ALERT: doing my small part.

Los Angeles, for the past weeks mass protest has been ruling the city, within that time a group called The Equalizers has showed up and have been gaining more numbers by the day. Arrowman knew he couldn't let this happen, he couldn't let this place fall into ruins, he had to do something.

It was dark outside, the only light sources are flames around the city, Arrowman had perfect viewpoint on top of the rooftops in the city as he swings around using his wrist mounted grappling hooks.

Arrowman could see a small groups of The Equalizers destroying a car in a alleyway, he took the opportunity to take down this small group. Arrowman took no time to descend from the rooftops and land behind the small gang, in his head he thought of a small quip to say to try and be more heroic. "Hey, why wear a mask... because...." He paused for a second "Yeah On second thought, I got nothing." He stated annoyingly before charging in to attack. He threw his hammer at one of the 5 thugs, knocking them down, he jumped in and attacked the rest with his fist, using his size to his advantage, he ducked under and slid around behind the rest of group with them unable to throw their own attack at him, he eventually was able to take down the group.

"MY CAR!"
A bare foot white woman with icy blue eyes stood in horror as the blue sedan was rattled with dents and holes. Shards of glass flooded the seats and spray paint crawled over the hood. "Equalizers" spread around the frame as if to claim every part of the vehicle. Tires were slashed and missing hub caps. The headlights were cracked and completely unusable. It was ruined. All that hard work gone because a group of pricks decided to grow some balls.

The girl looked around tightly gripping her trusty wrench. The only man standing was some mask figured.
"YOU"
Rage send her dead heart into a frenzy. Logical completely out the window as the perception painted its lie. Her white long hair kicked back as she stomped her way to the man, not caring about what was on the ground. Angry would numb any small wound, not that she really needed to walk anywhere. She was suppose to be human right now. An extremely enraged erratic human.
"Equalizer, You just had to touch MY car?" she spouted while raising her thick large wrench, "I hope you have money on you... or at least life insurance."

Should the man not move or make a case for his self, Riley would take a swing at the man once she was within arms reach. Her Wrench would aim for his temple, but a last second sense of guilt would have her lower her target to his jaw. Killing someone was too much for now, especially when a miserable life in pain was more satisfying to watch.  

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Just earlier, Riley was siting down in "her" apartment working on a new piece of machinery. It really belonged to someone else, but she "convinced" them to let her stay while they took an vacation to the crazy house. The TV was nice ambient noise to keep the spirit's mind off the real world when every channel flipped to an emergency warning. Riley did not care at first till she discovered riots were spreading across town like a plague. Once her district appeared on the screen, she heard the sound of glass shattering. If trouble was going to come her way, then she hoped she could deter it before it affected her too much.

Arrowman quickly turned around to see a person charging he could that the person probably thought he was the one to destroy what he presume to be their car. Arromwan turned around and shot his wrist mounted grappling hook to pull himself to the top of a small ledge before the person could attack him. Now he is out the way he tried to explain to them. "HEY! Don't attack me! I just stooped the people who did this to your car, look down and around you, I just took them down!" He stated, trying to get though to them.

Lumin had just got off the plane to LA. It was winter break so the temperature was perfect for a vacation. Bordering on the side of cold, yet still a tad warm with only partial clouds. He was uninformed about the Equalizer gang reducing the once great city to an arena. As he rode the shuttle to his hotel with his parents, he looked at the rings around his fingers. He heard the usual voices in his head.

"Lumin, I heard that Los Angeles WAS great for tourism a few years ago. However, gang activity has caused it to lose its luster."

"Oh, Luna. Always putting a downer on things. I think LA is quite nice this time of year. As long as Lumin avoids dark alleyways, he'll be fine!"

"Trying to think here, guys. I haven't gotten a chance to really try my new powers. Maybe I can sneak out of the hotel later..."
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Jump to Lumin in his hotel room bathroom, changing into the suit.

"Thank you Party City."

