Welcome To The Playground Pt 1
Grunts can be heard as a group of children are climbing up a wall.
"We're almost there." Vi said, looking down at the others behind her.
"Aw, man." Mylo panted jumping from one ledge to another.
"This is a bad idea." Hiccup said following after Vi
Vi was the first to reach the top of the building, "Hey, Powder. Hiccup." Vi walks to the other ledge of the roof. Powder looks at Violet with hands on her knees trying to catch her breath "Come take a look."
"Whoa." Powder said standing next to her sister her eyes are filled with wonder as she looks out to the city.
"This is amazing." Hiccup said looking out to the city
"It's nice getting above it all, huh?" Vi asked them
Claggor and Mylo walked up behind them also looking at the view. The group was startled as something flew over their heads. They all looked to see what made the noise as they saw an airship fly above them.
"One day I'm going to ride one of those." Powder said pointing towards the airship
"And one day I'm going to shoot them down." Mylo said as he forms a fake gun and taking aim at one of the airships
"I highly doubt it. You have terrible aim and no sense of direction." Hiccup said
Everyone laughs at Mylo.
"And why did we bring useless here?" Mylo asked pointing to Hiccup
"Hey!" Vi yelled and turned to Mylo, "do not call him useless." Vi said and she shoved Mylo's arm down and walked away.
"Vi, are, are you sure about this?" Claggor asks "Look, if we get caught, we're-"
"We're not gonna get caught." Vi countered by jumping down and landing on another roof. The others follow her actions.
"Yeah, Claggor, we'll be in and out before anyone notices." Hiccup said and they continued walking on another ledge
"All right, everybody, follow me. Just don't look down."
Vi jumps off the ledge and slides down the roof stopping at a lip. Then jumps to a balcony landing on the railing and uses the roof of the balcony to catch herself. Swinging around to the front of the balcony then jumping to the other side of the street landing on the roof of the adjacent building.
"Okay, it shouldn't be too hard." Hiccup said and he jumps off the ledge and he copies off of what Vi does, and lands next to her.
Mylo smirks, cracking his fingers before pushing Claggor back and copying what Vi had done.
Claggor had followed right after Mylo created a loud thud, stuffing a cupcake with pink frosting into his mouth that he found resting on a plate on the balcony.
"Couldn't we have at least just walked there?" Claggor looks to Vi questioning her.
"We could, but it would be less fun." Hiccup said
"And we gotta stay out of sight for this one." Vi said
Vi looks back to the other roof seeing Powder standing there not moving. Powder breathes heavily looking down at the height of the building.
"And she looked down." Hiccup said
"Called it, this is on you Vi." Mylo says, causing Hiccup to elbow him in the gut
"I'll go get her." Claggor offered only for Vi to disagree with him.
"Powder look at me, what did I tell you?" Vi asks
"That... I'm ready." Powder responds.
"That's right! So?" Vi says.
Powder takes a breath and starts the parkour shouting out in glee a bit after she makes it to the balcony. Unfortunately though, when she gets to the other roof, she almost falls off but her arms are quickly grabbed by Vi.
"Thanks." Powder said and Vi smiles
Pulling her to the roof Powder stumbles into him. Backing off she regains her footing. They all follow Vi as she walks along the building top. Powder walks my Mylo and he scoffs at her rolling his eyes.
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The group makes their way across the ledge of a building that was leaning on the roof.
"What if Vander finds out we're all the way out here?" Claggor asked
"I'm gonna have to side with Claggor on this one. You know my dad has ears everywhere." Hiccup said
"Look around you. You think anyone in the upper class is going hungry? Besides, this is exactly the sort of job Vander would've pulled when he was our age." Vi explains.
"I'm going. Are you with me or not?" Vi looks to the four behind her.
Claggor looks to Mylo, Mylo shrugs his shoulders, "Vander's gonna kill us."
"Not before he kills me." Hiccup said
"Yeah only if we screw up. So don't screw up." Vi states.
Vi grabs the ledge and swings herself onto the balcony of a penthouse underneath them. She looks through the windows to see if any people are inside.
"All clear."
Mylo takes a deep breath as he tries to climb down to the balcony outside the building. When he gets down, Mylo tries unsuccessfully to open the window door of the balcony to the workshop.
"Who locks their balcony?" Mylo asked
Getting on his knees and pulling out a lock pick. And attempting to lockpick the door open. All while Claggor helps Powder and Hiccup down to the balcony and then hops down himself.
"Whew. There's tons of police down there." Claggor says.
"Which means we're in the right place." Hiccup said
"You gonna get that door open any time soon?" Vi asked
"Working on it. Seeing as I'm the only one who knows how to pick locks, I suggest–"
Mylo is interrupted when Vi grunts loudly and kicks the door open in the process. She enters and Mylo startled him in a moment.
