Like a Mirror
In downtown Never City the nefarious group known as the hook pirates were wreaking havoc. The Hook pirates were thieves, stealing anything they could get their hands on. Especially advanced technology. They stole from companies, using their plunder for their own evil ends.
Currently, jewelry stores, technology stores, and other businesses were under assault. The people ran in terror as the policemen tried to intervene, only to be met with fire from machine guns and energy weapons from the Hook pirates.
"Take that ya scurvy dogs!" one of them shouted with glee as she opened fire on the police. He covered his allies while they moved their plunder to their small hover ship, getting ready to take it far away and back to their boss and leader.
As he turned his attention to more policemen, he smiled, ready to open fire. But a shadow passed overhead, and before he could look up, his gun was frozen solid in a blue flash. He cursed as he dropped it and leapt back. It clattered to the ground and broke from the brittleness. He growled before a yellow bolt of electrical energy zapped him in the chest. He went stiff as it coursed through his body, causing him t rock backwards and fall.
His comrades looked up to see the two heroines of Never City looking down at them.
"BLOW THEM OUT OF THE SKY!" one of them shouted. They all immediately lifted their guns and took aim, the heroines split up, speeding and zigzagging through the air as they avoided fire, all while returning fire of their own. Hitting the pirates with ice and electricity.
The citizens of Never City watched from behind the police barricade and cheered for them as they fought. Especially the little girls who loved the two fairy heroes. Pixie and Snow Sprite smiled as they protected the people, glad to be of service and do the right thing.
Meanwhile, on top of a building. The scene was being closely observed by two other heroes.
"Should we intervene?" Frost asked Fury as he watched the women battle. He'd heard of these two, Pixie and Snow Sprite. He wondered what people would think if they knew they were real fairies.
"Nah, their city. Don't want to step on any toes," Fury said in rejection. He remained silent as his scanners fed him information on Pixie's armor. He had to admit, it was pretty impressive.
Below, the pirates were growing frustrated. They growled as they heard the cheers of the people. One of them decided to shit them up. He aimed a missile launcher at them, and with wicked smile, he fired. The people gasped and screamed as they started to scramble out of the way. Pixie moved quickly, she shot down and into the missile's path. She crossed her arms over her chest, activating her energy barrier. The missile collided, creating an explosion of fire and smoke that obscured the hero from view.
The people held their breaths as they feared the worst. Even Snow Sprite looked down in worry for her partner. But soon enough the smoke cleared, and Pixie stood there unharmed, her barrier holding as the yellow crackling sphere did its job. She smiled at the pirates proudly, causing them to growl in irritation.
A scream pierced the air, Pixie looked over her shoulder to see some citizen pointing up, and she followed their gaze and saw the hover ship for the pirates moving. A gun came out from the front, it pointed itself a Snow Sprite, she gasped as she shot into the air, gaining altitude as she was fired upon, she flew above the building, swerving, veering, and staying just ahead of the blasts.
Pixie narrowed her eyes as she flew up at the ship. She went for the canon, she gripped it with both hands and with a grunt, and she ripped it off. She threw the cannon to the ground.
"Wow, they're like the hotter, curvier version of us," Frost said in amazement. He watched as Snow Sprite used her icy blasts to freeze the pirates to the ground, or their weapons to brittleness.
Fury nodded in agreement. His scanners zoomed in on Snow Sprite, doing a scan of her gauntlets. He noticed how they seemed to channel her power through them like Frost's cane.
But then another cannon popped out from the side, she whirled around and gasped before she was shot. She went hurdling toward the ground, she crashed into it. Her armor held, protecting her from being killed, she crossed her arms to activate her barrier. But she heard a sputter and her gauntlets and armor gave off a disheartening spark.
She groaned, knowing full well that her barrier generator had just malfunctioned. She was fired upon again, taking a gamble, she flew towards the pirates, they yelped as she sped at them. And her bluff worked, the ship stopped firing, not wanting to hit their comrades.
Now in the midst of the pirates, Pixie started swinging, sending them tumbling back from her power suit's increased strength. She grabbed their weapons out of their hands, tossing them away, shooting them with her electric blasts.
One of the pirates was getting annoyed. He pulled out his rocket launcher and took aim at her. He contemplated firing, waiting for just the right moment. But he forgot about her partner, in a blue flash, he was struck in the shoulder. He cried out and flinched, causing him to fire his weapon. But in his moment of distraction he aimed upward, the missile flew into the air, passed the battling heroine and collided with a billboard.
With a screech the billboard teetered as its structure was weakened. It came off it supports and went over, falling and heading for a group of screaming citizens below.
Pixie gasped as she threw some pirates aside. She flew at the billboard, she placed herself in the center of it and beat her wings as hard and fast as she could as she attempted to stop its fall. Snow Sprite attempted to help, but she was suddenly ensnared by a net launcher, she fell to the ground and struggled to get free. The pirates sneered and cackled as several them moved in on her. She was wide eyed and helpless as she struggled to free herself.
