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The Bad Guys season 1: Our Own Story (chapter 27) - The Story Of The 6th Bad Guys part 2

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Hey Guys, I am very sorry I haven't updated for almost 2 weeks because of being busy in school, and an upcoming poster of my new The Bad Guys story. I hope you'll like this new chapter. This chapter is part 2 of Hornet's story of joining the Bad Guys, and how he became to be at this time. Good luck!

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Intro

Mr. Wolf: Yeah! I'm bad!

Mr. Snake: You're bad!

Ms. Tarantula: He's bad!

Mr. Hornet: She's bad!

Mr. Piranha: We're bad!

Mr. Shark: Who's bad?

The Bad Guys: Yeah! We're the Bad Guys!

The next day, in the afternoon, as Hornet just sat down in the vent while hugging his favorite stuffed swan, all alone, he could hear the Bad Guys' conversation at their dining table.

"I'm sorry, Wolf, but I don't think Hornet is good enough to be part of the team," Snake said.

Hornet crawled towards the opening really slowly, and listened to them.

"Come on, Snake, he's still a rookie. He's new to this," Wolf told him.

"So, he did a foolish thing in our last heist, but nobody's perfect. Not even me," Shark admitted.

"He's trying, and that's what matters. Some people got bored in their old job, and wanted to do something new, like what Hornet did. He's still one of us," Tarantula added as Hornet smiled after hearing two of his friends standing up for him, despite the results of his recent actions at their last heist. Tarantula then turned to Piranha, who was slouching on his seat with his arms crossed, "Right, Piranha?"

"Right?" Shark inquired.

"Well…" Piranha sounded like he had other opinions.

This made Hornet, who was still listening from the air vent, Shark, and Tarantula gasp in shock when they noticed that Piranha had different thoughts about his new friend.

"Hey look, don't get me wrong! Of course I understand Hornet was trying…" Piranha explained where he stopped in mid-sentence.

"But?" Tarantula asked.

Piranha then admitted, "But, I don't know. We never failed a heist before. I don't want to be mad at Hornet for not being the best at being a Bad Guy like us. I mean, I got used to us succeeding before we had him, I…"

"That's because he's not a Bad Guy!" Wolf shouted while slamming his paws on the table.

Having heard this painful statement from Wolf, Hornet became even more shocked, heartbroken, and depressed. He hasn't felt this feeling before since the other hornets of his hive abandoned him to die. He quietly flew deeper into the vent system, and put his left arm against his tearful eyes.

Wolf then added, right after Hornet left the opening, preventing him to hear more about the conversation, "Not yet, anyway. He's brand new to this. You've got to give him time to figure out who he wants to be, and how he fits into this crew."

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Later at night, when all the Bad Guys fell asleep, Hornet quietly flew out of the vent, and watched his friends sleeping soundly. Hornet was devastated. It was confirmed by them that he's not a Bad Guy at all like them. He made himself different from them, like how different he was in his colony; being the nicest and friendliest murder hornet there is, and with the Bad Guys, he wasn't a criminal like them. He didn't know where he belonged anymore. He tried his best to fit in with the Bad Guys, but he wasn't sure if he could fit into the whole world.

"I'm not sure if I'll ever fit in," Hornet sniffed while hugging himself, "If I don't fit in and let them down, they'll kick me out in the streets. I'll be alone again."

Hornet flew to the window to look at the starry sky. It was cold and dark outside. If the Bad Guys hadn't taken him in, he would be out there. He looked back to his sleepy friends. Seeing them made him realize as long as he was around, they would be in big trouble.

"No…" Hornet snapped out of his thoughts, "I can't let that happen again. I have to make it up to them. I have to make things right for them."

Hornet quickly wore his helmet, and quietly opened the window that gives a small gap for Hornet to squeeze out. He looked back to his friends, and said quietly, "Sorry about this, guys. But I'm only doing this to earn back your trust," Hornet then squeezed himself through the gap, and successfully flew out of the window before flying away.

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Hornet flew all over the city to look for perfect banks to steal. He looked around for half an hour, and he found one. Hornet used the ventilation system to get into the bank instead of taking the front door. He was known as the newest member of the Bad Guys now, so he has to be careful. Using the ventilation shaft was easy for Hornet to get inside the bank. Using his helmet, he got a chance to snap the photos of the blueprints that the Bad Guys kept for planning for the next heists. He found a match after sliding the other ones, and followed the blueprint of the vents like a map. He could locate the safe of the bank, so he followed his map.

When he arrived, Hornet flew down from the opening of the vent, and he was now in front of a giant safe. Hornet congratulated himself by clapping his hands, and flew towards it. He tried to figure out how to get into this safe, until he found a tiny hole that might fit him. Hornet quickly squeezed himself to fit into the hole, and shook his body to slip in. When he popped in, there he could see the safe kept a whole pile of money and gold. It was like a treasure hunt for Horne,t and he got the jackpot. He'll finally repay the Bad Guys for taking him in. Hornet pulled out a small bag, and dove into the pile. Hornet started to pick up coins one by one, and put them into the bag.

"Oooh, the guys are gonna be so happy!" Hornet squealed as he kept digging," Unbeknownst to him, Hornet was watched by a security camera behind him, "Ooh, a quarter," Hornet found a quarter, and put it into the bag.

The security camera then zoomed in, and he was live at the monitors.

Minutes later, seeing how full his bag was, Hornet thought that would be enough to steal money for his friends, "Perfect!" Hornet closed the bag, and lifted it up with him. It was a little heavy though, but he couldn't let his size stop him now. But then, the room was flashing red, and the alarm was heard really loud, "Uh-oh!"

Then, he heard loud banging noises from the safe's door, until the door was kicked open by the chief of police with her fellow cops behind her.

"A-ha! There you are, you little bee!" Chief Luggins shouted.

"I'm a hornet!" Hornet yelled.

Chief Luggins didn't care as she commanded the other cops, "Get him!"

When two of the cops ran in, Hornet used his flight to avoid getting caught by the two cops. They tried to grab him, but he kept slipping away.

"Ha-ha! Miss me!" Hornet laughed.

He continued to keep the cops busy chasing him, until both cops accidentally bumped into each other. Hornet laughed loudly as he thought he could taste freedom, but was grabbed by the large gloved hand of the chief of police.

"Gotcha!" Chief Luggins grinned

Hornet tried to squirm as he struggled to break free, "Let me go! Let me go!" Even with or without the glove, Hornet has no guts to sting her. He wanted to prove he was not a murder hornet that everybody thought of him

"So, you're the new Bad Guy, huh? Well, too bad you got captured on your first crime alone. You know, I have a special jail for you," Chief Luggins chuckled as Hornet gulped nervously.

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The next morning, Piranha was up early to cook breakfast for his friends, but he noticed someone was missing. When the rest of the Bad Guys finished their morning routines after waking up, he greeted them.

"Buenos Dias, chicos! Have you seen Hornet? I haven't seen him this morning. He didn't come for breakfast."

"No, I haven't seen him either," Wolf answered.

"Now that you think about it, I haven't seen him since last night," Tarantula said.

"Do you think he… left?" Shark asked worriedly.

While the Bad Guys looked worried, Snake wasn't, and he didn't care about the insect as he mumbled, "Good riddance."

But his friends heard him, and scolded loudly, "Snake!"

Snake turned around to face his friends, and declared, "What? That bug did nothing but trouble."

"Well, that bug might be a little misguided, but his heart's in the right place. He's trying, Snake. He wanted to be part of this team. You should give him a chance," Wolf said.

"Why should I give him a chance?" Snake asked.

"Because… it's the exact same thing you gave us when we joined the team," Shark recalled.

Snake remembered how he used to be strict with the other Bad Guys when he was just him and Wolf. He wasn't used to rookies and newcomers, but when he gave himself time to get used to the new guys and know them even better, he became nicer to them. And then, he treated Hornet unfairly.

"Boys, look!" Tarantula interrupted them as she watched the TV on the couch. The guys rushed to their couches to watch the news on TV.

Tiffany Fluffit was on-screen to report the latest news, "This Tiffany Fluffit reporting to you the exclusive news that the newest member of the Bad Guys, Mr. Hornet, had been captured last night while he was caught red-handed stealing coins from a bank. Right now, he was taken to Los Angeles County Jail for further investigation," the screen then showed Hornet taking mugshots, and the video footage of him in a jar locked into a prison cell.

"We need to save Hornet!" Piranha suggested.

"After he got himself captured that way? No way!" Snake scoffed, refusing to follow this idea.

"Come on, Snake, we have to take him out of jail," Shark insisted

"And this is another question: Why should have to break him out of jail when he foolishly robbed a bank on his own in the middle of the night without our permission?" Sanek asked while staring at Wolf, demanding an answer from him

Wolf took a deep breath, and answered, "Because, Snake, he's one of us. He's a member of this team. He's a Bad Guy."

Then Tarantula added, "And we Bad Guys have to stick together and look out for each other. Hornet had been doing this since he became part of the team and that's what we're doing."

Snake didn't like where this was going. He might be really bad, but he never left his teammates behind. And since Hornet was part of the team, then he was counted as one of the Bad Guys that Snake have to look out for

Snake slapped his face with his tail, feeling defeated, "Ugh! Fine! But don't give me too much credit for this," Shark, Piranha, and Tarantula cheered and laughed as the Bad Guys headed to the elevator before Snake muttered, "And after we save Hornet, I'm gonna kill him."

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Mr. Wolf not-so-innocently whistled his way as he walked towards the receptionist's office at the police station. He was already decked in full white, but he placed on a fedora and sunglasses to hide at least half of his facial looks so that he wouldn't get arrested on the spot. Arriving at the desk, he rang the bell and the receptionist looked up.

She looked up. "Hi there. How can I help you?"

"Oh, why thank you, mate," said Wolf in an Australian accent, not bothering to make it charming. "I'm here to send a little pascal to my new friend Mr. Hornet."

He lifted down his sunglasses to reveal his golden eyes and opened his mouth to show some of his sharp teeth.

Though, the receptionist didn't seem fazed when she realized that she was talking to a Wolf.

"And what is this gift you want to send him?" she asked dumbly.

Wolf just grinned and placed a present down on the desk. Curiously, the receptionist lifted it up to inspect…and the lid popped upon to reveal Tarantula. She jumped right on top of the stunned receptionist.

"Give me a kiss," she hissed.

And the receptionist fainted just like this.

"Wow," said Wolf. "She's out cold. You really do freak everyone else, don't you?"

"Yep," said Tarantula, jumping back onto his shoulder. "Always have…"

"Is that our cue to come in?" called Snake's voice.

"Yep! Come in, boys!"

Shark, Snake, and Piranha entered, finding that the room was already clear. There weren't that many visitors around, so they wouldn't be called immediately.

"Man, I could have been the guy in disguise," complained Shark. "It would be less violent that way!"

"But we all agreed on my idea of breaking and entering!" pointed out Piranha. "I flipped the coin fair and square."

"Yep," said Snake, pulling something out from the back of his shirt. "Secondly, I was called by another criminal last week. She needed me to test this out…"

Two flash ball guns. Complete with straps covered in smoke and cheese projectiles. And the weapons were custom-made! Painted in black and orange. Fitting for them.

"Ohohohoho!" laughed Wolf as he picked up one of the guns like a little boy getting his Christmas present. "Okay, this looks much better than using a real handgun."

"Will these types of ammo be enough to help fight our way to Hornet?" asked Tarantula.

"Not sure," said Snake, swinging the second one around. "But that's why they need to be tested. Though, should have enough power to knock a person out with the right aim."

"Let's find out then," said Wolf.

"Hopefully we don't kill anyone," said Shark casually.

"Now let's save Hornet!" squealed Piranha.

The Bad Guys made their way through the detector, already beeping at the presence of unauthorized personnel, finding that none of the cops were alerted about the receptionist fainting. Two police cops were just standing there on their lunch break already. They could only look in surprise as Wolf pointed his gun at him.

"Hi there, boys," he said.

BOOM!

It was really effective. The cop found himself shot in hot, stinky cheese. It covered him from head to toe, causing him to slip onto the floor. Worse, it was hardening, so it became harder to move around. The cop quickly tried to attack, but Snake came in to swing his gun right underneath his chin, knocking him out.

As the two casually got rid of the empty projectile and added in new ones for their guns, Tarantula grabbed one of the projectiles and tore the lid off with her teeth like it was a grenade.

"Everybody panic!" she yelled, tossing it right in front of the Bad Guys.

Those who were in the meeting rooms were given the fright of their lives when an orange smoke exploded and filled the entire hallway. Laughing at this, Piranha grabbed two projectiles and ran right through the smoke. On the other end, he found many of the workers in suits quickly taking the emergency exits. His real targets were the police cops seeing through the chaos.

One police cop tried to grab him, but he quickly kicked him back. He took his police baton, whacking him several times in the leg. He then leaped upwards and swung the baton right across the cop's face. Another cop ran in, but Piranha whacked him in the groin. Twice. And then a high jump in the air before landing on the other and opening his teeth towards the cop's delicate booty.

Shark rushed through the smoke to find the cop screaming ladylike as he was bitten. He quickly ducked when one cop arrived and tried to fire on him. Shark quickly grabbed onto the cops' hands, pushing the gun's aim away as he fired two times. Cutting the knot, Shark just bit off the gun's barrel and grabbed the cop's arm to quickly swing behind him. He then kicked the cop right in the leg to distract him before throwing him upwards.

Meanwhile, Wolf, Snake, and Tarantula hanging onto Wolf's shoulder were having the time of their lives testing their video game shooting skills. As they came through the orange smoke, they found many more cops charging in from behind Shark and Piranha. Wolf fired one projectile that just hit the cop in the forehead with hardened play-doh Snake fired one projectile at a cop, emitting orange confetti to knock the guy out.

Though, the cop Wolf fired didn't back then. He tried rushing in to take a swing with his baton at Wolf. However, he ducked and, Tarantula finished the job by throwing another projectile right at the cop's face. The cop fell unconscious upon feeling the really heavy explosion of orange paint on his forehead.

One cop was running toward them and Wolf lifted his gun up to fire him at the chest. An explosion of orange confetti, thankfully it didn't break the clothes or skin, caused the cop to fly around in a circle before crashing onto his chest. Snake quickly tripped a cop that appeared out of nowhere before shooting him in the chest to send him flying right into a window.

A cop hiding in a room tried to grab Wolf by the ends of his gun. Wolf was briefly distracted, feeling the gun pressed against his throat. However, he quickly swung around and grabbed the cop's hand, giving him a kiss on the hand. That was when he swung the cop over his shoulder and let hitting the ground finish the job.

One cop pounced on Snake, though when on the ground, he quickly wrapped himself around the cop before resting on the back. Looking up, he pointed his gun to shoot at another charging cop, sending him swimming away by the slippery cheese. Snake quickly finished the job by spinning the cop around, leaving him dazed.

There was only one more cop in their sight.

And he was already cowering.

"So long, sucker!" barked Wolf.

The cop turned away, trying to run into the smoke. But not before Snake fired one last time at the cop's bottom and sent him landing on the floor in humiliating, covered in orange paint.

With the cops dealt with, the Bad Guys found another room packed with people. Might as well start asking questions. They got in with Wolf and Snake lifting up their guns as a warning.

"Where can we find Mr. Hornet?" asked Wolf.

No reply from any of the shocked people.

Snake snorted before firing, sending another worker to the ground in a humiliating heap of cheese.

Wolf clicked his gun, only to hear the empty clicking. He groaned. They all ran out of projectiles with only one Snake had.

"Cell twenty-one!" blurted out a cop, looking unfit to fight.

Snake kept his gun at the cop while Wolf made his way to the cop. He pulled the card from his shirt pocket and patted his hand.

"Thank you, sweetheart," he said. "Don't worry about us for now."

With the access card with them, the Bad Guys started to make their way out of the room. Though, Snake stopped at one point, finding a promotional poster of a young teen of Asian descent with turquoise-dyed hair and golden eyes. Snake's response was to shoot the poster, covering it in black sludge.

"Hey!" whined Tarantula, "That guy was one of the greatest authors to write a good story based on a Sonic game!"

Snake wrinkled his nose as he kept his gun. "TT's first 'Forces United' story published was cringe."

"And that was the last of the ammo," said Wolf mournfully, passing his gun to Snake.

"Hey, chill, man," said Shark. "We won't need it anyway."

"You're still not sure with all that fighting?" asked Piranha. "But it was really fun!"

"Yeah, but we have to be quick now," said Wolf. "Otherwise we wouldn't be armed against the rest of the police."

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The Bad Guys finally made their way right to where the prison facilities should be. Closer to the criminals where they were locked up until they were sent to court. They were surprised that there weren't any security guards guarding the place, but this meant that they were lucky. Though, there was a door between them since they were already in the security room while the prison room was on the other side.

"Okay," said Wolf. "This should be the place. Webs, do your thing."

"Got it," said Tarantula.

She hopped right onto a table that seemed to control the technology and security around in this area. Her laptop was already set up, so she was able to get right into the security system of this police station entirely. However, once she tried to get into trying to unlock the prison cells, there was a loud beep nearby her.

A large 'ACCESS DENIED' symbol was on the monitor next to her.

"What's going on there?" asked Snake.

"It's not letting me in!" said Tarantula.

"I think you have to do this more manually," said Shark.

"Try turning this thing on and off again!" suggested Piranha.

Tarantula was already trying to press the right buttons on the panel. However, all she got was the same 'ACCESS DENIED' message on the screen. Continued to play out million times as she angrily flipped every switch, button, and code she could use. It eventually dissolved into her banging her small fists out of sheer frustration.

"Oh come on!" she yelled. "How come this place is already secured?!"

"Oh, just let me do this, chica!" Piranha gently shoved Tarantula aside, and tried to smash the panel with his bare fins. He then grabbed a bat, and smashed the panel with it.

It didn't work with more "ACCESS DENIED" messages appearing on the screen. Piranha swung more and hardly on the panel as sparks went flying and a loud siren rang, a symbol of approval. The door leading to the prison room opened.

"Huh," said Wolf, smiling. "Flawless!"

"Not really," pointed out Shark.

"Let's just quickly grab that bug before anything worse happens," snarled Snake.

As if on cue, the security monitor slowly broke down and it led to unleashing of the sprinklers. It went at the same time as haunting hard rock music played from the speakers when the Bad Guys were about to enter.

They exchanged looks of annoyance, bothered by the rain pouring in and the music playing. Piranha and Shark weren't complaining too much while Snake held onto his hat in hopes that it would protect him from catching a cold. Tarantula held onto Shark, hoping to not get swept away by the water. Wolf looked really upset, but he swallowed it up and adjusted his suit.

They entered the prison room and were greeted by a loud cry of screaming and yelling from the jail cells. Some of the inmates were surprised by the Bad Guys' presence, but most of them had a history with them in the past before.

