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Hi all you peoples!! I know I just thanked you all above, but I just wanted to let you all know again how muchI really appreciate the reviews. Here's another chapter for ya!
For the next two weeks, Static and Broken Angel (who had become known for changing into a large, black wolf during difficult fights) fought evil of both metahuman and normal human kinds. Ebon and his gang had long since been captured for numerous bank robberies, Rie found a well paying job at a delivery service, and Virgil got back his playful teenage life with some superheroing on the side. Except for the occasional bang baby here and there, all was good. Well, all seemed good anyway.
One day while Broken Angel and Static were on patrol looking for any criminals to stop, Angel herd a strange sound from somewhere on the other side of town. "Yo Static? Did you hear that?"
"Uhh...no...but then again, it wouldn't be the first time you heard something I didn't. What'd it sound like?"
"I don't know...like fire." Static shrugged his shoulders as to say to check it out and both he Broken Angel turned their direction and flew over to where the sound came from. Angel's giant wings allowed her to glide peacefully most of the way as Static soared beside her on his magnetized disk. "I think it came from the other side of that building."
Static and Angel quietly landed on the rooftop of an old abandoned toy factory and peered down the side to the ground where Angel thought the noise had come from. "You see anything?" Static asked.
"Na...maybe they herd us coming." Angel looked up from the ground and into the old warehouse next to them. No sign of anything unusual.
"Huh...well...I guess you could have heard wrong." Static said, letting down his guard and pulling away from the building's edge. "Come on Ang...it was probably just something falling in one of these old buildings or something."
Angel wanted to believe him, but something inside her wouldn't let her. "Maybe, but doubt it. Something's wrong Static...I can feel it."
Static sighed as he realized that he wasn't going to win. "Okay fine. Considering that you're rarely wrong about these things, would it make you feel better if we scoped out these warehouses?"
Angel smiled slightly and climbed onto the ledge bordering the rooftops' edge. "I knew you'd see it my way."
Static sighed again as he watched his friend gracefully dive off the rooftop. "I hate it when you do that!" He yelled down to her; who was already walking on the ground below.
Angel and Static searched through at least three warehouses before they found anything. "Ang! You find anything?" Static yelled as he walked through a dark warehouse.
"Yeah...Static, come here!"
Static rushed over to a small room near where he was walking and found Angel examining an orange bird-like feather. "Look familiar?" Angel asked.
"Isn't that one of Talon's?"
"Think so. She's been here recently."
"But she's in jail...she couldn't have been here." Static took the feather from Angel and began to look over it himself.
"Static, she's a metahuman who most likely has powerful friends that we don't even know about. You didn't think a jail cell was gonna hold her for long, did you?"
"I...I guess never thought of that. Can you tell if she was alone or not?" Static knew that if anyone could track a band of metahumans, it was Angel. Over the last few weeks, he discovered she was extremely talented in tracking anything from a cat to a bus and back again by only a couple of tracks.
"You might want to step back." As Static backed a good few feet away from her, Angel crouched down close to the floor and lit a small fire in her palm. She then laid the flame on the floor, pressed it down between her hand and gently heated the floor tiles until the floor surrounding the area where she had found the feather was glowing a soft red. Static had only see her do this once before, so it was still quite amazing to him to see the floor glowing the way it was. Moments passed and Angel stood from her seated position. Static and her both stared at the floor and soon saw footprints emerge from the glow.
"That has still got to be one of your coolest tricks!" Static laughed as Angel examined the different sets of footprints.
Two of them were hers and Static's; she knew that. But the others...she wasn't sure about them. "One of these looks like Talon," Angel said as she pointed to a print on the floor. "But these other three...I'm not sure about them. These two are probably Shiv and Ebon, considering they're all part of the same gang..."
"Okay, but what about the other one?"
"I don't know. Judging the size and shape, I'd say it was a man...probably around 5'10 in height."
"Okay, so we know Talon's out of jail, which means Ebon and Shiv are probably also. And we also know that they were here for some reason recently and most likely have a new friend." Static stood quietly for a moment as he thought. "Ang...We don't got nothin' do we?"
Angel laughed a bit when she saw the confused look on Static's face. "Well, not nothing. Like you said, we know they're out, which means they're probably up to something. All we have to do is wait until they make they're move and we'll be all over 'em."
"So...we just wait? Shouldn't we try to find them or something?"
"We've got no need to yet. So far, it looks like they're trying to hide. And besides, there's no way to find them anyway. See, the footprints just stop here," Angel said as she pointed to a spot on the still glowing floor. "We have nothing to follow...searching for them would be meaningless."
"Good point. So, now what?"
"Well, didn't you say you had to meet Richey after patrol?"
"Oh crap, yeah! Ang, I gotta go...do you mind?" Static asked franticly, remembering how late he was to meet his friend.
"If I did, I wouldn't have reminded you." Angel said kindly. "Go on. I gotta go to work soon anyway."
"Thanks Rie. Later!" Static jumped on his hover disk and quickly bolted out of the warehouse.
Well, another chap done. Where's this going anyway?? Haha...you'll just have to wait and see;) Later!
