A/N: Hope you enjoy
Chapter 11
The four girls quickly ran out of the graveyard and back onto the main streets to see smoke rising up behind buildings a couple blocks away, and the streets were soon crowded with screaming people.
"What the hell was that?" Sasha asked
"Some kind of explosion" Becky said as she pulled on Charlotte's backpack and pulled out her phone, "I set up my phone to alert me when anything happens in the city"
"What like you follow some news stations, this just happened no way the news could already be reporting it" Sasha said but Becky just tapped on her phone
"More like I've tapped into the security grid to alert me and right now it says that someone bombed the bank on Sunset" The redhead responded
"Alright let's go" Charlotte said before the girls ran off, cutting down street corners, and pushing through the mob of people running away.
"Jeez where are all these people coming from" Sasha yelled over the crowd
"There are two apartment complexes beside the bank. They could have been caught in the blast," Bayley said before the four stopped right in front of the bank to see it's whole right side had been blown off and the apartment building to the right was slowly falling in on itself as a large chunk of the bank stabbed through its side. Also, the explosion seemed to spark a string of fires in the apartment's middle floors.
"Shit" Sasha said looking up at the buildings
"Everyone still have their communicators?" Charlotte asked causing the girls to nod and pull out the tiny earpieces, putting them on and looking to Charlotte expectantly, "Alright...Bayley I need you to help get people out of that building, look for anyone stuck inside on those middle floors"
"That building is gonna collapse Bayley. I say you have twenty minutes at the most." Becky instructed causing Bayley to nod before taking off and running into the damaged apartment building.
"Sasha go deal with the bank, whoever blew it up might still be in there, if you get into any trouble call us" Sasha nodded and ran into the bank while Charlotte turned to Becky, "Becky, call for backup and then try to escort all these people to safety. Keep them as far back as possible and make sure they don't trample anyone trying to get out of here"
Becky nodded, "What about you?"
"I'm going to help Bayley and try to put out the fires" Charlotte instructed before tapping the side of her earpiece, turning it on before nodding at Becky as she ran off.
"Alright people back up" Becky yelled out
Bayley had run in the building and was quickly yelling for everyone that she passed to get out and help anyone struggling get to safety. She passed by a bunch of people running out a few helping carry animals and small children while one man helped a woman out who was coughing harshly into a napkin, "Please exit the building quickly and safely!"
"There a still people stuck upstairs" A woman said quickly as she came down the stairs passing Bayley
"Alright" Bayley said before running up the stairs to the middle floors to see a giant piece of the bank roof cutting through the building and sticking through the hallway, pinning a door shut.
"HELP! HELP"
Bayley quickly ran to the first few doors and summoned her strength, pulling off the doors and running into the apartment. It was a nice building with glass windows on the side that were all broken and a long piece of the roof cut through the building and Bayley could see that this was the only thing holding up the wall between this apartment and the one next door. Also, a lot of the furniture was flipped over and glass was everywhere from the blast, "Hello is anyone in here"
"In here...help please!" came a voice from a back room causing Bayley to immediately run over and rip the door open to see a man and two children laying on the ground with a wooden bed overturned on them. It looked like the man was covering them and using his back to try and hold up the bed but he was obviously struggling. , "Please help I can't hold it"
Bayley quickly grabbed the bed and lifted it up causing the man to look up at her in shock. He was an older man with dark black hair and glasses, dressed in a loose shirt and shorts while the two kids were a boy and a girl, twins maybe with dark hair, both dressed in pajamas, "Come on, grab your kids and get out, take the stairs to your left they're clear"
The man nodded still startled by Bayley's strength before grabbing the small children and carrying them out of the apartment. Once they were gone Bayley carefully put down the bed and moved on to the next apartment. The apartment next door was completely damaged and the bank's roof cut through the entire room, coming straight through from the window to the front door. Bayley groaned and looked trying to see how she could get in, "Hello! Anyone up here?"
"In here! Help our door is stuck" Bayley quickly turned around to see banging coming on the door across the hall from the destroyed apartment where the banks' roof stopped.
"Okay just hang on" Bayley called out before thinking, she wouldn't be able to open their door because of the roof, but maybe she could get through another way.
