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Trust Fall
A Few Months Earlier
The night of the explosion Sheen had just ran off leaving Shawn engulfed in flames. Before the cops had a chance to try and help him, the energy pulse hit the building breaking most of it apart.
Shawn woke up handcuffed in a police holding cell completely uninjured, "What the hell!?" he groaned.
He looked on to see the police department in complete disarray. The building was partially damaged and the cops were running around like headless chickens.
He went over to one of his cellmates and asked, "What the hell is going on?"
"Some weird thing hit town man! Like straight out of a sci-fi." the man said in a jittery voice.
Shawn looked around and noticed that Sheen wasn't around, "Hey! Hey!" he called out to one of the officers.
"What!?" the cop replied irritated.
"What happened to the guy I was with!?"
"Don't know, probably got away." the cop replied bluntly.
"What!?" Shawn screamed angrily as he began to freak out, "That Bastard Gets To Walk Free While I Rot Here!"
"Hey kid calm down!" the cop shouted.
"I Will Not Calm Down!" Shawn shouted as he began to glow into a orangey red colour.
"What the hell!" The cop shouted as Shawn began to burst into flames.
"END OF DAYS, MAN! END OF DAYS!" the prisoner from earlier began to scream.
From the distance all that could be heard where the screams coming from the RPD(Retroville Police Department) before it was completely engulfed in flames.
Present Day
At 20:34pm, The team was staking out the Retroville docks.
"Are you sure they'll be here speedy." Libby complained, "We've been here for an hour!"
"Ya, I'm sure." Sheen replied through the coms wearing his super suit(The one from the series), "And it's The Flash not Speedy."
"I forgot the part where I should care."
"You two are like an old married couple." Cindy commented.
"No we're not!" Libby replied irritated.
"Come on you can't deny the attraction." Sheen replied smugly.
Enraged Libby said, "You are so full of yourself!"
"And your not!" Sheen retaliated.
"Can you guys please get serious!" Jimmy commented on the com's from the lab.
"Just leave them alone Nerdtron!" Cindy shouted.
"Don't start with me Vortex!"
"Or you'll do what exactly!"
As the rest of the team were arguing Carl noticed some trucks driving in, "Uhm guys." he said trying to get their attention, "Guys!"
"WHAT!" everyone shouted in unison.
"I think the bad guys are here."
A group of men got out of the trucks one of whom had a snake tattoo covering part of his face and three wearing different coloured masks and cloaks.
Regaining his composer Jimmy asked, "Okay Sheen, what can you tell us?"
"The guy with the snake tattoo's name is Brandon Diaz, street name Snake."
"Snake. How original." Libby commented.
"Anyway. He delivering a new drug called Barney."
"Barney!? Like the dinosaur?" Carl asked surprised.
"Yup, it's made for kids to get them hooked on drugs early."
"And how did you come across this info so quickly?" Libby asked.
"Let's just say I've got my source's."
"Of course you do." Libby said rolling her eyes, "What about the dudes in cloaks?"
"Don't know but they shouldn't be a problem." Sheen replied.
"Okay team, you know what to do. Get ready." Jimmy ordered.
At the trucks Snake was speaking with his men, "Start hauling the load into the trucks." he ordered.
Just as the thugs were loading the drugs they all heard a ear piercing sound which made them grab their ears.
In that moment several thugs had been taken down by Sheen, leaving only Snake and the three masked figures.
"And who are you supposed to be." Snake asked calmly.
"Hey nice to meet you. You can call me The Flash." Sheen replied smugly.
The rest of the team came before Snake, "You know you could of saved a few for us." Cindy commented.
"I saved three for you."
Snake didn't so much as flinch at the sight of the superheroes.
"You seem pretty calm for a guy about to get his butt kicked by four badass superheroes." Sheen commented.
Snake brought out a cigarette and lighter and began smoking, "You see, ever since you freaks took down Zupco, the boss figured it would be a matter of time before we crossed paths again."
"So?" Cindy said threateningly.
"So. He thought it would be a good idea if we got some freaks of our own." he replied taking in another puff of smoke, "Hey you mooks." he called out to the hooded figures, "Take care of these freaks." he said calmly stepping out of the way.
Sheen cockily stepped towards the one wearing the blue mask, "You honestly think these guys can take us down."
In that instance the blue masked fired a blast of wind straight at Sheen that sent him flying into the building across the street.
"Yes I do." Snake replied smugly.
