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"Yo boss!" Vernon said as he walked towards his boss who was currently on the couch watching a random tv show that somehow entertained his boss.
"Vernon-ah. Hello to you too, anyways whats the matter?" Seungcheol responded, he turned his head around to look at Vernon.
"Well the police called us and said that they needed some extra backup. It seems there's a robbery going on in one of the banks nearby." Vernon sat on the opposite chair to Seungcheol.
"Oh shit, did you guys handle it?" Seungcheol said, worried. He decides to sit up, curious about the said robbery.
"Yeah about that, it seems most of our members are busy? I've contacted Hoshi, Dk and Mingyu but they all seemed busy for some reason and Seungkwan and Jun can't handle the job since Jun is currently taking care of Seungkwan due to his injury." Vernon says, frustrated he lays down into the chair under him.
"Okay fine, I can handle it." Seungcheol said standing up. "While I'm gone, take care of the base and make sure our security is up." Seungcheol continued on and ordered.
"Yes boss, stay safe." Vernon said standing up, and soon enough Vernon started walking to head towards the security room to do what Seungcheol said.
Seungcheol then proceeds to exit the big living room and decides to proceed upstairs. He walks through the hall with all of the bedrooms then unlocks the door to his own bedroom with his keycard and opens the door. He proceeds to his closet, grabs whatever clothing that could fit and heads to the bathroom. He changes his clothes to a black long sleeved shirt, black pants that he tucked his shirt in. Seungcheol walks out of the bathroom to get a pair of black combat boots to put on. Then he grabs a random hair tie that he used to tie the upper part of his hair.
After finishing up he grabs some gloves, a mask, sunglasses and a baseball cap so he could cover his face. He wears them and proceeds to walk out of his room to head downstairs. He walks through the base and reaches the exit door. Seungcheol then puts his keycard on the bowl where they would usually leave the keys, alongside that he grabs his car keys.
He exits the base and walks through a hallway filled with apartment doors that probably had people sleeping or enjoying the day they were having. You might ask where this base is, well it wasn't really a secret base. Technically it is since no one knows that literal superheroes were living in the building. Despite their neighbours being the nicest people in the world, Seungcheol would swear on his life to not tell them his type of work. Well mostly they don't get paid but saving people was already enough. He also has another so he says that to cover it up.
It still surprises Seungcheol that no one has discovered their base yet. How did no one know? Maybe it was hacking the systems like the cctvs or anything that could be connected directly back to them? Is it the fact they are living in one of the biggest apartment buildings in Seoul which is harder to investigate due to the abundance of people living there? Or was it the fact that pretty much this is a world of powers and magic, to the point everyone could be identified as a superhero.
Well everyone except Seungcheol and his team for some reason wasn't apart of it. Despite being the heroes they are, no one knows their real names since all of them use nicknames. There is no real reason why they hide their real names. Usually they go off the fact they want to protect their own privacy, the fact they didn't want to be tracked. The way they become renowned Superheroes? They started off simple, helping out people who got their stuff stolen and helping people from dangerous situations. But they didn't expect to take on the people that actually committed crime.
But now here they are saving people like their life depended on it. Seungcheol alongside his team are now quite popular for their talent and kindness. For the years they have been renowned heroes they have handled many bank robberies, mass shootings, assassination attacks and many more. So for Seungcheol this was just another simple day for him. Until he actually got to the sight at least.
Seungcheol parked his car in a parking lot that was far away from the bank where the robbery was taking place. He gets out of the car and locks it, tucking away the keys in his pocket. He runs towards the direction of the bank and soon enough he sees the commotion. Screaming, fire, gunshots and the sounds of the alarms and police sirens.
He goes to the nearest policeman and asks. "Need any help?" Seungcheol asked one of the police guards who was on guard behind a police car.
"No it’s fine, they said extra backup will be coming to ensure our safety soon enough. We don't want any citizens harmed." The policeman said.
"Well I'm sure the extra backup is already here, Anyways I can handle it." Seungcheol said standing, running towards the bank.
