The next day comes along, chris and delorean is on a job, they must clean the antique shop as a part of their "training" wiping down the windows and sweeping the floors, sorting the artifacts based on their age, which graham keeps track of with a book.
Delorean is sorting the artifacts with chris and graham isn't there yet.
The two get an idea, "Why don't we play around with these artifacts?" Which just... isn't a good idea.
Graham giving the boys the UA's artifact index on the various items.
They decide to find each in the stories and play around a little.
The first item they grab is a sword that's called "The dexoil tree" which is a powerful tree that turns it's water into an immortal for an hour.
This item is for display only and is usually protected with magic barriers, however, graham deactivates it all for a little while so the boys can sort.
Chris drinks some of its water and the boys test try the "immortality" feature as delorean stabs chris with all kinds of weapons, the water can only be used once per person so delorean pockets his water, but chris drinks his and miraculously... IT WORKS!
Delorean stabbed chris with all kinds of swords and knives laying around the shop in displays, chris doesn't even get penetrated by it, it turns him indestructible for an hour.
However, after 20 minutes of their goofy tomfoolery, the news reports a bank robbery where the criminals are holding cops hostage downtown.
Them being downtown make it to the bank, which is the bank chris' mom belongs to, make it there with ease and speed. The duo takes perch uptop a building nearby, checking out the scene and strategizing first like graham taught them, since they're not immortal in their current form.
Wispering to eachother, the duo gets scared when a pretty popular face pops up behind them asking "Wha'cha doin?" and the duo turn around quickly at the same time seeing none other than, "Pep-pouncer", pouncer tells the duo "Watch asking learn noobies!" As she then pounces down and uptop the bank, she sees there's only 3 guys, one guy is holding the hostage, uptop the skylight the bank has, she calculates the speed she needs to maneuver as she knows she can easily and quickly pounce on the hostage holder... except she has to calculate the speed for the other two men as they have their guns pointed at the cops and the doorway.
Finally having her calculations written in her mind, she jumps up and pounces down with tremendous speed on the hostage holder like a cat knocking him out, thrust kicks the guy on her left even faster and rushes to grab the guy on her right gun making him forced to shoot up until he runs out of ammo, she struggles with this a little, but he runs out of ammo and she's finally able to overpower him and bash his head into the wall with speed.
the boys uptop the building on the spotlight sees all of this and is just amazed at this. The cops are finally able to advance after 30 minutes of them holding the hostages so they couldn't of course. The cops storm the building taking the hostage out and cuffing the 3 robbers taking them to jail. One of the cops searching the building look up and sees delorean giving him a thumbs up until he takes off with chris, pep-pouncer hand signaled chris to follow her.
Pep-pouncer asks the duo "What are your names?" Except.. the two don't have a name or names, so they were confused, delorean being a big comic nerd is even confused about this.
While, yes, chris is sparking his electricity since it's a passive when in battle, delorean begins sparking like a lightning storm, though, which leads pep-pouncer to assume they're the "Dignified sticks" as she sees their weapons are sticks like every thug in new york is talking about though.
She says to them "I assume you're the dignified sticks everyone are talking about, and by everyone, every scum in new york city's nights are talking about, of course!" Except the two are still confused by this, however, delorean says "The dignified sticks, huh?... I like it alot actually, let's keep it chris!" And Chris asks her "Who came up with this name for us?" And she answers "I have no idea, the thugs are talking of two electric guys carrying "wooden sticks" with them fighting thugs in the night and they just call you guys that."
Chris wants to learn more about how the thugs know when the guys who they fought are put in jail at the time.
Delorean doesn't care and just likes the name, however, he already knows the corruption of the police force in new york, as that's why he's fighting anyway. Graham tells the duo, through their telepathy earings, "I have a job for you guys, there are multiple banks in the city that are being robbed simultaneously, there's one, however, i feel is the most suspicious of them all now!"
|TO BE CONTINUED!|
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The dignified sticks!
Poetry4th book published! This story is about two friends battling criminals and monsters alike with the power of what one calls... THE POWER OF THE STICKS!... merely wooden sticks. Longer running books! I'll keep adding more until possibly part 20-60? Th...
