Mako's Message: This is not the chapter I needed. But I think it's closer to what you deserve.

And hopefully the one you want.


I had a moment last night.

Actually it was kind of a mood the whole night. I felt so full of energy and... I don't know. I can't remember if I ate anything different or anything like that... Maybe I got a really good night's sleep the other night?

Anyway, we were out doing a patrol since we didn't have any leads or requests, which are just kind of... sometimes they're great and sometimes they're boring. And sometimes when it's boring it turns out great because Dave and I'll find somewhere to just talk and play sentry.

But tonight was not a night I could have sat still at all, so we just kept moving. Dave actually had trouble keeping up a couple times. I was like a hyperactive shark.

But my constant need to keep moving and to do it FAST paid off.

We came to this underpass that a family(Mother, Father, and Daughter) was heading for, and these four guys came out of the shadows to surround them. It was pretty well executed too. Two followed them in behind at a bit of a distance and staying to the...second and fourth...fifths of the road. Then the leader stepped in and blocked them off while the fourth came up behind him and a little to his left.

So the family had the wall to their left, two guys behind them to their right, one guy ahead and to their right, and the leader right in front of them.

The Mother and Daughter huddled together and shuffled closer to the wall while the Father stood up and faced the leader.

Leader said, "Let's make this easy. Give us your wallets, phones, and jewelry and we don't hurt you or your family."

The Dad looked liked he really wanted to fight, but knew that even if his Wife and Daughter helped it'd still be three on four, they guys were most likely armed with knives if not at least one gun, and the Daughter was like, 8 and not me so it'd have been more like two-and-a-half on four.

Point is he was hesitating as we walked up, but it was pretty obvious he was going to give up the goods.

Oddly, it was now that I stopped feeling like I needed to rush. I felt excited and even giddy but not rushed.

So we walked up, I was practically skipping, and Dave actually seemed more amused with me than focused on the shitheads, which honestly wasn't good but I have a hard time complaining about being the focus of Dave's attention. Just when it looked like the guy was going to go for his wallet I said, "Don't give it to him. I don't want to get his blood on it."

Everybody jerked around to look at us then, and the Father moved closer to his family as the Mom and Daughter backed in closer to the wall.

The leader was staring at us like we were a Tyrannosaurus, and the three other guys kept looking from us, to him, and back, while they started to cluster together.

It looked like he was trying to decide if they should flee or fight. Fleeing would have been their best option honestly. Without killing or at least miming them, at least one of them would have a pretty good chance of getting away. But they probably thought I'd just shoot them if they turned and ran.

My hand on my pistol might have enforced that idea.

After a second I guess pride or stupidity won out because he spat, "Fuck you!" and they started to attack us.

They might have had some good organization in surrounding their victims, but they were still fucking amateur hour when it comes to fights. They didn't even TRY to flank, let alone surround, us. They just tried to rush in.

And it was like they were moving in slow motion.

I vaulted over the first guy. I don't really know why. I just wanted to get to the leader and going over the guy took less time than going through him. And Dave was right behind me to take him out.

The second best part of this night was the guy's, "Oh shit" expression as I came down from vaulting over his buddy and punched him in the face.

We beat them down in a few seconds. Didn't actually spill much blood, but I'm pretty sure I broke at least one jaw and I know one of their knees was backwards the last time I saw them.

But the best part of all that was while we were tying the guys up and the family started to get away from it all, the little girl pulled away and ran back and kicked one of them. The mom chased after her and grabbed her before she could do it again, but I absolutely had to reward that so I yelled for them to stop and tossed the girl a roll of the Skeleton Kitty Duct Tape.

I don't think her parents were happy about that, but they didn't make her give it back or throw it away. Not immediately at least.

After that I was still super fucking pumped but I didn't have that drive to keep running all over town so we got... Like, I was still ready to take on a fucking army but I didn't NEED too.

So there was like, another hour and a half of us patrolling the city and me shadowboxing whenever there was nobody around for me to look stupid in front of before we reached the "nothing is going on so we might as well go home" point.