"Animals." Mylo said as the others walked past him
"Who's useless now?" Hiccup said as he walked past Mylo
Mylo rolls his eyes and follows the others.
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The group marches into the penthouse looking around in awe. Vi drops a large bag in the middle of the room and walks over to a bookshelf looking for valuables. Claggor and Mylo followed shortly after.
"You know, Claggor and Hiccup, for once you two are right. We are definitely not supposed to be here." Mylo states as he rummages through items on the desk near a window.
Mylo picks up two metal pieces that look to be a part of a project, shrugging his shoulders he tosses them into the leather bag. Claggor opens a chest and dumps what's inside into the bag. Powder found some trinkets on the bookshelf, she grabs it, knocking some books down, and places it gently in the bag.
"Must be an inventor." Hiccup said
Vi and Hiccup look at a chalk wall with mathematics and science scribbled on it, filling the board completely.
"Huh." Powder continues to look over the bookshelves for valuables till her eyes catch something "Whoa, I think this is a real Valdiani."
"Oh, yeah? What about this?" Mylo pulls out a metal object and presses a button as it begins to move.
"That's a nose hair trimmer, dumbass." Hiccup said
"Keep an eye out for anything that looks valuable, Powder and Hiccup. Before Mylo fills the bag with junk." Vi tells them side-eyeing Mylo.
Mylo tosses the nose hair trimmers behind him as he looks back at the desk. Moving a few papers aside he finds a triangle metal mechanism with a bright blue gem in the middle.
"Uh. . . Guys?" Mylo calls over the others and Vi and Claggor join him by the desk.
"Wait, Vi, how the hell did we find this place?" asks Claggor.
Mylo tries touching the blue stone but gets shocked.
"It was a tip from Little Man." Vi answers.
"Little Man?" Mylo asked
"Just leave it. Come on." Vi says as she walks away from the table going back to what she was doing.
"How does anyone have so much stuff?" Claggor asks.
"Simple, just get born lucky." Mylo said
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Powder leaves the original room and enters a hallway next to it. Walking down she opens a door and enters the room. Looking around the room she finds some metals and stuffs them into her pocket. She reaches for a book and opens it and reads a few words before closing it and turning around. Her eyes landed on two sandwiches laying on some blueprints on a table.
"Woo-hoo!"
Setting down the book Powder picks up one of the sandwiches and takes a big bite out of it, moaning at the taste. As she munches she looks at the blueprints and moves them aside.
Underneath was a large blue, silver, and gold chest. Powder tries to lift it but it is too heavy.
Powder's hands run along the sides as one of her fingers lands on a button, pushing it. The lid slowly opens by itself revealing twelve slots with glowing blue stones occupying six of the slots.
Powder picks one out and holds it up to her face admiring the bright blue glow. The light reflects off her eyes as she can see her reflection within the clear surface of the stone.
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Mylo throws a metal ball puzzle to Violet who was kneeling by the bag as footsteps approaching the front door could be heard. Vi's eyes narrow as she looks on. The doorknob clicks as the person on the other side goes to open the door, finding it locked.
"Mylo." Vi whispers.
Before the door could open Mylo ran over to the door and used a chair to jam it shut. Preventing the door from opening.
"Powder we gotta go." Hiccup runs to where Powder was and whispers to her.
In the other scene in the inventor's bedroom, Powder was heard by the voice of her older sister, who gasps in surprise and concern.
"Hello?" a man's muffled voice could be heard as he continued to try and open the door.
Powder quickly collects all the crystals in the chest and takes it with her. When she stowed the most crystals in her pouch on her belt, one of them had fallen on the floor. Bouncing on the floor blue electric sparks formed around the stone. The stone rolls across the floor and more sparks fly.
Violet grabbed a hold of Powder's wrist pulling the little girl behind her as they fled the penthouse.
"Come on." Hiccup says to his siblings.
"We'll be fine. Just get back on the roof." Vi whispers.
The stone hits against the wall. The energy built up in the stone breaks free causing a blue explosion. The blast knocked Vi to the ground and she headed for the balcony doors. The blast also knocks back Claggor, Mylo, Hiccup, and Powder into the guardrail of the balcony. They all gasp and cough attempting to catch their breath. Violet rushes out of the room onto the others with the bag over her shoulder.
The building shakes as part of the balcony cracks into pieces and falls two stories below. The police standing underneath see the explosion and run away from the falling debris.
"Whoa! Look out!" An officer said
Debris begins to fall on the ground from three floors from the inventor's apartment.
Vi and Hiccup look over the broken ledge and see the damage below that the explosion had caused.
Hiccup sighed, "Da da━dah!" he sang. "We're dead!"
