Sabrina wore a black jacket with dark leather jean. Compared to Emily and Aryana's colorful attires, she looked more 'punk' than the rest of them. Vivan had on a gray colored hoodie he'd occasionally use with his costume/mask. The color scheme seemed casual for the nice temperate spring day. Edwin had a black, superman logo t-shirt, and Robert picked out a plaque button shirt that he'd often wear for non-villainous walks.

"Okay," Robert said walking on the sidewalk with the rest of his team. "I've got one. An atheist, a jew, and a Christian step into a bar."

Emily asked, "when you say Jew… Do you mean ethnically jew, or religiously jew?"

"Um… Both?"

"Also," Vivan asked, "what kind of Christian? Because some Christians don't drink."

"The ones that do, I guess."

"Be more specific, man. Because why the hell would a mormon step into a bar?"

Mildly annoyed, Robert answered, "Protestant."

"What kind of Protestant?" Sabrina asked, solely for the sake of annoying him, "a lot of Protestants don't-"

"Fuck it, catholic then, can I get to the joke now?"

Sabrina shrugged, slightly satisfied she'd irritated him. She walked forward leading the group to the coffee shop she had in mind. She hoped her dubious plan would work the way she wanted to.

Edwin asked. "When you say atheist, do you mean atheist atheist, agnostic atheist, or atheist Satanist?"

Vivan chuckled, "Satanist atheist? You serious?"

Edwin shrugged, "to be fair, I was raised to believe Satanists and Atheists are the same thing."

"Well," Vivan said in a proud tone, "I guess I'm satanist."

"Me too," Edwin said with a quick laugh.

Sabrina threw a peace sign back at them. "hail Satan."

Groaning, Robert said, "it's just a regular atheist. Now, can I get to the joke?"

The self proclaimed Satanists paused for a moment, and then gave a small nod in approval.

Sighing, Robert said, "an atheist, a jew, and a christian step into a bar… And they all have a great time because none of them are assholes."

"Well," Aryana commented, "that was underwhelming."

Robert added, "And they all agreed to never to invite the Muslim guy."

"Oiy," Vivan yelled, "that's fucked up."

"Because Muslims can't drink, and they knew to respect his lifestyle."

Vivan blinked. Aryana laughed aloud, "nice save."

Slowing down, Sabrina pointed forward, "we're here."

Looking up, the team stared at the old, outdated, building at the edge of clearly marked E88 territory. It had gang graffiti to the side, with peeling paint falling due to years of faulty maintenance. "Here?" Robert asked. "Are you serious?"

"Yup," Sabrina said with her hands in her pocket, "hurry up, I'm starving."

Following behind her, the inside of the building was almost empty. The confederate flag didn't bother anyone, but the shaved man with swastika tattoos seemed furious to see them. He was the only one at the diner and the Losers recognized his familiar glare from all the E88 bars they'd broken into.

Sabrina stepped up to the counter. She spoke a few words to the couple behind the register. The couple was fairly middle aged. The husband was wide and robust, while his wife seemed slim with red hair that could've made her pass off as Sabrina's older sister.

They both had non-E88 tattoos on their necks. They scowled at Vivan when Sabrina mentioned his name. When she pointed back at the group, the man and women clenched their fists like they were ready to attack.

Robert reached for his prototype tool in his pocket. Edwin tapped at his backpack, almost ready to turn it into a weapon.

Walking back across the diner and to the group, Sabrina placed an arm over Vivan's shoulder and kissed him on the lips. She turned back to the couple and said, "mom, dad, this is my boyfriend."

The team froze in place. Aryana glared at Sabrina before her parents began firing insults at them. They called Sabrina a whore and shouted derogatory words at Vivan before Sabrina took him by the arm and lead the team out of the building.

"Sabrina," Aryana yelled turning the street corner, "what the fucking hell?"

She shrugged, "what? I'm allowed to piss people off too."

"You bitch, Vivan isn't some fucking tool."

"Vivan," Sabrina asked in a casual stride, "are you pissed at me?"

Vivan was partially in a dazed, realizing he'd never been kissed before. "Nah," he tried playing cool, "I'm alright with this."

Aryana gritted her teeth. She yelled at him, "you frigging idiot, stop being a tool!"

Vivan covered his lip, recollecting the tender feeling there. He shook his head,"no, really, I'm okay with this."