"Wait, what the-?!"

"You!"

"He stole my car!"

"She crashed my computer!"

Wolf raised his hands up in defense, trying to calm down the rowdy inmates. "Don't mind us. Just robbing this place.

"Hey! Mr. Snake! I'm the reason I'm here!"

"You killed my sandwich!"

"Come over here right now, buddy!"

Ignoring the yelling from the inmates, the Bad Guys found Hornet resting in a jar in his own jail cell. Hornet lifted his head up and he gasped, surprised to see them here with him.

"W-What?!" he said. "How-?"

"We don't have much time," said Tarantula, taking one of Snake's custom keys he brought along. "We're getting you out of here."

"But…why?"

"We don't leave one of our own behind," said Wolf firmly, looking back in case any guards came in.

"Their choice, not mine," grumbled Snake.

And then, the locking system broke loose when the loud guitar riffs came in from the speakers.

A loud beep through the room and the jail cell doors immediately opened. Hornet's jail door opened as well. But unfortunately, so did the others. Once it came to the Bad Guys that the damage they did wreck a lot of things, they found themselves swarmed by the slowly advancing portion of inmates. All nursing grudges against them.

Wolf gulped, putting his hands up in the air 'innocently'. Snake was nearly frozen in spot, but he slowly turned to the inmates. Shark was nearly still and Piranha was about to unleash a frenzy. Though, Tarantula got to Hornet and grabbed his hand.

"Take him outside please, Webs," asked Wolf politely.

One of the inmates was already speaking. "Snake, you-"

Quickly, Snake curled himself around one of the cells' bars and slammed his tail right into the inmate's throat. Two times before tackling him to the ground. One inmate tried to rush in, but Snake quickly turned around and swung his body, enough to slam right into the inmate's face. And hard enough that it sent the inmate flying in the air.

The rest of the boys quickly got into business with fighting against the other incoming inmates.

Wolf tried to push aside one inmate, but he grabbed him by his jacket end. Taking this as an advantage, Wolf playfully wrapped the inmate with his jacket before spinning around and landing a jab right in the face to send the inmate falling back. One inmate tried to jump right on top of him, but he quickly grabbed them and swirled them around like they were his dancing partner before tossing him right towards another jail cell.

"Oooookay, we should go!" said Tarantula, grabbing Hornet by the hand.

Hornet wasn't moving since he was in awe of how the Bad Guys could fight. Tarantula couldn't blame him. This was probably one of the few times she saw her friends get into combat like this, so it was amazing seeing how they were capable of defending themselves. She was still learning how to fight during that time, but she could take a few lessons from what she saw.

The pouring rain around them and the slightly flooded floor could teach them a lesson as well on how to fight in any kind of environment.

Piranha was onto one inmate. One grabbed him, but he pulled back his arm so hard that he pulled him down to the floor. Piranha then swung the unconscious body around to trip over the charging inmates before tossing the body right at another charging inmate.

Nearby, Shark quickly slammed a jail door right into another inmate. Seeing this, Piranha hopped right onto the door to swing around before falling into an incoming inmate's hands. As if doing a dance, he threw him down to the ground, becoming victorious. Shark followed up by quickly grabbing another incoming inmate and throwing them to the side before they could harm Piranha.

The boys looked up to see Tarantula and Hornet getting through the emergency door.

There was only one more inmate.

Wolf and Snake exchanged nods and the former grabbed onto the latter, spinning him like a lasso. When close, Wolf whipped Snake right at the inmate, wrapping him around. He pulled the inmate close to him before playfully flicking his nose. At this, Snake unwrapped himself and the inmate went spinning before crashing into the wall.

The male members of the Bad Guys got back up and ran towards the emergency door, still hearing the rain pouring and hard rock music playing in the background. It was near the end of the song, so they could hear the singer screaming. But there was also another screaming and that wasn't coming from the speakers.

Looks like they have to get out of there before the cops could catch up.

"Nice one, Snake."

"It's a new trick I'm working on."

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Just then, when the four arrived outside, they noticed that Tarantula and Hornet didn't move for a bit when they were frozen in terror as they looked forward. The rest of the Bad Guys looked up to see Chief Luggins holding her gun that was pointing at them.

"You!" Chief Luggins snarled.

"You!" Wolf growled.

"Step away from the insect!" Chief Luggins demanded while Tarantula was still holding Hornet tightly.

While the other male Bad Guys had their hands, and tail in Snake's case, up, Wolf got a chance to glance down at a nearby brick next to his shoe. This gave the canine an idea. He slowly lowered down, and held the brick in one paw.

Chief Luggins noticed this, and yelled while still pointing her gun at the gang, "Drop it!"

"The brick?" Wolf glanced at the brick he was holding before smirking, "Sure." He threw the brick up in the air as Wolf made a cartwheel, having his one foot kick the brick he threw, and it hit the chief's face, knocking her unconscious.

The other Bad Guys gaped at Wolf's moves at the chief as Tarantula quickly crawled away while carrying Hornet as it was her chance to escape.

"Wow, hermano, I never knew you could do that!" Piranha exclaimed.

"There are things that you don't know about me yet, Piranha," Wolf fixed up his suit as the rest proceeded to run off.

The Bad Guys finally arrived at the car when Tarantula was already inside. The male Bad Guys quickly jumped into the car, and closed their doors.

"Great job, you guys," Wolf told the whole team, but noticed Hornet wasn't in the car, "Where's Hornet?" He asked while looking at Tarantula.

"Relax. He's right here," Tarantula said as she showed Hornet, who got wrapped in her silky thread. He was squirming and muffled screaming inside for help.

"WEBS!" Wolf, Snake, Shark, and Piranha exclaimed in shock to see Hornet trapped in Tarantula's threads.

"Oh, come on. He's fine! You gotta admit this is funny!" Tarantula laughed, "I was just joking around! I was kidding!" But the four didn't find it amusing as they gave her the stare, demanding to free Hornet out of her trap, "Fine!" Tarantula rolled her eyes, and cracked her trap open like cracking an egg, and dropped Hornet out, who was traumatized, and shaking in fear.

Hornet then slowly looked at Tarantula with his fearful eyes, and stammered, "D-don't... Ever... do-do that... again!"

"Just saving your life!" Tarantula exclaimed.

With no time to lose, Wolf switched the car on, and drove off before more cops could catch up with them.

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Later, after losing the cops off their tails, the Bad Guys made it back to their hideout as they got out of the elevator, heading to the couch.

"Thanks for breaking me out, guys. I don't know how long I would last there," Hornet said as he and his friends exited the elevator.

"No problem, little buddy," Shark gently ruffled Hornet's head.

"Now, Hornet, can you please tell us why you ended up in jail last night?" Snake demanded Hornet to answer with an icy glare.

"Alright," Hornet sighed as he confessed, "I kinda snuck out last night to rob a bank… just small coins since I'm too small."

"Why would you rob a bank without us?" Tarantula asked.

"And why didn't you tell us?" Piranha added.

"Because…, I want to make it up to you guys after I screwed up our last heist. I just want to prove that I'm worthy enough to be a Bad Guy, like you guys," Hornet said sadly.

"Wait, what idiot said you aren't worthy of being a Bad Guy?" Wolf questioned in surprise.

"You! Like 15 hours ago!" The insect snapped

Wolf blabbered a little as he clarified, "Hornet, I didn't mean anything like that. You can't force yourself to prove your worth to be part of this team by robbing a bank on your own."

"You're right. We should have another heist then," Hornet suggested excitingly.

"Hornet, chico, you proved enough," Piranha scowled, making Hornet stop being excited, "Look, you screwed up, yes, but it's just one thing. Maybe next time you won't screw things again."

"You think so?" Hornet asked doubtfully.

"Look, just stick with the plan, and do your job. Maybe the more you keep doing your job right, the sooner you prove yourself worthy to be a Bad Guy," Tarantula advised.

Though Hornet wasn't sure if that was good advice. Being the lookout of the team was kinda boring, and all he did was watch over, and he might have no control but to jump into action again. He was scared of screwing things up again.

"Look, maybe we shouldn't do a heist today. The cops were after us after we broke Hornet out of prison," Wolf said, "We'll plan another heist next week. We should save our energy by then."

When the other Bad Guys nodded in agreement as they moved out to their business, Hornet was left alone with Snake, who turned and glared at him

"Look, I don't want you to be here, but they do, and I don't have a choice for that. You want to prove you're a Bad Guy, then prove more," Snake said before slithering away.

Hornet knew Snake was right. He has to prove more, but in order to do that, he should just stick to his role, and not foolishly do things without a plan. Guess he should just stick to being a hideout.

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A week later, it was the exact 7 days after the Bad Guys broke Hornet out of prison. Until now, he felt guilty for giving his new friends a hard time, making them fail in their heist, going out to steal alone, getting captured, and having them risk their time to rescue him. Hornet carried that shame and guilt for a week.

He had himself a bowl of veggie salad, and flew all the way to the couch while carrying a bowl. He sat on the couch, and pressed the on button on the remote that was beside him. He was watching a telenovela, showing a woman crying.

"No one would ever love me! People think I'm invisible!"

"So true, Maria! So true!" Hornet cried while eating a piece of lettuce with a fork.

Piranha then came in, and saw Hornet on the couch He even glanced at the TV, and groaned, "Ugh! I hate it when you watch Telenovelas," he sat on the couch, and noticed something on Hornet, "What are you doing?"

"I'm stress-eating," the hornet answered with a lettuce in his mouth.

"Drowning your rookie sorrows in veggie salad? Don't people usually do that with junk food?

"I know. I'm sad, but unhealthy choices won't give me what I want. And I didn't even use the dressing."

Piranha scoffed as he had enough seen Hornet so depressed like this, "That's it. Just give me that!" he snatched the bowl from Hornet's side, and put it aside. Piranha looked down at Hornet, and asked worryingly, "Are you okay?"

Hornet sighed in frustration, and confessed, "I just… I don't think I'll get up on my feet and join you guys on a heist again."

Piranha nodded as he understood how Hornet was feeling. The fish himself had been there before, and he advised his friend, "I know you a mistake… or just a few, but trust me, Hornet. Everything's going to be fine."

Hornet looked up at Piranha with teary eyes as the way the fish spoke to him, the insect almost had doubts about being fine, but Hornet nodded at Piranha, trusting him that everything would turn out just fine in the future.

Wolf then stood in front, standing in front of Piranha and Hornet, and called the rest of the Bad Guys, "Alright, guys, gather around," Snake, Shark, and Tarantula gathered together in the middle of the main room as all Bad Guys were ready to listen to their leader. When Wolf saw everyone was here, he cleared his throat, and declared, "It's been a week since we never got out of our hideout, so tonight will be the time we can do another heist," when this was brought up, Snake glared sharply at Hornet who couldn't even look at the reptile's eyes as he felt ashamed about what happened last time. Wolf then looked down at Hornet worryingly, and asked, "Hornet, are you sure you're up for it?"

Hornet snapped out of his thoughts, and looked up at Wolf, "Huh? I mean, yeah. Sure. I can handle it. Yeah"

Wolf wasn't sure if Hornet was okay, but this team needed a lookout for this heist, so he hoped the insect was in a mood for a heist tonight.

"Alright! Here's the plan…"

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it's time for the Bad Guys to do another heist. This time, they were targeting a risky valuable item. This heist needed to be a success, and no mistakes this time.

The museum was as packed as the Bad Guys expected it to be. Everybody was already in position as they all spread out in different spots. Shark got enough disguises, but they still need to be able to collect certain disguises from the staff workers to make sure that this heist goes off without a hitch.

Hornet was currently flying through the ceiling, checking on the people below. He was surprised by how many tourists and students there were today. No wonder why Wolf reminded everyone that today was crowded, so they had to take extra careful measures for this. He arrived at the door where the main security office should be at.

A timer buzzed off and Hornet whispered something through his helmet. The door opened where a young man happily waddled out. A young lady, waiting nearby, was about to go in to start her shift in the security office when a disguised Shark placed a hand over her shoulder.

"Excuse me," said Shark, adopting a different accent. "Wait a sec, are you…in for this shift?"

"Oh, well, yeah," said the female security. "Shame that I have to do it now and I will be having late lunch. Work life, you know. Though, this should be where I should be working."

"Great news, I actually got word from the boss and he wanted me to fill in for your role today."

The female security was surprised. "Wait, what? Really? Can't we work together?"

"Alas, this is a Sunday, so we would need all guards around at every corner of this museum. You know that means there should be only one guard checking over the footage in the security office."

"Oh, I remember now. Though, would it be alright if I'm allowed to go now? Like…you're replacing me for today, but do I need to-?"

"No worries!" said Shark, pulling the girl in close. "Don't need to check in with your boss! He's more than happy to just give you your paycheck later. He wants to give you a good Sunday rest." He placed a card right into the girl's hands. "And I heard that the outside restaurant is having a HUGE discount for those who use this card! Only for a limited time."

The female security's eyes sparkled upon seeing what was written. "Oh my gosh! It's until 1 PM today! I haven't gotten to try those…" She turned to Shark with a grateful smile. "Thank you, sir! I appreciate it."

"Just enjoy it," said Shark cheerfully as the female security turned her back to check on her bag first. "Enjoy it. Ha ha ha ha ha…ha ha ha ha ha! Mwah ha ha ha ha ha!"

Hornet placed a hand over his forehead as Shark began to laugh. Like an evil laugh. It was a good thing that nobody paid attention to him and by the time the female security turned around, Shark quickly cut his laugh short.

"J-Just enjoy it," said Shark, quickly getting into the office and closing the door behind him.

The young girl stood there, dumbfounded. Eventually, she shrugged it off and skipped away.

"Okay," said Shark. "I'm in."

"Thank goodness!" said Tarantula, popping out from an opened window. "I was freezing inside there! Well, time to get popping here."

"Good luck!" said Shark, exiting the door and locking it behind him.

Tarantula was already at work as she plugged her computer right into the rest of the monitors. Meanwhile, Hornet already flew off to the inside cafe. There, he found a large group of security guards and their museum manager laughing at their own table, looking quite drunk despite not ordering any meals yet.

"Okay, Shark is coming over," said Hornet. "Piranha, are you close to the male bathroom yet?"

"I'm right there and I'm pulling rat tail crumbs out of my hair," said Piranha's voice through the comms.

Meanwhile, the cafe's kitchen wasn't exactly big, but big enough to make it look like a fast-food restaurant. While they mainly cooked sandwiches, cakes, and pies, today was a special occasion since the manager ordered the finest souffles with a caramel touch to them. A huge tray of those cups was already ready with just a few things left to do before serving them.

As the few chefs spread out to find the powdering mixture, a disguised Wolf came in. Making sure that nobody was looking around, he took out a sprinkle of food-poisoning sugar on top of the souffle. He then reached out his arm underneath the tray, allowing Snake to slither out and hide under the tray.

"Oi!" yelled the head chef. "They are waiting! Bring them out now!"

"Gotcha," said Wolf with a sly smirk.

When none of the chefs came back, Wolf pushed the tray out right to the dining area. He found the group of workers waiting, all cheering when they saw their treats. In a faux polite manner, Wolf gracefully gave each of them a souffle cup. He made sure that he could see the poisonous sugar on top of them.

Snake laughed silently as he leaned in close to slap a mini spray device filled with ammonia on one of the table's legs.

"Gracias, my dear friend," said the manager with a smile.

Wolf nodded. "Gracias, hermano."

"That guy actually looks kind of hot…" muttered one of the security guards.

Wolf paid no attention as he turned around to return the tray to the kitchen. He reached his arm underneath, allowing Snake to slither back inside his jacket without anybody noticing. They didn't need to look behind when a low hiss caught their ears. The ammonia spray device was already set off.

"Wait, what is that awful smell?" said one of the security guards.

"Nah, that's probably some fungus," said another.

"Fungus don't grow underneath tables."

"I think we should probably switch place…"

"No, no, no," said the manager, going through his first mouthful. "Stay! It won't be too long anyway."

From above, Hornet took one sniff and gagged.

"Pee-yew!" he said. "Okay, now I'm seeing why you had to include that."

"That's because the ammonia spray will help increase nausea," informed Tarantula in a chipper tone. "Combined with the food poisoning, this would convince them to head over to the nearest bathroom."

"I wish I had a taste of that ammonia," said Piranha. "It sounds exotic."

"Please don't," said Snake.

"What? I ate a whole box of gunpowder and I never suffered a single bowel!"

Hornet blinked. "Wait, really?"

"Alright, boys," said Tarantula as she checked through the other rooms Hornet wasn't checking at the moment. "This is it. I hacked right through their security system and alarms. I'm surprised that they have a lot of screens connected to each other. There are still multiple security guards out there, so you have to do everything you can to steer them away while finding that diamond."

"Then we are good to go," said Wolf as he exited the kitchen. "And in about 3, 2, 1." He snapped his fingers. "Lights out!"

"...hey, did anyone just have a bad hangover this morning?" asked one of the security guards.

The workers were starting to feel queasy. After eating their desserts, they felt their stomachs twisting. Not only that, it was causing all of their organs to pump up more quickly than usual. Their minds were screaming at them to vomit out what they just ate, but they didn't know why. Some of them held on a bit longer, but it was clear that they all felt sick.

"Don't…worry, guys!" said the manager with a sheepish smile. "I'm sure that it's…nothing!"

But the obnoxious smell wasn't helping either. It added to how sick they were feeling. As if being thrown in the garbage and waking up to smelling that trash juice leaking around. And whatever was eaten inside became distorted into something more horrific.

Immediately, all of them got up and ran like madmen to the nearest toilet. Shark was already there, leaning against the wall as he casually waved at them. Neither of them paid attention since they were all about to puke.

Once inside, Wolf, Snake, Shark, and Hornet guarded the bathroom door.

Inside, every worker present was vomiting. From into the toilet, the sinks, and even through whatever drain they could find. This was a private bathroom for employees only, so nobody else was there. Except for Piranha who was hiding high up in the ceiling corner.

"Okay…" said Piranha, cringing as he heard the collective noises of vomit and splattering. "I'm gonna need to endure this more than I thought…"

"Piranha, are we doing this or what?" hissed Tarantula.

"Okay, Okay, fine. I get messy all the time anyway."

Placing two fingers in his mouth, Piranha let out a loud whistle. This attracted the attention of a few security guards, weakly on the floor and groaning. Unable to quickly notice the threat.

"Surprise!" yelled Piranha happily.

Outside, the other guys heard the unmistakable sound of Piranha quickly going through all of the workers inside the bathroom. Wolf had his ear near the door, smiling as if fondly remembering past mischiefs. Snake and Shark were nonchalant, waiting for Piranha to finish. Meanwhile, Hornet was just staring at the door, wondering how much the brawler could take.

Not even a minute passed by and Piranha opened the door. Surrounded by unconscious workers and covered in some slop.

