Daichi "Leet" Asano
Brockton Bay
April 15, 2011
It was an accident, you know, we weren't exactly planning to do what we did.
We were just trying to show those Undersiders how a man really robs a bank, with costumes, tinkershit, gamer-fueled energy, and smiles.
After that time Geoffrey hit the ABB sex worker because the chick tried to stab him... Yeah, sure, I hit the girl because I got afraid that she would actually harm Uber, since I knew his power wasn't half of what he claimed it was because I actually lived with him, but Uber escalated, got angry at the others prostitutes because of that one, and I followed, he was my only friend, but after that stunt we pulled well, it was hard to make us look like the underdogs anymore, but we were trying, or at least I was, Uber has been acting different ever since he became a Parahuman, as if he's undergoing the Face Heel Turn, like Jimmy in the NES' version of Double Dragons.
Not that it mattered, Geoff is my best friend and even if he goes full BBEG instead of what we were doing before Coil came to us, I will still be at his side, because I know he would do the same for me.
Geoffrey, sorry, Uber, that's what he liked to be called when he was wearing that domino mask of his, Uber was planning the show while I was certifying myself that all of my tinkertech was still operational, today I was going to show off my newest babe, which I only managed to build thanks to Coil's resources.
I had Snitch turned on, sometimes I try to video myself creating something, but I only release videos when I actually manage to finish my design, after selling it to Dragon, of course, Coil may pay me well, but sometimes Dragon gets interested on my designs and I just show her the video instead of selling my actual tinkertech.
I hear the door open, and people talking, which makes me anxious, searching frantically for my mask while the voices are getting closer, I can recognize Uber, but not the other one.
Was it one of the henchmen? No, it sounds like a girl, we don't hire women, there weren't many applications as such before the sex worker incident, and I'm sure that after we've beat the shit out of that one, the number just went down to -1.
So who the fuck was Uber talking with? Can't be Circus, Circus wasn't a girl, or was it? I knew that Circus went by they, but I forgot what was the word they went by. Fuck, I'm gonna look ridiculous if I ever ask them what the fuck was the word they used, something gender, but that was all I had at the tip of my mouth.
"Leet! We have a new proposition!" I heard Uber say as I finally put on my mask, a rather simple Domino mask that coupled with a Luigi hat to hide my hair.
"Which is?" I asked trying to focus on my tinkering, hoping that he wouldn't force me to deal with the new chick that he brought here.
"Leet, this is Bakuda, she's a Tinker like you, she wants to hire us." Hire us for what?
"What's the job?" I ask as I turned to look at this Bakuda, a woman, has goggles and a gas mask, I can see some kind of voice changer but apparently wasn't using it as of right now.
Didn't I hear about a Bakuda somewhere? I swear I did...
"I want to hire you guys to fight the Undersiders." She said as I raised an eyebrow at the woman, what? Why? I silently wondered if I should turn off the Snitch, it was still recording, but not live streaming it, I could always do that if I felt that the PRT should get here the quickest they can, but not yet.
Can we even fight the Undersiders? They work for Coil, and we also work for Coil, kinda, we're more like side jobs while they're the main crew.
"Have you talked with him yet?" I asked Uber, who shrugged.
"Haven't yet, do you think he will talk against it?"
"Do you really have to ask?" At least he had enough to act sheepish in tide with it.
"What the fuck the two of you are even talking about?" Bakuda asked as I turned to look at her, trying to find the correct words.
"They have backers, the kind that we don't want to mess with." Maybe that will make her go away.
But she doesn't, in actuality, it almost feels like the air around us got colder, but I don't see her using any tinker tech, and unless Uber was unaware, omitted, or lied to, she only had tinker powers.
Shit, I instantly pressed the button to live stream, I wouldn't be able to answer the chat as I usually do, but if she thinks she can come here and try to coerce me or Uber, she's dead wrong, and Uber isn't stupid to think-
"Well, we can just ask them." No, Uber, we can't, after that stunt they pulled on the bank, and that creepy bug chick, I'm in no way in hell going to fight them.
I heard on PHO that she sent bugs to bite them in the dick, I'm gonna stay far far away from someone who makes Bitch sounds amicable.
Besides, I don't really hate them, I just don't like them having the spotlight just because they're Coil's favorites and sent on missions that are just plain to say, more fun than what he orders us. Dunno what Uber actually think about them.
"And then we get a big fat no-no." We can't just put Coil's name out there because of the live stream, but then again, we can't just let this chick who probably isn't even from Brockton Bay order us around just because we're small time villains in comparison to every shitter in this town.