Bayley quickly rushed to the apartment next to that one and used her strength to break open the door, "Hello anyone in here?"
"Help" Came a weak response causing Bayley to run through and find an old man laying on the ground with a piece of metal sticking out of his back. Even though the explosion was on the other side of the building the metal rod must have shot through the walls or come from somewhere, Bayley thought before leaning down next to the man"
"Sir are you okay?"
"I can't feel my legs" The old man cried as he laid on the ground trying to move
Bayley carefully looked at the metal rod in the man's back before pressing her earpiece, "Becky?"
"Yeah?"
"I've got a man, late 60s, metal rod in his back. Says he can't feel his legs" Bayley reported
"I'm not a doctor Bayley" Becky said quickly as Bayley could hear screaming and yelling in the background
"Well tell me something"
"Where in his back?"
"Middle"
"Did it go straight through?"
Bayley lifted the man carefully, "No"
"Well don't remove it. How big is the rod?"
"I don't know its a little bigger than a ruler"
"You have to get him out of there" Becky instructed, "Carefully thought you can't move him. If he says he can't feel his legs then that thing has impaled his spine and he could have spinal damage, any sudden movements could rip his spinal cord"
"And you said you weren't a doctor" Came Sasha's voice
"Okay stay still. I'll be right back" Bayley instructed the man before going to the far wall and banging on it, "Hello! Can you hear me?"
"Yes!" A woman cried
"Please help us!" Came a man's voice causing Bayley to nod
"Okay… can you both walk?"
"Yes"
"Okay then I need you both to stand back alright" Bayley said before she charged up her fist and punched a hole in the wall. She repeated punched the wall until there was a large hole and she could see the couple. They were a blended couple, a skinny blonde girl in a long shirt that came to her knees and a tall black man dressed in a shirt and sweatpants. They immediately ran over and began pulling apart the wall as Bayley used her strength to rip a hole large enough for them to climb through. Once they were through the woman hugged Bayley tightly
"Thank you" She cried while Bayley just pulled her away
"It's no problem but I need you" she pointed to the tall man, "To carry this man out the building. Do not remove that rod and don't move him too quickly"
The taller man nodded and he and the woman quickly ran over to the man to help get him out while Bayley climbed through the hole in the wall and began to beat on the other side of the wall checking for more people. While Sasha who had run into the bank was quietly walking through the bank. It was closed and it didn't look like anyone was in there. The lights were all off and the roof was gone but the siren from the alarm system was blaring and there was a small fire starting from a back room. The bank was very open with stations and desks along the right and left walls while the teller's booth was straight across from the door in front of a giant vault.
Suddenly Sasha felt something behind her so she ducked under an oncoming swing, seeing a man with a skull mask covering the bottom of his face. The man turned to face her and seemed to growl at her before charging at Sasha, looking her straight in the eyes, "Stop"
The man stopped in place as Sasha held eye contact with him before she began to inspect the man. She was bigger than her with pale skin and a black hoodie over his head, "Tell me who you are?"
"We. Are. SAnity."
Before Sasha could ask anything else she was tackled to the ground by a girl who growled and yelled in her face as she rained down punches on Sasha. The purple haired girl grunted and quickly pushed the girl away, backing away from her as the man from before stood up and moved beside her and two other men came out. All of them wore black jackets and vests and had masks over the bottom half of their faces.
"Uh...guys." Sasha said tapping her earpiece, "I might need some backup"
The shorter man in front who was tanned with tattoos down his left arm looked at the two taller men and nodded towards Sasha causing them to crack their knuckles before they began slowly walking towards Sasha.
"What's going on Sasha?" Charlotte asked
"I got four people in the bank" Sasha answered before one of the men growled at her, "Possibly feral?"
The skinner of the two men laughed and ran at Sasha causing the girl to duck under the man's arm and run at the bigger man, using the man's stomach to run up like a wall as she did a moonsault and landed on the skinner guys shoulders before using swinging her weight down, forcing the man to flip onto his back while Sasha landed on one knee. She quickly stood and looked at the bigger man who seemed to be angered by her and came charging at her causing Sasha to gulp and back away from him. She quickly turned and jumped over the teller's desk, running down the aisle as the big man just ran straight through the desk, breaking and crashing everything as he chased Sasha.
