A New Gang (Open)

Setting: Walt's Jewelers, 19:08
Setting Music: Evil Twin - Eminem

It was an average evening in the downtown section of Jump City, young couples out for a date, people doing some last minute shopping, families out for dinner. A black SUV sat on the street, not an uncommon site, but something seemed off. Inside was Kristoff 'Zero' Makarov sitting in the back seat, it had been a month and a half since Kris' attitude adjustment, a month since Tiberious betrayed HIVE, half a month since Kris was given the go ahead to form a street gang. Here he was, in an SUV with 6 other ne'er-do-wells, loading AK-47s and putting on masks. They all had on one identifying color scheme, black and yellow. Kris looked at the driver, "Slam into the door." Kris then looked at the rest of his 'strike force,' "When we get out, we waste everyone, no witnesses." The driver slammed on the gas, crashing into Walt's Jewelers, killing multiple customers, the Gang then got out and began blowing everyone away, there was mass hysteria, people screaming, people dying. The gang members then began to grab all the jewelry and money they could, throwing it into the SUV.

A jewellery shop robbery? Not on a certain hero's watch! When the SUV crashed into the wall, a young boy who was not remarkable enough to remember ran away with the rest of the crowd. But unlike the others, he was not running in fear of his life.

When he was a good distance away, he ducked into an alleyway and got changed as fast as he could into his hero outfit. He then dashed into the air and arrived at the scene again from a different direction than the one he entered in.

He stood in front of the van so that when a thug tried to throw a bag into the SUV, he noticed Kane and cried out in surprise before getting a foot to the stomach that sent him flying into a wall, knocking him out. Expecting gunfire to occur, he flipped over the van and pushed it with his foot, sending it flying quickly at the gang members.

The thugs ran out of the way and began firing at the hero, "We've got a meta! Let's waste him!" Kris stuck to the shadows, sneaking up on the hero, the other gang members kept him distracted with gun fire as Kris jumped at the hero with his laser Katana. "Hey there, you chose the wrong robbery."

Thugs that were competent and didn't just go down in seconds? Now Kane had seen everything, well not everything, but he had seen something very unusual. The thugs fired at him, he easily dodged everything, but he did not notice kris.

He might have been taken out right there, but Kris announced his presence by pointing out his poor choice of robberies to stop. So instead of being cut, he whirled around, avoiding the blade, and spinning back to swing his foot at the side of Kris's head.

No matter what the result of this attack, whether it was avoided, blocked or he had to dodge a counter, he would cartwheel away and jump into the air unnaturally high, so much that he would be near impossible to hit from the ground. Even more so when he started moving in mid-air.

He moved actively as he went down towards the ground, rebounding against the air and moving in zigzags. He picked off one and sent a kick at his stomach that would send him flying and knock him out, but even if he didn't he would acrobatically avoid the waves of bullets that would inevitably come his way from the thugs.

Kris ducked under the kick and watched this hero take out one of the gang members. Kris growled, "EXPLODING ROUNDS!" All of the thugs switched mags to explosive rounds and started to fire at Kane. Kris saw a survivor and knew how to get Kane back over here, and the gangsters would take the hero out as soon as he came over. Kris walked over to the innocent teenaged girl, "Now, my friend, you see, if you don't come out, I'm going to waste this pretty girl. Kris grinned, his Russian accent dripped with venom.

Kane had succeeded in taking out the gangster, he backed away into the air, expecting to be immediately fired at, but instead they switched to explosive rounds. Not that they were much of a threat, he rose and dove in mid-air to avoid them, if they couldn't hit him then they were only as useful as the regular bullets, that is to say, only if they somehow hit Kane, which at this rate they wouldn't.

Of course though, Kris had to take the cowardly way out as he tried to draw Kane in by threatening a bystander, Kane recognised her, she went to his school, not that it mattered. What mattered was that if he didn't do something she would be killed!

