Lisa called Coil immediately after checking their blog feed. The ambiguous sentence long posts told her volumes about what they were up to. She tugged at her face as her powers revealed the information.

"I'm gonna go punch a stranger. If I'm lucky, fight club can become a thing." - Light

"Update: Don't pick fights with strangers. #Gettingarrestedagain" - Light

"Making a deal with Satan. Brb." - Light

Rush replied: "You son of a bastard."

Light replied: "I'm doing my best! #Notagreatvillain"

Rush replied: "I'm on my way. #Youfuckingdisgrace"

Lisa's powers told her everything: Light arrested. Negotiated release for aid in finding reported kidnapping. Theo Anders. Losers can easily find ABB hostages.

She was disappointed at how quickly they found him. In fact, it would've been comical if she didn't hate them so much. 'These guys enjoy themselves way too much…' The posts went on:

"I'm about to put a hit on Mickey Mouse. #Fuckdisney" - Rush

"Paying hookers is a wonderful way to spend the night. #Callmeback" - Rush

"Remember kids, prostitution is a perfectly noble profession. #Feminism" - Light

"Googling rat poisoning." - Rush

She pressed her phone to her ear more tightly. When he finally answered, she went straight to business. "Coil, the Losers found Theo. We need to speed up the plan now or else we might lose the best leverage we have."

"Understood. I'll expect further explanation once this is over."

"I know," Lisa said staring at her laptop. She gave out a long sigh, how is it those losers ruin everything?"

XXX

"This... Was definitely a mistake." Light stared forward with a dazed look in his eyes.

Mouse Protector pranced forward to the villains wicked lair. Step by step, underneath the breaking dawn, she headed closer... And closer… Until… "Oh shit." Mouse Protector shouted profanity!

Rush stood next to Light, forcing on a crooked grin. "Hey there…. Lung… I think... We might've made a mistake."

Lung stood in front of twenty of his armed men. They were armed to the teeth, but still seemed feeble in the presence of Lung. Lung had on an open trench coat. It was opened to reveal his muscles and extensive tattoos across his body.

Inside their heads, all three of them wanted to insult Lung for his choice in tattoos, but opted to keep their mouths shut.

"Leave, this has nothing to do with you two." Lung told them all. He wasn't sure who Mouse Protector was, nor did he care why she was with the Losers. He was giving them a chance to relent. He'd rather they stay alive to be an insult to the Empire Eighty Eight, than have to kill them for disrespecting him. "If you even think of turning this into a game, none of you will step out of here alive."

Mouse Protector stared down at Theo sitting on a worn down sofa at the edge of the building. Theo's arms and legs were tied. He was blindfolded, not gagged because he promised to keep his mouth shut after their first threat. Theo wasn't sure whether to feel relief or stress by the sounds of Light and Rush.

Rush clapped her hands together, "well, my horrifying Leviathan defeating friend. I have a proposition for you. I'll offer double whatever you're asking from Theo's dad, to give him to me. No promises on not doing kinky stuff to him."

Lung didn't waver, "twenty million dollars?"

Rush blew up her cheeks, fuck, that's literally all of our money. "Sure, why not," she said feigning confidence. As much as she would've liked to just kick ass and go home, getting on Lung's bad side was a one-way ticket to death. And she couldn't do that to her brother, or his new friends.

"No," Lung said. "This has nothing to do with money. It needs to come from the boy's father. Otherwise Max Anders can have his son returned to him in pieces."

Theo choked a little at the sound of that. Mouse Protector's turn! "Here's the problem, lizard man." Lung raised an eyebrow. She continued, "The Protectorate are already on their way. So I recommend you take her up on her offer, so that you can at least have something to show for all the trouble you've gone through."

"Let them come." Lung said with a tone of excitement in his voice. "That just means more victories for my mantle."

Rush and Mouse Protector glanced at each other. The nature of Lung's ego was now obvious. It wasn't about the money, it was about showing the world that he had power over the millionaire class. This whole kidnapping and ransom was about exerting his power over those who might try and pull a move on him.

Rush turned to Light and gave him a stern nod. Light nodded back in agreement.

Rush yelled out in fluent Chinese, "tell me Lung, since your half Japanese and half Chinese, does that mean you have to hate yourself half the time?"