"Hey! Come back!" The policeman shouted. But Seungcheol didn't hear it; he just kept running and dodging any bullet coming from any criminals or police that tried to shoot him. He does have the power to withstand any bullet due to his powers and strength though but he doesn't wanna leave with severe damages. He runs through the banks doors and witnesses the scene in-front of him. He sees hostages, the bank employees with a few citizens on the ground tied up while being guarded by….other policemen?
“Hey! Shouldn’t you guys be saving them or something?” Seungcheol shouted as he walks towards the policemen. But suddenly they turn towards him, gun in hand ready to shoot. Their faces had no hint of emotion, not even a single word was said from them. But Seungcheol still felt a bit of aggressiveness to them. “Aggressive much.” Seungcheol said while he raised his hands up. Without warning one of them shoot, the gunshot is extra loud due to the echoes of the empty bank, after a few moments it leaves a ringing in the ears. But fortunately for Seungcheol he was able to duck his head to avoid the bullet.
“You guys are not doing your job right!” Seungcheol said and he rushed towards them. He punches one of the policemen, sending one to the floor. While the other tries to shoot him in the back but before he gets the chance Seungcheol grabs his arm and plunges him to the ground. Seungcheol then makes sure that the two policemen were both unconscious but alive before heading towards the hostages. In the process he removed his mask since it was getting hot in there.
“Are you okay?” Seungcheol asked one of the hostages as he removes the tied rope on their arms. But after he removes the rope of one of the citizens they tackled him. “What's with you people!” Seungcheol said as he tries to wrestle his way out of the woman’s grip. She looked like she had no mercy in her eyes, just full of malice and murder. The woman was insistent on hurting Seungcheol even trying to grab her heel to poke his eye out but before the woman did anything damaging to Seungcheol he grabbed the woman by the arms stopping from her from grabbing anything.
He then proceeds to get the discarded rope and ties the lady up before the lady could kick him. “What the hell happened?” Seungcheol said, bewildered and confused. He looked at the woman's eyes and when he looked, it was not filled with malice anymore. They just looked empty. Like all of the emotion just left her face, like a puppet. He then proceeds to look at the other hostages who were all tied up. Instead of seeing scared and terrified faces he sees people who seemed to be in their own world. They were all quiet, unresponsive, emotionless, they all looked zoned out. The only sense of movement they had was that every few seconds they would blink. They just sat on the cold floor hands tied at the back. Seungcheol wanted to investigate further but it seemed that had to finish since he heard some doors open behind him.
“Someones here!” Someone shouted. Seungcheol looks back and sees people in black ski masks. Immediately Seungcheol abandons the idea of investigating the citizens and looks at the robbers ready to fight. “Boss! Warning! I think he already arrived.” One of the robbers said something that looked like an earpiece. Before anything major happened Seungcheol ran towards the robbers and started to fight. Some had guns but Seungcheol was able to take them down easily by destroying their guns first then punching them unconscious, handling it with ease.
The others who had sharp weapons but he didn’t mind getting a few scratches from. He wrestled them and was able to put them onto the ground. With all of them unconscious he grabs his phone (That for some reason survived all of this) to call the police saying that the damage was done on the inside. But sadly enough it wasn’t the end actually. As he feels a sense of danger and dread in him, leaving his skin with goosebumps.
He hears the bank alarm ring louder and from across from him he sees a door opening. A door that was supposed to be the way into the back of the bank but instead he sees more criminals and robbers. Seungcheol expected this to be a big heist but instead of man carrying guns and weapons Seungcheol sees something else or should I say someone else.
Seungcheol watches the door open and sees a very handsome yet beautiful man. He had beautiful black hair that simply reached the back of his neck with the front being tucked to the sides of his head, he also had facial features that looked like an angels with a soft yet sharpening look to him. He was wearing a white long sleeved polo that was tucked into his pants that had a belt and on top of all that he was wearing a long black coat with some black boots, he looked like an angel that just came out of a fashion show and was looking spectacular.
