Chapter 2: The Futha
Kevin didn't respond to her or look at her; he just stood where he was stiffly, narrowing his eyes at the intimidating man in front of him.
"Yes, Kevin tell your fellow officers how it is that we know and you know us" he said unsmiling.
"I don't know you, I never did… not in this way, what did you do to your skin Iggy?" said Kevin regretting that he had used the man's nickname giving away that he did in fact know him.
"You like it? We burned our skin with industrial chemicals 'imported' from the planet Gula and shaved our hair off so we can't be identified by our DNA, or at least it will be a lot harder to identify us if they ever do catch us that is" he said casually.
They all shivered at the gruesome details of what he said. "Those chemicals are illegal, you need a court document to attain them from that planet" said Gwen finally having the courage to speak to the man.
"What are you gonna do, arrest me officer?" he teased as he noticed Kevin clenching his fists.
"You're sick all of you, you've lost your humanity" he said disgusted.
"Don't be so pompous, if you had stayed with us you would be exactly the same, partner…"
"Partner" asked Gwen and Ben simultaneously. "Don't pay attention to him, he's lying" said Kevin.
"Listen here, Kevin Eleven, nobody knows you better than I do, and I know this new good guy act you have going on won't last long, so don't think that you're better than us now that you're on the other side of the law, you can't deny your past, what we did together to get what we wanted".
"Shut up, you don't know me anymore; I don't associate myself with thugs like you" said Kevin angrily.
The scary looking man made a swift move and pulled out a gun from his pocket and pointed it inches away from Kevin's face while his other thugs pulled out their own unfamiliar looking weapons and displayed them in the air hungrily, waiting for command...
Kevin threw his hands in the air in surrender position, while Ben involuntarily slapped his ultimatrix but he realized frustrated, that he didn't turn into anything as it was still switched off,luckily Gwen covered Kevin's head with her manna, protecting him.
"You dare disrespect me?" he said waving his gun dangerously in Kevin's face "You see these charms around my neck here, these are all of my family members that I had to kill to join this group, don't make the mistake of thinking that I won't do the same to you, just because you were like family to me". The trio all looked at the charms around the man's neck and could see that there were names engraved on the charms hanging from silver chains around their necks, names of the only people who had ever cared about them in their former human lives, it was an eerie sight. "NOW TELL THEM WHO WE ARE" the leader in front yelled to Kevin losing all patience.
"Gwen, Ben this here is Igazi one of the top ranking members among these guys here called 'The Futha' Said Kevin sourly. "Who are 'The Futha' whispered Ben afraid of the answer. "It's… It's, the name of the gang that I used to belong to when I was still…"
"Kevin Eleven" finished Ben shaking his head and remembering a time when Kevin was the biggest menace he had ever encountered. Gwen stared up at Kevin in disbelief who looked away from her, his heart heavy from the confession.
Igazi looking satisfied, lowered his weapon and turned to Gwen staring at her in the eyes. "If you ever interfere again, I'll end you too; I really do enjoy redheads, and their soft hair, soft skin, ohhh…." He said creepily that left his mouth-watering.
Gwen shivered at the way he spoke to her in his low creepy, wanting tone, and Ben clenched his fists in anger, but before Kevin could react to how his girlfriend was being threatened, another disturbance came from behind them, it was another voice. "...going on here, where are the laser guns?, we have a schedule to keep…
A ghostly pale looking female with a light blue dragon like tail hanging down from her coccyx and a mean looking face, wearing shoes with the thinnest heels and nothing more than a navy jumpsuit that clutched to the curves of her human-alien hybrid body, made her way through the crowd of men and stopped when she saw who was standing in front of her.
"Aahhh Kevvy long time no see" she said in a sickly sweet voice, walking up to him and smiling deviously.
"Ravenna?" said Kevin surprised, "I thought you were dead".
"I am dead baby, I died a long time ago" she said touching his broad shoulders, "so why are you here? Come back to join us again"
"Actually he's a plumber now, along with these two here" said Igazi looking amused now.
"Shut the fuck up, this motherfucker is a cold-hearted ruthless, greedy killer"
"No Revenna, I just deactivated his plumber's badge along with his fellow officers, look here" he said showing her the device in his other charred hand.
"Well, what do you know you're on the other side of the law now" she said circling around him "And look you've got yourself another bitch, a preppy rich girl from the better side of town" she said smacking her hand on the badge attached to Gwen's uniform giving her élite high school away. "It doesn't look like she can fuck you better than I did" she said teasingly and playing with Gwen's hair who, for the first time looked angry.
She's lying I never slept with her Gwen, don't believe her, Ravenna what are you playing at? Said Kevin furiously which made Ravenna chuckle and wink at him.
"Anyway, where are our laser guns officers? She said to Kevin, serious faced now.
"Argit destroyed your precious guns so he wouldn't get caught with them" Said Kevin looking satisfied now.
"WHAT! THEY'RE GONE! YOU BASTARDS, GET THE RODENT SO WE CAN GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE, WE'RE IN SERIOUS SHIT NOW!" she yelled to the other thugs who pushed past Ben, Gwen and Kevin, and grabbed Argit who fell so they dragged him on the floor and walk away with him.
"Please Igazi, it's not my fault, they made me destroy the guns" pleaded Argit who was almost in tears.
The undeniable sound of bone being broken filtered through the air. Igazi had just smashed Argit's head into the hard asphalt floor and blood dripped from his temple. The trio stared helplessly as Argit lost consciousness making it easier for him to be dragged away. "Guys, we have to do something, they're getting away" Ben said quietly so only Gwen and Kevin could hear him. "No!, you'll only make things worse" said Kevin...
The men started leaving in a hurry, walking fast into the warehouse and climbing into a ship with the engine roaring to life. Ravenna turned to Kevin once again. "This isn't over Kevin Eleven, you owe us now for destroying our priceless merchandise" she threatened, now also walking away.
"We can't let you take Argit, he's under our arrest" said Ben stepping forward bravely.
Ravenna turned around and shot Ben with a single shot of her small gun and he fell to the ground on impact, Kevin felt as if his heart would stop, everything happened so fast: Gwen was screaming and fell onto her knees next to her cousin, Kevin tried to catch Ben falling but all he could do was hear a women laughing in the background running away and winking at him, "say hello to your daddy for me" she said spitefully leaving Kevin staring, disillusioned in her wake.