Lumin now in the Nightlight skulks into the hallways, slowly closing the door as his parents sleep. He slides open the window at the end of the hallway and activates the rings. The Blacklight ring would activate being powered by the shadows of the night. He mentally controls the ring, creating a 'black hole' and setting it to drawing the ring toward it. He would throw the ball of shadow into the night which would in turn yank Nightlight into the sky, screaming.

"AHHHH!"

As he sees the ground coming up quite quickly, He throws another ball into the sky, slowing him down as he gently lands atop a building.

"That was amazing! Now, I just need to find some gangsters."

He notices a woman a block down the street from the building he had landed on, yelling at a masked man on another roof. He also notices the damaged and spray painted car. He mutters under his breath.

"I gotcha now.."

Nightlight pulls back his arm, charging up another black hole. He throws it into the air with relatively good accuracy. Lumin is pulled in a great arc over buildings and starts falling. He throws another ball into the air, slowing him down once more. At least he was getting used to the black holes.  However, he had undershot with the original throw and lands behind the masked man on the building he's perched on. He goes into a messy  parkour roll and hops up, brushing himself off.

"Ouch. I mean, uh, stop right there, criminal scum! It is I, the world's searchlight in the darkest night, the insight into the mightiest frights, I'll crash your party without an invite and steal the limelight, the luminous Nightlight!"

He tries to get a heroic stance but ends up in an awkward pose crossing his arms over his chest.

Jehoel ducked his head as he was forced into a car. The body guards were overreacting weren't they? It was only two threats, but this one was a bomb threat to the headquarters in Los Angeles. As soon as it came through they rushed him in a car and started their way to a safe house. The tires squealed as they pulled the vehicle down the road.

Three heavenly armed men in suits filled the vehicle. Each carried a submachine-gun under their jackets and had transparent earwigs as communication devices. They kept quiet as the vehicle was in motion. "We are taking you to the nearest safe house sir." The driver broke the silence.  

It was only a moment later when the car in front of them exploded in flames. The car screeched a turn and rushed down the street even faster. "Evasive action!" A guard yelled. Jehoel's face had an expression of concern. The car in front of them was a civilian vehicle, there was no need to kill them. Maybe the situation was more real than he thought.

The car pulled onto the freeway and was joined by two more vehicles with bodyguards inside.

"Tell the guards to back off a bit." Jehoel ordered. The more space between them the less chances of them losing their lives. "Get off the freeway. Lose them in the city." He ordered again.
"Sir, I would advise not to. Once we get to the city the crowds will"
"Do as I say." Jehoel said calmly.

The man pulled at the wheel sending the vehicle in the direction of the city. As soon as they hit the main streets, Jehoel ordered them into a residential area. Ignoring the yells of protest from his guards Jehoel jumped out. "Go to the safe house and don't worry about me. I will be there in a few hours." He finished.

As the men drove away Jehoel looked to the sky. The sun was down, he'd have to use his reserve to do any fighting. If it comes to that he thought. It wasn't every day you had an uprising in a city. There was bound to be a situation he could be heroic in. Light stretched and conformed around his back. Three large wings attached themselves and with a run and a gentle flap he was off into the sky, looking for chaos.

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His wings gave off an eerie glow as he glided through the sky. When he hit the city he started to hop from building top to building top. When he heard commotion down the road he stopped moving and watched. Lets see what this turns into. He thought as he crouched behind a metallic fixture of a building.

"ARGH, CAR WRECKING SCUM"
Riley swiped her wrench at the man but he was already zipping through the air on a grappling hook? She would have chuckled had she not already been fuming. She watched ready to start a chase but the man did not move from his perch. This was great, now he wanted to taunt her. The woman squeezed the wrench ready to use the man's words as fuel for her next course of action.

"Don't attack you?" She yell back, "The news says these streets are crawling with ANTS."
The girl cocked the wrench back behind her shoulder. Why she had no taunt to further in enrage her, she hand plenty of anger to at least throw something. It was the only thing she could reasonably due as a pretend human. That was before her eyes shifted towards the car. Maybe she could would not be out yet.

"Can't let ants return to there queen!" Her arm snapped and the wrench clumsily flew towards the mask man. Riley did not expect the tool to hit, so looked at the fallen men around her. Picking up a bat, she looked for the quickest way up the building but another voice could be heart on top of the building. Looking up she realized a not so fun fact about ants. They never travel alone...