Sabrina grinned, proud to find a way to piss off Aryana. "It's not really a big deal," she said, rubbing salt on the wound. "If we're pissing off racists anyway, isn't it better they think I'm fucking Vivan too?"

Aryana's jaw dropped. She turned to her other teammates, Robert and Edwin had shit eating grins on their faces, with wide enough smiles to relay the message 'I told you we shouldn't have recruited her.' Emily looked to the side to avoid eye contact, she would never admit it aloud, but she wanted less to do with Sabrina too.

Aryana turned back to Sabrina, she put on forced smile. "Fine," Aryana said with a scowled tone, "if you wanna fuck with people, that's fine by me."

Sabrina elbowed at Vivan, she teased, "fucking? What was that? You're alright with it?"

Aryana croaked, and nearly force pushed Sabrina into an alleyway. But instead, she gritted her teeth and said "what I mean is, since you're done fucking around. We're gonna do a real mission with New Wave. And since you like tools so much, how about you be the bait this time?"

Sabrina raised an eyebrow, "what?"

"I said," Aryana smiled at the thought, "you need to be bait. So unless you wanna go crawling back to the E88, I'm gonna need you to play bait for what I have in mind."

Sabrina glared at her, well aware of the underhanded threat to the statement. "Fine, you need bait, then I'm your girl."

XXX

On one hand, Sabrina was glad she found out what made Aryana tick. With her constant optimism and aloofness, it was a breathe of fresh air from what she'd been living with. On the other hand, no one had ever seen her so pissed before.

"You sure this is full proof?" Sabrina asked, speaking into her ear piece.

"Of course not," Aryana responded in a plain voice, "that's why you're doing it."

Sabrina could almost hear Aryana's smirk from the other line. She had on no mask, and no costume. A big risk in the cape community. She followed the target on the city broad walk in bright daylight for anyone to see. The city crowds were stretched and noisy enough to hide any suspicions towards her.

She heard the two people conversing in front of her. With a sigh, Sabrina responded, "The target is within reach... Why couldn't I get a real gun?"

Aryana chuckled, "it's called bait for a reason, Nazi-girl." Sabrina clenched her fists. Aryana added, "alright, positions are all covered. Light, your turn."

Sabrina looked up, above the city streets, Light shifted into his energy form and flowed across the air like a slow-motion ghost. He crossed the air in a zig zag technique, leaving a light stream in his wake. He gained quick attention from the people beneath him, particularly from Sabrina's targets.

Sabrina's main target nodded to the girl next to her. Victoria flew up into the air, and chased after Light. An energy shot was fired back at her, and they then disappeared in the distance as Light shifted away from her reach. "The target is alone," Sabrina said to the earpiece.

"She's all yours," Aryana replied. "Fair warning, don't let her touch you, or else she might... Never mind."

It was a backhanded statement, which Sabrina was forced to ignore. She walked closer to Amy Dallon and pressed a chocolate bar to her back. "Five minutes." Sabrina whispered in a hushed tone. "Five minutes to get you where I need you. Or three hostages die at the other side of town."

Sabrina wasn't ordered make up a hostage situation, but she liked raising the stakes. Amy answered, "you really think you could get away with this? You have any idea who you're fucking with?"

"I know exactly who I'm fucking with," Sabrina pressed the bar harder, "and unless you do what I say, people are gonna die because of you."

Amy clenched her fists. Sabrina put the candy away. It was far too crowded to hold a candy to her back and lead her far away to where they wanted. Sabrina walked in front of Amy to meet each other face to face. "Pretend we've known each other for years, and follow me."

XXX

A few miles away from them, Uber and Leet barricaded themselves in a nearby thrift store. Shielder and Laserdream floated above the building, raining down a steady storm of lasers and shields in their direction.

Uber yelled through a megaphone in their direction. "Listen to your mother, and surrender to the badass villains!" He wore a skimpier version of Lady Photon's costume.

Leet spoke down to his backpack wearing Manpower's costume. "You know Uber, it'll be really awkward if Lady Photon shows up, and you're both wearing the same thing."

"It's every mother's nightmare."

Laserdream fired a laser through the window, narrowly missing Uber's head. Laserdream yelled, "stop screwing with mom's costume!"

Uber yelled back, "it looks better on me!" Another, heavier laser, was narrowly dodged by him.

Shielder floated closer to his sister, "hey, I think we can sneak in through the back."

Laserdream raised an eyebrow, "but they have hostages."

