This is just a little nice one I made. The next chapter's gonna have some action! I wanted Trini to have some time alone with Vic to get to know him better and I wanted Jake to talk about his feelings...to Molly. I think this one came out okay.
One Month Later...
"Yes, flee in terror, Los Angelinos...lest you feel the sting of the might Swarm!" The man who announced that was covered entirely in bees and wasps from head to toe, while a purple cloak was wrapped around him.
Above him on a nearby rooftop stood the Runaways; Los Angeles' defenders...well, for now.
"Holy Crap." Gert stated as she shoved her hands in her pockets. "Our job sucks."
"That's Fritz Von Meyer." Trini answered as she crossed her arms over her her T-shirt that looked like they had suspenders on it. "His body's made of a colony of god knows how many insects."
"Well, cosmic insects." Nico corrected.
"Cosmic? As in outer space?" Karolina blinked as she leaned forward.
"I read about this jerk in your parents' files. Apparently, before he became Swarm, he was one of Hitler's top scientists." Victor added.
"A super Nazi? Made of Bees?" Chase questioned. "Yeah, I'm gonna sit this one out."
"Ditto." Jake agreed. "Believe it or not, I'm grossed out by bugs."
The group cocked a brow and turned to Jake. "What?" He shrugged. "I've always been afraid of them."
"Anyways," Trini turned around. "I'm gonna hafta skip this one, too."
"Why?" Victor turned to her.
"I'm not waitsing my powers on a second string villain." Trini waved her hand away. "I think you guys can handle it."
"'Afraid I have to pass, too." Gert looked down. "I'm deathly allergic to those things. And whatever hurts Old Lace, hurts me. If she gets stung, I'm as good as dead."
"I'm with Jake on this one. I don't like bugs." Molly stated.
"Molly, you can bench press Rhode Island. You have to help." Karolina protested.
"We don't have to play by Fight Club rules, Karolina. If she doesn't want to throw down, she doesn't have to." Nico gripped her staff.
"I can give you guys a hand...if you want me to." Victor suggested.
"No way! Junior here's still on probation!" Chase intervined.
"Oh, cut the kid some slack." Trini defended. "He's been on the bench for an entire month."
"Seriously, I wanna get in the game." Victor added.
Nico looked up in thought and then nodded. "Fine."
"Alright, well, follow Nico and we might get you out in one peice." Karolina stated as she ripped her bracelet off; letting her powers flutter free.
"You guys have some sort of rally cry?" Victor asked as he took his jacket and headphones off. "You know, Avengers Assemble, It's Clobberin' Time, Hulk Smash?"
Nico leaped off the building; Victor and Karolina following suit. "Try Not To Die."
"20 bucks says Vic gets his Robo butt handed to him." Chase betted.
"Make it 30." Jake added as he leaned over the balcony and pulled his black hoodie more over his face to protect it from the Sunlight.
"50 bucks if he defeats Swarm." Trini jumped in.
Jake rolled his eyes. "Of course."
"Deal." Chase smirked.
"FUMIGATION." Nico shouted as she pointed her staff forward.
"Nico, no!" Karolina shouted as she grabbed Nico. A bright light appeared between them, when it died down, the two were gone.
"What the-?" Chase blinked.
"She already used that spell." Gert answered.
"Yeah, on that Trantula Guy a couple weeks back." Molly pointed.
"Well, care to lower that bet, Trinket?" Chase teased.
"Don't count him out, yet." Trini pointed down to Victor who had just punched a Mailbox tha twas getting thrown at him.
"No matter, not even a computer can outwit my intellect." Swarm gloated. "I am not one mind, but tens of thousands."
"Gay." Jake rolled his eyes.
"And bees comminucate through vibrations traansmitted to their antennae, right?" Victor inquired. "Transmissions that send electrical impulses to their nerves?" He swung his hands up; electricity flying outward. "In other words, this is gonna hurt like a mother!"
The electricity slammed throughout Swarm's body; separating the insects from his human form.
Trini smirked and held her hand out. Chase and Jake groaned as they reached into their pockets to grab out the money. "Dammit."
"Don't underestimate our little Robot." Trini smirked.
"Well, throw a party about that later, Trini. Right now, we gotta jet before those Excelsior jokes come." Gert stated as she looked around the sky.
"Pffft. You mean the garbage men?" Jake cocked a brow. "Turbo and them aren't superheroes, Gert, they're our clean up crew."
"Whatever, we better leave before they try to put us back in foster care." Gert panned towards the Frogger.
"But Nico promised we'd go shopping today, Gert." Molly whined.
"She's right." Nico called as she was being hauled in by Karolina, who was also holding Victor. "We need supplies in the bad way and Zapper here gave us some time."
"So we leave Old Lace in the cloaked Frogger and split into groups so we can attack our grocery list fast enough." Jake suggested.
