their debt for these items. I spent most of the time just laying my head on a wall getting myself ready to commit some crime. It felt weird I was stopping weapons and drugs deal before that I saved a bunch of girls from human traffickers. Now I’m gonna help some people sneak into and rob a museum.

I sat in the back of some van as I heard everyone talking around me. I was ignoring everyone as I sat in the back as I was constantly telling myself that what I was doing right now was right. I was helping a bunch of people in a situation they didn’t choose to be in.

“Hey” once again my train of thought has been derailed. Maybe they should make new railways? I turn to see Blake sitting there with her hands on her lap looking at me.

“Hey”

“So are you a hero?”

“Yeah new one though only stopped like 2-3 crimes”

“Hey that's pretty good doing anything is better than nothing” she gives me a small smile, cute

“So you got a name figured out because if you don’t I can give you one I’m really amazing at making names”

“Like the red eyes?” I poke her hoodie “did you make these too?”

“Yes and I think its cool” she smiles as she oozes confidence

“Kinda uncreative” she immediately deflates

“S-shut up it's a awesome name”

“He has a point” Mark says as he messes around with a Rubik's cube turning it gently to make sure he doesn't break it

“Both you shut up it's a good name no one has used before” she pouts as she crosses her arms for a minute

Eventually she stops as she turns to me again “so do you have a hero name yet?”

“Yeah”

“What is it?” she leans towards me

“Nobody”

“And you say I’m uncreative” she gives me a disappointing look

“Hey I didn’t choose it the media did”

“Well, have you thought of your own name?”

She has a point I haven’t even really thought of a name yet: what would even be Steel dragon? That's essentially my powerset. I also don’t feel like taking inspiration from other heroes. I'm uncreative but I’m at least original.

“Can’t think of one”

“Well you're not supposed to just think of one it eventually just clicks in your head plus if you don’t come up with one I’ll always be willing to give you one” she gives me a big smile that blinds me. First Mary then Rachel and now this girl why does this keep happening.

Blakes sits back down as Sam tosses me a bag “so you can hide your identity better than just a face mask” open it up and there is a pair of black gloves and a blank white mask with 2 eye holes.

“Also take this to fit in with us” as Blake tosses me a white hoodie with a red eye prayed on the front.

I switch out my black hoodie with the white one and put the gloves and mask on. After several minutes of listening to radio music that switches out every minute because Aiden and Martin couldn't agree on a song, The van stops.

“Ok everyone here's the game plan Aiden and Martin were able to map out the palace and find the most valuable items I’ll be heading in with Sam and our wannabe hero here” Ryanpoints at me points at me at that last part.

“I’ll get us inside and break the cases and Sam and the wannabe hero will take out any night guards and cameras. Markus will act as muscle just in case the police arrive or a wannabe hero jumps in. Blake, Aiden and Martin will stay so that if there is trouble we can drive out of here and if any of us get hurt Blake can heal us. Does everyone understand?”

Everyone gives a thumbs as the rest put on the same mask as me as Me, Sam, Ryan and Markus get out of the van. We are in the upper districts of Steel Drake city. This district is where all the rich people live , where the restaurants that aren't on wheels are and where all the kinda boring places are like the museum. The place stands two story and is made from a nice white marble. I saw several cameras near the front.

“So we're gonna have you have you and Sam climb up to the windows and you're gonna take a left then a right there will be a security office knock out the guard in there and put this USB into the computers” he hands a used to Sam. “After that take out the Guards in there and let me and Markus in”

Me and Sam nod as Ryan points to the window where suppose to get to. We quickly run over as Sam pulls out a grappling hook? “So do you just carry that on you?”

Sam tosses it to the window seal as it hooks; she clips it into her belt as she puts her feet onto the wall. “Did climbing with my dad when I was younger, it was pretty fun, got good at it, helpful when you're forced to rob places”. Can’t argue with that as she climbs up and makes it to the window.

I hear some scraping noises as she opens the window and enters in. “The coast is clear, come up’. I grab onto the rope and with a couple steps I hop through the window. We enter as we get to the second floor. I feel my eyes automatically adjust to the dim lights I noticed on the ground floor were above a history exhibit.

Sam pulls up the hook she crouches down and moves forwards I follow after. I make sure to take as light of steps as possible to not make a single bit of noise. After walking left for several minutes we get to a cross road as we take a right. After a Bit I do notice some guards with some flash on the bottom floor looking around. They got some stun batons and pistols, nothing too bad but I do notice something. I noticed something in the shadows sneaking past the guards.

