The Vanguard: Issue 1

Welcome!!

This is the first issue of our new DC Fanon roleplay storyline called *The Vanguard*. This storyline is Role-played and made by a certain number of experienced RPers. These are our RPers, and their OCs:

* TheSuperiorOne - Kyrie Lawrence (Prime Earth)
* Thecryingwolf3553 - Matthias Schafer (Prime Earth)
* PyroHunter16 - Colton Mueller (Prime-Earth)
* Infamoussnake - Roland Blake (Prime Earth)
* Guilthegreat - Damian Falls (Prime Earth)

If you want to join this RP, please ask in the comments and you will need most of our approvals to RP in here. Also, you need to have a DC OC (Original Character) submitted to deviantART OR this wiki and must share it with us so we know who we are RPing with. ***Disclaimer: Any real-life or fictional brands are used in as a parody.*** None of us are actually sponsored, nor do we care to be sponsored. Now let us begin the RP and enjoy :)

Key:

* Normal writing is the dialogue between the characters.
* *Italic writing is a special writing type for characters with second personalities or long distance dialogue (telepathy or calls).*
* ***Bold and italic writing are the actions that characters do.***
* Writing in between the \*asterisk\* means that the character is talking in their heads.

## January 7th, 2018

***It was partly cloudy, with a high chance of rain today. In the city of Gotham, life was going along normally for everyone. One of the main characters, Kyrie was in the Kord Industries building as he yawned as the professor kept talking. He was in the middle of a few college classes that were taking a tour of the building that does research and development. Kyrie looked around and tries to squeeze out of the crowd when he saw an interesting looking device encased in glass. He inspected the device and it seemed to be a weapon of some sorts, in development. Kyrie looked around and saw a black haired kid who was looking at a clipboard, with a coat on.***

Kyrie: Erm, excuse me? What is this device over here?

Colton: That's a complicated energy weapon. It's in development, so be very careful around it. ***Colton checked his clipboard, which had the blueprints for the weapon he was looking at*** An anti-particle weapon, huh? Interesting. How's school, Kyrie?

Kyrie: Woah, you know my name?

Colton: Don't remember me? ***Colton turns to face Kyrie, smiling*** I'm Colton.

Kyrie: Ah! I remember you. Highschool dude! You work here or something? ***He looks at the anti-particle weapon and nods slowly.*** That looks awesome by the way.

Colton: Yeah, got a job here. It pays well, and I get to do what I want. The weapon's not mine, but thanks anyway.

Kyrie: Ah, I see. Show me around! That group is a little boring... ***He looked in the group and saw another guy he kind of recognized.***

***The guy he saw was an attractive blond haired boy, lean, tall and lithesome. It was Matthias Schafer, looking around in interest at the technology, then becoming distracted looking at some college girls passing by.***

Matthias: Well hello... ***He smiled, as they passed by without notice him staring. He then saw Kyrie across the room and headed over to him.*** Hey you, I recognise that face...

Kyrie: Yeah, I remember you Matthias! How's it been? We were all classmates right?

Matthias: Wait...Kyrie? Colt? Oh shit, guys I haven't seen you since highschool, god those were fun times...

Colton: Thought that'd be you, Matthias. It's been a while. We should hang out again sometime soon. Like back in high school.

Matthias: Duude, we totally should. You guys were like the only humans I liked...

Kyrie: We'll do that! Let's exchange numbers or something. ***He pulls out his cell phone***

Matthias: Do I have a phone on me... ***He said to himself, feeling around his pants.*** Yes I do. Alright here. ***They exchanged numbers and saved them.*** This is awesome, meeting you guys again.

Kyrie: I know right! There was an exhibit downstairs, saw some awesome tech. Wanna check it out a bit more?