The yellow masked one's body began to grow in muscle mass and the red masked one's hands burst into flames.
"Aww crap!" Libby commented preparing to fight.
The yellow masked one tackled Cindy into one of the trucks, while the blue masked one fired another blast of wind at Carl, which he countered with his own sonic blast, while Libby turned invisible avoiding fire blasts from the red masked one.
After a bit of a struggle Cindy was thrown out of the truck, "Is that all you got! Little girl." the yellow masked one chuckled as he walked out of the truck.
"No. I was just humouring you." Cindy replied smugly.
Enraged the yellow masked one charged at Cindy and punched her several times in the face which barely phased her. On his final strike Cindy caught his fist easily, "Say goodnight." she said smiling before punching him back into the truck, knocking him out.
Carl and the blue masked ones blasts clashed against each other in a struggle for dominance. The blue masked one's wind blast seemed like it was gaining ground on Carl.
"Is that all you've got! Tubby!" he screamed.
"No way!" Carl shouted back, "Whoa! déjà vu." Carl said to himself noticing a similar thing happened earlier.
Carl let out a loud cry and increased the power of his blast overpowering the blue masked one sending him flying into the same truck as the yellow masked one.
"Now it really feels like déjà vu." Carl chuckled as he walked up to and fist bumped Cindy.
Seeing the situation for what it was Snake snuck away.
Libby was still dealing with the red masked one, "Where are you hiding!?" the red masked one shouted.
"You'll never know." she said laughing in the shadows.
Suddenly Libby started experiencing a sharp and painful headache, reappearing.
"There you are." he shouted, firing a fire ball straight at Libby. Before she was struck Sheen got her out of the way with his super speed.
"You okay?" he asked.
"Ya." she answered before passing out.
Sheen turned to the red masked one, "Let see what you got night light."
The red masked one fired multiple fire balls at Sheen which he easily dodged.
"That all you got?" Sheen said cockily.
Before he could react Sheen speed punched the masked figure away, knocking him down
"Had enough." Sheen said cockily.
The figure stood up preparing for a second round, igniting his hands for battle. At that moment Cindy and Carl ran towards them.
"Flash!" Cindy shouted.
Sheen got distracted and looked back, without a word the masked figure launched off the ground and flew away.
"He got away." Sheen said frustrated.
Back at the Lab Jimmy was examining Libby, "So you're saying that you just suddenly got a headache and passed out?" Jimmy asked.
"Ya." Libby answered.
"As far as I can tell you're completely fine." Jimmy said walking over to his computer.
"Are you sure, Nerdtron." Cindy asked.
"Which one of us has a PhD." Jimmy replied.
"I thought that was in engineering." Carl commented.
"Humans, machines, same diff." Jimmy said sitting down, "All in all good job team. We prevented a dangerous drug from roaming the streets of our city and apprehended two out of three mutant criminals. I call that a goodnight. Anything anyone else wants to add."
"Ya." Cindy replied, "I think we need to thank Sheen for helping us take this operation to the next level."
"Ya, I honestly didn't know how bad things were in the city." Carl commented.
"You guys don't need to thank me I don't deserve it." Sheen said humbly.
"You sure don't." Libby said to herself walking off to change.
The team left Jimmy's Lab. Sheen stopped Libby on her way home. "Are you sure your okay?"
"Ya, I'm fine!" she replied rudely.
"What's your beef with me anyway!?"
"It doesn't matter." she said walking off.
Just when Sheen tried to stop her a fire ball fell from the sky. "Look out!" Sheen shouted as the ball hit the ground in between them knocking Libby down.
The red masked figure descended to the ground ready for a fight. "What are you doing here!?" Sheen shouted.
"Getting payback!" the masked figure shouted as he fired multiple fireballs at Sheen.
Sheen grabbed Libby and easily dodged the blasts. "You okay?" Sheen asked Libby.
"Ya." she said disappearing.
Sheen charged straight for the masked figure but he somehow managed to dodge by flying up. He began firing fireball at Sheen again, but Sheen still easily evaded them.
"I think I'm going to knock the wind out of you." Sheen joked by running around fast in a circle creating a whirlwind that sucked the masked figure in, sending him plummeting to the ground.
Just when the masked figure began to recover, Libby dealt him several invisible strikes. "You better stay down if you know what's good for you." she said reappearing. Suddenly Libby started experiencing another painful headache, falling to the ground.
