Hello to the few people who've been reading this!!
I don't have much to say, except for this chapter is a bit longer than the last one.
WARNINGS; for some cuss words, and very very slight hinting at suicide. (Like if your barely paying attention you won't even notice)
Enjoy!!
Metal City, 4:55 PM
Katsuki had no idea how the fuck he got into the sky. All he knew was that he needed to get a goddamn hold of himself and find out how to land safely, and not break most of the bones in his body, because that's definitely what's going to happen if this fall doesn't kill him.
Of course, since the moment he'd manifested his quirk he's proven himself to be a prodigy child.
Smart as fuck, strong as fuck, and most certainly can think on his feet, within 2 seconds no less, he had got an immediate plan mapped out in his head on how to make a safe landing.
He's clear of skyscrapers, no debris in the way of his landing.
It's a goddamn miracle because from the looks of it he'll be landing in the middle of a plaza.
Not too many people are in the way, and some of them are already noticing him. So like most people with common sense, they move. While making a bit of a ruckus about him falling though, that makes sense, they probably think they're about to witness his demise.
Katsuki thinks that it won't be too long before a few heroes show up to try do something, he's falling too fast though- but it's still enough time to charge a big enough explosion from his palms to propel himself up a bit at the last second, and then land safely.
Katsuki knew he'd never done this exact move from heights like this, but there's a first time for everything. And he's very confident he'll make it.
Except said confidence dissipated like fuckin cotton candy in water when a stupid van pulled up by the plaza and some alligator looking guy, and his other 2 animal weirdos came running over in the middle of his goddamn landing space.
Katsuki saw red, and blood boiling rage immediately flooded his system. 'What the hell do they think they're doing? They're in the way!'
"HEYYY! GET OUT THE WAYY!!"He roared, and the next few seconds he was supposed to be focused on landing safe- had been used up on trying to make these idiots to get out of his landing space, with threats and incoherent yelling.
Katsuki didn't have much time left. He was so goddamn screwed, his mind was going fuzzy and his body was growing weak, this much wind and air pressure could not be good for his body.
His vision was rapidly declining, and he's going to die.
He doesn't have any time to process this information- and just like that.
He's out like a light.
Kicked back and laid his feet atop the surface of the table, and he drawled out a long relaxed sigh.
Vector the croc- the leader of the chaotix detective agency, he and his crew had just finished a longer mission, they had gotten a call from an address in Metal City, which had been a 14 hour drive away from their agency, and after being cramped up in a car the entire way there, Vector was exhausted. since he had been the one driving the whole way;
"ugh I'm SO tired" the croc grumbled, his eyelids felt heavy.
Oh, how he wished he could take a nap right then and there.
"But it's so bright out! How could you possibly be tired at a time like this?" A nasily voice, promptly cheered out, Charmy bee.
"Y'know Vector, if your so tired why dont'cha buy a coffee or something? If you do can I have a sip, pleaaaaassse?"Charmy emphasized on the 'please'.
The bee was being way too loud for the croc at this time- his head pulsed as he felt a headache slowly form.
"oh yeah, maybe I WOULD, If you hadn't blown my last 20 bucks on a AIR BALLOON RIDE!!" Vector slammed on the table.
"Hey! But it was really fun!" Charmy whined, as if he wasn't in the fault "Charmy! My head HURTS—" Vector and Charmy kept going back and fourth at each other, while a certain purple chameleon rolled his eyes at the bickering duo, and prompted himself to stop them from any further arguing.
"Charmy leave Vector alone, and no. your not allowed to have coffee, I doubt you'd even like it." The chameleon calmly stated.
Espio sincerely hope he didn't just fuel any more whining out of any of the two, frankly the chameleon was quite tired and annoyed himself. Not as much as Vector though. but he still had thought a nap would be a nice treat.
"Can't I at least have a little sip?" The bee accentuated the 'little'- making his voice sound smaller.
