Ok. Gather 'round. Lots of information to through at you faithful reader type people.
I have misplaced my beta-reader. Can't find her and the problems is, I REALLY need her. Read the following chapters at your own risk. Grammar in some places may be worse then any of the creatures the Titans will go up against in this story. Sorry!
...maybe some of you realized this already, but it's pretty damn hard to fall in love while running for your life during an Umbrella financed armageddon. Learn well from my mistake least zombies ever take over your town. nods
Seriously though. I have failed! I underestimated the needs of this parring.
I've thought it over and I think the best thing for me to do is complete the parring of Jinx and Raven in spin off of this story. So things develop here, but they wont come to closure. I'll be changing the summary of this story accordingly.
Additionally...Thanks for all the criticism!
One more thing. The next two (and last two) chapters are done. I just need to go over them.
Chapter three. That's "Mr. X" to you.
All eyes were on her. The room was a mess reflecting the panic that was likely running high from it's last occupants. The current ones were no better. In one corner huddled a small group of people all in tattered clothing. In the center, their super powered protectors discussed their next course of action.
"I need to know all you know about Slade and this chip," Robin said to Jinx. He displayed a small piece of green and black plastic between his index finger and thumb.
Jinx looked at the chip fighting back her instinctive reaction to keep it's secrets from the "enemy." She swallowed remembering that that was no longer the case. She claimed that she had allied with the Titans.
"Um..." Jinx started looking at the ceiling. "Well, Slade paid us to attack that Umbrella research facility and just told us to take anything and every thing that looked valuable. Gizmo found that. He said something about it being a super processor. I don't know what words he used exactly."
Robin began to ponder this information.
"That doesn't sound like Slade." Robin said. "Just attacking places only hoping it might be worth the risk."
"Well It was an Umbrella factory," Raven added, "Pretty good odds of finding something to make up for any losses he might incur."
"And he did attack the damn prison pretty frig'n randomly. Maybe it's part of his knew style." Jinx added.
"And still none of this can explain what's happening now," Robin said gesturing to the window where an un-dead army was covering the streets like a fog, "Is there anything else you can tell me?" Robin asked Jinx. The girl flinched as a thought came to her, but she quickly pushed it to the back of her mind. Robin noticed this of course.
"There is something else. What is it?" Robin demanded.
"Er...no there isn't." Jinx said, back peddling.
"Jinx. If this has som-" Robin started.
"It's none of you're business!" Jinx said becoming defensive. She realized she was sunk now. They all knew she had something and they would not rest until they knew what it was. Robin was silent and just stared at the girl who stared back defiantly.
"This is your last chance. Either you tell me or we're going to have to force you." Robin warned her.
"You want to fight me now?" Jinx asked, sounding stunned. This seemed like an awful stupid time to be making threats. This alliance sure hadn't lasted long. "I don't even know if it's of any use to you." Jinx said.
"Let us be the judge of that then," Raven said coming up behind Jinx. Jinx was startled and started to pull away. Raven caught her by the face and put her index and middle finger's to either side of Jinx's temples. She then entered Jinx's mind.
Jinx was forced into a sleep like state as Raven began to roam her thoughts. The other heros watched with interest while the civilians watched in awe. The content of the teens conversation, as well as the strange powers they used, were beginning to get them riled up. It wasn't the sort of thing most wanted to see after nearly being killed by unnatural forces of nature with in the shapes of humans. Robin noticed their discomfort.
"Starfire I need you to get them out of the city." Robin said.
"How will I-?"
"Find a...Flat bed or a Dumpster and transport them." Robin said. "And be careful. Don't engage any of the zombies. There are too many."
"Alright." Starfire said. She floated to the window and was soon out and gone.
Raven looked perplexed as she continued to search Jinx's mind.
"She's...infected..." Raven said. Her eyes opened then and her arms fell to her sides. Jinx fell to floor as if Raven's hold had been the only thing keeping her up.
"You guys f---ing suck!" Jinx hissed up at them. She covered herself with her arms. She felt very violated. To make matters worse she would have been willing to give them the information if they had given her a little more time to think.
"Infected with what?" Robin asked.
"I don't know and neither does she." Raven said turning to Robin and ignoring the cowering form on the floor. "In the lab, some lunatic injected her with a needle. I don't know what was in it, but it's been causing her seizures."