Lung glared at her. Light spoke out in Japanese, "Hey Rush, does he evolve into a pokemon because of his power, or do all Japanese people do that?"

Rush shook her head, "nah, he only half evolves like a pokemon. The other half is digimon."

Light asked, "can I guess which pokemon he evolves into? I'm guessing it's a charizard."

"Nope, it's a gyarados."

"Dragonite."

"Snorlax?"

"Godzilla."

Lung's underlings stared at the two of them in shock. They backed away as Lung began shifting his skin into metal.

"I like how he starts off as hello kitty before he evolves," Light commented.

"It's like freeza, 'This isn't even my final form!'" Rush said.

Light nodded, "hey Lung, do me a favor, can you shout 'I'm not even at 100%' before you finish evolving? Then I'll go on a rant about me being the legendary super saiyan."

Lung's body become completely encased in metal. The room's temperature went up, small fires were smoldering around him as his body's metal added mass into the room. Smoke escaped his lungs, and his underlings quickly distanced themselves from him as he focused his rage at the Losers.

Mouse Protector blinked. "What… Did you just say to him?"

"Instant regret." Light said plainly.

"So much regret," Rush said in a hushed tone. She pointed to Theo, and gave Mouse Protector the signal to go after him.

Mouse Protector wondered if it was right to let the duo to become the bait. 'Should I stay and fight with them, or abandon the Losers to their suicidal vices?' Lung's body exploded. 'Run run run run run run run.'

Lung charged after them. Light flashed a blinding light in Lung's eye. He was only blinded for a mid-second and distracted just enough for Rush and Light to shift/rush away from his charge. Lung did manage to destroy part of the warehouses pillars, but quickly regained sight of them once his vision returned.

Mouse Protector ran to the corner of the building, managing to catch Lung's underlings dragging Theo away. "Stop, evil doers who are totally within my league!"

Five thugs ran at Mouse Protector. They had bats, crowbars, and swords drawn out to attack her. Without a moment's hesitation, she dodged their weapons and punched, kicked, and smashed them everywhere it hurts the most. "Sorry," she said punching a guy's nose, "sorry', she said kicking a guy's groin, "sorry," she said quietly at the guy she headbutted a guy's nose.

'Mouse Protector is far too good at her job… She should get paid for this!'

Seven more thugs surrounded her. The ABB members were now focused on guarding Theo, not just dragging him away. Mouse Protector crushed a beetle on her shoulder.

A swarm of bugs rose up. A giant blob of insects amassed at the entrance of the warehouse. It was so thick and large that nothing could be seen inside of it. The bugs transformed into a humanoid shape. And then suddenly!... Browbeat stepped out of it like it was nothing.

"Spawnchild?" Some of the gang members murmured.

"Sure, why not," Browbeat said not caring. Looking around, Browbeat was torn between helping Rush and Light or Mouse Protector.

Rush was kind enough to choose for him. "Get this motherfucking dragon off me!"

Browbeat rushed to Lung, and somehow, some fucking how, pushed Lung's seven foot metallic body, into a fucking wall. 'Christ,' Mouse Protector thought, 'WHY AREN'T WE RECORDING?'

Insects began stinging at the ABB thug's bodies. When Mouse Protector noticed a bug humanoid form next to her, it looked over and said, "getzzzzz Theozzz out of herezz."

Before Mouse Protector could pounce passed the desecrated bodies of swarm infested thugs, frigging Oni Lee fell from god knows where. "My arch nemesis!" Mouse Protector yelled.

"Who are you?" Oni Lee asked.

Light launched more lasers at Lung's body. They couldn't penetrate his armor, but he focused his power into creating shields, distractions, or temporarily blinding Lung whenever he could.

Rush's telekinetic abilities were largely delegated into minimalizing the fires around the warehouse.

Browbeat had become somewhat of a tank, taking the bulk of Lung's hits, and managing to survive without damage.

Bug Girl began running up bugs across Oni Lee's body.

"Who am I?" Mouse Protector announced, "I am the defender of all that is righteous! I am the scurrier of all that is right, the round eared master that walks unwittingly to the fight! I am the greatest rogue of all time! None can escape my mousy cosplaying presence, for I am, Mouse Protector!"

