"Ah, here we are, Green-Wood Cemetery, with 4 and half miles to go. Now that I am thinking about it, I'm beginning to think I over shot the distance between our landing and where we were supposed to go." Kerri announced, looking at the map application on her phone.
"Considering we fell from the sky, my guess is that aim was not a part of the equation" Hiro responded to remind Kerri of their fall.
"Well, since we are in New York, let's get a driver" Kerri suggested in confidence.
"Great, with what money to pay that driver?" Hiro asked to see if this could trigger a fault in this supposedly faultless angel.
"I've got a credit card" Kerri answered. Hiro could only give a bewildered look to this girl, who claimed that only after a couple days, wait, not even, totaling HOURS on earth, she had a credit card, let alone credit history, let alone history of any kind to anything.
"HOW? From who? Like you said, YOU DON'T EXIST!"
"Well, you are an angel, and you exist." At the rate she kept coming up with these quips, Hiro had grown suspicion maybe this was another set up
"Now I know you are not that timid" Hiro had grown annoyed by his partner setting him up without a plan he was aware of.
"Your right, because as of earlier today, I exist, or have always existed, I have a social security number and everything, it is quite easy to make a fraud when you know everyone on earth, you don't think I spent my life up there staring at the stars. Let's hail a cab"
"Not how credit cards work, but alright"
"Like I said, I know the sinners"
"HEY CABBIE, CABBIE, CABBIE!" Hiro catcalled. Kerri gave him a disapproving look almost immediately, knowing he was still mocking her for her poor planning.
"What, I'm from California, we take cable cars." Hiro knows this was not true, but to see the look of frustration from his partner was enough to get even for making him fear he was falling to his death.
The couple was able to find a red headed woman in her small car within 12 minutes in that agreed to take them to the bridge with a modest faire. There was so much Hiro wanted to know, but talking to her was walking into house blinded by its cool darkness. Hiro was not just afraid to never get an answer, but that the answer may not be one I would enjoy knowing. But then a song came on the radio
"What if god was one of us…just a stranger on a bus…"
Great, Hiro thought, I bet she read my thoughts on that one too and use her powers on the radio. The ride only took about three quarters of an hour, but when they got to the opening of the bridge, Kerri alerted the driver.
"This is our stop, thank you, and God Bless You"
"Thanks." Replied the driver, who received not only her faire, but a lot of advice given by the Kerri that Hiro wasn't listening to, but all he could connect was that it was something about Indiana. They made the long jog to the middle of the busy bridge, to see a man staring across the horizon of the water below him. To make sure that they are not too suspicious, they stood out of earshot. Kerri turned to her partner, and gave him a pat on the back.
"I've been planning this before you were born, so just follow my lead" without hearing input from her partner, she walked forward to the man contemplating his life.
"Or you could tell me your plan…" Hiro snidely addressed the thick atmosphere as he tried to gather warmth from the cool New York air.
The man, Kenneth, was not short, but rather stout. He looked like a man who could stop a bar fight by walking into the room. As intimidating as the man had looked, it was quite concerning that such a man would consider suicide. Hiro knew nothing of the man, but it broke his heart a little to see such a promising man broken, considering he absolutely had no clue what led this man to here. His partner walked her hands, in her pocket, leaning forward as if beating against a wind that was not blowing. With a lunge of her left, she alerted the man of her presence pulling something shiny from her pocket only a yard away from her partner.
"Give me your Wallet"
Hiro was frozen; horrified by the action that was taking place before him. As his partner tried to get away with the man's wallet, she was immediately greeted with New York's Finest not even a meter away, just as Hiro was tapped on the shoulder by a very concerned police officer.
"I feel like I've been here before." queried Hiro from the back seat of a squad car, cuffed alongside his partner.
"Don't worry, we are not done yet" Hiro just submitted to his partners replies, since she was the expert, may as well do as she does. Hiro peered at the man he tried to rob who was explaining the events of the attempted robbery…and maybe some more.
"He will become the new police chief, Y'know , it will take another twenty years, but after two punk kids tried to mug him, Kenneth Masterson finds a new reason to live. Since his disabled sister was mugged from her wheelchair, he sees this as the turning point where he must take on the crime that plagued his sister's life and goes to the station after several months of counseling, to become an officer. There he meets an officer whom he later pops the question to and becomes a loving father and husband. He later dies during a raid but he dies saving a family. Quite a touching story really, and all because a boy and girl got him to realize there is still more work to do here on earth."
"So what made him want to jump in the first place?"
"It doesn't matter anymore to him, now he just wants to serve his community. Sometimes the worst in some people can bring out the best in others, you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?"
"Heh. So got any plans to get us out of here"
"I honestly did not think I would get this far, I was expecting to be released through the forgiveness of Kenneth, but I think his taking-on-crime rhetoric has begun as of now."
"Then answer me this, what the hell is that?" Hiro pointed to the strange object seen through the windshield. It was a strange creature, approaching the vehicle on its two legs then crawling onto all four limbs as it was gaining momentum at an alarming rate, pursuing the car like a predator finding prey.
"Looks like a Demonic Rat, I think we can take it, just crawl down on the seat and it will rip the roof off of the car." She continued in a panicky tone as she and her partner readied their weapons of choice, Halos. "On the count of three, one…"
And with that the rat creature tore a hole in the roof with its sharp claws and plucked Kerri out of the car, holding her in the air as if she was a tossed dirty jacket.
"See, told you it would get us out" She cheered despite the clear danger they were in. It grabbed her and began scurrying away as Hiro climbed out from the damaged car roof as the police, too stunned by what just happened, just stared as the perps and the giant rat ran away with a teen girl.
"Don't worry Kerri, I'M COMING!"
Sorry for the long wait. Rewrites, Family Drama, and Calculus and Accounting got in the way of me writing. Feel free to PM me if you wish. BTW, can you guess who the driver was, let me know in the comments or PM. Let me know all your thoughts and feelings, even if it is just a chat.