"Shit." Vi mutters.
The alarm was activated in the form of a train horn, alerting the rest of the officers. Violet hears that honk, and leaves the site. In the outskirts of the city, the honking continues to be heard from a trumpet attached to a building.
The sirens sound as the group runs through the streets evading the police chasing after them.
The citizens dodge out of the way of the pursuit.
Stop right there!" The enforcers kept yelling at them, but of course they didn't listen, they were running as fast as they could, sooner, they reached a river breach that was splitting up to let a cargo ship pass by, they took it as a chance and jumped to the other side to lose them, it mostly worked, since only four enforcers out of the horde following them made the jump.
"Faster!" Vi yelled
Powder screams about the fact that they still pursue. The kids arrived at the staircase where they hurried down, Vi jumped without stepping on a step and Mylo slipped on the stair railing.
"Hey! Hey!" shouts an officer.
"Look out!" shouts a woman.
An enforcer shoots a trap to the ground near Powder and Hiccup, but it misses causing a metallic clack.
"You can't get away!" says another officer.
"This way!" Vi yelled
All of them had to run into a wall that made them go into an alley. As the enforcers were slowly catching up to them, Vi decided to hit a steam pipe, making the place foggy. They once again took a turn into a different alley, a second before the upsiders could see them.
"Go, go, go!" Mylo shoves Claggor down the alley.
The Enforcers stopped running, one of them touched from inhaling the steam that Violet had broken in the pipeline, the other tries to look for some feature to be able to disperse around the rest of the perimeter, so he resumes the chase.
Violet pulls open the lid to a drainpipe, mud and grim sliding and covering the surface.
"Oh, man, not again." Mylo makes a disgusted face as he approaches the pipe entrance to the spillway, "I just got this shirt–" He yells as Violet kicked him into the pipe
Mylo slides down the pipe face-first all of the dirt getting rubbed off on him. Claggor is the next to go down followed by Powder, Hiccup and then Vi. They reached the end landing on a large pile of trash.
"I've never ran so fast in my life." Hiccup said
"Thought last time was the last time we were gonna do this." Mylo said taking the piece of lettuce off his hair
"Well, this time's the last time." Vi said
"Guys, what was that? What the hell happened back there?" Claggor said
Everyone turns to Powder and Hiccup.
"I don't know. I didn't do anything." Powder said quickly defending herself
"You could fill a damn library with all the things you and useless didn't do." Mylo said
Hiccup stands up in anger and throws garbage at Mylo, "I am not useless!" He yelled
"Guys, we just emptied a penthouse right under the polices' noses. So, if you're done beating yourselves up, let's get this home." Violet says as she swings that bag onto her back and heads out of the trash disposal area. The others follow her.
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Claggor places his arm around Mylo and laughs. Mylo shoves him off with a grunt. Vi is leading the ground back to their home. When they walked by a boy with blonde hair sitting on a wooden box rocking a metal bucket back and forth and flipping a coin between his fingers.
"Nice haul?" The blonde guy asked
"You could say that." Mylo said and Vi gives him a look
"I heard there was some action across the river. Someone, uh, someone really kicked the nest, huh?" The blonde guy said playing with a coin in his hand
"Is that so?" Vi asked she turns to leave but there are two teens blocking their path
"Oh we're so screwed." Hiccup said
"But now you're, you're tracking this mess of yours through my streets." the blond-haired boy laughs as he gets up from his seat.
"Your streets? What makes you think–" Clagger cuts Vi off
"Listen, we don't want any trouble, okay?"
"Hear that, Deckard? They don't want any trouble." spoke one of the boys with a buzz cut to the blondie.
"You know, in my experience, trouble finds you. There's no reason this has to get ugly." Deckard said
"It already got ugly when you showed up." Hiccup said
Deckard ignores Hiccup's comment, "How about you share a little taste of your treasure there and we'll call it even?" spoke Deckard as he walked closer to the group.
"No, no, no. We worked too hard to. . ." Mylo begins but Vi stops him, placing a hand on his shoulder and walking up to Deckard.
Violet stood facing Deckard, with an apparent downward glance, and responded menacingly, "Just a taste?" She asked
"Just a-" Before Deckard could finish Violet swung the bag of metal into his face, knocking the blonde to the ground.
Tossing the bag to Powder to keep it safe the three children prepare to fight a three vs five.
Deckard grunts and a boy with the buzz cut charges at Mylo tackling him to the ground and punching him. Mylo raised his arms to block and protect his face. Hiccup throws his arm up to protect his face as one of Deckard's men tries to punch him.
Two other boys charge at Claggor but he picks one of them up and throws them onto the other guy charging and kicking them in the gut. Deckard takes a swing at Vi, Vi ducks and shoves him off of her body.