We don't usually pit stop at the Clubhouse but it was just a BIT closer than our safehouse and we have spare clothes there anyway so we just went.

Once we got inside I just had to let out all this energy that'd been boiling up inside me all night.

He'd walked in ahead of me and I shoved him as hard as I could and roared. Like a full on "I am Queen of all I survey" roar. And then I leapt on Dave and we fell back on one of the benches against the wall. "We're fucking SUPERHEROES!"

He looked half amused half...concerned and said, "Yeah, we are."

And I was basically straddling his lap and he looked so fucking adorable that I wanted to kiss him so fucking bad and I almost did. I didn't though. Damn I wish I had. So close but I just... It was like he was beaming "Don't do it" out of his eyes.

So I ruffled his hair up into a giant floof and jumped off him.

He started trying to fix his hair and said, "What has gotten into you?"

Heh. "I dunno. But I wanna get you into me". Wish I'd thought of that. Guess I just wasn't thinking that way for some reason.

I said, "This is awesome! I'm awesome! You're awesome! We're awesome!"

Dave laughed and said, "And you're just realizing this?"

And I said, "Are you NOT realizing how fucking perfect that was?! That was the most comic book thing we've ever done! We just saved a family with a little kid from muggers! And the girl kicked them!"

He laughed and said, "That was pretty great."

"Great? It was AWESOME!"

And I jumped on him again. But he was ready for it this time and stayed on his feet. I was like, "Why are you not excited!"

And he was like, "Why are you hyper as fuck?"

And I said, "Why aren't you?"

Then Dave gave me squinty eyes and said, "Did you take one of those 'Emergency Only' pills?"

I leaned back so I could get a good look at him and said, "No. Dumbass." and bopped him in the head.

Then I jumped down and said, "Spar with me."

Dave like, slumped, and said, "Aw, no, Mindy. It's late. You have school tomorrow. We need to turn in for the night."

So I said, "Sleep with me then."

Dave went rigid and said, "What?"

I yawned and said, "You're right, it's late. And I guess the adrenaline is wearing off so yeah, let's go upstairs and sleep."

And he said, "Yeah, okay, I'm fine with that part. But there is more than one bed up there. We don't have to sleep in the same bed."

I said, "I know, but I want to sleep with you."

"You really wouldn't rather have an entire bed to your- of course you wouldn't." He sighed and said, "What if I said No?"

I grinned and rocked on my feet, "I'll just wait until you're asleep."

"What if you fall asleep first?"

"I wont."

"So this is a game of Chicken now?"

And I shrugged, "Call it whatever you want."

Dave groaned and said, "Fine. Whatever. I'm getting a shower first." And he went to the showers.

Since he'd mentioned it I decided to get one too. He turned, pointed at me, and said, "We're not showering together."

I said, "I'm going to the girls side." and gestured to the door next to the one he was going into.

Dave said, "Sure you were," and went into the locker room.

I hadn't been thinking about it before, but I was now. I figured he'd freak out on me if I did though, even if I was just doing it for a joke, so I went into the girls side.

I came out just in one of Dave's t-shirts and a pair of panties. Dave was in sweatpants and a t-shirt.

We went up and sat on one of the futons in couch mode and just cuddled together and talked, saying stuff like, "I bet you're getting tired", "Nope wide awake", "Was that a yawn", "You're already dreaming" and stuff like that while we played with our phones.

I don't actually remember Dave falling asleep before me, but we woke tangled together so I guess I won.

We also woke up like an hour late so we had to rush out and I didn't have time to put on my normal clothes.

I was just so busy rushing that all I was thinking was, "I need pants" and I didn't even think about the shirt I was wearing until I met up with Angela outside of school and she had the biggest fucking smirk on her face.

It wouldn't even be that bad if it wasn't obvious the shirt wasn't my size.

And if Angela would stop winking at me.

I'm gonna punch her.

In her tit.