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waitingandwishing · 3 days ago

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(Ya'll don't come for me but I made a mistake with updating chapters so THIS ONE is supposed to be chapter 2) (Cross posted on Wattpad)

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Y/N grunted, unable to breathe as well with the mask covering half her face.

“Don’t worry, we’re almost there.” Vi grinned as she pulled herself over the ledge and onto the roof, Y/N following after, “Hey, Powder! Come take a look!”

Powder looked up from the roof, squinting her eyes before taking Y/N’s hand and landing on the roof as well. “Whoa.” She muttered.

“It’s nice getting above it all, huh?” Vi asked the two with a smile.

Y/N sighed, placing her hands on her hips as she took in the view. Unlike the Undercity, the buildings were fancy, with colorful tiles and various architectural styles though metal pipes were still visible. The structures were intricate and detailed, with spires and domes.

The sky was bright blue with fluffy clouds, flying machines and airships flying in the distance. Suddenly, another airship passed overhead the five of them.

“One day, I’m gonna ride in one of those things.” Powder smiled before turning to Y/N, “You’ll ride with me, right?”

Before Y/N could answer, Mylo spoke up. “And one day, I’m gonna shoot one of ‘em down.” He raised his hand with a finger-gun, mimicking a blaster. Vi smacked his arm down as she walked ahead.

“Vi, are you sure about this?” Claggor asked her with concern. “Look if we get caught, we’re-”

“We’re not gonna get caught.” Vi reassured him with a slight smile as she dropped down to another roof, “We’ll be in and out before anyone notices.”

“All right, everybody, follow me. Just don’t look down.” Vi slid down the roof, catching herself on one of the ledges before jumping and swinging herself onto a small balcony. She stood on the balcony fence before eventually jumping to the next roof.

Claggor frowned as Mylo cracked his hands, pushing the larger boy aside as he copied the same thing Vi did although a bit messily. Claggor following after taking a cupcake.

The masked girl turned to Powder, “Hey, you gonna go? I don’t want you to be the last.” She said.

“I’m not a baby.” Powder frowned, “Just because you’re older than me doesn’t mean you have to baby me.”

“I know you’re not a baby.” Y/N said, “I just know that my first time doing this I almost got my ass caught by Peanut Patrol.”

Powder nodded, swallowing before looking at Y/N with a slightly scared look, “Can you do it with me?” She asked.

Y/N nodded before sliding down to the ledge and landing on the balcony, looking back at Powder and waiting for her to drop down as well.

“Powder look at me!” Vi called from the next roof. “What did I tell you?”

“That…” Powder exhaled, “I’m ready.”

“That’s right. So?”

Powder looked at Y/N, who nodded. The blue haired girl breathed deeply before landing on the ledge, and swinging herself on the balcony. “Nice.” She heard Y/N mutter under her breath.

Powder quickly got down, Y/N beside her as they hung from the ledge. “A bird can’t fly without both of its wings,” Y/N smiled

“Right.” Powder nodded before the two jumped. Y/N landed with ease, graceful as ever before turning to see Powder barely hanging off the edge with Vi holding her sister's arm.

Powder glanced at everyone before following Vi and Y/N, Mylo scoffing with rolled eyes before they followed the two older girls as well.

“What if Vander finds out we’re all the way up here?” Claggor asked as they scaled beside a roof.

“Look around you, you think anyone topside’s going hungry?” Vi asked, “Besides, this is the exact job Vander would’ve pulled when he was our age.”

“They’re just scared of losing their things.” Y/N commented, clenching her fists tightly, “They don’t need anything, they want everything.”

Y/N didn’t hate many things. The few things she hated were reasonable though. Snooty Piltover people (Though… Viktor didn’t count. Never mind that), Blood was a big one. She hated blood, it made her uneasy. And she also hated how she could never get the dirt and grime off of her mask and clothes.

“I’m going. Are you with me or not?” Vi asked everyone.

Claggor turned to Mylo, who shrugged. “Vander’s gonna kill us.” He sighed.

“Not before Topside kills us first!” Y/N grinned, jumping down and swinging onto the balcony below her. She looked around before saying, “All clear!”

Vi followed with Claggor, Mylo, and Powder coming through next. “Thanks, Y/N.” Vi fistbumped Y/N with a smile.

Mylo looked around, reaching out to open the door before realizing it was locked. He groaned, “Who locks their balcony?” He muttered before bending down and picking the lock.

“There are a lot of enforcers down there.” Claggor muttered.

“Means we’re in the right place.” Vi said before turning her attention to Mylo, “You gonna get that door open any time soon?”

“Working on it.” Mylo muttered, “Seeing as I’m the only one who knows how to pick locks.”

“I've known, what do you mean-”

Vi kicked the door down easily before entering, brushing past Mylo with the rest following her.