Sasha quickly was face to face with a wall and could no longer run, so she turned and face the man who was still charging at her like a bull and sighed before waiting. Once he was close enough Sasha ducked out the way with her leg extended out, tripping the man and sending him head first into the wall. Sasha sighed and stood up, rushing back over to the center of the bank where the other two of the group had been but she didn't see them.
Becky soon ran into the bank and rushed up to Sasha, "You? You're my back up?"
Becky shrugged, "Charlotte and Bayley are still helping people in the apartments and the main roster heroes are on their way. So until then you're stuck with me"
"And what are you gonna do? You told us you can't control your powers" Sasha asked as the first man she dealt with was slowly starting to get up. Becky held out her right arm to show off a beaded bracelet. She carefully rolled the bracelet to her palm so it was wrapped around her hand before squeezing it tightly causing a long staff to shot out of either end of her fist, "Woah"
"I've been working on these for you guys, the beads are made of vibranium, a little pressure and they can be turned into some cool weapons" Becky said swinging the staff around
"Do you know how to use that thing?"
"DUCK!" Becky said quickly causing Sasha to duck as the redhead swung the staff, striking the skinnier man from earlier straight in the head, forcing him to bend over and hold his head in pain.
Sasha quickly stood up and used her powers to push the man back through a desk, knocking him out before she turned and looked at Becky, "Guess you can use that"
Becky smirked and spun the staff in her hands before there was a loud crash from the bank vault. The two looked at each other before running off to the vault to see the short, tanned man and the pale girl filling duffle bags with money, "HEY!"
The two bad guys turned and faced them before looking at each other as the man signaled for the woman to attack Becky and Sasha, causing the girl the start slowly walking towards them. She ripped off her shades to revealing piercing blue eyes as she shouted, "Come play with Nikki!"
"Uh...no thanks?" Sasha said slightly confused while Becky slowly began to back away, holding her head and screaming bloody murder. Sasha quickly turned around to check on the redhead as the girl fell to her knees but was once again tackled by the girl. Sasha pushed her away and quickly stood up, "I'm getting tired of you tackling me"
"You wanna play?" The pale girl asked ripped off her skull mask and grinning widely at Sasha
"No" Sasha said using her powers to send Nikki flying back into a wall before she turned and rushed over to Becky who was still curled up on the floor covering her eyes, "Becky...hey Becky, come on snap out of it."
"Yer friend just got a little taste of SAnity. You should be thankin' my friend here" The tanned man said as he helped Nikki stand while the other two members of their group slowly got up and stood with them, "The whole world will soon see what she does"
"What did your little freak show do to her?" Sasha asked as she stood in front of Becky
"We made her see the Chaos"
"Well...that sounds...constructive" Sasha said still confused before she was hit in the back of the head with Becky's staff causing her to fall forward before quickly turning to look back up at Becky who was staring down her staff at her with bright blue eyes
"It looks like she has seen the light"
"Shit" Sasha muttered before touching her earpiece, "Okay..guys, now I really need backup"
Bayley and Charlotte back in the apartments were dealing with their own issues at the moment as the building shook under them causing Bayley to look at Charlotte, "seven minutes"
Charlotte nodded and touched her earpiece, "Sasha can you hang on for a bit longer?"
"Uh...yeah sure ya know. Take your time" Charlotte rolled her eyes as she and Bayley could hear fighting through their earpiece, "Why don't you two go see a movie, maybe go get your nails down while I take on four psychos and a hypnotized psycho Becky"
"What?" Bayley and Charlotte both said into the earpiece
"Oh now I have your attention...OW!" Came Sasha's response, "Remind me to kick Becky's ass when she's not hypnotized"
"Sasha what's happening?"
"4 crazy people, one has the powers to control people and they're robbing the bank so...ya know hurry up"
Charlotte groaned and looked to Bayley, "Can you check the last floor for anyone else. The fires are all out so you should be good"
"Yeah. Go help Sasha" Bayley said with a nod before the two ran off in separate directions as Bayley rushed up the stairs to the top floor, "Hello? Anyone up here!"