The masked figure's ignited his fist and prepared to blast Libby but hesitated for some reason. Sheen quickly punched the masked figure to a car, managing to some of his blood on his hand and went to check on Libby.
"Are you good?" Sheen asked.
"Ya." Libby answered regaining her composer, "What happened to the living candle?" she asked.
"He..." Sheen tried to answer looking around for the masked figure, "Got away." he sighed.
Sheen and Libby went back to Jimmy's Lab, and found him sleeping on his computer.
"Jimmy!" Sheen shouted.
"What...Where!" Jimmy screamed in shock as he woke up.
"Libby had another headache and we were just attacked by the masked freak with the fire powers.
Jimmy reexamined Libby and came up with similar results.
"So what's wrong with me?" Libby asked.
"I just don't know what's wrong with you Libby. Medically you're in perfect health." Jimmy answered confused.
"How did that masked guy know who we were?" Sheen said out loud, "Are you sure your army pals mind wiped Zupco and his men?"
"Ya, I gave General Vortex my Neutron Mental Scrambler, as soon as they were taken into custody the general took special care to use it to keep your identity a secret." Jimmy answered.
"What's its range?" Sheen asked.
"Only 24 hours but that should've been enough." Jimmy continued. Noticing what was on Sheens hand Jimmy asked, "Is that blood?"
Sheen looked at his hand and noticed it too, "Aww man! I got some of his blood on me, better wash it off."
"No!" Jimmy shouted stopping him, "That could give us the identity of the masked guy that attacked you."
Jimmy took Sheen over to his DNA scanner and waited for the results after a few minutes, there was a hit.
"Got it!" Jimmy said excitedly before gaining a horrified look, "Its Shawn Collins."
"WHAT!?" Sheen and Libby shouted in unison.
"How do you know Shawn!?" Sheen asked Libby.
"He's my brother." Libby answered.
"Whoa bombshell." Jimmy commented surprised.
"I can't believe he's still alive." Sheen commented sitting down.
"Why!?" Libby said getting angry.
"The last job we had together, lets just say things got a little crazy. Long story short, before that weird glowy thing hit town Shawn was on fire and I was being chased by the cops." Sheen explained.
"Interesting the energy pulse, seemed to have saved his life by infusing the flames with his DNA giving him pyrokinetic powers." Jimmy commented.
So you abandoned him!" Libby scolded.
"Your brother liked to play things fast and loose, its not my fault he got literally got burned."
Libby glared at him in anger. "Look I don't have time for this. I'm gonna find out what Shawn's beef is." Sheen said walking out the lab.
"I'm coming." Libby said following.
"No, your not." Sheen replied super speeding out of the lab.
"Tell me where he is." Libby ordered staring at Jimmy.
"How would I know!?" Jimmy asked confused.
"Your a scientist, and we're basically your science projects. I know you have some kind of way to track us. So I'm going to ask you again where is he." Libby said getting serious.
Jimmy sighed walking over to his computer, "He's at a bar called Krusty's if you take the hovercraft you should be there in a few minutes."
Sheen walked into Krusty's a dinghy run down bar where the worst of the worst hung around. He walked over to the bartender, "Cyrus where's Gobby?" Sheen asked in a rather serious tone.
"What, no hello Sheen? That's not how you greet your friends." Cyrus replied calmly.
"Fine, sorry." Sheen apologised, "But I really need to find Gobby."
"He's over there." Cyrus pointed at a sketchy looking man wearing a sleeveless jacket.
Sheen walked over to Gobby, "You got a lot of nerve coming here Sheen." Bobby greeted.
"Save it Gobby." Sheen replied, "I want to know where Shawn is?"
"And why should I tell you?" Gobby asked. Sheen threw a rolled up stack of cash at Gobby. "That's why." Bobby continued taking the money, "After that thing that thing hit town, Shawn came back different with some weird fire ability."
"I know that much." Sheen replied.
"After seeing what he could do Brick made him one of his enforcers." Hobby continued.
"What does that have to do with me?" Sheen asked.
"Apparently after your last job with him went south, he wanted mad pack back. But since you were a top earner for Zupco, Brick forbade it." Gobby explained.
"Shawn would still listen to Brick even with his powers?" Sheen asked confused.
"If you really knew Brick, then you would know no powers would make a difference."
"I get it." Sheen agreed, "So, Shawn got the green light to terminate me after Zupco got locked up."
"Yup." Gobby answered.
"Where is he?" Sheen asked.
"Sorry kid. There's no amount of money that would make me cross Brick." Gobby said calmy.
