#there was a large group that walked past the building

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⊙ Sweets ⊙

Summary- After the explosion the group has to run back to Zaun, the crappy city they call home and deal with the consequences of their actions.

A/N- I’m in a writing mood so I’m getting a lot of writing out while I still can. This chapters word count is a LOT more than the others. Not proofread. As always constructive criticism is appreciated!!

Word count- 2705

Chapter 3

The girl stirred as Claggor lifted her up. She had fallen onto the ground after an…explosion?

“What…what happened..?” She asked, trying to ignore the ringing in her ear as she held her head with one hand. The screams of hostile enforcers snapped her out of her trance as the group made a beeline towards Zaun.

The loud horns on the top of buildings were now blaring as the group navigated their way through the winding streets of Piltover and past shocked and horrified citizens while angry enforcers chased them. “Faster!” Vi yelled as the group rapidly approached the rising bridge that connected Piltover to the edge of Zaun. She grunted as she jumped over the gap between the two sides of the bridge, looking behind her to make sure Powder got over safe.

She slammed into a wall as she followed Vi and Powder, quickly glancing at Claggor and Mylo behind her. She felt her legs going numb and prayed that she would be able to keep up with the group.

The group had finally made their way to a garbage chute large enough for them to fit through. “Cmon I just got this shirt!” Mylo protested but Vi kicked him into the garbage chute, resulting in him going through face first. The rest of the group quickly followed behind him.

The kids groaned as they landed on the gigantic pile of trash, no one enjoyed smelling like shit. “I thought that last time was the last time we were gonna do this..” Mylo muttered as he peeled a piece of mysterious, sticky green goo off of his head. “This is the last time” Vi replied, the annoyance in her voice obvious enough to get Mylo to shut up. “Well at least we’re all okay” The other girl stood up and dusted herself off.

“Guys what the hell was that-what happened” Claggor asked as the adrenaline started to disappear, causing him to be exhausted. At Claggor’s words everyone turned to Powder.

“I didn’t do anything!” Powder yelled to defend herself. Y/N sighed and helped Powder stand up. “You could fill a whole damn library with all the things you didn’t do” Mylo remarked as he stood up and attempted to clean his new shirt.

“Guys, we just raided a Piltover penthouse right under the enforcer's noses. So if you're done beating yourselves up, let’s get this home” Vi smiled as she walked down from the trash pile. Vi’s words brought a smile to everyone’s face, even Mylo’s. For a bunch of poor, scrappy Zaun kids doing their first mission, this was actually amazing.

Claggor grunted as he picked up Powder and helped her get onto the surface where Vi pulled her up. The group walked through the outskirts of Zaun, where the people in between lived. It was still a shitty pace but it wasn’t nearly as bad as the heart of Zaun but at the same time it wasn’t anywhere close to being as good as upside. To Piltover, it was still Zaun.

“Nice hall” A tall lanky blonde boy called out to the group as they walked by. They all recognised that voice, deckard. He and his crew stayed in the shadows and often stole from passerbyers around here.

“You could say that” Mylo responds, earning him a glare from Vi. “Heard there was some action across the river” Deckard continues. This gets the group to stop walking and turn around to face him. If Deckard already knew about what had just happened it was safe to say that more than half of Zaun had been told.

“But now your-your dragging this mess through my streets” Deckard murmured as other members of his crew showed up, cornering us. Powder shuffled closer to the older girl besides her. “Your streets?” Vi scoffed as she prepared her fists. It was obvious that they were gonna have to fight them, the girl just hoped that no one would get seriously injured.

“We don’t want any trouble, okay?” Claggor interrupts Vi before she can go on a rant to Deckard and beat him to a pulp. The girl discreetly placed her hand on Powders back so she would be able to push her out of any trouble.

“Hear that Deckard, they don’t want any trouble” *A tall boy with a buzz cut and broken nose scoffed at them.

“In my experience, trouble finds you…So why don’t we share the haul pretty” Y/N would roll her eyes if the situation was different but she knew that would make it worse so she just clenched her jaw and kept quiet, pulling Powder behind her.

Vi almost immediately walked in front of the two girls, blocking them from Deckard's gaze as she glanced down at the bag full of their loot. “Just a taste?” She murmured. “Just a-“ Deckard began but was cut off by Vi swinging the bag directly at his face.

