H.O.M.E

Chapter 12

I must have ended up falling asleep while I was sitting relaxing on the couch because I am startled by the sound of knocking on my door. I turn to see Buddy walking in with a big smile on his face,” hey man how is the arm?”

            “It feels great and looks like I had all my life” I say to him holding out my arm.

            “Wow it does look like it is just a part of your skin. You’re lucky because when I got mine it was itchy and crap for weeks” he says rubbing his tattoo over his shirt. “So anyways I was sent in here to see if you are ready to go patrol for some bad guys?”

            “You bet!” I say as I jump off the couch and get into a fighting stance. “Since I had that little nap I have all this energy that I can’t wait to burn off.”

            “Good, I like that enthusiasm. Sadie and I are all ready to go so why don’t you put on your uniform but with something I little more “normal” over top of it and then meet us downstairs.”

            “Okay that sounds like a plan I’ll be ready in a minute.” I hurry over to the small bag that to brought with me and I pull out a black shirt that Buddy had given to me since I didn’t have that many clothes. Since Buddy is significantly bigger than me I figure that it will serve well as something over my uniform. I also pull out a pair of breakaway pants that will nicely cover up the lower half of my uniform. I step into my uniform and put the staff into its holster then throw the baggy clothes over top of everything. I take a deep breath and mentally prepare myself for whatever might happen tonight.

            When I hit the bottom of the stairs I can see Buddy and Sadie are standing in the middle of the room in t-shirts and back away pants like mine just talking. “Hey Gizmo just in time we were going to talk about what to expect tonight” Sadie says to me. I walk over to them and listen to what she has to say. “Okay well first thing is that tonight is mostly just to scope out this part of town and see if there is actually a large crime element here. If we do happen to come across some type of crime we need to approach it as smart as possible. We need to make sure that the injuries are kept to a minimum and if we can help it avoid using our powers. If the situation does seem to call for us to use our powers we need to be careful because we are now dealing with real people and not training robots.”

            I nod in agreement thinking about how that day in the training room I destroyed that training robot by using too much power. I hope that if I am in a similar situation tonight that I will have better control over my power.

            Having talked about the expectations of the evening we all head out side and agree that no matter what way we walk we are sure to find some kind of crime so we just start walking. As we walk down the street there are many people out and about but aside from them looking like they want to hurt us none of them are committing any crimes.

We are about to call it quits when all of a sudden we hear the sounds of glass shattering and a car alarm going off. Turning to the direction of the sounds we all take off in a sprint until we see a group of men standing around a car trying to hot wire it.  “Okay maybe if we just startle them that will be enough for them to run away so let’s not use violence until we have to” Sadie says as we move in closer.

“Yeah okay Sadie I’m sure that guys in this neighborhood will just run from three teenagers” Buddy says as he starts to crack his knuckles.

“Seriously Buddy don’t use your powers unless you have to.”

“Don’t worry I don’t think we will have that much trouble with these guys” Buddy says now flexing his muscles.

Now reaching the car Sadie steps forward to address the men,” hey guys it doesn’t look like this is your car so why don’t you move on.” The men look up at us but just laugh and keep going about their business.