"Be careful right there," he said cheerfully. "Some of their uniforms have scuffles on them."

"Great," said Wolf, wrinkling his nose. "Okay, no time to be fussy."

It didn't take long for them to quickly get changed inside the bathroom. With Wolf, Snake, and Piranha placing on the security guard uniforms and Shark stealing the manager's clothes, they all got out, fully prepared. Wolf then placed a 'DO NOT ENTER' sign on the door, locking it and placing a 'SLIPPING HAZARD' sign to steer away anyone from entering that bathroom.

Shark quickly went the other way as he would be acting as the manager. He would have full access to the paperwork and orders of the entire museum while nobody would question him if he was in the office. He was still the main distraction, so he would have to quickly come back to the others soon after clearing up anything from the main office.

Wolf, Snake, and Piranha were off, making their way to the jewelry section.

"Alright, guys," said Hornet as he followed them from the ceiling. "Shark's in position. Men, I spot a few security guards nearby, so you might want to redirect them. There are a couple of tour groups, so steer them away."

"I found a few others nearby as well," said Tarantula. "They're in other rooms you can't see. Make sure that nobody takes a step closer to the jewelry section and then we get into action."

"Got it," said Wolf. "Time to let the charm play out."

The trio got into work with smooth-talking with the security guards. Either through using their radios to contact them or coming up to them, giving them information about their new positions. While some of them were confused and even tried calling their boss about it, Shark called back to them to confirm. This was enough to convince the security guards to move away from the jewelry section, convinced that things would be alright.

As for the tour groups, they advised them to visit other rooms or sections nearby. While the tour guides had a set list of places to go to, Wolf, Snake, and Piranha did their best to sway them to go off-course a little. Hornet and Tarantula watched closely to see that these people weren't in their way. However, there was one tour guide who was on strict orders.

"Sorry, man," said a female tour guide in front of a bunch of pre-teen students. "I like to change, but they're on a tight schedule and there are specific things they have to learn."

Wolf clicked his tongue. "Well, if that's the case, maybe check in with their teacher? I think the manager is having a discussion with her about this right now."

This was actually true since Shark called the teacher over for a change of plans. But she was far from her students, so she wouldn't get there in time to tell them the news.

"I haven't heard anything yet from her, so it appears that there is no change," said the tour guide.

Wolf took a look behind him to see the bumbling pre-teens. They all appeared excited and maybe a bit too interested in what they see around them. They didn't look too keen to know about the artifacts' histories, judging by how one rolled her eyes at a screen displaying paragraphs, but it seemed that a shiny object could steal their attention.

An idea bulb formed over Wolf's head as he spotted a sign nearby.

"How about a suggestion?" he asked, pointing to that sign. "Let them have fun and learn what they want to learn. That is how they know better. This room looks pretty cool!"

"Oooh!" said one of the students. "'Human Reproduction'! Cool!"

"Nudity!" said another. "Cool!"

"Human organs!" said a third student. "Cool!"

"Childbirth!" said a fourth student, rubbing his tummy. "Cool!"

The tour guide looked hesitant to enter THAT room, though when she looked back at Wolf, the latter gave him a twinkle in his eyes. It was a reassurance that it would be fine to let their curiosity grow further beyond what should be known at this age. Besides, it wasn't like they were going to talk about it to their teacher after this.

"Okay then," muttered the tour guide, turning to the students. "Now, I expect a level of maturity here."

The students barely listened as they already ran right inside the room. Wolf chuckled, leaving the tour guide to haplessly chase after them. The whole time, Snake used the distraction to climb up using a tall vase and enter the vents when nobody was looking.

Inside the room, from Snake's perspective up in the vents, the red shiny jewel was resting right on a steady little podium that held it tightly. It was set high, and below the little podium was a laser system that was designed to protect it, which could easily be picked into with a combination lock. And surrounding the podium was a bunch of different little shelves that held other priceless jewelry, but none as special as the ruby itself.

Snake grinned, "Perfect."

Meanwhile, the students checking out the human reproduction room didn't get through all of it in one sitting. By the time Shark came over to check on how things were going, he was greeted with a stampede of screaming children running out of the room.

"MY EYES!" shrieked one student, his eyes bloodshot. "MY EYES!"

"Too much information!" said another, tripping over.

"I saw a woman giving birth to a baby!" whined a third one.

As all the kids collapsed on the floor, the tour guide nonchalantly lifted up her clipboard to check the schedule.

"Okay, what's next?" he said. "Oh! I nearly forgot. Time to go to the jewelry room."

Shark gasped. "Oh, wait, wait! You can't go there now! I…erm…already chatted with their teacher, so maybe you should go to another room? Or wrap it up?"

"Please just take us to the jewelry room," begged one of the students.

"I want to see something more pretty and shiny," said another student.

"Sorry, sir," said the tour guide. "It looks like THEY want to go there. Can't do anything else about it."

Shark looked around, trying to find a way to stall them for much longer. Trying to convince them wasn't going to work anymore and blocking their way would just make them more suspicious. Seeing an alarm bell nearby, he quickly tried to do the most logical thing he could think of.

He started whamming fist on the alarm and it went off like crazy.

"Oh, do you know what that means?!" he shouted. "That means we have our 100th visitor to the Human Reproduction room! Congrats!"

The tour guide and the students stared at him in silence.

"But wouldn't it be already over 1000 people who visited the room?" questioned the tour guide.

Shark grinned nervously, still tapping the alarm. Unfortunately, due to Tarantula switching around the security system, the alarm bell wouldn't alert the other alarms around, so that was out of the park of alerting Wolf and Snake.

"Whoo! Whoo! Sound the alarm! It's a celebration! Who's with me?!"

The second Shark looked back, the tour guide and the students were nowhere to be found.

"Well, that's not good," said Shark, his eyes widening.

"What's going on? You sound panicked," Hornet asked Shark through the intercom quietly.

Shark stepped to the side and made sure no one was looking around before reporting back, "We got a problem; everyone's already heading over to the jewelry room!"

"What?! But Wolf isn't there yet," Hornet reported back.

"I'm there now, but what's the problem?" Wolf's voice soon chimed in on the comm.

Wolf had currently made his way into the room, with Piranha next to him, and the pair were now trying to scale the walls to make it to the podium, with Snake currently trying to pick the laser lock so Wolf could easily grab it, but was having trouble because it was a dual-turn combination.

Hornet replied while keeping track of the tour group that was making their way there, "The tour group Shark was distracting had left and are on their way to the jewelry room now!"

"Uh oh, that's not good," Tarantula's voice reported on the comms.

"This is bad, hermanos! We haven't even gotten the ruby yet," Piranha commented.

"Shark, can you try to round that group up and get them away from the jewelry room for at least 3 minutes," Wolf asked Shark on his communicator.

"I would, but I don't know which way they went; this place is like a maze," Shark commented while frantically looking around in each room.

"Hurry, you big tuna," Snake shouted into his comm while he fumbled with the turn dial, trying to pick it up as fast as he could.

Hornet secretly followed the tour group and saw how close they were to arrive to the room. Gasping, he suddenly panicked, worried that his friends were gonna get caught.

"Guys, guys! The group is almost there," Hornet reported in a frantic whisper.

"We're working as fast as we can!" Wolf said through the comm.

When he watched the tour heading to the jewelry room. Hornet knew Wolf, Snake, and Piranha didn't have time left, and they'll be captured. He bit his lip, trying to think of something that he could do, before he saw that by the hallway that the tour group was passing, near where the jewelry room was, there was a TV screen, and they were close to approaching it.

Seeing the screen, Hornet got a great idea, asking in his comm, "Webs, are you still with me?

"Yeah, why?," Tarantula asked curiously.

"I got an idea," Hornet answered back.

The tour guide was now in front of the doors of the jewelry room as she announced, "And over here, we got to take a look of the–"

Before the tour guide reached for the handles, Hornet quickly got the TV screen connected to his helmet, and Tarantula, who was still in the security room, pressed a button on her laptop, which suddenly showed a video of a kitten playing its owner's fingers, and made a cute "meow!".

The tour group saw the video playing, and they were immediately entranced by it.

"Awwww! A kitty," a female student declared.

"It's so cuuuute!," a male student shouted.

"Cuteness overload!" another male student yelled, with many of the other students, including the tour guide herself, cooing at the sight of the kitten.

Hornet smiled, nodding his head to the beat, saying to himself, "Cats, feisty critters, but great distractions."

Tarantula saw what Hornet did and grinned, saying to Wolf on the comm, "Wolfie, it's safe to grab and go! Hornet's got the group all distracted!"

"Way to go, Hornet," Wolf praised the hornet before he grabbed the ruby, and the team quickly escaped by tiptoeing out of the jewelry room. Luckily, the tour group was so distracted by the video, they didn't even see the Bad Guy sneaking out of the room.

Hornet saw his friends as he unplugged the helmet, and casually flew to them after making the video stop, and like lightning, the Bad Guys all regrouped and snuck their way back outside, hopped into the car, and made their getaway.

When the video disappeared from the screen, the students and the tour guide shook their heads, and snapped out to reality, not knowing what they were supposed to do.

The tour guide rubbed her eyes, and cleared her throat, "Okay, well, enough with the kitten video, let's head to the jewelry room, shall we?" The students turned to her, and she opened the doors, "And over here is where the–" When she looked in front, she saw the ruby is gone, and she and the students gasped loudly and horrified.

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On the road, the Bad Guys laughed and cheered loudly for their successful heist.

"That was great!" Piranha yelled.

"That's even better than a regular bank heist!" Shark exclaimed.

Snake, feeling regret for thinking about it, showed Hornet his appreciation by saying, "Hey, Hornet, thanks for… saving our butts out there."

"Yeah, awesome idea distracting that crowd," Tarantula commented with a blushing Hornet

"With cat videos?! How could you ever come up with that idea like that?" Wolf asked impressively.

"Well, I did a little research, and I discovered that a lot of people like cat videos," Hornet answered.

"Not too many, but you're right about that," Piranha complimented.

"Oh, so you're like a smart guy now," Tarantula teased, "Never thought you could be a nerd."

"Eh, sometimes, I need to change for the team," Hornet declared.

"And prove your worth," Snake stated. "You finally did it."

Hornet smiled as he realized he finally earned his friends' trust, and he wasn't worried about being alone anymore. He still has the chance to stay with his new frie… family a little longer, "Yeah. I guess I did."

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Credits:

Sam Rockwell - Mr. Wolf

Marc Maron - Mr. Snake

Craig Robinson - Mr. Shark

Anthony Ramos - Mr. Piranha

Awkwafina - Ms. Tarantula

Rhenzy Feliz - Mr. Hornet

Alex Borstein - Chief Misty Luggins

Lilly Singh - Tiffany Fluffit

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Author aggimaginary

Co-Author Masterclass60 TU4QU0I53T4IAN6L3

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So you're a tough guy Like it really rough guy Just can't get enough guy Chest always so puffed guy

I'm that bad type Make your mama sad type Make your girlfriend mad tight Might seduce your dad type I'm the bad guy

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FINALLY! I finished part 2 of Hornet's flashback with the Bad Guys. Well, this is how it went! The setting of this story was 3 years prior to the movie.

The scene where the Bad Guys had a meeting about Hornet, and the latter eavesdropped from the vent was a reference from Ducktales (2017), Nothing Can Stop Della Duck.

The scene where the Bad Guys rescued Hornet was a reference from The Birds of Prey (2020) when Harley Quinn fought the cops and prisoners to bust out Cassandra

Special thanks to MasterClass60 and TU4QU0I53T4IAN6L3 for making me the museum heist scene.

It was really fun making this chapter. Hope I'll get the other chapters ready soon. See you next time. Bye~

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mypoisonedvine · 3 years

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the martyrdom of st. valentine (and other romantic stories) || dark!Bucky & dark!(stepbrother?)Steve x reader

summary: you wanted to surprise your boyfriend on valentine's day, but he and your foster brother have a surprise of their own.

word count: 2.7k

warnings: smut (heavy dubcon to the point of pretty much noncon), kinda stepcest (as per summary, steve is the reader's foster brother), bondage, a lil touch of degradation

2/14 to-do list

get waxed

get Steve out of the apartment

pick up chocolate-covered strawberries from bakery on 6th

blindfold and handcuff myself to the bed

be waiting for Bucky naked when he gets here

You sighed as you looked down at the paper, crossing the first and third items off the list. The second was going to be a bit harder, unfortunately; your foster brother had a habit of hanging around and cramping your style as much as he could manage. He felt like a real brother in that way… okay, maybe he felt like a real brother in most ways, a consequence of knowing him for most of your life, but he was definitely not your real brother. You remembered that each time you caught yourself staring too long when he was shirtless, or returning from the gym all veiny and glistening with sweat.

But you also remembered that he was still the closest thing to a real brother you'd ever had, and you scolded yourself internally for ever acting differently.

It didn’t matter now— you had Bucky, and he was the most amazing guy you’d ever met. No, Steve was definitely not happy that introducing his best friend to his sister led to a relationship forming, but he couldn’t stop either of you in spite of his efforts to keep you apart.

Bucky had once expressed his suspicions that it was at least in part due to jealousy, if subliminal. But you denied it unilaterally— he’s basically my brother, you told him, though it was more of a reminder to yourself than anything.

Perverted concerns about Steve’s motivations aside, Bucky was a great guy. A bit of a sweet-talker for sure, and not exactly known for his ability to keep a long-term, serious relationship, but he was adamant that you had changed that and for once you were beginning to believe him. You’d said from the beginning that you didn’t need this to be the proverbial ‘it’ for either of you but that you didn’t do hook-ups— especially with your brother’s friends, and extra especially with your brother’s closest and longest friend. It only took a brief speech and two shots to convince you, now six months later and you were still going strong.

Days like this made you so happy you’d given in to his advances. But they also made you regret giving in to Steve’s idea to be roommates in college.

“Stevie!” you yelped as he walked in, stuffing the to-do list into your backpocket. “Just the man I wanted to see.”

“I doubt that,” he scoffed. “It’s Valentine’s Day, I bet you want to see Bucky. He’s coming over, right? And you want me to fuck off so my best friend can go to town on my sister?”

You frowned, crossing your arms. “I wanted to see you because I have a gift for you.”

“... you do?” His eyebrow raised and you hoped your smirk looked just as smug as it felt.

“So do you want your gift or do you want to be an asshole?”

“Do I have to pick just one?” he joked.

“Just come over here,” you instructed, waving him closer. He seemed hesitant, but eventually did as you’d asked. From your other back pocket you pulled out two tickets.

“Rangers, center ice,” you beamed. “For you and a date.”

“And this isn’t just an excuse to get me out of the house?”

“No, it’s a thank you for being such a great brother.”

“So, if I wanted to take Bucky…” he trailed off, already calling your bluff as you rolled your eyes.

“Okay, that’s just sad. There’s no reason you can’t find a girl to take— god knows Bucky hasn’t spent a Valentine’s Day alone since the fucking eighth grade. And you’re just as cute as he is!”

“Well, if you could alert the rest of the female population to that, that would be great,” he scoffed, “but until then I’ll take the tickets,” he decided as he took them from your hand. “A Rangers game might be the only thing distracting enough to keep me from thinking about what you and Buck are gonna do while I’m gone.”

You were hoping for a little more enthusiasm considering how much the tickets had cost you, but at least he was going to go and give you the apartment to yourself for the evening. “You’re welcome, by the way.”

After stripping and sprinkling rose petals on the comforter, you'd actually found a YouTube tutorial on how to blindfold and handcuff oneself, and it was a little odd that enough people had this problem to merit its existence but it was still very helpful: turns out the secret is to blindfold yourself first but keep it folded up with one eye able to see until you do the handcuffs, then use your arm to slide the blindfold down into place.

It was tricky, and a little bit extra awkward while naked, but you figured it out and smiled proudly to yourself as you completed your last task on your to-do list.

Now, for likely the most difficult task of all: waiting in darkness and silence for Bucky to arrive.

Apparently it is, in fact, possible to be slightly bored yet titillated. The thought of what Bucky would do to you when he got here was exciting, but it only made you crave his presence more which enhanced your quiet loneliness. It wasn't like you could read a book or listen to music to kill the time, so you settled for humming to yourself as you waited.

Don't go changing, to try and please me, something something before, hmmm

I just want someone that I can talk to, I want you just the way you are...

But that grew tiresome quickly and you resorted instead to planning exacty how angry you would be if Bucky was late when you were waiting for him in such a compromising and inconvenient state. For a moment you imagined he'd really gone to the Rangers game with Steve and became briefly livid over a hypothetical situation.

The crackling roar of Bucky's motorcycle outside was distant but undeniable, making you smile in anticipation. You worried for a moment that you might have locked the top lock of the front door by instinct, but thankfully Bucky and to make it inside alright since next thing you knew, your bedroom door was opening.

The rattle of the doorknob made your breath catch; you opened your legs slowly in time with the quiet creak of the hinges. “I’ve been waiting for you…” you purred.

“Hi there, babydoll,” Bucky’s voice answered back huskily.

The heavy steps of his boots made it clear he hadn't taken his shoes off at the door, a habit that had driven you crazy since he was your annoying brother's also-annoying best friend. Was this the real reason he'd chained you up, so he could freely irritate you? What next, was he gonna put a cold drink on your nightstand without a coaster?

"You really went all out for me, sweetheart," he noticed, his voice closer than you'd expected; it was fun to not know exactly where he would be, it made you squirm under the gaze you couldn't see but could somehow feel.

How weight joining yours on the bed was a good sign to his location though, along with his hands sliding up your legs.

“Look at this pretty pussy,” he cooed pridefully as he dove in suddenly and licked a thick stripe through your folds.

“Fuck,” you shivered, tugging on your handcuffs unintentionally.

“Feel good, babygirl?” he pressed, chuckling when you nodded. “You want more?”

“Please,” you whimpered.

He didn’t get back to it right away, the weight on the bed shifting slightly, and it made you fear that he planned to make you beg more before eating you out— but finally his lips returned to you as his tongue explored your sex.

“Oh god,” you moaned, your back arching of its own volition. It was a little different than he normally did this— less confident and measured, more cautious yet hungry. Typically he teased you a lot more, knowing exactly the spots that drove you wild and intentionally leaving them understimulated until you begged him to let you come, but now as soon as he found them he was targeting them— perhaps a rare show of mercy from the guy who was normally happy to leave you on edge for hours.

You could feel his moans vibrating into you when he slid his tongue inside and against your channel; it instantly made your back arch as the handcuffs quietly clinked above your head.

He stopped just a little too soon, pulling your hips up until the back of your legs were resting on the front of his. Being manhandled by him turned you on enough to make you bite your lip.

"Fuck, put your cock in me, wanna feel you," you moaned your plea as you heard the rustling of clothes; your mouth watered when you imagined Bucky stripping, with that insane body of his.

