"Now we're talking!"

I whoop and we all run up the stairs, easily taking to the rooftops. We hop around for awhile, enjoying as the day begins its course.

"Hey, let's go bother the cops instead! That's less illegal!" Dom calls.

"I don't think that's right." Ricky says.

"But it's more fun!" I cackle.

"Can I eat them?!" 'Bode shouts excitedly.

"Sure man, why not?! We have no rules! Only standards!"

"I didn't agree to that!" Ricky yells as I stop on the roof of a building across the street from Central HQ.

The building is as large as I remember and there are many people wandering around, all trying to be official looking.

"So, what d'ya wanna do guys? Mug, murder, or general illegal activity?"

"General illegal activity!" They all chorus, Dom and 'Bode pumping their fists into the air.

I grin and throw my fist up. "Tonight, we dine on the flesh of our government!"

"Yeah!" They hollar happily.

I grin. 'It's good to be in charge.' With that, I backflip off the edge of the building and land on the fire escape that was tactfully placed where I could land on it. "To our victory!" I call as the other three whoop and holler like the bunch of crazy people that we are.

"Attack on Central!" I yell, throwing my fist into the air.

"Attack on Central!" The others whoop as they climb down the wall. We all jump down and race across the street, 'Bode flipping a car and Dom and Ricky climbing over other cars, people screaming in horror. We race past the gates, 'Bode picking up the guards and laughing about something.

I barge up to the front, kicking down the front doors.

"Honey, I'm HO~OME!" I shout, laughing.

Several bullets whizz past me and imbed themselves in the walls around me. I glance around at the holes before looking at the shooter and grinning.

"Not as good a shot as I thought."

"Those were warning shots." Riza narrows her eyes and aims at my head. "Get out."

"But whyyyyyy!" I whine and lean against the wall. "We were just looking for something entertaining to doooo!"

"And you think murder is entertaining?"

I grin at the dark haired man striding towards me, pulling on his gloves. "Abso-fucking-luetly I do. You should know that by now Pops." He growls and holds up his hand, pressing his thumb to his middle finger. I "tsk" and shake my head. "Now now, fire-boy, don't get too hasty. You just got out of the hospital after all. I can smell the chemicals still on you." I wink at his surprised look.

He growls again and narrows his eyes at me. "Leave now and I won't burn you to a crisp."

I sigh and shrug my shoulders dramatically. "Mooooooom, dad's being meaaaan to meeeeee."

The two trade a confused look as I snicker. "Alright, alright, I'll be on my way then since you two are so pissed. I'll gather my groupies and we'll go bother some other people." I throw one hand up and turn to leave-

*BAM BAM*- two more bullet holes in front of me.

"Oh, am I not allowed to leave yet?"

Roy growls as I sigh.

"Okay, okay, fine." I sit down on the ground with my legs crossed. "Hey guys! Get over here!" I call over my shoulder. "Mom and Dad wanna chew us out!"

"WHAT?!" Bode yells angrily.

"Since when do we have a mom and dad?!" Dom screeches.

"Not getting grounded!" Ricky shouts as he dashes inside. He skids as he turns and jumps to sit on the other side of me. Dom and 'Bode come flying after, both running like dogs. They jump over me and sit down quickly, looking up to Roy and Riza expectantly.

I can hardly hold back my laughter at how confused they both look and how all the other soldiers look confused as well.

"Uh, well…" Roy looks at Riza for help. She sighs and puts her pistol up, stands and walks towards up.

"No more joy runs, no more hurting people,-"

"Awww, but mooooommmm!" I groan and loll my head back. "What else are we supposed to doo?"

She sighs and puts both hands behind her back before giving me a sharp glare. "No more hurting people. No more robbing, no more breaking people's things-"

"Never did that." Dom says and we all four nod, murmuring agreement.

"No more stealing." Riza narrows her eyes at us all. "And no more complaining or else I'll escort all of you straight to some prison cells with your names on them."

"We have CELLS with our NAMES on 'em?! SWEET!" I fist pump and the others all high five, laughing and grinning. Riza huffs and shakes her head.

"Do not break anymore laws and clean up this mess you've made."

"But moooooOOOOOom-"

"Don't "mom" me." Riza snaps, narrowing her eyes. "Now go."

Grumbling under my breath, I stand up. "Come on guys."

The others all groan and stand as well. "I don't wanna be grounded!" Ricky complains.

"Hawkeye-"

"It would cost more to clean up after they break out than it will to clean up what they've destroyed here." Damn right it would. "But-"

Oh god dammit…

And that's why, five minutes more of chewing us out, we were put to clean up duty with Momma Hawkeye watching us from the front steps and Papa Fire standing next to her looking very confused.

"This suuucks!" Dom groans as she picks up the pieces of clothes that had been shredded off some of the officers.

"No kiddin'!" Hart snarls as he puts the guard-stands in the front back up.

"Oh would you two knock it off!" I shout as I work on putting the front entryway back together, bending rock back into the pillars, putting the doors back on and such. "I ain't havin' mom shoot me in the ass again because of you two!"

Ricky snickers. "There's still a hole on your butt."

"I know Ricky!" I snap at him.

He sighs and goes back to helping Dom pick up anything in the grass.

"THERE IT IS DONE CAN WE GO NOW PLEASE MOTHER?!" I shout as soon as everything is picked up.

"Don't destroy anything else and I won't have to lock you all up." She says, putting her pistol back into it's holster.

"Alright fine, geez!" I throw my hands up and walk away. The others trail behind as we walk back to the warehouse (on rooftops of course, can't blow our cover to the public yet.).

