𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘦𝘴-𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘦 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 ¹

six

Nate wouldn't call himself a hero, not after everything he did in his life. The amount of people he put down were all dead, and it was something he couldn't take back. Not the accidents nor the ones vought made him handle behind closed doors.

He walked with a fast pace, blending in with the rest of the crowds as he turned down a long alleyway. He looked around pushing the hat on top of his head downwards. He inhaled sharply before climbing on top of the garbage can, making sure he kept a steady footing. He touched the vent door, watching as it melted away before he climbed inside.

"Good job Hughie" Nate kept climbing as he kicked open the vent door. He heard the distant sound of footsteps behind him, he turned and huffed.

Hughie pointed a piece of thin metal at him "seriously dude, you think that's gonna stop me?". He rolled his eyes as he walked towards Hughie and the two men beside him, both who looked ready to fight.

"You guys need to relax, I'm here to help you" Hughies eyes widen "help us? You literally almost killed me!". Nate shrugged his shoulders "consider it a warning not to piss me off, besides would you rather fight your way out of here alone? I mean no offense there's only three of you, and a shit ton of guards".

Hughie looked at the two men beside him "no way man, this could be a trap, he's in the seven". Nate walked down the hallway "regardless of what you pick, I ain't got all day! So move your asses".

He smirked slightly in amusement when they followed after him "wipe that smirk off your face, we're only doing this for our benefit".

Nate chuckled "no, you just know I'm your only way out of here. I've been here before, so I can help you find the girl". He turned the corner and paused at the sight of the guard "Nathaniel, you have clearance to be down here? I haven't seen you in months".

Nate sighed "oh you know, just transferring these prisoners to the other holding cell, the door busted in the one you put them in. Which if homelander found out, that would've been your ass".

"Transfer, but we're not..." the men didn't say anything else as Nate put his hands on his helmet, he screamed as the helmet cracked away.

The man gasping for air as his flesh began to crack apart, he fell to the ground. His head cracking into a pile of dust and ash as Nate grabbed his gun from his shoulder. "You seem the most qualified to use this".

He let the men take the gun as his wide eyes looked down at the men on the ground "merde, this guy is impressive". He smirked as he grabbed the extra magazine full of bullets, as they continued forward.

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    "It's a fucking maze, where is she?" Nate trialed behind everyone as he looked around for any guards. "If I'm correct, she'd be up ahead, if only been down here a few times, and half the time. I never really saw the layout". He turned the corner as they all carefully moved forward once more.

"Mon coeur" the men moved toward the glass window "Frenchie, what the fuck?". Nate let out a heavy breath as he looked at the girl that rested on the hospital bed "I can get her out".

He was pushed back by Hughie "it's not safe" Nate rolled his eyes "please, you think a little bullet can kill me? I came here to help you idiots, so let me help".

He gasped when a gun went off, Frenchie groaned as he fell towards the ground. Mothers milk sighed softly as he ran forward grabbing a hold of Frenchie.

Nate rolled his eyes as they hid behind a wall, he looked at the bullet wound on Frenchie. "Should've let me get her out, maybe would've prevented the whole, being shot thing".

Frenchie let out heavy pants as he stood up and looked over the wall. "Stay down!" Nate saw the distress on the man's face, the way he was trying to move and help this woman.

Mothers milk sighed softly "aw fuck, she better be fucking worth it" Hughie frowned deeply as Nate moved towards the edge of the wall.

"Wait, what?" Nate sighed softly "I can help, just stick close to me and I'll take down the guards". Frenchie pushed the gun into Hughies chest "you cover them, cover them!".

Nate stood up pushing past the trio as Hughie looked down at the gun in confusion "what, but I don't know how" Nate rolled his eyes "and I thought you were some badass supe killer, just make sure we don't brutally die, we'll be back".

He ran off after Mothersmilk the men being cautious as they rounded the corner and neared the glass window from before. "I can make this a lot faster for the both of us, just make sure no guards come this way". Nate pushed his hand onto the glass window, and it started cracking slowly.

He could hear the loudness of shooting in the distance and the loud voice of Hughie as the boy kept apologizing. After a few minutes the window melted away completely and Nate jumped into the room.

He let out shaky breaths as he carefully pulled the machines off the girls body. "Sorry about this, you weren't suppose to be here" he lifted her up.

Mothersmilk grabbed a hold of her when Nate pushed her through the window "you go ahead and join the others, I'm gonna try and stop some of the guards".

He ran off watching as Mothersmilk turned around the corner and disappeared from his eyesight. He turned at the sound of footsteps and paused "Annie, what are you doing here?" she walked past him.

He sighed deeply as he ran after her "I have this entire situation handled" he looked at the guards who were ready to kill everyone. "Well, I had some of it handled, but seriously if word got out, you helped these guys escaped, you'd be killed".

She looked at him "cover your eyes" he huffed as he covered his eyes, the light was bright for a moment and then it faded. He looked around as sparks of light rained down on him and then he watched as Annie took down the rest of the guards with ease.

He walked towards the boys as Hughie looked at Annie with a smile "you came". She shrugged her shoulders "like you said, I'm a fucking superhero".

Nate looked around at the group "I mean I'm sorta just here I guess, you're welcome". He pushed his hands into his pockets as he looked down at his feet for a moment "I don't really think the superhero thing is my thing, not anymore at least".

He pushed open a door and the group followed after him as he looked around. "There's a door around here somewhere, I can break it apart, give you a chance".

"What about this?" he turned and watched as one of the garage doors started slowly opening. "That could work, come on let's get out of here" Nate stopped as he saw A-Train down the warehouse.

He went to walk forward but was stopped by Annie, he looked at the pair of gloves that she pushed against his chest. "Get out of here, I'll handle him" he let out a heavy breath "he'll kill you, I can help Annie".

She shock her head "just go, I promise I'll be okay" he grabbed a hold of the gloves and nodded. Annie smiled at him "just be careful Annie".

He looked at her one last time before he ran away from the building. He made sure his gloves slipped over his hands as he disappeared into the street.

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authors notes:
I'm kinda surprised I finished season one so fast, regardless I'm kinda liking this story so far. Also this will likely lead into Gen V, of course Nate won't be the main character of that story. I'll likely do a separate book for that and will publish it, after I complete this story, just makes sense. Anyways here's a quick little chapter, it's like 3AM, I should sleep.