Bayley got no response but she continued on down the hall, there were only four doors up here and the floor was slightly tilted as the building was slowly sinking. She went to the first door and broke off the handle before pushing open the door to see four people kneeling on the floor praying. It was a white family, a woman with grey long hair and a man with matching hair and glasses while there were two young children with dark brown hair, all dressed in pajamas.
"Uh...hello! You guys should get out of here, the building is going to collapse soon" Bayley instructed as she slowly walked up to the family, "Um...are you guys okay?"
"Yes. We are praying. Would you like to join us?" the elderly woman asked opening her bright blue grey eyes to Bayley as a smile took form on her face
"Um..no thank you, but you all should leave." Bayley said carefully, "You will die if you stay here"
"If that is God's will" The man responded with a smile as the family all closed their eyes and continued to silently pray.
Bayley frowned, not really sure what to say to the family, she obviously wasn't going to let them stay here and die, but she also didn't know what to say to the family to get them to leave, "But you two...you're just children, you can't possibly want to die. What about your life, your friends?"
"We will be reunited with them in heaven" the girl spoke
"Okay…" Bayley said slowly just before the building shook once more, sinking down further, "We don't have a lot of time. Look I was sent in here to get you and everyone else out. If God wanted you to die he wouldn't have sent me here right?"
The two children opened one eye and stared at Bayley while the older man and woman stayed in place with their eyes closed. Bayley ran her hand through her hair before saying, "God would want you to be good servants and spread his word. You can't do that if you're dead. Let this be your….miracle situation that you use to inspire people to God"
The children opened their eyes and looked at each other while the older man opened his eyes as well but the woman stayed still, "God would tell us when and how to move"
"I am here, I am your sign. I am telling you to live, to fight. You can not rely on God to solve everything if you do not take action when he gives you an opportunity." Bayley said quickly before holding her hand out to the family, "Come with me."
The youngest boy looked at his family before quickly standing up and taking Bayley's hand, and after a minute the older girl did as well. Bayley instructed them to carefully go down the backstairs together and get outside to safety. The older man placed his hands on his wife's shoulders, "Come on Margret. Let's go"
"No Stanley. I have made my peace. I know what God is telling me and I will not let this heathen, shake my faith" The woman snapped causing Bayley to roll her eyes
"Okay" Bayley said tiredly, "I can't leave you here to die. That's not good for my conscious. Think about those two children. They got out...they'll need someone to guide them, to help them. Would God want you to turn your backs on them, to leave them alone in this world...t-to be TEMPTED, by...evil?"
The woman opened one eye and Bayley internally pumped her fist in the air before continuing, "Who else will keep them from falling onto the wrong path. Think of this as your...godly duty?"
The woman seemed to think before the building shook causing her to quickly stand, taking her husband's hand and thanking Bayley before leaving the apartment. Bayley gratefully sighed before heading to the next rooms. The second apartment was empty while the third one's door was already opened, she quickly looked around in it, "Hello!
The sound of muffled screaming came causing Bayley to run back to the bedroom where it came from to see a young girl chained to the bed, "Holy crap"
The girl looked about 16 and she had pale skin and long dark hair that was matted to her skin with blood and sweat and she was only in her bra and underwear. She was handcuffed to the bedpost by her arms and she had a man's tie wrapped around her mouth. Bayley quickly ran over to the girl used her strength to break the chains from the bedpost and broke them in half so the girl could freely move her arms before Bayley carefully removed the tie from her mouth, "Are you alright? What's your name?"
"Sarah" the girl responded through tears, "Thank you. Thank you. The man who took us, he ran when the explosion happened"
"Us? There are more of you?"
"Two others, in the other room. He's kept us here for weeks" The girl cried
"Okay. Do you know the man's name?" Bayley asked as she grabbed a pair of sweatpants from the dresser and handed them to her, followed by a jacket, allowing the girl to dress while she shook her head no at Bayley's question, "Okay. I'm going to get the other girls but I need you to go out through the backstairs and out to the police that should be there by now. Okay?"
"Thank you" The girl said hugging Bayley quickly after she zipped up the jacket before running out the apartment.
