Bank Heist Blitz
We join Wallflower and Nebulon going on their patrol with Candi, Takeru, and Samara following behind them.
Takeru is currently listening to his music and isn’t really paying attention. Samara doesn’t seem to be very talkative currently and would rather just observe her surroundings. The same can’t be said for Candi Kane who of course has plenty of questions to ask which Gloriosa seems to be more than happy to answer. As she does this Nebulon floats alongside her as she occasionally gives them a treat.
“So what’s it like being a real life superhero? Is it dangerous? Is it fun? Do you have insurance?” Candi prattles on a seemingly endless stream of different questions.
“It is a necessary job that brave and hard-working people must do to be able to keep people safe. Also absolutely yes, not particularly, and fortunately yes.” Wallflower responds.
As Candi is about to ramble on another string of questions an alarm is heard in the distance.
“Alright kids. Follow my lead.”
Wallflower proceeds to run towards the sound with the rest of her group following along behind her.
They eventually see where the alarm came from. It seems that a bank has just been robbed by a group of five thieves. The leader of the group appears to be wearing a small mask covering his eyes and has slicked back blonde hair, a thick blonde beard, a white tank top, camouflage pants, and tall black combat boots. The other four are wearing black ski masks and all black outfits. All of them are seen running away from the crime scene.
“Hey! Stop right there!” Wallflower yells at the group of criminals. Upon hearing this they stop and look towards her. “You are under arrest. Put that money back where it belongs and come with us quietly.”
“Nah! I don’t think we want to do that! You guys know what to do!” As the leader says this he and his goons proceed to take out their weapons. Two have guns, two more have baseball bats, and the leader of the group doesn’t take out a weapon and is just standing there with his arms crossed.
Wallflower raises her arms and grows vines out of the cracks on the sidewalks. She sends these towards the group of criminals. Most of them evade her attack, but one of them gets caught by the vine.
“How cute.” The leader walks towards his suspended ally and puts his right hand onto the vine. An explosion leaves the palm of his hand as the remainders of the vine turn to ashes. “But do you really think that you can stop us with just a particularly green thumb?”
Gloriosa takes a defensive stance and has vines protecting her and her students.
“Alright everyone. Stay back. Nebulon, keep the kids safe. I’ll handle this.”
“Oh. So most of you are just interns. This will be easier than I thought.”
“Don’t you DARE threaten these kids!” Glori sends a vine directly at the man’s neck.
He nonchalantly grabs it and blows it up with a grin on his face.
“Is that all you can do? Are you trying to get my allergies to act up?” He says while slowly walking towards the group.
Wallflower preemptively creates a wall out of her vines as the imposing man charges towards her. He punches the wall and the following explosion turns it to ash.
Also, that explosion burned the mask off his face.
“How rude of me. It seems that I haven’t properly introduced myself. They call me Blitz.”
Wallflower winces in fear upon hearing that name.
‘So this is him.’ Wallflower thinks to herself. ‘The man who has been killing multiple other heroes around the city. This is the first time I am actually seeing his face. We are only aware of him because of the aftermath of his fights and the calling card that he leaves behind. Not many people who see him seem to live to tell the tale.’
He cracks his knuckles.
“They call me that because most fights I am in tend to not last very long. It’s honestly a pity. I have a lot of fun during these confrontations, but I wish I can find someone who can at least give me a proper bout.”
He slowly walks towards Wallflower while making small rotations in his right shoulder. Gloriosa sends another wave of vines in his direction which he dispels with a quick flick of the wrist. He raises up his right arm into the air and seems to be charging another, bigger blast. He then points towards Gloriosa and sends the explosive directly at her. Before it lands, Takeru successfully blocks the attack.
“Not cool dude.” He says while standing in front of Wallflower now with a glowing green sword.
“Interesting. It seems you were able to completely nullify my attack. What an intriguing power?”
Takeru proceeds to send a wave of energy towards Blitz. He blocks this, but it sends him back about three feet.
“Impressive, but it will take far more than that to best me. I can assure you that.”
He starts channeling another blast, but this time is cut off by a shadowy figure biting his arm hard enough to draw blood.
“Now what could this be?”
Samara is sending Allen towards her opponent to join Edgar and bite his other arm.
“That’s rather annoying.” He flexes his arms and an explosion covers his body. Edgar and Allen, now shrunken down, whimper and head back and go behind Samara. “Anything else any of you would like to show me?”
Candi usually wasn’t this quiet. With her seemingly never ending positivity somehow finding its limit when encountered with a dire circumstance.
“What about you Blondie? What can you do?” He points towards Candi as she feels her heart skip a beat.
She slowly reaches into her fanny pack and pulls out a cookie.
“...Fascinating...” Blitz starts to strike his beard. “Now you have my interest. I can’t wait to see where this goes.”
She takes a small bite of the cookie as adrenalyn starts to surge through her body. That seemed to renew her confidence, or at the very least briefly supercharge her fight or flight response. She proceeds to stomp on one of Wallflower’s vines and tears it out of its roots. Within the blink of an eye she is behind Blitz with all of his henchmen dizzy and tied up.
“How is that for a demonstration, you big jerk!” She says while sticking out her tongue and dragging down the bottom of her right eyelid.
“How very entertaining. This might actually be a bit fun.” Blitz said while charging up another blast. “Now, how fast can you run?”
He sends an explosion towards Candi who dodges with ease.
“Come on! Dance for me!” He says as he continues his barrage.
She continues to dodge and zips behind him after one of his attacks and tries to land an ax kick on the back of his head.
He turns around and catches her foot in his hand, swings her around in a circle, and sends her flying back towards the rest of her group.
Wallflower quickly makes a net of vines to catch her in which Candi slams against it.
“Okay that is enough!” Gloriosa turns towards Nebulon who had just been watching this entire time, mostly unaware of what was going on.
“Nebulon, bad guy!” Glori says while pointing at Blitz.
Nebulon proceeds to raise one arm towards the sky. Blitz watches them with interest for about a minute until he realizes what is actually happening.
Nebulon is calling a handful of small meteors from outer space to meet them at their location. They each burn up to about the size of a basketball upon their entry into the earth’s atmosphere. They are now rotating in a circle around them.
“...Bad…guy…” Nebulon slowly says to themself while staring at Blitz.
Blitz doesn’t seem as eager to fight as he was before. He may be strong, but he doesn’t think that he could defeat somebody who could probably throw the literal moon down on him.
“...You know what. It has been fun…” Blitz says while slowly backing away from the group of heroes. “...But I should probably get these back to my place.” gesturing at the three bags of money he is carrying over his shoulder.
“Hey, get back here!” Gloriosa yells at him, but it seems like she was too late.
Before they knew, it Blitz had used a small explosion as a smokescreen to get away. After running about 20 feet he lights an explosion underneath his feet and jumps away.
“...H…hey, what about us boss?” One of the henchmen replies to Blitz after he abandoned them, but his cries aren’t heard.
“Oh no you don’t!” Candi says in a runners start position until Gloriosa puts a hand on her shoulder.
Gloriosa puts her hand onto Candi’s shoulder and gives her a sympathetic look.
Candi stands up to face her.
“...But, but…we can’t just let him get away!”
“Your safety is more important to me right now than anything else.” She turns to the other kids who were both shaken up by the situation as well. “This is getting too dangerous for all of you. Let’s head back to base.”
She sighs.
“Most days aren’t usually this bad, but you never know what’s around the corner when you are in this line of work…I’ll send some of our other heroes after him when we get back.” She looks out at the kids with concerned eyes.
Candi tried to object, but stopped herself before she said anything.