His thick head glided over your entrance and you were preparing to beg some more when he suddenly pushed in, giving you what you wanted so much faster than normal. Not that you were complaining!

He was also much quieter than normal, which you were actually willing to complain about but didn't.

"Oh god," you groaned at the feeling of him stretching you open, gasping when his cock brushed right over your spot— it made your body jolt each time he pulled back and hit it again.

"Feels good, huh?" Bucky asked and you nodded happily.

"So good," you whimpered.

"I wasn't asking you."

Before you could question it, Bucky’s calloused fingers pulled up your blindfold— but it was Steve’s face above you, Steve’s body on top of yours… and, much to your horror, Steve’s cock inside you.

“What the fuck?!” you yelped, trying to squirm away as you tugged at the cuffs but failing completely.

“Fuck,” Steve winced, “you get really tight when you struggle like that.”

“Don’t act so surprised, babygirl,” Bucky cooed playfully as you turned to stare at his devilish grin. “You wanted this… you just didn’t want to admit it to yourself. And Stevie here always wanted this, too, and aren’t you so glad he told me?”

You shuddered as Steve continued thrusting, pushing his cock so deep it made you feel a little nauseous. "Steve, you've gotta stop," you begged. "If you love me, you'll stop."

"That's the thing: I love you too much to stop."

He moved faster, paying no mind to your confused whimpers, holding your hips tight as his head fell back slightly which brandished his thick neck and bobbing Adam's apple.

"There's no point in pretending," Bucky reminded you coldly, watching the whole thing with crossed arms and an expression that almost looked… bemused? "You already showed us how much you love it, so don't waste your time acting so disgusted now."

You regretted more than anything saying that it felt good, literally asking him to fuck you before you really understood what you were asking for: you thought it was Bucky, yes, but that didn't mean it was an act. It did feel good, and that must've been obvious to everyone since you were so wet already. You could hear it each time he pushed all the way in, that telltale squelching noise that was somehow disgusting and hot all at once.

Steve wasn't so quiet now that he didn't have to be. "God, you feel so good," he whispered, grabbing the backs of your knees and pushing your legs up. It forced his cock even deeper and you choked on your own suppressed moan.

You heard Bucky opening his belt, and turned your head to see him pull out and stroke his cock while he watched Steve fuck you. It was hard to imagine what he was getting out of this; he never seemed like the sharing type, if anything he sometimes became too possessive. But clearly there was a lot about him and Steve that you didn't understand.

"Play with her tits," Bucky instructed, voice a bit deeper as he pleasured himself, "makes her come so fast."

Steve dropped your legs to rest on his shoulders so his hands were free to grope your chest, thick fingers twisting and tugging your nipples. Annoyingly, Bucky knew his way around your body well by now, and so it was difficult to pretend that Steve's touches weren't sending shocks of pleasure right down your spine and to your core.

You had been biting on your lip so hard to stay quiet that you feared you would break the skin, until Bucky leaned down and gave you a little slap on the cheek— not very hard, but enough to make you gasp which in turn released the moan you'd been holding back.

"There it is, honey, don't be quiet for my benefit," Bucky encouraged. "It's okay to like it, I'm not gonna be jealous."

As if that was your concern; angering your boyfriend by enjoying being fucked by your foster brother.

"You really overestimate my interest in your— fuck— in your feelings," you panted as you glared up at Bucky where he was grinning down at you with a look that almost indicated pride.

"You're gonna come, aren't you?" he asked, ignoring your resistance entirely. Whatever chance you had at pretending he was wrong was lost when, just for a moment, your eyes widened at his question. "Yeah, thought so. I can tell by that dumb look on your face. I'm close too, babydoll, betcha wanna taste it…"

His free hand roughly held your jaw open as he stroked himself desperately, his weak groan coinciding with the moment you felt his hot seed spray into your open mouth, his taste familiar despite the entirely surreal circumstances.

It was purely coincidence that you came in that moment, your walls bearing down on Steve while you tried to stay silent so you wouldn't choke on Bucky's spend.

"Fuck, that's it, gonna fill this pretty mouth— god yes, you'd better swallow it all," he sighed as come painted your tongue and the inside of your cheek. Maybe it was more than normal or maybe it was just that he was tightening his hand around the head of his cock to get every drop in your mouth, but either way it was enough to give you quite a mouthful to swallow, which you did without much question due to force of habit.

"M’close too," Steve warned as Bucky stepped back, "I'm gonna come."

“No, Steve, not inside,” you whimpered, hearing the way your voice had weakened after your orgasm, “you can’t…”

“I can,” he disagreed, “Bucky said so.”

Once again, Bucky's will was more important than your own, and your desperate pulling at the handcuffs was only another reminder of the way you'd guided yourself into his trap.

"Don't," you stammered one more time, but it was hard to focus when he was filling you exactly how you needed, when his thick hands gripping your waist felt just as perfect as you'd secretly imagined so many times…

Denial is a powerful drug, but so is two orgasms in a row.

"Fuck!" you yelped as you felt a gush of warmth drip from your entrance, even further wetness spurring on Steve's fast and brutal thrusts into you.

"Knew you'd love it," Steve mumbled, growling slightly as he slammed into you. "Knew you'd take it so well, make a pretty mess all over my cock— fuck I can't wait anymore, gotta fill you up, oh my god... gotta give you my load, honey, you want it?"

"Yes," you sobbed, "Steve, yes, come in me…"

He didn't need much more encouragement than that, groaning loudly as you felt his cock flex and pulse against your walls, his release overwhelmingly hot inside you.

You sighed in time with Steve as he finally stilled, and it was hard to know where to look when Steve and Bucky were both staring down at you. “What happens now?” you found yourself asking, not so much a literal question about the next task but more about what the three of you were going to do with all the unfortunate truths that had come to light in less than half an hour.

“What happens now is I take my turn,” Bucky informed you sternly, pushing Steve aside. “Did you really think I wasn’t gonna fuck my girlfriend on Valentine’s Day?”

#dark!stucky x reader #dark!bucky barnes x reader #dark!steve rogers x reader #dark!bucky barnes smut #dark!steve rogers smut

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I just inmagine if MC is a twin but instead of 1 sibling looking the same as them to every little detail it was 6 that looked the same as them and MC is the oldest and most respondsable. They were hanging out when MC got summoned and for some reason they can't open the portal anymore so now their stuck with 7 humans with the same face. All the other siblings are lowkey or highkey panicking but MC calms them down instantly. I feel like MC sometimes gives lucifer advies on how to deal with his brothers like "you should try to have fun with them sometimes their more willingly to listening if they know your not always gonna check on the like some sort of to do list", mammon would be shocked at the fact he has to take care of 7 humans but when he finds out of them like to prank they get close pretty Quick, levi would find it anoying until he finds some of them like anime and video games, after satan got close with them would have alot of book meetings/anti lucifer meetings, asmo would love this dressing them up, beel would love seeing all of them cook, ect

Inmagine everyone's reaction headcanon or fics idc wich one you choose

A/N: Alrighty! I did headcanons!

Also, I didn't really wanna name the siblings since I want to leave it up to the reader, so I refer to them as numbers (MC's 2nd sibling, 3rd sibling, etc.). :]

Warning: Spoilers for lesson 16 and angst in Belphie's part

This might be hard to read since I use they/them pronouns! (They/them can sometimes refer to a group of people, depends on the context I think)

Masterlist

The brothers reacting to MC's 6 siblings

Alt: Enjoy!

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Lucifer

Lord Diavolo, what do you mean you cannot summon them back-

Now Lucifer has to make sure SEVEN humans are behaving well.

But when he saw MC easily calming down their siblings, maybe it wouldn't be so bad?

It was still bad.

Would punish most of his brothers for being a bad influence.

(Lucifer did not like when he woke up to a cursed alarm clock that would not turn off)

MC quickly taught him how to handle his brothers with less strictness, although Lucifer was stubborn to accept their advice.

Still followed their advice but won't admit that.

He's quite happy that there is finally someone who's mature enough to take a lead when he's not around.

Mammon

Mammon thought he was going to SUFFER.

SEVEN? He was suppose to take care of one human!

Tried to give his responsibility to one of his brothers but Lucifer's death glare scared him.

But he quickly got used to them.

MC's 3rd and 4th siblings are quite cool!

Loves to play pranks on his brothers with them.

The tres amigos even tried to take a picture of Lucifer sleeping, but that quickly failed.

(Gets quite jealous when Mammon gets a 3-hour lecture while other two get a light scold from MC)

But after MC told Lucifer some advice and him actually listening made Mammon thought he was dreaming.

Leviathan

Was he hallucinating?? Why are there seven normies?

Levi didn't like this at all, what if they all judge him? He doesn't want to deal with more people laughing at his hobbies.

But when MC's 6th sibling asked if there are any games that they can play since they are so bored, Levi quickly told them about his games that he has.

The sibling was quickly intrigued and asked if they could play it together, which Levi was a bit hesitant but still agreed.

He enjoys the sibling's accompany since he finally has someone he can play games with.

Satan

Seven...? This wasn't going to end well...

Is already imagining how there won't be much quiet time.

But he still tried to appear as nice as possible.

He really thought the siblings were like his brothers, annoying.

Satan was proven wrong and most of them didn't cause so much trouble and actually respected boundaries. WOW

He found that MC's 5th sibling has the same interests as him.

Both of them quickly started to hangout in his room, where no one would dare to barge in.

As for the Anti-Lucifer league, he recruited MC along with their 3rd and 4th siblings. (5th sibling didn't want to join, sad era)

Yeah... It became really chaotic.

Keeps teasing Lucifer because he took MC's advice, Satan knows that it will get to his nerves.

Asmodeus

Seven humans? This should be interesting!

Asmo is already wondering how much trouble the siblings will bring.

Unsurprisingly, befriends all of them.

I mean, he is the most friendly! (And good looking)

Had a good bond with MC's 7th sibling because they don't really mind his flirting.

Asmo likes to hangout with them because they know a lot about fashion and actually learns quite a few things from them.

Also loves how thoughtful the sibling is when going out shopping. Like, they would buy things for their other siblings.

Asmo likes to help them out when they can't think of anything.

May or may not ask if they have any baby pictures.

He's just really a little curious.

Beelzebub

Wasn't there suppose to be one? Why are there seven?

First thought: Are they gonna eat all of my food?

But MC quickly told him that all of them will respect boundaries.

That's a relief.

Quickly bonded with MC's 2nd sibling when he saw them cooking delicious food.

The other reason he bonded with them was because they wanted to help MC with taking care of their siblings.

Beel understands that feeling.

The seven siblings soon start to feel family too so he tries his best to protect them all.

(Also relieved that MC managed to make Lucifer less strict, didn't like watching his brothers get harsh punishments)

Belphegor

(Spoilers for lesson 16)

OH BOY, UHM-

When he killed MC, he thought that was all, but there's MORE?

WHY ARE THERE SIX MORE?

Soon starts regretting his actions when he sees the despair and tears in the siblings' faces.

When everything is resolved, MC is back, and everyone is mostly happy , he tries really hard to earn the forgiveness of the siblings (especially MC).

Like, he'll get help from his brothers to get them gifts.

Belphie will get there one day, but it will take time.

So when the siblings finally forgive him, he feels like he finally accomplished something!

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I'M YET AGAIN SORRY IF THIS IS BAD, THIS WAS KIND OF HARD TO WRITE WITH THEY/THEY PRONOUNS :'))

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED

Alt: Thanks for requesting! Love you!

#when you try to proofread but then zone out #obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me shitpost #obey me imagines #obey me headcanons #obey me mc #obey me lucifer #obey me mammon #obey me levi #obey me leviathan #obey me satan #obey me asmo #obey me asmodeus #obey me beel #obey me beelzebub #obey me scenarios

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Immortal - Chapter 4

Summary- A mysterious pursuer causes Aria and Thor's bond to become bound with blood. Who is he? And why does he keep following her?

Word count- 2.1 k

Pairing- Thor x OC

Warnings- violence

18+only!!

Posted: 6th July 2021

Taglist:- @innerpaperexpertcloud @pandaxnienke @chickensarentcheap @longlostinanotherworld @mostly-marvel-musings @darklydeliciousdesires

Immortal Masterlist <<<<

"I can help you." Thor pushes back from the gate and slides himself down next to her. "We're similar. And you can not deny the connection we have." He nudged her with his elbow, willing her to look at him just as the sound of footfall echoed down the alley towards them. They both turned their heads at the same time, in the direction of the noise. The footsteps drawing closer.

The footsteps fell silent, stopping in their tracks a couple of meters away from them. Arias ears pricked, trying to pick up any signs of movement. She could hear the sounds of her and Thor's heart beating ridiculously fast, too fast for a human and yet hers still beat the same rhythm as his. She screwed her eyes shut tighter, desperately trying to cut out the thrumming of their own heartbeats and concentrate on what else she could hear. Then she heard it, the heartbeat of someone else, whoever it was, they were definitely human - it was beating much slower and quieter. If only she could get a look at whoever it was and see them deeper, internally scanning them without them even knowing.

Thor looked to Aria knowingly, unspoken words muttered through their eye contact. They had to move to cover, they needed to get to safety but the easiest route, leading them straight into the sights of their enemy, wouldn't be an option.

Thor crouched back on to his heels, ready to move, the stance of a predator ready to pounce until Aria held her arm out against him, holding him back and gesturing with her hand to her ear for him to watch and listen. She closed her eyes again, blocking out as much of the background noise as she could until she heard him again, his feet gently shuffling on the ground as he switched position. Any normal person wouldn't be able to hear the things she could, not even Thor but Aria was far from normal. She pointed to the position of the intruder, letting Thor know where the danger was hiding.

"I could get rid of him with a click of my fingers." He said through gritted teeth, adrenaline coursing through his veins making his skin itch with a need to fight. She could see it like thick tar painting his skin as it travelled down his body, she watched as Thor's face contorted with a desperate need to do something and she realised they weren't completely alike. She was a thinker and he was a doer, unsure of which would actually be better in this current situation she stuck to doing things the way she always had.

"And draw even more attention to us? No, we escape. With our speed, there's no way they will be able to keep up." The thought of seeing Thor in action made her mind drift distractedly, until she got her head back into the game, shaking away her thoughts with a flick of her hair.

"You just admitted you have the same abilities as me." Thor smirked, his calmness was infectious.

She pondered the thought for a moment, realising she did admit that they were similar. She'd always known she was different but admitting it was a big deal and finding someone with almost identical abilities was an even bigger deal for her.

Her eyes were drawn back down the alley, a shiver travelling down her spine when she heard the sound of a gun being loaded, the eyes of a doe locked on to the target of their Hunter. She froze on the spot, her heart rate slowing to almost a stop as she concentrated on staying deadly still, the skills of a hunted animal. A lifetime of being someone's prey she was accustomed with the fight or flight reflex. She usually chose to flee but looking at Thor and seeing the muscles in his neck flexing, his perfect jawline taunt, she knew he would choose to fight.

Aria's wide eyes met with the hunter as he moved into sight, a face she recognised all too well. A face she had seen before many a time, the dark brown soulless eyes of her tormentor stared back at her. The smooth baldness of his head set upon his wide, burly shoulders. The 6'5" stature of pure muscle and brawn crouched behind a dumpster no more than four meters away.

She sighed heavily as she pushed her back against the cold brick wall, a trashcan the only bit of cover they had from the relentless beast who pursued them.

"It's him." Her voice broke, panting loudly as she began to hyperventilate. Memories flashing through her mind after only the slightest moment of eye contact. Worry appeared on Thor's face as he gazed upon Aria's obvious fear, watching her closely as she regained her composure.

"Who is it?" Thor asked, Aria too deep in shock to reply.

She was pretty sure their stalker was an agent but had no idea why he continued to track her down. Her fingers grazed absentmindedly along the scar just above her collarbone as she remembered her last encounter with the monster in the alley. The way she'd barely escaped from his clutch as he'd held a knife to her throat. When she'd used the last of her strength to push him back against the wall, the knife had slipped and gouged a gash deep into her collarbone. The pain summoning more strength within her and she'd bit into his forearm like an hungry animal, tearing a chunk of his flesh as he let go of his hold upon her. Then she'd run as fast as she could, not stopping to turn around until she was far enough away. She hadn't seen him again since then. Until now.

"We need to go. Now." Thor didn't need to ask any more questions, he saw the look in Aria's eye's and moved low against the gate. Resting on one knee and offering an upturned palm for Aria to step on to. She cocked her head to the side, frowning at Thor before scaling the tall gate effortlessly, without his help. Thor took a moment to admire her climbing down the other side of the fence, a look of determination set upon her soft face. The moment cut short when he heard the agent running behind him, closing on them with a pistol in his outstretched arm.

Thor scaled the gate after Aria, joining her on the other side and wasting no time putting as much distance between the agent and themselves as they could. He held tightly to her hand as they ran through the rest of the alley, praying that it wasn't a dead end.

Aria felt the pain before she heard the sound of the pistol reverberating off the walls of the narrow alley. A sharp ache she could feel deep in the bone of her left shoulder, a pain so deep and acute that it took her breath away instantly. She needed to stop to catch her breath but she couldn't, not yet. She pushed through it, trying as hard as she could to get her legs to work the way she wanted them to but all she could think about was the burning pain exploding through her chest.

Thor stopped in his tracks as he felt Aria stumble forwards, her face ash white as she looked up at him with shock in her eyes before falling to the ground, clutching at her shoulder. He could see the hole in her clothes that the bullet had left and the blood that was seeping through and the sight made his anger flare. The ground rumbled around them, dark clouds gathering above them as a smooth breeze brushed through the alley.

He couldn't stop himself, looking at her crumpled body beneath him once again. The very skies trembling in his presence as a storm gathered above them, he barely even looked at the mysterious man behind them as his eyes glowed brightly, his electrical current tingling his fingertips, electrifying his body. He felt it buzz through him, not thinking twice when he reached out and commanded a bolt of lightning to strike the man right where he stood. Throwing him to the ground with force, his body flying backwards and landing against the brick wall leaving him unmoving.

"Aria? Look at me." He gathered her up into his arms carefully, her eyes fluttering open, a smile playing at the corner of her lips as she stared into the eyes of her saviour. She gave in to him, allowed herself to trust him now he had proved himself loyal. "It's ok I've got you, tell me where to go."

Aria didn't have the strength to stop herself falling a little deeper for the man who's arms she was encased in when she muttered, "Take me home, Thor."

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Aria's eye's snapped open as she took in her surroundings, a layer of sweat on her forehead as she sat bolt upright in the bed she was laid on, clutching the bandage on her left shoulder. The ache of the bullet wound still there but much less than before.

"You're awake, I've been so worried." Thor's voice came from the chair he had placed by the side of her bed.

