It was cold and rainy. The dark clouds in the sky indicated there was no chance of it clearing up before they got home. Not that it really mattered; they were as wet as it was possible already.
Flying above the clouds was impossible and flying under them was dangerous. So was walking, but far less so and they had had a job to do.
Who on earth would willingly be out in this horrendous weather even they couldn't guess. Someone was out though, and of course it couldn't just be for a pleasure cruise.
Someone had taken advantage of the tremoltous weather to rob a bank... at 6:30 in the morning. Needless to say the two young superheroes were not thrilled. Early in the morning would not have been a problem most days, but this was Saturday and Saturday for high schoolers meant much needed- and wanted- sleep.
The fact still remained, they had been woken up after two hours of sleep by an emergency call and so here they were now standing in front of the bank. Their feet tired from all the uncharacteristic walking, clothes soaked from the pounding rain, and brains swimming from little sleep.
None of that bothered them at the moment however. What bothered them was: there before them the bank stood untouched, unaltered, and certainly not robbed. Lightning clashed and thunder roared but there stood the bank entirely peaceful.
Static and Gear, the two very aggravated superheroes, simotainiously sighed and plopped down on the sidewalk more-akin-to-a-puddle in front of the unviolated building.
"Are you sure that thing's right?" The darker of the two forcibly sighed out.
"Has he ever been wrong?" The other pale boy responded in a way that would have been indigent except he was too tired. Static -the dark boy's superhero alias- shrugged.
"First time for everything."
"Well he's not." Gear all but shot back.
"Well, there clearly wasn't a robbery here or any other crime for that matter."
"You and I both heard it, Static. The police call said 'robbery first national bank Dakota back up needed.' This is the only First National Bank in Da-"
Suddenly the young superhero was hit with a realization. "You don't think this could be a trap do you?"
The other teen waved him off with a gloved hand. "Nah. We would have been caught by now if it was."
"Then why did we get called here?" Gear asked in a perplexed but sleepy manner.
"I don't know" Static said slowly standing up. "Let's just go home."
Gear stood up next to his partner needlessly dusting off. The two boys once again started walking through the rain. The sun had started to rise but the sky remained pitch black.
"Static, don't you think there's something strange going on here?" Gear said looking at the sky wearily.
"Gear, we already established this, no one robbed the bank and there is no trap."
"No, not that." The green clad superhero started waving his hands franticly. "It's well below freezing out here."
"And?"
"It's raining!"
"Yeah. And?"
"And?! It's below freezing and raining!" Gear stated enunciating the last word.
"What's your point?"
"It should be snowing or sleeting. Not raining."
"Ahhhhh. Your right." Static finally understood, but still did not really care.
"Of course I'm right, but I still have no explanation."
Static shrugged and yawned out, "Just crazy weather I guess."
Gear, as his name suggest, started pulling out gear, mostly test tubes and one beaker.
"Gear, what are you doing?" Static asked his partner who had stopped walking along side him.
"Gathering samples. I have to know what this is." Gear replied scooping up some "water" from a puddle while the beaker filled up with rain.
"Well, hurry up." Static grunted exhausted.
Gear poured the contents of the beaker into a test tube and corked it. "Okay. Let's go."