Unconditional Love

A Violent Storm

No one's POV~
Powder is alone in the basement of the last drop, huddled up in her bunk bed. Her arms are tightly hugging her knees, and she's taking shaky breaths in between sobs. Left alone with her thoughts, she starts to crash out. Her fuse now set off. She grabs her monkey toy, and starts twisting its head violently, ripping it off in rage. She chucks the toy across the lonely room, and it hits the wall opposite of her with bang, and it falls to the floor with a clatter. The monkey starts chiming the symbols together, and Powder hits her head violently and cries out hysterically. She ascends into an episode of fury and blind rage. In her fit, she snatches her bag full of handmade gadgets and hoists it above her head to intentionally destroy them by slamming them down onto the solid, wooden floor. However, She falls dramatically to her knees instead, unable to destroy all of her hard work. Overcome with emotional exhaustion, Powder drops the bag to the floor, and everything inside it spills out, revealing the contents within. The electric blue gems she smuggled from topside roll out of the bag with sparks flying, and they catch her eye. The blue sparks being emitted by the gems mimic the sparks from the explosion. Powder's eyes light up. She wipes her runny nose with determination, "I can help them," she says with naive confidence.

Y/n POV~
We run all the way to the cannery following my lead. We used the sky to our advantage instead of running through the streets, in order to keep out of sight. Once we reach the cannery roof, Vi quickly runs around and in front of me to take the lead. She runs towards a broken window on the roof and stops. I stop behind her, and I pat her back to let her know I'm here. She looks to me with a weak smile then looks back to the window with an emotionless face.

"Let's get Vander and get out," Vi says to the point.

"Follow us. Keep quiet," I look back sharply,  commanding my brothers.

Vi drops down first with finesse, and she signals us to follow once she sees the coast is clear. Mylo drops less gracefully. Claggor drops swiftly after him making less noise despite the size difference. I check my surroundings before dropping last. I land on my hands and knees as to avoid causing a commotion. We hunch down and walk along the steel path, and we make a turn and come across a steel bridge. I gasp in horror at the sight in front of me. Across from the bridge was Vander. A chained, bloodied, and bruised Vander. Vi signals us to hurry across the bridge. Once we enter the cold room Vander was in, Vi pulls her hood down, and I take out my daggers. Vander spits out blood, "Vi?"  "Kids?" Vander asks in disbelief.

Vi runs up to him and hugs him tightly.

"What are you doing here?" He asks, looking at all of us horrified.

"We're breaking you out," Vi answers, as I turn to face the exit of the room.

"Mylo," Vi commands.

"On it," he says while pulling out his lock picking device. He gets on his knees, and starts working on breaking Vander out of his restraints.

"How... how did you get in? There's guards everywhere."

My stomach drops. I tighten my grip on my weapons.

"It was easy. We found an open window and.." Vi stops talking as soon as she realizes what we just walked into. 

"Oh god.." Vander huffs out of breath.

"You have to get out. Now." He pleads.

I hear footsteps coming from the opposite side of the bridge. The owner of the footsteps stays in the shadows so I can't quite make out their face. But what I can make out, makes my head throb. A bright orange eye staring right into my soul.

"Guys..." I mumble but quickly get cut off by a cold, distant voice.

"Welcome," the orange eyed person says.

Mylo and Claggor stop working and turn around with wide eyes. My eyes widen in shock at the person standing before me. He looks cold and slick. Murderous and evil. Vi spins around and quickly makes her way towards me. She grabs my wrist seeing as she can't hold my hand because they're being occupied by knives. Our expressions' harden as we hear this maniac start to clap his hands together.

"You have my congratulations. But I'm afraid this will be a very short reunion," the maniac says.

His henchmen come out one by one, and they stand behind him like a wall.

"No one kills my friend and lives," I scream out impulsively.

"Ha... you humor me, Y/n," vi and I exchange horrid glances. How does he know my name?

"I know all about you and your little adopted siblings sad pasts'. Too bad you're all soon to have an even sadder future," he spits back.

"Have you heard the rumor? Vander the coward fled town with his children, and they were never seen again," the sick son of a bitch said.

"Claggor, see if you can find another way out of here," I demand, trying to keep my cool.

"Okay."

I look over at Vi, and I see her hastily put on Vander's iron gauntlets. Once on, she uses her teeth to fasten them on securely.

I begin to exit the room with hopes of beating these goons' asses, but someone stops me. I turn around, and I see Vi standing right behind me. "Vi? What's wrong?" I ask worried.

"You're not going out there. It's too risky. I got this one, Hawk," she says with pleading eyes.

Is she serious right now? Fine, I'll let her start this fight, but I'm definitely helping her finish it.

"Fine, but only because Mylo is reallyyyy struggling to get those cuffs off," I say playfully rolling my eyes.

My eyes start to gloss over, but I have full faith she can handle this. Another thought crosses my mind. I need to kiss her right now. Before it's too late. I can't be afraid of rejection when I know she'll be a big part of my life either way. I'll love her either way.

Before Vi can leave, I quickly drop my daggers so my hands are free. I cup her face, and I lean forward locking eyes with her. I pause. She smiles warmly at me, and lightly nods her head yes for me to continue. Without hesitating, I  plant a passionate kiss onto her lips. I pull away, and she has a shit eating grin on her face.

"Was wondering if we were gonna kiss before or after killing this psycho," she says playfully.

"Shut up, and get serious," I say seriously.

I lean back in closer to her, and my mouth hovers right next to her ear.

"I'll kiss you more once we get out of this hell hole," I whisper softly into her ear.

I pull away from her, and I pick my daggers back up.

"Is that a promise?" She asks me while I stand back up.

"Yes, Peach," I say juggling my daggers.

She winks at me before turning her back to the room. I pray for the dumb bastards that she's about to fight.

"Damn," Mylo whistles. "Alright, alright get to work," I say as Claggor laughs. I hunch down next to Mylo, and I use my daggers to unlock Vander's left, ankle restraint.

AN~

I'm soooo sorry it's taking me forever to wrap up Arc 1. I just really want to stay as true to the story as possible, but unfortunately, it's taking me a really long fucking time... but I swear next chapter will end episode 3, and I promise it'll be worth the wait!!!!💙❤️