After All This Time

Chapter Three

FLASHBACK

17 Years Ago

"In five, four, three, two... This is Jim Hellerman, reporting live for Channel 2 News outside of the Capital West bank at Main and Sixth. A group of heavily armed men stormed the bank not three hours ago and took an unknown number of hostages..."

About 15 minutes ago, the Academy arrived in our uniforms and domino masks and cultivated a plan on how we were gonna save every one of these people, and defeat the robbers. Only problem was that this was our very first mission, and the cameras had already started to show up. But there's always a first time for everything...

"Hey, get them behind the counter!" A bald man yelled over a radio as he flared his gun in the air, "Now you've put me in a position where I gotta do something I don't wanna do. Hmm? Shit!"

Every civilian in the bank had their mouths covered in tape, and their wrists tied up as the robbers demanded each of them what to do.

Allison skipped up behind the goon that was yelling in the radio and got his attention, "Hey, get back with the others."

"I heard a rumour..." Allison muttered under her breath.

"What?" The robber got into her face, "What did you say?"

She put her hand up by her mouth and his ear and used her abilities on him, "I heard a rumour that you shot your friend in the foot..." Allison said with a smirk on her face as the robber's eyes went white, and then back to normal before he obeyed Allison's rumor.

He cocked his gun as he aimed it at another robber's foot. "Hey, dude. What the hell?" He barely got to finish his words before a bullet went through his foot. He collapsed to the ground causing the second bullet to go through his back. Some of the hostages started screaming after the shots were fired.

That was Luther's signal to do his part, which was him crashing through the glass in the ceiling onto another robber, smashing his head against the counter, and throwing him through a window that was about 15 feet in the air.

Diego and I giggled at what Luther looked like while falling out of the roof, which looked like a flying squirrel, and then it was our cue to jump into the action.

Diego ran out of one of the hallways, "Guns are for sissies. Real men throw knives!" He threw 2 of his knives and manipulated them to curve into a robber's chest making him hit against the wall.

I followed Diego in my black panther form as I sprinted to another robber, pouncing on him, the force of my long feline body smashing his head against the floor causing him to bleed out. I see another robber about to aim his gun at Allison. I wasted no time to run over to him and whip out my sharp claws pouncing onto him as I bit into his neck and crushed his windpipe. I jogged over to Allison and the others, slinking low to the ground, alerted in case there were any more robbers that were a threat.

"Thanks sis." Allison said to me with a smile. I gave her a low growl in response.

The last robber in sight sprinted out of a separate room and then jumped on the main counter, flailing his gun at every one of us, terrified, "Get back, you freaks!"