Chapter 1
Sunblast was holding onto Miss Heed while Penumbra was helping the people snap out of their trance and Omega was cuffing Coyote.
"I can't believe we danced like idiots." Omega sighed as Coyote growled.
"I can't believe she used her perfume on you, another hero." Sunblast remarked as Omega looked at Miss Heed in disdain.
"Yeah, I fell for the date we were supposed to have..." Omega says a little ashamedly as he loads Coyote into the police vehicle. "Sorry about this Coyote, I know you were under Heed's control, but you still need to pay for your crimes back at Rutherford Springs." Omega then looked at Sunblast. "Give her to me, we're going to turn her over as well." He said as he gestured to Heed.
"No problem." Sunblast says as he passes the fallen heroine to Omega.
"You're making a big mistake here!" Miss Heed yells out as she tries to escape from Omega's grasp. "Why would you let the villains go?! It wasn't my fault it was the members of the Black Hat Organization! Don't you see what is happening?! That was their plan from the start….!" she said in a lower voice before breaking into tears. "I am a hero!"
"Not anymore!" Omega says as he pushes her inside the police van.
Penumbra cautiously gazed at Sunblast. It had been so long since he'd been at his usual size. Now he's shorter than her. She was still getting used to looking down at his face. The face that used to cruelly smile down at her while she laid in the dirt. "So... what about me?" She asks nervously.
"What do you mean?" Sunblast asks
"Aren't you going to turn me over to the authorities as well? I am still classified as a villain, aren't I? Now that you're back to normal everything else will… go back to normal as well." She looked away as she held onto her rat companion on her shoulder.
"Well I..." Sunblast scratched the back of his head as he spoke.
"Look Sunblast is back!" Says a citizen in joy.
"So is Penumbra!" Said an Umbrum they say in excitement.
"Guys? Maybe work out the details later?" Omega suggested as G-Lo slithered from the ground towards said hero.
"All Villains, and Heroes have been confirmed to be either in the infirmary, or locked inside the trucks sir. Although some villains have escaped." G-Lo saluted to Omega.
"Thanks for the update, rookie, and uhh my condolences to you for your former mentor. I just heard Biceps retired recently." Omega says as he rubs his face awkwardly.
"It's okay...I hope he's fine…" G-Lo says as she then looks at Penumbra. "Isn't she supposed to be locked up as well?" She asked in confusion.
Sunblast then stood in front of G-Lo. "No she isn't a part of this." He firmly stated.
"And like I said, let's work out the details later, and right now we have a city to organize." Omega said frustrated with those two as G-Lo nodded.
"Sounds good to me..." Sunblast then turned to see Penumbra with a curious look. "I'll… see you around." Sunblast said before turning away to join his fellow heroes.
"Well, looks like we are at this again…" Penumbra mumbles as she was about to walk away, when a group of Umbrums walked up to her.
"Thanks so much for stopping Miss Heed," says a fan.
"Oh well… of course. Anyone could see there was something... off, about her." Penumbra awkwardly smiled and shook hands as she slipped through the growing crowd, leaving the place in the middle of the night.
Sunblast just looked at her and remembered how poorly the people who weren't Umbrums treated her. She even allowed Sunblast to live with her when he was shrunken, and he disrespected her… even when he was "replaced" he didn't know how to react when his role as a hero was on the line, but he shouldn't have taken his frustrations out on her.
Omega patted him on the shoulder and gave him a reassuring smile. Even G-Lo, the hero rookie, smiled at him. They addressed the crowd, gave a big speech about what had happened and how sadly Miss Heed had fallen from grace. Sunblast nodded and went along with it but really, he couldn't stop thinking about Penumbra and where they would go from here. He obviously wasn't going to go back to pummeling her every day, but he had no clue what to even say to her now.
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Penumbra made it back to her home and deactivated the cloaking device on her house. As soon as the antihero went inside she could see just how she, her fluffy companion and... Sunblast used to be together.
Curie squeaked sadly in her ear. She reached over and scratched under her chin. "Yeah, I miss him too."
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The next day arose as Sunblast and G-Lo were in the Atreno center hanging out with the last 3 contestants Elflora, Incinemiau and Konan for the New Dawn... who competed for his position. The three heroes were shaking nervously because they had tried to step in to take Sunblast's place. But in their defense, they didn't know where he was or if he was alive. Nor that Sunblast was shrunk and taken into Penumbra's domicile. G-Lo looked at Sunblast as he crossed his arms and looked sternly at them. Knowing that Sunblast was somewhat upset about what had happened.
"So, uhh, I invited you guys here to let you know that there are no hard feelings about who would take over the city, not to mention that you had no knowledge of me being away for a while; and to show I have no ill will against any of you..." Sunblast says as he presents pizza for his fellow heroes. G-Lo sighed in relief as she knew that Sunblast had a big temper, but for once he didn't yell or make fun of these heroes.
