What up, everyone? Its me, again, with an all new chapter of The Black Jay and The White Raccoon. Last chapter of the story, Mordecai and Rigby's first time of being superheroes didn't turn out as they had expected. They confronted a bunch of thieves who were robbing a national bank, and they got their asses kick and the police mistaken them as the thieves. Here's the new chapter of how things are going between the two. Enjoy.

Chapter 10: Skips Is On Board

After their first night as superheroes failed, Mordecai and Rigby went back to their regular lives as boring groundskeepers. They decided to keep their bruises a secret to their friends and employers to not get suspicious. They hide their beatings from last night by applying makeup on their faces and just get on with their lives.

Both of them couldn't believe that they got their asses kick by a couple of thieves, and, on top of that, they were both mistaken by the police as the thieves. And all this happened because they were both trying to act like superheroes. They were lucky that they weren't kill or throw in jail by the police.

What in the world were these guys thinking? In fact, what was Rigby thinking?

Mordecai couldn't believe once again that he has gotten himself in another one of Rigby's insane plans and again they almost got themselves kill.

The third thing they were lucky was that Benson or the others hasn't found of what they were doing last night, especially Skips.

The duo were raking the leaves like always until they saw a police car passing by the park. They thought that the police must have found out that they were the guys from last night or follow the white truck.

Speaking of the white truck, when Mordecai and Rigby got back from the park, Mordecai was the first one to discover the dented backside that Rigby had cause when he crash into the police car. They couldn't risk of sneaking out of the park again or else the police will find them. They decided to leave it like that and hopefully, that Benson will not discover it.

However, the odds of Benson finding the wreckage will be 1,000,000 to one. Even if Benson does find the wreckage, he will suspect that it was hoodlums.

The duo kept raking the leaves and act like nothing happens to them. The event lasted about thirty minutes until Right open his mouth.

"Hey man, you want to take a break?"

Mordecai, instead of replying back, kept doing his work.

"Hey, Mordecai, I said you want to take a break?" Repeated Rigby.

Again, no reply.

"Mordecai, did you hear me? Did you hear me of wanting us taking a-" Rigby repeated again, but got punch in the face by Mordecai before he could finish the sentence.

Mordecai snapped "Just shut up and keep working!"

Rigby slowly got back up before asking "Dude, are you still mad about what happened last night? I said I was sorry."

Indeed, Mordecai was mad with him; he was mad that he almost died because another one of his friend's stupid ideas. Worst of all, he was made as a criminal, including his friend, on the entire city. He couldn't imagine how Margaret is going to say about that when she's giving the news.

Rigby kept continuing "Look, man, I didn't know it was going to happen."

Mordecai stopped "Oh, you didn't know? You didn't know that we were going to get our asses kick to death? You didn't know that this was going to fail? You didn't that the police mistaken us as criminals? Yeah, you're right, Rigby, you didn't know that this was going to happen, but guess what? It did happen!"

"You know, sometimes you're sarcasm remarks really hurt me."

Mordecai scoffed "Whatever." He went back to his work and ignoring Rigby.

Rigby pointed out "Well, this wouldn't have happened if you had gotten yourself a utility belt!"

"I told you I didn't wanted a crappy utility belt, which is one of the main reasons that we almost gotten ourselves killed! I told you not to buy it!"

"Hey, it would make sense if we got a utility belt, but noooo! You said 'No, dude, its too lame. No one buys utility belt anymore.' God, you always have a saying to everything!"

"I always have a saying to you because you are like a child!" Retailed Mordecai

Rigby shouted "Who the hell gives you the right to say I'm like a child?!"

"A child who pays fifty bucks for a crappy wireless utility belt!"

"It was thirty bucks! And I had to pay twenty for the shipping, and you know it!"

"You want to know what I know?!" Mordecai was booming with anger. "I know that this superhero business was a big mistake in the first place, and I want out!"

"Dude, you can't quit!" Rigby replied.

"Yeah, I can! And by the time we're finish with our work, we're getting rid of the costumes!"

"No!" Rigby's eyes widen. "You can't do that!"

Yes, I can, and I'll doing it right now!" Mordecai yelled as he take a few steps to the house.

Rigby declared "That's it!"

