Mako's Message: In the last message, when I said I'd write a bonus chapter when I reached chapter 20 as a thank you for all the amazing reviews I'd been getting, I chose chapter 20 because I figured that would give more people a chance to meet the requirements.

That said, I take it as immense compliment that so many of you wanted that bonus chapter enough to back review older chapters. It was pretty amazing to see my inbox containing six reviews at a time.

Now, as for this chapter, we've reached a turning point. We're going to start to see more action, and more plot, from here on out. At least, I hope we will. Sometimes Mindy gets sidetracked and wants to talk about something interesting but unrelated to the grand plot of this story. And I'm sure as hell not going to try and shut her up. So, here we go!

Enjoy.


Today I did the scariest thing I've done since my first night as Hit Girl. I visited Angela's house. Alone. To meet her parents.

How could this possibly be scary? Haven't I already been there? Didn't you meet her parents then? To answer these questions you may be thinking, in no particular order; "Yes," "No," and "You don't get it do you?"

When I was at her house for her birthday, it was just us girls. I don't know if her parents were gone or if they were just making themselves scarce, but I didn't see them. Now I'm being invited over because she said they wanted to meet me.

Why?

Do they just want to know all of their daughter's friends by face? Did she say something about me to them that they don't like? Did they recognize my name as the girl that hospitalized those bullies and want to tell me to my face to stay away from their daughter?

Okay, it was the first one but the others were possibilities.

My real worry was that I'd out myself in some way. Well, not out myself as Hit Girl but just slip and make them suspicious of me. I mean, what if I can't keep my mouth in check and drop an F-bomb? Or worse, a C-Bomb? And I have this habit of playing with knives. Any time I get my hands on a knife, I can't seem to help twirling it between my fingers. I do that sort of things with brooms too, but that seems like it'd be easier to get away with than knife twirling.

Actually, looking back on it I'm not sure why I was freaking out so much. It's not like she was my best friend and I was afraid I'd be told I couldn't hang out with her anymore. I mean, I like hanging out with her, but if I couldn't anymore I'd just shrug my shoulders and see what Dave was up to.

I think I was actually afraid of disappointing Marcus. He's put a lot of effort into trying to make normal life fun and interesting, encouraging me to go out and do normal things, make normal friends, and I didn't want to botch this up.

Anyway, it actually went pretty well. I didn't swear, when I helped cook diner I restrained myself to flipping the knife only once, and in general they seemed to approve of me.

After dinner though, Angela took me up to her room because she wanted to show me something. When we got there she dove for her computer, "I've been waiting to show you this all day."

"What is it?," I asked sitting on the arm of her chair.

"It's a new super hero!"

Now, that got me interested.

The video she brought up started with a title card saying when and where this had been recorded before fading to black and white security footage of one of those check cashing places. A second later three guys in masks came running in and started waving guns around. Two of them started putting the few customers that were there on the ground while the teller was getting harassed. After about a minute of this, I break into a huge grin as the hero walks in.

It's Biker Knight.

I was really excited to see him. So many of the other people that started dressing up after Kick-Ass made it popular were just walking after-school specials that it was really cool to see one actually stopping a crime. But then there's no sign or word of him for almost two months. And now there's this video of him stopping am armed robbery. So awesome.

The robbers seemed unsure what to do for a second, then they all opened fire.

My stomach dropped through the floor as I watched Biker Knight get riddled with bullets. He fell back against the door and they kept shooting. I was praying he had kevlar on, but even if he did, with that shit storm of bullets, I was sure they would hit something vital anyway. Hell, I think I saw him get hit in the head a couple times. Finally they stopped, or ran out of ammunition, and started congratulating themselves and harassing the teller again.

"What the fuck was awesome about that!"

"Wait for it!" she said, excitedly biting her fingernails

I looked back at the screen and Biker Knight was getting back on his feet, unnoticed by the robbers. He reached behind his back and drew out what looked like two short swords.

The first robber to get it didn't even see it coming and dropped like a sack of shit from a blow to the head. The next one tried to shoot him, but ended up having his gun knocked aside and got slashed across the arm and face. I didn't see any blood though, so I guess the swords were blunted. Pity. The third guy tried to take a swing at him but Biker Knight ducked it, hit the guy in the ribs with his blunt swords making him double over and then hit the douche with a rising knee to the face. The guy came up off his feet and fell hard on his back. There was no sound but I could just imagine the crunch that must have made.

Biker Knight then rolled him over and put what looked like zip-cuffs on the guy before doing the same to the other two assholes.

"Awesome, huh?"

"Totally."

I can't wait to show Dave.