"Fine." Sheen said walking off.
At that moment Gobby and a bunch of other thugs got texted. "Sorry kid." Gobby said stopping Sheen, pulling out his gun, "We have orders to take you out." The other thugs pulled out their guns and aimed at Sheen. "Any last words?" Gobby asked. Sheen stayed quite. "Very well."
Gobby fired his gun, Sheen used his superspeed to slightly change the trajectory of the bullet to make it look like it missed. "What!" Gobby shouted, "Kill him!"
The thugs began firing as well, Sheen normal ran to the bathroom subtly changing the direction of the bullets with his superspeed. At that moment The Flash raced into the building.
"Heard there was a party here am I late." Sheen said jokingly.
"It's one of those masked freaks! Get him." a random thug shouted.
They all began to fire at Sheen. Using his superspeed he caught all the bullets with one hand and dropped them in front of the shocked criminals. "Anyone else wanna try!" Sheen shouted. A bunch of the thugs ran out of the building. "Ya, that's what I thought!"
Sheen went over and grabbed Gobby, "I heard you got some info I might need." Sheen said in a threatening voice.
While Sheen was distracted a thug got his his gun and prepared to fire. He was stopped by being struck by a floating chair. Sheen turned back to see what was happening. "What the..!?" Sheen said shocked.
Libby appeared before him as the Invisible girl. "You missed one." she stated.
"Thanks." he said greatfully, "Now where were we." Sheen said to Gobby slamming him against the wall, "There's a new player on the street. Has fire powers. Where can I find him!?" he said in a threatening voice.
Gobby smiled, "I ain't saying nothing hero boy. I know your type all bark no bi..." He was interrupted by Sheen super speeding him to the roof, dropping him and catching him before he hit the ground.
"You were saying?" Sheen said seriously.
"Okay, okay! I don't know for sure but l heard somewhere at the old saw mill. That's all I know I swear!"
"I believe you." Sheen replied which caused Gobby to sigh in relief, before Sheen punched him in the face knocking him out.
"Why did you do that?" Libby asked.
"I tend not to like guys who shoot at me." he answered. Turning to her he asked, "What are you doing here anyway?"
"This involves my brother and I'm sure as hell not going to stand on the sidelines." Libby replied.
"No its to dangerous."
"Didn't I just save your life. It doesn't matter how fast you if you can't see it coming."
"Your right. So am I carrying you or..."
"We're taking the hovercraft." she said walking over to the vehicle.
While flying to the old saw mill Sheen asked, "Is what happened to your brother the reason you hate me?"
"What!? I don't hate you." Libby said nonchalantly.
"You don't think I don't notice the way you look at me. I'm a speedster, every second for you is like a minute for me."
"All I know is, your here and he's not." she said emotionlessly, "My brother wasn't the best guy but he only hung around guys he could trust. Heck I would bet he would die for someone he trusts, the fact that you're sitting here with me means you broke his trust and abandoned him."
"Can I tell you what happened that night."
"Sure, why not."
"It was a standard job, in and out, we'd done hundreds of them before. We were going to steal some copies the new Ultra Lord video game. It would have sold for a lot on the black market. We'd taken enough to get a decent cut of the profits but this time was different, Shawn got greedy. He tripped the perimeter alarm and the cops were there in minutes. I suggested we leave the games and run but Shawn wanted to go down fighting, he pulled out a flamethrower and decided to duke it out with the police. One of them shot his canister and it exploded leaving him on fire. I had a choice to make stay, try to help Shawn and inevitably go to jail dooming my father or run so my family still had a chance for survival. What would you have done if you were in my predicament." Libby kept quite. "Whether you believe me or not, I didn't want things to go the way they did Libby but I had to make a choice whether it was the right one is debatable but I made it and I can live with the consequences."
Libby continued to stay quite until they got to the saw mill, "We're here." she said as if she had a lump in her throat.
They got out of the hovercraft and walked into the building and saw it was abandoned. "Guess that creep lied to you." Libby commented.
In that moment dozens of men and women came out from the shadows with Shawn in his mask at the centre. "I was wondering when you would get here Sheen. Was hoping more of you be here but if that's it let's get started." Shawn said with all his thugs lifting up their weapons.
"Shawn! What are you doing!" Libby shouted tearing up.
"Stay out of this sis! This is between men." he shouted igniting his fist.
"Why Shawn!? Why are you doing this!?" Libby screamed.
