"Vigilantes are just broke heroes"

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"Being a kid is the worst."

"Adults expect too much from small children. I mean specifically kids under the age of 8." I said, tying up one of the muggers for the police to find.

"They all blame me for my mother. Though I was like 7 and didn't know I had abilities yet. I think I should have been the one to blame him for it. He is a hero after all." I said, setting a voice changer and tossing it to Ranboo, of whom I was talking to.

"Tommy, please don't tell me you told him that." Ranboo, the enderman hybrid said. Ranboo is someone I haven't known as long as some other vigilantes, but we met through another friend of mine and he was pretty pog.

Ranboo picked up the phone to contact the police to get the criminals with the building's phone, voice set to a really low and distorted sound.

Ranboo and I met through my childhood best friend - Tubbo Schlatt. Son of J. Schlatt, our city's worst and most tyrannical president in history. Honestly, my older brother would have been a better president.

You might be lost in the situation right now. My name is Tommy Innit Minecraft. I live in a world where you can be a hero. However, you have to go through a whole bunch of legal shit and graduate from a hero college to do so. Meaning you need college degrees and all that expensive crap.

Which is why I'm a vigilante. What's a vigilante? A vigilante is like a hero, except maybe they didn't have all the same resources or time other heroes did to get where they are.

Am I a solo vigilante? Nope. My best friends, Ranboo (the enderman hybrid.) and Tubbo (the goat hybrid childhood friend. That's right. Goat.)

Another thing to note about my world is that there are quite a few hybrids. Like half-human creatures and people like that. It's not uncommon here. Rather common here actually. It's one of the reasons people in this world have developed powers over history. Pollution and illegal human experimentation, am I right?

Anyways, after Ranboo called the police we went back on patrol. We stopped a couple of other criminals and even a couple of fights. Then, we went home to our small heatless, and internet-less apartment.

..We had to cut some things because of bills. Even though we have three people trying to sustain this apartment, we all get paid almost criminally low. Tubbo and Ranboo work at some diner while I work at a coffee place. 

Yeah, we're vigilantes but we have lives outside of that too. And none of us have parents. Not even sibling figures, besides each other. We don't have anyone around who cares enough to want us home or would even help pay for things. 

Ranboo's parents dropped him off at the doorstep of a police station a couple of towns over when he was a few months old. Tubbo... I think I've said enough already. His father basically died of a heart attack and no one has any clue what happened to his mother.

Me, you would've thought I was lucky. You would've thought I would turn out to be one of those spoiled rich kids. My dad and older brothers are all legally heroes. All employed under the same agency as my father. But, my dad and older brothers couldn't care less about me. They made that painfully obvious when my mother died. 

She was a great lady. And it was a shame what happened to her. She deserved the world. The day she died, she took me out of the house to go and see her friends with her because I was upset I had nothing to do and everyone else would've been gone.

That day she felt bad for me because I would've been home alone. So she took me with her to go visit her friends. On the way home, we had been walking back and a villain got into a huge fight with a hero and needed leverage against the hero.

So he chose to take my mother as a hostage and he killed her in front of me. I was so young then. I didn't even know I had abilities yet.

Yet my family hate that I didn't do anything. What do you expect a little seven-year-old to do anyways? My dad was even patrolling that day in that area. Yet he didn't arrive in time. And it was my fault.

I resent him for all the times growing up when all I wanted was something like a glass of water, but as I went to go fill up a glass, he would shoot me dirty glances. And for all those times he would ignore me or blame all of his resentful actions on me reminding him of her.

Even as one of the greatest heroes, he never seemed happy with what I've done. He seemed to have raised my brothers perfectly fine and go to all their school things, but couldn't care less to show up to even a parent-teacher conference for me.

 Hypocrite.

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When Tommy was 14 though, he had enough of it. He couldn't do it anymore. So he sent a message to his best friend and wandered to a bridge. When going to jump, he was teleported away by Ranboo. That was the first time he ever properly talked to Ranboo. They knew each other from group chats and passing each other in the halls of their school, but that was their first proper interaction.

And it turned out Ranboo had been in and out of foster care his whole life. Everything slowly fell into place. That night him and Ranboo first ever properly talked and met, Tommy faked his death. His family hosted his funeral several weeks later. Ranboo did something similar and then he and Tommy moved cities and started a new life there.

They lost contact with Tubbo for a bit. Tubbo ran away from foster care one day since he'd become an orphan after his dad's death. They ran into each other again when Tubbo decided to get coffee on a day when Tommy was working.

So long story short, two of them faked their death and they had all run away to this new city to start a new life. Tommy was the one to first suggest they became vigilantes. Of course, it was a joke at first. But one thing led to another and they actually went through with it.

Tommy was part avian. He got that from Phil. His mother was human. Though his mother had a really cool ability. She could talk to the dead and had mind-reading. Meanwhile, Phil, also known as the Crow could fly (due to the avian part) and had immortality. As in he could die of old age, but his lives were infinite until then.

So naturally, Tommy could do something cool - telekinesis. He never really learned how to fly, but he could glide just fine. Tommy decided to go by Theseus as a vigilante. It was a nickname given to him by one of his brothers. The downside to his ability was all the headaches it gave him.

Ranboo had the natural enderman ability - teleportation. He could only teleport anywhere he had sight of. He went by Ender. He originally liked 'Ender Eye,' but Tommy and Tubbo talked him out of it. 

Tubbo went by Bee for his vigilante name. He's a shapeshifter and was really good with computers. The computer part wasn't his power, but it was something that should be included is if it was.

The downside of his shapeshifting though was that the longer he was in one form, the more painful it was to change back.

Usually, he could stay in a form for about three hours straight before switching back would begin to cause him pain. It really depended on the form he took though.

Together they helped a lot of people. Though with every good thing, there was a catch.