Colton: If that's the case, I'll lead you guys. Gotta have someone watching over you. ***He put his clipboard down and told his supervisor what he was doing***

Kyrie: Great! ***Kyrie and Matthias follow Colton down the floor and they start to inspect some of the devices that were there, socializing and laughing together.***

## An hour later...

***The trio were up 5 more floors, checking out some cool technology that Colton personally liked by some colleagues. Kyrie and Matthias were away from their groups but that didn't bother them one bit as the technology being shown by Colton was more interesting.***

Kyrie: Glad this technology is going to be used to help people! Seems super advanced too-

***To his surprise, a sudden crash was heard, then screaming. The trio's heads snapped towards the location of the sound which was one their floor. The all sprinted to the sound around the corner and saw multiple glass windows broken as there was a woman on the floor whimpering. Kyrie jogged to her and knelt next to her.***

Kyrie: Ma'am what happened?? ***She simply pointed back to a huge gallery with broken glass and bunch of technology was seemingly stolen from them. Before Kyrie could respond in shock, more crashes were heard, and it seemed like it was from floors above and below them. He ran to the window and looked out and down the huge tower, seeing people fall down.*** Thieves?! We're 43 stories high!!

Colton: Still, you're in danger! Kyrie, Matt, evacuate with the other students! I'm gonna try and call for help! ***He motions for the two to get out of the way before heading to a nearby computer and accessing it with his technopathy*** \*C'mon, c'mon... I need to get the cops...!\* ***He manages to signal the cops about the current situation before hiding away and equipping his belt. He takes out a red USB Drive-like device and inserts it into the slot before pushing it into place, causing red and black liquid energy to cover him before he waves his arm and reveals himself as the Maverick. His eyes glow blue as his heads up display initializes itself.*** Alright, Maverick's on the case. ***He chases the thieves through the window, jumping after them.***

Matthias: Damn, fuck! Okay, um, stay here, Kyrie. I'll be back. ***He runs off from Kyrie's sight, tossing his sunglasses away. He then hides, and his body starts shapeshifting, growing a long tentacle on one arm made of flesh and boney spines on it, and growing a long blade made of bone on his right arm. Bone spikes rip out from his spine and around his body, as he tears his clothes off. Underneath he is not naked, but wearing synthetic black skin covering his body like a fleshy costume. His hair changes to black and spikey and his skin turns more pink, making him unrecognisable as a human or as Matthias. He runs out, past Kyrie at inhuman speeds and jumps out the window, flattening his body and heading to the ground at high speeds.***

Kyrie: They all left! ***He starts helping everyone on his floor get to a safe spot in the tower and makes sure everyone leaves. He throws his hoodie over his head and pulls on the strings to make it tight around his head, so he could be at least somewhat unrecognizable. He sprinted out of the window, and spun his body in a circle as his palms glowed white for "Wind" and helped wind carry him to the side of the building. He then started to run at high speeds along the windows of the Kord tower and jumped off onto another skyscraper rooftop. He made sure he was following the thieves who were already on the ground as they began their escape.*** What did they want??? ***He jumped once more on a lower skyscraper and noticed one of the thieves were traveling on an earth wave through the streets at high speeds.***

F***rom one of the dark Alleyways a coated silhouette wearing a hoodie emerged, two huge guns in each hand, his face was covered in shadows and from his body, black mist was emerging, suddenly he transformed completely into black mist and in a fraction of second he materialized himself in front of the thief who was traveling on the Earth Wave, he raised his right hand, pointing his gun at the figure and shot at him, there was no recoil whatsoever but the bullet itself sent the thief flying back, the figure once again transformed into dark mist to reach the criminal and put his right foot on him thus immobilizing him.***

***On a building near Kord industries, an invisible figure watched, he saw as Matthias, Kyrie, and Colton did their jobs.***

Roland: *Those assholes, they're together. **Hears AI give statistics of being caught by government, which the stats were at 49%*** Good enough for me... ***Before he could go towards them, the suit electrocuted himself, stating it was Cadmus protocols*** Grrrr! *OVERRIDE, CODE: BRAINIAC-1! **The suit stopped electrocuting him, as he made a rifle and went invisible as he was making his way to them*** \*It's been too long guys, but, time for a reunion.\*