"To get respect." he replied removing his mask.
"Is this what it's all been about! Respect! You have things most people only dream of and your doing this all for respect!" Sheen shouted.
"Yes." Shawn answered coldly. "The life I had was cushy. I had never wanted for anything in my life but I never really had power. But now I do and I've never been happier."
"You make me sick Shawn." Sheen said disgusted.
"Like I care." Shawn replied, "Attack!"
Sheen used his superspeed to extract Libby out of the building. When he reentered he spun himself incredibly fast creating a tornado, Shawn flew himself out while the rest of his crew were sucked up.
Sheen stopped sending all the thugs crashing everywhere in the building knocking them out. Sheen raced out searching for Shawn. A ball of fire came from the sky which Sheen easily dodged.
Shawn landed infront of Sheen. "Round three!" he shouted. He fired a stream of fire at Sheen which his hurricane arms.
Shawn prepared to fly up but Sheen punched him to the ground before he could launch off. "Not this time." Sheen said smiling.
Shawn immediately got up and began firing fireballs at Sheen which he easily dodged with his speed. "You can't beat me Shawn!" Sheen shouted.
"That maybe true." Shawn agreed, he looked at his sister and smiled, "You maybe fast enough to avoid being hit but are you fast enough to save her!" he shouted. Shawn fired a fireball straight at his sister, seeing the trajectory of the ball Sheen raced to save Libby. He just managed to push Libby out of the way but wasn't fast enough to avoid being hit himself, knocking him out.
"Sheen!" Libby shouted.
"Paybacks a bitch isn't it bro." Shawn said walking towards Sheen and Libby.
"Shawn stop this!" Libby said running infront of Sheen.
"Get out of the way Lib or burn." he threatened.
Libby stood tall. "Fine. I warned you." he said before firing a burst of flames at Sheen and Libby.
With a loud cry Libby ran into the flames. It seemed as if Libby was engulfed in flames but when Shawn stopped it was revealed she was protected by a violet coloured force field. "What the!" Shawn shouted in shock.
He began attacking the dome but nothing was going through. When he stopped Libby dropped the dome and made two other force fields on the palm of her hands in the shape of discs. She threw them, Shawn tried to counter with his fire balls but the discs cut right through, he managed to dodge them both but one of them managed to slightly cut his face.
"Shawn, please stop this." Libby begged her brother.
Shawn grabbed his cheek and looked at the blood, "This isn't over." he said flying away.
Libby got on knees and began crying while Sheen got up and said, "Don't worry about."
"How can I not worry!?" Libby shouted.
"One day we'll bring him back to the light. It will just take time." Sheen replied.
Sheen and Libby went back to Jimmy's lab where he was waiting for them. "How did it go?" Jimmy asked.
"We found Shawn and he got away." Libby answered.
"So this was a loss." Jimmy said disappointed.
"No." Sheen replied, "Libby got this new force field power."
"Really!" Jimmy said surprised.
"Ya, check it out." Libby said a bit more enthusiastically. She demonstrated her new powers to Jimmy.
"That's what your headaches were about. Your body was entering another stage of metamorphosis granting you a new ability. I can't believe I didn't see it before." Jimmy said excitedly.
"Does that mean every mutant has the potential to develop new powers?" Sheen asked.
"Yes." Jimmy said excitedly.
After going through a few tests Libby and Sheen left Jimmy's Lab. On their way out Libby stopped Sheen, "Hey Sheen." she called out.
"Ya." he answered.
"Look I wanted to apologize for well everything."
"Why?"
"I misjudged you. Your not a bad guy at all." she apologized.
"Don't even worry about it." he said reassuring her.
As Libby began to walk off she said, "Oh ya." she gave Sheen a kiss on the cheek, "Thanks for taking a bullet for me."
As Libby walked home Sheen smiled.
At an unknown location Shawn was having a meeting with Snake and his superior Brick. "Shawn do you realise how many men I've lost because of your little vendetta." Brick said calmly said.
Shawn tried to explain, "Yes, I know it looks bad..."
"Looks bad!" Brick shouted losing his composer, "It is bad! Not only did I lose a costly shipment of drugs but I also lost a third of my man power!"
"But sir..." Shawn tried to say.
"Get out!" Brick shouted. Shawn obeyed walking out. "And Collin's." Brick called out, "As far as I'm concerned your vendetta with Estevez is over. Are we clear."
"Crystal." Shawn agreed begrudgingly walking out.
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