Chapter 12
Just as Teemo was at the door pissing Caitlyn off on purpose. The other 4 were sitting there, wondering why Caitlyn was here at all.
Because of Teemo's ambiguous wording whenever it comes to the details of the plan, no one truly knows what his plan really is. As for now, everyone has their own guesses.
First, it's a disappointed Jinx.
"This is so boring, I thought Vi was here too."
Comparing to the others thinking about Teemo's plan, Jinx seems a little… off track. She seems to care more about Vi than Teemo's plan.
Most people here don't know much about things between Jinx and Vi. So, they chose to remain silent. But when Vi is mentioned, Ekko gave a snort.
"What, you don't like her also? " Jinx seems to be extremely aware of her surroundings whenever the subject turns to Vi, "You hate that ugly idiot as much I do?"
"Vi… is a dirty traitor."
"Traitor?"
Jinx's eyebrows raise, she's not going to miss out the chance of digging up some of Vi's dirt. Seeing that Ekko knows something, she dropped Ziggs and got next to Ekko.
"Tell me, what stupid thing did she do?"
"Not stupid, to be honest it's pretty wise." Ekko used an unusually sarcastic tone, "She left this gutter of a place, abandoned her gang and went to a bright new world. That's all."
Not hearing the dirt, Jinx made a face. "I know, she left Zaun and became a cop. Everyone knows that."
"Then you don't know one thing. She almost killed the entirety of her gang."
"Oh? What happened?" Hearing that someone actually died raised Jinx's interest back a bit, "She took them out herself?"
"No, but the iron fist was almost erased because of this idiot. " A lot of bad memories came back to Ekko, "She almost caused the death of 20 people. And now she's in Piltover, enjoying herself!"
Ekko started to get overwhelmed with emotion. Jinx on the other hand got rather excited, urging Ekko to go on about what happened with Vi.
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Vi used to be a gangster of Zaun. She's an orphan. When she grew up, she doesn't know, and didn't want to know who her parents are. This made her a tough person, in some ways even stubborn.
Growing up in a place like Zaun is never something like a walk in the park. She fought a lot of fights on her way of becoming a grown-up. Sometimes she won, sometimes she loose. But when she loses, she trains herself and get her revenge.
Sounds nice, isn't it?
When she became an adult, she realized that flying solo doesn't go with the rules of Zaun. She leaded the kids that grew up in the same orphanage as her and started a gang called the iron fist.
Different from the lost children of Zain, the iron fist usually got their incomes by crime activity. Even if Vi set up bottom lines like no bankrupting people when thieving and don't hurt anyone as much as possible. Yet under the employment of the Chem barons, a lot of the aftermath ended up killing a lot of innocent people. And Vi knows absolutely nothing about it.
Until a collaborated robbery with the devils.
Because of selecting a mine as their target, Vi realized that the iron fist can't do this alone. So, she decided to look for help.
Her first goal was the lost children of Zaun. They were named a gang, but they have a great credibility and thus were considered a great collaborator.
But Ekko won't take part in any crime activities that involves robbing innocent citizens, that crossed his line.
As such, Vi found to the devils.
The devil is a moderate size gang. The number of members is somewhat more than the iron fist. But they don't have any thing that can be hold against the iron fist. So, Vi has the high ground when debating the plan and the shares.
To Vi, this is the perfect collaborator. As for being cheated or betrayed? Vi never thought of it.
Things goes just as they planned. The iron fists disabled the safety devices of the mine, while the devil found the mine owner and grabbed all of his money using fists and blades.
Yet the devil decided to cheat on them at the last second.
The leader of the devil reactivated the hex tech mining colossus. A hex tech giant that can be used in the purpose of warfare.
When the devil left, they blown up the entrance, trapping all of the iron fist and the workers inside. They also overloaded the colossus.
The colossus will explode after overcharging, and the process is irreversible.
In the desperate situation, Vi teared off the gauntlets of the colossus from its hands, put them on her hands, and punched her way out.
The next day, Vi started her revenge with her new gauntlets. The devil and the entire section of the street they occupied was destroyed. As for that boss who overloaded the colossus, he literately got beaten into a pulp.
This is the commonly known version of the story.
What they don't know is, Vi's actions brought serious consequences. If the devil was this powerless, how did they manage to survive in Zaun?
The answer is simple, they were supported by the Chem barons.
Sure, Vi sometimes get hired by the Chem barons, but the Chem barons didn't hand out every job to others. They have some gangs under their direct control. The devil is one of them.
Fury obscured Vi's judgement. Sure, she got her revenge, but she also angered some of those higher hierarchy of Zaun hiding in the shadows.
Ekko tried warning her, but clearly Vi wasn't going to listen. She rejected Ekko's help, and then taunted him for his "fake morality"
In a dark night, the iron fists were raided by several gangs supported by the Chem barons.
Even if Vi got out of there alive, the rescue came one step too late. The iron fists were almost wiped out.
Ekko wanted Vi to join the lost children of Zaun. He thinks that this could make Vi realize what kind of a place is Zaun.
But after all that happened, Vi chose to leave. When this name appeared in public again, it's with the title of the Piltover enforcer.
After finishing the story, Ekko drank the cup of drink on the table in one single gulp.
"Vi seems to be all rough and unbreakable, but she is the coward! The Chem barons scared her away. Now she seeks refuge in Piltover, betraying her home!"
"I can now call Vi a scaredy cat? " Jinx completely missed the point, "Ha! Ugly, idiot and a scaredy cat! Hahaha!"
"Shut up!" Just as Jinx celebrated her success of coming up a new name for Vi, Caitlyn entered the room, "You don't deserve to even say her name!"