I saw that they were wearing all black with some jackets and had a large backpack and a face mask. “Hey we might not be the only people here to know good. I spot someone moving in the shadows”. Sam nods as she quickly Texts Ryan “he says if we spot them knock them out and make sure they don’t steal everything valuable” I give a thumbs up as we eventually make it to the security room door.

She walks over and tries to open it but it doesn’t budge. I walk over as I take off my gloves and turn my fingers into steel claws as I start locking picking it. After several seconds with a click it unlocks and Sam gives me a thumbs up. I gently push open the door as we spot a security guard at a desk with a bunch of monsters in front of him as he reads some comics.

Sam quietly moves forward as she pulls out a bottle of chloroform and a rag as she puts some chloroform in it, a classic. With a couple steps she moves behind the man as she puts the rag on his face he struggles for a couple seconds but he eventually passes out. She places the USB into a nearby console as the screens slightly shift.

“The twins coded this so that it will play some old footage of one knight in a loop. It won’t be that hard to figure out what happened but we'll be long gone by then now onto the fun part”

She pulls out a black jack and tosses it between her hands as it time for our second objective, the more fun one. I pull out several ball bearings as she moves over to a stair well and hops down. I jump down as we start moving. I focus on my senses as I hear several guards up ahead I gesture for her to stop as we both look behind a corner. There are two guards walking near a Egyption exhibit.

I hold up one of my ball bearings as I nod for Sam to move. She moves behind several statues and displays as I spot her getting close behind one of the guards as she strikes. She slams the blackjack into the back of one of the guards, knocking him out cold.

“What the fuck!?” He goes for a taser but I tossed out Ball bearing as it bounces off a pharaoh statue and then a depiction of Anubis and finally into the guard's head knocking him onto the ground, trick shot. I walk over as I grab the tasers off the guards and pocket them along with that we cuff them and lay them next to A pharaoh statue.

“Hey why are there so few guards in this place and such bad security with all the valuable stuff?”

“Simple Museums got robbed so much that eventually they replaced every valuable item with a fake and hide the real ones in a vault but some places like this secretly put some of the real stuff in out of wanting to show people the real deals”

“How do you guys know about this?”

“Ryan pretty knows a guy for any situation he’s been a criminal since we were kids, he is the main reason we are still alive” I nod as she grabs some keys off the guards and we walk over to the main entrance and unlock it. As Ryan and Markus quickly enter with Ryan having a large grin on his face “Now that we dealt with all the extra shit it's time for us to deal with the main course stealing everything valuable”

He hands us all bags and tells us to get anything valuable or that has some sort of gems on it. Immediately all of them started heading over to different cases and opening them and grabbing the contents within and putting it in the bag. I follow suit as I grab things from some old crowns to cat statues to even a Viking hand ax. Always wanted one of these.

“Hey I found this weird looking mask” Ryan holds up what seems to be some sort of Japanese Oni mask with half of it being painted as white and the other half black. “Maybe we can have Markus wear this, make him actually intimidating”

“Haha maybe I can cram you into a box it will fit you perfectly you small bastard”

“Enough boys we got a job to do” as Sam grabs an old jeweled necklace and puts it in the bag. As eventually we get to a black mask withs several purple gems in it inside a glass container.

“Ok this is the most valuable thing here so it has a silent alarm. It might be a bit tough to get past it” we walk over as he looks at the mask and as he opens his hands towards me. “Give me one of your pouches” I hand him one of my ball bearing pouches as he grabs it and moves over and lifts up the glass container and leans in closer and moves the bag closer to the mask bit by bit as I can see some sweat going down his face.

“Stop being dramatic already and just do it” Sam holsters the bag on her shoulder as quickly Ryan switches out the mask with the pouch “hey I always wanted to do that just like my hero indiana jones” Sam snickers at that as we go leave with our hall until something rushes past Ryan as the mask in his hand disappears.

“What the fuck!?” He looks around as Sam And Markus do the same as I hear footsteps moving towards the exit and spot the mask figure from earlier moving toward the doorway with the mask as I run after him and without any hesitation Markus follows behind me.

It only takes me a couple seconds as I grab our mask friends and with little difficulty take the mask from their grip. I go to quickly bonk them on the head until they twist out of my grip ripping off a piece of their jacket as they start running. “Hey, should we go after them?”

“Nah we should be fine we got everything plus we were noy hypocrites” Ryan takes the mask as he puts it in his bag as we start moving.

