Kismet

**Kismet** is a small time super-criminal and a minor character in Supercrooks.

## History

Johnny makes it out of prison and sees his girlfriend Kasey waiting for her. Both of them kiss and hit the road. He says that it feels good to be out of prison and she starts touching him.

As soon as they walk into their house they start kissing and removing their clothes. However, when Johnny walks into another room, he sees three men waiting for him and welcoming back. Kasey was not expecting them either and the four friends hug.

Kasey is angry that Johnny and the boys are all drinking. Johnny makes fun of his friend who only spreads bad luck and they all say that they've been doing a good job, but have another heist planned. They say that they do not want Kasey listening to them, but show him that they wanted to steal jewelery since its value did not change. The plan is to steal from 10 stores, only staying in one for a minute each. The plan was perfect since there would not be superheroes interfering either, and Johnny says that the plan sounds great. Kasey tells him to keep a low profile and get a real job.

Johnny's friends ask him if he wants to work for Kasey, but he says he does not want to do it. She tells them that they should not drink so much and asks them if they could not see that they were wasted. She winks at them, which makes them believe what she said and they all fall asleep.

Later, Johnny does the heist with his friends. On store number ten, they are forced to leave early, which they manage to do successfully.

Johnny and his friends try to leave the jewlery store, making their way on their bikes. However, they are chased by the cops. They remain optimistic since they believed that no superheroes were around, but unbeknownst to them, the police were requesting superhero backup.

Johnny and the other villains continue to move forward while being chased by the SFPD, but when Johnny causes all their cars to malfunction, they are able to move forward no problem. As they move through a tunnel, the police wait for them on the other side, but they do not slow down, as Transmit helps them phase through the cops.

Johnny asks his friends if the heist was planned by the Network, but they do not give him an answer. He also complains that he does not want to go back to jail one day after he had gotten out. The villains see that the cops are bringing a superhero, known as the Man Mountain. They try to keep moving forward, but Man Mountain causes them to slow down. Johnny shocks him, which only hurts him for a second, but the other villains also attack him in order to defeat him. After hitting him with bad luck, Man Mountain is hit by planes and burned by chemicals, which manages to immobilize him.

The villains keep moving as they are attacked by another superhero called Rubberball, who even takes the time to take photos with fans. Johnny is impressed by how fast new superheroes are showing up every day and tries attacking Rubberball, but cannot do so because of his speed.

The villains notice that Rubberball is also hurting civillians, but he stays confident that he would defeat them and manages to take one bike down. As the group moves forward, Rubberball knocks down buildings in order to stop them, but does not manage to do so with that move. Johnny is finally able to shock him, but that only slows him down temporarily.

Even when struck with bad luck, Rubberball is a seemingly invincible hero, even if he was killing more people than the villains. The villains combine their powers which makes it impossible for Rubberball to dodge all the ice and he is finally taken down. He begs them for mercy, but Johnny electrocutes him and they crush his legs with a bike.

The SFPF call The Praetorian.

Johnny tells Frostbite that that was exactly how he wanted to live his life and they say that bad luck worked in their favor. Johnny thanks them for opening his eyes as they cross the Golden State Bridge. However, as they celebrated, they were suddenly teleported out of their bikes and in front of The Praetorian, who tells them it was time to seize the day.

The supercrooks are shocked at Praetorian, who simply smiles at them. The Union of Justice broadcasts everything, describing Praetorian as very powerful.

Praetorian tells the crooks that they should prepare to die. The villains scatter, but Praetorian uses spark division in order to chase them.

Praetorian approaches Kismet, who uses his powers to give him bad luck. However, Praetorian reflects it back. Fish start falling from the sky on top of him, inclding a huge shark which tries to swallow him. Praetorian crushes the shark and says that Kismet had been crushed to death.

Kasey picks them up and tells them that she had helped them. She tells Johnny to get in and the rest of the gang teleport in the car later. Frostbite, Transmit, and Kismet celebrate her power, which Johnny does not want to talk about. She refuses to help them out later since Praetorian could develop a power against her. Kasey tells them they are all very stupid, but they tell her that they had gotten the jewelery, now having $8,000 per person.

The day before his wedding, Johnny shaves and opens the door, seeing nobody there. However, he is kidnapped and wakes up inside a car. Frostbite tells him that it was his last night as a single man, so he, Transmit, and Kismet wanted to give him a bachelor's party. They are kicked from a strip club for being villains and are all very drunk. They do not have any money, so Johnny hacks an ATM, which shocks all his friends. He explains that that was how he got around as a kid.

Frostbite asks Johnny if he would not like to do one last big job for Kasey's sake, but Johnny says that he would be clean now. However, Kismet says that his mother had once told him that money is always why marriage for love ends in divorce and tell him that there were many ATMs around. Transmit brings them their suits, which makes Johnny agree to do it. They ride on a big wagon and Johnny hacks the ATMs so Transmit could teleport and collect the money. They ride and Johnny wants to go to a bookstore to get Kasey a present, since Kasey wanted MBA books, which were expensive.

The cops go to the scene of the crime and Johnny, Transmit, Frostbite, and Kismet start running. Praetorian joins the cops as well and wonders where the villaisn are. The cops tell him that they are on a train, so they go to the station, where he gets on a train and finds the group of villains. Johnny starts running away from Praetorian who shifts his focus from his friends to him instead. When Johnny believes he had escaped, he turns around and finds The Gladiator looking at him and gets punched in the face.

Gladiator and Praetorian shake hands, saying that it was a good thing that justice had prevailed.