Over hearing this, and having long since decided he did not like Jinx by appearance alone, one of the survivors from the streets spoke up.
"I'll tell you what's wrong with her! She's got what they got! She's one of them things! You gotta get her out of here!" He shouted, eyes filled with fear and early paranoia. Jinx looked up at him bitterly. As irritated as she was with the man for his cruel words, her anger still lied more with the Titans for what they had just done to her.
"Calm down!" Robin shouted at him. The force in his voice was enough to cause the man to back off. He shut his mouth for now but showed nothing like sympathy for Jinx.
Robin turned to Raven.
"Umbrella is under investigation for several crimes including something called G-virus. That may be what Slade was after. That may be what Jinx has and it may have caused the zombies." Robin speculated.
Jinx tried to block them out. G-Virus? Not a pleasant name at all. She didn't want to hear this.
"Should we assume the virus spreads from person to person by infection?" Raven asked.
"It's looks very possible," Robin said.
"So what do you want to do?"
"Taxidermy," Robin said to himself with a hint of distaste as he looked at a full grown, stuffed tiger. It was positioned in a wild stance and mounted on a sort of stage. It was an all around strange to find in a police station. What professional chief of operations would allow such things to decorate a law enforcement establishment? Robin hopped he'd find out and soon.
The Titan's leader moved on, cautiously peering around every corner for members of the un-dead forces. He made it to the next room, another short hall. The Titan listened to every creek of the wooden floor and observed every dead dear head mounted on the wall as "art." He hoped these animals wouldn't take a tip from the cities populous and decide to start moving too.
A sharp click reached Robin's ears.
"Did I speak too soon?" Robin said eyes darting from the back of the room to the front. The clicking continued rhythmically, like some one snapping their figures. Robin grabbed his staff and listened. It walked on four feet. The clicking was replaced by a breathy hiss. Robin decided he'd waited long enough and rushed around the dark corner to meet this threat.
The creature lunged at him as soon as he appeared. Robin dropped onto his back at kicked it towards the wall. As it bound, Robin took in the grizzly details of this thing. It was humanoid and of a fleshy color. Huge claws protruded from his forearms.
It turned in mid air like a cat landing on the wall and crawled down like a spider. It skittered on all fours towards Robin. It's maw opened revealing jagged teeth. Robin took in more details. This thing had no eyes and it's brain was fully exposed. Wether or not this made it more vulnerable to it's enemy seemed irrelevant. It was clear not many a man would survive this creatures first couple attacks. Luckily, Robin wasn't just any man.
The tongue harpooned from his mouth and slashed Robin's bo staff in half. Robin sneered, and charged from the creature with the half-staff's he was left with. The creature lunged again. Robin jumped over it and slammed one stick on it's skull. It let out an inhumane cry, fell to the floor but was soon up again. Robin landed, and spin kicked it in the chest. A flurry of punches followed. The creature screeched then retaliated by swinging it's massive, deformed limbs. It's claws left an impression on Robin's shirt but didn't break the skin. It lunged again and brought the human teen to the ground with it.
Positioning itself for the death blown, its mouth opened. Robin struggled to move, anticipating what would happen next. Using all his strength, Robin slipped from under it, using his legs and kicked it in the back while still in a crouching position. Robin rolled from the force of his kick. The creature rolled into the wall. Before it could turn to do more harm, Robin was on it and started beating it until it stopped moving. The human collapsed beside the carcass breathing heavily.
"What the hell was that thing?" Robin asked knowing the answers weren't likely to fall out of the sky. After catching his breath, Robin moved on.
Raven listened to the wind that howled through broken glass windows as she walked down a hall of devastation. One of the last rooms that needed to be secured. Raven was lucky enough to be partnered with Jinx for her mission. Robin's reasoning was that Raven already had experience working with her, albeit, it barely spanded and amazying two hours. Starfire, and the recently located teammates Cyborg and Beast Boy, worked on rescuing as many civilians as possible from the infested streets of Jump City.
Jinx had been sulking the entire patrol. She was silent and so was Raven. She tried to bury her fear of what ever was flowing through her veins. G-Virus was the name of the number one suspect. A chilling name. Robin had suggested something about the Umbrella facility possibly having a cure. Of course he was thinking about the infected civilians first. In the back of her mind she held on to that thought as her only hope. But for now she didn't want to think about it.