"We meet back here in an hour." Nico nodded. "And remeber our number one rule about the Civilain world: we're invisible to most adults until we start stealing. So go easy on the Five Fingered discounts okay, Trini? Jake?"
"We do not shop-!" The group glared at the two.
Trini rolled her eyes. "Okay, maybe just a little."
"We only have nineteen dollars, Vic. We can't really get hispanic food." Trini said as she looked at him grabbing a can of Goya black beans. "We already have eighteen fifty in here."
"Oh..." He looked down at the can.
Trini looked in her cart. "Okay, we can get rid of the Jello. No one but me eats it."
"No, you don't have to do that." He motioned to put it back. Trini quickly grabbed his hand.
"No, I'm serious. we're buying more for Molly and I then what anyone else wants." She grabbed the can and took the red Jello out of the cart; placing it in a random shelf. "Besides, I've always wanted to know how to make these things."
"Oh, my mom taught me how to make them...at least...I think she did." Victor scratchd his head. "I don't even know if they're real or not."
Trini's gaze softened. "If you want them to be real, then they are. Even though some are fabricated, you can make them seem like if they're real if you want them to."
Victor smiled. "That made no sense what so ever."
Trini laughed. "Just trying to help."
"Thank you, though." Victor chuckled, then his smile faultered slightly. "Tell me the truth, Trini. Are the other guys, you know, scared of me because of what I'm supposed to be when I grow up? Is that why they always send me with you? Because you're the most powerful of the bunch?"
Trini looked down at the cart. "A little." She admitted. "But, they're afraid of me, too. You know, with me having every power in the universe and all, not to mention I hold the lives of their enemies." She paused. "Chase sent me with you just incase you go haywire."
"So they still don't trust me?" It was more of a statement than a question.
"You're not the only one they don't trust." She pushed the cart. "Why do you think they always send Molly and Jake together?"
"They don't trust him either?"
"He's a vampire, Victor. The last vampire we had in our group tried to eat us and ended up getting killed by Karolina." Trini explained. "He bit into her and her sun-like powers killed him."
"Ah, so you guys have a lot of trust issues." Victor stated.
"Dude, we've been living a lie our entire lives. We all thought we were human and we ended up finding out that we're an alien, and angel, a mutant, we have a pet dinosaur, a witch, anda robot." She motioned her hands towards Victor. "We have problems trusting adults, let alone other kids."
Victor walked ahead of her. "I see. Well, I'm gonna go get some milk."
"Wait, I can't leave you alone."
"What?"
"It's Chase's and Nico's orders. Beside, you're one of the only people I can't track on this world." She rode on the cart towards him.
"Why?"
"Ever since you found out you were an andriod, your heartbeat has stopped, not to mention your brain had realized what it is and I cna't read your mind anymore."
"Because I'm inorganic."
"Basically, yeah." She nodded. "But I can try to track you since you are living and do have a soul."
"You just said you couldn't track me."
"Well, it was partically a lie. I can track anything that has a soul and you have a soul. But it's..." She looked up. "Faint. Like, I can barely sense it. Jake, I can't sense him at all. Vampire's don't have souls."
"That must suck." Victor joked.
"Oh, my god." Trini covered her mouth; trying to contain her laughter. "That was terrible."
"So why've you been ignoring, Trini?" Molly asked as she grabbed a box of cereal.
"I haven't been ignoring her." Jake lied as he grabbed three stakes and placed them in the basket.
"Yes you have. You don't even look at her when you two pass by each other." Molly pointed out.
"No I don't." Jake turned around to see Molly holding a box of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. "Put that back. I only have nineteen dollars. and Chase told me to buy a beer case for him. And beers expensive."
"You don't have an I.D. for that." Molly furrowed her brows.
"I'm older than all of you. I have multiple I.D.s, Mol." Jake said as he grabbed ribs and tossed them in the basket.
"But you have been ignoring, Trini. Haven't you noticed the way she looks at you?" Molly asks as she gripped the cereal box. "She's all sad and mopy. Haven' you noticed that lately?"
"Nope." And he didn't care either.
"See, you're ignoring her."
"So what if I am. I don't care."
"Well, you should." Molly furrowed her brows. "Look, I've known Trini for a long time and the one thing I've noticed most about her is that she tries too hard to please people."
"What?" Jake cocked a bow.
"Yeah, even though she acts tough and makes rude comments, on the inside, she's just a little girl like me. Except, she's more damaged than I am." She looked down at the box. "Her parents used to beat her, you know."
Jake's face softened. "I...I didn't know that."
"She doesn't like it when people know that." Molly looked up. "She told me how she thought I was lucky that I got the love that I had with my parents because she never had it with hers. Even though they weren't her real ones." She looked into his eyes. "You just need to be more considerate with her."
"You know, that was the most mature thing I think you've ever said, Molly." Jake smiled. "I'll get you the cereal." He grabbed the box from her.
"Yay! You're the bestest!"
"Aaaand we're back to square one."