***Matthias was chasing a matter surging Metahuman bandit, who was bouncing building to building and chucking concrete behind him at Matthias. Matt dodged some of them but was running inhumanly fast, then used his left arm tentacle as a whip to smack some rubble out his way. He jumped, landing on a parked car and then turned his legs into fleshy tendrils, doing a front flip and throwing the car through the air with his legs. The car hit the bandit, knocking him into a nearby building. Matthias jumped into the building and saw the bandit trapped under the car, but he then lift up the car and kicked it back at Matthias, this time knocking Matt out of the building and to the ground.***

Matthias: \*Fuck, that hurt. Can't let him escape now...\* ***He turned skinnier and slid himself out from under the car before bulking up again. He looked back for others to help him.***

***Kyrie sees someone he doesn’t recognize take down the thief on the earth wave. He looks back and also sees two figures he doesn’t recognize chasing thieves and he shrugs and focuses his attention on the thieves ahead down the long road in the city.***

Kyrie: Ah! Gotta stop them as soon as possible! ***He starts running faster and jumps off the rooftop and looks down and smiles as he’s about to land on a shorter building. Red lightning crackles around his fist and when he reaches the rooftop, he slightly turns his arm body so that he hits the rooftop with his arm. When he hits the rooftop with his arm, he does a somersault, into a cartwheel and into a squat, with his fist crackling with lightning punching the rooftop, making it surge through the rooftop.The lightning surges into two big and industrial air conditioners, temporarily giving them life.***

***They break off the wires and tubes connecting them to the buildings and transform into big monsters that both each run to the each of the rooftop they’re on. Kyrie takes his fist off the rooftop and continues to dash very quickly at the two monster air conditioners he transformed with his lightning magic. One of the monsters jumped off of the building and onto a vehicle being driven by a thief, effectively capturing them. The other monster cocked it’s arm back and held its hand open, as it prepared for Kyrie. Kyrie jumped, did a front flip and landed in its giant hand, in a low squat. The monster then launched Kyrie with immense force high into the air and far at a fleeting thief that seemed to be going at tremendous speeds somehow. Kyrie was lunging through the air, keeping his eyes on the thief.***

Kyrie: \*Not being able to fly sucks!\* ***He arrived quickly at the thief but the thief had on a coat, with a hoodie and a mask covering their nose and mouth.***

Thief: What the?! ***He snaps his head back to front and was holding a large pack with things in it. He seemed to be roller blading but waving his hands to remove air resistance, so he could travel great speeds.***

***Kyrie’s body arrives but the thief began going a great distance once more, so when Kyrie was about to hit the ground, he punched at the ground with both fists, sending gusts of air to cushion his fall. Once he reached the ground at safe speeds, he rolled, then when he was in a squat, he used his left hand and impaled his fingers into the ground, swinging, and sending crystals of platinum metal out of the ground, making it erupt quickly down the street, passing the thief and making it curve in front of him as a high wall. The thief smacked right into the wall and ricocheted backwards.***

Kyrie: You’re not goin anywhere! ***He burst dashes at the thief and before he can get to his body, the thief recovers and punches huge gusts of air at Kyrie. Kyrie smirks as he dodges all the blasts with ease, stepping around them and under them. The thief doesn’t panic but throws the pack on the ground and spins his body into a mini tornado that picks up street trash and newspapers around him and sends it at Kyrie. Kyrie keeps dashing at him and laughs loudly as he puts up a crystal wall of platinum that blocks the gust of air. The mentally pushes the platinum back into the ground and he notices the thief beginning to panic. Kyrie then turns into a blur as he dashes faster and jumps into the air, spinning his body into a flying back kick, making his foot enter the thief’s face. The thief flies into the platinum wall and bounces off, but before his body can reach the ground, Kyrie uses his back foot as support for immense strength and elbows the thief in the abdomen, shattering the platinum wall and sending the now unconscious thief through it.***

Kyrie: Great! ***He smiles widely and brushes dust off of his hoodie and stretches, as he stomps on the ground with lots of force, making all of the platinum enter his body with another spell. He turns to see if any other thieves are coming his way.***