Everyone's quiet as we descend down the stairs and back to the lair, the doors thunderous as they close behind us.

I flop down on the couch with a huff. Dom flops face first down and Ricky and Hart sit on the floor.

"Alright, we'll lay low for today so we don't make mom any angrier."

"Why do you keep calling her mom?" Ricky asks.

I shrug. "I dunno, it's something along the lines of the nickname thing I do."

"Have you made a nickname for me yet?" Ricky grins. I shake my head.

"You got to normal a name for me to think of any, Rick-ster. I can't think of anything that'll stick like Dom and Bode's."

"It's Hart! There are other Bode's you know!"

I chuckle and wave the hulking bat-face off. "Yeah, yeah, whatever."

He huffs and crosses his arms, looking away.

I sigh and cross my arms behind my head. "We'll chill here for the day, then we'll go find something to do tomorrow."

Hartbode sighs. "I didn't even get to eat anyone…"

I shrug and sigh. "You can eat someone tomorrow, a'ight?"

He sighs and shrugs.

I sigh again and look up at the ceiling. "... Do you guys think we could clean this place up some? Like.. make it cooler or something?" I sit up quickly with a gasp and a grin. "I can make a new place for all my journals to go!"

"How about a vault for our loot?" Dom asks excitedly, wagging her tail and grinning.

"We could make a pool!" Ricky says. "And have a sun room!"

"Would a bar and a meat locker be too much to ask?" Hart asks.

I grin and point up dramatically. "We shall make use of this day yet!" The others whoop happily. God, we're no better than drunk college kids sometimes.

I love my job.

"Alright guys, stand back cause I'm clearin' this place out!"

"I'm gonna go steal some stuff to put in the vault!" Dom says excitedly, already heading up the stairs.

"I'm comin' with!" Ricky shouts, scrambling to run after her. "I wanna help!"

"Guess I'll stick here with you then Dark." Hart says, sitting on the bottom steps.

I sigh and crack my knuckles. "Whatever you wanna do man, don't matter to me."

With a wave of my arms, the whole area empties out, all objects vanishing and walls disappearing, leaving an large empty room.

"Alright, so we'll have your rooms over here." I gesture in the general direction the rooms were in before, but build them each bigger and farther to the left. "I'll furnish 'em later. Hmm… I'll make my library over here." I gesture to where my room was before, instead building a big open room where all my shelves of books and some more empty shelves to fill space. I leave some space in the middle of the room and put a table and some chairs… screw it, I'll throw in a fireplace near the back.

"You gonna make some kind of mansion down here or something?" Hart asks. I shrug.

"Probably. Who knows how many others we're gonna add to our little troop. Might as well make room."

I crack my knuckles again and sigh. "Alright, so Dom's vault'll be in the back." I flick my wrist towards the back of the giant room, creating a large metal room with a giant safe-like door. "And Ricky's pool and sunroom will be… to the right of that, next to the bathrooms so I don't have to walk through the damn living room in a towel." I shoot a glare over my shoulder. Hart chuckles and looks up the stairs.

"I can't imagine why. You haven't got much to show off after all."

"That didn't keep you from trying to see." I shoot back as I raise up the walls for the rooms. "I think there's a natural spring not far off so I'll use that for a water source." I hold up my hand and wave it around slowly, trying to pinpoint the water. One I've found it, I guide it to the pool and bathroom area, creating a bathtub in the bathroom and filling the dip for the pool. "Now that sun room…" I narrow my eyes and walk into the room.

Of course, it's dark as hell in the room since I haven't put lights in anywhere but the library, but that's a fireplace. I aim my hand up at the ceiling, doming it upwards a few hundred feet. Pops might think he's the best with fire, but he can't do this kinda shit. I close my fist and a tiny ball of glowing light appears in the dome. "Not quite a sun, not quite a light bulb. Perfect."

I return to the main room and put up another wall between us and the vault. "And we'll have the living room here in the front again. So that means the bar and kitchen will be in front of the vault." I sigh and put my hands on my hips and look around. "Guess it's time to furnish all this then."

"We're back!" Dom cackled as she and Ricky rushed downstairs excitedly, bearing bags of assorted items.

"What all did you guys get?" Hart asks as I point to where the vault is. Ricky rushes to the vault, cackling like a madman.

"We just grabbed everything we could get our hands on!" Dom laughs and races after Lizard-boy… Nah, that's not as good as Dom or Hart.. I still like Bode better, but whatever.

"You guys can go do whatever with your rooms, I'm gonna furnish the other rooms.

-Excerpt from Journal Entry 6,582-

So that's how we spent the rest of the day: me fixing up the lair and the others running to get stuff from places up top. Yeah, yeah, I could totally describe what we did like I did the first time I fixed this place up, but I'm running out of room for this entry. To be honest.. I like the way this place looks compared to last time.

The library is nice, like one of the personal study places rich people have and it's where I intend to spend a good amount of time aside from the bar, which Hart somehow loaded up with a whole fuck-ton of alcohol which I have DEMANDED he tell where he found it all, but he has refused. *Insert angry Darkness noises here* Dom has so much random crap in the vault. And I mean all kinds of shit: coffee mugs from tourist shops, key chains, watches of varying price ranges, jewelry, pots and pans, a fucking EAGLE and god only knows what else. Ricky chills with Dom a lot too, but it's a good amount of him just running around to bother everyone. I dunno man, this place is getting pretty nice. We're pretty much set till this whole "Promised Day" shibang happens. Until then, I guess we'll just chill here around Central.

-End Journal Entry-

The next day, we're back on the streets, hopping around like the crazy fuckers we are.

So of course, who else are supposed to find walking the streets but her?