Triad Serendipity

”Why didn you tell me they
e real frickin heroes, before we bust our ass laughing at them?! ” I yelled at her for not telling me sooner.

”They
e heroes! You
e the one thats weird for not knowing them! ” She snapped back at me with a solid logic.

”Oh no, this is bad! This is real **in bad! ” I completely ignored her and just straight up murmuring to myself.

”Is it? ” She asked casually, without a shred of worry in her tone.

”It **in is! ” I shouted at her lack of awareness. ”If they
e here, then that means the people behind the scenes that deal those diamonds are bloody dangerous! You know how deadly you have to be in order to be able to use ranked heroes as your dogs?! ”

At this point I don care even if The Doom Patrol hear my voice. The situation has evolved to be way more dangerous than I thought. We don have the strength, nor the coordination to beat a real duo. Im not even sure if all three of us can beat them together, let alone two of us. And the only source of strength in this group is lying half–dead in the middle of the road.

”Actually, I have always dreamed of fighting against real tiered heroes. ” She said with an intrigued look on her face. ”They
e only C-tier, but eh, theyll do. ”

”Dee, are you even listening to yourself?! ” I shook her body vigorously trying to snap her back to reality.

She stands up, stretches her arm behind her neck, and proceeds to tell me her horrifying idea.

”Okay, heres the deal. If I beat them, the share is revoked. Forty for me and twenty for you, how about it? ” She asked me while stretching out her hands.

”Wha— ”

”But if I lose, then its still forty for me and twenty for you. Because theres no way on Iora that Ill lose. ”

”Theres no way Id agree to— ”

”Deal! ”

She just walked away without even paying attention to what Im saying, all while stretching her neck in circular motion.

There is no way Id agree to that. Id rather just walk away with my forty and get her beaten to a pulp rather than sacrificing my hard–earned, totally clean money. But shes not listening.

I told you so. All these people do are fighting, trying to figure out whos stronger. When faced with a challenge, their brain doesn even stop to consider the pros and cons of it. They
e itching to fight. Why? Why do we have to fight? Aren we all civilized people? Didn history teach us to be kind to each other?

”Finished with your little chat? ” The Toddler spoke to us.

”Will you scurry away peacefully now? ” The Insect took turns.

Adeera walks slowly towards Doom Patrol whos buzzing in the air. She doesn seem to hesitate, nor does she looks scared. Every step she takes, oozes confidence out of it.

”Patsy, look at this little girl! ”

”How brave. ”

”Looks like someone needs a scolding. ”

”I agree, Dom. ”

The balding toddler—whos apparently named Dom—starts to aim his pinky towards Dee. She suddenly stops and puts her hands on the air. I don know what shes aiming for, but its too late to surrender now.

”Doom Patrol! I can believe its the real Doom Patrol! ”

”… ”

”Can I have your signature! Im a big fan! ”

”… ”

They look like they
e about to put their guard down. I can believe they almost fall for that even when she just laugh at them a few minutes ago.

”By the way, this is my signature… ”

She uses her power and launched herself forward. She creates the barrier under both of her feet and uses the momentum to jump forward. It didn work for a car cause it was way too big, but it works scarily now that she only use it on herself.

She flies towards them, rotating her body in the air, and preparing her left leg to do a spinning back kick to the flying insect—whose name is Patsy—.

They looked like they were caught off guard, but Patsys reflect almost saves them from her kick. Maybe its not only his wings, but he also perceives time to be slower like flies? Who knows.

But, like I said, they almost dodged her kick.

”….ackgh! ” Her kick connected to Patsys chin and they both lose their balance and hit the ground.

Well, no matter how fast his reflect is, you can see something invisible. They did dodge her left foot, but what they didn know is that she can extend her range using her power. Maybe not as far as twenty meters, but the length of a punch? Its insanely effective.

”…behold! My signature, Cuboid! ”

Okay, stop it with the signature pun already.

While Doom Patrol is trying to lift themselves back up, I drag JN to the side of the road. I still can believe Dees initial thought when faced with heroes is to test her power. I look at my surrounding, searching for help to stop this madness, but no one seems to be nearby. We
e on the highway in some rural area.