***A van was rushing towards him, full speed. But he saw a gleam jump from a building and in front of the van, completely stopping it, breaking it. He could see the wanted man, Crisis. He made a pistol and shot at Kyrie's direction, shooting a thief in his body armor, enough to knock him down.***

Roland: *Watch yourself... **He had a voice filter.***

***NightGaunt had seen some of the other heroes at work from where he was. One couldn't tell if he was impressed but he surely was,after nodding in satisfaction, he transformed into a dark smoke and flew up into the air to see if there were any other thieves left, that is when he saw one of them who was running in a dark alleyway, running away from the action***

NightGaunt: Runt.

***His body completely turned into black smoke and he flew down to the Alley at a tremendous speed, he landed in a fraction of second, the thief who was clearly not fit for combat had sleeked back hair along with rosy chicks, he stood up suddenly and from his back pocket he took out a bright mechanical dagger***

Thief: I-I ain't scared of you-you f-fuck

***NightGaunt was standing still, not moving an inch, the smoke around him was growing larger***

NightGaunt: whether you are frightened or not...is none of my business culprit. ***He raised his hand up and slowly started to put it under his hood, dipping it in the darkness that was hiding his face, The thief was trembling; someone was putting their hand deep where their head was supposed to be, it wasn't an everyday occurrence for him.***

NightGaunt: Young criminals such as you should serve as example, the blind youth will be forced to open their eyes then. ***His right hand was completely plunged in his hood and suddenly he started to draw something from it.***

Thief: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU!?

***NightGaunt, from the darkness covering his head, took out his right hand that he had dip in, revealing a thirty centimeter revolver that was covered with a dark substance that came out from under his hood, the thief immediately threw the dagger down and ran away speechless, but before he could reach even the dim ray of sunlight that was glowing in the alleyway, he heard a detonation, and felt a deep pain in his chest before finally not feeling anything, he felt down to the ground, a burning hole the size of a football in his chest. NightGaunt stepped out of the Alleyway.***

NightGaunt: \*amateurs.\*

***Matthias eventually catches up to the thief he was chasing, and jumps up higher than some small buildings, landing down in from of them. The thief halts, then lifts up a concrete pillar from the ground at Matthias, as it hits him, making him fall over. Matthias brushes the rubble off him, seeing the thief run off again into a building, constructing a concrete wall to block the entrance. Matthias runs up to the entrance and tries to punch the wall several times, but it's too thick to break. Matthias looks up around the outside of the building, then uses his left arm, which is currently a whip-like spiney tentacle, to grapple hook onto the wall of the building. He reels himself in, sticking to the wall, then kicks in the window and jumps into the building. Matthias looks around the building for the thief, seeing him enter an elevator as it closes. Matthias decides to take the stairs, dashing up them past all the civilians, eventually reaching the floor just before the roof, and seeing the thief run onto the roof. Matt follows him, confronting the bandit on the roof.***

Thief: Stay away from me!

Matthias: I don't know what you're planning to do with those stolen items, but they're pretty dangerous, so put them back. They shouldn't be in your hands.

Thief: I don't care, this shit's expensive, and I intend to sell it to my boss! Now fuck off! ***He pulls out a pistol and fires it at Matthias, who blocks it with his hand, the bullet piercing his palm. Matthias hisses from the pain, as blood pumps out his hand rapidly. Matt runs at the metahuman thief, as he reacts by forging a concrete sword and swinging it at Matt, who slides to dodge then punches the thief in the gut, making him cough. Matt stands up and grabs the thief's hand, fighting for the gun. Matthias bends the thief's arm, slowly snapping it, then snatching the gun. Matt tosses the gun off the roof then grabs the thief's jaw, glaring into his eyes with his own red eyes.***

