A waterboy (Herman) story mature audience only
The shift was nearing its end, the last dispatch was getting the Brainteaser, which Sonar and Hound handled.
“G-great, good shift uh- shift every… G-g-go Z-team!” Waterboy tried to encourage everyone as he came back from his last mission.
“Did you hit your head on one of your fucking puddles?” Punch up asked sarcastically, which was definitely Waterboy’s last straw.
“Heh heh, uh excuse me.” Not a single stutter, he even sounded a bit angry.
Finally the shift was over, Hound was beyond exhausted, her vision was blurred. She has yet to rest properly and eat anything since yesterday at Herman’s house. She laid down again on one of the couches they had on the second floor, deciding to take a quick 30 minute nap. Forgetting to put an alarm she crashed out, what seemed like mere seconds to her, was actually two hours.
“Hey….H-hey… Hound…..” Hearing a voice, she grumbled and batted away whoever was messing with her.
“Selene!” Startled awake at her name, she looked terrified upon awaking, her breathing heavy. Her eyes finally adjusted to see Waterboy in front of her, she had taken his wrist and had it pulled close to her. Realizing she let go immediately seeing how dark it was outside.
“What…. Happened? What time is it?” She stilled a bit spooked out, looking at Waterboy who looked a bit relieved but concerned at the same time.
“Its two hours past our last shift.” He said, she let out a sigh while rubbing her eyes.
“Ah shit, i was only supposed to sleep for 30 mintues…. Oh fuck i never set up my alarm. Thank you Waterboy.” Her accent showed through, which Waterboy noticed to be a bit southern with a hint of spanish. She tried to stand up but went too fast and stumbled back down which Waterboy helped her to balance herself. If she could use all her powers she wouldn't be in this state.
“Y-you d-dont seem w-well.” Stating the obvious, she huffed out a chuckle but nodded.
“Yeah…. I'm starving.” Hound said in the most saddest tone she can muster, which made Waterboy’s heart hurt hearing that coming from her.
“I-if you… um m-my grandma c-can.. I mean, would you l-like to come o-over?” Waterboy offered, she gave him a smile but knew she couldn’t stay another night with him.
“I wish i could but I already disturbed you guys last night, i just need to get my bearings don’t worry i’ll call someone to pick me up, if you want I can give you a ride home?” She offered back instead, he nodded not wanting to leave her alone. She pulled out her phone, a cheap little flip phone, she immediately called up someone putting them in speaker.
“Hello?” A woman’s voice rang out,
“Yo, I need a ride.” That’s all Hound said, the woman on the other side understood immediately.
“Of course, I'm sending out someone to your location, anything else ma’am?” She asked, Hound groaned out as her stomach was killing her.
“Food, …. Mmmmm I want burgers with curly fries.”
“Of course.” With that, she hung up the phone by simply slamming it shut and placed it back in her pocket. Waterboy was curious about who was the lady she was speaking to, not even ten minutes later she got the message that they were outside.
“There outside.” Hound said, walking to the balcony, being easier to jump off than to go downstairs. Using her shadows to take Waterboy with her, they slowly descended down that’s when Waterboy noticed the car, it was an infinity QX80 and a big man in a black suit with an emblem, Rouge Knight’s symbol. A knight’s helmet with a pair of wings, on the very front was a….
“Hey, what's your address?” Snapping out of a trance as Hound spoke to him, giving her the address while the man opened up the door to let them in. He was surprised, the inside was even nicer then he could imagine, very insecure about getting the seats wet.
“I-i d-dont want… i-i think i rather w-walk.” He said, Hound glanced at the body guard, who understood immediately usher Waterboy inside the car, which worked because he didn’t want any problems.
“Don’t worry about getting the seats wet, I can easily replace this car with a call.” she muttered as she stared out the window.
“Wow is -is this f-from R-rouge Knight w-work?” He asked, she looked over at him who seemed dazed, she nodded at him.
“Yeah, at first I didn't care when people would make merch from it but soon many became greedy. They jacked up the prices when they realized I wasn't going to hound them on getting the money, but they were wrong. I immediately brought everyone to court and won. Now because of that I own many brands of myself, making them finally the only Rouge Knight brand.” She explained, he knew about those court summons, the first ever appearance of Rouge Knight in a court setting. It went viral, as that was the first time they had clear records of her other than hero work, of course she was with her armor. In the video her voice was something that gave people nightmares, she easily won, everyone terrified to cross her.
“I-i remember w-when that h-happened.” He was in High School when that happened, everyone was gossiping non stop for a week. No one even paid attention to Herman; it felt like a relief for him.
“Yeah, quite the scandal…..” She was nodding off, trying her best to stay awake, soon they reached Herman’s house.