Y/N widened her eyes at the millions of books. The objects hanging from the ceiling reminded her so much of Viktor. “Wow…” She muttered. The thought of him made her slightly sad as she picked up a book. ‘Magic…’ She thought with a small smile. “Fascinating…’

Y/N looked around before tucking the book in her own bag. She’d keep the book to herself, perhaps she could learn something from it. Following Powder into the other room, she searched everything though couldn’t find anything as interesting as the book she had taken.

“Y/N look at this!” Powder smiled, pointing to the blue stones.

“Wow…” The masked girl smiled before turning to Powder, “You think we could split them, Bluejay?”

“Totally.” Powder snickered before hearing Vi.

“Powder we gotta go!” Vi whispered.

The two turned to each other before Powder pocketed half the blue stones and Y/N pocketed the other, not noticing the small pocket watch and one of the blue stones falling to the ground.

“Go, go, go!” Y/N yelled, pushing everyone out the door before a blue explosion hit the side of the building. ‘What the hell was that?!’

The ground started to crack, blue electric following the ground as Vi yelled. “Hold on!” The rubbled almost landed on some Enforcers, Vi looking over head.

“Vi, we’ve gotta go!” Y/N yelled, pulling Vi’s arm. A honking sound could be heard as they landed on the ground and started running as fast as they could.

“Stop right there!” An enforcer yelled, throwing one of their weapons that almost hit Claggor.

“Keep up!” Y/N yelled as they ran through the courtyard full of people, throwing a person in front of her behind her.

Another enforcer threw the weapon down from the bridge above, Powder barely dodging it before continuing to run quickly. They ran across the bridge as it started to raise for another boat.

“Do we jump on the boat?!” Vi asked Y/N, who shook her head.

“Jump across!” The white haired girl yelled, picking up her feet as she jumped across. “This way, c’mon!” She shouted, turning the corner sharply with hope the others could catch up. If you look back, you aren’t coming back. That’s what Vander always told her.

They rounded another corner and into an alleyway, Vi pulling on one of the smoke pipes to conceal the group. The red haired girl pulled on one of the pipe coverings, gesturing for the five of them to get in.

The masked girl sighed, the dirt from before still clinging onto her before she entered the manhole and slid down to land on a pile of scraps. She yelped, rolling to the side as Mylo nearly fell on top of her.

“Thought last time was the last time we were gonna do this.” Mylo complained, taking a piece of seaweed out from his hair.

Y/N groaned, brushing off dirt and wiping off muck from her arms and clothes as best as she could without smearing it.

“Well, this times the last time.” Vi glared at the back of Mylo’s head.

“Guys, what was that? What the hell happened back there?” Claggor asked.

Powder looked at Y/N for help before the white haired girl spoke up, “I think we set off a security alarm, the guy’s an engineer. Had a stupidly elaborate alarm for some of his actually important loot.” Y/N gave a pointed look at Mylo before helping Vi up.

“Guys, we just emptied a Piltover penthouse right under the enforcer's nose.” Vi grinned.

“They still saw our faces.” Y/N commented. “And how many people do you actually know with pink and blue hair?”

“Oh, stop it, Sizzle! We’ve got a whole haul for Vander to come back to! He’ll be so happy he’ll cry!” Vi put an arm around Y/N with a grin. Y/N smiled.

“Alright, alright. We just have to get back before curfew.” Y/N chuckled as they walked down the hill of trash. The white haired girl turned her head, winking at Powder who mouthed ‘Thank you’ to her.

After they climbed out the sewers and walked through the streets, the smell of smoke suddenly filled Y/N’s nose. She coughed, waving her hand in front of her face with a frown.

They walked past a blonde boy, “Nice haul.” he commented.

“You could say that.” Mylo said casually, though Vi gave him an annoyed glare.

“Heard there was some action across the river.” The blonde boy called out to them, flipping a coin in between his fingers. “Someone, uh, someone really kicked the nest, huh?”

“Is that so?” Vi asked, turning before seeing two other guys standing in front of them.

“But now you’re, you’re tracking this mess of yours through my streets.”

“Your streets? What makes you think-”

“Listen, we don’t want any trouble, okay?” Claggor stepped in front of Vi, interrupting her.

“Hear that, Decker? They don’t want any trouble.” The bald boy grinned, his smile sickening.

“Y’know in my experience, trouble finds you.” Decker frowned, “There’s no reason this has to get ugly. How about you share a little taste of your treasure there and we’ll call it even.”

“No, no, no. We worked too hard to-”

Vi walked up, placing the bag down on the ground. “Just a taste?” She asked.

“Just a-” Vi slammed the bag into the boy's face. Y/N grinned, looking around before finding another boy running up behind Vi.

“Behind you!” Y/N yelled, twisting as she jumped and kicked the boy in the face, sending him to the ground.

“Thanks, Y/N!” Vi smiled before a punch landed on her face.