"No, here's the thing," Shielder explained, "I watched some of their videos. They used holograms in their last fight, I think they're just bluffing again. How else could they get this many hostages when the store's closed?"

Laserdream squinted at them, "you watched their videos?"

"I swear it was for research," Shielder answered meekly. They nodded to each other, and Shielder flew away, to reach the back of the building.

"Shielder's gone," Uber announced to his teammate.

Inside the store, Leet's backpack transformed into a miniature robot with big green eyes. It's nimble limbs and body made it an exact resemblance of the robot 'Clank' from the playstation game.

"Alright Clank," Leet asked, "how long before PRT communications are back up."

"Twenty nine minutes," Clank explained. "Or nineteen minutes if Marvin's chronic depression returns, and he stops jamming their signal."

"Goddamnit," Leet muttered. Leet looked around to the holographic hostages he had set up around the building. For the sake of comedic relief, they had health bars over their heads. "Clank, can you get operation Golden in place, for if we need a quick evac?"

"Affirmative."

XXX

Light, proudly wearing his knock off Legend costume, leaped over from rooftop to rooftop. He carried a supposed bag labelled 'stolen goods' at hand, while flicking off Glory Girl from behind.

Glory Girl didn't show any signs of mercy. She rushed him at top speed, but every time she almost reached for him, he transformed his body into a neon-light substance, and shifted away to lose her grasps. "What's wrong hero hipster?" Light yelled, "I thought you were as good as Alexandria."

She tried smashing at him again. This time she hit into the building rooftop, destroying some of the cement where Light had stood. She yelled, "just hold still, dammit!"

Light shot a laser at her, not enough to cause real damage, but only enough to moderately annoy her. "You know, I'm technically as good as Legend. Does this mean Legend is better than Alex-"

Glory Girl leaped at him, and nearly grabbed him before he grasped his bag to get away from Glory Girl's grip. Glory Girl looked down at the fallen contents, "what the hell?" It wasn't a bag full of jewelry, it was bag full of erotic magazines from the nearby convenience store.

"To be fair," Light pointed to the receipt, "Leet bought those fair and square."

"You're just fucking with me."

Light shrugged, "well, I couldn't get a rematch if I asked."

She pounced at him again, to which he shrieked before shifting into the nearby alleyway.

XXX

Amy walked to the alleyway as Sabrina walked backwards in front of her. Sabrina kept a close eye on her to make sure she didn't leave her sight. Amy said, "if anyone gets hurt, I will fuck with you in more ways than you can imagine."

"Oh no," Sabrina said in a sarcastic tone, "the wannabe hero is threatening me. Look at me, being terrified."

Amy clenched her fists, hoping she'll get the chance to wipe the smug grin off her face. Sabrina then pointed up. Looking up, Amy saw Rush floating in the air in a laid back position with her arms crossed, with Spitfire standing on the fire escape next to her. Both girls were wearing casual outfits, it was plainly obvious they were out for a stroll, and decided to spot on their masks and kidnap Amy on a whim.

"Hello, my wonderful corruptible tool," Rush spoke down to her.

Amy placed a palm on her face, "fuck, these guys? Are you fucking serious?" She turned to Sabrina, "you're Rune, that nazi girl."

Sabrina rolled her eyes and put a mask on her face. It covered the top half of her face like Rush's did, and had an emerald green color with celtic symbols running across it. "I'm not a nazi anymore," she answered plainly.

"As far as we know," Rush teased to her.

Rune glared at her. Amy shook her head, wondering if she could take advantage of their tension, "you know what I've heard? People are betting how long it'll take before Rune stabs you all in the back."

Rush waved her hand off, "dude, I'm the one holding the betting pot online for that. And I'm already betting she will."

Rune cocked her head back, "wait, are you fucking serious?"

Rush nodded, "that way if you betray us, I'll at least be able to make some money out of it."

Spitfire sighed, "to be fair Rune, I betted you wouldn't."

Rune growled, "am on this team just to get fucked with?"

'Yes,' Rush answered, as soon as Spitfire answered 'no.'

Amy bursted out laughing, "wow, the fucking child prodigy of the E88, made into a joke by a bunch of fucking losers."

Rune clenched her fists, realizing playing this fake role was no longer worth it. Before Rune could respond, Rush said, "don't laugh too hard, Panacea. Because the next Loser here is about to be you."

Amy raised an eyebrow, "what the hell are you talking about?"

"Why did you think we brought you here?" Rush made a heart shaped gesture with her hands, "this is an initiation test."