Pixie noticed her sister's distress and wanted to get to her, but she was still trying stop the billboard's fall. She panicked, not knowing what to do. Save the citizens, or her sister?
Luckily, she didn't have to choose. The billboard was suddenly lifted off of her. She blanched for a second as its weight was suddenly gone. Then she heard the hum of thrusters. She turned in the air to see someone behind her, dressing in black metallic armor and supporting the weight of the billboard by himself.
"Hello, you must be—"
"Night Fury," Pixie muttered in amazement. Eyes wide as she recognized the hero from Berk in an instant.
"No, that's my name, I believe your name is Pixie," Fury joked, smiling underneath his helmet. "You wanna move those people," he said as he motioned with his head downward.
"Oh, right," Pixie said snapping back to reality, she glanced over to her sister first, only to find her being assisted, by a familiar figure she recognized as Fury's partner, Frost. She flew downward and scooped up the citizens as Fury slowed the billboard's fall, when everyone was out of the way he touched down and slowly set the billboard on the street.
Frost twirled his staff as she knocked out the pirates, freezing them and blowing them away with the wind. When he had enough space he pulled the net off of Snow Sprite.
Pixie and Fury eyed the ship still hovering over their heads. "Wanna help me out?" Fury asked as he looked to Pixie.
"Oh, yeah, what do you have in mind?" she asked. Fury smiled underneath his helmet as he flew at the ship, it was about to open fire on him but he raised a gauntlet and fired at them, destroying them in an instant. Then he aimed for a thruster keeping it in the air. He shot a missile at it, taking it out.
The hover ship went up on a smoky mess as it started to spin off balance and come down. Fury flew underneath it, activating his thruster just enough to slow its descent and lower it to the ground. Pixie helped, and together they were able to get it to the ground with only minor damages to the building surrounding it.
Fury ripped the door of the side of the ship and went inside, Pixie followed behind. Frost and Snow Sprite subdued the remaining pirates on the ground with minimum effort. The crowd cheered and waved to them in congratulations.
Frost smiled proudly, bowing and waving back. He glanced to Snow Sprite to find him giving him s strange look. And to his own surprise, he recognized her.
"Peri?" Frost said in recognition.
"Jack?" Snow Sprite said as she cocked her head to the side. As the two recognized the other they were joined by Pixie and Fury.
Pixie and Frost watched as their partners seemed to recognize the other. But Fury suddenly got an alert within his helmet. With a curse, he suddenly took to the air and flew off. Frost blinked in surprise before following after him. Pixie and Snow Sprite exchanged a glance, and in the next moment they were in pursuit.
Within a few minutes the heroes were at the Haddock Industries building. And Fury was shocked appalled and angry to find much of it destroyed and ransacked. He watched his employees being ushered out of the damaged parts of the building, some of them injured. He went inside and saw much of his company's property gone.
"Hook," Pixie muttered from behind, equally as angry. "He must have used the attack downtown as a distraction," she concluded. Fury scowled underneath his helmet as he kept glancing around. He knew of Hook. The notorious leader of technology thieves. And after a few minutes, he took note of a very certain item missing.
Tink's shrink ray. He cursed under his breath. But taking a breath through the nose, he turned to Pixie.
"Alright Ms. Pixie, how about we trade notes?"
On the rooftop of a building, Fury was trying to get more information on Hook from Pixie. Emphasis on trying. Pixie however seemed be much more curious about another matter entirely. His armor. She was bombarding him with questions about it as she scanned it and got very much in his personal space to investigate it.
"Wow, what kind of alloy is this?" Pixie said in childish delight and admiration. She grabbed one of his hands and extended it so she could get a closer look at his armored arm and gauntlet. "Incredible."
She dropped his arm as she circled around him. "Oh, look at these wings," she said as she gave the collapsed wings a jerk. She ran a finger over the bladed edges in fascination. "So sharp."
"Anyway Pixie, about Hoo—"
"Oh, now what is this?" she said as she came up in front of him and began examining his chest plate. Specifically the point at which his plasma core was attached. Her scanners were doing their job as they pinpointed his power source "What kind of power source is this? I've never seen or heard of anything like this. Its power levels are crazy!"
"I call it the Plasma Core, it's a perpetual energy battery I created," Fury answered. He couldn't help but smile as he heard her gasp.
"No way!"
"What about yours?" he asked curiously.
"Modified super charged Lithium Ion. Plus some solar panels," she answered with a shrug. He nodded in understanding. Then his own curiosity began to stir as he looked over her suit.
"Titanium?"
"Yeah, lightweight. Plus…I kind of have a…allergic reaction to iron," she said vaguely. He raised an eyebrow underneath his helmet but didn't question it. He looked down at her hands, his scanners feeding him designs and information.
"Hmm. Bioelectric energy. And an electromagnetic energy barrier. Very nice," he said impressed. Pixie smiled at his praise.
