I was taking the streets, searching for any sign of the Rainbooms, while the other “heroes” either swung for flew around the city... Flash offered me a ride, but I declined, knowing that they’d expect a swinging superhero.
As dramatic as revealing my uniform was, I had to conceal it again, at least until I found them—then I’d let them know who I was. But until then, a zip-up hoodie and sunglasses hiding my identity. The streets were mostly empty, since that area of town was known for its high crime rate...
It was also my stomping grounds, so there was that.
I glanced at the floor and noticed a drop of blood, leading to larger and more frequent droplets, leading to an alleyway. I slowly approached, prepared for anything, and saw small electric sparks shoot out from the side of a dumpster.
“I have eyes on Rainbow Dash—my position.” I radioed as I took off my sunglasses and unzipped my hoodie, showing my symbol as I approached her, my hand on my holster.
I heard her croaks and I walked over to her and gave her a moment to recognize me.
“Oh, shit... ‘Tavia...”
I knelt down to her and noticed the deep slash on her torso...
“Aw, what happened to you? Did your little girlfriend stab you in the back? Again?”
She growled at me while wincing, with me cracking a smile at her pain.
“I trusted her... and she just...” She mumbled as Venom and Ironheart arrived next to me.
They both took a second to wince at her wound and soon Flash was next to her, examining her stomach wound.
“Yeah... if this was her, odds are there’s poison laced on these wounds... Venom, think you can heal her?” Flash asked his alien buddy.
Just as I started protesting the idea, Flash set his hand on her wound, and Venom got to work. I sighed and glanced up at the roof, only to see a dark figure with an axe-head seemingly emerging from her hand...
“Flash, watch out!” I said as I ran behind and pulled him back, just as a dark-red axe slammed down right where he would’ve been.
We all stepped back and we all watched in shock as another Venom with a skinny build, blood-red "skin", and peircing yellow eyes retracted its axe-hand back, and its face began peeling back, revealing...
“Pinkamena?” Flash asked in shock as Venom enveloped him again.
She flashed a crazed smile as she started laughing when she saw Venom’s eyes...
“Hello, Daddy!” She manically cackled as her face was consumed by the symbiote again.
Most of us weren’t able to respond to that comment as she shot out a couple of spikes towards us, me taking cover behind the dumpster.
“Find a way around her! N-No, she was talking to me!” Venom was most likely talking to Flash.
Rainbow got up from the ground, now rubbing away the makeup from her stomach.
“It was almost too easy...” She chuckled as she turned to Pinkamena, who nodded, and Rainbow teleported away, leaving us with the red monster.
“Pinkamena, you don’t want to do this!” Pip hopelessly tried to negotiate as he swung past a spiked tendril.
“Stop calling me Pinkamena! There’s only Carnage!” Carnage laughed as she took another swing at my brother.
Diamond was blasting her with her repulsors, and they were somewhat effective in angering her.
“Those... HURT!” Carnage shot out tendrils toward her and yanked her to the ground, tearing off her helmet and licking her own lips...
“I wonder how you will taste...” She giggled as she unhinged her jaw like a snake and prepared to bite her...
Until I pulled out my sawed-off and blasted a massive hole through her stomach, going clean through the other end.
She just smiled as she released Flash and her stomach hole was quickly covered and she let out a primal roar as she charged at me.
Only for Diamond to fire her jet-boots at her, causing her to screech in pain as Carnage quickly hid inside of Pinkamena, letting her slide to the ground, weakened from the tussle.
“Alright-- who wants to call Bon-Bon?” Adagio asked, glad the job was done.
Just as Flash went to call, she was already behind us, with Rainbow Dash in a form of sleep, and agents quickly coming to take Pinkamena. Pip let out a smile, walking alongside the agents, except he was on the wall.
“Nice goin’, guys—so, what’s the new security like at the Raft? Oh, did they double up on those drone-thingies?” He asked the agents.
“They’re not going to the Raft.” A very familiar voice said as Bon-Bon dreadfully approached us, taking a second to glare at me.
The rest of us took a moment to comprihend where they’d be going until Bon-Bon pulled out a tablet, while looking ashamed...
“The recently-dubbed Sinister Six are going to be part of a new S.W.O.R.D program, using meta-powered felons as agents... a project called ‘Suicide Squad’.” She said, her voice failing to hide her bitterness.
Adagio wasn’t having it—she quickly warped towards Bon-Bon in a fit of rage, her amulet starting to glow.
“What?! After all of the damage they caused—the S.W.O.R.D agents they killed, you’re just using them for your dirty work?!”
Diamond tried to interfere, but stopped once she remembered that Adagio is super-powered, and she isn’t.
“It’s not up to me! If it were, they’d be sentenced for life inside the Vault, but Director Tempest ordered otherwise, keeping tabs on them for the last year, hoping they’d improve, but they just got worse. You think I want this, Ms. Dazzle? I was a Canterloter, too—I lived every day of my life in terror, waiting for one of them or... all of them to get me expelled, way longer than your week at CHS!”
Flash and Venom quickly got in-between them, but I was already gone, watching from outside the alley, considering hopping on the transport Electro and Carnage were in, but I decided against it, biding my time and gathering information.
“That’s enough! Come on, Bon-Bon, you can’t just let Tempest do this.” Flash said, hoping to make a deal with her.
“...I’m sorry, Flash, but there’s nothing I can do. Trust me, I tried, already.” She said to him.
Flash took a minute, possibly thinking, before taking hold of his S.W.O.R.D badge and tearing it off his shirt, handing it to Bon-Bon.
“Then we’re out.” He said as he started walking away.
None of us were able to say something—even me, who was leaning against the wall, listening in. Venom then pulled out of Flash, trying to yank him back over.
“No! Flash, think this through, you can’t do this!” He fruitlessly begged as Flash quickly gained the upper hand.
“We can, and we are! The Rainbooms—the... Sinister Six need to either be arrested... or executed. They are not soldiers, and neither are we... not anymore.” Flash said as he walked away, only stopping once he walked past me.
I quickly zipped up my hoodie and followed him, much to his annoyance.
“Why are you following me, Octavia? I’m sure there’re other crimes going on in this street, alone...” He said.
I remained silent and caught up to him, walking right beside him.
“This is why I left S.W.O.R.D, Flash... most of them have good hearts, but the ones in charge? They don’t give a damn about justice. Only whatever suits them most.” I said to him.
Flash just grumbled as we kept walking until we were out of the street, and I set my hand on his shoulder.
“You made the right choice, Flash...” I told him.
He turned to me, his eyes starting to go misty...
“...So why doesn’t it feel like we did?”