Matthias: Heh, nice jawline, by the way. I think I'll take it. ***The thief makes a confused face, and Matt clenches his hand, crushing the man's jaw, then lifts him up and slams his head into the ground, cracking open his skull. The thief's body starts pulsating as if about to explode, then Matt "jumps" into his body, as it opens up and forms around Matt's. The thief stands up, now with red eyes. He feels around his body, and pulls out a bunch of small cubes in a bag, presumably the tech that was stolen. The thief, now Matt, shrugs then looks at the ground from the building.*** Should probably return these... ***Matt sees in the distance a hooded man and some man in a suit, then forms back into his base Matthias form and jumps off the building, landing safely on the ground and heading over to the two, to identify them. Matt this time, rips off his (the thief's) clothes, again wearing the synthetic jet black skin cells as clothing underneath, and his skin is still pinkish, his hair now ginger like the thief's, and adopting the thief's features to make him unrecognisable.***

***Meanwhile, Colton was engaging a group of the same thieves, using fire propulsion to boost himself towards one of them and using his momentum to take them down before rolling forwards and firing his pistol at another thief's knee. With that one immobilized, Colton got up and began firing at the other thieves around him, sending bullets into their limbs before swiftly kicking them all to the ground.***

Colton: *That's that. **His suit features a voice filter to keep his identity hidden. He reloaded the pistols before holstering them and looking for any other thieves. His HUD locked on to an escaping van, with the back doors opening to reveal a thief holding an energy weapon of some sorts** The hell is that...? Whatever. **He switched into his Infiltrator armor, his suit turning into dark grey energy before slimming down into a sleeker, stealthier design with a scarf draped around his neck. He turned invisible before dashing off at full speed towards the van, catching up to it and sneaking inside before knocking the driver out and pulling over. As some thieves went to investigate, they were knocked out by Colton before he deactivated the cloaking and became visible again.*** \*There we go. Weapons, stopped. Better check out what they stole...\* ***His suit HUD began to scan the weapons crates that the thieves had taken, which were being compared to a list of what had been stolen earlier.*** \*There's a few things missing...\* ***He looked back at one of the thieves and picked them up.** Where are the other weapons?!?*

Thief: W-why should I tell you?! ***Colton pointed one of his pistols at the thief's head*** So what?! You can't kill me! I've got info you want!

Colton: *Alright then... **He shot the thief in the foot** Start talking! Or I'll make far worse!!*

Thief: Keep trying.. ***He was gritting his teeth from the bullet before Colton shot his other foot.*** Argh!!

Colton: *How long do you wanna keep that info?*

Thief: Not talk- ARGH!! ***Colton shoots his knee this time.*** A-alright... we're looking for... an anti-particle weapon... Heard this place had one in development, so our boss told us to take it.

Colton: *Who's your boss?*

Thief: We don't know him or her, I swear!! It's all done through proxies! I can give you the name of the guy who issued us, but that's the best you're gonna get, I swear on my life!!

Colton: *You got kids?*

Thief: Hell no! Too much of a hassle!

Colton: *I can feel a little less of a bad person for doing this then.*

Thief: Doing w- ***Colton headbutts the guy, knocking him out before tossing him aside. He has his suit scan for the anti-particle weapon that they had stolen, but sees nothing on it***

Colton: *Damn... It's gotta be in another van or with some other thug... **He sighed before hopping out of the van and looking around for another one.***

***NightGaunt was walking on the battlefield, his gigantic revolver in his right hand, his body was covered in dark smoke and his shadow, strangely, was almost changing shape, there was no thief left for him to take down, or at least not on those streets***

NightGaunt: \*Mission successful\* ***He transformed into black smoke and flew up into the air \****Now, Time to identify those vigilantes, they could be dangerous.\* ***First person he noticed was not one of the vigilantes though, but rather a ginger haired individual that looked eerily like one of the thieves that NightGaunt left to the "amateurs", there was no denying that it was one of the bandits, and he was rushing towards a hooded figure and a man in a suit, the hooded figure, was one that NightGaunt had seen stopping some thieves in what one could describe as "an heroic manner".***

NightGaunt: \*Surprise attack, Pathetic.\* ***He transformed into a dark cloud and rushed at what he assumed was a combat between a hero, a thief and a villain, in an instant he landed in the middle of the chaos, bringing with him a cold breeze mixed with a black mist, he turned towards the disguised Matthias and pointed at him.***

NightGaunt: Back stabbing cannot be right, can it?

