Red Dragonfly: Wilbur Watts

Chapter Eight

Wilbur sat in his science class, listening to his teacher drone on about bio-electricity. His head was slumped over on his arm as his eyes focused on the clock. The long hand tittering on the 12. Just a few more minutes until class was over and the weekend could begin.

Soon enough, the school bell snapped out of his concentration as he got up along with the other students as the teacher handed them each a homework assignment to do on bio-electricity.

As the other students had plans to go have fun during the weekend, Wilbur had other plans. He snuck behind the dumpster, hoping nobody saw him and changed into his Red Dragonfly suit. He turned on his intercom on the left antenna on his mask, communicating with Russell.

"Alright Russell, I'm here." Wilbur radioed in. "Any crimes going on in Scarlet City?"

Russell scooted his chair towards the computers, scanning the downtown area for any criminal activity. "Purse snatcher: Grace Street." Russell replied, sipping his coffee as he typed the coordinates to Wilbur.

"I'm on it." Wilbur flew off, catching up towards the purse snatcher as he was trying to get away on his moped.

BAM!

The purse snatcher went flying off the moped as Wilbur punched him. Wilbur grabbed the purse away from him, looking around. "Hey, anybody know who's purse this is?" Wilbur asked.

Wilbur continued on with his patrolling, flying around and helping the citizens out with everyday tasks. Helping the elderly across the street, getting a girl's cat out of a tree and posing with people during selfies.

Later on during the afternoon, Wilbur sat on top of a highway bridge, bored out of his mind. So far, there was no crime happening right now.
"Wilbur, are you there?" Russell said through his antenna intercom.

"Yup, I am." Wilbur said, munching on a egg roll the Chinese restaurant gave him for free. "What's up? Is there any crime happening?"

"There's a break in at the Downtown Bank. You might wanna get there before your mom and the police find out." Russell said, sending Wilbur the quickest directions.

Wilbur smiled, seeing the map schematics through his mask. "I'm on it!" Wilbur flew over towards the bank as quick as possible, arriving at the scene of the robbery.

The man was carrying a holster of metallic frisbees with spikes around the tip, carrying bags of money towards the door with his partner.

"So Reggie, are we gonna split the money like you said?" His partner in crime world ask.
"Of course!" Reggie replied before unexpectedly throwing the spiky frisbee towards his partner, chopping his head off as the frisbee came back to his hand. The headless partner fell over dead as Reggie grabbed the rest of the cash.

Just then, Red Dragonfly jumped in front of him, standing proud and tall as he stood over him. "No honor among thieves, huh?" He smirked softly. "I don't wanna hurt you, it'll just waist my time." Reggie said.

"Hmm, that's the nicest thing I ever heard a villain say." Wilbur quipped. "What's all the money for, my guy?"

Reggie only scoffed. "Why do you care?"

"I don't actually. I just like talking to criminals politely before beating their ass." Wilbur replied.

Reggie smirked, getting his spiky frisbees ready. "I'm done talking."

"May I just ask what your villain name is? Because let's be honest, frisbees are a shitty weapon to use." said Wilbur.

"Frisbees are fucking awesome!" Reggie yelled as he threw two of the frisbees at Wilbur, making him dodge the two bladed circles. "And I do have a name in mind! Captain Frisbee!"

Wilbur climbed the wall, avoiding the spikes as the frisbees got stuck in one of the statues. "Ugh, somehow...that name is worse! Sounds like something out of a sliver age comic book."

Reggie threw more frisbees at Wilbur as he jumped towards the safe. He threw his last frisbee before Wilbur dodged that one as well, using his internal antennas. Wilbur kicked Reggie towards the front desk, knocking him out.

Wilbur grabbed the duct tape by the safe and tied up Reggie for the police to find. "SCPD! Freeze!" Rosemary yelled from outside as she charged into the bank with guns drawn, along with other officers.

Wilbur hid away from them, using his camouflage to blend into his surroundings as the officers searched the area. Rosemary walked over to see Reggie taped up to the wall as Wilbur snuck out of the bank while he was camouflaged.

"You think that Red Dragonfly did this, Commissioner?"  The Officer asked.

Rosemary looked around softly. It was almost like Red Dragonfly disappeared within a trace. "Wherever he is, he did our job for us."

Meanwhile, Wilbur was flying back to his dorm. He pressed the callback button to radio in on Russell. "Kid, did you get out of there in time?" asked Russell.

"Yeah, Mom didn't even notice me." said Wilbur. "Are we doing anymore training during the weekend?"

"Yeah. Just come by the lair tomorrow afternoon. Your flying has been a little off lately." said Russell.

"I'm not that bad, am I?" Wilbur would ask nervously.

"Wilbur, you just grew wings. They're very delicate. You can barely get up to 50 stories." Russell said. "You fly at a very low altitudes."

"Ummm yeah..." Wilbur sighed. He knew that he had a fear of heights and stayed on the same height of the cars on the street. "Hey...I'll see you tomorrow. I'm almost at the crib."

"Alright, kid. Until then, stay out of trouble and I'll alert you if there's any other crimes happening." Russell said before hanging up.

Wilbur rolled his eyes as he climbed on the wall, towards the window of his dorm room. He was a little uncomfortable with Russell being a father figure to him. He climbed through the window and took off his mask to see Ethan walking into the room.

"Hey dude, I got good news!" Ethan said excitedly. "What happened? Did the PlayStation7 come out?" Wilbur asked. "Dude, we've been over this. Like, three other consoles have to come out first." Ethan said. "Anyway, we've been invited to try out for Lloyd's frat tonight!"

Wilbur quirked his eyebrow softly. "Ethan, I'm not really sure we should go." Wilbur said, feeling skeptical. "Why not? You don't wanna party, drink and get laid?" Ethan smiled.

"I wanna focus on my work so I can graduate." Wilbur replied. "And besides, we're nerds. We'll stick out like a sore thumb."

"Dude, trust me. It'll all be worthwhile." Ethan reassured. "Lloyd told me all we needed to do was take these 5 pledges."