Playdate

Chapter 3:The Evil, Mean, and, Misunderstood

A wide smile went across the stranger's face as they carried Brandon, they were able to mostly walk right past the police due to them being distracted by the crime scene and Logan. They watched as the truck they had thrown him in drove off going away towards the jail knowing they would eventually rot away like everyone else, he used his anger for power. He would have stayed safe if they had just let them take Brandon, but that was just how it was.

They moved away from the area using a dark hand to reach up and climb a building, one hand split into several other hands due to one being full. As they got on top of a building and looked down she huffed quietly looking back at the sunshine, it was good to be out but it seemed to never be the right time anymore.
They didn't waste any time going back to where they come from and belonged. Honestly, they felt bad for the creature, only wanting to protect a friend but finders can't be choosers a chance like that would never be found again.

The time was 6:14 am

The stranger got back to their home, a taller male came to greet them at the door mostly with a look before an even taller male leaned down towards the door to look at them.
"Amaya!" The taller blue-haired male yelled making the shorter male growl a bit before walking off making sure his wing got around him. Amaya just smiled softly before walking in with Brandon still in one of her arms before she put them down, she grabbed some ropes from the other room and went to go tie Brandon up before being stopped.
"I wanna do it!" The tall male said to Amaya happily making her abruptly look at him as if she was startled. She shrugged and started to walk away leaving him and the rope alone for a bit.
They looked at the rope and moved their bang out of their face showing a pair of beaming yellow eyes, they examined Brandon and saw the little pixel-like things finally coming back into him, he wondered what they were and even squatted down to touch them. They couldn't be touched, so his fingers went right through.
"Is this-" he was interrupted by the sound of glitching and the realization that they had no legs, he jumped a bit before looking back at Brandon, they sat up very slowly before falling right back down and groaning, the boy watching him decided it was about time they tied them up now. They turned him over letting his head hit the floor harshly, a bruise now laid on Brandon's face as they tied their hands together then chopped the rope a little to tie their arms together too for extra safety.
"Look at you now, uh, pixel! You are the greatest present yet!" He seemed excited to see the random stranger before them and casually make up a name for them like they were a pet being dressed up he had the biggest most innocent grin on his face. "You have a bow and everything I wish you could see" he added happily patting the back of Brandon's head before standing up, he walked to the other room after grabbing a cup to get some water.
Brandon's eyes fluttered open and closed constantly, where was he? He seemed confused his face looked out to the left of him a weary look on his face, "wh-" his voice cracked softly as he blinked a few times again as if he couldn't believe what was going on. His face hurt from being pushed onto the floor as well as most of his frail body, he tried to move his arms to notice he was tied up two times and in an uncomfortable position he huffed deeply unable to move and his eyes heavy.
"You're awake? Great! Your name is pixel do you like it?" The tall male walked over with the glass of water and placed it down by him and sat down by Brandon an almost inviting smile on his face. Brandon grumbled, his shouts of excitement made him get a small headache.
"Who .are. you." Brandon said sternly his lip curled but his words were breathy as if every word took a lot of energy out of him. Before the happy boy could answer another person walked into the room, he was unable to look up to see who it was all he could hear was their footsteps.
"Will you shut up it's 6:30 am! " The unknown person shouted at the other almost ignoring Brandon on the floor entirely.
"C'mon Kiato I'm just trying to play with our new pet.." he said with a sad frown before Kaito gave them a stale look and sighed deeply crossing his arms, one of his eyes set a blue flame from it when his face scrunched up.
"It is just," he looked at Brandon in the eyes before blinking and making the fire go out, "A bunch of parts, leave it alone you do this every time we get someone" he grumbled yawning loudly.
"No no no Kaito this one is better! Look pixel has particle effects!" The happy boy referred to Brandons pixels coming back to him and Kaito almost seemed intrigued but he turned his head.
"Whatever Jack," Kaito said blandly as he turned around and went back to his room.
"Well, Pixel, I am Jack do you want water? " he whispered with his hand beside his mouth as if he was in a sleepover before removing the hand and looking at him grinning.
"I'm not...Pixel." Brandon huffed deeply his eyes half opened before his face glitched in and out of reality trying to look Jack in the eye as he started to giggle, everyone else was asleep but him and Brandon... He could do anything to him. Jack lifted Brandon by the chin with a few fingers, Brandon was surprisingly light. Jack was sitting on his robotic knees.
"You're snappy aren't you? You are whatever I say you are, for as long as you are alive." His tone completely changed but his voice was still young and kinda in the middle of low and high, he had a sinister grin on his face his metal teeth reflecting Brandon on them. "Now, pixel. Do you want water?" Jack asked again letting Brandon's chin hit the floor making him yell out before he clutched his teeth together in pain.
Brandon heaved, his breaths were hard as if his lungs were giving up on him, Jack looked so young compared to Brandon yet he stood over him like this. He was silent for a bit before Brandon took in a deep breath, he was forced to be the slave of someone 8 years younger than he was.
"Yes." Brandon finally said, his voice soft. Jack stopped grinning and got up again he went to another room again to get something. Brandon felt like a shriveled stick in the desert, under his shirt was his ribcage he just wanted them to end his misery now. As Jack came back with a pep in his step he put a dog bowl, a red dog bowl, down and poured the water in it, Jack was just being petty now.