“Well I’m gonna see if they try anything, give me a sec” Ryan nods as Markus leaves his bag as he walks in the direction where the masked figure went.

“So I’m guessing these artifacts cost much and that's why were grabbing so many”

“Yeah the stuff from old history is expensive or sought out as the stuff from later on. Luckily I know a collector and he’ll give us enough to pay off the debt and have a little bit for us so we can try to have a new start” Ryan seems to have some hope in his eyes.

I smirk at the fact that these people may technically be criminals but they're just people stuck in a shitty situation and are trying to get out of it any way they can. I’m really starting to see multiple sides to this world of ours: the good, the bad and the gray as I start to smell something it smells like burning wood?

BOOOOOM! “AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!” I feel the explosion from here as Markus flies past us and slams into a wall “If it isn’t obvious we got a problem” he pulls himself from the wall mostly fine except for some burns to the front of his clothing.

I pull out my escrima sticks as I hold them up and get ready as walking from the hallway Markus came from is what I can only describe as a hero. They wore black spandex that was covered with white armor plates that cover their shoulders there upper chest and abdominal area, there for arms and shoulders and runs down there spine along with going down there thighs. They wore armored gloves and boots made from similar plating and finally. They wore an armored face mask that kinda looked like a toothy maw with a white base and black teeth. They had a hood up as I noticed their eyes glowed with a purple light.

It was a fucking eyesore like really like main character much? I shake my head as I don’t know why I know they are a hero, it's just a vibe I get. I toss Sam my bag as I gesture for her and Ryan to get moving. Ryan grabs Markus' bag as they start moving but before they can get even a couple feet towards the exit a wall of flames blocks their way. That's what I get for hoping they would let them get away.

“Ok here's the deal you guys are just gonna let me tie you up and leave you for the police so that we don’t have to go through the hassle of fighting or I beat the living shit out of all you” there voice was distorted by something in there mask so I couldn’t tell there gender or age.

“How about fuck you Is that a option?” Markus walks up next to me as he rolls up his sleeves and balls his fists guess there goes negotiations as I grip my escrima sticks. Remember this is a hero just try to get them distracted enough so Sam and Ryan can hall ass out of here.

“I really wanted to not waste my time tonight but I guess here we are” The hero's hands ignite as I feel everything slow down. I dash forward as I feel the heat as I see the hero launch a blast of flames at me. I slide under it as I try to slam the sticks into their legs with a decent amount of force. They hopped in the air and kicked me in the face. It only causes my head to move a bit, they don’t have super strength, good to know. I roll to my side barely dodging a bolt of flames as I throw a Ball bearing at them. It misses them as it bounces off a set of knights armor and goes to hit them in their head.

They dodge again by ducking their head as they spin around and launch a fireball at a charging Markus. He lifts up his arms just in time as the ball of flames collides with him covering him in an explosion of flames. Surprisingly Sam or Ryan don’t seem worried as the hero seems to be more focused on looking for an opening to escape. Before the smoke could dissipate Markus runs through his clothes burnt to all hell but he looks perfectly fine, I guess he’s fireproof.

He runs to the hero and throws a heavy cross but the hero sidesteps and throws a jab at their head barely making his head move. Before Markus could go to hit them they blast him launching them away as I run towards them while there looking at Markus. I go for a strike against their shoulder and another at their knee. They grab the escrima going for their shoulder and try to grab the other one but I quickly move my arm upwards trying to hit them in the chin.

They shoot their head back dodging it as they explode with flames launching me back. I feel the heat hit against me as I roll against the ground my white hoodie being turned an ashy black as I feel burns on my skin. I feel the escrima sticks crumble in my grasp fuck Mary is gonna be pissed I lost them the next day I had them. As soon as I get up I see another blast about to hit me but Markus jumps in the way, tanking the blast. “Your welcome” I get up as we both run forward.

Markus smacks away another blast of flames as the hero tries to hit me as I jump onto Markus shoulders and launch myself forward and tackle him. I slam my fist into their mask as it cracks a bit. They slam there fist into my liver as blast a bit of flames into my face as they kick me into the ground. They ignite their hands in flames as they go to slam into me. BANG, the bullet prices into their shoulder as blood starts pouring from it as they get dropped kicked by Sam.

Ryan walks over with the smoking gun as I get up. “You're lucky we don’t resent you too much” Ryan gives me a shit eating grin as Markus runs in front of us as he blocks another fireball.

“Hey just stay down man we really don’t want to hurt you well except Mark” Mark cracks his knuckles.

