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Drinking a capri sun, on top of a building! What else could any person want? To defeat villains? Well… yeah… I guess, I mean it is my job. But me having to do my job leaves me with one problem, Capris sun. I could leave it here, or I could bring it with me.
“Tommy,” a voice spoke through an earpiece.
“What?”
“There's a bank robbery” the voice spoke again, there was a slight shuffling noise before they continued. “Nevermind there's heroes on the case- wait- no their stuck in a hostage situation,”
“So what? I’m supposed to just go there and probably get heroes on my back?” I asked, slightly joking.
“Yup” they answered.
So I'm just gonna walts in their kick some ass then leave, and probably have to chase away heroes from catching me? According to Tubbo, yes, Yes I am. I sigh, I put down my juice and decided it’s probably best to start heading over so no one dies.I wonder what hero it is, knowing we're in the lower districts, probably someone like that fox hero, he’s been seen around here right?
I look over the bank from a building expecting to see a fox headed person, but instead, it’s a trio of people. People who everyone knows about, why would they be here? No one knows I guess, the SBI hero Philza sat there staring at the bank's windows.it’s funny cause he doesnt know there's glass there, I mean he does but he can’t really see the glass, being part bird and all. Imma guess they realized the criminals down in these parts are more observant than the others as none of the heroes moved out of sight of the front window.
I take out my mask which is a gas mask but with goggles on it. Most people couldn't really see much of the face behind the mask, but for Tommy the thing that stood out were the piercing blue eyes people could barely see. I fluttered my wings a little, wasn’t really expecting an audience today you know? Dropping down onto the bank's ceiling I immediately got the attention of the hero seirin? Siren? Yah siren… I think, but he stood staring at me as I saluted him. Then I opened the fire escape that was on the roof gliding in making sure to make the least bit of noise.
“What about 5 grand?” one of the people said, at this point I got the whole SBI looking at me.
“Nah nah nah we gotta go bigger! This is the hero agency were talking about” I raise my hands as part of my over robe lifts up, hands measuring the size of their heads.
“Ok what about-” I push their heads together making a satisfying clunk noise as they hit the ground. Then I quickly made my leave as my wings pushed air to the ground launching me a good 10 feet in the air, I glided over to the building I once watched over the bank with.
I watch as Siren pushes up on the fire escape, climbing onto the roof as Philza follows him. Looking around they quickly laid eyes upon me. I fell backwards into the ally to get out of the eyes that were staring at me. I open my wings flapping backwards letting me fall to the ground safely.
“Ranboo’s coming to get you” Tubbo spoke, I sighed.
“Kay” a puff of particles came up behind me.
“You okay, Tommy?” He asked politely, helping me up.
“yah, just … big crowd today” I said stretching, he held out a hand as I took it. Suddenly poof I was back home. “Tubbo” I said, voice darkening.
“What's up, big man,” Tubbo spoke back.
“You sent me… to a bank, THE FUCKING SBI WAS AT” all froze, tubbo slowly spun around in his spiny chair.
“What…?” he spoke, voice high and quiet. With that he quickly spun back checking the street cameras, and there they were at the bank. Siren seemed to be having a hissy fit, the Blade was fucking reading and Philza seemed to be comferting a small child girl.
This only met two things, they were here because of me…. Or they could have just been called down to the back robbery because everyone else was busy. Guessing it’s the first option, I mean since when has the hero agency cared about the lower districts, especially district 24, known to be the least wealthy district in the city, the place were no heroes have been spotted except the Fox hero FireFox. But it’s been theorized that it’s because he lives in the lower districts, all the funding goes to the districts 12 and above and that’s a long shot considering there's 25 districts. The lower you go the more you see trash, pollution, and marks on building from heroes, fighting villains. Most people have said it’s the villains causing the damage but we all know it’s the heroes, they know the committee will cover them, but not all get repaired.
“So… what do we do?” Ranboo hesitantly said, Tubbo breathing steadied, he’s angry.
“Most of what we can do is lay low, maybe there here for another reason like Rosethorn… she’s been spotted in this area right?” I nod in agreement, Ranboo hands Tubbo his stress bee. It’s a squishy stuffed bee that we found not too long ago.
I sneezed,
“Is someone talking shit about me?” The other two look at me awkwardly, then shrug. Not gonna lie, it’s probably those heroes.
“Phill…Za! He was right here! That damn person we were looking for!” I spoke angrily, noticing the people around us.
“Mate, do you even know who we were looking for?” Phil asked.