Bayley sighed and ran over to the other room down the hall and broke down the door revealing two young girls around the same age as the first one, both chained up and gagged. Bayley quickly freed them and told them how to get out before she moved on to the last house. Bayley silently thanked that training challenge that the class had when they had to go from door to door, because Bayley really didn't have the stamina to do this before. Bayley broke down the last door and called out for anyone.
"Hello. Is anyone in here? The building is sinking and you need to get out of here!"
There was no answer but Bayley had a feeling to check just in case. Just like in the burning house challenge, always check closets and small corners for children too afraid to move or speak. Sure enough in the children's bedroom in the apartment there was a small girl huddled up in the corner with tears staining her cheeks. She had pale skin and dark hair and she was wearing a long sleeve purple shirt and matching pants.
"Hi. Are you okay?" Bayley asked causing the girl to look up at her scared, "It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you. I here to get you out of here okay? My name is Bayley. What's your's?"
"Izzy" came the small response
"Okay Izzy, well I need you to come with me so we can get out of here okay?" Bayley said causing the girl to nod before Bayley turned around and allowed Izzy to climb onto her back, "Where are your parents Izzy?"
"Work. Daddy works late"
"Where does he work?"
"The bank. He's a security guard" Izzy said causing Bayley's eyes to widen before she pressed her earpiece, "Guys?"
"Little busy Bayley" Sasha yelled
"Did you get everyone out?" Charlotte asked as Bayley carried Izzy out the apartment and down to the backstairs
"Yeah I'm taking out the last girl now. She says her dad works at the bank. He's a security guard"
"I haven't seen anyone here. He probably already got out" Sasha said
"Are you sure?" Bayley asked
"I don't know Bayley I'm a little preoccupied right now!"
Bayley rolled her eyes as she continued down the stairs, feeling Izzy's arms wrap around her neck tighter, "Is my daddy okay?"
"Yeah Izzy. I'm sure he's fine. My friends are in the bank right now taking care of the bad guys" Bayley said carefully with a smile
"You guys are like superheroes? I think I saw you on TV before"
Bayley nodded, "Yeah, we're superheroes. Which is why I came in to save you"
"Thank you." Izzy said quietly, "I want to be a superhero when I get older"
Bayley smiled and opened the door to the outside as they reached the bottom floor, carefully carrying Izzy over to the where the police were setting up tape to keep everyone back, "Izzy!"
Bayley carefully set Izzy down as a man ran up to her and hugged her tightly, "Daddy!"
"Oh I'm so glad you're okay. I wanted to go back in there when the explosion happened but the police wouldn't let me" The man said hugging his daughter tightly before looking up to Bayley, "Thank you"
"It was nothing" Bayley said as the man let go of Izzy allowing Bayley to see the girl shiver at the cold air so Bayley quickly took off her jacket and wrapped it around Izzy, before bending down to look the girl in the eyes, "You be good kid okay? I'll be checking on you"
"Really?"
"Of course. I love a good hero in the making story" Bayley said with a bright smile before she patted Izzy on the head and turned to the nearest officer, "Hey!"
"Ma'am I'm going to need you to-...hey you're that girl from that Class 1A" The officer said with a smile
"Yeah" Bayley said, "I got everyone out of the apartments but you need to back these people up a little further, and keep your men out of the bank. There are powered people in there that can control your minds and my friends are in there. I don't need any officers to get hypnotized and end up shooting at them"
"Yeah sure" the officer said with a nod
"Just work on crowd control" Bayley said before patting the man on the back and running to the bank to help her friends.
Charlotte ducked under the swinging staff three times as she continued to back away from Becky until the staff hit the wall causing Charlotte to grabbed the staff and freeze it into the wall before kicking Becky away from it. Charlotte turned to see Bayley running into the bank, "Bayley vault!"
The girl nodded and ran past Charlotte and Becky to the vault where Sasha was struggling against two bigger men. Charlotte quickly dodged a right hand from Becky and then a left before Charlotte grabbed Becky's arm and flipped her over her shoulder, sending Becky to the ground causing Charlotte to quickly twist the girl's arm with her knee pinned into the girl's side. Charlotte leaned down a little to look Becky in the eyes, "Becky, snap out of it!"