A blow to the side sent Y/N stumbling. Her vision blurred as a sharp pain shot through her ribs, but adrenaline kicked in, blinding her to the pain. She ducked again, narrowly avoiding another wild punch, before retaliating with a quick jab to the jaw.

The bald man staggered, his lip split open, but he fought through it, driving his fist into the younger fighter’s gut. The impact left him gasping for air.

A discarded pipe caught Y/N's eye, and she seized it in desperation, swinging it. The metal collided with the side of the larger fighter’s head, the sickening crack of bone making a shiver run down his spine. The man crumpled to the ground, blood seeping from a deep gash on his temple.

The blood made the masked girl sick, making her want to throw up. She felt a slight crackle in her bones, something blue twirling around her finger tips. Had she broken one of the stones? Was she about to explode?!

But it was gone in an instant. And then another hit to her leg made her wake up from the weird electric tingle.

A brutal swing came, aiming at her head. Y/N ducked just in time, feeling the rush of air as the punch whizzed past her. The force of the missed strike left the boy off balance, and Y/N lunged forward, delivering a savage knee to her opponent's midsection. The blow landed with a sickening thud.

With little remorse left, she sent her foot up, curb stomping the boy’s face before wiping her bloody nose. “Knocked out.” Y/N simply said, walking to Vi’s side as the rest of them left the scene.

“Wait!” The blonde boy yelled, holding up a shard of glass.

“I thought I taught you a lesson last time.” Y/N tightened the bandages on her hand, “That’s a harsh scar you’ve got… Right there.” Y/N pointed a finger to the scar on the boy's eyebrows.

The boy’s eyes widened slightly, his gaze faltering as Vi stepped up. “You wanna see how that ends?” She asked, bending down to look at him eye to eye. The boy hesitated before backing away into a run.

The masked girl sighed, brushing the dirt off her hands. “Well… Where’s Powder?”

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“You did what?!” Mylo yelled, his voice ringing through the room, loud and sharp with outrage. His frustration was palpable as he glared at Powder, his hands moving in exasperation.

“I’m sorry,” Powder said softly, her voice trembling as she tried to explain herself. She looked down at the ground, unable to meet his gaze, tears welled in her wide, sorrowful eyes. “I tried to fight him off with Mouser, but… She didn’t work.” Her words came out like a plea, but they did little to ease the tension in the air.

“Who saw that coming?” Mylo said with a sarcastic laugh, raising his hand as he looked around the room for support. His tone dripped with mockery, and he gestured wildly as if expecting someone else to step in and share his frustration.

But the others remained silent, their expressions ranging from tired to frustrated, adding to the weight in the room.

“Hey, it’s not her fault,” Y/N said firmly, stepping forward to stand beside Powder. She crossed her arms, her dark eyes narrowing at Mylo. “We were the ones who picked a fight, and we should’ve been more careful.”

“We never should have gone over there,” Claggor groaned, leaning back against the wall with a frustrated sigh. His head thudded lightly against the surface, and he closed his eyes as if the weight of everything was finally catching up to him.

“Doesn’t matter now,” Vi said, her voice cutting through the conversation like a blade. She shook her head and placed a hand on Powder’s shoulder, the gesture meant to be comforting but tinged with disappointment. “The stuff’s gone. It’s all gone.” She let out a sigh, her voice softening slightly. “At least you’re okay, Powder. That’s what matters.”

“Okay?!” Mylo’s voice rose again, his frustration bubbling over as he spun around to face Vi. “What about us? I get my face bashed in, and she just gets a pass?”

“She’s not an asshole like you,” Y/N shot back, her voice sharp and unwavering. She stepped closer, placing herself squarely between Powder and Mylo, her arms still crossed defensively. Her glare was cold, her tone laced with annoyance. “Maybe you should think about that before running your mouth.”

Vi opened the door to the abandoned house, motioning for everyone to follow. The group shuffled inside, their footsteps heavy against the wooden floorboards.

They approached the hidden elevator, its creaky metal frame standing in stark contrast to the tense silence. Without a word, Vi pulled the lever, and the elevator began its slow descent into the dimly lit shaft below.

As the elevator rattled and creaked, Mylo leaned closer to Powder, his voice dropping to a conspiratorial whisper, though his words were still biting.

“Every time. Every time she comes, something goes wrong,” he hissed, his gaze fixed on her. “I don’t know what it is, but she jinxes every job.”

“Hey, she’s not a jinx,” Y/N’s voice broke through the tense silence like a whip crack. “Just drop it, Mylo.”

Mylo opened his mouth as if to respond, but the look Y/N gave him silenced whatever retort he had. He leaned back against the elevator wall, muttering something under his breath as the group continued their descent in tense silence.

Powder kept her eyes fixed on the floor, her fingers nervously twisting the fabric of her shirt as she tried to make herself invisible. The elevator continued its slow journey downward, carrying them deeper.

(A/N: I believe that Viktor was about 20 in the first three episodes or something like that so I made Y/N about 18.)

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