Matthias: What? Who the Hell are you? I don't trust a man without a face to show...

NightGaunt: Who am I? It depends. ***the finger that he was pointing gets engulfed into a dark substance and from it, His gun appears*** So...who...***he paused and saw the red eyes of Matthias*** Unusual eye color, I deduce that you are a powered being.

Matthias: Nice deduction skills. I am powered, beyond the usual folk. Wanna show me your face? ***He readies his whip-arm.***

NightGaunt: No. ***From the cannon of NightGaunt's gun a bullet is fired mixed with a loud detonation, a dark smoke comes out of the cannon along with it but the bullet is so bright that seems to be piercing through the darkness that is covering it, it reaches Matthias's head in a fraction of second and sends him flying back, falling down. NightGaunt looks at what he assumes is a corpse in disgust and turns back to walk towards the 2 others, Gun still in hand***

***Kyrie looks over at Roland pointing his gun at him. He squints as he talks to the left around Roland but his gun follows him, so Kyrie smiles as he stops walking.***

Kyrie: You also look familiar. Maybe you're another thief or something.

Roland: What? ***He sounded genuinely confused.*** You don't seem to understand, before assumptions, let me explain who I am.

***He made his gun go away as he approached Kyrie, but he let off this eerie feel. As if he was everything horrific in the universe. Soon bystanders who were running saw and looked in horror.***

Civie 1: Dude, that's a wanted man!! I saw him on the news one time!!

Civie 2: He's basically a terrorist!!

Roland: I know this looks bad...

Kyrie: What?.... ***He looked at Roland and squinted once more, clenching his fist.***

***Kyrie punched the ground in a squat as, red lightning covered his fist and surged through the ground beneath them. Rock monsters then emerged from the terrain and roared as two of them ran at Roland. This obstructed his view of Kyrie as they ran side by side, also shooting earth shards at him. He crossed his arms to defend himself as he blocked the shards grunting at each shard, he charged forward at them tackling one as he made a shotgun and shot the other rock monster, while pinning the one he tackled.***

***The rock monster wrapped its arms around Roland, squeezing him very tightly. The rock monster then pushed off the ground beneath it and threw Roland to the side, into a construction site, to which most of the workers were already gone. Kyrie his his face down as he ran past civilians running away. He went into the construction site and he then saw Roland on top of the rock monster still. He could see Roland suddenly sprout tentacles from his back to help get him out as his helmet opened up, revealing sharp metallic fangs, as he started smashing the rock monster while roaring, as he calmed down and he turned to Kyrie.***

Roland: Let. Me. Explain...

***He cracked his neck as he saw his monster looking form, he scoffed and dashed at Roland, smirking. Kyrie ran over a piece of concrete debris and used a soccer-like move to grab it with both feet and send it above his own head. He jumped, did a 540 and kicked the debris at high speeds at Roland, landing on the ground, then running at Roland once more. He cocked back his left arm to ready a punch at Roland.***

***Roland smashed through the rubble, as he recovered and quickly took a scan of Kyrie, he looked at the facial features, and he was stunned, as he was trying to comprehend it.***

Roland: Look, I literally physically can't show my face, or turn off this damn voice filter, but you have to know, I was that idiot jarhead in high school obsessed with military... Kyrie please...

***Kyrie was going in for the punch at high speeds and Kyrie threw the punch at Roland’s face with immense force, but when Roland said his name, he stopped his fist inches from his face.***

Kyrie: How do you know my name?

Roland: I remember you now Kyrie. You once liked a girl named, Lila, or Ilya, couldn't remember between those two, she broke your heart, I broke her car. The license plate was B4D-B17CH. ***As he says this, Kyrie lowers his fist and backs up, looking at Roland with a smile creeping up onto his face.***

Kyrie: Wait what’s your name?

Roland: Roland. Roland Blake. We had a few classes together?