"no Charmy." Espio he said, slight annoyance laced his tone, and then suddenly the purple reptile grimaced- as Charmy had blown a raspberry towards his direction "PFFFFTTT- as if, you can't tell me what to do. I'll be sneaking sips when none of ya are looking!" The bee snickered, while Espio - slightly ticked, wiped off the few splatters of spit that got onto him.
Vector sighed hopelessly- who knew how long it'd be until Charmy had his attention directed towards him again? While he was free- In the meantime he guessed he'd just think of where'd they'd go from here, without a lot of money on their hands.
(Espio had only been carrying 40 bucks on him) neither of them could afford a days stay at any nearby hotels, unless they felt like using up all their money, and starving during the trip back home.
But they just got here! And it honestly Vector looked forward to the sights of Metal City after they'd finished their mission, but he guessed they'd just have to go back the same day they got here..
and he didn't think he and his 2 buddy's were recognized enough as heroes to get the free gifts and privileges that came with it.
No matter how many times he'd gotten himself involved with a certain blue hedgehogs antics, he and his crew were just never recognized as the heroes they were!
…
or maybe he only cared about being recognized now that he wasn't being offered the goods that came with popularity, when things were getting rough.
Either way the croc was kinda pissed, they'd literally just got here and they had to go back already?
The trip was stupidly long, to get there and back. And he certainly was not looking forward to it.
Vector just wished that he could whine and cry like a toddler right now- but he was twenty now, and twenty year olds didn't cry like baby's no matter how much they'd felt like it.
He was an adult now so he just had to suck it up, and bear with his adult issues instead of whining like a baby.
"Charmy!! Get back in your seat!"
"But ion wanna goo!"
Espio reached over to snag the defiant bee by the arm to drag him back to the van- but fortunate to charmy he flew just out of reach, taunting the chameleon.
"Charmy, we can't stay here. We have to go!" Espio try'd to lecture, but the kid hovering above his head was stubborn "you can't catch me!" The bee mocked, and proceeded to blow raspberry's in Espio's direction again,
"Charmy! If you get back in the vehicle I promise ya Es will get'cha some snacks when we hit the next gas station!"Vector chimed- bent over with his hands in his knees like he was talking to a 5 year old. (which actually wasn't too far off from charmy's actual age)
"What? No I'm not—" The chameleon balked, for a split second a look of dread- and then expectance crossed Espio's face.
Anything to get Charmy to co-operate.
The bee pumped his fist in the air excitedly- and not-so-subtly whispered to himself 'yes!' Espio rolled his eyes, slightly amused by Charmy's optimism.
The trio climbed into the van, after light preparations for the trip back home. Vector had his mixtape playing on the speakers while he drove- Charmy on his DS playing games, and Espio just stared idly out the half opened window.
Vector drove about 6 blocks away from their previous destination.
Espio glanced at the top corner of the vans GPS.
The time read 4:55 PM
He sat there for a moment, adding up numbers in his head- when he was finished he concurred that'd he and his companions would arrive home sometime by tomorrow morning.
About 8 seconds passed by when the trio saw strange commotion going on at a plaza they were driving past-
"Guys look! What going on over there?" Charmy wondered aloud,
"I dunno Charmy, but I kinda want to find out." Vector said, slight curiosity laced his tone.
"It's probably just someone doing some sort of street performance, nothig special really." The purple chameleon put simply.
"Street performers? Like music??" The bee asked, before a proper response could even be said Charmy yelled. "I love music!"
"Vector!! Let's go look at the street performers, if there's a crowd that big, they must be good!" The bee chimed.
"Yeah Charmy your right! Cmon Es let's go check out these street performers then." Vector seemed happy.
Espio had seen that this would cheer him up, after the exhaustion the croc was put through. He needed this.
"Very well.." Espio sighed.
They parked the van, and as a trio went up towards the crowd- Espio watched the excitement dissipate from both of his companions faces when they didn't see or hear music.