Arrowman looks around confused at what the person below just said but jumps back behind him to avoid getting hit and talk to the person behind. "Hey look buddy, but I don't think you can see from up here, but the city is on the brink of a revolution, this gang, The Equalizers are running around, causing trouble and getting civilians hurt. I don't see any other heroes helping out so I won't stop until everyone in this gang are in jail." He stated heroically.

Back on the ground another group of The Equalizers shows up, this time there were 15 of them, all with baseball bats and crowbars .

"Bucking bizzle, it's hero time!"

Nightlight would run past Arrowman and do a great leap over to the gang. He would start by taking on a group of 4. Lumin throws a black hole, pulling in their weapons, tearing them from their hands. He would then go in on the first dude, doing a front flip and bring his foot down onto their head, forcing them down. He throws a black hole into one's chest, yanking Nightlight forward by the hand delivering a powerful punch to his stomach. Unintentionally, he would swing at another goon. The ring on his hand would suck in light as it releases a powerful blast into their solar plexus. It wouldn't kill the goon, but it would throw him a good distance into the already damaged car owned by Riley. While fighting he starts a mental conversation with the Blacklight ring.

"Woah, that guy went flying! This is fun! How am I doing, Luna?"

"Mediocre for a starter. Your mother could take out 12 people in 10 seconds when she started using the Blacklight ring. You know, the rings had two use- Watch out, Lumin!"

"Wha-"

The fourth goon had picked up his weapon from where the black hole landed and smacked Nightlight in the back with a bat. Lumin fell over, turning around to see the Equalizer lifting the bat high into the air, preparing a strike.

Light burst from the attackers chest as he raised his weapon overhead. Jehoel had sent an arrow of light into the man. It was a dim arrow but enough to cut through the light clothing the man was wearing. As soon as it went through his target the light vanished in a blink.

Jehoel was still at a distance. He hoped that none had seen the dim bow an arrow he created, it only took a moment to generate and shoot. Afterward he ducked back behind the metallic structure.

He wanted to remain an onlooker but he began to contemplate. I’m not going to sit back and watch innocent people die. Who knows, making friends would probably help get back home... he wondered.

Arrowman was watching the person attacking the group, but before he could jump back down to help, he saw the guy getting hit by a light arrow? He triangulate the position the arrow could've come from. "by the position of the shot, it could've only came from one angle. He thought to himself. Arrowman shot his grapple hook to building, to see if he could see anyone.

The man dodged Riley's wrench which was not a big shocker. Without any energy to absorb, she was not as powerful as she could be. In fact, she was surprised she managed to get the wrench up there in the first place. The man did not seem to pay much attention to her after discovering the new ant behind him.
"So they are not friends?" she muttered to herself.
This was good news as she would be able to sneak up their and pelt him with her bat while he was dealing with the newcomer. That was until a gang of rioters appeared.

There was a whopping 15 of them, all gathered around and blocking the entrance into the street. Riley was not worried, at least not for her health. She could get away quite easily if she just go ghost, but at what cost was it worth it? She needed this car working to leave the city. She also needed to clobber that dick on the roof for damaging her car. His innocents could only be proven with a good concussion. So the question was, what should she do.

Well one of the ants on the roof top just jumped off the roof. He was clearly crazy as was going to die, or so she thought. suddenly a dark mass appeared between 4 of the group and there weapons flew out of their hands. Riley stood stunned.
"What the..."
The man was in full assault, kicking the freak out of the 4 choose victims. Now that she had a good look at the man, she thought he looked silly. He looked like he was in a complete jump suit with black blotches on white or was it white on black? Either way, it was stupid, stupid enough to piss the girl off. Luckily for him, she was more occupied by the masked man. That was until a man flew right into her car crushing the hood and probably damaging the engine.
"FUCKER," Riley screamed in an almost ghostly wail.