"Look, are you two helping me or not?!" Bakuda shouts, obviously tired of our conversation, not that I cared, but if she tried anything, the PRT would be getting here in a split second, sometimes it paid to have guys like Velocity in a city.
"I'm certainly against going to fight the Undersiders, for multiple reasons." I said, hoping that Uber would back me up, but he was indecisive, fuck, did he really think the two of us plus this weird chick could go against 9 capes? Hell, just Grue and Regent are enough to get me screwed, and if you think her dogs don't count as individual capes, you're fucking wrong..
"Well, but Bakuda is a bomb tinker, she definitely can help us beat the crap out of them." Uber said as I froze, and I think that so did she.
Bomb Tinker, I know I heard about this one somewhere on PHO… Oh, fuck, shit.
"YOU BROUGHT THE FUCKING CORNELL BOMBER TO MY WORKSHOP?!" I shouted as I brought one of my prototypes at the woman, who I have no doubt sported a sadistic smile if the rest of her facial expression was enough to tell such thing, the wrinkles on her face don't lie.
"And you're Korean, are you seriously not going to help Lung after all he had done?" I can't tell if this chick is delirious, but are you fucking kidding me that Uber actually told her that I was Asian?!
"What the fuck, Uber?" I asked him in confusion as he looked panicked, shaking his hands in front of his chest like a 'I am totally sorry I fucked it up'.
"She asked and I didn't think about it!" Now I'm screwed Uber, because as she brought the bombs, I tried to shoot it away with my weapon of choice.
The Portal Gun, the best getaway weapon in all of existence, always play with portals, because they're just the fucking coolest.
And for a moment, I had the upper hand, the portals were more than effective against the bombs, and Uber had effectively taken himself out of the battle by getting away, after all, he didn't have any guns with him, and he had always been someone who had to get close to do anything, at least due to the fact that he didn't have anything in hand to deal with her bullshit bombs.
But then she brought up a bomb, and when she threw, it fucking tracked, and well, I might have just done the most stupid shit I could the moment, which was to shoot it.
The explosion took immediate after the bomb was engulfed by the portal, and it changed.
Gone was 'Portal gun the help', now was 'HOLY FUCKING SHIT, WHAT DID I DO THIS TIME?!' suffice to say that I didn't know how my power decided to fuck with me.
But somehow, I knew it was the worst it could've happened, no. Worse than I could ever imagine, the portal kept itself, and my gun did not work anymore, and worse than everything, the portal tracked, pursuing the three of us.
Bakuda, cackling madly because the bitch had to be crazy, was the first to disappear, and that's when I noticed, the portal was not only getting faster, but bigger, by every moment that it kept going.
Uber tried to dodge it, suffice to say that losing his arm and barely having the time to react against the second 'attack', and my ass, who wanted to help Uber, barely had any time after Uber was consumed by the portal I myself got devoured by it.
The travel was… incredibly worrying, besides seeing a giant head in the vacuum of what I could only consider a reality between realities, staring directly at me like my father used to do when I fucked it up somehow, I found myself in a bed, getting up only gave me the pains.
"Wh-" Pain in my chest bubbled as I tried to find out what happened.
"Hey." I heard a guy, maybe my age, if not a couple of years younger, look at me, he had long orange hair, a chubby face, a bit shorter than myself too, like a fat teenager that would be bullied in a show now that I thought about it.
"Do you know how you got here?" He asked as I nodded.
"Portal malfunction." I curtly answered, trying my best to not wince as my chest kept heaving back and forth and the pain tried to come out, but I bit my lips, I didn't want to look weak in front of this guy, not after what happened with Bakuda.
My mask, I tried to reach for my mask, but I found nothing, was he ignorant or worse, did not care about the play rules?
"Oh, you're one of them then, pretty cool, you know? You guys are all the rage now." He said as I wish I could raise an eyebrow, but it honestly pained for me to do so.
"Yeah, you're all on the news 'new age of supers falling from the sky' and whatnot, apparently around… five to six hundred thousand Metahumans." He said as he turned on the news, showing a woman, Lois Lane according to the news, and well.
I couldn't help but well…
"Shit."
"Oh, shit indeed my man, at least I managed to catch you before the Justice League did." He said as he gave me a hand.
"I could feel that you were a gamer like myself, and therefore, I extended my arm to you, for my codename is Control Freak, and you're…" He left it for me to say.
I grabbed his hand and told the name I've been telling myself ever since I got my powers.
"Leet."