“Shit…” The other older girl groaned as she let go of Powder, preparing herself for the fight to come. She hated fighting, it’s not like she was bad at it, she was decent for a malnourished girl with almost no training. It just hurt like hell, no one likes taking punches to the face all because someone else couldn’t keep their mouth shut, especially when Vi was with her.

The girl quickly moves as another lanky boy tries to punch her. The boy scowls before practically jumping on top of her and punching her. The girl grunts as she punches and pushes him, he smirks as she begins choking her, her limbs feeling tingly and her vision starting to blur. Luckily her hand grabs a large rock and she begins banging it into the boy's head, sending him unconscious in the process.

The girl panted as she stood up on her two wobbly feet, still dizzy and trying to regain all of her oxygen. She looked around to see Mylo standing on top of a boy who’s unconscious while Claggor kicks one to the ground. “Well that wasn’t my best fight” she murmured as she held her head with her hand and glanced at Vi who was still fighting Deckard.

Vi grunted as she kicked Deckard into the group of wooden boxes, a small smile spreading onto the other girl's face as she watched her. Vi looked back at the group with a small but proud smile. “This day is turning out alright after all” Mylo smiled as he stretched his arms above his head. The other girls brow furrowed as she looked around for a moment before being brought back by a yell.

“Hey!”

The group turned around to see Deckard stumbling while holding a knife tightly in his hand. Vi rolled her eyes before stepping towards him and leaning down to his level. “wanna see how that ends?” She questions as she waits for him to give up.

Deckard glances back at the trio waiting for Vi and lowers his pocket knife slightly before slowly retreating. “Wait.” The other girl says as she looks around. “Where’s Powder?”

Their loot was gone, the only thing they had left to prove that this whole mission wasn’t a waste of time, and now it was gone. A guy had chased after Powder and she threw it in the ocean in order to escape. The older girl was just glad it was all over and she didn’t have to see Vi, and her friends getting hit by Deckard and his crew.

As the group took the elevator down to the undercity she felt a churn in her stomach, she knew there would be consequences for their actions, she just didn’t know when.

“Vander learns none of this” Vi muttered as she rested her head on her hand, staring intently at the floorboards as the rest of the group sat down on the old, worn couches. “No worries there, Powder des next to Powder says seriously “what! You know I’m right” Mylo replied, using exaggerated hand gestures.

“I tried okay!” Powder yells back at him. “You don’t get it! Your older, bigger, stronger it-it isn’t fair” She continues angrily, obviously not impressed with Mylo.

Before he can respond Vander opens the door and looks at the small group. He notices both Vi and Powder avoiding his gaze. “Everyone alright” He says as he takes slow but heavy footsteps down the stairs.

“Yeah..we're good..” Y/N murmurs as her line of sight is now too focused on the crooked flooring beneath them. “Good, that’s good. So I don’t suppose any of you can explain why I’m hearing bout’ an explosion and foot chase on topside” Vander responds in his interrogation voice, this is when everyone knew they were in trouble.

“What the hell were you kids thinking” He nurtured as he stood next to the couch that powder and Y/N were sitting on. “That we can handle a real job” Vi interjects, finally looking at him.

“A ‘real’ job” He responds, his tone getting more angry by the second.

“We got our own tip, planned a route, no one even saw us!”

“You blew up a building.” Vander said more sternly than before. “Did you even stop to think about what could’ve happened to you, to them.” Vander gestures to the other four kids sitting on the couches watching them fight.

Vi glances up for a moment, her eyes almost immediately locking onto the other girls while the boys and Powder look down at the floor. Vi sighed as she once again rested her head in her hand.

Vander sighed as well, rubbing his face with one of his hands. “Where did you even get this tip” He questions the group. “Little man..” Powder said quietly, referring to Ekko. This caused Vander to sigh again as he locked eyes with Ekko’s older sister sitting next to Powder. Vi slammed her fist into the side of the fluffed chair before she stood up to face him. “I took us there, if you're gonna be mad at someone, be mad at me. But you're the one who said that we have to earn our place in this world!” Vi argued back.

“I also said to stay out of Piltover's business.” Vander said more sternly as he stared at Vi.

“Why!?” Vi yells back. “We’re fighting for scraps down here while they have plenty! When did you get so comfortable living in someone else's shadow!” Both Powder and the other girl flinched at Vi’s words, knowing that she was in deep shit now.

“Everyone out.” Vander said roughly as he stared at Vi with his angry eyes. Once by one everyone filed out of the room, the other girl taking one final glance at Vi before closing the door.

