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"Where are you teammates now huh?" Siren laughed, the ever pain in the ass theatre kid.
He could practically hear his Dad screaming 'Language!' in his head.
"Flame come with us peacefully, and we might consider lowering your jail sentence." Blade said in his distinctive gruff voice.
The SBI are a pain in the ass, he was unlucky that his three other teammates weren't here.
Although he usually wouldn't consider Theseus to be a teammate, he was already close enough as a nuisance as they were all.
Flame decided to book it and ran across the rooftops, propelling himself forward above the gaps with his Blaze abilities.
He dropped down on one of the alleys, breaking his fall with flames to propel himself a bit upwards then dropped down again.
The Angel™ dropping down with him as the Blade and Siren look for a way to not drop down and break some bones.
The narrow alley was an advantage to him and a disadvantage to Zephyrus because of his stupidly massive wings.
He grabbed one of the garbage bags and ripped the top open and let it fall doing the same to the others, so that Zephyrus has more trouble following him.
He tapped one of the special ear plugs that resisted Sirens charm speak, the one that was a combination between an earpiece and ear plug all of the DTeam had, that 404 made.
"This is Flame calling to back DTeam, anyone copy? Over."
"Hey Flame, it's Theseus. What happened? Over." The staticky voice replied.
"I'm getting chased by the SBI that's what's happening. Over." Flame complained, as he turned to a corner that he was sure the SBI wasn't directly behind him.
The voice hummed, "All three? Who do we need to send in to help you? Over."
Flame paused for a second.
"Can I get all of you? Blade and Zephyrus is hard to deal with alone. Siren is annoying, but still fine. Over."
Theseus hummed, "Are they still chasing you? Over."
"Yeah, but I think I lost them. You have my location though? Over."
"Yeah I do. We'll be on our way. Over and Out."
"Thanks. Out." He muttered before taking his finger off of the earpiece.
'Fuck, he still had to meet up with Clay and George to pick up Tommy from school and head back.' He groaned, Dad's gonna pissed, both of them actually.
Swooshh
He turned his head abruptly to where the sound was. Shit, they caught up with him, Zephyrus was just landing.
He groaned, "They are other vigilantes other than me, y'know?"
He tried buying time, cause he was more likely to be more injured from fighting them alone.
"One V three is not exactly a fair fight." He laughed nervously as he took his stance.
"Looks like we're just in time!" He heard Dream's voice changer, they had agrued that it made it a bit hard to understand him, but it still got the message across.
404 in his signature glasses had his hands in his hoodie pockets as he calmly walked to Dream's left side and Theseus swooped down with red whips coating around all of them-presumably from Theseus carrying them in the air-, on his right.
Flame let out a sigh of relief, they were all beside him in flash -Theseus enhancement was sure fast when he wanted it to be.-
They all each got their stances ready.
Dream holding his axe tightly, enchantments glowing from it.
404 summoned daggers circulating around him, the daggers were being held by his enhancement, similar with Theseus', but Theseus was a tad bit more powerful.
Theseus had a utility belt with different gadgets he pestered 404 to make his ideas. But the gadgets were mostly for emergencies and escaping. Tommy's real damage came from hand-to-hand combat with his enhancement curled around his fists to make his blows more powerful.
Theseus may be an avian songbird hybrid, but don't underestimate him. He could be quite a powerful guy. His wings added an extra weight to him like Zephyrus, he was built like Siren but had wings like The Angel™. With a bit of momentum he could hit like a truck, like the Blade.
Theseus boosted himself, in a blink he was at the Blade's face. He threw a punch at the Blades shoulder, he blocked it. Theseus, who seemingly expected this, threw a uppercut boosting his punch to make Blade surprised and his hands came apart.
Blade, being shocked didn't realize that Theseus was about to land a kick at him.
Theseus boosted himself to make him faster, and spun around to get momentum he spread his wings to get more weight in and kicked Blade at his face.
Blade stumbled back, snapping out of his stupor and went to land a punch, Theseus dodged him.
They both exchanged blows, none of which hitting Theseus. Seeing as he was more agile than Blade, Theseus winded Blade a lot.
404 did similarly, but he didn't charge at his opponent he just sent daggers in Siren's way. Siren didn't notice, but at the last moment he did barely dodging one aimed his face.
The daggers grazed him, one of them got stuck on one of his thigh.
Siren groaned, "Stop fighting!" The command fell on their ears, doing nothing. They all smirked, and the Hero's on the other hand, they all froze in mortification giving them time to pull more hits.