Powder backs into a wall whimpering. Everything moved slowly for Powder. She watches as both sides give and take punches. Grunts and screams of pain could be heard from the fight when the rest of the guys manage to control the fight to Deckard and his henchmen, where Claggor still overpowers one of the henchmen and throws him to the ground.
One of Deckard's henchmen who is on the ground, grumbling in pain, now focuses attention on Powder with his sack of loot in his arms. The blue-haired girl gasps in surprise, so she decides to run away, dodging the fight that the rest of the guys are beating up.
Mylo gets punched into the wall but he fights back landing a hit onto the buzz cut's face. Shoving him into a different wall and punching him in the gut. Vi takes a hit backing up and regaining her composure.
Deckard charges her again, this time Vi grabs his arm, puts Deckard in an arm lock and knees him in the gut. She grabs his hair and swings Deckard's head into a grouping of wooden crates stomping on his back.
Hiccup gets tackled to the ground by another one of Deckard's men and tries his best to dodge the punch given to him until Vi grabs one of them and throws him to the ground. Hiccup takes this opportunity to head butt the person and gets on top of the boy and begins to punch him until he is unconscious.
Another boy grabs a hold of Claggor and swung him into a wall falling to the ground. Claggor grabs some loose dirt and throws it into the boy's eyes, blinding him before charging and tackling him to the ground, knocking him out.
Mylo gets punched to the ground kicking up at the boy to get him off. Violet sees this and grabs a wooden plank next to her. Running up to the boy onto Mylo and swinging the plank across his face knocking him out.
"I never want to do that again." Hiccup groaned holding his side
"This day's turning out all right after all." Mylo said
As Mylo said that sentence of satisfaction, Deckard stands up to pull out a handmade tin knife.
"Wait!" Deckard yelled
Vi turns and looks at Deckard and walks over, leaning down to Deckard's hunch form so that they're face to face.
"Wanna see how that ends?" Vi asked
Deckard hesitates with his weapon, feeling frightened, picks it up and walks away, running out.
"Where's Powder?" Vi asked the others
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Powder is chased down the streets of the topside. turning a corner and knocking some boxes down onto the teen chasing her. Using her bought time she turns a corner heads towards the deck facing out to the pier and hiding behind a group of large box crates.
Powder turns the corner to see if she had been followed, finding the guy running in the other direction. However, her movement had knocked down a couple of planks that fell to the floor.
Powder tried to grab them before they made a sound but was too late.
The brown-haired boy turns to the sound and sees the dust from the plank kick up into the air. He silently walks towards the dead-end. Powder hearing his footsteps opens her bag and pulls out a metal container with a mouse-colored on with oil crayons.
Twisting open the top and pouring some spikes and nails into the container.
Powder closed her eyes, praying, whispering, "Come on, Mouser, I need you!"
She throws Mouser to roll towards him, who stood still in the face of uncertainty and the grenade manages to explode, with Powder biting her upper lips in nervousness, only to end up that the grenade is nothing more than a failed pink smoke bomb that the bully pushed away believing it would be harmful or lethal.
"No." Powder said
The boy chuckles at her as she looks on with disbelief and fear. The teen walks closer to her fists clenched. Powder backs away bumping into wooden railing over the dirty pier. She breathes heavily as she thinks of a way to get out of the situation.
Unclipping the bag from her back she swings it over the railing. The boy runs after it trying to catch it before it hits the water. Failing to do so it makes a splash as it connects to the water. Sinking to the bottom of the pier.
Powder uses the distraction of the male as her escape. She flees, running away. The boy looks up to find the girl he grunts in frustration and walks away.
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"You did what?" Mylo yelled getting into Powder's face
"I'm sorry. I tried to fight him off with Mouser, but... she didn't work." Powder said
"Who saw that coming?" Mylo said raising his hand for a high five
"Hey! Lay off her man! It was an accident!" Hiccup yelled shoving him away
"We never should have gone over there." Claggor said
"Doesn't matter. The stuff's gone." Vi said as she approached her younger sister, "It's all right, Powder. At least you're okay." She said placing her hand on Powder's shoulder and walking through a door to a building.
"Okay?! What about us? I get my face bashed in, and she just gets a pass?" Mylo complained
"Yup." Hiccup and Vi said
They walk into a rusted elevator, Vi pulls a lever down on the side and the elevator begins to move down.
"Every time. Every time she and Hiccup come, something goes wrong. They jinx every job." Mylo said getting into Hiccup and Powder's face
Hiccup pushes him away, "Let's get something straight here one: I was with you guys the entire time getting my ass beat too, and second: your breath smells like an old lady fart passing through an onion." Hiccup said
Powder laughs before Mylo looks at her.
"Just drop it, Mylo." Violet sighs.
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