"I think I passed out from exhaustion more than anything else, thank you for taking me home." She pulled the bedsheet up to her chin, Thor's presence made her feel slightly nervous in the intimate setting of her own home.

"You just keep on surviving don't you? Twice in one day you could've died yet here you are." Thor sat casually in the deep backed arm chair Aria used to read in, his legs planted apart as he leant back against the chair. Aria couldn't help but take a moment to admire the physique of the God, her eyes trialing up his body until they met with his own unblinking pair of deep blue eyes.

She wasn't only surprising him, she was surprising herself with the way she was opening up to him, allowing him to see the side of her she'd hidden for so long. More than that she was enjoying it, enjoying finally being able to be herself with someone.

Thor moved closer to her, sitting on the side of the bed, enjoying the feel of the unknown force that pulls them together. He reached out to run his fingers down her silky hair, reminding Aria of a part of herself she was still hiding from Thor. A part she still couldn't bring herself to reveal to him, her true identity being her last comfort cushion of safety. She knew deep down that she wouldn't be able to keep it hidden from Thor for much longer, not with the way she was starting to feel about him. The connection had been instant but the deep bond she felt had been created that day, when he'd scooped her up in his arms and taken her away from danger without a second thought.

Aria felt her cheeks flushing as she caught Thor's gaze with her own, the unperishing look of hunger lingered in his eyes.

"Why are you blushing? You weren't embarrassed when I first met you." Thor raised his eyebrow at her with a sly smile making Aria's insides twist and contort.

"That was because I thought I'd never see you again." Her tension eased as she started to feel relaxed within Thor's presence, a heavy feeling of lust hung in the air as their bodies gradually gravitated towards each other.

"While we are on the subject, when do we get to do that again?" His finger followed the curve of her Cupid's bow taking away all her coherent thoughts. Thor found her his weakness, he couldn't resist touching her. Desperate to get his hands on her properly.

"Erm, maybe when people stop trying to kill me." She giggled nervously while Thor licked his lips, looking down before his eyes met with her's again. That deep look of hunger burning more adamantly in his eyes than ever before. Something else flickered within them, something she recognised all too well, a look that was also mirrored in her own eyes the last time she was in the presence of the agent. Anger, deep unforgiving anger.

"I will not allow anyone to hurt you again, not while you're with me." He closed the distance between them, taking her head within his hands. "And Aria, I am not letting you go now I have found you."

"I don't think I want you to." Her lips parted, unable to contain the need any longer. She knew she didn't want him to let her go, she'd waited a lifetime to feel this with someone and now she had it she wasn't about to give it up. She allowed herself to open up to him although the thought of being weak completely terrified her.

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guigz1-coldwar · 3 years

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"Keeping her close" : New chapter for "Redemption in a Spirit in a Cold War" is out !

"Keeping her close"

Chapter Summary : Yirina arrived in the new safehouse in West-Berlin that her & Park will share with the new team......

To read it on AO3, click here !

Words : +3500

Warning : NSFW content !

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It was the last time I have stepped inside that safehouse in my entire life and honestly, it was all for the better. That place, a lot of things happened and there were for an large part bad and a small part was only good. The bad ones....were the most shocking to remember and the most suffering to relive : still seeing me tied up on that stretcher in that room, getting revealed that I was just in fact a Perseus agent brainwashed by the CIA and all of that, been told by my closest person I have met but now, it was something done in my live. Destroying that place down can help me forget about this but it can't be undone at all.

After I got myself in an argument with Sims, over the loss of Adler in Stitch hands, I was much more relieved to finally leave this place behind, not even looking back as we drove away of it, Park having taken the wheel to get to our new safehouse in West-Berlin. I was still nonetheless nervous to stay again in the city but we had no choice : Stone has a warehouse in town and it was our first objective within the team Park is organizing with me.....hope that everything will be okay.

The drive was in fact not so long to live more about 10 minutes depending on traffic as we were arrived at our destination : a nice-looking house in the Gatow district at the south-western Berlin just next to the Havelsee lake. This place.....even if I was nearly hating the city, it could help me to feel more better in here. Park revealed to me that she indeed came here a lot, explaining almost the layout of the house as we stepped out of the car....said that I'm going to be well in here.

"Our new home ?" I told Park in a fake curious tone as I was unloading my bag from the car trunk and her, having already done it, awaiting for me.

"You got it right." She replied, having her bags in hands with me closing the trunk, finished. "Will be the place where we will coordinate our operations against Stone."

"And if we got something on Stone and his little accomplices not in Berlin ?" I asked her.

"Then, we will move to a temporary other safehouse but that place is staying like our main HQ." She added in her response before gesturing at me as she started to walk to the house porch "Come on, let's install ourselves." She winked, making me blush as I joined her pretty quickly on the porch. There were nobody to greet us here and instead, Park had to check under the carpet....to find the house keys.....very classic...

"The good old trick of the keys under the carpet...." I thought to myself as Park was inserting the leys in the lock before finally opening the door to discover the house's interior. "Wow !" I breathed, almost astonished by the beauty of the place.....more pretty than the house in the New Orleans...It was very much different than this place the CIA wanted to call 'a safehouse'

"Welcome home.....Yiri !" Park taunted me as she walk to get to the living room and the kitchen jointed that was just next to the entrance. "Here's our 'operations room'." She showed me the living room, with again an complete dashboard, this time filled with intels on Stone.

"I already feeling at home." I said to her who gave me an smile.

"That's the goal of that safehouse, you know..." She rolled her eyes before she put her own bag on a special table as I do the same as her.

"MI6 safehouses..." I whispered to myself, wondering if all the MI6 places were looking so damn nice as I walked to get to one of the couch of the room. "So...." I started, getting myself comfy in that couch "Can you talk about your friends that will join the team ?"

"Of course." She nodded, moving to a table to have her hands on two files that Park asked from those tasked to prepare the safehouse. "Let's start with Garett." She handed me the first file of her left hand that I took in hand.

"Garrett Donovan....born in Manchester in 1951 and joined the MI6 in 1975...specialized in counter-espionage & almost everything in combat." I read his file, impressed by his qualities and skills as Park was looking at me, maybe wondering what I was thinking. "Seems like a nice guy."

"Garrett has been my friend since we both joined the MI6 at the same time two years after my brother's death in 1973." She explained more, feeling a little bit sad to talk about that sad event. I remember seeing that back in the old days in the old 'safehouse' but it's a too much sensible subject to talk about with her. "Gotta to say that he's someone very important."

"I'm pretty sure of that." I exclaimed, putting the file.

"You know, he's the guy who if you ask him something, he will make sure you will have it the next day." She proclaimed as she knows him very well. "He's got a lot of contacts that will help us."

"I guess that asking him to bring us Perseus's head and saving Adler's ass is too much to ask." I laughed about it and she followed too.

"Of course." She breathed before she handed me the other file as I gave her back the file about Garrett. "Here's the file about Greta." After that, she decided to sit on the other couch of the room.

"Greta Keller...born in Hamburg in 1952 and she joined the BND in 1977...qualified as the best element in BND...also specialized in counter-espionage and more into hand-to-hand combat." I looked at her file, curious about that woman I saw once in my life in East-Berlin. "Quite a profile." I looked at Park who was looking a little troubled.

"About Greta, we know each other since she joined the BND." She started, joining her hands together, trying to reassure herself, it seems. "She was always working with us in our team I was with Garrett, Stone and the other one called Megan." She looked at the dashboard, at the same picture she had in her office, the one where everyone is present. "Listen, it might be going to be complicated between you & Greta when....when she will learn about us."

"Really ?" I redressed myself in the couch, curious to hear that part of the story.

"Let's just say that before I was assigned to Adler, we were hooking up, not longer together anymore but it was an mean to forget the world we were now." She said, almost blushing embarrassed about it and to say, she was right to do that and I wasn't embarrassed, just curious. "When I told her of my feelings towards us at her, it was after that East-Berlin mission just before I heal you up." My eyes went wide after hearing this, still curious but damn stuned by that.

"Wow, quite a story." I exclaimed, taking a breath. "Listen, I'm okay that she is joining the team, I'm sure that it will be okay." I added, sure of myself about her & Greta. "When will the two arrive ?" I asked.

"Oh, I'm going to call them now." She got up from her couch, walking back to her bag to grab a satellite phone. "I will call outside, you can check up things on the dashboard." She smiled at me before leaving the room to get outside by behind.

Once she was out of the house for making her calls, I stayed at least 2 minutes in the couch to admire the beauty of the living room before I decided to walk next to the dashboard, to look at the pieces of intels we have on our operation against Stone and his goons. We will be entirely focused on him but if we found something related to Adler, Park will relate those to Woods's team....can't really believe right now that I'm trying to save the Russell Adler, the one that brainwashed me and left me for dead....what a life !....

I took a look on the dashboard, my eyes focusing on Harry Stone's records file from the SAS : he was born in May 6th 1948 in the UK, his birthplace apparently a classified information. According to the records files, Stone was described as a solid soldier, prone to play by his own rules by his former ex-colleagues. Someone named Price Sr. talked about a man that is very effective despite having troubles with the authority and the mysterious part of Stone past. Stone was one of Park's close friends starting to 1975 when she joined the MI6 until he faked his death in October 1980 during an risky operation in the USSR.

As I saw in this dashboard, Stone participated in the Nimrod operation, making him an hero in the SAS and his status wasn't even touched even when his true allegiance was discovered by Park and the MI6 in 1983 during the mysterious 'Goldeneye' operation. Guess that we will have to watch out about that. At looking at his picture, my eyes squeezed, making me a very small pain in my head, remembering him in my dreams...that moment when he stormed the room after that obscure mission that I don't even remember.

After that, I looked at the group picture with all of Park's friends : to say that we're hunting down one of her former friends. I was focused on it when Park came back in the living room, having finished in her calls.

"Both has been warned of the mission : they will both arrive tomorrow." She started, putting her phone back on the table she put her bag. "Garrett was in a mission in Canada while Greta was working in Moscow."

"So, for now, we just wait for them as the house is ours until they arrived..." I put my hands on my waist, looking at her with an smile before I looked at the picture. "Who was Megan ? You talked briefly about her." I asked.

"Megan was Stone's lover in the MI6 that was with him all this time." She replied, leaning against one of the room's wall. "She was the other one who faked her death too." She added, biting her lips.

"What happened to her ?"

"I....well....I killed her during the operation that has stopped 'Goldeneye' to happen." She wasn't looking relieved of that even if that Megan was also Perseus like Stone "She allowed Stone to escape and since, Stone is very mad against me because of her death."

"I think it was his idea to kidnap you at the beginning of the month." I turned back to see her, still thinking about seeing her tied up again. "Do you think we can succeed against him ?"

"We had to, Yirina." She exclaimed at me, sure of herself. "Stone is a man we need to brought down and you know that well." She added, almost raising her voice against me, surprising me. "Shit, didn't mean to raise my voice." She apologized.

"It's okay." I whispered before I looked at her with an smile "Hey, let's get ourselves installed well, shall we ?" I proposed and she nodded.

"Yeah, we have the house for us for the moment, so we're going to profit." She affirmed as we started to get our things done.

We started to unpack our belongings around the operations room, adding the intels we took in her office back at Century House on a side of the dashboard and once we were done, Park finally make me visit the house itself as we were more focused to talk about the mission than to directly visit the place. The house had a big view on the lake and it was so relaxing like in the New Orleans. For inside the house, it was like in the New Orleans except for one thing : there were a bedroom for me & Park and not even separate....we took it at the second we saw it.

Once the visit was done, we started to work on the intels that was given to us by the team charged to prepare the safehouse and those we got from Park's office, trying to find something we maybe missed in all the paperworks. Of course, we searched for things that could help us on the warehouse Stone had in West-Berlin but nothing in all of this gave us something. Actually, we know where that's warehouse is thanks to the message I have decoded from the MI5 but we wanted to know more about it.

Then, it was time for us to eat while working : Park was the one to make food and to be honest in my opinions, she was really good at it. The dishes she made.....it was so lovely and tasting more better than an Burger Town burger even if those burgers are good, Park's food was way more nice to eat. After we finished to eat with me complimenting her talents, we continued to work, making some suppositions and theories about Stone and nothing was leading us anywhere. At 11 AM, Park decided that it was done for her, getting herself to our room as I stayed in the living room.

"You're coming ?" She asked me loudly...in a lovely voice as she was upstairs in our room, awaiting for me.

"Yes, just finished my part of work." I replied, also loudly, my eyes on the dashboard.

"Be quick, I need you." She added before the silence came back, with her, waiting and me, having finished to work.

"We're going to get you, Stone." I whispered to myself, looking at his picture before I finally decided to walk out of the room, closing all the light on the way to get upstairs and joined Park in our bedroom. "I'm here for....." I started to say, opening the closed door of our room until I stopped myself, amazed by what I was saying.

"Surprise, surprise, Yiri !" Park teased me in the bed in a lovely position, she was just wearing her jacket with nothing below it and no scarf, not even an bra to cover her breasts, the jacket was doing it. She was still wearing her jeans and she was no longer wearing her shoes.

"Wow, that's...." I was literally jaw-dropped by her, freezing myself in place at her sight.

"Ssshhh, come here." She gestured me with her left index finger to get on the bed and I was obliged to comply, starting to move while I removed my own jacket and shirt along the way before I start to crawl on the bed, getting myself on top of her. "Now, make love with me all night !" She moved her hands to remove my bra before she pulled me with an kiss, getting my hands below her jacket to touch her breasts.

"As you wish, miss Park." I said in a teasing tone before she moved to get on top of me, finding my back against the bed as she started to kiss me on my neck "Mmmh....Park." I breathed, taken away by the pleasure

"Yiri....You have been very cheeky." She looked at me with her eyes that could say 'I just love you so much' "I just want you..." She continued in her kisses, going slowly down on my upper body. "I want to make you love everyday..." She exclaimed, kissing my chest before she moved her hands to remove my own pants.

"Please, do it...let's fuck..." I whispered to her, giving me an big smile as she start to remove my underwear with me slowly breathing, ready to do our things.

"We got all night to do that." She told me in a flirting voice before she start to lick me.

It was the beginning of a long night for us, we were having just an moment only the two of us and that we really wanted to do now. Been with her is one of the best things that happened in my life and having those types of night with her is on the same level. She was certainly the best in that and I was loving every part of it and she was loving it too. I never thought that I will have a moment like this after what happened to me and I was so happy to have it finally.

"Bell, we need to talk !" It was the voice of Russell Adler himself, adressing directly to me, sounding like an echo in the safehouse as I was working on very late at night almost at 2 AM. I was working on some files that we grabbed during our attack in the Lubyanka and by hearing him, I wasn't so relieved at all, closing my eyes for an second and stopping myself on work.

"What do you want ?" I asked him in a very neutral voice, sounding like annoyed by him. I had just like an big bad day behind me and I'm sure that I didn't want to have a talk with him at the moment, not after what he done.

"Come with me outside, it's just an friendly talk." He admitted to me and I wasn't moving from my chair even with his words but then, I took a breath and I got up from my chair, taking my jacket along the way.

I wasn't so happy to follow him outside the safehouse in the middle of the night as everyone else is asleep inside. We took the side exit of the safehouse, letting the big door closed. He handed me his pack of cigarettes but I refused it and somehow, it was looking surprised like If it was the first time I didn't want to smoke at all.

"So, what do you want ?" I asked him, crossing my arms above my chest. "Want to apologize about your behavior ?" I added.

"Me....apologizing ? Apologized for what ?" He asked me back, sounding confused even if he knows about what I'm mean.

"I don't know, maybe breaking inside my room at this hotel in Moscow..." I replied to him.

"That ?" He raised an eyebrow, smirking at me "You were late for the mission, I had to...."

"Okay..." I decrossed my arms, pointing at him, looking serious as hell "Cut the crap, Adler, why I'm here to talk to you ?" He bit his lips, hearing me getting serious all the sudden.

"You...Park, it's not possible in here." He blowed some smoke out of his mouth, almost at my face. "I'm asking you to break up with her, I'm not tolerating this kind of behavior and this kind of relationship in here !" He said to me, clearly and to hearing that, I raised an eyebrow like him.

"Who are you to tell me what to do about my personal life ?" I questioned him but he wasn't willing to respond to it.

"It's an order, Bell !" He admitted to me, pointing me with his cigarette in hand. "That....it's jeopardizing our...."

"What ?" I exclaimed, cutting him straight again. "Just because I'm with Park means that we're risking all of the operation to stop Perseus....or it's because of your oversized ego." I added, giving him an deadly glare "Yeah, must be your stupid ego !"

"Don't get me started, kid !" He affirmed, starting to clench his right fist.

"Or what ?" I asked him, spreading my arms. "I'm doing what I want with Park and you're not the one to lead my life."

"Actually, yes !" He said, making him look at him with an very curious look and angry one. "It's because of me you're here, kid. You will have been nothing without me."

"Oh yeah, you're my MI6 superior ?" I narrowed my eyes "Nope, you're CIA...and by the way, I owe you nothing at all." I pointed at him, angrily. "You have already troubles to deal with your sex life so don't start to....." I was going to continue until the man himself decide to punch right into the face, making me fall back behind on my left knee. I was so much angry but I didn't want to fight as I knew I was going to kill him as I was armed. I put my right hand below my nose and withdraw it, seeing blood on it.

"Shit, kid, I'm...."

"Don't fucking touch me !" I almost yelled, getting him away from me as he tried to get next to me. "You stupid moron." I slowly got up from that punch, holding my nose with my left hand.

"I didn't want to hit you." He tried to apologize but I wasnt' going to accept them, he just hit me like that.

"I'll tell you this, Adler." I started, still holding my nose to contain the blood. "Yes, I'm lesbian....yes, I'm loving Park and I will never break up with her, understood ?" I added, sounding angry as he was looking at me with wide eyes behind his sunglasses. "So, leave me alone and for real.....go fuck yourself !" I then started to walk back into the safehouse, opening the door that he closed. "Go fuck yourself, Russell Adler !" I closed the door behind me, containing the blood and my rage as I was going to the medical room to get my nose healed....

"Stupid motherfucker !"

I woke up with an start, an knot inside my chest after seeing that memory in the middle of the night. We were finished with Park to have sex and we were both naked under the sheets and frankly, it was so much good. That memory I just had....it make me remember how much Adler was a fucking prick with me and the others : always wanting to have control on everything and getting his temper never in control but it was also make me remember of my devotion to Park. As I looked to Park who was back to me, seeing her scars in the back, I decided to put my arms around her for recomfort, wanting to stay with her.....

All I want with her is keeping her close to me !

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Levi Ackerman × reader

Genre: Angst, Hurt/comfort, Fluff, matured themes, slowburn

Warning: There's mentions and descriptions of underage rape and suicidal themes and self harm and other triggering stuff.