The redhead bared her teeth at Charlotte before headbutting the girl roughly causing Charlotte to fall back while Becky rushed to stand. She walked over to the wall with her staff in it and pulled it free before turning around to face Charlotte who was rubbing her head and standing carefully. Charlotte watched tiredly as Becky spun the staff with expertise before walking closer and closer to her, "Jesus what aren't you good at?"
Becky smirked and went to swing her staff but stopped as Charlotte shot out her hands and froze the girl in a large block of ice. Once she was frozen Charlotte took a deep breath and bent over trying to relax but quickly shot up as she heard sizzling coming from Becky's direction. The blonde turned and took a step back as Becky began to slowly melt the ice, "Holy shit. SASHA!"
"Little busy" the purple hair girl yelled back as Charlotte could see the girl wrestling with the female villain through the doorway of the vault. Sasha harshly forced the girl away and turned to see Becky standing in a puddle with flames dancing on her skin. Sasha's eyes widened, "Shit"
Before Sasha could say anything else one of the larger men came and grabbed her by her shoulders before throwing her away from the open door. Charlotte quickly shot her hands out, freezing Becky again but the redhead cocked her head and simply looked at the ice before watching it melt away. Once it was gone the Irish native looked up with bright red eyes before marching towards Charlotte as she swung the staff at her head, causing Charlotte to duck and roll away from her.
As she turned to look at Becky she saw a ball of fire coming straight toward her forcing her to jump to the ground. Charlotte quickly rolled over out of the way of one of Becky's strikes that landed where she was previously laying. Charlotte quickly scrambled to stand up as Becky slowly raised her staff to her face and watched with a smile as it lit on fire causing Charlotte's eyes to widen, "SASHA...BAYLEY!"
As Charlotte yelled this Bayley went flying through the concrete walls and smashed into the high walls off the lobby before falling to the ground with a thud, "Ow"
Sasha soon followed but caught herself in the air and slowly lowered herself to the ground beside Bayley, quickly helping her up while Charlotte froze Becky once more before she ran over to them, "Guys we have a problem"
"Yeah no kidding, 4 on 2 isn't really fair odds" Sasha responded sarcastically
"I mean about this" Charlotte said pointing over to where Becky's entire body was covered in flames as she pulled her foot free from the ice
Bayley stared with wide eyes, "I thought she couldn't control her powers"
"Well either she lied...or this is because of that crazy chick Nikki" Sasha explain before the three quickly scattered and ducked under an oncoming fireball, "I'm still on the fence about which one it is"
"Sasha switch with me" Charlotte said freezing Becky once more
"And get stuck with that? Hell no" Sasha said pointing to Becky
"Bayley?"
Bayley looked at Becky with wide eyes before looking back to Charlotte, "I don-"
"Bayley you were able to withstand lava, you can handle Becky. Maybe if we knock out the girl her control over Becky will wear off" Charlotte explained causing Bayley to sigh before nodding.
Bayley charged up her powers and sent her strength to her whole body before standing in front of Charlotte and Sasha and Becky sent a fireball their way, hitting Bayley right in the stomach but the girl didn't flinch. She turned her head and looked back at her two other teammates before saying, "I can't keep this up forever so go takes those guys out already"
Sasha and Charlotte nodded before running off to the vault where the four villains were laughing and filing duffle bags with money, "This is like taking candy from a baby"
Sasha shot her hand out and used her powers to pull the bags away from the group so they landed back behind her and Charlotte, causing the four of them to look at the girls with angry looks, "You're right...candy from a baby. Four babies actually"
"Killian, Wolfe...handle them" the tanned leader said motioning to the girls causing the bigger two to step forward while Sasha just rolled her eyes
"Didn't we already do this?" Sasha asked sarcastically before looking to Charlotte
Charlotte raised an eyebrow at Sasha before shooting her hand out freezing the two boys in place before looking at the other two SAnity members with an unimpressed look, "You and Bayley were struggling with these two"
"Shut up, we didn't have your ice powers" Sasha said rolling her eyes while the two free SAnity members came charging at them.
