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Red Light Vigilantes ch 0

A guard is walking through the halls of a building, he is wearing a black gas mask and a matching black uniform. As he walks the halls he checks through the bars in the doors to see beaten and bloody teens wearing numbered blood stained uniforms in each of them. He continues his walk not batting an eye at the teens until he hears chains rattling and quickening his pace he arrives at the room with the rattling, he looks through the bars and sees nothing the room was empty except for the chains and blood stains.

The guard takes out his key card and opens the door before searching the room without noticing the teenager hanging on the ceiling above him. The teen then drops down and lands on the guard grabbing him in a chokehold as the guard thrashes around trying to get the teen off before he falls to the ground unconscious. The teen then reveals himself as a teenage boy with messy black hair and orange eyes with diamond shaped iris.

The teen then bends down and takes the key card from the guard before walking out and closing the door to the cell. He then walks to the door on his right and knocks on it. “Hey Mike wake up it’s time for us to get out of here” the teen unlocks the door before going off to the one of the left of his former cell. “That goes for you as well Chris , we gotta get out of here.” The teen then moves back as two other teens come out of the cells, from the right comes a teen with slightly messy brown hair and dark purple eyes while the one on the left is younger with green eyes and short brown hair.

The two boys look around before looking at each other and hugging, they then let go and look at the one who freed them. “Thanks Evan” says Mike as the now named Evan moves closer and hugs the both of them for a bit before letting go. “Don’t mention it, now come on we have to figure out a way to the main computer room” he looks to Chris who just nods before closing his eyes as his ears begin to morph elongating into bat ears. He stands still for a few seconds before opening his eyes with his ears going back to normal “three floors up and on the other side.” Says Chris as they all look up at it.

Suddenly an alarm goes off and guards arrive on both sides of them, some of them are holding guns while others have their magic activated. “Welp looks like we should go.” He then has tentacles come out of his wrist and swats the guards on both sides before using them to reach the third floor while Mike makes a portal before jumping into it. Chris is behind him growing wings out of his back along with an odd mask on his face before just flying up.

When he gets there he sees the guards knocked out on both sides and Mike playing with a small portal, making his hands pop out at different places, he stops when his brother arrives and motions to the door. Evan then walks up to it, closes his eyes as slits on his skin open up as multiple tentacles cover his body before he kicks the door open and tanks the blast sent at him before the tentacles unwrap and extend towards them before knocking the two unconscious. The tentacles then retract back into his body as the three enter the room and see multiple computer monitors with different views of what’s going on.

“So this is it huh,anyone got an idea on how to work it?” Mike then turns and instantly jumps back after seeing Evan kneeling down in front of one of the guards with his tentacles retracting out of the man’s head. After they fully retract he gets up and walks over to the computer ignoring the looks the other two were giving him. “Alright I should be able to get the cells open now but it’ll take a minute, think you guys can keep the room safe?” The two of them look at each other before smiling as Mike makes a portal in front of the door and a different mask forms on Chris as energy gathers into his hands. The door is busted open as Chris shoots a blast of energy from his left hand.

Mike then creates a portal to the cell he was in and watches as more guards just run in blindly before closing it right up and going hand to hand and opening random portals on the rest. Chris then goes back to back with him on the catwalk dodging and blasting the ones in the back. Chris then moves over to the door as Mike dropkicks a guard into the rest while making a portal on the other side “Hey Evan, how long is that gonna take?” Evan’s standing in front of the computer tapping his foot waiting as a loading screen was at 99% before reaching 100 he then pulls out a chip and pockets it “Not to long just gotta put in a couple of passwords aaannddd done!” As he says this an alarm goes off alongside the sounds of multiple doors opening. Evan then runs out of the room and jumps into the railing “WERE FREE!”

The next few minutes could only be described as chaos as a small army of captured teens unleash their pent up aggression and fury on their captors on all the levels of the building while slowly climbing up with Evan, Mike and Chris leading the charge forward until they all bust out of the building and scatter.

Timeskip

Evan, Mike and Chris are seen sitting inside a train with some new clothes on. “You know I feel bad for robbing the store on are way out” Evan and Mike just look at Chris for a moment before Evan just goes back to staring out the window and Mike pats his back and “Hey don’t worry about it, we only took enough to get the train tickets so they’ll be fine” Chris begins lighting up at this and then notices something. “Hey Evan I’ve seen you mess with that thing multiple times now but you haven’t said anything about it at all” hearing this Evan looks towards the two then back at the chip in his hand and just pockets it. “Don’t worry about” they then all enjoy the train ride on.

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In a different building a person is watching footage of the breakout on a screen the area around their hands having ice start to from before they lift up their left hand and a blast of fire goes through the screen and the person walks away grabbing on perse on their way out and pulling out a phone from it revealing multiple dots on it.

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Chapter 1 Home

A train arrives into the station and the trio exit out onto the station with Evan being first and grabs a newspaper while Mike looks at all the signs and Chris just stretches his arms.

“So is there anything in that paper that could help us or are you just looking for fun?” Even turns towards his cousin with a smile plastered into his face. “Just checking to see if we made the news” A look of curiosity comes out “Did we?” The smile then leaves his face. “Sadly no, we got put in a theory section alongside what might be a male rider which in all honesty would be cool to see”

Sigh “Guess it makes sense, we only just got out and with everyone scattering as far as they could go it would be hard for any news team to have substantial info” he then turns around and checks the maps one more time while Evan walks up to Chris still holding the paper. “Man I never thought reading the paper would help anyone but it’s definitely come in handy” Chris then gets a close up of the paper for a sec before it gets pulled back “Look it even has the latest info on the top hero rankings, though the only interesting bits are the number three and lower sense the top two spots haven’t changed” he closes the paper as he sees Mike come up to them.