“Here we are, go on ahead… um hey Herman not busy in two days would you like to hang out?” Selene asked first, Herman felt like he could fly, smiling brightly.
“Yes–yeah I'll go- I'm not -busy!” he said a bit excitedly, she smiled back at him.
“Okay, I'll see you at work.” Waving goodbye as she drove off, he felt like he could conquer the entire city, having a pep talk from Robert. First job as a hero, working alongside Red Hound, seeing Robert have a date with Blonde Blazer without her mask, then after done with his shift getting to ride home with Rouge Knight who asked HIM to hang out with her. Tomorrow promised a new future, one he could start dreaming about differently. For Selene, who just got home at her penthouse, she wished she had a simple little house, it felt cold and empty. The man accompanying her opened the door for her, she saw the door man waiting for her with the door open. Inside she can see her right hand woman waiting for her, Selene found her on the side of the road on one of her missions. She was the same age as her and offered her a place to stay to clean herself up and take in a warm night in, Selene really thought she was one of Rihanna's children or something. It was such a long time ago, she remembered after that the woman saw her place and decided to clean it to let her stay. One day turned into two and so on, Selene didn’t really kick her out as she would come home very tired or injured, to a clean house and food on the table, since then she stayed by her side swearing loyalty to her.
“Lady Knight, where have you been?” Although the woman casually asked, Selene could feel the wrath a mile away. They were close enough where people might consider them husband and wife. She gave her a sheepish smile, in which she gave her back a fierce stare, Selene chuckled knowing she was in trouble with her ‘missus’.
“Willow.” Selene basically purred out to her, she just huffed back at her and they started walking side by side to the elevators.
“Don’t willoooow me! You never called, never even sent a text saying oh im over here oh im doing this!” Selene had the silliest smile on her face as her body was basically shutting itself off as she got told off by her good friend. They reached the top very quickly, with Willow’s sibling waiting on them to appear looking like a puffed out bird.
“Oh now she shows up, just say you don’t love us anymore.” He said, throwing his hands up wildly, Selene just groaned knowing even he was upset.
“It was one night! WIll” She pleaded, they both glared at her. His name was William, the younger brother of Willow, which they fought hard to bring him back from their horrible parents but now there are all adults living peacefully... at least those two are.
“Yeah all it takes is one night! ….. Cheater…. Homewrecker.” He mocked her, being very dramatic, Selene rolled her eyes but still gave a breathless laugh. USally she’ll play along but she was really tired that she actually dropped right there. Luckily Will, dived fast enough to catch her head, Willow sighed used to this woman coming home in a fucked up state. Will picked her up and walked away to her bedroom. Willow went off to the kitchen to wrap up the food she asked for.
The next day came quickly, Selene opened her eyes but didn’t move a muscle until she was mentally ready to get up. She got ready, wearing her everyday outfit she usually wears at work, sorta like Red Hound’s hero costume. Now that she was fully awake, she went down to finally either get the cold treatment or a warm one she could never tell with those two. Once she made it downstairs past the living room to get to the kitchen, she found the siblings already serving their own breakfast. Except she didn’t see breakfast for her, she saw her burgers and curly fires, she flew to her seat as she was about to p….
Her phone rang, she groaned knowing what that meant, pulling out her phone she was pleasantly surprised it was Blazer instead. Flipping it open, Willow shook her head. She hated that she always used her old stuff and never bought herself anything. While Will was silently agreeing with Selene for how retro it was and cool it was for her to throw one away like in those spy movies. In Selene's mind she just didn’t care if it worked for her for this long, she was a vintage kinda gal. Even carrying walkman’s on long missions, or early 2000’s tech.
“Blonde Blazer good morning.” She greeted, starving out of her mind, but that quickly went away when she heard the news.
“Good Morning Red Hound, sorry for calling in so early but I really need you to come in…. As Rouge Knight i… we have reason to believe that Robert’s life might be in danger.” Blazer sounded serious, Selene immediately shot up from the table, Willow gave her a look to stay, while Will got up with her already knowing to get her stuff ready.
“I’m on my way!” Hanging up the phone, she marched out Willow hot on her heels.
“You didn’t even eat! Can’t they wait a bit longer?” Willow pleaded, Selene glanced back at her in comfort.
“You know how much they need me, except this is a special case.” Will loaded her up, she was wrapped in her black and red mist, her armor appearing right in front of them, no matter how much they saw that they will always be amazed every time. Running past Selene, Will opened the window with his powers of smoke, by pushing it open. Flying off as quickly as possible to the Sdn building, she arrived in under five minutes landing with a heavy thud on the ground. Many heroes, and other staff were staring at her in shock. The Rouge Knight is here at their building, many already began to speculate and move out of her way. Walking in, she passed many who were clocking in, going straight to Blazer’s office she had to pass all the dispatchers. She didn’t expect some of the Z team to already be here, it was Sonar, Flambae, and Prism. Prism immediately took out her phone and started to record her in awestruck.
