CW: abandonment, betrayal, mention of whipping, bruises, captured.
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“Please t-take me with you,” Sidekick begged, falling at Hero’s feet.
“You’ll only slow us down sidekick, you know that”, Hero pushed his hands away from his feet, “And don’t be such a scared cat, we’ll come back for you”
Sidekick didn’t believe that. He knows he is weak and that he is always slowing the team down, the hero and the team were always so kind, they would punish him, that’s right, but is because he is weak and slow and he has to learn his lesson.
“Please”, Sidekick begged again, but Hero just look at him with eyes full of disgust, the team was giving up on him, he felt that. Their patience was over, Sidekick didn’t know what he had done but he must’ve made some big mistake, he is just too stupid to know what, “I-I’m sorry, for-forgive me please.”
“Are you an idiot?”, Hero shouted making him flinch, “Listen, do you want to help us out?”, Hero asked using a soft voice.
“O-Of course”, Sidekick raised his head, if he did this right the team wouldn’t hate him, right?
“Do you want Villain to capture us?”, Hero asked softly and Sidekick shook his head, “Do you know we can’t fight her now, don’t you?”
Sidekick nodded, he knows they can’t fight, the team almost died after failing at an attack on Villain’s base, they got stuck with barely any food for two days, Sidekick hadn’t had food at all, Hero had said that only the ones who really can do anything could eat, and that Sidekick should wait until they got back to the base, he said he had to understand it.
“So I need you to stay behind”, those words made Sidekick’s eyes widen but before he could say anything Hero continued, “I need you to bait Villain so we can have time to go back to the base.”, Hero made a sign for the rest of the team, the we-are-leaving sign, “We’ll come back for you, or don’t you believe me?”
Hero made a threatening look as if challenging Sidekick to say that he is lying, “No- No, Hero, I-I….trust you”
The team didn’t spare him a glance before getting in the van and leaving him, he tried to be aware of his surroundings, the whole place was dirty with drying mud, it was late into the night and the moon didn’t shine enough to see much ahead.
Sidekick got up and tried to find somewhere to hide, he was disobeying, he knew, but Villain is so scary and he couldn’t help but hide, he isn’t as strong as the team, they tell him that all the time, it hurts to hear but Sidekick convinced himself that it was for his own safety so he would get into a fight he can’t win, after all, the team never meant to hurt him, right?
Sidekick spot a wall, wondering how could be a night so dark as that one, he leaned on the wall, a team member had punished him earlier, probably breaking a rib in the process, Sidekick was getting even more useless and stupid with time and he had to be punished more and he didn’t even know the reason.
Sidekick jumped when a bright light was focused on his face, “Found one!”, a female voice shouted from somewhere, he tried to run but he bumped into a huge man and fell, he looked up at the man who didn’t budge an inch, he could kill him so easily, he tried to focus in Hero’s words, but when the team will be back? How long he’ll have to survive with Villain and her team?
“Where is the rest of you people, ugh?”, the tall man asked angry, picking Sidekick up by his shirt, if the woman was still focusing the light on them they would be able to see the bruises, old and new, on his abdomen and back.
“Clean around here”, a voice coming from the man’s radio said, “The team C will keep northwest.”
“Found one here”, the man responded, “Team B will go back to base.”, The man raised Sidekick as if he was a stray cat, “You better starting talking once we get there.”
He then put Sidick over his shoulder like a sack and starting waking, Sidekick didn’t fight back, he was helpless alone, he can’t do anything without Hero and the rest of the team. The man, Tom, Sidekick heard on the way, put him into the trunk of a small car, he was used to it, so he got in the position that makes it easier to breathe.
He tried to think about how things would be when they got in the base, he would be tortured for sure, just the thought of it made his whole body shiver, how bad would it be? how long? they would ask about the team, he knows that, and about Hero, but Sidekick can’t say anything, the team would hate him for good if he did.
When the trunk was open Sidekick’s eyes had to get used to the well the garage, his mind was still dizzy when a pair of big hands pulled him up by his arm, he whimpered a little since the hands were pressing a cut wound.
The next second all went black, a blindfold was tightly tied over his eyes, he was almost grateful for not needing to see the sudden blindly light of the garage, he let himself be dragged, his legs barely able to keep up in following the man, after he feels twice the man let out an angry sigh and some curse and then put Sidekick over his shoulders the rest of the way.
Sidekick let out a groan when he was thrown inside a small cell, he heard the door being locked followed by the sound of the man’s step get further and further away, they didn’t cuff him, Sidekick took the blindfold out and found himself in a dungeon, it didn’t smell bad and the place was well lit, nothing like he thought a villain’s dungeon would be.
He didn’t have to wait long before someone came, a woman with roses tattoos around her neck, barely covered by her short dark hair, Villain, he was sure of that, anyone would be, her face was in so many ‘Dead or Alive’ posters that the whole city would recognize her in one fast glance, not many would dare to do something about it, though.
Sidekick instinctively looked down, as a member of Hero’s team he shouldn’t low his head in front of the enemy but he wasn’t used to looking anyone in the eye, he backed away when he spotted the whip in Villain’s hand. Whips hurt so so much, he gulped, Hero uses the whip often so at least Sidekick thought he would take it, right he would take it all, he wouldn’t betray his team.
He took a deep breath, trying to shut the voice in his head, the voice saying that he was all alone now, he wanted to believe the team was coming back for him, he wanted it so badly because he wasn’t sure he could handle it alone.
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