"Here ya go Pixel." He said with a soft smile watching his every movement before he noticed that he can not move his body as he could see he was desperately trying.
"Oh yeah, you are a weak stray dog. You can't move." Jack said picking Brandon up by the back of his collar and making him hover over the water showing the bruises on his chin and right cheek, luckily he has been still for a while he may be able to use his quirk to get out of the situation but being only able to glitch once wouldn't be a good idea...He was forced to drink the water like a dog.
Jack seemed happy, he looked at the clock it was 6:48 am. It was usual that he would do all nighters but since Brandon was here it was going to be a great day later today so he wanted to sleep. After a bit he dropped his face into the water, his nose barely stayed above the water enough so he wouldn't drown, he just continued drinking. Jack went to his room to sleep full of excitement.
Later that morning at 10:00 am everyone was awake, a man with brown hair was first to come into the living-room-like space. The couch Amaya originally placed Brandon on was now beside Brandon as he lay still on the floor breathing softly. The male walked over to Brandon picking him up from the floor and placing him on the couch before looking on the floor and seeing the dog bowl before he examined Brandon as he slept. A minute or two later everyone was piling up in the room, a purple-haired male saw Brandon for the first time and looked up at the brown-haired male who was more or less his father.
"It's just bones," they said watching as Brandon's eyes opened and looked at all the people in front of him, he could use his quirk a lot more than needed now but he still didn't have the sufficient energy for a proper escape.
"Can we feed it!?" Jack shouted towering over everyone else his hair in a ponytail and still in his pajamas, everyone looked back at him but only the winged male said something.
"Go put on some casual clothing," they said urging Jack to his room. The brown-haired one turned back to Brandon who sat there silently, he was lucky to be alive.
"They are way too skinny," Kaito said rudely disgust in his voice.
"I agree...Where did you find this one Amaya?" The purple-haired one said turning to her before a pair of hands came from the chest of Amaya's cloak and used sign language to give him an answer. The other raised an eyebrow opening his mouth before an almost smooth shady tone came from Brandon's lips, it was much clearer than yesterday.
"Well, so it was you who took me here." He said moving his head and trying to sit up but it was hard to do without his arms "Why am I here?" He did angrily "I have stuff to do and you are in my way!" He added making Kaito's face scrunched up a bit, he was stopped before he tried to incinerate Brandon on the spot. Jack came back to the argument and watched them all for a bit, he had some food in his hand. The group started to walk off near the other couch in the room being in the midst of discussion.
"Well, here," Jack said to Brandon placing the food in front of him his body basically forced him to stuff it down his throat but he still didn't trust Jack, especially after earlier this morning.
"You," he growled even though they just did him a favor, "Get away from me. You delusional freak." He paused his eyes wandering over to the discussing group, "Don't act like you are innocent. Jack, it is? Well, my name is Brandon B.r.a.n.d.o.n not. Pixel," he looked Jack in the eye, he swore if his arms weren't tied up he would have punched him in the face. Jack seemed confused as if he has forgotten what happened, he looked over at Amaya as she walked overhearing their bickering, she didn't like what she was hearing. Amaya sent a clawed fist towards Brandon with the intent of knocking him out but he disappeared, into one of Jack's robotic arms.
"Where'd he go!" Jack panicked not seeing him do this but Amaya did.
'interesting.' she thought looking at Jack's arm and how it was still functioning as normal and then back at Jack who had wide eyes, she sighed as the hand started to rise and twitch a bit before quickly whipping upwards towards Jack's chin making him fall over, the arm was malfunctioning. Amaya grabbed the arm and tried to pull it off but it wouldn't unlatch, the arm was twitching and sparking causing Amaya's dark energy-like arms to flip out before they stopped holding the arm allowing Brandon to continue to punch Jack constantly before activating the knife option.
Everyone heard this happen and looked over at them, they all came to help not wanting to sever the arm. Kaito grabbed it jolting it back up before it could've killed its creator heating it with his hand. This did hurt Jack and he cried out but Brandon glitched out due to the heat. As he appeared quills flew at him stabbing into his chest, arms, shirt, and even his earlobe being pinned to the wall.
"RYUSEI CAN WE JUST KILL THEM ALREADY!?" Kaito roared, he was enraged at Ryusei mainly for turning his back on a potential enemy like that. They hadn't realized yet they were doing it again as Brandon glitched out of the situation and behind the group. Ryusei growled taking out his Katana, everyone was turned away from Brandon and him overcome by wrath it left him open. He sliced the blade across his chest blood splashing into the air and the floor, he walked over and stomped on the wound. "You pest." Ryusei said with a curl in his lip "Now I have to clean up the blood." He added as Brandon quickly started to sweat and drool more than usual.
"H-hold on..." Brandon studdered his chest clinched in pain blood staining his white shirt, Ryusei's Katana laid over his forehead ready to be stabbed down into his brain.
"What." He almost gave mercy to the 'party' starter though if he wasn't as loving to his 'family' he wouldn't have killed him on the spot.
"Let's make a deal," Brandon answered his voice smooth but crackling as the pain rushed through him again making him pause "Let's...make an alignment...if you help me with my mission then you can have a bigger group." His voice was shaky but shady he wasn't afraid of the current situation since he was a punching bag in jail. "Pitiful." Ryusei answered, "You threatened the life of my family. Why should I even trust you? why am I even letting you live?" He asked raising his sword and it went down quickly but he was stopped by Kaitos hand.
"Ryusei, what about we don't kill him," Kaito stated with a wide smirk

"Let's kill two birds with one stone."