“Holy fuck that’s Rouge Knight.” Flambae shocked, she couldn’t greet them nor reveal anything yet. She passed them but she stopped, the three of them were now having different scenarios running through their heads. Wanting to play a little joke, she walked back to them reaching for Prism's phone, she took off the video and stood in the middle of them. She took a selfie and tossed the phone back to them and walked off, not giving them time to even react.
“That photo is getting framed….” She could hear Sonar say, she tried her best not to chuckle. Reaching Blazers office, she just opened it without permission staying true to her persona, inside was Robert, Blazer, and Chase.
“Oh fuck, Rouge Knight, how in the fuck did you mange that shit!” Chase said, surprised to see her. Blazer just gave a tight smile, but didn’t answer. Robert looked shocked too, Blazer told him that she had someone special to help him out with the Shroud situation.
“Rouge Knight thanks for coming in at such short notice, this is Robert Robertson the 3rd, and Chase aka Trackstar.” Blazer introduced, Rouge Knight stuck out her hand towards Robert, who looked shocked again but quickly shook hands with her, same way with chase. They were about to continue but a scratching at the door caught their attention. Before they could say more, she turned around and opened the door, beef immediately started sniffing around before running up happily to her. Unable to resist Beef, she picked him up and started petting him.
“Um oh Beef, leave her alone…” Weakly defended Robert, trying to save Beef from her. Yet Beef kept licking her armor, trying to get to the person underneath.
“I guess not .... I'm so confused right now.” Robert whispered the end to the other two, he knew how she was like too. In the end he did know she was a hero, but a very brutal one.
“Um okay, like I was saying, Robert is Mecha Man Blue, and he’s being hunted down by a man named Shroud. Usually we would be able to handle it but it seemed he partnered up with someone as equally as dangerous. Erebus.” That name alone, made Rouge Knight almost snap her neck towards Blonde Blazer when she heard that name leave her lips.
“Erebus is dead.” All three flinching back, for the first time hearing Rogue Knight’s voice, the videos they have is no match. It sounded like multiple people talking at the same time, although the catch was they sounded like they were on their last dying breath. Which is something the heroes are acquainted with; never liking the sound of a person rattle breathing and yet right in the flesh where multiple as if begging for help or release.
“Wow…. um yeah fuck that, no offense.” Chase said, as Rouge Knight tilted her head towards him. Placing down the adorable dog, she once more commenced the meeting.
“Erebus is dead…. Um i’m almost sorry to ask- but did you kill him?” Blazer basically already knowing who she is didn’t stop the caution.
“Yes, and I made sure.” Having different looks of masked horror, they pressed on.
“Right. um … well i’m not saying your uh are uncreditable but we have sources that say otherwise, we actually have footage for you to see.” Handing the tablet to Robert for him to pass it to her much to his demise. Although all she did was grab it gently from him, now forming his own opinions of the anti-hero in front of him. The footage showed an unfortunate angle of the alley way, using her common sense she guessed this was actually someone's backyard kinda camera. It showed Shroud surrounded by many different villains, most of them glowing a soft red in different parts of their body. Luckily the video was short as someone approached Shroud, never showing their face; it was their powers that she recognized, yet she already knew it couldn’t be. Their powers worked slightly differently, analyzing the video leaving the three in suspense. Getting all the details as much as possible, there was something she knew Blazer overlooked, the other villains. In the back, the first second of the video has someone mostly hidden but she recognized that vanishing power from anywhere. Finally handing back the tablet, she stared at Robert, who in turn did not shy away from her gaze.
“Mecha man Blue….. I looked up to you when I was a child….” With that she left, leaving behind a very surprised Robert who was now swelling up with pride. Chase seeing it obviously had to joke around to ease up the tension left behind by Rouge Knight.
“Don’t let it get to your balls, kid.” The two men chuckled as they pushed each other, Blazer was the only one thinking about Rogue Knight demeanor. She never confirmed if she was willing to help them or not, she can only hope she agreed to it in her own little way. Seeing as she showed up immediately it could only give her a clue that she’s somewhat become attached to the Z- team. “Wait… is she helping us or not?” Chase finally asked, Blazer sighed but shrugged her shoulders.
I DON'T OWN SHIT CREDITS TO WHOEVER DREW THAT, if you have noticed in Sonar's story the girls share the same name, no I will not change it.