“We're just getting started, I got everything I needed” as they dash towards Mark and punch him in the face. Mark gets knocked to the ground as a bit of blood pours from the bottom of his crack mask. We stand there in shock for a couple seconds as we turn to see the hero gets more muscular and a couple inches taller as they ball their fist.

Fuck there a Alpha types, essentially anyone who could manipulate powers like power amping, nullify or copy. The annoying part is you never know what are the criterias for the power to be copied but in this case I'm guessing it’s not touch. He runs as Sam moves backwards and Ryan goes for another shot. The hero dodges the shot as I run towards gripping my hands into fist. Well they got Markus Physique, which means I don’t have to hold back because they can probably handle it, I start to feel a smile start to creep up my face.

They throw several jabs at my face, neck and chest. I dodge the first one, block the second one and grab their fist as it was about to hit my chest. I pull them and go to hit them with a close line but they lift up their arm blocking it as they grab my arm and toss me. I flip in the air and land on my feet, I know I’m physically faster but their reaction time is amazing so lets even it. I feel everything slow down as I dash forward at full speed appearing right in front of them. I throw a barrage of blows.

They Were able to block 2 strikes that went for their head but they got hit in the liver, stomach, kidney and several pressure points. “Khoff!” I hear them spit out blood as their body goes limp as I sweep their legs causing them to flip in the air as I spin around and slam my palm into their chest launching them into an exhibit shattering the glass.

They quickly get to their feet, their purple eyes burning with anger. Their feet glow with heat as flames explode from them as they rocket towards me. They reach me as they ignite their fist and slam it into my chest launching me back. I feel something crack as a bit of blood pours from my mouth. The front of my hoodie is ash as I rip the rest off.

Great they can use more then one power at once at similar levels to the original owners still don’t know what lets them copy a power but my guess it’s probably interacting with power or at least understanding since they only got Markus power after seeing him use it for a bit and I’m guessing since whatever my power or well powers is at the moment they can’t exactly copy it. My best bet is to try to make them put all their focus on me so everyone else can get out of here.

I take a deep breath as I slow down my perception more as they dash towards me again. They propel themselves into the air as they drop down with a burning ax kick. I quickly shoot my hands and turn them into steel. I feel his foot slam into my hands as I dig into the ground. I feel neither the impact or the heat from the attack as Markus slams his fist into there side and lunch him to the right. Markus cracks his knuckles “we need to make an opening for Sam and Ryan so we need to get their full attention”.

“I’m great at getting people's attention” as Markus grabs some ancient coffin nearby and throws it at the hero. The hero ignites their hands in flames as they propel themselves past the coffins as it destroys the wall behind them and shoots towards us. They fire out several flaming missiles at us as Markus shields me from a majority of the blast as I jump onto his shoulders and slam my foot into the face of the hero as they try to fly through the smoke.

I hop off Markus as he grabs the hero and slams them into the ground and then swings them at me. I throw out an elbow as it slams into their head as they explode themselves with flames knocking me and Markus back. Their fist pierces throw smokes hitting me in the throats as I start to choke on air as they grab me by the face and send an explosion directly in my face.

I get launched back as I roll across the ground I feel the lower part of my mask shattered as Blood pours from my mouth, nose and four heads as I feel some burns on my face. I lay there as I felt blood pour down my face but I could do nothing but grin. The feeling of fighting, the rush of adrenaline as I figure out my opponent, the rush I LOVE IT!!!!.

I feel my feet turn to steel as the ground breaks as I leap forward. I Feel my jaw and teeth turn to steel as the prey dodges another punch from Markus. I tackle them as I bite into their shoulder the blood rushes into my mouth as I feel my steel teeth rip into their shoulder. The softness of the flesh and the chewy muscle makes me go CRAZY!. As I tear my head backwards ripping out a chunk of flesh I then grab the heroes I drag them across the ground and slam them into the wall over and over again. “LETS SEE HOW MANY HITS IT TAKES TO GET TO THE CENTER OF YOUR SKULL!!!” they launch me back with an explosion as I start to calm down as I wipe the blood away from my mouth. “You ok?” Ryan says as he helps me up.

“Yeah”

“You sure you went a little crazy”

“Yeah just trying to make him scared” he gives me a look as I get up and feel blood tracking activates.

I see the hero glow with a soft red glow as after several seconds the glows turn in a detailed outline of their insides as if I had x-ray vision. I see their muscles and bones moving and turning. I could see the electric signals traveling from their brain to different parts of their body.