Jinx, busied herself with another problem. It had her so disturbed she paused and stared at Raven's back waiting for the other girl to face her.
"I feel used." Jinx said.
"You should have just told us what we wanted to know and I wouldn't have had to do that." Raven countered knowing exactly what Jinx was referring too.
"I was gonna-"
"How were we suppose to know that?" Raven called turning to face the other girl.
"You could 'ev..." Jinx spoke to fast. Waited? She realized Raven was right. She was rather flippant, now more so than usual, how could they have known wether or not she intended to help? But she still felt wronged and it still burned. Raven was suppose to be one of the good guys. No matter how hard ass they could be, they weren't suppose to do things like that. Enter her mind with out permission. Finding she couldn't organize her thoughts enough to continue the verbal battle Jinx settled for glaring at Raven who glared right back.
"But that was really mean." Jinx whimpered, dropping her head in defeat.
To Raven's surprise, she actually felt guilty. Just a small tinge. She still felt she had done the right thing under the dire circumstances, but perhaps she had been a little to hasty to assume Jinx would not of cooperated given more probing.
'Fine. What the hell?' Raven thought walking up to Jinx.
"Ok. I'm...sorry." Raven grumbled. Jinx couldn't have been more shocked to hear this. She was starting to think gaining understanding from this Titan was equal to drawing blood from stone. She looked up at Raven and read from her expression that it had been forced but it was real. The feelings of violation began to disappointed.
"You're alright babe," Jinx said throwing an arm over Raven's shoulder. Raven glared at the arm then slipped from under it.
"Oh my god Raven!" Jinx squealed just as Raven began to walk away.
"What? What is it?" Raven asked, whirling around looking for a threat to her well being.
"This vending machine has smokes in it!" Jinx said squatting down by a dusty machine. Raven's eyes narrowed as her as her heart beat fought to calm down.
"Don't just stand there. Get me some quarters," Jinx said pressing her face against the glass. "I've never seen a machine like this."
"I would let you intoxicate yourself with the dirty things, but I'm seriously considering killing you myself at the moment." Raven told her.
"You say the sweetest things. But hey, I got the key to this box right her." Jinx said standing, pulling back and preparing to kick the glass.
"Vandals," Raven said dismissively and walked ahead.
A sudden ruffling caused Jinx to flinch and point her guns in the direction of the disturbance. The offender turned out to be a crow that had perched in one of the window sills.
"Dumb bird," Jinx grumbled, not bothering to holster her firearms and forgetting about the cigarettes.
"Careful what company you say that in," Raven mocked her. Jinx stuck her tongue at Raven's back.
After a scan of the roof, they were ready to move on, heading back into the hall. When the door opened they found something else new in the room.
"Ah!" a young blond girl screamed and bolted for the other end of the room.
"Hold it!" Raven called to her and gave chase. Jinx watched them go then looked out the window when a peculiar sound tempted her ears. Listening for moment, she realized it was helicopter. Finding this more peculiar, she moved towards the window and peered out. She couldn't see anything from this angle but it was getting louder. Then there was a loud crash and the whole room began to shake. Parts of the ceiling fell to the floor. When the rubble settled, as inconceivable as it seemed, a man stepped out from it. A big man!
"What the-?" Jinx started but he didn't seem interested in making conversation. He lifted both arms, clenched one fist with the other and swiftly brought them down aimed at her pink haired head.
Jinx back flipped away from the him.
His skin was pale, he hand no pupils and no expression. He wore a long black trench coat and his code name was Mr. X. Jinx had had enough. Being that this wasn't a zombie, she holstered her guns and sent a spinning kick for his stomach. He caught her foot and tossed it towards the ceiling. This surprised her but she managed to recover in mid air and land on her feet.
"Okay. I tried to be nice!" Jinx said pointing her guns on him. He didn't seemed phased and continued to walk toward her. "Hey!" Jinx said backing up. "Hello? Guns! Hot lead you jerk off!" No avail. "You asked for it!" Jinx said letting rounds fly. She aimed at his upper thighs. The bullets hit their mark but did nothing to stop his advance. Jinx was bewildered. She kept firing and backing up. By the time she thought to change tactics he already pulled back to swing. The blow sent her small form into the wooden door and through it.
Jinx scrambled to her feet but the pain in her side made it almost to much to bare.