While Vi was getting the longest lecture known to mankind the rest of the kids were outside, Powder looking through the trash for new parts for her bombs and the other three leaning against the wall talking.

“I should probably go, I gotta talk to Ekko..” The girl trails off as she stands up properly now. “Oh can you tell Vi I need to talk to her once Vander lets her go?”

“Sure” Claggor responds but Mylo, being the nosy guy he is pried further. “What about?”

“It’s a secret” the girl replied with a small laugh as Mylo scoffed. The girl rolled her eyes before running off towards Benzo’s shop. “Jealous?” Claggor remarks with a smirk.

“What! Me, jealous!? Never.” Mylo responds defensively before going back to his eavesdropping.

“Hey sis!” Ekko called out happily as he carefully placed down his wrench and stopped focusing on the grandfather clock he’s been trying to fix for ages now.

His older sister gladly hugged him back for a few moments before dropping him back into his feet. “Woah…what happened?” He asked, gesturing to the bruises around her neck and the cuts on her body. “Some idiot fought us at the elevator” His sister said, brushing off any concern.

“Oh ya! How did it go” He asked as he started putting his tools away. “Awful” she sighed, sitting onto the small table in the corner for displaying items.

“Ekko…” His sister started off slowly. Ekko sighed, knowing that this was going to happen eventually. “I know I know, I shouldn’t go off to Piltover by myself..” he murmured as he stared at the floor.

His older sister sighed as she rested a hand on his shoulder. “You know what will happen if you get caught doing something up there..” a shiver ran up her spine at the thought of her brother, the only family she has left, being thrown into a cell in Stillwater. “If you stay down here for a while then…I’ll take you up there with me, just the two of us for a day” The girl smiled as she saw her little brother's face light up.

“Wait really, really!” He said excitedly. “Yea!” She giggled. “But only if you stay down here.”

“Oh, speaking of topside, did you ask her?” He murmured as he ran up the stairs to their shared bedroom. His sister groaned behind him as she sluggishly and dramatically walked up the stairs. “I’ll take that as a no,” Ekko replied as he jumped onto his small bed.

“It shouldn’t be this hard” She murmured as she collapsed onto the mattress on the floor that she sleeps on so her brother can have the bed. “Well it’s kinda a big deal, you know since you're telling her you're in loovveeee with her” He laughed as he saw his sister glaring at him from the mattresses. “Not helping” She muttered

“Vi?” Powder asks as she draws a cartoon face into one of her many bombs. “Yeah?” Vi responds as she sits down next to her little sister. “When are you gonna ask her out?” Powder asks again as she continues working on her bomb.

Vi tries to hide the blush that spreads across her cheeks as she looks away from her sister. “What-what makes you say that”

“It’s kinda obvious” Powder responds nonchalantly “you do that gross googly eye thing at her whenever she talks to you”

“That obvious..huh..?” Vi murmurs as she looks at the ground. “Do you think she even feels the same…?” Vi’s leg started to bounce as her mind went through the many scenarios that could occur if she rejected her.

“Well if you don’t do it Mylo’s gonna” Powder remarks as she places her monkey bomb down after adding the finishing touches. “You really think he has a chance” Vi scoffed, the thought of her brother dating the one girl that she’s ever liked made her stomach churn.

“No, but you can save him the embarrassment by asking first” Powder giggled as she stood up, stretching her arms above her head.

Both Vi and Powder's heads snapped to the door as the girl they were just walking about gently opened it. “Hey guys” she waved sweetly as she walked over to the bunk bed that Vi was sitting on.

“Mind if I steal your sister for a minute” she asks and Powder happily agrees before running out of the room, giving Vi a smug look.

Vi ignores her sister and stands up next to the girl “so what did you want?” That question seems to make the other girl's fingers fidget with the hem of her shirt, rolling back onto the balls of her feet.

“Well..umm, Piltovers having this thing���they-they’ve got fireworks and shit..I was just wondering if you’d want to come..” She says, her voice getting quieter as she gets to the last part of her sentence. Vi’s heart raced, the girl already looked really cute when she was shy, and now she’s asking her out on a date! “Like…like a date?” Is the only thing that Vi can manage to say.

“It-it doesn’t have to be a date! But if you want it to…then that’s fine..” she murmured as she looked back at the floorboards.

Vi smiled before answering “y-yeah…a date sounds..nice..” she laughed as she tried to hide her growing blush. The shorter girl's head shot up at Vi’s confirmation and she smiled sweetly. “Yeah..then it's a date”