Markus clothes are pretty much destroyed besides his newly made shorts and mask that is pretty close to shattering. I run forward as the hero turns to me as I see the movements in their body as they're going to throw a right hook. I shoot out my palm and strike it into their shoulder before they could react and then turn my hand into steel and slam it into their nose breaking a part of their mask. Markus grabs them by the back of the head as they slam their fist into their gut. I see their fingers flex ready to explode but I hit them with a right cross breaking their focus as Markus throws them into a wall.

Me and Markus rush them as I use my blood sight to see their body getting ready to do something and interrupt letting Markus pummels them with heavy blows. Their armor starts to crack in break as they get overwhelmed. We try to end it with both of us going for one last punch but the heat dies in their body as their hands turn to steel and they grab our fists, fuck.

They shove me back with a kick as they slam a fist into Markus gut causing him to double over as they uppercut him and grab him by the face and hit him with a heavy hook launching him towards Sam and Ryan. “MARKUS!” they scream as I run towards the hero turning my hands to steel. They spin around and try to kick me as I slide under it and grab their legs and pull them to the ground.

I immediately put them into a leg lock as I slowly started breaking their legs. “FUCK YOU!” they scream as they slam their steel claws into my leg as I grit my teeth as I kick them in the face. I roll away from them as they get to their feet. We rush toward each other as I block a kick from them and they block a jab from me. We trade blows for a small bit as I notice something they are constantly keeping their hand as steel.

They don’t know the drawback meaning they get the power but don’t understand one of the most common power copiers have. I just need to make them over use it and they’ll freeze up and damage their hands. I jump backwards as I grab a pair of khopeshe's from a nearby exhibit and run towards them. I go for an overhead slice with my left and an underhand one with my right. They grab the weapons as they shatter them but it gives me time to headbutt them. I see their muscles and bones shrink as I see their body tense as they probably swap to flames instead of Markus strength.

I open up my mouth and fire a blast of water extinguishing the flames as soon as they are created leaving only steam. I rush forwards I hit them in the neck with my ankle then I grab them and toss them over my shoulder.

They rocket towards me as I turn my feet into steel, ripping my boots as I dig the claws into the ground. They slam into me as I stay rooted in the ground as I slam my fist into their back knocking them into the ground. I grab them and throw them into a wall as it shatters and they get up and rush towards me.

They quickly turn and use their claws to smack away several bullets as Sam rushes forward and kicks them in the face. I jump forward and slam my knee into the liver as Sam punches them in the throat. They go to hit Sam with their claws as they freeze and their hands return to normal covered in bruises and blisters.

“MOVE OUT THE WAY!” I hear Ryan yell as I turn and see he’s holding my kinetic gun. He must have grabbed it when he helped me up, Makes me proud. I immediately grab Sam and leap out of the way as I hear the gun fully charge up.

“GET A LOAD OF THIS!!” Ryan yells as he presses down on the glowing trigger. ‘FU” the purple energy hits the hero like a truck as they fly into a wall.

“Fuck yeah! That was awesome. Hey, can I keep this?” Ryan asks as he has the grin of a child who just did something cool in a video game.

“No” I snatch out of his hands

“Aw” he deflates sadly

“Uuuuuuuuuugh” the hero groans as he slowly gets up.

“You gotta give them credit at least there determined” Sam says as she aims the gun

Before the hero gets up a car crashes through the entrance and slams into them launching them into a wall that they slowly slide down it.

“THE CAVALRY HAS ARRIVED” I hear Aiden yell as he pops his head out of the car

“Is anyone hurt?” I hear Blake yell as she pops her head out of the other window. I grab Markus as I help him into the back of the van as Blake rushes over to us.

“What happened!?” She has worry in her eyes as her hands glow with white light as it covers Me and Markus as we both quickly heap up.

“Some hero came in tried to stop us but me and albino here fuck him up” Markus says with a big grin.

“More like you got your shit kicked in” Martin says as he’s working on a laptop.

“Well I’m glad you two are ok” she then stops as she stares at me and Markus as she gains a small blush and looks away. I look down and see my shirt was pretty much ash like Markus. Sveerl bags are tossed into the van as Sam and Ryan hop in.

“Nice abbs” Sam says as she slaps me on the stomach and lays down.

“Well this went pretty well except for the hero but that was taking care of” Ryan has a grin as he’s texting on a phone.

“Well You jinx us because police are on there way” Marten turns his laptop around showing several cameras pov’s of police cars heading down the street

“Fuck well floor it Aiden!”