Kyrie: I do remember someone with that name! I can’t believe that’s you! ***He walks to Roland.*** Sorry about all that... What exactly happened to you though?

Roland: It’s alright. I joined the Marines, top of my class really. I entered a program, Sinner Team, got this suit, we became the USA's top deterrent that wouldn't end in war, one day, we were ordered to shoot on citizens, American citizens, we didn't like that, Cadmus didn't like their bots growing a conscience, they tried to solve it, their solution fused me with this damn suit, I'm the only one left with a mind, I became the most wanted thing in the country, and trust me, I learned alot.

Kyrie: Wow, you need to be careful dude. ***He helped Roland up he left the construction site first, making sure nobody was looking. He gestured for Roland to come out and he did. After, Kyrie looked and saw with his good vision, NightGaunt, Maverick and Symbiosis all down the street standing as they took down some thieves.*** Woah, those were the guys who were chasing down thieves!

Roland: Looks like I still need to hide.

Kyrie: No need! If they’re heroes like me and you, there’s no need to hide. I’ll convince them, don’t worry. ***He gets out onto the street, still hiding his face in his hoodie.***

***Symbiosis, or rather Matthias, healed up his head wound, and got up from the ground. His face morphed back into his own, his skin and body still altered though. He turned to NightGuant looking confused.***

Matthias: Hey, idiot, what the Hell was that for? I'm not one of these damn thieves if that's what you thought.

***NightGaunt turned back to look at the person he assumed was a thief; Matthias, he was pretending to not be surprised, standing here, observing the hero.***

NightGaunt: Ah. ***he looked away from Matthias, turning yet again to observe the 2 others, but kept talking to him*** from your words, corporal language and readiness for a fight, It is only natural to deduce that you are a threat to others, But you didn't attack me in the back, indicating a certain sense of moral, even if lackluster, But... ***He looked at Roland*** \*those 2 civilians announced him as a threat\* ...it seems like we have a more pressing issue.***he pointed his gun at him*** Identify yourself.

Roland: Blake, Roland, former Marine, wanted currently, crimes. Now if you think me deciding not to be some dog is a crime, you better make damn sure that gun puts me down...

NightGaunt: Crimes. How vague. Elaborate. ***from his other hand, another gun forms from the dark substance, and he points the 2 guns at Roland ready to shoot.*** Now.

Roland: They want me to obey with every damn order I'm given, now what is more punishable, disobedience, or enforcement of will.

NightGaunt:...hm.... ***he draws back his guns*** ...None is more punishable than the other, the Freedom of disobedience leads to chaos and the Order of enforcement lead to confinement. ***he raises his finger up*** 1 Chance is all I give.

Kyrie: Thank goodness! I know you’re not guilty of anything Roland. Anyways, since we’re all here, who is what? ***His voice seems lower and more deep and he keeps his head and face hidden in his hoodie so Matthias can’t recognize him. He has different clothes by the way. Anyways he points to Maverick confused and shrugs.***

NightGaunt: ***NightGaunt puts his hands into what appears to be his pockets*** The pseudo is NightGaunt. My real identity doesn't matter. Glad to meet you heroes.

***Matthias's face suddenly shifts back into his own, and his skin turns back to creamy white, his hair turning blonde again. His arms turn back to normal, revealing his own self, though now wearing the thief's hoodie and jeans.***

Matthias: Well, no point hiding myself, as you can see, I'm not a damn thief. That guy called you Roland, I think I heard someone with that name before, in highschool.

Roland: Same one Matt...

Matthias: What? Oh crap, you're the wanted dude? Haha, that's crazy. So I guess you saw my powers... I'll explain them later... ***He avoids eye contact with them, looking at the ground to not reveal his eye colour.***

Roland: You don't have to be ashamed of them, come on, you can look at us.

Matthias: Look at you? If I look at you with these eyes, I could kill you! I need glasses, ugh. ***He feels around the thief's pockets, finding some spare sunglasses then putting them on to cover his eyes.*** That's better. I hope Kyrie is still breathing...

Roland: Believe me, he's more than breathing.