Chapter 2

As a digital chaos sound appears in an abandoned warehouse a digital wormhole appears and out steps Ace and Danny. Ace sits Danny down on a nearby chair and the digital wormhole closes. "Okay, first off..." Danny bends over and pukes then gets back in the chair still mildly disoriented. "Second of all WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS THAT BACK THERE!?" "I honestly don't know what happened back there I just saw you were in trouble and then everything else is just a blurry haze." I replied back.

"So you're telling me the nanites were in control of your actions back at the lab?" Danny questioned. "I guess so. What happened?" I asked bewildered. "Okay, well first off you went berserk. NaniteAce just deleted one of Doctor Chen's guards out of ever existing and the other you sent to a place called the Codex-Core and a nanite centipede came out of you and she was gone aswell. First thing I want to do is get a sample of your blood." Danny spoke collectively.

"Whoa, Whoa back up, NaniteAce? Where'd that come from?" "It's your superhero name...." "SHIT! what day is it where's my phone?" Ace quickly searched frantically for his phone. "Here bro." Danny casually pulled Ace's phone out of his lab coat pocket and tossed it to him. "What's the matter anyway?" "I was supposed to pick Huang up from the airport at 5 am Sunday." "Oh don't worry about it I got her for you she's back at your place she was waiting for you to wake up. Honestly, she'd come see you everyday just hoping to see you awake." Danny reassured me. "She did?" I asked bewildered.

"Yes really, right now she's at work she said she'd go back to see you after work but when she finds out you're not there and she find out about your powers..." I quickly turned on my heels and to Danny and gripped his shoulders tightly and quickly responded: "She can't find out about my powers! Please promise me you won't tell her."

"Fine bro, I won't tell her but you know this might come back to nip you in the ass." "I'm aware, but at this stage in my life she can't know at least not yet." Danny looked at me and sighed. "Alright man, as long as you know what you're doing." That's when a ringing in my head began and I fell to the ground. "Attention we have a 13:44 in progress at Cedar Bank and Jewels we need all available units to warden off the area until SWAT arrives." "Hey Ace, you okay?" "I have to go there's a high risk robbery in progress." "Whoa, Whoa. One you can't go like that and Two how do you know that?"

"Argh, damn you right and I guess the nanites tuned me into the police scanners but I'd appreciate it if they would find a less painful method!" The nanites began to surround me and created a nanite suit with a tattered cape a digital version of the earth as the emblem on my chest, and a LED face mask with a voice modulator. Danny stood in shock with his phone still in hand as it snapped a picture of me. "Really Danny?" "What every superhero or vigilante has to start somewhere. Plus the best way to spread your name is with a website, a catchy catch phrase and a bad ass secret identity to boot."

"You're so unbelievable Danny." I said face palming myself. "True but you love me anyway." "No, I don't." I quickly made a digital wormhole and began to walk into it. "Don't start anything 'till I get back and please don't go overboard with all this stuff in this warehouse while I'm gone." "Yes dad." Danny said mockingly in a child like voice. I rolled my eyes and disappeared into the wormhole.

At the Cedar Bank and Jewels... "Everyone please stand back." Cop A had said to bystanders. "All squads report in!" the captain demanded. "This is Gamma squad. We are getting into position. "Delta squad awaiting orders." "Beta squad awaiting on the roof." "Alright, good await my orders until further notice." That's when digital chaos sounded and out I walked. All the cops and the bystanders turned to see me. "Whoa, whoa, who are you!? You are impeding on a police matter." Cops C and E quickly ran over to me and began to restrain me. I just stayed calm and turned to the Captain. "Captain, my name is MidNight-Silver, I am here to help you if you let me." "Why should I?" "You know that these criminals are actually way beyond your basic cop training they are known as HomoElites."

The captain bit on her thumb nail thinking and finally said to let me go. "But captain..." "Do as I say!" "Ye-Yes Captain." "Just give me five minutes and tell your men not to interfere." I disappeared. The captain got on the radio and gave the order:"All squads do not engage the enemy. We have a mutual acquaintance inside I repeat do not engage!"