"Oh no worries!" Incinemiau the fur covered hero said through a mouthful of his pizza.
"Yeah, I mean, you kind of saved all of us by taking down Miss Heed." Said Konan wearing a futuristic knight themed attire.
"Yeah, I can't believe we were her puppets!" The other heroine, Elflora, who was a plant themed hero, says as she takes a slice, and watches the news of Miss Heeds' prosecution.
The pink-haired former heroine had been convicted easily with the testimonies of both heroes and villains alike. It was a shock to people that the so-called "Protector of Love and Justice," had used them so easily.
She struggled fruitlessly as they led her by the arms out of the courthouse. Her face was red with rage as she screamed out that she'd only been doing her job.
"Yeah, some hero she was," Said the furry hero.
"Because of her I had to quit soft drinks…" said the Knight themed hero.
"Hmph! Maybe she'll learn her lesson!" The plant heroine said in disdain.
Meanwhile, Sunblast looked out the window and wondered what Penumbra was doing.
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Penumbra sat back at her desk, barely paying attention to the latest footage of Miss Heed. She kept staring off at the house Sunblast and Curie had shared, expecting at any moment that he'd come flying out pumping his fists to celebrate that the witch was getting everything she deserved.
Penumbra had been unable to sleep at night due to the risk of being hunted down by a hero, so much so that she almost forgot about the whole thing about being let go. The umbra had to admit that she felt like she didn't know what she was going to do without Sunblast that she even forgot to shower.
It used to be so simple. He was the resident hero, the city made her out to be the villain, so they fought. She tried to talk but he only responded with fists. It was only after the Black Hat Org. shrunk him that she'd been able to get him to listen. And over the last couple of months, he'd continued to listen. He... changed. She supposed she had as well. She never missed anyone like this before.
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Sunblast looked out and remembered how his life was. All he did was target Penumbra and beat her then humiliated her. The people would cheer his name in glory, but when the glory was over, he realized just how lonely and how much of a jackass he was, even with other heroes. Yet when he knew Penumbra, he was wrong about her, and he...he could...he was…
"Hey big guy, they're talking about you!" Konan the knight hero shook him out of his thoughts.
"Huh? What?" He whipped his head to the TV overhead.
The reporter on TV continued "-following this dramatic reappearance, the mayor of Atreno is happy to announce Sunblasts' reinstatement as the official protector of Atreno City!" The crowd went wild.
"Would you look at that!" The furry hero said in joyful surprise.
"Congrats!" the plant heroine says as she holds her slice of pizza in congratulations to him.
"Yeah, looks like you'll go back to pummeling Penumbra!" The Knight hero said in playful excitement.
"Yeah...yeah…" Sunblast deadpanned said as he then noticed that G-Lo didn't eat any of the pizza.
"Umm, you ok rookie?" Sunblast asks the yellow translucent girl. "You barely ate anything."
"I'm fine it's just… you're not the only one who'd been duped…" G-Lo sighs as she takes a slice. Then Sunblast placed a gentle hand on her shoulder.
"Hey don't beat yourself up kid… she wasn't a hero." Sunblast tried to encourage her.
"She was my idol!" G-Lo said as she continued looking at Miss Heeds posters that were being taken down from the city.
"Rook-I mean… G-Lo… I know this is hard for you, but understand that Miss Heed was a selfish individual that took over Cosmopolis. Miss heed would have fully taken over this city… or perhaps way worse! Probably the entire Department of Security." Sunblast said.
"It was those Blackhat organi- ...I don't know. They are the ones who saved us...I thought they were bad, but...I guess not all heroes can be good, and… I'm not so sure if all Villains are bad… I don't know anything anymore!" G-Lo says as she ate her slice and that statement made Sunblast think about a certain someone.
Sunblast then stands up, and opens a nearby window. "I'll be back… G-Lo can you stay here till I get back… I won't be long." Sunblast asks as he wanted to go see that person that's making him feel so… sore.
"Sure thing… umm does it have to do with Omega meeting with me later?" G-Lo asks
"He told you?" Sunblast asks in question.
"Told me what?" G-Lo asks
"Nothing… I'll see you soon." Sunblast says as he opens the window then soars to the sky.
G-Lo stared out in the sky as the rest of the three heroes looked at each other.
"Who is that again?" Whispered the fury hero to his colleagues.
"Some sidekick who used to be Biceps sidekick." Said the plant heroine.
"Didn't he quit?" the knight hero questioned.
G-lo blushes in embarrassment as the reminder of her former partner's "early retirement." G-lo stared at the leftover pizza, and decided to eat her feelings away.
Poor G-Lo, don't worry things are going to get better for her
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