“Got it boss” as I Aiden steps on the gas and we leave the museum and race down the streets. I could hear the sirens as I turned to see several police cars chasing after us. Aiden makes several sharp turns as everyone gets shoved into several directions as we get to a highway.

“STOP THE VEHICLE OR WE WILL USE FORCE” one of the police officers yelled. “FUCK YOU” Sam said as she grab can od paint thatt was in the van and tosses it onto one of the cars causing it to crash.

“Really?” I look at her

“What I don’t like cops”

One of the cops hangs out of the side of their car as they try to shoot out the wheels. Before they could, Aiden moves past several cars as we move down the highway.

“WOOO HOOO” Aiden yells as he drives past cars making Sharp turns as.

“Aiden when I said floor it I didn’t mean get us killed!”

“WHAT? CAN”Y HEAR YOU OVER THE MUSIC”

“What musi” before Ryan can finish the sensitive Aiden shoves turns on the radio onto max volume and conveniently it starts playing free Bird.

“Is he always this crazy” I turn to Blake and Sam

“Yes” they say at the same time.

I turn to the police as they start shooting at our tires. I slow down my perception as I grab some ball bearings and throw them at the bullets. I’m able to knock them out of the air as I use the rest of my ball bearings to deflect the bullets. The cops start reloading as Marcus and Blake stare at me. “I swear you're an anime character” Markus says as I shrug.

“Hey we need to lose these guys you got anything that can help with that” Ryan asks. I have my chaos breath but fire, earth or lighting will hurt or kill the cops and water and air won’t slow them down but I get an idea.

I feel air build up in my throat as I focus and feel water rise up. I feel strain on my throat as they start to mic together as I remove the heat. I feel ice build up in my throat as frost covers my lips and I poke my head outside the van. I open my mouth as a blast of frost hits the road as it gets covered in ice. Several cars slid against the road and crashed as the rest stop so they didn’t mimic their friends.

“FUCK YES” Sam yells as she kisses me on the cheek me as even though I feel frost in my throat my face felt just a bit hotter.

I turn and look at me “Hey if you want I’ll give you a smooch” I roll my eyes as Ryan makes a kissy face as everyone starts to celebrate and I smile. That was fun even if I broke the law it was a blast that's probably wrong to say but have to admit it like these guys.

Eventually we drove to some fancy looking house as Ryan went in and came back 20 minutes later with a briefcase full of money. We got back to the hideout as we celebrated for real. Ryan got out a bunch of drinks and ordered some pizzas and the delivery man was too tired to question why he was asked to leave pizza in front of an abandoned hospital.

Some music was as they sat around the campfire and talked between themselves on what they were gonna do after all this was over. I put on my old hoodie and got some boots from Sam she said I could have as I sat against a wall away from everyone.

“Hey” I turned and saw Blake as she handed me a soda. I took it as she sat next to me.

“Why aren’t you partying with everyone else?”

“Because this is your guys thing not mine I just help you tonight as payback”

“That doesn't mean you can’t celebrate with us you were major help with us you didn’t have to do all that but you did and that is amore then just payback” she gives me a big smile

“Well aren’t you the optimist”

“I have been told that” I drink the soda as we sit there a couple seconds.

“So can we be friends?”

“What?”

“Like after we pay off the debt and find a place for us to stay, maybe you can come over and hang out with us?”

“Why?”

“Because your a cool guy and it would be nice to have you around so is that a yes”

I never have made friends before, always preferring to just stay to myself I thought and I don’t know if Rachel counts as making a friend since she was Mary's friend and I’m her brother. These people felt human and made me feel comfortable and I know that sounds weird. The first time I met them I robbed and beat the shit out of them but I right now I can imagine this group of wannabe criminals and idiots could be my friends

“Sure I’ll be you’ll guys friend” Blake smiled as we walked over to the campfire as they were happy I came to hang with them. I listen to everyone talk and just have fun as Sam and Markus dance as Ryan, Aiden and Martin play some power and Blake talks to me about her favorite heroes.

Eventually something interrupts everything as Ryan's phone rings as he takes the phone and walks over and takes the call we all stare at him. After a bit Ryan walks over with a serious face. “Fish face called and ask if we had the money and I told him we did now he wants to come over to his place right now”

“That's not bad”

“Well he wants you to come too” he points at me as I feel confusion run through my mind.

“He didn’t say why just that he wants you to come”

“Ok so where is this guy's place?”

“Glacier town so you better bring a warm coat”

This is gonna be a long night, I just feel it.