Chapter 3: Goons

"They look real enough" I said as I was forced up against a wall with Denis, a gun pointed at the back of my head. Denis looked at me as if I was crazy and said "Dude their real and why aren't you freaking out, we could die"

"I doubt it, they wouldn't want to kill us because then that would add homicide to the already growing list of crimes they have committed, robbery and illegal possession of firearms are better than homicide which will get you thrown to jail with a couple of years in the slammer, illegal possession of firearms can be turn to just a fine and robbery is about two t three months of jail time."

"How do you know all this?"

"My dad's a lawyer"

"Oh, so are you sure that they wont kill us?"

"Nope, one of them could be mentally insane so you can't rule out death?"

"AND YOU'RE STILL CALM ABOUT THIS?" Denis almost yelled.

"Oy, you two, shut your trap?" one of the robber said out his ski mask. I groaned out loud and I guessed he heard because he slammed head against the wall. He brought his head close to my ear and said " you know, I don't appreciate people talking when I've told them to be quite. It sets off my temper and I've got a short temper" his breathe smelled like something dead. I would have thrown up if I had anything in my stomach to throw back up.

"Well aint that a coincidence because I hate when people talk to me when I'm trying to have a conversation with someone, and I have a very quick temper" I said, I turned and smashed his head into the wall in front of me, punched him in the stomach twice and tore off running into one of the ills.

"Get him!" said the one who I just smashed into the wall. The other two guys that weren't breaking open the registers came running after me. I kept my speed then jumped into another ills, thinking that it probably wasn't the best idea to go hitting your captures. I figured that it was either fight or flight and flight didn't seem possible. I saw a mask in a Halloween candy box, I looked at and said "God why not something better" I put it on and walked out to face my pursuers and as expected they laughed.

"Do you really think that you can fight against us? We have guns and you don't"

"Your right, you do have guns but I have shadows" I said summoning my powers tuning the shadows around me into a grappling hook-like claw which I attached to my hands. They scowled and one of them said "Well, well, looks like darkstalker is trying to be the hero. Well lets show him what guns can do" they started shooting their guns at me. I had just enough time to summons some more shadows to turn into a wall of that teleported the bullets somewhere no specific that I can't remember. When I heard the bullets stop firing I jumped into the air, tackling the closest one to me. I used my shadow claw to cut through the gun so that it was completely useless, then I use the flat side to back hand him which knocked him out cold. I threw the claw and one of the other guys who were there which grabbed him, I made a motion to threw him behind me, the claw did just that.

"Fighting, cool, against who?" said the voice in my head. There was a voice in my head for as long as I can remember it only appeared when I was using my powers and it always said something about power and fighting. Eventually the voice stopped with that and became almost a friend or a sister that is very annoying considering he is in your head. I would try to ask it who it was but it never answered those questions truthfully, it would always say that you know that already and complain about what I'm doing. The voice sounds like a girl so I assumed it to be a girl which is aided by nagging like a mother and have girl mannerisms, but till the day I don't know it.

"Hey, how are you doing?"

"You know their just about done reloading and their getting ready to fire"

"Thank you captain obvious"

"Always the sarcastic ass aren't you" she said as I used shadows to warp out of their view. I ended up behind an ills of chips, I looked up to a bag of Doritos and my inside voice head said "I wouldn't do that if I were you"

"Well you're not me so shut up, I'm hungry" I said taking on of the small bag of Doritos and starting munching. This wasn't the best thing to do at that specific time but it wouldn't hurt anyone. I finished the bag just when one of the guys found me and said "Well do you want some salsa with those chips?"

"Well to tell you the truth yeah that would be great" I replied casually as I sank into my own shadow. He shot a couple of times but I was already gone and appeared behind him. I turn some shadows into s large sledge hammer and swung right in between his open legs.

"I think I heard a pop" that voice said. I laughed out loud. I then warped behind a cash register and turned some shadows into a boomerang. I threw it at one of the goons that was breaking open a cash register. Direct hit. He was out cold. His friend got real angry and began shoot registers like crazy, which he probably was because he started screaming at the top of his voice about something. It wasn't comprehendible so I couldn't understand any of it. I tried to get up to throw my boomerang and other shadow formed things but every time I came up to try and take a shot at him. It got very annoying and then I began to have a very annoying augment with my voice in my head.

"God can't you do anything right?"

"Shut up dame it, I'm trying to think here"

"Well can't you warp behind him?"

"He's moving around way too much for the shadow too lay down"

"Well then switch weapons! You got an unlimited arsenal of weapons why don't you use them?"

"Any weapon can work but if it can't hit then it's useless"

"Well then do you need any help, I won't do much I promise"

"Every time you mention it I'm afraid of what it is, at least tell me what t is"

"If I tell you I wont be a suprise"

"Well then I wont allow it"

"Still as headstrong when you were a child. Will you ever outgrow it?"

" Will you ever stop annoying me when I'm fighting or doing anything for that matter?"

"Nope" I groaned and then realized something. There was darkness in the ceiling, which meant that I could warp there with ease and he wouldn't really expect and an attack from above.

"Great thinking now actually put in action"

"Do you ever shut up?"

"Do you admit that you want to bang that Lilith chick?"

"God damn it, your on that too? God damn it why are you on this?"

"I just want to protect you. You know she might be trouble?"

"Well how the hell should I know, were only friends on a project"

"Your also trying to get into her panties"

"God damn it, can you shut up for two minutes I'm trying to save people here" I yelled into my head as I warped into the panels above the celling. She didn't shut up however "I'm just saying that he might be more trouble then she is worth and that you might get hurt in the end" I turned the darkness around me into a large gloves that could resemble a bear claw like in the game Kid Icarus. I sighed as I got ready to drop attack him.

I broke the celling panel and dropped down with my fist down first on the guys back. I heard a few cracks that I'm sure came from the guy I had just crushed. I looked at the people who were being held captive. They turn and saw me in the mask, I only looked at my friend Denis who had a looked of fear on his face. I left. Using my shadow to get my bag to me, I warped to my bed room. I knew that face, the face that was on my neighbors when I found out I was darkstalker and accidentally uses my powers to blow up a watermelon. We moved after that because the town wasn't very friendly about darkstalkers. I figured that he'd leave me alone and never talk to me again, because the mask was stupid that even a baby could see who it was. My parent heard me and called me down to eat but I didn't go. They understood something was up and they didn't pester me about it, anything eventually my brother came into my room and tried to talk me out of my small depression to play some Halo Reach. I couldn't resist him.

Sorry. Really sorry. Here it is.