But when this man approached him with men behind him he didn’t seem like an angel at all. “I expected you to be here, Seungcheol right? One of the biggest heroes in town I heard.” The man in front of him said with a smile that looked too innocent for the situation he was currently in. But this didn't shock Seungcheol the part that shocked him was the fact that this man right here knew his real name. No one knew of Seungcheol's real name, he usually went by S.Coups to everyone except for his team and outside of this job. Hearing his real name from this man when no one was able to figure it out ever since he started to become a hero was shocking to him. Seungcheol made sure to remove anything about him and his team from the media, especially personal information but this man standing in front of him right here was able to get his real name and maybe other crucial stuff as well. Realising Seungcheol knew this guy was bigger than a threat.
“Shocked you? Haha, I bet you didn’t expect that, Mr. Superhero.” The man teased him. Seungcheol wont get this man into his head and to not get riled up so he decided on the only solution he knows. Seungcheol tried to punch the man but before he was even able to hit his face, the other man dodged and was able to hit him on the face with a combat knife. This made Seungcheol back off and grunt in pain. This guy was stronger and more agile than he thought he would be.
“Thought you were slick?” The other man said as he watched Seungcheol touch his face that had blood spilling from his cheek, he also tucks the combat knife into his belt.
“You know that won’t stop me right?” Seungcheol said as he stared into the other man's eyes. As he looked at his brown eyes he noticed that his eyes were shining with a little glint of pink. For a second he felt light and dizzy, but he knew he still needed to fight. Immediately, he snapped back to reality. Can’t get distracted this time.
The other man laughs, “Hah, stubborn one here I say.” He said, smiling as he stared at Seungcheol eye’s. This time with more determination than ever.
“What?” Seungcheol said, confused. After he saw the other man look down, hand on his mouth. He seemed to be laughing, after he looked up.
This will not turn out well.
“Well if that won't stop you I hope this does.” He raised his arm up. “Guards! Send him down.” Pointing his hand towards Seungcheol, his eyes widened showing no mercy at all. He also had an expression that looked quite unnerving.
As the man commanded the said ‘guards’ started to head towards Seungcheol with weapons in their hands while others just had their bare hands to fight with. But the guards weren’t the only ones heading towards him, the people who were tied up earlier were now released and now running towards him too. “Before you die” The man said and when Seungcheol looked at him he had a smile on his face. “The names Jeonghan! Hope to see you in hell after this.” Jeonghan said as he walked away from him and the big hoard of people running towards him.
He’s screwed, He’s dead.
Seungcheol was definitely screwed. He had no one to help him! And the other policemen were still outside defeating and arresting the last remaining criminals. With no other choice he decided to run-
Wait, did you actually think Seungcheol would run? Well It’s Seungcheol for gods sake. So he decided to fight with all of his might, all of his strength and hope so he’ll be able to take over the hoard of people in front of him without actually killing them.
While he ran towards the abundance of people in front of him preparing for the fight of the century, someone grabbed his hand and ran. The sudden force took Seungcheol aback to the point he almost slipped and fell. He looked to the person that grabbed him and that person was-
Mingyu.?
“What the fuck hyung! You really thought you were able to fight those people?!” Mingyu said, dragging Seungcheol out of the bank pulling him towards the outside. Looking at Mingyu he had an expression of annoyance, he definitely thought about how dumb his boss can be sometimes.
As Seungcheol reached the outside of the bank he observed that there were more policemen than there were before, it seemed they already took care of it here. It was definitely a lot calmer compared to the inside of the bank.
“Yah! You know that I would do just fine!” Seungcheol said as he removed his arm from Mingyu’s grip.
“Well If I’ll be honest you wouldn’t be fine, you would be dead!” Mingyu said to him as he placed his hand on his head, face palming. Why is his boss like this, “You're lucky that I was able to follow after you when Vernon reported to me that you were currently at the bank taking care of a robbery.” Mingyu said as he removed his hand from his face and proceeded to cross his arms.
“Hey! At least I was able to town down a few of the damages.”
“Look at your face! Yeah, you definitely wouldn’t be able to withstand those people.” Mingyu argued as he pointed his hand towards Seungcheol’s face.
“Hey! It wasn’t them that did it, it was someone else! And hey! Who said that you were allowed to point at your elders like that.” Seungcheol retorted. Moving Mingyu’s hand from his face.
