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Sat 27th Aug 2022 04:32

Just a little help from my friends

by Axiom Hadrian Avner Foster

It’s been a slow day, Tomas & Berto were looking for kicks. They’d heard there was a new designer drug on the street that gave superpowers! Well, that was the claim at any rate. But they wanted to go try it out!

They checked with a friend who had street connections, he said to look for the “What Ailes You” logo. You’ll find what you’re looking for within 3 blocks of that!! They hurried off. Spent the next 90 minutes wandering through Spanish Harlem, when they saw it.

They got out of their Jimmy and started wandering the street. Then they found Hervé and he was just finishing a deal with two other kids when this winged creature came out of the sky and attacked him. A chick came sliding down from the rooftop using some kinda claws to slow her fall.
 
Tomas & Berto hid. They watched from across the street. The two purchasers tried to inject themselves without luck. The chick with the claws retracted them and snatched them from the one guy, who complained that “Buy your own, that’s mine!” She slapped him and he went down. The armored bird guy hit the other patron, but not too hard, he didn’t look like he could take much of a hit. The heroes turned their attention to Hervé. They started asking questions, and even threatened poor Hervé who put on a brave face about not answering them, but he told them everything they wanted to know, all while denying them answers. It looked the Bird was going to really take a piece outa Hervé, but the clawed girl (A cat? Really a cat and bird working together?) scratched her claws along the walls effortlessly making a hole there. Hervé offered up his cell phone. Said they contact him with it when more product is available!
The heroes, leave Hervé and the other two guys. Flying up into the sky together like star crossed lovers.
Disappointed, Tomas and Berto figure they won’t be getting any of that drug tonight, so they wander back to their Jimmy and drive off.
 
 
(/Start foreshadowing)
After they're gone, a pregnant lady gets out of a minivan across from where the drug deal was happening. She goes over to the next alley and starts rummaging through the garbage. She pulls out a Ziploc bag with a few syringes in it. She hurries back to her van. Inside she rubs her stomach and says, “We’ll find and destroy those monsters who killed you Herman, I swear it on the life of our unborn child!”
(/End foreshadowing)