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“God. You’re actually going to try combining two different skills to make one?”
The soul that lingers near Cassian questions casually, the same bored eye look. Yet, accompanied with that tone was a touch of sarcasm and disbelief. Combining two skills was already one thing- but combining three?
Cassian just shot a glare to Moros, who innocently looked away. The villain then sighed heavily before returning back to his concerns for the skills.
“Moros, did you forget that I don’t have any lethal skills? I don’t have a move that can try and one shot my enemy. It’s vital that I have one in case things go bad.” He was about to rub his forehead before staring at the gauntlet on his hand with claws. How inconvenient.
Cassian often forgot that he couldn’t really just take the damn things off. They were practically part of him as a villain.
“Well I don’t know if trying to combine two different skills not of the same type is going to work,” Moros floated over where it showed Cassian’s character window. “Darkness and darkness is possible, but darkness and flare?”
“Well it’s not like it’s going to kill me anyway,” Cassian said as he swatted away the consequences; for now. “Besides, it’ll come in handy before I train more to obtain the hidden skills to become S-rank.”
Moros didn’t say anything else, but Cassian suspected an aura of exasperation and confusion.
Well, he doesn’t have to believe me anyways. I know these two moves could combine if I put my mind to it.
Shadow Bind! Shadow Flare!
Binds of darkness arose with one swift movement of the villain’s hand, the other raising dark flames. He clasped his hands together and then put one hand out to the target dummy.
“Shadow Hell Cell!”
However, the flames didn’t combine in a way Cassian thought they would with the ropes. He stared in disbelief as the dark binds went first and wrapped the target, before the flames attacked and wrapped themselves around the dummy.
. . .
“So much for combining skills,” Moros commented sarcastically.
And for the kids naming abilities.
“Shut up,” Cassian growled as he went to his character window again. “I might’ve did something wrong in the order of the type of…”
The soul tuned out anything the villains said, looking around as though wanting another distraction other than this moody teen.
Well to be fair Cassian was 18 but still.
“Moros. Since you’re old-“
“I’m not that old.”
“…Since you’ve tagged around to see a lot of Psykers, Villains, and Outers, have any of them combined two different skills?”
“Kid, you must be out of your mind. Don’t you remember that only practically two people existed with a dual type? The Era of the Myth guy and you.” Moros stated the obvious.
Cassian shook his head, as though Moros was the stupid one here. He put one clawed hand on his hip that created a dramatic effect. “That’s partially what I mean but not quite. Have two different users tried to combine their skills to make a powerful lethal move, despite not being the same type?”
Moros had to process that for a minute, before looking up at the sky. “Wow, it’s nice weather, isn’t it? Maybe you should go hang out with your friends-“
“I don’t have friends,” Cassian stated. He gave a sort of sarcastic and are-you-playing-dumb look to Moros.
“What about Uchan?”
“He gives me death stares because he thinks his sister likes me.”
Moros just casually floated around Cassian as though needing another excuse.
Cassian knew the mighty soul must be hiding something. As usual. Like the time he thought there was one platinum disk but there ended up being four… with the help of Driver hacking for the information.
“In any case, the weather’s nice kid. Stop worrying about Winterbell and Four Masters of Evil for at least a day. It’s not gonna be healthy for you if you don’t at least take a break.”
“Who are you, Jeff?” Cassian muttered under his breath sarcastically as he tried to combine the two skills again. Yet, the failure continued.
Moros rolled its eye. The villain thought if Moros had something other than the singular eye it would’ve shrugged its shoulders. He sighed.
“Alright alright. I guess those Four Masters of Evil or whatever aren’t going to exactly be attacking on a Saturday anyways,” Cassian grumbled as he clicks the X button on his attributes window.
He sighed and ended up shadow-way-ing his way out of the abandoned building and into the main area of the vilzone. When Cassian had arrived earlier it was bare, only Crush and Double Blade greeting him.
“Where’s Shadow Ghost and Black Hand?” Cassian questioned.
Crush had a straight face but it looked like he was going to cry in a dramatic manner. “Black Hand was uh…”
“Going on about how he could beat you in a fight with the training you gave us.” Double Blade said without any hesitation though a hint of fear lingered in his tone. “Shadow Ghost pulled him somewhere and we don’t know if he got obliterated.” He shuddered.
Cassian sighed in exasperation. Shadow Ghost, that damn kid…
He didn’t expect his ‘servant’ to bite someone else’s ass and be loyal to him like a dog. Well, if anything good comes out of it, Black Hand could learn a lesson or two.
“He won’t get that much of his ass kicked if he’s learned anything these past few days,” Cassian quipped before leaving to go to Driver’s part of the vilzone. Maybe he’d get some more information today before deciding what to do, other than that stupid pile of assignments from school he had-
Splash.
Water dripped onto Cassian’s hair, making his spiky hair stick to his face. The cold liquid then went down and trickled down his neck and face too, leaving the villain dumbfounded…
“Hey Cassian!”
Moros started to comment. “Isn’t that-?”
“Quiet.” Cassian said through gritted teeth.
Soft whirring sounds were coming closer and the noise finally came to an abrupt stop as Driver hopped down from it. He had his signature smirk (grin, whatever you call it) on his face.
Behind him, were Crow and Red Eye, who just walked out of the building.
Fuck my life, Cassian thought for a brief moment as he heard Crow giggle and Red Eye softly gasp.
“Oh~? The dark duckling is in his natural habitat I see!” Crow said brightly.