“Alright I was able to get a map and looks like it’s practically the same as we remember” smiles appear on the boys faces as they begin walking towards the exit. “Well then guess we just have to take the usual route back home and bam were reunited with are family” Chris gets his hair ruffled by Even as he walks by “And we get to see if any new shops opened up while we were gone, I definitely remember there being some work being done before all of… that” the three stay silent as they walk out of the subway and see all of the buildings, signs and people walking about. “Feels good to be back in good old Shinjuku, right guys?” The others stay silent but small smirks appear on their faces as they begin walking. “Yeah I guess you're right, let’s just hurry, don't wanna keep anyone waiting and we know how hectic Kabukichō gets at night” Evan nods while Chris just continues walking.

Looking around, the three noticed that the area hasn’t changed much from before except for a couple of new shops or old ones getting new signs. “Honestly you think we should just use are magic to get there faster” Chris just looks at Mike who looks unimpressed. “Yeah sure cause using magic in the middle of broad daylight in the middle of a public area is such a smart idea” a smile then presented itself on Evan face. “Ahh are saying you're scared of some police that won’t even be able to catch us” Mike remains unchanged. “Alright then how about if we promise to be extremely careful? Besides this is great way to practice with the changes they did to us”

Mike looks at him for a moment before sighing. “Fine but were being careful and you two better not leave me behind” smiles appear as the three go into an alley, climb a fire escape and begin using their abilities to jump from rooftop to rooftop.

Timeskip

With the sun heading down the three stop at a building and climb down the fire escape and heading towards the front but stop at the entrance. “So this is it huh, do we just go in?” The other two look at Chris then to each other before nodding. “Yep but be ready there’s gonna be a lot of questions, tears and hugs” Evan then walks forward and grabs both of the handles before pulling them both back. “We're alive and we're back!” hearing the commotion, everyone inside looks to the doors and spots them and are just stunned. While the three just stand there.

“So uhh where are our parents?” hearing Mike speak snaps everyone out of their stupor. “They're all up in Vanny’s apartment you know the way, I’ll let them know they're expecting guests” the three nod and begin making their way past the tables and cat walk towards a door and walk up the stairs. They all go up a couple of levels with Chris in front, Mike in the middle and Evan in the back. They all stop in front of one of the many identical doors with the only difference being the numbers. Evan steps up to the door and knocks twice before backing away.
The three stand still as they hear shuffling from the other side before click.

Standing in the doorway was a woman with brown hair with some rainbow streaks and red eyes and a shocked look on her face.”Hi mom, we're back” hearing Evan speak snaps her back to reality and she moves out of the way and lets the boys in before locking Evan in a hug. “Mom I know you missed me,I did too but I need to talk to dad” she holds on to him for a bit longer before letting go. “Ok then he should be in the living room with the others” a smile appears on his face. “Thanks mom and it’s great to see you again” He then walks into the living room seeing Mike and Chris in a bear hug by a woman with ginger hair and pink eyes that are red from all the tears.

“Careful auntie we just got out” walking into the kitchen he sees two almost identical men standing with the only differences being the eyes and clothes. “Uncle you mind if I get a moment alone” His uncle gives a nod before walking out of the kitchen. “So what are you gonna start with?” Evan pulls a phone out of his pocket and hands it over to his dad. “I was able to swipe this from the woman in charge, she treated it like the holy grail so I figured it might be important” Yawn “Welp we’ve been through a lot now I’m gonna just be in my room” his dad nods as he leaves the kitchen and takes a left before walking down a short hallway stopping in front of a door. After opening he walks over to a cage with two rabbits inside that become happy to see him. “Hehe it’s nice to see you guys too. He then walks over to the bed and just falls onto his mattress.

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Chapter 2 Explanation

It was morning and everyone was sitting at a table eating a massive amount of bacon, eggs, sausages and biscuits with the boys having the most on their plates. “Soo boys this might be a bit early but what exactly happened while you guys were gone?” The three stop and look at each other a bit before Evan and Chris look over to Mike as the black haired teen just sighs and puts his fork down. “We don’t know the full story, the most info we have is that they were abducting random teens and children to experiment and train, probably to sell them as soldiers, besides that and the fact our magic has changed we got nothing” as he takes a drink Evan coughs getting everyone’s attention.

“I was actually able to swipe the phone off the women in charge and gave it to dad” All other eyes look over to the person in question who just continues going at his breakfast “Still working on getting any info out of it, whoever she was the security on her phone is top grade, going off what their saying there should be some useful info on it” everyone stares before slowly going back to eating. After everyone is done eating and the dishes clean the three begin making their way out. “Where are you all going?” Looking to the side they see the brothers mother standing there.

“We’re going out to go and see what changes have happened while we were gone” Seeing his little brother go forward has a smile make its way onto Mike’s face while Evan’s lips part from each other in small surprise. The face of their mother on the other hand showed a cocktail of fear, worry and all the other emotions that they didn’t want to see. “Mom trust us we’ll be fine after what happened we’re definitely gonna stay safe”

Her eyes glided over them as she relaxed “I understand but I want you to promise me that your all going to watch over each other” They all smiled at her as Chris went back towards the group “Don’t worry mom we’ve got each other’s backs” Her face softens as she gives them a nod before walking away. “Aaannnndddd she’s gone let’s go before guilt makes me wanna stay” with those words said the three all make their way out of the door, down the stairs and out into the streets.

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Finally got my account back, planning to rewrite this at some point