He charges at his friend's back and started strangling him. The blue jay falls down on the ground. He punches his friend in the face a couple of times right before he throws him off his back. Mordecai slam his friend with his elbow, but Rigby got in the way right before Mordecai's elbow had made in contact on the hard ground. Rigby then hit Mordecai in the face with a rake a few times. Mordecai grabs the stick and punch Rigby again in the face. Mordecai lunges at him, where Rigby started biting him in the face as Mordecai punches him.

"What are you two doing?" Said a familiar tuff voice.

Both of the duo stop fighting and look upon another employer and their fateful friend, Skips.

Mordecai and Rigby said in union "Skips!"

They quickly got up from the ground and dust themselves from their fur. Mordecai nervously said "Skips! What a surprise!"

Rigby said as nervous as his friend "When did you come in?"

Skips answered "I came in a while right before you guys started fighting."

"Oh, really?" Rigby was becoming nervous. "How much have you hear from our conversation?"

"Not much." Replied the immortal yeti.

Mordecai smiled in relief "Oh! Good."

"Except for the part that you guys are the bandits from last night." Added Skips.

Both of the duo's eyes widen in shock by the discovery Skips have made. Rigby denied "What? Us?"

Mordecai denied as he fakes a laugh "Yeah, right!"

Skips narrowed his eyes. "I know that it was you two that was driving the white truck from last night."

Rigby replied "Aw, man! Does that mean you know about us taking it the night before?!"

"You took the white truck before?"

"Whoops." Rigby said as Mordecai punch him in the arm in retaliation.

Mordecai kept denying "Seriously Skips, we don't know what are you talking about."

Skips stares at the two of them and notice that their faces have bruises on them and by the looks of it, they were cover up. He asked "Why are two have bruises on your faces?"

Rigby lied, knowing that his bruises are cover up by makeup "We don't have bruises on our faces."

Skips then took out a mirror from his back pocket and show it to them. Rigby and Mordecai look at the reflection and saw that their bruises from last night were showing. The makeup have evaporated when the two of them started fighting.

Finally, Rigby confessed "Okay, it was us."

Skips hold in a low growl before saying "Come with me to my home."

Both the duo's eyes widen when Skips is not going to take them to Benson. They followed Skips to his house.

The three of them made it Skips' place. Skips turn on the lights and walk to the other side of the room. Mordecai and Rigby didn't know why Skips ask them to follow him to his home. They were still surprise of him ordering them.

And they became even more surprised when Skips lifted up a small statue of William Shakespeare and press a small red button. The wall that Skips was looking at lifted up, revealing two fireman pole.

Both of the duo said in widen eye and union "Whoooa."

Skips grab on to one of them and slide down to the bottom. Both Mordecai and Rigby went their turn and slide down to the bottom.

Once they landed to another place, the duo saw something that they had never seen before, other than the comic books or at the movies.

A secret lair.

There were several objects in several places on the left side of the wall; almost all of them were consider weapons. Not your usually guns and knifes, but more deathly. They all look like guns, but each had a more effective technology. The right side was just a bookshelves that had many books. From behind Skips, there was a small table with a chair. Mordecai and Rigby look more closer to see a small board that had many papers pin against it.

Rigby asked the yeti, still in awed "Skips, what is this place?"

Skips answered "This place is a memory of the old days. The old days where superheroes were born. Real-life ones."

Mordecai said in surprise "Wait, there used to be superheroes? Like actual real ones?"

Skips nodded "Yes."

Rigby shook his head. "Get out of here. You were a superhero yourself?"

"No."

Mordecai blinked "No? What did you mean you weren't a superhero? You were like a supervillain?"

Skips replied "Of course not."

Rigby asked "Then what were you back in the Superhero era?"

Skips goes to a small cooler, where he go three sodas; one he kept for himself and the two were for Mordecai and Rigby. He toss the two sodas, where the duo catch the sodas. He began explained "Back in the late 1920s, there were several of multiple crimes around the city. The police couldn't handle them, and most of them got bribed by the crime bosses to look the other way around. People were started to be affected by it; lives lost, jobs destroyed, building burn down, You name it. By then, the release of the American comic books were out, and people had this crazy idea of becoming heroes themselves. They took the law by their hands and started doing the police work. It was nutty at first, but then, people were interested of this new fad."

