This City Never Sleeps At Night

Prologue

Set 11 years before chapter one

The night in the city was a perfect one...To rob a store. The police knew this. Firefly had made sure of that. And now he and Koi were going to preform their last heist together. Their last heist...ever.

"You know the plan," Koi said to him, a steely yet excited look in her eyes. "Did you remember to bring all the supplies, or did you forget like that one Friday night?" Firefly groaned as he recalled the night, how terribly wrong it had gone, and the endless weeks of teasing that he had endured. "I forgot two things! Two!" He said in an annoyed yet affectionate tone.

"And those two missing things were the things we needed to pull the heist off," Koi said as they approached the store. "I just want to make sure everything's in order."

"Yes, yes, I have everything in place, now are we gonna do this or what?!" Firefly asked impatiently. Oh, how he hated to do this...He and Koi had been partners in crime for so long (too long?) it hurt...

Almost.

He knew it was the best thing to do. So he pulled out one of his tools, a heavy metal pole(About two feet long), and approached the window. He wouldn't need this tool again. 

He smashed the window with the beam and immeidately the alarm went off. "We only have so long before the cops come!" He called to Koi before entering the store. "This is one of the most heavily guarded stores in Lumenaria!" Koi snorted. "They'll never take us alive!"

It took barely five minutes before the cops showed up, five minutes in which Firefly and Koi had been collecting various valuables from inside the store. 

"This is the police department, come out with your hands up! We have the place surrounded!" 

"How dumb do they think we are?" Koi scoffed, turning to Firefly. "Anyways...Want to give this place a parting gift?" Firefly knew exactly what she meant.

"Oh, you know I do." His hands lit up with fire and he grinned, a spark in his eye. "We're burning this place to the ground!"

The store was alight in no time. Firefly was actually impressed with the size of the blaze...There was no way the cops would be able to get it under control. Shrouded in smoke, he and Koi stepped out of the store. Koi was carrying a strong steel staff, but her water powers were so devastating she didn't even need it.

Meanwhile, Firefly held the hilt of a sword in his hand. One of his fighting techniques was to form a blade out of fire and use it to attack heroes and vigilantes, and- holy crap, the cops had gotten Corvid and Hel on the scene.

"Put your weapons down- PUT YOUR WEAPONS DOWN! Ready men?!"

Firefly met Koi's eyes and they both knew what was going to happen.

"FIRE!" 

The skies were black with lead that almost looked like rain and Firefly knew that they would never perform another heist again. Well, not as a villain, anyways.

The smoke had filled the area and he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his arm before Koi pulled him down into the sewers swiftly, closing the entrance to the sewers before anyone could see what happened...

And then the pain hit. There was a bullet impaled in his arm. Looking over at Koi, he noticed that she had no new scars on her whatsoever. He smirked, despite his pain. "I always knew you were better at dodging bullets than me." She scoffed and grabbed his arm, rolling up the sleeve of his villain outfit to see the bullet. 

"Oh...yikes." She murmured, grabbing tweezers from a handy side pocket on her outfit. "This is going to hurt a bit, fair warning."

Firefly scrunched his eyes shut, not wanting to watch as the tweezers gently yet painfully pulled the slightly bloody bullet out. Barely ten seconds later, Koi announced; "It's done." She then continues in a joking tone. "You can open your eyes, ya know."