xB was woken up by the sound of a phone ringing.
He was slightly grateful for whoever it was calling, as he had been in the middle of a horrific nightmare, but also he was sleepy, and the sleepy part of him won the fight against the terrified-of-his-nightmare part of him as xB put the phone (which was on the table next to his bed) down on whoever it was and attempted to go back to sleep.
The guardian hybrid's eyes has barely closed when the phone started ringing again. So he put it down again.
This repeated a few times, and xB was beginning to get the impression that whoever it was wouldn't leave him be until he spoke to them, so he sat up, rubbing his eyes and yawning before answering the phone.
The dark haired man's ears were then bombarded with the sound of Cleo shouting unintelligible nonsense, which was not what he wanted to hear when just waking up.
The excited chattering continued for a few moment before Cleo broke off, letting out an annoyed, "Hey, give the phone back!"
Then Joe spoke, sounding very tired. "Hey, xB."
"Uh- hey, Joe. What- why is Cleo spam-calling me?" xB queried, stifling another yawn.
"She's had another idea." His friend informed him blankly. "But she won't shut up about this one." There was a screech of protest in the background from Cleo, and xB could practically hear Joe rolling her eyes.
"What- okay, I'm scared now, what's the idea?" xB asked with a nervous laugh.
"She thinks our friend group should become vigilantes." The elder guardian hybrid pulled a face, pursing his lips and frowning as he tried to figure out what she meant.
"...vigilantes? What's a- vigilante?" xB echoed, staring intently at the phone as he waited for Joe's response.
He could hear Joe sigh before she spoke. "So- vigilantes are basically heroes who act without a hero licence and aren't employed by the government. So it turns out Cleo wasn't joking about us doing a better job than heroes." Joe explained.
"So... illegal heroes?" The hybrid said slowly.
"Basically, yeah." xB cheered silently at his correct guess.
"Well, uh- what does Wels think about this?" I'm not entirely sure this is the greatest idea-
"Well-" Joe paused for a moment to laugh at something Cleo shouted before catching her breath and talking again. "He was kind of hesitant at first, which is reasonable- I only agreed because I'd never hear the end of it if I didn't-" xB could practically hear the glare that Joe received from Cleo after this. "-but after listening to Cleo's gibberish for an hour, who wouldn't agree to something?"
xB sighed. "I mean- uh... I don't know. I mean, there's so many things we'd need to consider. Do we even have powers that would be useful acting as vigilantes? What's Cleo gonna do- heal really quickly at them? We don't have any powers related to attacking- the closest to anything like that would be my powers, and I can only control water when I'm in my hybrid form, and I need to breathe underwater while in my hybrid form."
There was another indistinguishable suggestion from Cleo in the background and Joe paused, presumably to interpret the protests from her roommate, before responding. "Cleo thinks we could get you something like- an oxygen mask but for water? I guess? With a water tank or something, probably. Void knows where they'd get it from, but it's certainly an idea."
"Well- what about jobs? I- can't exactly remember what it is that you guys do, but it's gonna be really hard to juggle vigilantism-" Is that the right term? "-and working at the aquarium, Joe."
"FIGURE IT OUT, FISH BOY-" xB winced at the shout from Cleo and the subsequent squabbling that followed as Joe snatched the phone back off of her.
"Sorry about them. Uh, yeah- not sure about that. Maybe consider asking your boss to adjust your hours? Or something? Say it's a family emergency, if you have to." Joe joked, and xB let out a reluctant laugh, but he still wasn't convinced.
"Yeah, but like- what if one of us gets hurt?" The elder guardian hybrid paused, already slightly anxious just at the thought of something happening to his friends. "What then?"
"I'm sure we'll be fine, xB." Joe said gently, and xB was slightly grateful for his friend's comforting approach. "A little bit of training and we'll be great at fighting, nobody will get hurt- Cleo, I swear to Void, don't you dare- give- that- back- right now-"
Cleo took an entirely different approach to xB's worries, as was proven when she got her hands on the phone. "Yeah, yeah, don't worry, just get over to our apartment at like..." There was a thoughtful hesitation. "3pm? Maybe? I think Wels is done with work then, and everyone else is off today, so..."
"Wait, hang on, I didn't even agree to this-" The hybrid protested lamely, but he was swiftly cut off.
"Too bad. We'll talk about it when you get here, but also I won't really take no for an answer, so byeee!" xB rolled his eyes at the zombie hybrid's sudden sing-song tone of voice as the call ended with a small beep, followed shortly by a click.
He stared blankly at the phone for a moment, still trying to process the large amount of information that had just been dropped on him in such a short amount of time. So. Vigilantism. That's- huh. Hm. Could be fun, but like- is it worth it? Like, at least heroes get paid for it, but vigilantes...?
We'd be treated the same as villains, right? We wouldn't be acting legally. I don't want to get arrested.
I've never done anything wrong in my life!
xB sighed, lying back on the bed again with a small laugh. Not exactly like I can stop Cleo now that she's got her mind set on it. Might as well play along and see how it goes.
No I didn't disappear into the void update-wise wdym
Anyways yeah Cleo absolutely burst into Joe's room at 3am like 'JOE WE HAVE TO BE VIGILANTES' and Joe managed to stop her from calling Wels and xB for like a couple more hours
Anyways woooo update
Comments and votes are appreciated! <3 :]
Sorry for any errors lol
Also I'm sorry if this feels all over the place, I wrote little bits and pieces of this over a period of time so yk-
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