He wasn't really comfortable, considering Nathan was squished up against his side and noticably draping his legs casually over both him and Barnaby on a bike meant for two people at best. Actually, comfort didn't really seem to be much of an option right now, considering they were flying down the highway and Nathan had to practically cling to him in order to actually stay on the bike and avoid some nasty road rash, and having a blantantly gay guy clinging to you for whatever reason was never not extremely awkward. Speaking of which, he could feel said man's gaze on his injured shoulder, and shifted awkwardly. "You really did hurt yourself, didn't you?" before Kotetsu could reply to the man's accustaion, Nathan continued, brushing manicured fingernails gently against the shoulder in question and making him hiss. "Sweeite, you can't lie to me, you know. I saw you get hit by that fire." Nathan chastised him quietly, hopefully quietly enough that Bunny couldn't hear.

Kotetsu offered him a reasurring smile, even as he stretched the burn a little far when he turned to meet the other hero's gaze and it formed into a bit of a grimace. "Don't worry about it, Nathan. It's pretty minor, and I'll fix it up when I get home." Still, if the look on his face was anything to go by, his friend was not reassured. "Look, if it's anything I can't handle, I'll call you up later, Okay?"

"I'd rather you go to a hospital if it's 'something you can't handle', honey, though I appreciate the trust." Nathan laughed and he saw Bunny perk up in interest. Finally, he'd managed to catch on that they were talking.

"What are you two talking about?"

"I was-"

Kotetsu quickly cut him off. "I was explaining what going on. We're going to go and find Agnes, right?" Nathan looked at him like he had been growing a second head, but Kotetsu quickly jerked a hand over his throat and he got the message.

Bunny, on the other hand, didn't look really convinced, but a side view was never to be relied on for expressions. "Yeah, since thanks to that guy, she could be in danger."

"What's that now?" Nathan spun around to frown indignantly at Kotetsu, who gave a nervous laugh. "You never mentioned that Ms. Joubert was in danger, Tiger."

"I was just getting to that." the brunette grinnned wildly. The blonde harumphed and turned his attention back to the road, content to leave the two idiots to their babble. "Do you remember that bomb scare that we had a little while ago? Yeah, that was the guy." Nathan brought his hand up to his mouth in shock. "We think he'd probably going to try and get rid of everyone who saw his face at the scene."

"And that includes Mrs. Joubert?"

Tiger grimaced again. "Unfortunately."

All he could do was try and not fall over laughing at his partner, leaping about like his namesake and kicking the thing apart within a matter or minutes. "You always get to show off, Bunny." Kotetsu mumbled and grinned sheepishly, helping Agnes stand. He hoped she wasn't too injured-that mech had given her car a pretty good totalling.

Fire Emblem took her other arm. "How are you doing, honey? Are you injured?"

"Nothing too serious." She replied icily, clearly still pissed off about her car. Kotetsu could kind of understand: that thing looked really expensive.

As Bunny finally wrenched the man from the mech, Tiger walked over beside him, letting Nathan handle the director. He crouched down beside the prone man, shaking his head, "What the hell were you thinking, buddy? You must have known we were Heroes, we're on TV all the time-"

"-Ouroboros..."

Kotetsu's eyes widened inside his helm hopelessly, a tirade of cursing running through his head, and looked down on instinct. How did he...with his suit on it was impossible for Bunny to see-!

The blonde, however, negated Kotetsu's wild thinking by pushing him out of the way and picking up the prone man. He could see it now, the tattoo on the back of the guy's neck, oh shit. Shakilly letting out a breath of half relief half terror, he allowed himself to be pushed aside.

"What is Ouroboros? A crime ring?" he saw Barnaby's grip on the man's throat get tighter, and heard the anxiousness in his voice. Shit, that wasn't going to end well. "Where is that man with the symbol of Ouroboros on the back of his hand? Answer me!" The man laughed, and looked at Kotetsu, dead in the face(plate), and looked like he wanted to say something, but didn't. 'Fuck, does he know who I am?"

Bunny tossed him furthur into the parkade, the man landing heavily on the ground, and Tiger ran up to him, stopping him from advancing. "Hey, Bunny, what are you-"

"Please move." He made a move to navigate around him, but Kotetsu held his arms stedfast.

"Calm down!"

Kotetsu's arms were thrown away from his partner. "Don't interfere!"

"Honestly, you two, isn' there better things that you could be doing right now-"

The minute of distraction was all the time that the 'maintenance guy' needed. He'd crept away, grabbing Agnes by the hair, and her scream directed the attention of the fighting heores to more pressing matters. The man had a gun pressed to the director's temple, and Kotetsu was quick to turn and-

The man cocked the gun and grinned like a madman. "Don't fucking move. Take off your masks and put your hands in the air." When they did nothing, he pressed the gun harder into her skull as a warning. "I'll blow her fucking head off. Do it, now!"

'Oh, fuck.

Nathan and Barnaby grudgingly rose their masks, but Kotetsu was paralyzed. What would happen if he recognized him? What was Bunny's problem? What had Ouroboros done to him? Whatever it was, it had to be serious; it wasn't everyday that blondie went batshit like this. Was he completely fucked if the man outed him to his partner?

His head was spinning and starting to hurt from all the questions and by the time he'd noticed that both his partner and Nathan were looking at him, he felt sick. "Tiger..."

For now, he could only pray. Kotetsu lifted his mask, grateful for the substitute one that he worse underneath as protection just in case; but he didn't know if that was going to help him any, if the man had already figured out who he was-

"The other mask too, idiot!" the man roared, spittle flying everywhere. Kotetsu grudgingly lowered his secondary mask, so his face was completely bare. Well, he was fucked now, there was no hope. He might as well have been wearing a fur coat hand have a tattoo on his face like a harlequin and spades decorating his clothing like an idiot and that stupid fucking piercing, or, even better, strip naked and reveal that damned tattoo to the world-

The man's eyes widened, and Kotetsu could have cried. "Shit, you really are Ka-"

A blast of green-blue fire cut him off (the same as earlier!), hitting the gun and flinging it away. Kotetsu could have cried again for an entirely different reason. Someone, up there was watching out for him.

And, as it turned out, that someone up there was currently watchinghim, too. "Is that a person, up there?" He followed Nathan's eyes, and ran to the window space of the parkade. Surely enough, there was a vague silouhette, illuminated by the pale red glow of the moon behind it, as well as the iridescent and eerie blue flames that surrounded it's face.

A second blast shook the parkade, lighting up the entire surrounding area as the man who had taken Agnes hostage was set ablaze, shaking and screaming, and Kotetsu could do nothing about it, transfixed by the crawling, unnatural flame. The body hit the ground, and the spell was broken; Koetsu looking back up a the place where the silhouette had been and seeing nothing.

A/N: And here's where it starts to get fucked, kiddies. Please enjoy, and try not to mind my copious cursing. 3