Kane had no choice, he dove down towards Kris and the girl, zigzagging in the air to attempt to avoid the shots that would be fired at him. Once he was almost at the ground, he swung his leg so that he struck the ground, the shockwave would send everyone flying unless they braced themselves for it.

Hopefully it would have seperated Kris and the girl, or at least be enough of a distraction for Kane to leap at Kris so that he was nothing but a blur and try to kick him, doing it so that if he avoided the kick, he'd have no choice but to remove his foot from the girl, but seeing how the alternative was getting kicked with enough force to send him through the wall on the opposite side of the street, he figured the guy would probably dodge.

Kris growled as his gang members turned out to be horrible shots, shooting at where Kane was and not where he was going to be. Kris then noticed Kane on him, Kris quickly dodged, but not before letting out a bullet into the back of the girl's head. Kris then pulled his mask off, it was getting hot, and shot at Kane, doing the right thing, shooting where Kane was going to be with uranium tipped bullets.

Kane had made a fatal mistake, he should have tried to disarm Kris, but he had just assumed that the shock wave had done the trick! But Kris was not knocked off like he thought he might have been, and he shot the girl! Kane gritted his teeth in anger You bas- when Kris fired at him, he didn't have enough time to go back into the air, so he moved to the side to dodge the bullets.

He was so blinded with anger that, once Kris stopped firing to reload or something like that, instead of taking evasive manoeuvres he would charge forward at 100MPH and sent three kicks, one aimed at his face, another at his stomach and a third at his side. If the third kick missed, he would use the momentum to spin round and fire a fourth kick to his knees, trying to sweep his legs from under him.

Kris grinned as the Hero rushed him. The kicks were so predictable, if you had an understanding of martial arts, you could see them coming from a mile away, which is good, because this kid was FAST. Kris bobbed his head so the first kick missed, then stepped backward so the kick made minimal contact, but with the speed, Kris was pushed back out of the other attacks. Kris slammed into a glass display case, "OOF!" Kris slowly got up, pulling out his laser katana, running at the hero.

Kane managed to send the guy flying, hitting a display case, it wasn't much, but Kane finally felt like he was getting somewhere. Kane let himself be weary of the katana the guy pulled out, he avoided the swings, getting some scratched here and there. He used the air to push himself up, then spun in the air to attempt to bring his foot down on Kris's head.

Kris grinned, this poor soul, what a moron, Kris brought his katana up, and attempted to slash the leg off at the knee. Kris knew speed was the biggest asset this hero had, and Kris was just left a large opening to take that away. For good. Sad, but Kris was grinning, this was a grave mistake, one that Kane would never make again.

Kane cursed, he had made a mistake, he was just too angry to see it until he was already halfway through it. Kris was swinging for his foot, Kane used his powers to plant his foot on the air, managing to stop it so that the blade swung inches under. He kicked off against the air and moved away from Kris, he needed to be more careful.

He touched back down to the ground, he needed to focus on long range fighting, sadly he had no long range capabilities whatsoever so he just had to look for an opening. That wouldn't be too hard ...right?

Kris watched the hero, he had some sort of air manipulation, Kris grinned and teased the hero with a wink. Kris got into a battle stance, waiting for Kane to attack. Kris was determined to make them unusable. He wanted to make this hero as useless as he looked.

If Kane had been informed of how useless Kris thought he looked then he would have been surprised, he looked amazing, he would have concluded that Kris must be more crazy than Kane originally thought. Kane wouldn't be bated into going towards him, instead he places his foot under a piece of rubble from the crash into the building and flung it into the air a few feet, then he kicked it towards Kris.

Kris grinned, as soon as the rock broke the line of sight between Kane and himself, he would run to the shadows, the only light coming in from the outside were the police lights, the gun fire between the gang and the cops, and the lights from the other buildings. The shadows were long and thick enough that Kris had quite some cover. He would then attempt to sneak up on Kane and put a bullet in him, aimed right for his spine.