No one's POV

Levi squad was on the move from the now destroyed Reiss chapel. An injured Hanji, Eren and Historia was on a wagon while Armin was driving it. Levi, (Y/N), Mikasa, Jean, Sasha and Connie were on horseback. Far from them, travelled an enormous titan, twice the size of the colossal titan. When Levi squad was stuck in the passage, Armin discovered an opening in the wall of the passage. They heard a huge crash and a blinding yellow light when Armin discovered the opening. Someone transformed into a titan. That opening led Armin and Hanji out of the chapel into the safety due to Hanji's injury while the others went to aid Eren.

It turned out that Rod Reiss transformed into an enormous titan, the one which was travelling alongside them. As they were following Rod Reiss, Erwin's search party was spotted in a distance. When (Y/N) saw Erwin's horse trotting towards them, she felt guilty for ignoring her superior and going behind her Uncle's back. "It had to be done" she reassured herself as Erwin reached them.

"I knew it was you who stole the horse. Why didn't you follow the orders? Do you know the consequences of ignoring a direct order from the commander? And, where did you get the 3DMG from?" Erwin asked (Y/N) firmly. "I know the consequences, but, it had to be done. Without my contribution, the mission would've failed as Levi Heichou was busy with Kenny. According to the survey corps rulebook, section 27, any direct orders from superiors can be ignored without punishment if the decision of the guilty is essential for a mission. I believe my action was necessary for the mission's success. As for the 3DMG, I stole it from the supply storage, Commander." (Y/N) answered with a calm but determined expression.

"Commander, (Y/N) is right. Mikasa couldn't handle all of the anti personale squad alone. There were about 40 people. We needed (Y/N)'s strength." Armin chimed in. To that, Erwin sighed and said, "You're right. (Y/N), you do know that because of your foolishness, I still have to deal with the law of section 42, that pregnant women aren't allowed to fight...". Before Erwin could finish, (Y/N) interjected and said, " Commander, you already denied my permission to join the search party. I acted on my own. I am supposed to get the punishment for that but section 27 already vouches for it. There will be some paperwork involved but no other long term problem.".

Erwin looked at (Y/N) for a while. He was proud of the woman she became. "How did you steal the 3DMG? I sent a cadet to mention the guards of the supply storage to specifically see that you're not let in." Erwin inquired. "I knew you would do that. I sent someone else to get it for me." (Y/N) answered casually. "I see. (Y/N), did you really think everything through before making this decision?" Erwin asked, clearly impressed by how far (Y/N) thought everything through. To that question, (Y/N) looked at Erwin with a slightly amused expression and answered, "Of course I thought it through. Unlike you, I don't gamble". The last sentence gave Erwin a flash of memory

9 years ago:

" (Y/N), you really should go home now. It's just a game. We already played five times.." Erwin sighed as the 10 year old girl insisted on playing another game of chess. It was one of her off days from training with him and she discovered a chess board in his office while searching for books. Thus, he ended up in this position, playing five games of chess with her. (Y/N) was a quick learner. She was way past the basics in the first game alone. Erwin didn't expect her to win against him as he was known to be one of the greatest tacticians of all time. He knew that the girl won't give up on trying till she won at least one game, so, he went easy on her this time. "Checkmate" Erwin sighed at the end of their 6th game.

He noticed (Y/N) smile and suddenly, he noticed that (Y/N) had her knight just in position to get rid of his queen. She took the queen down and told, "checkmate" to Erwin with a sly smile. The knight was now in position to get the king and Erwin had no chess piece to get rid of it. "Good one, (Y/N). Go home now. Your parents will be worried." Erwin sighed. "Uncle Erwin, you went easy on me. I want a fair game before going home." (Y/N) demanded. By now, Erwin knew that when (Y/N) got her head into something, she never gave up. "Fine. One last game. Promise?" Erwin told (Y/N). "Promise!" (Y/N) answered in an excited voice.

Surprisingly, Erwin lost that game. This time, Erwin wasn't easy on her. The one last game went on five more times, only now, it was Erwin who insisted to have one more game. At the end, he gave all his tactician abilities but failed to win against (Y/N). "Okay. How are you winning against me?" Erwin asked in the end after loosing the sixth game. "You see Uncle Erwin, you have a pattern in playing. It was hard to figure out but you tend to loose your pawns very easily. You keep the elite pieces for the end and use them to take the enemy down.

However, when you don't have the pawns to cover for the elites, you start loosing the elites to my pawns. That's how I won. Unlike you, I don't gamble. I should go home now. Dad will be mad if I'm late." (Y/N) explained with a proud face as she went for the door, leaving a dumbfounded Erwin sitting in front of the chessboard. She just predicted his moves in actual combat scenario too.

"I won't say what you did wasn't reckless but I'm proud of you." Erwin sighed. "Thanks" (Y/N) muttered with a smile. Erwin asked Levi if everyone was okay and Levi told him about Hanji. Erwin decided that the injury wasn't too serious and can be fixed easily. Levi then mentioned to Erwin that the titan is Rod Reiss and Erwin said that they didn't have any time to waste as Rod Reiss will be heading for Orvud district.

After Erwin left, Levi looked at (Y/N) and asked, "I forgot to ask you about this but, why did you memorise the Survey Corps rulebook? Cadets or second in commands aren't required to know these.". "Well, I read those before joining the trainee corps. I found a book with the Survey Corps rules in Uncle Erwin's office and I decided to read it." (Y/N) replied. "Why would anyone want to read a rulebook?" Levi asked, completely confused. (Y/N) looked back at him with a confused face and answered, "I read it because I like reading?". Levi scoffed at this and said, "And yet, you never read a biology book.".

To that, (Y/N) made a protesting face along with a slight blush creeping up her cheek as she said, "I did read biology books! It's not my fault that you're so goddamned overprotective!" "Woah... They are acting like an old married couple..." Connie whispered to Jean as Levi 'tch'd to (Y/N)'s accusation. "Connie, no one cares" Jean grumbled, clearly being jealous. There was an awkward silence between the squad before Hanji broke it by starting to talk about the founding titan.

On the way to the wall, the possibilities of getting rid of Rod Reiss was discussed, Eren tried to stop Rod Reiss with his titan powers, calling him a little old man thus earning a glare from Levi and Historia came to terms with the fact that her father will be killed. After reaching the wall, the squad went to the regiment branch in Orvud district and a cadet notified the squad about the meeting that's about to take place in the hall. "Historia, forgot to tell you, we need you to do something" Levi said approaching Historia. "Yes?" Historia asked.

"Erwin's orders. When this battle is over, since you're the true successor to the throne, become the queen." he finished. Connie and Jean tried to say that it was unfair to put Historia in such a position out of nowhere but Historia agreed to be the queen. However, she said, "But heichou, I have one condition." "Huh?" Levi questioned her as she replied, "Since my fate is my own, I want to lay it on the line." Historia was allowed her wish. As everyone went to the meeting, (Y/N) said to her, "When you're queen, make sure to give Sasha a buffet meal at your castle. I owe her one." "When you're queen, you can punch that runt in the face." Mikasa said to Historia. Historia's body tensed at that.

(Y/N) POV

Uncle Erwin revealed the plan to us. Orvud district won't be evacuated because the damage would be far greater if Rod Reiss gets to the main wall. The plan was to blow up Rod Reiss's hands as he reached the wall and then Eren was supposed to throw explosives into his mouth. That is if the cannons don't work. As everything was being assembled, Levi came towards me and said with a monotone voice, "(Y/N), I need to talk to you in private. Come with me." I followed him to an empty hallway in the regiment branch.

When we reached, he said keeping his bored face, "(Y/N), I don't want you on front lines. I've told this to you before and you didn't listen but..." but I stopped him and said with a similar bored but determined expression, "Levi, for plan B, you need the best soldiers you've got. We both know that the nape and all the other pieces needs to be cut properly to finish Rod Reiss off for good. Our aim has to be perfect...". Levi stopped me this time. With an expression that clearly showed his annoyance because of my interjection, he said, "I know that (Y/N) but this is too dangerous. I need you and the baby to be safe..." I stopped him again and said looking down on the floor, "So you want me to act like an useless housewife? That's right, you said you hate that kind of women. Is this your way of preparing to leave me? ".

I hated it when he acted like I couldn't protect myself. "(Y/N), if I were to leave you, I wouldn't devise any bullshit plot like that. And, you're nothing near the useless housewife type. If you were anything like that, I'd not be wasting my time here. You are strong but... Well, I'll be honest with you, I could've never been ready for a family if I wasn't forced into it by circumstances. Now that I am facing circumstances like that, I don't want to loose the possibility of finding some peace. Every single person I ever cared about ended up being dead and I don't want to deal with that again.." Levi tried to explain clearly getting more frustrated before I stopped him. I understood his fears but I needed to do this.

"Levi, didn't you tell me that you're with me because I have a higher chance of survival? You have to trust me on this, Levi. I promise to stay away from the explosion but I need to be there to cut off the pieces of Rod Reiss. Just, have some faith in me. I won't die on you. Our kid won't die on you too. I'll make sure of that. I promise." I told him in a soothing voice. Levi stared at me for a moment and said, "Okay. In that case, don't die. Both of you. The others will be looking for us. Let's go." before starting to leave. I followed him.

"Levi, Jean, Sasha, Connie, see that side. (Y/N), you're helping Hanji with tying the explosives up." Uncle Erwin commanded as he was talking to Historia. We were watching how the cannons were working a while back. According to Levi, it was like insects pissing on the titan and I couldn't agree more. Eren and Armin were helping me weave the net while Mikasa was stacking up the gun powder. Eren got up suddenly and looked down from the wall.

Apparently some kids down there reminded him of himself. Armin agreed to it but said that circumstances were different now. Suddenly, Eren started punching himself and Mikasa had to stop him. "Eren! It's not time yet!" Armin shouted at him. As Eren started rambling about him beating up an useless runt, I interjected and said, "Eren, stop your bullshit. No one cares about how you feel about yourself. We don't have much time before Rod Reiss is upon us. Get your job done first." "Sorry (Y/N).." Eren muttered as like everyone, he still was scared of me to some point even if I was friendly to them.

The cannons failed at the end. Plan B was put into action. We drenched ourselves in water to minimize the heat emitted from Rod Reiss. Levi asked the garrison captain to retreat as it was time for the survey corps to take action. Eren had transformed into a titan and was already in his position as well as Armin and Sasha. Uncle Erwin held his hand up with a flare gun. He commanded to commence the mission by shooting the red smoke flare. Armin and Sasha used the manoeuvre gear attached explosives to aim at Rod Reiss's hands.

The explosions made him loose balance as planned. Uncle Erwin commanded Eren to go get the explosives in Rod Reiss's mouth. He did exactly as planned and Rod Reiss blew up. "All troops! Finish it off with your ODM gear!" He commanded as we all flew from the wall and started cutting the huge chunks of flesh out. It was planned that Historia would cut the nape. Levi and I dealt with most of the chunks before landing safely on the ground. Historia did her part as well. It was over.

Levi POV

Just as I landed, I went to check on (Y/N). I felt relieved to see that she landed safe too. "Oi (Y/N), we need to report to Erwin. Come on." I told her as I walked towards her. "Yeah.. Well, can you wait for a while? I feel like I'll puke.." (Y/N) muttered, clearly looking sick. "Okay, I'll tell Erwin that you're feeling sick. You don't have to report." I told her as she muttered a "thanks" before looking at Sasha, who was nearby and ordering her to take (Y/N) to the military quarters. I went to the scout regiment branch to Erwin's office there. He already was there when I arrived.

"Where's (Y/N)? Is she okay?" Erwin asked me with a concerned expression. "She's fine. She's getting morning sickness again. I sent her back to the quarters with Sasha." I notified him in my usual monotone voice. "Ah. I see. Before you report everything, I need you to go back to the Reiss Chapel. Take some men with you. We need to find out if anyone from the anti personale squad are alive. If they are, they could be a threat. Our job now is to officially announce Historia as the queen and eliminate all threats. The military police aren't much effective as they are all corrupted, so, we will have to take matters in our hand." Erwin explained. "Okay. I'll arrange a search party" I answered before leaving the room. I needed some tea before this new bullshit.

When I was done with my tea, I went to the canteen and chose some random survey Corp soldiers because I wasn't feeling like picking specific people and went towards the Reiss Chapel. I didn't take my own squad because they already had been through enough for the past few days and they deserved a break. We dug out all the remaining members of the anti personale squad from the ruins except Kenny. All were dead.

"Oi, search the perimeter. With those injuries, he can't go far" I commanded everyone as they went to look for him. A while later, one of them came back and informed me that he found Kenny. I followed him to the place. "Kenny" I called him out in a bored voice as I stood in front of him. "Oh gee. It's you?" he answered in an equally bored voice before coughing up some blood. "Your comrades we fought, they all ended up getting crushed. Are you the only survivor?" I asked, my voice void of any emotion. I personally was void of any emotion towards that man.

"Seems that way" he answered with a hint of remorse in his voice. I was taken slightly off guard by that. When did he start feeling remorse? "Report back. I'm fine here alone." I commanded the soldier with me. "Understood" he replied before leaving. "With those burns and that blood loss, there's no helping you now." I stated monotonously. "Yeah? I wonder.." he said with sarcasm dripping in his voice when I finally noticed the syringe beside him. The same type used to turn people into titans.

"I swiped this one right out of Rod's bag. I'm guessing, using one of these'll make me a titan. I'll be a stupid titan but it should keep me alive for a little longer... If I don't do it right, I'll probably turn out all messed up like him." he sighed weakly. "There's no way you'd sit around and wait to die. Don't you have a better excuse?" I asked. "Sure, I don't want to die and I want power. But... Oh, I think I just got it. Why he did that." he mumbled.

"Huh?" I replied, completely confused. Was he just rambling because he was dying or was it something relevant? "Every last person I've seen was the same way. Whether it was booze, women, or even God. Family, the king, dreams, children, power... They couldn't keep going unless they were drunk on something. They were all slaves to something, even him." he said before coughing up some more blood. "What are you? A hero? Stop shitting me.. Even you're drunk on something. It's that girl, (Y/N) right? She's a good one, I'll give you that. I expected better than 'she had morning sickness' though. Seems like you've grown up. Just like Kuchel.." he said with a tone of sarcasm in his voice as chuckled weakly.

"How did you know about her in the first place?" I asked him. I was curious about it for a long time. "It's not very hard to get information about you. That girl, Emilia or something, she talked. Seemed like she was ready to open her legs for any Ackerman" he chuckled. I saw the light slowly leaving his eyes. "Kenny! Tell me everything you know. Why doesn't the first king want humanity to survive?" I asked him with haste. I had to get all the information I can from him before he dies. "Like I'd know. But it's the reason we Ackermans opposed him." he replied weakly. "My last name seems to be Ackerman too. You.. What were you to my mother really?" I asked him finally. I didn't know if I wanted to know the answer. He chuckled weakly at that before saying, "You idiot, I was just her brother."

That night, when I was fucking (Y/N), my mind wasn't on her. Kenny's words were clouded in my mind. He was right, she was a huge driving factor for me. Now that she's pregnant, I had to make things official at some point. The retake of wall Maria will be planned after Historia's coronation. That means, this peace won't last for long. I also knew that (Y/N) and I couldn't possibly raise a kid in the scout regiment headquarters. I didn't bother to pull out while cumming.

I lay down beside her as she snuggled next to me. We were staying at the military quarters in Orvud district. "You were distracted the whole time." she stated. "Huh?" I asked taken slightly by surprise that she noticed. "What's wrong?" she asked as she looked up at me. "It's nothing. Don't worry about it." I answered calmly. She didn't drag the matter further. Instead, she asked, "How did searching the Reiss Chapel go?". "It was alright. Kenny was still alive when we found him. Apparently he was my uncle." I answered with a monotone voice. She didn't give me any reply for that.

I liked how she never dragged any matter that I didn't want to talk about or showed any pity towards me. I heard a soft snoring a while later. She was already asleep. She did help me with my paperwork though, so, I understood why she was tired. I looked at her calm and peaceful face and made a huge decision. I had to buy an engagement ring the next day. Even if it meant that I had to give up my guarding duties during Historia's coronation.

I woke up at dawn to find a drooling (Y/N) beside me. Tch... She drooled all over me... I got up, used a handkerchief to wipe the drool off her face, closed her mouth and went to take a shower. When I was back, I found her sitting up on the bed, yawning. "How late am I?" she grunted as she rubbed her eyes. "Not too much. If you go take a shower right now, you'll be 10 minutes late" I answered as I wore the survey corps coat.

"I guess I'll skip shower then..." she started but I interjected her to say, "You're not sleeping on my bed then.". She threw a glare at me before walking into the bathroom. I went to the canteen and found my squad there. I walked up to Mikasa and said, "Oi, you're Historia's body guard today. If Erwin asks where I went to, say him that I've got some work to do and I'll join the ceremony a bit late." " Yes heichou." she answered, clearly annoyed.

I drank my tea at a separate table before it was time to go to the capital Mitras. (Y/N) just arrived in the breakfast hall as we were leaving so she just got to take a steamed potato wrapped in a paper packet before leaving with us. Mikasa and I were in Historia's carriage. (Y/N) was with the other squad members. When we reached the capital, as we were going through the market, I told Mikasa, "I'll leave now. Don't mess this up." and got off the carriage as she was saying "Yes heichou.".

I've been to this market before to get suits for myself. I walked around the place before finding the jewellery store I was looking for. I came here with Hanji before as I usually attended military charity events with her. Hanji apparently got a great deal with some earrings or whatever and grabbed me with her to pick those up just before going to the event. I entered the store and this red headed woman sat inside. She welcomed me in a bored voice, at least until she noticed who I am. "A-are you Levi Ackerman? From the scouts?" she stammered as I walked towards her.

"Yes. That's me. Anyway, do you sell rings?" I answered in a monotone voice. Tch.. Another fan girl.. "Y-yes! Of course!" she stammered again before pulling up a box of men's rings. "The one with the grey stone will match your eye..." she said dreamily but I casually told her, "I'm sorry, I was looking for engagement rings. For women.". She looked like someone punctured her balloon full of fantasies.

"Who's the lucky woman?" she asked trying to sound interested even if her voice clearly showed disapproval. "Well, it's gonna be on newspapers soon anyway." I answered calmly. I didn't want to discuss my relationship with a random woman. She pulled out a different box, filled with women's rings. I chose a simple platinum ring with a single small diamond embedded into it. I knew it would be expensive but I wanted to do something nice for (Y/N). "That would be 500 gold coins." the woman answered. I took out my purse, and gave all the coins in it to her, she used a counting machine to count the amount of gold coins there and returned the rest of the coins. She packed the ring up into a ring box and I took it and left the shop in a hurry.