“Well, it was a vigilante and the committee I think said something about a vigilante” I say back.
“Siren, were looking for RoseThorn, not some vigilante” Techno chimed in, I gave him the death glare.
“But I thought you said you were the last of the bird hybrids?” I asked looking over to Phil.
“I thought I was…” Phil said putting the end of his finger tip in his mouth, obviously thinking.
After making sure everyone was okay and the police having the robbers, we asked the police about the Vigilante, hping to get some kind of idea who he was. All we got was people saying “we have been getting more criminals down at these parts recently” and “ oh yeah uhh, what i’ve heard he mainly hangs around the lower districts” not very helpful, but it gives us the idea he’s from down here.
But Phil still seems shocked by the idea of another bird, I mean growing up thinking you’re the last of your kind then finding out you're not, I would be shocked too. But if anything I bet he is questioning where he came from, we looked over the records, not once had it said anything of another bird hybrid.
But it wouldn’t hurt to look up bird hybrids in the database once we got back to the agency. The image of the glowing blue eyes through the goggles was still in my mind. It must be someone with hell of a good eyesight to make it be able to go through the goggles like that.
Arriving at Agency Phil quickly ran up to his office, no really, me and Techno struggled to stay up with him. He opened his computer immediately and headed to a file of ‘resident records’ in which every person would be filed here in the city. He tapped his foot as it loaded onto the screen he searched up ‘ Bird hybrids’ and with a ding it showed only one result. Phil Waterson, but what about the vigilante? Did he just not have a record on the city's files? He had to be otherwise he would have been caught by now, unless… maybe he’s living in the lower districts.
“This little shit has no file! Where could he have come from then? Out of thin air?!” Phil angrily said, Techno looks down at the computer. He looks kinda surprised, but not really.
“Maybe he’s from the lower districts, I mean a lot of things slide down there. This could just be another mess up” I say, that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. I can’t do anything about it though, it’s just a fact known these days.the agency won't even speak about the lower district, abandoning it, claiming it was their first and only embarrassment. Someone were to bring it up, they would get ignored.
Phil sighs, putting his hand on his head.
“What made you all so sad?” a voice piped up, I looked over to see Sam carrying a box. I forgot, Schlatt recently moved the Tech department on the same floor as tht SBI workspace.
“Some.. vigilante, got me all stressed,” Phil sighed, staring at his computer. “Got bird wings but no file on him, I mean…. I thought there were no other birds like me, otherwise why haven’t I heard of him yet?” Phil explained, Sam nodded his head placing down the box he was carrying. “If another bird hybrid would’ve popped up wouldn’t I be the first to know? I mean this is kinda important”
“You said no file? I mean he could’ve been born another human” Sam said, Phil looked confused.
“That's impossible,” Phil said.
“I thought that too before they put me in the head researcher of the ‘blue project” Sam sighed, I scoffed.
“Wasn't that shut down five years ago? Not only is it against the law but it was a total failure?” I said, Same shook his head.
“Ponk found some records a while back of there being a success, more than one actually.” I thought for a second, if this vigilante lives near the lower district and no file on him this could be the reason.
“What even is the blue project, i’ve heard of it but never really got to explore or learn about it” Techno asked.
“Well, that’s because it studied the change of DNA to turn kids under six to change into a hybrid, fortunately they would kidnap these kids, or get them from adoption centers. Only people with powers or no hybrid traits could research on it’s campus because something made the kids go wild after seeing the same kind of hybrid they were meant to be” Sam spoke, now Techno was shocked, I am Phil’s son but unfortunately I got no hybrid traits and Techno is just a close friend of Phil.
I looked over to Phil who had wide eyed tears swelling up in his eyes.
“Unfortunately many kids died after being brought back into the real world.. After a week or so they all just… died, there was nothing we could do.`` Sam said sympathetically “But we found out some were a success and managed to escape. We were looking for them for answers on what happened, we don't know how long these kids were trapped…”
Phil looked like he could break down any moment, I mean he has a kid, me, and he didn’t know when this ever started. I got my powers from my mom, never met her but Phil said she had a way with words. Meaning I have nothing to indicate I have powers, I could’ve been caught.
Sam picked back up the box and started to walk off, soon he disappeared in the hallway.
“You think this person could be a kid from there?” Techno asked, Phill shook his head. He only had a few simple words to say that shocked us all.
“I don’t know” never once had Phil said those words in a state he honestly didn’t have a plan to. But I have a feeling our mission is going to change soon, whether Schlatt likes it or not.