Rigby drink his soda before guessing "And let me guess, you were interested of becoming one yourself?"

Skips replied "What are you, crazy? I would be caught dead if I ever do that. No. Time passes, and while people were becoming heroes, there was a threat that every superheroes needed like in the comic book. Supervillains. These new villains that gangsters and crime bosses had taken an interest to them and started to have these technologies that were build by many top scientists. Things have gotten way out of control, and so both the heroes and the villains have gotten another threat. The police. They were in need for people to handle these goons, and that's where I came in on the job."

Rigby interrupted "Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, time out here. Back then, you hated the superhero era and work for the police? That blows, man."

Skips continued "As I was saying, the police had a grudge against the heroes for taking their work, but I always thought they did it for the glory. As for me? I didn't have a negative reaction to them. I thought that these heroes were great of doing the work. I actually buy some of the comics back when I work at the force and read them during my break."

Mordecai smirked "So you were a comic book geek like me and Rigby?"

"Yeah, but at least I was less of a geek of those who dresses up and act like heroes." Remarked Skips as he drink his soda.

"Touche."

"During that times when superheroes are on patrol or fighting some crime boss in a costume, we go in and stop them. You should have seen the battles; it was a major blood bath. The masked heroes and villains were resisting arrest and we had to go force of them."

Rigby asked "Did you beat some of them, Skips?"

"Just the villains." Skips admitted. "The heroes? Well, I let some of them go while the others were fighting."

"But won't that cost your job of not doing what you're suppose to do?"

"Like they're really going to fire me for not beating some guy in a costumes? Truth be told, I didn't want to beat the masked heroes of because they were doing the police's job, but they expect me to beat some poor defenseless kid just because he wanted to be like his favorite heroes? No way. Anyway, after at least twenty battles with heroes or villains and sometimes both, the superhero generations was over. No one would like to risk their lives of doing something out of the comic book ever again."

Mordecai said "Whoa, so these weapons you got on that wall were all property of every villains you guys face."

Skips answered "Yes, except some of them used to belong to the heroes." He got up from his chair and walk to the weapons as he pointed to one technological red and yellow pistol. "Like this one, a hydro gun. This device was used to shoot out water from it like a cannon." He then goes to another weapon; a goggles with flashlights on each side. "This one is build by some fifteen year old that could be use to spy on enemies, and-" He clear his throat before finishing his sentence with a small blush on his face. "women."

Rigby remarked "So some of them were heroes, but closet perverts. Nice, but that still doesn't explain why you brought us here?"

Skips answered "I brought you all here so you could see what life was like back where superheroes were real."

Mordecai interrupted "And after telling us that story, you want us to drop it before we end up like them? Good cause that's what I'm about to do."

"Actually," Skips corrected. "I was going to say that I'll be helping you guys."

Mordecai said in wide eye "Say what?"

Rigby exclaimed "All right! Skips on board with us!

"But why would you help us?"

Skips explained "At first, I will tell Benson about your little night out, but after seeing the news right now, I figure I would come to you guys and talk you out of it before it gets out of hand, but if you two are serious about it, then I am going to help."

Rigby pump his fist in the air in excitement "Sweet! Now we just have to find you a costume, and get you a superhero name."

"I said I'll be on board, not joining you guys of fighting crime. Look, from what I see on the news, the truck, and the bruises, you guys are going to need a lot of help on this thing."

Rigby smiled with anticipation "You mean you'll be helping us of on our quest of becoming real-life superheroes?"

"Not only that, but I'll be giving some tips of acting like superheroes and all the gadgets and stuff. Also, you two could use some exercise to get that upper body straight."

Rigby shouted "Yes! Look out, world cause here we come! Up high!" He turn to Mordecai as he shot his arm up to the ceiling, waiting for him to give his friend a high five.

Mordecai said with a dead look in his face "This is going to be troublesome."

Okay, looks like Skips in on board with Mordecai and Rigby's plan of becoming superheroes. Well, actually, Rigby's plan since Mordecai doesn't want to go along with it, but he had no choice. Next chapter will deal with Skips giving them superhero lessons of becoming and acting like real superheroes. See ya guys later. NiteOwl18 out.