"Oh, hell," Jinx said running flat out of idea. She didn't think she'd be able to summon a hex before he hit her again. She realized she should have tried her power's earlier but it was too late now. When all seemed lost, a large black shape plowed into the chest of the behemoth. It caused him to stagger backwards. Jinx looked to its source who was busy tossing more objects at it.
"Friend of your's?" Raven asked Jinx. The pink haired female scrambled to Raven's side.
"I wish!" Jinx said summoning her hex power. "Man the damage we could do together. But no. Someone pissed in his cornflakes and he seems to feel fine taking it on innocent girls like me."
The mysterious figure was hit with a barrage of objects including, window frames, cabinets, doors and chunks of ceiling but swatted most away. What did hit him did nothing to stop his progress. Finally Jinx's unlucky, pink energy bolts brought the entire ceiling down on top of him.
"Phew," Jinx said wiping her forehead.
"Let's get going." Raven said.
In the next room the small blond girl Raven had chased down was sitting next to the door across from them hugging her knees. She looked up at them as the came in.
"Another survivor?" Jinx asked Raven, holding her side as they walked up to her. It was evident that the girl found Jinx's attire alarming.
"What's your name?" Raven asked the girl. She looked about eight or nine.
"S-Sherry. Sherry Birkin."
Robin now stood in what was easily the creepiest room in the police station. The room was filled with shelves of what looked like bottled organs. Animal, or human, Robin couldn't tell. The tools on the table were stained with blood which seemed to also be the source of the rooms foul stench. But the most disturbing feature in the room had to be the man who seemed to own it.
"Mr. Irons?" Robin asked the brown haired man in the corner. He stood with his head down.
"They've ruined my town. After all I've done for them."
"Who are 'they?'" Robin asked the man.
"Please. I'd really like to be alone right now."
"Not a good idea." Robin said keeping his distance. The man had a hand gun.
"Who are you! What do you know?" The man whirled on him looking positively vicious. "Titan? You're too late."
"Too late am I?" Robin baited. He was certain this was the police chief mentioned in the files. The one on the take from Umbrella. He was a wealth of answers Robin sorely needed.
"Can't you see? They've won," the man said rubbing the hand gun against his head miserably. "This is all that damn Birkin's fault."
"Birkin?" Robin said, not wanting apprehend the man while he happened to be in chatty mood.
"Yes. Birkin." Iron's said. "You'd like to know more about him wouldn't you? Is knowledge, not power? But you're wasting your time. None of us will survive this."
"Calm down chief," Robin said.
"How dare you te-!" the man raged, but was cut short when a metal hatch behind him shot violently towards the ceiling. The chief darted away from it as a zombie emerged. It lumbered into the room and towards him.
"Damn things don't know when to quit!" the chief said, unloading round after round upon the creature. It ignored the assault and kept coming. Robin charged the zombie from the side, but a surprise strike from it sent him all the way across the room. This was no ordinary zombie.
"Oh, it's you!" Irons said. The creature growled, his voice as loud as thunder, and clutched his forehead. His upper torso began to expand. It continued to howl and its right arm and chest doubled in size. On it's right shoulder covered in a black fleshy armor, a huge red eye opened. It rose its arm and spore shot from its palm and entered the chiefs throat. Robin could see a critter with tiny legs enter the chief's body.
"No! No! N-" the chief cried as it began to tear him a part from the inside. Robin watched in disbelief as the creature turned its attention to him.
It swung its larger arm and sent the table in Robin's direction. Robin rolled under it and was ready with a handful of birder-rangs. Each hit their target and the target only recoiled slightly. Robin dived for the police chiefs gun then rolled towards the hatch the creature used to enter the room. Robin dropped to the ground rather then use the ladder and waited. The creature followed him. Robin let loose with the hand gun emptying every shot on his enemy. It staggered, but kept coming. Robin dived for it, delivering a serious of kicks in mid air. Again, it staggered but a hand caught Robin and slammed him into the metal scaffolding they were battling on.
Robin rolled backwards and onto his feet. He started to size up his opponent and chose his next plan off attack when William made his own apparent by charging recklessly throwing one arm after the other. Robin bobbed back, evading a slow, long ,heavy, battering ram like limb and a faster humanoid one. It gave him difficulty. Just when Robin thought he was ready to counter, he was dazed by a strike to the jaw then the heavier arm floored him. He started to roll sideways and was then kicked a short distance.