Sasha held her hands out and stopped them, holding them up in the air while Charlotte smirked at her before freezing the two as well, "See look...all done"
Sasha shook her head before setting the block of ice down, "Now we just have to see if Becky is back to normal"
Charlotte nodded and the two peaked their heads out to the main lobby of the bank to see Bayley slowly helping Becky to her feet as the girl held her head in pain. Charlotte sighed in relief before saying, "She's back. Come on, grab the blocks of ice and let's take them out to the police"
Sasha nodded and used her powers to levitate the two blocks of ice that held the villains behind her and Charlotte as they walked over to Becky and Bayley. Sasha looked over Becky carefully before asking, "You good?"
"Yeah" Becky said tiredly
"What happened?" Charlotte asked Becky
"I don't know" Becky answered, "I just looked at that girl and the next thing I know all I saw was…"
The girls looked at each other as Becky trailed off before Bayley wrapped her arm over the redhead's shoulders, "It doesn't matter. We got the bad guys and saved all those people. Win, win"
"Bayley's right. Let's get these guys out of here" Charlotte instructed causing all of the girls to nod before following Charlotte out the door with the two blocks of ice floating behind them. As the four walked out of the bank they were immediately met with flashes and loud yelling from the audience of bystanders, police, and news reporters that circled around them.
"Jesus" Bayley said as she squinted at the bright lights causing Sasha to reach into her pocket and pull out a pair of shades, handing them over to Bayley
"Always gotta be prepared for stardom" Sasha said with a smirk as she pulled out her shudder shades and put them on herself.
"What happened in the bank?" asked one reporter
"These four tried to rob the bank and used an explosive to get in. The force of the blast caused the roof of the bank to fly off and pierce the side of the nearby apartments" Charlotte explained but just as she said this the apartment began to sink and slowly fell in on itself causing a wave of dust to form. Charlotte quickly shot her arm up and create a wall of ice blocking the dust from reaching any of the civilians standing around before turning back to the reporters, "Everyone was safely rescued from the building before hand"
"Hey! I remember you guys! You all are class 1A members correct?"
"Yes" Charlotte spoke
"What were the four of you doing here? Are you all on an assignment?"
"No assignment, there was trouble and we came. That's what we do" Bayley said with a smile
"We? Are the four of you a group?" A female reporter asked before pushing a mic in Charlotte's face
Charlotte looked at the other three before nodding, "Yes. We are the four horsewomen. We are here to change the world and bring forth a new age in our hero versus villain society."
"In other words we're badasses here to save the day and kick bad guy asses" Sasha said with a smirk causing Bayley to elbow the girl in her side
"But the four of you are women. Do you really think villains will take four little girls seriously?" A male reporter asked causing Sasha to reach for her shades but Becky quickly stopped her, placing her hand silently on Sasha's.
Charlotte shrugged, "It doesn't matter if they take us seriously or not. If they cause problems we'll stop them. This group...SAnity here, was just the first of many villains"
With that Sasha used her powers to levitate the two blocks, moving them to the police for them to be handcuffed and taken away, "They'll thaw out in a couple of hours"
Once that was done the four girls turned and headed off only stopping when they saw their classmates standing in the crowd with Carmella and Xavier standing in front with their arms crossed. Sasha smirked at them before saying, "Looks like you guys are a little late to the party. I mean I'm sure you can still get some screen time...they're interviewing witnesses so I'm sure you all can walk by and be in the background"
Sasha laughed at the class before Bayley placed her hands on her shoulder and walked her away with Charlotte and Becky following behind them as the four headed back to the school. Sasha and Bayley walked in front while Becky and Charlotte walked side by side behind them. Becky scratched the back of her neck before saying, "Guys I'm sorry about what happened I-"
"It's fine. That wasn't you" Charlotte said dismissing the girl's apology
Becky sighed but didn't say anymore as the four made their way back to the school where Hunter, Stephanie, Mick Foley and Chris Jericho stood there waiting for them with their arms crossed. Sasha looked at them before pulling Charlotte in front of them as the rest of Class 1A slowly made their way to the gates as well.