SLAP!
The sound of hand hitting cheek suddenly turned their attention to their partners. They saw as Periwinkle angrily glared dagger at Jack who held his arms up in an attempt to calm her.
"Peri, you aren't still mad are you?" he asked nervously. Peri continued to scowl at him. Hovering a little off the ground she rose just above him to glare down at him. Then she pointed her palms at him and blasted him in the chest with ice. Jack yelped and rolled backward from the blast. Luckily not being too bothered by it since he was protected by cold from his own magic.
"You seem a little mad," Jack muttered as he got up. Peri growled before she blasted him again. She was going to continue when Tink ran up to her and grabbed her arm.
"Peri! What are you doing?" she asked in shock.
"You two know each other?" Fury asked looking between them.
Frost chuckled sheepishly. "Haha, yeah."
"How?" Tink asked curiously. Peri blushed and shuffled on her feet. But with a sigh she leaned toward Pixie and whispered into her ear.
Meanwhile, Fury came up beside Jack. He leaned over to speak quietly to him. "This looks like a one night stand you never called back. Am I right?" he asked, having encountered this scene several times before in Berk.
Jack smiled and shrugged innocently. "Yeah. You haven't had sex until you've done it with a fairy."
"You're a pig bro."
"I am who I am. Or was," Jack said helplessly. He was different now that he was in a committed relationship with Punz. But he'd been quite the playboy for many years, using his status as a professional athlete as a way to pick up women.
Suddenly both women marched up to him. Both wearing a frown. Jack gulped nervously before Pixie slapped him across the face, followed by Snow Sprite in the other direction. He was spun by the blows as he brought his hands up to his face.
"OWW!" he cried out in pain. "Dude, back up?" he asked looking to Fury. Fury raised his arms and took a step back, not getting anywhere near this.
Suddenly he was hit with an electric shock.
To the groin. His eyes bugged out of his head as he stiffened. Cradling his join he released a strangled sputter before he fell sideways to the ground.
"That's for my sister," Pixie said with a growl.
"So anyway, how about we go somewhere else to talk about Hook?" Fury suggested. Pixie nodded. Flapping her wings, she floated off the ground.
"Sure, follow us," she said before flying away. Her sister followed after. Fury was about to as well but paused to look at Jack, who released a pained groan.
"Coming Jack?" he asked in amusement.
Jack remained on the ground as he lifted a hand and flipped him off.
"So…you guys are fairies? Real fairies?" Fury asked in surprise. The women nodded. They were in Tink's storage unit now. And they were talking and the subject of them being fairies came up. "That's pretty amazing. The only other fairy I've met was Hummingbird of the guardians.
"Ah, so that explains your 'allergy' to iron," Fury said in realization. Pixie nodded in confirmation.
Meanwhile, Frost was getting cold glares from Snow Sprite. And to his own admission, he had deserved them. She was naïve about the human world and he'd taken advantage of that. He'd been a real asshole.
"Look Peri, I'm sorry. Ok?" he offered. She just kept up her glare. He sighed as he pressed on. "I was a major asshole. I won't lie. If I were a fairy, and I had a talent, it would be being an asshole," he joked. And to his glee, Peri's mouth twitched upward into a small smile. "I'd be an asshole fairy. But I wasn't all terrible, right? I gave you that cold charm so you could live out here, remember?"
Peri's face softened. She pulled out a small snowflake shaped medallion, enchanted with a cold spell to give her all the cold she needed since, as a Frost fairy, she couldn't live in places without constant cold temperatures. With a sigh, she nodded.
"So, can we start over? Please? I'm not asking for forgiveness, just, friends maybe?" he asked hopefully. He extended his hand out as an olive branch. And after a few moments of waiting, she accepted it.
"Friends," she said with a nod. He smiled, glad to hear it.
"Wait a sec…I now these specs." Fury suddenly said. He was looking at a wall of Pixie's invention designs. Pixie stiffened as he was looking over her shrink ray plan. She suddenly moved in front of him as she tried to obscure his view.
"No…no you don't. These are just top secret…very high level…early development stuff…no biggie,"" she said frantically. But Fury wasn't convinced.
"The Shrink Ray?" Fur whispered in recognition.
Pixie gasped, her identity in serious danger of being compromised. She watched as Fury turned his gaze to her. And though she couldn't see his face, she knew he was staring right at her. She shrunk under his gaze and fiddled nervously with her hands.
"Tracy Bell?"
Tink's eyes went wide. This wasn't good. Not good at all. Superhero 101, secret identity.
"Well, isn't this a surprise," Fury said in amusement. She cocked her head in confusion. Then she watched in astonishment as Fury's helmet began unfastening itself. Then he raised his hand up to his head before pulling it off.
"Mr. Haddock?" Tink gasped out in shock. Hiccup looked down at her and smiled.
"Well, looks like I found that diamond in the rough after all."