As I landed on the roof of the bank I sent one of my nano spiders through the air ducts to give me a complete scan and layout of the bank and how many adversary's I'd have to face. Thirty seconds later the nano spider appeared and entered back into my skin. "I see so she's my target and the rest of the criminals are fodder. Wait! is that... It is Huang! Shit, call Danny!" (You wish for us to call Danny so we shall. As a reminder you have three minutes left.) (Thanks you guys.) Back at the abandoned warehouse...

Danny's phone began to ring and Danny quickly stopped what he was doing and ran over to phone and answered it. "This is Danny Jen how may I be voided to being helpful." "You're out of breathe were you fixing up the warehouse as a secret base?" Danny looked around at the work he had been doing and scoffed. "Pfft, no I was just sitting here bored." "Yeah, you're so feeling the void right now. Anyways I've got a problem Huang is at this crime scene and I can't risk being all flashy with her and the hostages around and it's too dangerous." "Alright calm down, just upload the bank's inferred, and motions sensors to my laptop from a satellite by Shade Inc. I'll quarterback you from here." "Got it." (Two minutes.)

Back at Cedar Bank and Jewels... (Go through the air ducts travel northwest. There you'll see two guards guarding the hostages three floors up are five high caliber military grade snipers and just two floors down are six assault rifles. Choose which targets to pick out carefully.) As I followed Danny's instructions I looked down the vent and dropped one of my nanites then moved up further and onto a stone eagle. I scanned the area and picked out my first two targets I leapt from one stone eagle to the next.

I perched myself just over my first prey I hung down over him and grabbed him by his head and quickly covered his mouth and slightly gripped his neck and watched my surroundings as he flailed and eventually went limp I quickly turned and shot codex cube over at the other guard coming up the stairs and he was absorbed into the cube. "Two down nine more to go." I whispered to myself. Forty five seconds later... (Less than one minute remains)

I pounced onto one of the hostage guards and the other was quickly electrified by my nanite centipede. I got to the hostages and began to free them. (You have 30 seconds.) I quickly made a codex cube and made it big as it opened up I told them: "Everyone get inside I'm going to transport you out to the cops besides this could be dangerous." "They all thanked me and Huang stopped and asked who I was. I stared at her then replied: "I may be the Midnight-Silver but you my dear. You are the ultimate codex." I pushed her into the cube and as it closed I made a digital wormhole.

"That was actually kind of smooth dawg." (We must concur it was indeed kind of smooth.) "If only it was that easy in person." I say to myself as i went over to the bank vault. Two of the guards trained their guns on me as I walked up to them but as I edged closer I picked up speed and the nanites formed a shield around me as I manifested a digital codex collapsible four sectioned staff.

(10 seconds) I sent the last guard flying into the vault and a woman with long beautiful curly black hair, red eyes, a scar that ran from her upper lip to her earlobe. She was wearing a form fitting white and azure blue one piece latex suit she turned to me and her scowl turned to a smile as she walked over to me I couldn't move I was stunned by her beauty. "You're not Crystallis.So who are you? A new superhero in town?"

(That accent she is of south indian decent. We must leave this building if we wish not to risk further damage to the bank and you only have 5 seconds left. Your job will be complete if you call in the cops now to capture the others.) (But I can't leave her running out in the city and we've gotten this far.) (Very well, if you can get her to leave with you before the cops arrive in three seconds)

"Look, we have less than 3 seconds before the cops burst through that door and they will shoot and ask questions later. So you have a choice either drop the duffle bag filled with money and we can dance away from the citizens and cause even less damage than what's been done to the bank. Or I take you in right here right now." "Or how about this handsome you let me go and the next time I create a crime I'll let you know first hand besides the dance isn't over till you make me a belly dancer. That's only if you can though. Catch me if you can Snow Leopard. She leaned in and stroked my beard. "Until next time Vigilante."

She disappeared in a flash. I looked further into the vault and saw that the guards were just waterless husks. "By the gods!?" I whisper shouted covering my mouth trying not to puke. (You must leave Ace your window has expired.) (You're right.) I quickly activated a wormhole and disappeared into it just as the cops ran into the vault. I arrived back at the warehouse as I came out Danny yelled in surprise and fell out the swivel chair he was in and onto the floor.