Vigilante work

December 28, 2020

"Alright Team I got a lead." I announced to everyone in the room, "Whats the plan today boss?" Atom asked me as he played checkers with Lily, "I found out that a couple of Apex Members rented out a bar in the Riverside District for some sort of meeting." I told everyone, "We can probably catch Grin Scurvy!" Lily excitedly yelled out, "I don't know about that, it seems too stupid for Grin to be in a easily spottable spot." I counter-claimed Lily's statement, "Darn." She said in frustration, "Don't worry we can probably get some sort of clue on what Grin Scurvy is doing in there." I reassured Lily, "So what are we doing sitting here?" Atom asked, "Let get out there and get some clues like usual." He continued on sounding really excited for our search, "I like his enthusiasm why can't you ever be like that Oliver?" Lily asked, "Shut up." I stated to Lily after see made that stupid joke, "Come on, lets hurry and get over to that bar before they leave." I said as I began to walk out of Lily's house.

"Huh so this is the place?" Lily questioned, "Big Bad Wolf Bar... huh, now with a kids menu." Atom said reading from the signs, "Looks like all the windows are covered so we can't see what they're doing right now so I say we take a stealthy approach... and by We I mean Lily and Atom." I told the two, "What exactly do you have planned?" Atom asked, "Simple, Atom will fly to the roof and I'll get Requiem to launch Lily onto the roof, you two will go into the air ducts and crawl through there, make sure to listen to everything they're saying." I told Atom and Lily my plan, "And what about you?" Lily asked, "Well I'll stay outside incase anything happens." I explained to the team, "Fair enough, lets get to starting the plan then." Lily said, "Alright, Requiem launch Lily onto the roof... and please be careful." I ordered at Requiem, "Yes sir." Requiem said as he began to grab Lily, "Ready... and launch!" Requiem said as he threw Lily onto the roof of the bar, "Everything's ok up here Oliver." Lily said assuring that everything was going to plan, "Nice work, now get in and start eavesdropping." I ordered at Lily, "I'll be here incase anything bad happens." I said making sure Lily and Atom understood.

-Lily's POV-

"Alright Atom, lets get into that air duct." I said as I began to bust down the air duct grate, "Alright time to go in." I said as I got into the duct head first, Atom would follow suit too, the two of us began climbing through the vents, "Shhh I hear something." I said to Atom, "I didn't even say anything." He responded back, I began to hear a conversation with some laughter but it was hard to hear because of the fact we weren't close enough to the conversation so the two of us began to get closer to the them as possible, now we could hear what they were saying, "I can't believe the boss really wants to hold a observation tower hostage." A mono-toned thug said, "Well they don't call him the murderous Grin Scurvy for nothing I guess." A serious sounding thug responded, "but isn't this a bit too far, I mean I get what he wants to do but people dying every few minutes until some dumb vigilantes show up is a honestly crossing a line somewhere." The monotone thug responded back, "Yeah I have stuff to do on new years, not all of us are committed to gang-life, some of us have families to care for on New Years." A cheerful thug said, "Listen I don't make the plan I just follow what the boss says and he says we take over Rochester tower, I don't know what'd he do to us if we heard what we were saying right now." The Serious sounding thug said, "So they're gonna try and takeover the Rochester Tower on New Years Eve, oh no." I said to myself, "We gotta stop Grin before anything like that happens" Atom responded "You're 100% right about that, now lets go relay this information back to Oliver now." I said to Atom as we turned around, "Hey do you hear a creaking noise?" I asked Atom and suddenly the Vent I was in collapsed onto the floor the Apex thugs were at, "Ow, everything hurts." I said trying to deal with the pain, "Oh please my Overlord tell me nobody heard that." Atom prayed, "Uh too late to be praying now buddy." I said to Atom as I opened my eyes to see all the Apex Members having their guns pointed at me and Atom, "uh oh." Atom said.

-Oliver's POV-

"And thats why I never liked sweet potatoes." I said talking to Requiem just to pass the time, suddenly Atom began to talk to me in my subconscious, "Oliver?" Atom asked, "Yeah what's up?" I responded to him, "We got good news and bad news." Atom told me, "Whats the good news?" I asked, "Well the good news is that we figured out what Grin Scurvy is planning." Atom said, "and the bad news?" I continued to ask, "don't freak out but the air duct we were eavesdropping collapsed and crashed onto the Apex member's meeting and now we're tied up on the second floor, I don't know if they're mad that were broke their drinks or that we just we just found out what they're planning." Atom explained everything that happened, "How's Lily?" I asked, "That's sort of weird to ask but she's doing fine she only has a couple of scratches and her knee is bleeding a bit, I'm just saying but there's not a lot of time before they stop shooting at me and start shooting at Lily." Atom said to me, "Don't worry I'll save y'all." I said as I began walking to the entrance of the kitchen of the bar, "Please hurry." Atom said.

I entered the Kitchen through the backdoor, the kitchen was empty so I grabbed some kitchen knives to use as a weapon, "Here Requiem, use these to throw at people." I said to Requiem as I handed him the knives, "I understand sir." Requiem said as he took the knives from me, I loaded my pistol and began to make my way to the second floor, I scanned the first floor to see nobody there, I'm guessing that they're all on the second floor so I began to make my way upstairs and could clearly see 3 guards standing by the main bar area, "Alright Requiem, this is the part where you throw the knives at those three guards, make sure its a fatal hit too." I ordered at Requiem, "Yes sir." He said as he went up and threw the knives at the guards, "Ouch, that's gotta hurt man." I said as I made my way up, Requiem grabbed the the knives and I checked the main bar area, 3 thugs were near Atom and Lily, "that ghost thing is really freaking me out man." The cheerful thug said to his friends, "Hey you're just as ugly dude." Atom angrily responded to him, I signaled at Requiem to throw his knives at the other two thugs while I hold the cheerful thug at gun point, and thus the Knives were tossed, the cheerful thug was confused at what was happening and suddenly he saw me pointing a gun to his head, "Tell me everything you know about the Rochester Tower plan." I ordered at the thug, "Honestly that apex gang is weird and I was about to leave." The cheerful thug said, "The plan. Now." I said to the thug, "Grin Scurvy and a bunch of his goons are gonna hold the tower hostage, he's using it to lure you, the girl and the ghost to him and he'll properly take y'all out there, he's hoping to win there." He said everything he knew, "Thank you." I said before pistol-whipping him to an unconscious state, "Thank god you saved us Oliver." Lily joyfully said, "Not the first time this happened, luckily I got y'all out before anything bad happened." I said to Lily as I untied both Lily and Atom, "Here let me wrap your knee with some bandages." I said while wrapping her wounded knee in bandages, "Oh thanks." Lily said as she watched, "Alright lets get going now, we have all the information we need for the day." I said as I gave Lily a hand at getting up, "We're gonna work out a plan to stop Grin and his Tower hostage situation." I said as the three of us walked out of the bar.