Grue

"Lets go over how everything went horribly, horribly wrong because seriously, goddamn."

My wrist was bandaged and had some anti bacterial stuff in it, Lisa's face looked like hamburger, Alex winced when he walked, Bitch looked like hell and the new girl... Taylor looked ok. If she hadn't been there we would have been fucked, but it had been touch and go and we were all in massive pain.

"Alec."

"It turns out Panacea can fight, and that is totally not fair."

I stared at Lisa.

"Ok you said this was going to be easy, then Panacea shows up and kicks our asses, then the Wards and Glory Girl show up. If Taylor didn't choke them with her bugs that would have ended with all of us in jail. Also we didn't get any money."

"But our reputation."

"We.didn't.get.any.money, rep is nice but it doesn't pay the bills."

Lisa crossed her arms.

"We won."

I looked over at Bitch.

"3 of my dogs are dead now, that doesn't feel like a win to me."

I looked over at Alec.

"We didn't get any money, going to have to back Bitch up."

And Taylor.

"We um... we ended up making enemies with the Wards and New Wave is probably not happy."

I stared at Lisa.

"So let's look at it this way, we didn't get any money, Bitch lost three of her dogs, New Wave is pissed at us and we're now on the Protectorate's shitlist, granted that's a very long list but from my perspective today was a massive fuck up."

I sat down on the couch.

"But we got away."

"Yeah and if Panacea dies we're a special kind of fucked, you know that right? You know what happened to the last group of villains that killed a healing cape."

"That was-"

I glared at her.

"What happened Lisa."

"They got Kill Orders... then they died."

"Are we going to have Kill Orders Lisa? Because if you fucked up and killed Amy fucking Dallon we're going to have a massive fucking problem."

"She's... probably fine?"

"But you don't know that for sure do you?"

"I shot to wound."

"A gun isn't a fucking toy, it doesn't have a stun setting it's only setting is kill and you fucking shot her. Which is a problem because if she dies we are all seriously fucked. New Wave... they're hardcore."

"We beat gloryhole and."

"Without their armor, with the element of surprise. With their equipment they're the heavest hitters in the city. When they get motivated they're fucking scary and now we're on their radar."

I felt tired.

"This isn't a victory, we lost. We didn't get any money, we pissed off some very powerful people, we lost three dogs and all of us got hurt."

I looked around.

"No more bank robberies."

"Look, just because a couple things went wrong-"

I sighed.

"Putting it to a vote, everyone for doing this shit again, raise your hand."

Only one hand went up.

"Everyone who doesn't want to get our teeth kicked in robbbing banks."

And then rest of the hands rise.

"Well the motion is passed, no more robbing banks, the risk is not worth the reward."

I leaned back into my couch.

"We should have stuck to selling black market food, you know what you can get for a load of twinkies right off the truck?"

"Not as much as robbing a bank."

"Which is less risky?"

"Ugh the food."

I nodded my head...

"Ok we're all going to train first thing tomorrow morning, some of you need to work on your hand to hand skills because seriously we got humiliated today, and we're not going out until the heat dies down and we know what we're doing."

With that done a really shitty day ended, the ABB wanted our heads, New wave wanted to kick our asses, the Wards would be out for blood and I was pretty sure that this was somehow going to get worse.