"Well?" Hunter asked
Sasha hit Charlotte in the back trying to signal for her to speak, "Uh...we can explain?"
"Nice" Sasha muttered sarcastically at Charlotte's answer
"No need to explain. We saw the four of you on TV, you explained everything then" Stephanie said before looking at the rest of Class 1A, "And what about all of you? Care to explain yourselves?"
The four girls looked at each other confused before turning to look back at the rest of the class while Xavier stepped up and said, "We were doing team bonding. We thought it would be good to get out and...see a movie"
"So...while a bank was being robbed and an apartment was being blown apart, you all were… watching a movie" Stephanie said slowly, "Is that right?"
Xavier scratched the back of his neck and looked at the rest of his classmates, "We did come to help"
"Yeah half an hour later" Sasha muttered
Hunter sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, "Class 1A, you all will be given detention for the rest of the week. That means you will have extra classes over the weekends with Jericho and Foley and you will be cleaning up the cafeteria and gym after the older student's sessions. You will train, work and clean from sun up to sun down until you all learn to actually be heroes."
Class 1A looked at each other in shock and all went to complain but Mick Foley held up his hand before saying, "No use fighting it. The big man has spoken. I suggest everyone head on up to bed and get ready for class. I want you all to meet me up out on the field at 6 am sharp"
The class groaned before all trudging past the four girls and Performance Center staff while Hunter turned to look at Charlotte and the others, "Now, you four…"
"Look we-" Sasha started but Stephanie cut her off
"It's fine. The four of you don't need to explain"
The girls looked at each other confused, "We don't?"
"The four of you saved a bunch of people in those apartments, and even though you weren't supposed to leave the facility, you did and you saved the day because of it" Stephanie explained
"Also this will definitely help with the marketing of the four horsewomen. Which is why we didn't send back up after Becky's call" Hunter said with a smile, "We knew you could handle this and you did, and you all came out the better for it. So good job on the name drop."
Hunter walked up and patted Charlotte on the shoulder before he, Stephanie, Jericho and Foley turned and went to head back inside. Charlotte looked at her teammates before stepping up and asking, "Wait! What about the rest of our class?"
"They'll do their punishments and the four of you will continue to work and train with me and the Shield " Hunter said with a shrug as he turned to look at the girls before turning back and continuing up the steps to get into the building
"So...we're not getting punished? For breaking the curfew?" Bayley asked still confused
"Don't give him any ideas" Sasha muttered
"Nope. See ya tomorrow for training" Hunter said, not turning around this time as he and the others entered the building leaving the four girls to stand and look at each other
"Cool" Sasha muttered with a smile
"Alright. This was enough excitement for me. I'm heading to bed" Charlotte said with a shrug before looking to Becky who was sadly looking at the ground, "Becks? You want to walk with me?"
"No thanks. I think I'm gonna head ta the lab" Becky said barely above a whisper
"Oh come on Becky. Don't be so down on yourself. You got brainwashed, it happens to the best of us" Sasha said with a shrug before pausing to think, "Well….not me, but that's different"
"What Sasha is trying to say is we forgive you. What happened back there wasn't you, so you can't beat yourself up for that" Charlotte said as she placed a hand on Becky's shoulder
"But I could have seriously hurt you guys"
"But you didn't" Bayley said with a smile, "Besides, stuff like this will happen all the time. There are plenty of villains out there with mind control powers. Just because it was you this time doesn't mean that it won't be one of us another time."
"That doesn't make me feel better" Becky said sadly
"Well there's the fact that you are going to be working in a lab most times. This was a freak incident where you were actually there. While on serious missions you'll be here working on your computer." Sasha said with a smile
"And this doesn't really change anything. We still got the bad guys, nobody is seriously hurt, and you're still a part of the team." Charlotte said firmly, "One random thing like this doesn't change that Becky."
"Okay" Becky said with a small smile
"So...we good?" Sasha asked causing everyone to nod before Bayley threw out her arms and said
"Group hug?" The three other girls looked at each other before rolling their eyes as smiles crept onto their faces and they all hugged. Once they were done Charlotte and Becky said their goodbyes and headed in while Bayley looked around before turning to Sasha, "So about our date?"
"It's not a date!"
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