Robin struggled and soon realized he was being held down. A few kicks to the creatures ribs did nothing. In fact, they were partially covered by more of the fleshy black armor. Then Robin saw it. He plunged a fist in the large red eye on his opponents right shoulder. It cried and staggered off. It lumbered blindly towards the railing and fell over. Robin rushed the edge, but lost sight of it. He realized now he was over looking a sewer.
Robin sighed deeply. The chief, and all the information he had, was dead.
"Some how I doubt this is a romantic get away," Robin said observing his surroundings. Mr. Irons had instant access to the city's sewer system. Robin had to find out why.
A glimmer of light bounced of something on the floor. Robin picked up the item. It was name tag with a picture ID for a man named William Birkin.
"We're almost there," Raven promised Sherry in the softest tone Jinx had yet ever heard from the female Titan. They were all in the main lobby again and set on heading back to the S.T.A.R.S office where Starfire would be waiting to transport any survivors to the nearest town.
"Holy sh-" Jinx's eyes doubled in size.
"What is it n-" Raven said following Jinx's gaze then glaring. The Zombie horde that was previously kept outside by Raven's barricades were now inside.
"How could they have moved that much debris in such a short amount of time?" Raven grumbled.
"It's always nice to have friends isn't it Jinx?" a chillingly familiar voice took their attention. It was Slade. He was standing on the railing circling the second floor. "You seem to have adjusted to yours well. Amazing. They still accept you even though you are what they are trying so hard to keep out?"
Jinx did exactly what Slade wanted her to do. She was outraged.
"Ignore him!" Raven ordered. "We have to get through." Raven started to summon a force field when something struck her. Sherry shrieked at the top of her lungs. She stood frozen with fear, eyes glued to the thing standing on Raven.
Jinx swung her leg like a bo-staff and kicked the creature into the center of the lobby. The ugly thing had no eyes, but a dozen claws protruded from two clumps of meat where most humans had fingers.
"Raven! Raven! You with me kid?" Jinx asked turning the Titan over as the horde slowly lumbered towards them. Their moans were a chorus of misery and need. They where a mass of men an women who's minds were reduced to the most basic of all needs. The need to feed.
"I'm alright..." Raven said, shaking off dizziness that threatened to plunged her into darkness after cracking her head against the floor. "Watch Sherry," Raven said as she climbed to her feet. The horde had them surrounded now.
"I'm going to make you sorry for the day you tried to make a meal out of us!" Jinx said cracking her knuckles and facing them. "You girls have anything clever to add?" Jinx said turning a grin on Raven and Sherry. Sherry, Jinx realized for the first time, was petrified. The child looked about ready to die from sheer fright.
Jinx shoved aside the observation and proceeded to assault the zombies, blasting with twin hand guns, hex bolts and legs that were as lethal as scythes. She often stepped away from Sherry, but never left the terrified girl alone for more then four seconds. Jinx bounded towards the enemy and away. Bodies fell and the others fell over them were then even easier prey for the super-criminal. Raven had also regained her senses and used zombies as projectiles against other zombies.
A small gap was growing in the room. The girls fought their way into the center of the room and beyond. Two more of those blade armed creatures were scaling the ceiling forty feet above the girls. Both creatures paused, hissed and meant to lunge for the girls. Jinx sent a hex bolt at them, but they evaded as the dropped onto zombies and dived for her.
Raven cringed at the pain her back. She really needed a chance to heal the gash.
Jinx waited as one of the long tonged abominations lunged for her. At the last moment she extended her leg and the creature slammed it face first. Jinx recoiled only slightly. As the creature withered in pain, zombies descended on it. Jinx lost sight of it as they piled on top of it. Soon geysers of red liquid shot up from the feeding frenzy. Zombies then began to stagger back. Most missing limbs. It was soon apparent that the monster had turned the tables as it continued to tear zombies into bloody ribbons.
Meanwhile, the other monster was now trying cut down Raven. The dark mage kept it back with a shield, but was having trouble maintaining it. Jinx shoved Sherry behind the shield the skipped around, doing a handstand then a cartwheel into a back flip. Her feet came down on the monsters head. She squatted beside it's carcass and started firing at more zombies. Raven used her shield to push her way to the far left wall where she could see a ladder. Jinx followed still firing until both guns only made clicking sounds.