They pushed the surprise away, continuing to fight.
Dream, charged at Zephyrus, Flame staying at a reasonable distance and shot a line of fire at each of the hero's, they barely dodged it.
All of the hero's eyes we're wide and shocked.
After a few minutes of this, the heroes started to get more tired and sluggish. Theseus notices this and he wraps each of his teammates with his enhancement, and pulled them away a mile, and he sped back to the heroes.
They were all panting.
"My apologies.. For my teammates, they tend to get a bit..."
He looked at the daggers planted at Siren's body and some of Zephyrus' burnt feathers and cuts. While on Blade, he was just bruised.
"...carried away." He finishes, "Just please don't be hostile with us, they won't be hostile to you."
Theseus turned around and booked it back to his school gate, the fight only took about a few minutes.
That's what he hoped at least.
He didn't see his older brothers anywhere, that was a good sign. He quickly took his vigilante suit off, revealing his school uniform right under.
He sighed in relief, and in the distance he could see his brothers running towards him.
"Please don't tell Pa, and Dad." They all begged in unison.
Tommy laughed at their pleading faces, "Yeah,"
Their faces lit up. Started thanking him immensely. And Tommy smiled mischievously, "no."
Their face contorted with disbelief and betrayal, and Tommy simply laughed at their pain.
Pa and Dad were definitely going to be pissed that they were late in picking him up.
Tommy stared at his 'detective board' as he dubbed it, mouth slightly agape.
Tommy wasn't trying to find out the identities of his teammates per se.
He was just genuinely curious why his suspicions with his siblings and fellow vigilantes lined up!
It was not his fault that he accidentally found out that his siblings were vigilantes! Let alone his goddamn teammates!
He stared at the red string connecting their identities, still not quite believing what he was seeing.
Tommy flinched as he heard a knock on the other side of his door.
"Tommy? Hun? Time for dinner!" His 'mother', Zak.
Zak had earned the title of 'mother' because even though he was pretty chill, but if he thought you were off, just a bit. He would give you worried looks across the room, basically asking if you're okay.
Plus his mom-powers of not being able to be burnt by hot stuff when cooking, and always knowing if you were lying.
Oh and he was scarily good at cooking and making you flustered with embarrassing stories, teasing, and nicknames.
"Yeah, mum I'm coming!"
He yelled back as he hastily but carefully detached his 'detective board' from his wall, he put it down on the floor.
He lifted his mattress, and took his 'detective board' and slipped it under his mattress.
He opened his door, and he sped down the stairs.
"No running up and down on the stairs Tommy! You might get hurt! You know this!" That was Darryl, his adoptive father.
"Sorry Dad!"
He saw his Dad roll his eyes in amusement.
"Toms, dear? Would you help me set the table? "
"Yes mum. " he said in a jokingly mocking tone.
Zak laughed in equal parts amusement and fondness, "You little shit. " he said, pointing a blue spatula at Tommy.
Once they were done setting the table, he got a ping on DTeam's Discord Server that all three of them were patrolling different areas of the city.
And at the same time, he got a ping on his cellphone number that all three of them were going out. Individually.
"Ma?" Tommy addressed when they were all seated.
"Yes hun?" Zak answered, mouth quarter-full.
"Did my brothers tell you that they were going out? Individually?"
"Oh yes, did they not tell you? Clay is going to Punz', Nick is going to Quackity's, and George is going... out?" Zak answered, unsure of where George was.
"George said he was just going out, for a walk or something. " Darryl cut in.
"Ah." Tommy returned dryly.
"Why you ask kiddo?" His Dad asked.
"Nothin' just curious where my idiots went." Tommy half-joked.
That comment earned him a giggle from Zak and a smile from Darryl.
"Don't speak bad about your brothers Toms."
His husband elbowed him, "Dar, you can't deny they're idiots. " he said with a hint of affection.
He sighed, "Well I can't deny that. "
Tommy finished eating dinner, it was a school night after all. Thursday, to be exact.
He said goodnight to his parents, as they all turned in for the night. Well only Zak, since Dad left for his night job, and he was off to meet up with his teammates for patrol.
Theseus dropped down, red whips of magic.
"Hey."
"You're late." Flame said dryly, in his usual attitude.
Both Dream's and Flame's attitude was similar to their civilian attitude.
At least George had common sense to change his personality to be silent.
Similar to his Theseus persona, but even though Theseus was more powerful 404 was always more scarier than him.
Idiots. His idiots.