Please, God! I want to die peacefully in the lap of a smokin hot babe, not in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by bushes, trees, and men.

But I have to say its pretty impressive of them, waiting until we
e in the middle of nowhere to ambush us, that way they don need to worry about their reputations as heroes. Can believe they have the brain to think about that, maybe there is some kind of intelligence course for heroes?

”Ptuh! ” Patsy spat as he float back up to the air.

”Looks like we have quite a problem kid here. ” Dom said. ”No matter, guess Im just gonna have to fry you to a crisp, kid. ”

With no warning, Dom points his pinky towards Adeera. A red line of laser beam comes as fast as the speed of light aimed towards Dees heart.

But she comes out unscathed. She blocked it with her hand—or should I say barrier. Doom Patrol is left speechless.

”Is this really all ranked heroes can do? ”

She gives no timeout and rushes in again. Patsy who learned his lesson also starts to make a move. He flies all over the place to stop Adeera coming close to them. His speed is no joke. Dom keeps firing his beam but somehow Adeera is still able to dodge most of them with her high-speed movement, and neutralize the ones that are on target with her barrier.

Frustrated as none of their attacks can connect to Adeera, Patsy charges in instead of keeping his distance from her. With his speed, most people wouldve never thought of dodging, and instead be ready to receive the fatal blow.

But Dee just runs towards them with a big smile on her face as if she was waiting for it. At the last possible second before they smash against each other, Adeera jumps to the sky and leaps over them.

The Doom Patrol frantically turn their backs and are ready to receive a blow.

But no one is there.

None.

Nothing.

Nada.

”You guys aren the only one who can float in the air, you know. ”

They look up in horror as if someone just took away their Gifts.

There she was, floating in the air above them.

”You
e wide open! ”

Dee comes crashing down from the sky—super-hero-landing style. They jump back and barely avoid her as she punches the ground where they were standing. She immediately turns her whole body in a squatting position and extends her right leg to do a round kick from the ground.

Bam!

”…ack! ”

Her kick lands on their left side as they were taken aback by her skillful movement, and they both fly into the bushes on the side of the road.

Remember when I said she surprisingly has decent enough head on her shoulder to use her power? This is one of the example. She basically uses her barrier to support her footing in the air. It doesn technically make her float in the air, though.

Rather, she ”stands ” in the air.

This makes her agility is not only deadly on the ground, but she can control her movement all over the 3D plane. It is not as maneuverable as flying, but with enough steps, she rivals those who can soar the sky.

”Shouldn have done a round kick, but, oh well. ”

She stands there feeling proud of herself. Shes looking at me smiling, gesturing four and zero with both of her hands.

I was rooting for her, but now I really wish I wasn .

And my wish is granted. Doom Patrol storms out of the bushes, ramping up their speed to a hundred. They fly to the sky as high as humanly possible.

Dee is standing there, staring at the sky with her guard up. Shes expecting them to fly down with their speed fully amped up with the help of gravity.

But they didn . They just slowly descent.

”You
e good, you little brat. ”

”You force us to use one of our weapons. ”

With a crooked smile, Dom stretches out both of his fists out to the front. Adeera solidifies her stance, ready for whatever comes her way.

Dom just closes his eyes, paying no mind to his opponent.

He unclenches his fists. Slowly. Steadily.

One finger at a time.

Pinky, ring, middle, index, and thumb. One after the other.

Then, out of the blue, streaks of laser beams come out of his fingers, simultaneously. He didn shoot them, however. The lasers just gently emerge from his fingers.

They stopped coming out of his fingers after a certain length. He then whips his hands, and the lasers follow. Here we see ten whips made out of lasers, with length long enough to cover the height of regular-size man three times over, damaging and burning the concrete on the road as he moves his hands.

”Lets see… ” Dom said to himself. ”…four fingers are enough for you. ”

And sure enough, six out of ten whips just vanished out of his fingers, leaving only the ones on his index and pinky on both hands.

”Try to not die in five minutes, okay, missy? ”