"Go up the ladder Sherry," Raven told the girl. As the small blond child began to ascend Raven hurled more desks at the never ending zombie army. The zombies stopped for nothing. Not even when the entire door Jinx and Raven originally came out of was sent hurling into the room. It cut two zombies in half before it came to rest beside the main desk. In the door frame stood the man who attacked Jinx earlier. Mr. X.
"No F---ing way!" Jinx said. "Pardon my french," Jinx said looking innocently at Sherry." The blond, half way up the latter, was too startled to hear her.
The monstrosity made his own way through the zombies. They didn't seem to notice him. Not even when he began clubbing them and sending bodies, but mostly parts, all over the room.
"Jinx come on!" Raven shouted down to her. She was already up the ladder with Sherry. Jinx quickly reloaded her guns and started firing at the big man. Once again, the bullets did nothing. Jinx holstered her weapons and climbed the ladder.
"We need a friggin rocker launcher or something!" Jinx shouted as she took off with Raven into the next pair of doors they saw. They found themselves in a quite library.
"This wasn't such a good idea. We'll never get back out-" Raven said. She was huffing and sweating. She was walking behind Sherry giving he girl a urgent push to keep moving until Raven, herself, collapsed.
"Raven!" Sherry cried. It was now that Jinx noticed all the blood soaking Raven's cape.
"I'm alright." Raven said pulling herself into a sitting position. She began to heal herself.
"Raven!" Robin's voice entered the room.
"This is Raven. Go ahead." Raven answered her communicator.
"I've found something." Robin started. "Apparently the sewer system leads to some kind of underground laboratory. I believe Umbrella is the owner. It looks like you may be able to access it from any sewer system if you know where to look. I'm sending co-ordinates to you all now."
"Sewer system, huh?" Jinx said looking out the window.
"If it belongs to Umbrella there may be a cure down there." Raven said looking a Jinx.
Jinx brightened at the thought, but tried not to get her hopes up. Even if there was cure that didn't mean getting it was going to be easy. Nothing in life ever was.
"So what are we waiting for?" Jinx asked.
"Robin I've got news for you too." Raven said. " We saw Slade. He was in the precinct. He destroyed my barricades and let the zombies in. They've over run the place." There was a short pause, then, Robin spoke again.
"Alright. I'm going to have Starfire, Cyborg and Beast Boy transport civilians somewhere else. I need you to help me investigate these labyrinths."
"Alright," Raven said grabbing Sherry and lifting her into her arms.
"You're ok now?" Sherry asked her.
"Yes. I'm ok," Raven said, "We'll get her out of here and then we can help Robin." Raven decided as she approached the window Jinx was peering out of.
"No. I can't go!" Sherry protested. "My parents sent me to the police station! I'm suppose to wait for them."
Raven and Jinx looked perplexed.
"They sent you here? Why? How long ago?" Raven asked her.
"Uh...around 4:00. They said I'd be safe here." Sherry told them.
"Safe from what?"
Sherry pouted and looked reluctant to answer.
"From what Sherry?" Raven persisted.
"The zombies." she told them.
In the alley near the sewer entrance the only thing stopping the girls from descending was the younger one they were with. Raven was waiting on Starfire to come pick her up so they could explore this lab Robin found. They listened to the cool night air and various other sounds, ever vigilant and weary of any more monsters. Sherry shifted her weight from her heels to her toes in a effort to ward of boredom.
A sudden howl ripped through the night. At its beginning and ending pitch it resembled a man's voice. Sherry looked around, spooked.
"Don't worry kid. We got you're back." Jinx said, sure Raven's flying friend would show up before the poor blond had to endure anymore of this nightmare.
"No..." Sherry said. "My daddy...I can hear him. He calling me. He sounds hurt. I have to help him!" the girl told them.
"What are you talking about?" Raven asked Sherry as her eyes darted from Raven' to man hole.
"I have to- I have to go!" Sherry said and ran for the sewer.
"Wait." Raven reached for her but the girl slipped down the rungs of the ladder into the darkness below. When the other girls got there Sherry was no where to be found.
Yes. I made Sherry eight years old as opposed to twelve. If you played the game, then you know she was about as useful as an eight year old anyway! I'm not hating on the character. Just relating facts.