Her eyes glowed as her skin turned completely white and became more transparent towards the end of her limbs. Her feet and hands had an outline but were invisible other than that. The most visible parts of her was her head but objects close to her would still be barely visible. Her hair started to float at the end and the girl rose from the ground. Her ride was broken and now she was stuck here thanks to this walking Rorschach Test. There was no point in hiding. She was at her limit and now it was time to added a new victim to her list.
"YOU! YOU RUINED MY RIDE! NOW I WILL RUINED YOUR FACE STUPID BLOB MAN!" Her voice carried an eerie tone underneath which chilled the air carrying her words.

She clenched the bat in her hands. Her eyes locked on to the man's chest which had a large black circle in the middle. Then she flew towards him in an arc in order to increase the power of her swing. Her target was that black circle and she hoped she could at least knock into the nearest wall.

Nightlight would prepare to be hit as a glowing white arrow hit his attacker. He would scramble up off the ground, looking around for where the arrow had come from. However, there were more pressing matters to deal with, like the 11 other gang members in the area. At least he was more attentive since he has actually been hit.

"Watch your back, Lumin!"

Nightlight instinctively whips around, throwing a black hole over Riley and one up above him, yanking him upward and possibly holding Riley back. As Nightlight is suspended midair, he cancels the black hole already in the air and throws one down into a gangster. The gangster looks up at him with a puzzled look despite being masked. Then, Nightlight would shoot down, fist first into the man's mask, knocking him out cold.

The other gang members charge Nightlight with their bats. How could he have forgotten the bats! Nightlight dodges a few but gets slapped around by one or two, causing him to stumble backwards. He tosses a black hole under an Equalizer's legs and is pulled between them, delivering a powerful punch into the nether regions.

Nightlight grabs a car door in one hand and picks up a few dropped bats in the other. He proceeds to throw them up into the air, firing a blast of shadowy energy at them. As the energy beam connects, he lifts the door over his head, protecting him from the dozens of sharp splinters raining down onto the gang at extreme speeds.

"That'll distract them for the meantime."

He turns around to find the woman who had attacked him a few moments earlier.

More people kept popping up, what did they want? What did they think they could achieve by attacking civilians? As Jehoel watched the attack ensue he noticed one of the Meta’s coming his way. At least he assumed he was some sort of Hero type. But as the man approached Jehoel simply stood up and waved.

“How are you this evening?” He said nonchalantly. In his standing position he glanced over and watched the lady try to attack the man he had just saved. Are they all Metas? he thought.

He didn’t want to give himself away too soon. He still saw hope for playing this off, maybe he could pretend to be a reporter or building repairman... but where is his equipment? His mind lingered.

Maybe I can contact some people to fix this political turmoil... he thought as his hand completed a wave.

Arrowman giggled a little bit and give back a friendly wave with a "Hello!" In a kind manor. Arrowman looked back down at the fight. "I can't be bothered to do this, they both have powers and I only have grappling hooks." He stated annoyingly.

As Riley was flying towards the black and white man, a black wispy ball flew over her head. After words the man continued wailing on the gang members. Riley smiled happy to get a good clean shot at him, back attacks were the best. Then something weird happened. Riley stopped gaining distance towards him.
"What the?"
She tried to fly faster and managed to gain a few inches but an invisible force grabbed her whole body. Her bat pulled behind her as if someone grabbed it and hell would have to freeze over before she allowed her weapon to just be taken like that. she turned around while still flying towards the man and saw the black wisp ball floating in the air. The air around it was darker and dirt, rocks, and debris swarmed around it as if they were being sucked it the balls center. There was only one thing that fit such an description, a black hole.

"Oh... no," Riley fought the forces pulling her in, "Crap, crap, crap!"
Riley saw herself getting pulled in slowly. She was not fast or strong enough to just escape she had to endure it. She need something to hold on to but what? She looked around while fighting. the only object not being pulled into the sky was the car. This going to be bad but she could not risk getting crushed just yet. She changed direction to her car and reached out. Then she grabbed the frame which were opened due to the broken windows. Blood dripped from her hands as glassed dug into her hand. The framed bend as it struggled to keep its shape.
"AHHH... I am going to get you.... I SWEAR IT!"