"Lame," Rush said in the background.

"I love you all," Light said to no one in particular.

Mouse Protector pointed to Oni Lee. She gave a pleasant order to bug girl. "Kill."

The swarm rushed at Oni Lee. The moment he teleported away, the bugs still remained on Oni Lee's body. The ABB cape teleported three more times before he attempted attacking them with the bugs still picking at his skin.

"At our six!" Bug girl's new clone stayed at Mouse Protector's side. This one instructed Light and Rush to watch out for Oni lee just in time. Browbeat turned around and knocked him in the face before he had to chance to stab him.

"Light, above you!" Bug girl ordered.

Without hesitation, Light fired a laser over his head. Breaking through the rooftop and causing Oni Lee to fall onto the ground in a crash. He teleported away in pain.

Oni Lee reappeared right behind Mouse Protector. Before bug girl could even warn her, Mouse Protector thrusted her elbows backwards, and leaned her head back to headbutt the bridge of his nose. His clone dissipated to dust again, and this time Oni Lee appeared within arms length of Theo's body.

He put a knife to the boy's neck, "Stop," Oni Lee demanded. Lung was the first to freeze in place, putting on a creepy smile as the other capes held still. "Or I slit his throat," Oni Lee said.

Nobody dared to move. Rush stepped onto the ceiling like gravity was upside down, and waved her Simurgh hand at him. "I like how you think holding a hostage will help you."

Oni Lee's knife slid across Theo's cheek, drawing blood from his face down to his chin. "Don't think I'll do it?"

Rush stared into his eyes, knowing full well that Oni Lee was a murderer like herself. "I don't doubt that you'll do it, I'm just saying it won't help you out."

Oni Lee raised an eyebrow. 'The Losers were there to save Theo, wouldn't they avoid risking his life?'

Knives from the fallen ABB thugs began rising to the air. Rush used her powers to spin two circles of sharp knives in the air. They cycled around her like windmills of deadly weapons. "Him dying will make a wonderful distraction for me to get a clear shot at you. In fact, if the blood covers your eyes, I can cut through him to get to you."

Bug girl's clone, not knowing how to handle Rush, said, "please tell me your joking..."

Mouse Protector swallowed, "Rush, you can't really mean that."

"And why the hell wouldn't I mean it?" Rush chuckled. "Yet another wonderful reason to be a villain, no responsibility. Theo's life was never in my hands to begin with."

"Everyone loses if he dies," Oni Lee reminded her.

"Big whoop," Rush said with an waving her hand. "When this is done, I'll be sure to send his dad a mourning card attached to his body bag. Do me a favor Oni Lee, once he starts bleeding to death, hold still so that I can put a knife through your throat."

Oni Lee and Lung believed her enough. The way she spoke told them she truly had no regard for Theo's life. If Theo died, everything they'd done would've been for nothing.

It was like game of chicken, and Theo was the commodity. Rush flashed his Simurgh symbol at them, "Sorry kid, but things never go according to plan with us around. Ninja man, you have until the count of ten to drop him. Kill him, and all barriers are gone. I'll go for the kill, and you won't like me when I'm in murder mood. One."

Mouse Protector and Browbeat looked over to Light. He was quiet, it looked as if he wasn't sure what his sister's plan.

"Two."

At the other side of town, Purity received an anonymous tip from a benefactor. She flew at extreme speeds to where her rival was hiding.

"Three."

Theo couldn't believe it. He had admired the Losers so much, and now they were throwing him away like he were nothing, joking about his fate like his life were nothing to them.

"Four."

Purity reached the ABB warehouse. She basked in the rising sun's rays.

"Five."

There were blasted holes all over the rooftop of the warehouse, allowing for skylights to give her a glimpse of what was happening underneath her. She saw Oni Lee, holding Theo hostage with a knife to his throat.

"Six."

A light charged up all around her, giving her the illusion of being a miniature sun.

"Seven."

She couldn't hit Oni Lee without hurting Theo. Fortunately, Lung was close enough to Rush and Light to be within the crossfire of her blast.

"Eight."

Tears formed in Theo's eyes.

"Nine."

Taylor saw the light form in the sky. In an instance, all her bugs yelled, "Purity!" Rush pointed her knives in Oni Lee's direction.

"Te-"