Espio was confused and ultimately weirded out, but when he got closer to the group his eyes widened when he heard their frightened conversations.
"He's falling!"
"don't worry guys, I'm calling 911."
"The fuck is the police gonna do about it? He's already falling."
"Oh god! What do we do!?"
Espio stiffened, he looked to his right and noticed how his companions had heard what they were saying too.
Espio looked up, and it was true. There was in fact someone skyrocketing towards them. Another Mobian to be frank.
Espio gulped when he looked to his side again and saw that Vector wasn't there anymore- what? Where'd he go?!
He looked forward and saw the boss in a 'I'm going to catch you' pose the middle of the circle.
!!
"VECTOR!!"
"YOU CANT STOP ME ESPIO." Vector yelled.
Espio guessed that he was just going to let this happen then.
He really hoped things would be okay by the end of this.
Really.
Espio was beginning to wish they never went to Metal city in the first place, but there was obviously no going back at this point .
Promptly exhaling, he hadn't know he'd been holding his breathe until then- snatched Charmy out of the air and covered the bees eyes and backed up further from the crowd.
The Mobian above realized what the croc had been trying to do- and the trio (sans charmy) and nearly missed the look of anger cross onto the features of the mobian far above, followed by screaming, he'd definitely been saying words up there. Except he was too far up for anything to be properly heard.
Vector braced himself- and looked more serious than he'd even seen before
Espio briefly fought his grip on a squirming Charmy, and hoped for the best. The mobian above had been so close now, so this time he could hear what he had to say next.
"MOVE!! WHATAREYOUDOING!"
He sounded mad.very mad. Yet the slight hitch of the mobians yells indicated terror.
Vector reached out a little, determined in himself. 'I can do this…. I can do this i CAN do this!' The croc mentally chanted,
"NO WAY!"
He replied directed above him, he was not letting this guy die today.
Not in front of everyone.
Vector suddenly snapped his head towards Espios direction.
"ESPIO!! Put Charmy BACK in the car!"He hissed, before turning back to the one in the sky, Espio didn't know it was even possible to tense in up more than he was before-
He stiffly hauled Charmy back to the Van, telling him it wasn't safe to be near Vector at the moment.
Vector noticed that the mobian had passed out mid air, most likely too winded from— the wind.
And Vector got one last look at the falling form before he felt the body roughly collide into his arms and violently flinging him backwards in the concrete.
"V-vector!" Espio looked back at the scene to see him and the other laying on the ground.
Unmoving.
He'd left Charmy in the car and made sure child lock had been on- an ambulance had arrived just recently alongside a single police cruiser. (The guy from the crowd called) and had been dispersing the crowd while the chameleon rushed up to the two on the ground, heart racing.
By the time he'd kneeled by the two he'd sighed in relief when he realized neither of them were dead after a quick pulse check. No more than a few injuries, large bruises were already forming, and One of them were definitely going to have at least a concussion.
The rest of the hour had gone by in a blurr, Espio and eventually Charmy had been questioned. Among people in the crowd. The initial thought was that the Mobian had tripped off one of the 3 skyscrapers in the area, but that was quickly debunked when someone amongst the crowd mentioned that 'the guy who was falling, had been screaming for these three-' the Chaotix- 'to get out the way.' He figured that somebody who didn't want to die would be frantically screaming for help, and not to move.
Espio had figured that too.
During the time he had to cool off and throughly process what just happened, the ambulance had already took off with both Vector and the mobian he'd caught, and a now calm Espio climbed back into the van and drove off with Charmy in the backseat, to the hospital they took the boss- Vector.
Honestly I think the pacing for this is a bit weird.
And slow, this is my first time ever writing anything actually. So it's not going to be the best, but I hoped you liked it.
I will be adding to the story weekly, if not I'll try my best to get the next chapters out earlier or later than a week if there happens to be any life situations that steer me away from writing.
Ty