"Quit your bantering, let's get to patrolling the districts." 404 cut in.
"Rude. I just got here." Theseus pouted.
"404 is right, Thes." Dream interrupted
"Fine, Big D. "
"Never call me that. Ever again."
Theseus promptly flipped him off. Before deciding to be serious again.
"So same as usual? I'm in First District, Dream is in Second, Flame is in Third, 404 is in Fourth. "
"Hey why am I in Third?" Flame whinned, and you call Tommy a child.
"Because," 404 started "You're ass at escaping and backing out of a fight when it gets too much."
"Dream and Theseus are in the high-level crime risk districts because they rarely overestimate themselves, they know how to pick their battles and call for help, and they're very skilled. "
"I'm in one of the highest crime ridden districts but less serious crimes are committed there than First and Second, like stealing. I'm assigned there because I'm skilled but I'm weaker than you three."
"You three are reserved for more serious crimes. But, Flame can't. Because he's an egotistical bitch most of the time." 404 gave Flame a glare.
Theseus sat on the highest ledge on the building, "Y'all done?" He asked as he looked at his nails.
"I'm off the patrol First now, Dream?"
"Yeah?"
"You coming? To Second and First with me?"
"Yep, wait a second." Dream adjusted his mask so it doesn't fall off and pulled his hood on along with holding his axe tightly in his right hand.
"Oi! 404 we're going to patrol now!" Theseus yelled out.
He heard affirmations from both of his brothers.
He turned back to Dream and nodded to him, "You ready?" He asked, red whips coating his fingers.
"Yep."
"Shit, shit, shit-"
This was a dangerous day. He ducked another one of debris coming his way.
"Ah Theseus, stop running." Badboyhalo, the number one, fucking villain was chasing him.
He tapped on his communicator, "This is Theseus, I need back up at First district, does anyone copy?!"
"Hello?!"
He froze as a shiver ran down his spine he heard a cruel laugh coming from the villain.
"You- you ruined my connection!" Theseus stared in shock, at the villain.
He knew that he could probably do that given he was the number villain, but what the fuck man.
"I just want to talk, Theseus."
"Oh fuck off. What do you really want?"
"You know how you and your little team, what was it.. Dream Team?"
"Wait, you think I'm- Oh. Oh. You think I'm the ringleader??"
"Wait you aren't?" Bad said in an incredulous tone.
Theseus shook his head. "Why the fuck do you think I'm the leader! Now, while I'm flattered, our team name is literally named after my teammate Dream!"
He barely heard the villain mutter, "language..", and when he did he stiffened.
No way.
No fucking way.
"Is my whole family involved with superhero shit?!"
Whoever got decided to pick Tommy's luck, he decided he hated them.
"I thought you were the leader 'cause!" Oh right he forgot he was here.
"Because you're seemingly the most powerful, you're the most mature out of all of them 404 is a close second- and most importantly of all, you have main character energy!" He gestured wildly at Theseus.
Theseus stopped at that, "Main character energy?.." He squinted.
"Don't you watch those little cartoons? TV shows? Anime?"
Theseus laughed at that, "You, the number one villain, watch, anime?!"
"Oh shut it you muffin, I watch them with my children." He said affectionately.
Tommy could feel his heart warm at that, wait- who the fuck was he calling 'children'?!
He held his joking-rage inside for now.
"Alright, alright enough. What'd you want?" Theseus asked, readying his magic.
"Oh nothing!" His father said in a cherry tone with something under that innocent tone that could fool a saint, though Tommy was no such thing.
"I just don't want you to interfere." His tone immediately changed.
Theseus yelped, barely dodging the flames that went his way.
"Ant! Bomb the building!" Dad said, jumping backwards and immediately releasing his demon features like releasing his horns, skin going darker, white replacing his dark brown eyes, and wings growing.
Theseus looked in awe, Dad looked amazing in his full-demon form, he always said he didn't want to show his family his full-demon form in fear of hurting them.
Though, now Tommy can see the reason as to why he did not show his full-demon form to them was not being afraid to hurt them, well maybe partially, the main reason was he could be easily recognized.
Theseus belatedly realized in his fan-girling, he was falling. He at least had the sense to let his wings out and fly down to the civilians.
"Theseus!" He heard Siren call him out, he snapped his head towards them.
"Me and the Blade are going to get the civilians out while you and Zephyrus are fighting BadBoyhalo!"
He shouted his agreement and took off, assuming Zephyrus was behind.
Oh god. He was going to have an epic fight with his Dad!!