(Y/N) POV

I got down from the carriage and walked towards Historia's carriage. We were inside the military police headquarters in Capital Mitras. I knew that Levi would be with Historia there however, I didn't expect him to take Mikasa with him. I saw Mikasa and Historia get down from the carriage. There was no sign of Levi. Uncle Erwin was also there, talking to Mikasa. "That's quiet irresponsible of him.. He never did anything like that before.." I overheard uncle Erwin as I approached them.

"Good that you're here (Y/N). Did Levi mention to you about any personal work that he had to go to?" Uncle Erwin asked me as I stood infront of them. "Uh, no he didn't mention anything." I answered. That must be the reason for his disappearance. What could this personal work be? "I see.. Well, I'm sure he'll be back soon." Uncle Erwin said confidently before taking Historia to meet the other commanders and the Supreme commander. Mikasa followed them as I went back to the rest of the squad. "Where's heichou?" Sasha asked me. She mostly liked me because I always gave her some of my food. She even ate half of my steamed potato this morning. "I don't know. Apparently he had some work." I muttered.

We gathered in front of the stage before the coronation started. Mikasa near the stage. Suddenly, I saw Levi walk towards her and say something to her before she walked back towards us. While Mikasa was cussing him for being late and making her do his job, I was wondering what work he went to get done. The coronation didn't take long. Erwin called Levi to talk to him about his indiscipline and the squad was in charge of being with Historia. After Historia talked to the press, we were on our way to the scout regiment branch in the capital Mitras.

"Everything happened so fast... I'll miss you guys all a lot.." Historia sighed in the carriage. Sasha started crying and talking about how Historia gave her a bread the first time they met and how she thinks Historia is a God, Connie and Jean made some awkward attempts to say that they will miss her too. Eren said that he's happy for her. Mikasa said nothing. "Oi, Historia, I have a far important duty for you than being queen." I told her amongst all the commotion. Everyone had shut their mouths after hearing the statement for obvious reasons. They probably thought I'll say something important. "Huh?" she asked, clearly confused.

"Take care of my kid when I'm out in expeditions. You could do that right?" I asked her with a straight face. "I... Of course!" she said with a surprised expression. She didn't expect me to trust her with my kid. However, knowing the type of childhood she had, I knew she would be perfect. "Oh, and don't forget about getting Sasha that buffet meal." I added. "Huhhhh?" Sasha exclaimed. "Well, you gave me that bread remember? That day when Kenny attacked us? It's just payback." I answered breaking her confusion. Yet again, Sasha started crying, and, calling me God this time while Connie muttered an "I told you that you won't regret it" to Sasha with a grin.

It took a while for Sasha to calm down. The rest of the trip was quiet. We started talking once again when we were walking in the corridor of the scout regiment branch. We could see Levi standing far from us in the same corridor. "I'll hit him today" Historia told us seriously. "Hold on, you're seriously doing it Historia?" Eren exclaimed. "Yeah I am." Historia answered trying to hide the fear in her voice. "Mikasa was just joking about it! Right, Mikasa?" Eren said with a concerned voice, clearly trying to save Historia from the possibility of getting herself killed. I was just enjoying the show just like Mikasa, who replied,

"After you smack him, tell him this.. 'I dare you to hit me back'" with a serious tone. "Try inserting some insults there too." I added to that with an equally serious tone. I really was enjoying this. "Damn you two..." Eren told us with a disapproving look before turning back to Historia and saying, "If it's not a real grudge, just forget it.". To that, Historia replied, "If I can't do this, how can I call myself queen?". Jean caught on with the amusing side of it pretty quickly and said, "Hell yeah, Historia. That's the spirit!" with an evil smile. Before we noticed it, we were already near Levi. Levi noticed us too and moved towards us.

There was a look of pure fear on Historia's face before she gave a battle cry and charged at Levi, giving him a weak punch on his biceps. Everyone except myself and Mikasa shouted out at surprise at this. Both Mikasa and I had a grin on our faces. “How’d you like that? I'm the queen! If you got a problem..." Historia's failing attempt at sounding brave was interrupted by Levi's sudden chuckle. Everyone including myself was surprised at that. Levi never smiled in front of anyone except myself. What's gotten into him? He looked at everyone and said, "Thank you... All of you." before looking at me and saying with a grin, "(Y/N), do me a favour and go to my office. There's a box with a ring on the table. Wear that and come find me at Erwin's office. We need to tell him that we are engaged.".

With that, he walked away leaving me dumbfounded. This time, everyone looked at me with surprised expressions. "Did he just propose you?" Historia asked me, clearly confused and surprised. An uncharacteristically huge smile formed on my face. "Yeah... I suppose he did..." I muttered before running off to Levi's office. "This must be the weirdest day in human history. Historia is queen, Levi heichou smiled in front of us, (Y/N) is looking like a love sick puppy..." I could hear Connie ramble in the distance.

[AUTHOR'S NOTE: I was confused about (Y/N)'s age until recently when I planned to get her pregnant. To be clear, (Y/N) is 19 years old, she will turn 20 soon and I'll write a chapter about her birthday. Levi is 30 years old, thus making an age gap of about 11 years, which is supposed to be quiet normal inside the walls because almost everything there is like medieval ages. (Y/N) joined the trainee corps at the age of 14, while wall Maria was infiltrated when she was 12. I'll write a spinoff chapter on how she spent the two years in-between.]

To be continued...

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kalyan-gullapalli · 4 years

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Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's caste...

On 16th February, 2015, Govind Pansale (then 81 years of age) and his wife, Uma Pansare, were shot by a couple of assailants on a motor bike, while they were taking their morning walk. On 20th February, four days later, Govind Pansare died in Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai. Actually, Govind Pansare was a left-wing CPI politician, whose murder is suspected to be a political assassination and is still unsolved. But this post is not about him, it is about the bestselling book he authored.

In 1988, Govind Pansare wrote a book in Marathi - Shivaji Kon Hota?, which was subsequently translated into English as Who was Shivaji?, and into other vernacular languages like Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati and Bengali. Till February, 2015, it had sold about 1.4 lac copies. Post his assassination, there was a renewed interest in his book. More than 3 lac copies have been sold since. I read the book only today.

This book is not so much a biography of the great Maratha ruler, but an insight into the kind of ruler he was - his benevolent, caretaking attitude towards his subjects, especially common folk - ryots, the respect he showed to women, his foresight in building an empire constituting each segment of the society - untouchables, lower castes, brahmins and muslims, and his fair and efficient administrative policies. It is a truly inspiring account into the character of the man.

But I was stunned to read the chapter where Govindji takes us through the challenges Shivaji faced in getting coronated as Chatrapati.

Did you know that no brahmin in Maharashtra consented to perform his coronation ceremonies? A brahmin from Kashi was invited to do it. Why? Because it was believed that Shivaji was a Shudra!

Therein lies a tale.

In the 17th century, the whole of India, north of Vindhyas, was ruled by the Mughals, and the south of Vindhyas was dominated by the Sultans of various Sultanates. In such times, in 1630, Shivaji Bhosale was born to Shahaji Bhosale, a principal officer in the Sultanate of Bijapur, and Jijabai.

Right from childhood, Shivaji stoked flames of freedom within himself. So he made friends with simple, sturdy, like-minded boys of the Sahyadri mountains, created an army of his own, and started nibbling into the Sultan's territory by capturing one fort after other. Soon, he became a force to be reckoned with.

Having had significant success with victories over Afzal Khan, a powerful commander of the Sultanate of Bijapur, and over Saishtha Khan, a powerful general under Aurangzeb, the Mughal Emperor, he was ready to proclaim himself as the Chatrapati of the Maratha kingdom that he had founded and formed.

But it was not that simple. First, the brahmins in his kingdom didnot support him - for multiple reasons. While Shivaji was building his kingdom, he had enlisted the support of all sections of the society, irrespective of caste or creed. In fact, Shivaji was probably one of the first equal opportunity employers in Indian history. He had grown up with a large number of enterprising folk from the Shudra or Ati-Shudra jatis and had provided them with numerous opportunities for upward social mobility. Amazingly, Shivaji had 13 Muslim commanders in his Army. His Chief of Navy was a Muslim. This was unacceptable to the staunch, conservative Hindu culture of those days.

Also, Shivaji did not give Brahmins any special place or privileges in his kingdom. He had proclaimed that a Brahmin, who does some mischief, would be punished commensurately and not be spared punishment because he is a Brahmin. They did not take it well. It is funny that today, Shivaji is proclaimed to be a Go Brahmin Pratipalak, a protector of Cows and Brahmins.

Third, the Brahmins claimed that Shivaji's maunji bandhan (thread ceremony) had not been done, and that his marriage had not happened according to proper rituals. So how can he be king?

If you think all this is ridiculous, listen to what happens next. Aurangzeb wanted to crush Shivaji once and for all. So he sets his ablest general - the Rajput Jai Singh - on the job. But Jai Singh is not so sure that he can defeat Shivaji. So he organizes a three month Yagna, spends 2 crore rupees (in 17th century) and invites all the Brahmins of the land to perform the invocations. He calls it the Kot Chandi Yagna. Incredibly, many brahmins from the Maratha lands attend the Yagna, as an opposition to Shivaji!

While the Brahmins were busy branding Shivaji a Shudra, he wasn't having an easy time with the Kshatriyas as well.

The Maratha Kshatriya noblemen belonged to 96 families - Kulas. Even though they had no kingdoms, they would call themselves Rajas or Patils - Shinde Raja, More Raja, Landage Patil, Kolhe Patil, Kale Patil, Vikhe Patil etc. These 96 Kshatriya families also didnot support Shivaji.

Chandrarao More Raja of Jawali was one of the 96. Shivaji tried to enlist More. Emissaries went to More, who did not respond to these genuine efforts. Shivaji then warned him - if you don't join me, Jawali would be captured. Shivaji had referred to himself in the letter as King. More arrogantly replied, “You, a king? You become a king because you choose to call yourself one. If you are eating your meal, finish it and come to Jawali to wash your hands. Let’s fight!” Shivaji fulfilled More’s wish. He went to war and captured Jawali.

In short, high-caste Brahmins or Kshatriyas were not prepared to accept Shivaji Bhonsle as their leader and King. Not a single Brahmin from Maharashtra was willing to perform the rituals associated with his anointment as Chatrapati.

So, a Brahmin from Varanasi, Gaga Bhatta, was called to anoint Shivaji by performing the Vedic rituals. Gaga Bhatta’s family had roots in Nanded (Maharashtra), but his reputation was built in Benares. But Shivaji had to reward him with so much gold that it was too heavy for him to carry it down the Raigadh fort.

And so it came to pass that on 6th June, 1674, at the age of 44, three decades after Shivaji started his fight for freedom or Swaraj, he was coronated in a grand ceremony in Raigarh, his capital, that went on for very many days.

But all the ceremony didn't help Shivaji much. After his coronation, a series of deaths took place: Shivaji’s mother, Jijabai, died on the thirteenth day after the coronation; his Chief of Army, Prataprao Gujar, died shortly afterwards; one of Shivaji’s wives, Kashibai, also died.

A Yajurvedi Tantrik, Nishchalpuri Gosavi, then came to see Shivaji. He told him that these tragedies took place because Gaga Bhatta had committed certain errors in the ceremonial rites for coronation, including holding the coronation on an inauspicious date. Shivaji accepted Nishchalpuri’s word and had another coronation three months later!

Shivaji survived a mere six years as king after his coronation and died at a very young age of 50 years, in 1680. A century later, the Maratha Empire had touched Delhi in the north.

So, was Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, one of India's greatest rulers, a real people's man, a builder of a true welfare society, a great administration, and most importantly, one hellava human being, a Kshatriya or a Shudra? Here is an interesting take.

It doesn't really matter. But what saddened me was to read that, "Even today Marathas who arrange marriages on the basis of caste, treat people having the surname Bhonsle as lowly." To me, that's a sad way to remember one of the truly great sons of this soil.

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bbykpoper · 5 years

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Bitter Sweet Symphony

part 5 - diffindo

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A/N: note that the story takes place before Harry came to Hogwarts. And most professors of the class mention below are unknown before his time hence why I will be using a random idol or maybe even an unknown person as the professor!

The fact that the students from both the 5th and 6th year had to assemble in the training grounds just as the professor for Defence Against the Dark Arts (D.A.D.A.) class walked towards them along with professor Snape didn't seem to amuse Y/N. She sat on the grass beside Sunmi as both Ravenclaw's absently stared into the direction of the two professors.

"I'm not amused by this setting." Y/N spoke as she caught the glare of the skinny blond boy in the green robes. "Plus, why the hell is Snape here?"

"That is a question I ask myself as well." Sunmi commented.

The rest of the Ravenclaw's began quietly whispering as boy in red robes walked over to the two girls and smiled down at them. He was followed by one more young boy in yellow robes. A Gryffindor and Hufflepuff was not an unusual sight to mingle with the Ravenclaw's, but both Park Sungjin and Kang Younghyun were quite the unusual appearance. These two usually hung out with only one Ravenclaw since they first entered Hogwarts.

And also, their bestest friend chicken little also known as Park Jaehyung, was standing opposite them glaring at Y/N.

"Hey girls." Sungjin addressed them with a smile. "What do you think this is all about?"

"My bet is we're going to be duelling." Sunmi said with a sigh. "By the way, why are you guys here? I thought you were friends with Jae on the other side..."

"Jae's being a meany so we decided to befriend the girl who keeps calling him out on social media." Younghyun smiled.

Y/N looked up at him with a raised eyebrow but didn't say anything. Sungjin joined them on the grass while Younghyun smirked at Jae on the other side.

"Alright listen up kids!" The professor spoke up to catch the attention of his students. "I have called together both years to have a practical class in which a few of you will demonstrate the spells we've learned throughout the past school years. Now I know that pairing a 6th and 5th year student will be difficult seeing as the older kids know more spells, but if a student wishes to duel a younger one, or vice versa, I will not oppose it and neither will professor Snape."

Jae looked straight at Y/N who was silently going through some type of journal in her lap.

"Now then, my duelling pupil Sungjin and Seung Cheol shall be the first to duel."

Sungjin went up front followed by another Gryffindor and both took their stances. They smiled at each other and went forth to take a few paces from each other and the duel began. It was harmless, with a few basic duelling spells learned from professor Flitwick as well as ones learned in D.A.D.A. through the years.

Sungjin came out victorious.

"Well done boys. Now then moving on towards the 6th years... Miss Nayeon and Miss Wheein, you're up next."

A very cheerful and bubbly Gryffindor skipped up to take Sungjin's place while and elegant looking Slytherin walked up to take Seung Cheol's. This duel was a bit more heated and the dislike between the two houses was evident.

Wheein came out as the winner in this duel.

"Exceptional curse casting Miss Wheein. Now then next will be Mister Jaehyung and-"

"Sir, I'd like to choose my own opponent." Jae spoke up and both professors raised their eyebrows.

"Yes, of course." The professor spoke up.

"Hey Wonpil's girl." Sunmi nudged Y/N when she didn't budge from her quidditch notes. "Let's see how well you do with those spells of yours."

Jae stepped up in place of Wheein as Y/N looked confused with the speech he threw at her.

"Well now Miss Jeong don't just sit around." Professor Snape snapped at her. "Get up and take Miss Im's place on the field."

Y/N gave her notebook to Sunmi as she took her wand and replaced Nayeon on the field. The Gryffindor wished her luck and Y/N only nodded, not understanding what this was all about but she sure wasn't complaining. Maybe this was the perfect time and place to shut Jae's mouth.

Both of them bowed at each other and took up their stances, Jae's being a bit more aggressive in nature while Y/N's was more cold and stoic.

"One..." The professor began his countdown. "Two..." Sunmi, Sungjin and Younghyun were not expecting this to happen and the boys were quick to inform the other two, being bombarded with Wonpil's worry. "Three-"

"Expulso!" Jae screamed and waved his wand before the countdown reached three normally.

"Protego!" Y/N reacted faster and a transparent shield of soft blue hues spread before her deflecting the explosion and spreading a screen of smoke on the field. She was quick to counter attack while Jae couldn't see her movements in the smoke. "Everte Statum!"

Jae was hit by the spell and sent spinning in the air as he landed a few feet in the distance. He was angry now as his glasses fell next to him.

"Flipendo!" Jae's spell knocked down Y/N and she groaned at the impact it had on her body. "Incendio!"

A gush of fire rushed towards Y/N and all the students went quiet with horror as it rapidly approached the knocked down girl.

"Aguamenti!" She countered with a water jet and the fire seemed ti burst into smoke as her breathing became shallow and raged from the scare of being burned alive.

"You're good Y/N, well I'd say decent for a mudblood." Jae spoke as he walked up to her.

"Oh, so now we're calling each other names?" Y/N stood up, clearly angry at his words. "So what if I'm a child of a human and a wizard I can't be good at casting spells or quidditch? Wow Jae, never knew that you'd be calling me names because you suck at spell casting."

"Oh keep you mouth shut you dirty blooded bird! You're no better than a pureblood just because you're smart so stop acting all high and mighty. You should just keep that beak quiet and mingle with less wizards so you don't spread the disease among us." Jae was enraged and both Sungjin and Younghyun didn't understand how he could be so insulting.

They've never heard or seen this side of the young blond.

"Legilimens." Jae cast the mindreading charm on her, trying to mess with her emotions.

"Protego Horribilis." Y/N whispered out and the spell bounced off the transparent shield which enveloped her.

"A protection charm again, really? Is this all you know? You're a disgrace even to mudbloods." Jae mocked her and tried both flipendo and expeliarmus on the girl but without any results. "This is a damn duel Y/N not a fucking pitty party where you hide behind a shield of magic. Fight me like you mean it!"

"Okay, if that's what you really want." She gripped her wand tightly turning her knuckles white with anger. As she looked up at him her dark eyes seemed to turn black with sheer animosity as the protective shield suddenly disappeared around her.

"Alarte Ascendare." Jae was shot up into the air and screamed out as his body began falling down quickly approaching the hard ground. "Diffindo."

Jae screamed out as a burst of cuts appeared on his body bleeding heavily as he kept on falling down. It was followed by a loud noise of breaking bones and tearing of the muscles as suddenly both professor Snape and the professor of D.A.D.A. stepped in to stop the duel.

"Descendo!" The professor yelled as Snape quickly caught an unconscious Jae. "Miss Jeong Y/N what has gotten into you?! You could have killed Mister Park with both spells!"

"Vulnera Sanentur." Snape said as he healed the cuts and gashes on Jae's body. "I'm taking Mister Park to the hospital wing. Miss Jeong, I will make sure professor Flitwick hears about this."

Both professor left as they dismissed the class. All of the students stood staring at Y/N who was still angrily clutching her wand and biting her lip to the point it bled.

"Alright!" Sunmi yelled out. "Get lost you dweebs, nothing to see here!"

The students suddenly scurried off into all directions as Sunmi walked up to her friend and patted her on the shoulder.