“Dark wha-“ Cassian started.
“Anyways!” Driver interrupted, and another spurt of water shot onto Cassian’s face. He merely glared at Driver, trying to keep his composure. “We were trying to find you. Where were you, boss?”
“Somewhere where you guys couldn’t do whatever the fuck this is,” Cassian pointed at his soaking wet head.
Driver shrugged at this and seemed to be about to pull out a contraption but Cassian just held one hand out. “Just… don’t bother.”
“If you say so,” Driver said as he stretched. “Mm, so what’s the big hurry here?”
“No one’s in a hurry,” Cassian said.
“But you were awfully going close to Driver’s part of the vilzone,” Red Eye pointed out.
Great. Just what he needed. More eyes on him. Excluding Moros, full pun intended.
Well what was he going to say? Oh sorry guys I forgot to tell you I have this thousand year old spirit using 1% of its power so it looks like this stupid eye that’s following me everywhere and it’s hiding something from me so it tries to distract me that today’s a nice day so I went over to Driver’s place?
It sounded insane just thinking of it, gosh.
“It’s none of your business. That’s between me and Driver.”
“Hiding secrets, are we Driver?” Crow made a sort of coo but it was fairly obvious she and the others didn’t like this.
Driver shrugged nonchalantly. “It’s just talk between a boss an ex-boss.” He then carefully changed his tone, it was barely noticeable. “Anyways, who wants to take a break right now?”
Cassian narrowed his eyes suspiciously. “Why would you want a break?”
All he received was that same smirk. “Impatient, aren’t we boss?”
If he hadn’t had former experience with blocking out his emotions, Cassian would’ve definitely had to hide his face with the blush about to appear on his face. He hated being caught off guard.
“Well I’ve put everyone to training so we could go on and defeat the people that are in our way,” Cassian crossed his arms. “So why all of a sudden you want a break?”
Splash.
…
Apparently the soul had returned, because Cassian could hear that damned thing trying to hold back a laugh.
Driver had a whole ass water hose with him. What the fu- how did he not notice!?
“How, how did you get a water hose!?”
Cassian coughed out the water spurt that had been almost forced down his throat. God, if there was one thing he should’ve known from the beginning it was to never trust Driver with any object. First it was that giant screwdriver, second it was that story about that rocket, now it’s a regular water hose!?
“Well, it’s simple. Crow lended me one of these beauties and let me play with it.” Driver slightly nuzzled against the water hose. Cassian cringed internally. “Isn’t it amazing? Kinda reminds me of you, Cassian. I named it Hoe.”
…Okay who put sugar in Driver’s energy drinks?
More stifled giggles and chuckles. Well, to be fair, they’d been fearing Cassian for quite a while who looks like the devil when he’s serious, but now he’s absolutely soaked to the skin by their former ex-boss. When you put it like that it’s fucking hilarious.
But not to Cassian.
“…”
“Ooh!” Crow exclaimed, putting one hand on her staff. “He doesn’t seem too happy.”
Crush and Double Blade (who were behind Cassian) gulped in fear as Cassian looked down at the ground.
Good-bye life, Crush prayed in his head. It was nice having the chance to be a villain.
If boss gets out of control I hope at least Driver can stop him, Double Blade took a step away, shrinking.
Meanwhile Red Eye just had a straight face, trying to look indifferent to the situation.
Driver continued shooting water at Cassian with the water hose, grinning like he was a child that just got to shake hands with a Psyker.
“That’s…”
Splash, splash, splash.
“…payback for breaking my screwdriver the first time we met.”
Soon, Cassian was completely soaked to the skin. His hair had completely gone to the original Gangu’s hairstyle, his villain clothes clinging onto his skin.
Which for all means wasn’t too bad.
If this wasn’t humiliating him in front of everyone.
Driver stopped the hose after a while and looked a bit concerned. He went forward and poked Cassian’s shoulder.
“Kid, are you alright?”
He looked down and leaned closer to get a better look at Cassian’s expression, before dodging a Shadow Slice-r and leaping up. Driver then grinned.
“Driver… I’m going to kill you!”
“Oh dear,” Red Eye murmured. “Boss isn’t happy.”
And so, started a chase scene with Driver summoning his screwdriver and flying away with the hose before Cassian grabbed onto it like a rope and started hoisting himself up. Driver tried to move it so Cassian would drop but to no avail, the vilzone boss got up and started hitting Driver on the head, continuously yelling;
“YOU BASTARD!”
“CASSIAN LET GO!” Driver yelled as he felt another hit on his head.
“NOT UNTIL YOU LEARN YOUR LESSON YOU LITTLE SHIT!” Cassian was screaming bloody murder as he continued to bonk the vilzone’s ex-boss.
“I didn’t know boss could make Driver fear for his life,” Double Blade commented with a hint of fear.
“…Driver I’ll go save you!”
“Huh!?” Crush, Double Blade, and Red Eye watched as Crow leaped up the buildings and tried to grab ahold of the water hose. Wait, how did that even extend all the way to the sky again?
Nevermind. Crow was practically a master of climbing as she got up and tried to prevent Cassian from beating the living shit out of Driver, who was trying to steer the screwdriver back to the main area of the vilzone.
“DARK DUCKLING I COMMAND YOU TO STOP!”
“CASSIAN C’MON IT WASN’T THAT BAD!”
“I’M CUTTING YOUR WATER HOSE IN HALF THEN!”
“NO! NOT MY HOE!”