“Okay, okay! But now we have those people to take care of!” Mingyu said as he pointed at the locked door of the bank with many people trying to break out.
Seungcheol looked at the door, it was seemingly locked but the abundance of people could shatter that door at any moment. He sighed, “Well at least they're not dead right.?” Seungcheol said.
“How did you even get into this much danger hyu-”
The door breaks and the people behind it start running towards them like a hoard of zombies. “Shit! Everyone prepare yourselves!” Seungcheol shouted. “Mingyu! Use your power or something! Maybe you could set up a cage around them!” Seungcheol tried to defend them off. He knocked back any potential enemies to keep them off of him, he tried to hit them as softly as he could to not injure them.
“Okay boss!” Mingyu does as command and pushes the people backwards with a force to summon a barrier between them and the hoards of people that were bunched together that were trying to get to Seungcheol.
Seungcheol tried to settle his breath, bending over, closing his eyes and inhaling and exhaling. It was definitely one of the most scariest things he has experienced. He stood up straight to look at Mingyu.
Mingyu was fully setting up the barrier before he asked Seungcheol. "Okay what do we do with these people now?” Mingyu said as he stared at the hoard of people punching at the barrier he made.
Seungcheol smiles, not from joy but from relief. “Glad you still had that power stored in yah. Anyways, leave that barrier up.” Seungcheol patted Mingyu’s shoulder then he walked towards the police behind them. They looked scared as hell if you ask him. He couldn’t really blame him though. The situation earlier was similar to an apocalyptic scene in movies.
Seungcheol approached the hoard of police officers, “We did our job here, do any of you have any powers that could put these people to sleep? It seems like they're under some power.” Seungcheol said as he waved his hands at the other police officers and some of the firemen too. All of them just looked confused, none of them walked up except for one person.
"Uhm, I have a similar kind of power." One of the police officers said.
“Great! Thank you, Can you do that for us? Mingyu, is the barrier still up?” Seungcheol asked as he walked towards Mingyu.
“Mhm still here.” Mingyu said.
“Okay you can do your job Ms. Police Officer. Thank you for offering.” Seungcheol smiled and bowed at the police officer.
Police officer nodded, “Uhm I kind of have to get access to them so maybe you can make a small hole in the barrier so I could do it?” The police officer said,
“Sure!” Mingyu said smiling. So he did, Mingyu put his hands out and made a circling motion creating a little hole open in the barrier.
“You may have to cover your nose for a bit.” The police officer said, after she did her job. It was simple actually, she just grabbed a spray bottle from her belt and sprayed it into the barrier.
Soon enough one by one the people in the barrier were falling asleep. “Is it okay now.?” Seunghceol asked as he pinched his nose.
“Yep, anyways good job guys. You can put the barrier down now by the way. Me and my team could handle this part.” The police women thanked them. "If you guys have anything to report to us please go to the nearest police station, we have seen an increase in criminal activities in the area so if you see anything criminal activity please head or call us." The police officer continued.
“Thank you for your services, we will be going now. Contact us if you guys need extra help too." Seungcheol said smiling, this time he grabbed Mingyu by the arm.
“Ow! That hurts!” Mingyu said as he tried to remove his arm from Seungcheol’s grip
“Oh shut up you big baby.” Seungcheol said as he released Mingyu’s arm and proceeded to walk towards the area where he parked.
“Haha, anyways, good work boss.” Mingyu said as he walked beside Seungcheol. They walk towards the car with slow strides, not in a hurry. “Also earlier you mentioned someone else damaged your face? Not the hoard of people?” Mingyu asks as he walks towards the door of the passenger’s seat.
“That's a story I will be telling at the base. Now we need to get home- wait where are my keys?!” Seungcheol panicked.
“Oh boss…There right here! I picked them up when you were practically scrambling around at the robbery now here.” Mingyu said as he threw the keys to Seungcheol.
“You're useful after all, just kidding anyways let's go. Good work Mingyu." Seungcheol said as he unlocked the car and entered it.
“Mhm good work boss.” Mingyu says and sits in the driver's seat. After that they head off to the base.