"Come on Y/N, let's get some nice relaxing tea and Momo to cheer you up shall we?" She began pushing the girl in the direction of the castle, but stopped to look back at the two dumbfounded boys. "I'd advise you to check on Jae later on. Those were some dangerous spells casted on him."

And with that they left.

Later that evening Sunmi, Momo and Y/N were sitting in the Astronomy tower, drinking tea and eating some of Momo's home baked peach muffins. The two girls were animatedly chatting with each other as Y/N kept staring out the tower into the cold starless night.

It wasn't her fault her parents fell in love. Before today she didn't really care for the fact her father was a wizard and her mother was a muggle. They loved each other, they loved her, her family was quite accepting of the wizarding world even though her older brother was a muggle and stayed a muggle. Why was it so wrong to be a half-blood?

Her thoughts were cut short when an owl landed on the open window and handed her a letter.

"What is it?" Momo asked.

"A howler..." Y/N answered.

"From professor Flitwick?" Sunmi asked.

"No... from my father..." She sighed and opened it, ready for what was to come.

"JEONG ROSEMARY Y/N! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF TODAY'S DUEL WITH THE SLYTHERIN BOY? YOUR MOTHER AND I HAVE TAUGHT YOU BETTER THAN TO BLINDLY CAST DANGEROUS SPELLS ON YOUNG WIZARDS IN YOUR STATE OF ANGER! I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU AND YOUR ACTIONS TODAY! NEXT HOLIDAY YOU COME HOME YOU WILL GET AN EARFULL FROM ME YOUNG LADY! PROFESSOR FLITWICK PERSONALLY SENT AN OWL TO ADRESS YOUR BEHAVIOUR TODAY AND IT ALMOST MADE YOUR MOTHER CRY! LEARN HOW TO BEHAVE YOURSELF AND FOCUS ON YOUR STUDIES MORE!" There was a short pause as the girls stared wide eyed at the letter. "I know the boy must've said some very insulting things to you my little rose but it still doesn't justify this type of behaviour. I can only hope you will learn from this experience and tred your battles carefully. Professor Flitwick said he'd talk to you first thing tomorrow morning, so I expect you to accept your punishment with dignity. I did not teach you those spells for your anger but for you to defend yourself if need be. Be sure to visit your mother and I on your next holiday, and write a letter or two for your older brother so he knows your alive at least. Love dad."

Y/N sighed as the letter tore itself up and fell into the lap...

'Well done Y/N, now all you gotta do is go and talk to your brother who hates you because of your father. Easy-peasy.'

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guigz1-coldwar · 3 years

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"New team" : New chapter for "Redemption in a Spirit in a Cold War" is out !

"New team"

Chapter Summary : After an troubling memory, Yirina is meeting Park's friends that will compose their team

To read it on AO3, click here !

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As I can seem inside of me, I was looking and acting pretty nervous while I was sitting in my office in the Lubianka. I was tapping my fingers on my desk a lot, having my eyes locked on the door, awaiting for someone to come in : Zasha.....They weren't here and I was waiting for them to work, not even working on my own. The only sound inside of my room was just the clock above my desk and it was very loudly, blurring my mind, resisting the urge to actually shoot that clock to make this room without sound to think.

After I checked for an second time my watch, discovering that we were the 5th of January 1981, I decided to took my red phone on my desk, starting to dial Zasha's number to call them to know why they weren't here at work. Once it was done, I started to wait until they picked up the phone....one ring.....two rings.....three rings......four rings.....nothing except their answering machine. I needed to know why, so when their answering machine were off, I started to dial their number again.

"Come on, Zed, pick up !" I said almost loudly, hearing the first ring after their numbers were dialed again. "Please, pick up !" I added, taking a breath.

"Hi, this is Zasha Smirnov, I'm not...." I could hear their answering machine again and I hang up the phone pretty quickly, cutting it.

"Shit, I need to see by myself." I thought to myself before I decided to get up from my chair, determined to go at their appartment.

I took my jacket from the coat hanger and then I left my office, not even looking in front of me as I start to fear the worst that could have happened to Zasha. Perseus was in my way and I didn't look at him or stop myself to talk to him even when he called me out as he was an monster for me. I got into my car real fast and then, I was on my way to get to Zasha appartment. Today, we were needed to 'work' on a file but since we discovered Greenlight, we were becoming so disguted by our own work, judging it very badly.

I arrived at their place in no-time as I almost drove very fast in the streets, stressed out about their non-responses on the phone, still fearing about problems they could have. I entered the place very quickly, getting up the floor of the complex like if my life was depending on it and then, I was arrived at their door.

"Zasha, it's me !" I knocked on their door three times before suddenly, the door opened itself because of my knocks.

At this moment, I decided to take the Makarov I was always keeping with me below my jacket in my hands, getting suspicious in a second before I entered the appartment, gun in hand, checking every corner of the first room. There were no sounds in here, not an simple sound of creaking floorboards except for the one I was making and not even an meow from Beans. This place was dead silent.

The living room was cleaned but no signs of Zasha & Beans here and it was the same thing for every other rooms of their appartment. In their bedroom, there were still pictures of them, Dedov, Portnova & even Beans but Zasha.....they weren't here. By that, panicking was the only thing inside of me right now and I decided to retreat myself into the living room to get on the couch but then, I saw a piece of paper saying 'I'm sorry'. I took it in my hands and I start to read it.

I'm sorry !

I had no choices to flee earlier but Dedov had sent me an letter yesterday : he has fallen sick in London and he needed to have me with him really quick. I'm sorry that I couldn't wait anymore but I didn't have any choices. I'm so sorry for doing this to you, Yirina and to you, my love, Portnova !

Zed.

I couldn't believe it but it was done : Zasha had fled yesterday as we have planned to do this just on the next day, the 6th of January. Dedov was sick and Zed had no choices but to get out of here pretty quick to join him. After I finished to read that letter, I was holding back my tears to the situation until the door of the appartment opened and my first reaction was to aim directly at its direction....to discover Portnova, holding an cat cage with Beans inside.

"Grigoriev ?" She was confused at seeing me here as I was supposed to work at the office.

"Portnova..." I breathed, relieved that it was her and not someone else. "I almost shot you." I lowered my gun, pretty quickly, not wanting to harm her.

"What are you doing here ?" She asked me, walking in the living room with her cat cage, almost ready to release Beans.

"Zasha didn't come to work today, so I needed to check." I started before I took a deep breath, thinking of what I was going to say. "Zed.....they have left the country, Dedov has fallen sick." She stopped herself in her moves, shocked as I moved with their letter in hand to give it to her. "I'm sorry."

"No....they couldn't...." She whispered, looking at their letter, holding back her own tears. "Zeze..." She sniffed, saying her little nickname she has given sometimes to Zasha. "I was supposed to give them back Beans today."

"Shit, I'm so sorry, Portnova." I excused myself to her even if I didn't do a thing, she was nearly broken to learn that Zasha left without us.

"And now ?" She asked me, her eyes moved, looking at me.

"I don't know, we should get ourselves....." I was going to continue until Zasha's phone in the appartment rang, getting our attentions on it. I was the one to quickly get up to to pick it up, wondering who would be calling Zasha. "Yes ?" I started.

"I knew that you will go to Krypto's place !" That voice.....it was Perseus himself, sounding so sure.

"Perseus." I breathed, saying that name. "Why're you calling at Zasha appartment ?" I asked him.

"Because I knew that you will go there to see how they were doing....." He replied.

"What did you do to them ?" I questioned him, almost angry, fearing the worst with the tone he used.

"Nothing." He exclaimed before taking a breath that I could hear through the phone. "We have a problem, Yirina."

"Explain." I ordered him as I gestured to Portnova to get next to me, allowing her to listen to the conversation.

"Krypto has been arrested as they were going to leave West-Berlin by the BND." I looked at Portnova, shocked to hear that. "They are actually detained in the Spandau Prison, awaiting to be interrogated."

"Shit." I whispered.

"I'm pretty sure that Krypto has second thoughts about us and I'm asking you to travel to the german city and to release them." He asked me and I looked at Portnova as I was biting my lips. "If you can't, I'm letting Stitch do the job."

"No, let me do it, you know that I can do it." I said, scared at letting Stitch put his hands on Zasha.

"Good." He told me. "I know that I can count on you, you're leaving Moscow at the beginning of the afternoon to go to our safehouse in West-Berlin !" He added before he hanged up the phone, leaving me & Portnova, trembling as hell.

"I have no choices." I put my eyes on Portnova, breathing. "I have to save Zasha and allow them to go to England."

"And....and me ?" Portnova started to panick and I quickly moved my hand on her arms, trying to calm her down

"Hey, look at me...." I started, getting my hands on her. "I'm going to save Zed and once it's done, I'm coming back here for you, okay ?" She nodded to me, almost with tears on her face. "For now, you need to take care of Beans until I came back."

"I will...I will." She affirmed to me, smiling at her until I moved away from her to get to Beans's cage that I open, greeted by her meows.

"Come here, Beans." I spoke as I took Beans in my arms, holding her like a baby. "I'm so sorry you have to live this, my little Beans." I proclaimed, making Portnova laugh a little of seeing me doing that. "Take care of Portnova well, okay ?" I asked her, making Beans look at Portnova and gave an meow that could tell yes. "Good Beans, now go eat." I then released her and she quickly go into the kitchen where her cat food was. "I'm going to save Zed and after that, it will be you and Beans."

"Okay, thank you, Grigoriev !" She thanked me, looking down at her feets, troubled. "Stay safe and....save my Zed !" I nodded to her with an little grin before looking around their appartment, thinking of a lot of things but mostly one important....

"I need to save you, Zasha....it's my duty, now !"

The back of my head was hurting me when I woke up in our bed in that safehouse, still wondering if I did actually save Zasha from that prison. They had to left earlier and now, I was asked by Perseus himself to bring them back to Russia but I know well that I wasn't going to bring them back, I was going to lead them right to England.....to Dedov himself before I return back to save Portnova.

I just wanted to know what happened that day but nothing was allowing me to relive that day, almost causing me to cry in bed alone, fully awaken. I needed 5 long minutes to calm myself before I was able to get up from the bed, still naked from last night with Park. Instead of dressing me up directly, I decided to grab some new clothes and to go take a shower in the bathroom that was just next to our bedroom. During my shower, I was thinking of only one thing : I needed to know if Zasha was saved and now safe today....they had to be....

Once I was done with my shower, I dressed up with my clothes, making my ponytail after I cleaned up my hair and then, I got down the stairs, smelling the coffee as I had my feets on the ground floor before I joined our operations room....our living room, I can say....to discover Park, sitting alone in her couch, a coffee in her hands.

"Hey, Yiri." She greeted me, waving at me with her right hand, before pointing the other couch with it. "Heard you take a shower upstairs, so I prepared your coffee and something to eat." She showed me a cup of coffee and some breads with butter and strawberry jaw on it.

"Thanks." I smiled, saying it in a low voice before I walked to sit on the couch, taking the cup in my hands.

"You're okay ?" She asked me, worried. "You're looking pretty pale, it seems." She added, putting her cup down on that table.

"Really ?" I asked back, sounding very low and confused before I took a sip.

"Did....did I hurt you that night ?" She was curious, seeing me talking in a low voice and with an pale face, referring to our night we just did. "You can tell me..."

"No....not at all, I loved it." I replied, shaking my head

"Yirina, you're looking pale..." She affirmed to me, looking serious. "Are you sure it's not because of me ?" She added.

"No, like I said." I tried to raise my voice but there were no need to get myself angered. "It's just....an memory that came back." I responded to her, taking one of the breads with butter and jam in my hands.

"An...an troubling one ?" I nodded to her question "Can you tell me ?" She joined her hands together, wanting to know.

"Uhm....Zasha....we had a plan to flee the USSR." I started, taking a breath. "They.....they had to left earlier without telling me & Portnova because their brother fell sick." I looked down, feeling sad about it. "Before that memory ended, Perseus called to reveal to me that....Zasha was arrested in West-Berlin by the BND."

"Shit." She whispered to herself at hearing me saying that. "Did you know what happened ?" I shook my head again.

"That's why I'm like that : I just want to know what happened to my friends." I fully replied, having finished to eat the bread I had in hand. "I could know....if I wasn't so fucked up in my mind." I snorted, taking a sip to finish my coffee, looking at her who was very troubled and feeling bad about me.

"I'm sorry..." She exclaimed to me. "I'm sorry to have helped Adler brainwash you, I...."

"I know.." I whispered, cutting her gently. "It's okay, it's not your fault." I then decided to get laid down on the couch, looking at the ceilling. "I just need to know what happened....and....and to keep you close to me." I affirmed, looking at her with an little grin.

"Thanks." She reciprocrate the same grin on her face. "If you want to talk of something else, we can, you know." She was sounding apologizing to me but for me, she was already apologized to me even after what she did.

"Yes, let's talk about something else." I said in a normal tone, closing my eyes for an second. "Stone....how did you meet him ?" I asked, wondering now about it.

"Actually, he's the one who had met me during one of my MI6 trainings exercices." She replied, putting her hands on her lap. "He....he was my brother's friend."

"What ?" In an second, I redressed myself in the couch, very curious to learn that.

"He claimed that my brother talked well about me to him and after that, we became great friends." She added before she rolled her eyes, sadly. "He told me the truth.....he's the one who orchestrated the bombing that killed my brother, he told me that when he revealed himself to me one year ago." She added, sniffing.

"Shit....I'm....I'm sorry." I apologized, ashamed to have asked about it.

"Just for you to know but if we got Stone, we're not locking him up, we kill him....I'm killing him." I slowly nodded from her demand, knowing that it's too personal between her and Stone. Then, as she was finished, we could hear the sounds of someone that was walking on the house porch as the living room was just next to the entrance. "Must be Greta." She started to walk until the person knocked in a sort of signal....the british national anthem. "Wrong, it's Garett, already ?" She was looking stunned by that and me too.

"How did you...." I looked at her as she walk to the door before I stopped myself. "Nevermind." I whispered to myself as she finally open the door to reveal the same man I saw on the file.

"Garrett !" Park started, greeting him, opening her arms to him. "How did you came here so fast ?"

"Park, it's been a month and a half I didn't see you. For that, I was already in Montreal when you called me and once you hanged up, I quickly jumped in a plane." He said, getting into her arms in a friendly way before they broke it. "Been a long time I didn't came in here." He looked around the entrance, looking happy.

"Come on, enter, you're not going to froze your ass outside." She removed herself from the way, allowing him to enter with his own bags as I decided to got up from my couch to join them next to them.

"Oh, you must be Yirina Grigoriev." Garrett looked at me with an smile and I nodded to him as he offered his hand to me. "Garrett Donovan, it's a pleasure to meet you." We shook hands, smile on our faces.

"It's a pleasure to meet you too, Park told me about you." I affirmed, causing him to look at her with an raised eyebrow.

"That's always how Park talked about me." He taunted her, causing her to smile at him.

"I told her the truth." She smirked at him before starting to walk back to the living room. "You know where to put your stuff, of course ?"

"And of course, you don't help a poor soul to transport his bags ?" He asked her in a funny voice before looking at me. He didn't have any troubles with his two bags "Very lovely, right ?"

"Of course....you can call me Yirina, by the way." I smiled at him before I let him walk by me to enter the living room with his two bags, Park getting sit on her couch again.

"So, we are tracking our old friend Stone...." He started, getting his bag on the table like ours before looking at the dasboard. "This dipshit never want to die." He put his hands on his waist, taking a look at the group picture "And to make sure he got underground, you're reforming the team."

"I called Greta too to come and for that, we have Yirina with us." She affirmed, her eyes on me, reassuring me of course. "She know Stone too."

"Wow, you know him too ?" I nodded at his question. "Guess that fucker did make an big list of enemies." He then walked back to one of his bags, opening it to unpack it. "Well, let's make sure that we got him for good, you got any leads ?"

"Stone has a warehouse he used for arms trafficking in West-Berlin." I replied at him.

"We're going to wait this evening to scout the place and once we're good, in the night, we took the place down." Park added in my response, crossing her arms.

"It's just gonna be the MI6 and the BND on Stone, right ?" He asked and we both nodded, with Park.

"I think you may have heard about Russell Adler...." I started, sitting back on my couch, talking to him and by mentioning that name, he looked at me.

"Of course, guy got himself captured by Perseus....our guys in Canada did talked about it...more laughed about it." He said, not even looking surprised but more joking on the situation. "Your move in New Jersey make a lot of noises."

"Well, the blame's on him." Park scoffed, scratching the back of her head before we could hear another knocks at the front door. "There, it must be Greta."

"Wait, stay sit, I'm going to open." Garett proposed himself as we were both sit with Park on our respectives couch and he started to walk to the front door and opened it. "Greta !" He exclaimed, sounding very happy.

"Garrett, it's been a very long time." The woman told him, making the same thing as when Park greeted Garrett inside. "How did you arrived here faster than me ?"

"Guess that I was already near an plane when I got asked to come here." He joked, making her laught "Come in, we're just awaiting for you." He closed the door behind her before she joined the living room with us in it.

"Helen !" Greta exclaimed semi-relieved, seeing Park first than me....I was surprised to hear Greta saying Park's first name but since Park told me about their old relationship, guess it's making senses. "It's nice to see you....even after what you know."

"Me too..." Park breathed, thinking about a thing I shouldn't ask about it. "Greta, she's Yirina Grigoriev." She pointed at me, getting Greta's attention on me.

"But I remember you in that bar in East-Berlin 3 years ago...." She started, recognizing me, she was still the same person I saw in that bar. "You're Bell !" I was a little bit stressed to be called like that again as she was offering her hand.

"Uhm....I don't use that name anymore." I explained quickly, not saying that I was brainwashed and giving that name by the man who did it. "Old nickname given by the CIA."

"My apologies." We finally shook hands before she decide to literally sit next to me. "So, you told me that you needed help with Stone's case." She looked at Park, curious.

"Park is reforming the team to track down Stone for good....and Yirina is joining us too." It was Garrett who responded at Park's place. "Let's hope this one is the perfect one."

"Stone is using an warehouse for his activities, you might have hear something like that inside of the BND ?" Park asked Greta, getting herself comfy in her couch.

"Well, my superiors informed of that situation but I don't know more about it." She responded, having nothing on it for us. "They just told me that you know where the place was."

"We're going to make an scout this evening before we can strike the place down." I affirmed to her our plan.

"Then I guess everyone is now here." Park looked at everyone as she got up from her couch. "You might want to get yourself installed in your respectives bedrooms upstairs before I can gave you a briefing." She suggested and Garrett agreed.

"Exactly." He then start to walk with Greta out of the living room to get upstairs to let them choose their own bedrooms, leaving me & Park alone in the room. I looked at her with an great smile, relieved of the situation and feeling myself welcomed by her friends.....

"That's quite an team you pulled up !"

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